Biochemistry and Bio-organic Chemistry
Recent Publications:
Pires M, Przybyla D, Rubert Perez CM, Chmielewski J. “Metal-mediated Tandem Co-assembly of Collagen Peptides into Banded Microstructures” J Am Chem Soc (2011) 133, 14469-14471.
Pires M, Lee JY, Ernenwein, D, Chmielewski J. “Controlling the Morphology of Metal-Promoted Higher Ordered Assemblies of Collagen Peptides with Varied Core Lengths.” Langmuir (In Press).
Pires M, Ernenwein D, Chmielewski J. “Selective Decoration and Release of His-tagged Proteins from Metal-Assembled Collagen Peptide Microflorettes.” Biomacromolecules (2011) 7, 2429-2433.
Namaja H, Emmert D, Pires M, Hrycyna C, Chmielewski J. “Inhibition of P-glycoprotein Transport and Binding Using a Galantamine Dimer.” Biochem Biophys Res Comm. (2009) 388, 672-676.
Pires M, Przybyla D, Chmielewski J. “Metal Collagen Framework for 3-D Cell Culture.” Angew Chem Int Engl. (2009) 48, 7813-7817.
Pires M, Chmielewski J. “Self-Assembly of Collagen Peptides into Microflorettes via Metal Coordination.” J Am Chem Soc. (2009) 131, 2706-2712.
Pires M, Chmielewski J. “Fluorescence Imaging of Cellular Glutathione using Latent Rhodamine.” Org Lett. (2008) 10, 837-840.
Pires M, Emmert D, Hrycyna C, Chmielewski J. “Inhibition of P-Glycoprotein-Mediated Taxol Resistance by Reversibly-Linked Quinine Homodimers.” Mol Pharmacol. (2009) 75, 92-100.
Pires M, DeTuri, V. “Structural, Energetic, and Infrared Spectra Insights into Methanol Clusters (CH3OH)n, for n = 2-12, 16, 20. ONIOM as an Efficient Method of Modeling Large Methanol Clusters.” J Chem Theor Comp. (2007) 3, 1073-1082.
Pires M, Hrycyna C, Chmielewski J. “Bivalent Probes of the Multidrug Transporter P-glycoprotein.” Biochemistry (2006) 45, 11695-11702.