Publications (co-)authored by Oscar Alzate while in the Biophysics program

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Taek H You, Mi K Lee, Jeremy L Jenkins, Oscar Alzate, and Donald H Dean
"Blocking binding of Bacillus thuringiensis Cry1Aa to Bombyx mori cadherin receptor results in only a minor reduction of toxicity."
BMC Biochem. 9, 3 (2008).

[2] 

O Alzate, T You, M Claybon, C Osorio, A Curtiss, and D H Dean
"Effects of disulfide bridges in domain I of Bacillus thuringiensis Cry1Aa delta-endotoxin on ion-channel formation in biological membranes."
Biochemistry 45, 13597-605 (2006).

[3] 

Gopal J Babu, Debra Wheeler, Oscar Alzate, and Muthu Periasamy
"Solubilization of membrane proteins for two-dimensional gel electrophoresis identification of sarcoplasmic reticulum membrane proteins."
Anal. Biochem. 325, 121-5 (2004).

[4] 

Mohd Amir F Abdullah, Oscar Alzate, Marwan Mohammad, Rebecca J McNall, Michael J Adang, and Donald H Dean
"Introduction of Culex toxicity into Bacillus thuringiensis Cry4Ba by protein engineering."
Appl. Environ. Microbiol. 69, 5343-53 (2003).

[5] 

E P Alcantara, O Alzate, M K Lee, A Curtiss, and D H Dean
"Role of alpha-helix seven of Bacillus thuringiensis Cry1Ab delta-endotoxin in membrane insertion, structural stability, and ion channel activity."
Biochemistry 40, 2540-7 (2001).

[6] 

S Arnold, A Curtiss, D H Dean, and O Alzate
"The role of a proline-induced broken-helix motif in alpha-helix 2 of Bacillus thuringiensis delta-endotoxins."
FEBS Lett. 490, 70-4 (2001).

[7] 

M Audtho, A P Valaitis, O Alzate, and D H Dean
"Production of chymotrypsin-resistant Bacillus thuringiensis Cry2Aa1 delta-endotoxin by protein engineering."
Appl. Environ. Microbiol. 65, 4601-5 (1999).

[8] 

F Rajamohan, O Alzate, J A Cotrill, A Curtiss, and D H Dean
"Protein engineering of Bacillus thuringiensis delta-endotoxin: mutations at domain II of CryIAb enhance receptor affinity and toxicity toward gypsy moth larvae."
Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A. 93, 14338-43 (1996).