Yash Gupta, Dawid Maciorowski, Brian Medernach, Daniel P. Becker, Ravi Durvasula, Claudia R. Libertin, Prakasha Kempaiah, "Iron Dysregulation in COVID-19 and Reciprocal Evolution of SARS-CoV-2: natura nihil frustra facit", Journal of Cellular Biochemistry, 2022, http://doi.org/10.1002/jcb.30207

Cory T. Reidl, Romila Mascarenhas, Thahani S. Habeeb Mohammad, Marlon R. Lutz, Jr., Pei W. Thomas, Walter Fast, Dali Liu, and Daniel P. Becker, "A Cyclobutanone Inhibitor of Cobalt-Functionalized Metallo-γ-Lactonase AiiA with Cyclobutanone Ring Opening in the Active Site", ACS Omega, 2021, http://doi.org/10.1021/acsomega.0c06348. PMCID# PMC8173579.

Jackson T Baumgartner, Thahani S Habeeb Mohammad, Mateusz P Czub, Karolina Majorek, Xhulio Arolli, Cillian Variot, Madison Anonick, Wladek Minor, Miguel Angel Ballicora, Daniel P Becker, and Misty L Kuhn, "Gcn5-related N-acetyltransferases (GNATs) with a catalytic serine residue can play ping-pong too", Frontiers in Molecular Biosciences, 2021, Vol 8 646046, doi: 10.3389/fmolb.2021.646046.

Matthew Kochert, Boguslaw P. Nocek, Thahani S. Habeeb Mohammad, Elliot Gild, Kaitlyn Lovato, Tahirah K. Heath, Richard C. Holz, Kenneth W. Olsen, and Daniel P. Becker, "Atomic-Resolution 1.3 Å Crystal Structure, Inhibition by Sulfate, and Molecular Dynamics of the Bacterial Enzyme DapE", Biochemistry, 2021, https://pubs.acs.org/doi/pdf/10.1021/acs.biochem.0c00926.

Yash Gupta, Dawid Maciorowski, Samantha E. Zak, Krysten A. Jones, Rahul S. Kathayat, Saara-Anne Azizi, Raman Mathur, Catherine M Pearce, David J. Ilc, Hamza Husein, Andrew S. Herbert, Ajay Bharti, Brijesh Rathi, Ravi Durvasula, Daniel P. Becker, Bryan C. Dickinson, John M. Dye, and Prakasha Kempaiah, "Bisindolylmaleimide IX: A novel anti-SARS-CoV2 agent targeting viral main protease 3CLpro demonstrated by virtual screening pipeline and in-vitro validation assays". Elsevier Methods, 2021, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ymeth.2021.01.003.

Cory T. Reidl, Tahirah K. Heath, Iman Darwish, Rachel Torrez, Maxwell Moore, Elliot Gild, Boguslaw Nocek, Anna Starus, Richard C. Holz, Daniel P. Becker, "Indoline-6-sulfonamide Inhibitors of the Bacterial Enzyme DapE", Antibiotics, 2020, Sept. 9(9): 595, doi: 10.3390/antibiotics9090595.

Marlon R. Lutz, Jr., Sebastian Flieger, Andre Colorina, John Wozny, Narayan S. Hosmane, and Daniel P. Becker, Carborane-containing Matrix Metalloprotease (MMP) Ligands as Candidates for Boron Neutron Capture Therapy (BNCT), ChemMedChem 2020, http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/cmdc.202000470. Selected by Editors for issue Cover Art.

Daniel S. Catlin§, Cory T. Reidl§, Thomas R. Trzupek, Richard B. Silverman, Brian Cannon, Daniel P. Becker*, and Dali Liu*, (S)-4-Amino-5-phenoxypentanoate as a Selective Agonist of the Bacterial Transcription Factor GabR" Protein Science, 2020, http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/pro.3905. §These authors contributed equally.

Thahani S. Habeeb Mohammad, Cory T. Reidl, Matthias Zeller, and Daniel P. Becker, Synthesis of a Protected 2-Aminocyclobutanone as a Modular Transition State Synthon for Medicinal Chemistry, Tetrahedron Letters, 2020 61 151632, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tetlet.2020.151632.

Mateusz P. Czub, Brian Zhang, M. Paul Chiarelli, Karolina A. Majorek, Layton Joe, Przemyslaw J. Porebski, Alina Revilla, Weiming Wu, Daniel P. Becker, Wladek Minor, and Misty L. Kuhn, “A Gcn5-related N-acetyltransferase (GNAT) that selectively acetylates polymyxin B and colistin antibiotics”, Biochemistry, 2018, 57 (51), pp 7011–7020, DOI: 10.1021/acs.biochem.8b00946.

Wei-Tsung Lee, Matthias Zeller, David Upp, Yuliya Politanska, Doug Steinman, Talal Al-Assil and Daniel P. Becker, “Iron(II) Complexes of an ortho-Tri­aza­cyclo­phane”, Acta Crystallographica Section C: Structural Chemistry 2018, C74, 1641-1649, doi/10.1107/S2053229618015255. 

Marlon R. Lutz Jr., Elizabeth Ernst, Matthias Zeller, Jacob Dudzinski, Peter Thoresen, and Daniel P. Becker, “Attempted Resolution and Racemization of Beckmann-derived CTV-Lactam and the use of Chirabite-AR to Determine Optical Purity of the Supramolecular Scaffold”, Eur. J. Org. Chem. 2018, 4639–4645, DOI: 10.1002/ejoc.201800788.

Tahirah Heath, Marlon Lutz, Cory Reidl, Estefany Guzman, Claire Herbert, Boguslaw Nocek, Richard Holz, Ken Olsen, Miguel Ballicora, Daniel P. Becker, “Practical Spectrophotometric Assay for the dapE-Encoded N-Succinyl-L,L-Diaminopimelic Acid Desuccinylase, a Potential Antibiotic Target" PLOS ONE, 2018, 13(4): e0196010; doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0196010. PMID: 29698518, PMCID: PMC5919655.

Boguslaw Nocek, Cory Reidl, Anna Starus, Tahirah Heath, David Bienvenue, Jerzy Osipiuk, Robert Jedrzejczak, Andrzej Joachimiak, Daniel P. Becker, and Richard C. Holz, “Structural Evidence of a Major Conformational Change Triggered by Substrate Binding in DapE Enzymes: Impact on the Catalytic Mechanism” Biochemistry, 2018, 57 (5), 574-584.

Cory Reidl, Karolina A Majorek, Joseph Dang, David Tran, Kristen Jew, Melissa Law, Yasmine Payne, Wladek Minor, Daniel P. Becker, and Misty L. Kuhn, “Generating enzyme and radical-mediated bisubstrates as tools for investigating Gcn5-related N-acetyltransferases”, FEBS Letters, 2017, 591, 2348-2361. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28703494.

Qian Wang, Marlon Lutz, Matthew Reichert, Daniel Becker, and M. Paul Chiarelli, “Determination of unknown pollutants in aquatic ecosystems using full-scan tandem mass spectrometry techniques:  Identification of 3,5-dichloro-4-phenolsulfonic acid as an unknown persistent pollutant.”, in “Surface Water Photochemistry”, ed. Paola Calz and Davide Vione, The Royal Society of Chemistry, 2015.

Samuel R.S. Sarsah, Marlon R. Lutz, Jr., Kailyn Chichi Liu, Daniel P. Becker, “Metal-Free Tandem Beckmann-Electrophilic Aromatic Substitution Cascade Affording Diaryl Imines, Ketones, Amines and Quinazolines” Tetrahedron Lett., 2015, 56, 5390–5392.

Zachary Osner, Richard Holz, and Daniel P. Becker, “An analytical method for detecting toxic metal cations using cyclotriveratrylene derivative capped gold nanoparticles” Tetrahedron Lett., 2015, 56, 5419–5423.

Danuta M. Gillner, Daniel P. Becker, and Richard C. Holz, "Lysine Biosynthesis in Bacteria: A Metallodesuccinylase as a Potential Antimicrobial Target", Journal of Biological Inorganic Chemistry (JBIC) 2013, 18(2), 155-163.

Samuel R.S. Sarsah, Marlon R. Lutz Jr., Matthias Zeller, David S. Crumrine, and Daniel P. Becker, “Rearrangement of Cyclotriveratrylene (CTV) Diketone: 9,10-Diarylanthracenes with OLED Applications” J. Org Chem. 2013, 78 2051-2058.

Andria M. Panagopoulos, Doug Steinman, Alexandra Goncharenko, Kyle Geary, Carlene Schleisman, Elizabeth Spaargaren, Matthias Zeller, and Daniel P. Becker, “Apparent Alkyl Transfer and Phenazine Formation via an Aryne Intermediate”, J. Org. Chem., 2013, 78, 3532−3540, Featured Article.

Ekaterina I. Filippova, Leigh A. Weston, Misty L. Kuhn2, Brett Geisslr3, Alexandra M. Gehrin1, Nicola Armoush, Chinessa T. Adkins, George Minasov, Ievgeniia Dubrovska, Ludmilla Shuvalova, James R. Winsor, Luke D. Lavis, Karla J. F. Satchell, Daniel P. Becker, Wayne F. Anderson, and R. Jeremy Johnson, “Large-scale structural rearrangement of a serine hydrolase from Francisella tularensis facilitates catalysis” J. Biol. Chem., 2013, 288(15), 10522-10535.

Marlon R. Lutz Jr., Matthias Zeller, Samuel Sarsah, Artur Filipowicz, Hailey Wouters, and Daniel P. Becker, “Synthesis, Crystal Structure, and Rearrangements of ortho-Cyclophane Cyclotetraveratrylene (CTTV) Tetraketone”, Supramolecular Chemistry, 2012, 24, 803-809.

Othman A. Hamed, Arab El-Qisairi, Hanan Qaseer, Emad M. Hamed, Patrick M. Henry, and Daniel P. Becker, "Asymmetric a-Hydroxy Ketone Synthesis by Direct Ketone Oxidation Using a Bimetallic Palladium(II) Complex”, Tetrahedron Lett., 2012, 53, 10.1016/j.tetlet.2012.03.066.

Osner, Zachary; Nyamjav, Dorjderem; Holz, Richard; Becker, Daniel P. “Direct Patterning of a Cyclotriveratrylene (CTV) Derivative for Directed Self-Assembly of C60“.  Nanotechnology, 2011, 22, 275611.

Barta, Thomas E.; Becker, Daniel P.; Bedell, Louis J.; Easton, Alan M.; Hockerman, Susan L.; Kiefer, James; Munie, Grace E.; Mathis, Karl J.; Li, Madeleine H.; Rico, Joseph G.; Villamil, Clara I.; Williams, Jennifer M. “MMP-13 Selective a-Sulfone Hydroxamates:  A Survey of P1’ Heterocyclic Amide Isosteres”   Bioorganic & Medicinal Chemistry Letters, 2011, 21 2820-2822.

Fobian, Yvette; Freskos, John N.; Barta, Thomas E.; Heintz, Robert; Kiefer, James R.; Mischke, Brent V.; Mullins, Patrick; Munie, Grace E.; Becker, Daniel P. “MMP-13 Selective a-Sulfone Hydroxamates Identification of selective P1’ Amides” Bioorganic & Medicinal Chemistry Letters, 2011, 21 2823-2825.

Daniel P. Becker, Thomas E. Barta, Louis J. Bedell, Terri L. Boehm, Brian R. Bond, Jeffery Carroll, Chris P. Carron, Gary A. DeCrescenzo, Alan M. Easton, John Freskos, Chris L. Funckes-Shippy, Marcia Heron, Susan Hockerman, Susan Carol Howard, James R. Kiefer, Madeleine H. Li, Karl J. Mathis, Joseph J. McDonald, Pramod P. Mehta, Grace E. Munie, Teresa Sunyer, Craig A. Swearingen, Clara I. Villamil, Dean Welsch, Jennifer M. Williams, Jun Yao, Ying Yu “Orally-Active MMP-1 Sparing a-Tetrahydropyranyl and a-Piperidinyl Sulfone Matrix Metalloproteinase (MMP) Inhibitors with Efficacy in Cancer, Arthritis, and Cardiovascular Disease” Journal of Medicinal Chemistry, 2010 53 6653-6680.  Highlighted in SciBX: Science-Business eXchange September 2, 2010, Volume 3, number 34.

Hamed, Othman; Henry, Patrick; Becker, Daniel P. “Palladium(II)-Catalyzed Dicarboxymethylation of Chiral Allylic Alcohols:  Chirality Transfer AffordingOptically Active Diesters Containing Three Contiguous Chiral Centers“ Tetrahedron Lett., 2010, 51, 3514-3517.

Stephen A. Kolodziej, Susan L. Hockerman, Gary A. DeCrescenzo, Joseph J. McDonald, Debbie A. Mischke, Grace E. Munie, Theresa R. Fletcher, Nathan W. Stehle, Craig Swearingen and Daniel P. Becker “MMP-13 Selective Isonipecotamide alpha-Sulfone Hydroxamates” Bioorganic & Medicinal Chemistry Letters, 2010, 20 3561-3564. 

Stephen A. Kolodziej, Susan L. Hockerman, Terri L. Boehm,, Joseph G. Rico, Jeffery N. Carroll, Gary A. De Crescenzo, Joseph J. McDonald, Debbie A. Mischke, Grace E. Munie, Theresa R. Fletcher, Nathan W. Stehle, Craig Swearingen and Daniel P. Becker, “Orally Bioavailable Dual MMP-1/MMP-14 Sparing MMP-13 Selective alpha-Sulfone Hydroxamates” Bioorganic & Medicinal Chemistry Letters, 2010, 20 3557-3560. 

French, David; Lutz, Marlon R.; Lu, Chichi; Zeller, Matthias; Becker, Daniel P. “A Thermodynamic and Kinetic Characterization of the Solvent Dependence of the Saddle-Crown Equilibrium of Cyclotriveratrylene (CTV) Oxime,  J. Phys. Chem A., 2009, 113, 8258-8267. 

Gillner, Danuta; Nicola Armoush, Holz; Richard C.; and Becker, Daniel P. “Inhibitors of Bacterial N-Succinyl-L,L-diaminopimelic Acid Desuccinylase (DapE) and Demonstration of in vitro Antimicrobial Activity” Bioorganic & Medicinal Chemistry Letters, 2009, 19, 6350-6352.

Zeller, Matthias; Lutz Jr., Marlon R.; Becker, Daniel P. “An aza-cyclophane stacked in racemic columnar assemblies:  Whole molecular disorder in a 2D solid solution“  Acta Cryst B: Structural Science 2009, 65(2), 223-229. PMID: 19299878

Lutz Jr., Marlon R.; Zeller, Matthias; Becker, Daniel P. "Beckmann Rearrangement of Cyclotriveratrylene (CTV) Oxime: Tandem Beckmann-Electrophilic AromaticAddition", Tetrahedron Letters 2008, 49, 5003-5005.

Armoush, Nicola; Kataria, Preeti; Becker, Daniel P. "Synthesis of Substituted 2-Amino-Cyclobutanones", Synthetic Communications 2008, 38 (11), 1679-1687.

Lutz Jr., Marlon R., French, David C., Rehage, Peter, & Becker, Daniel P. "Isolation of the saddle and crown conformers of cyclotriveratrylene (CTV) oxime", Tetrahedron Lett. 2007, 48, 6368-6371.