Low voltage electron microscopy: An emerging tool for AAV characterization

Authors: Ausman, Kevin D. ^{a, ⁎}, Whitaker, Neal ^b, Balasubramanian, Madhumitha ^b, Kokona, Bashkim ^a, Vogt, Austin ^a, Kar, Sambit R. ^b

Source: In Journal of Pharmaceutical Sciences March 2025 114(3):1554-1562

Studying C9orf72 dipeptide repeat polypeptide aggregation using an analytical ultracentrifuge equipped with fluorescence detection

Authors: Kokona, Bashkim, Cunningham, Nicole R., Quinn, Jeanne M., Jacobsen, Danielle R., Garcia, F. Jay, Galindo, Sierra M., Petrucelli, Leonard, Stafford, Walter F., Laue, Thomas M., Fairman, Robert

Source: In Analytical Biochemistry February 2025 697

Strategic Acyl Carrier Protein Engineering Enables Functional Type II Polyketide Synthase Reconstitution In Vitro.

Authors: Li, Kevin, Cho, Yae In, Tran, Mai Anh, Wiedemann, Christoph, Zhang, Shuaibing, Koweek, Rebecca S., Hoàng, Ngọc Khánh, Hamrick, Grayson S., Bowen, Margaret A., Kokona, Bashkim, Stallforth, Pierre, Beld, Joris, Hellmich, Ute A., Charkoudian, Louise K.

Source: ACS Chemical Biology; 1/17/2025, Vol. 20 Issue 1, p197-207, 11p

Widening the bottleneck: Heterologous expression, purification, and characterization of the Ktedonobacter racemifer minimal type II polyketide synthase in Escherichia coli

Authors: Klein, Joshua G., Wu, Yang, Kokona, Bashkim, Charkoudian, Louise K.

Source: In Bioorganic & Medicinal Chemistry 15 October 2020 28(20)

Roles of singleton tryptophan motifs in COPI coat stability and vesicle tethering

Authors: Travis, Sophie M., Kokona, Bashkim, Fairman, Robert, Hughson, Frederick M.

Source: Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 2019 Nov . 116(48), 24031-24040.

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Production and analysis of a mammalian septin hetero‐octamer complex

Authors: DeRose, Barry T., Kelley, Robert S., Ravi, Roshni, Kokona, Bashkim, Beld, Joris, Spiliotis, Elias T., Padrick, Shae B.

Source: Cytoskeleton. 77(11):485-499

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Size Analysis of C9orf72 Dipeptide Repeat Proteins Expressed in Drosophila melanogaster Using Semidenaturing Detergent Agarose Gel Electrophoresis

Authors: Cunningham, Nicole R., Kokona, Bashkim, Quinn, Jeanne M., Fairman, Robert

Source: Methods in molecular biology. 2039:91-102

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Aggregation Profiling of C9orf72 Dipeptide Repeat Proteins Transgenically Expressed in Drosophila melanogaster Using an Analytical Ultracentrifuge Equipped with Fluorescence Detection

Authors: Kokona, Bashkim, Cunningham, Nicole R., Quinn, Jeanne M., Fairman, Robert

Source: Methods in molecular biology. 2039:81-90

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Colorimetric Assay Reports on Acyl Carrier Protein Interactions

Authors: Acheampong, Kofi, Kokona, Bashkim, Braun, Gabriel, Jacobsen, Danielle, Johnson, Karl, Charkoudian, Louise

Source: Scientific reports. 9(1):1-10

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Probing the selectivity of β-hydroxylation reactions in non-ribosomal peptide synthesis using analytical ultracentrifugation

Authors: Kokona, Bashkim, Winesett, Emily S., Nikolai von Krusenstiern, A., Cryle, Max J., Fairman, Robert, Charkoudian, Louise K.

Source: In Analytical Biochemistry 15 February 2016 495:42-51

Sedimentation Velocity Analysis with Fluorescence Detection of Mutant Huntingtin Exon 1 Aggregation in Drosophila melanogaster and Caenorhabditis elegans

Authors: Kim, Surin A., D Acunto, Victoria F., Kokona, Bashkim, Hofmann, Jennifer, Cunningham, Nicole R., Bistline, Emily M., Garcia, F. Jay, Akhtar, Nabeel M., Hoffman, Susanna H., Doshi, Seema H.

Source: Biochemistry. 56(35):4676-4688

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Single Amino Acid Mutations Alter the Distribution of Human Porphobilinogen Synthase Quaternary Structure Isoforms (Morpheeins)

Authors: Tang, Lei ^‡, Breinig, Sabine ^‡, Stith, Linda ^‡, Mischel, Adele ^‡, Tannir, Justin ^‡, Kokona, Bashkim ^§, Fairman, Robert ^§, Jaffe, Eileen K. ^{‡, 1}

Source: In Journal of Biological Chemistry 10 March 2006 281(10):6682-6690

Crystal Structure of a Glycyl Radical Enzyme from Archaeoglobus fulgidus

Authors: Lehtiö, Lari, Günter Grossmann, J., Kokona, Bashkim, Fairman, Robert, Goldman, Adrian

Source: In Journal of Molecular Biology 2006 357(1):221-235

The Placement of Vibrational Probe Labeled Substrates to the Phosphopantetheine Arm of the E.Coli Acyl Carrier Protein for Site Specific Vibrational Spectroscopy

Authors: Ling, Joie, von Krusenstiern, Eliana V., Kokona, Bashkim, Charkoudian, Louise, Londergan, Casey H.

Source: Biophysical journal. 116(S1):485a-486a

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Thermodynamic Analysis of Self-Assembly in Coiled-Coil Biomaterials.

Authors: Tsang, Betty P., Bretscher, Heidi S., Kokona, Bashkim

Source: Biochemistry; October 11 2011, Vol. 50 Issue 40, p8549-8558, 10p

Probing the Oligomeric Assemblies of Pea Porphobilinogen Synthase by Analytical Ultracentrifugation.

Authors: Kokona, Bashkim, Rigotti, Daniel J., Wasson, Andrew S.

Source: Biochemistry; October 7 2008, Vol. 47 Issue 40, p10649-10656, 8p

Quantitative atomic force microscopy image analysis of unusual filaments formed by the Acanthamoeba castellanii myosin II rod domain

Authors: Rigotti, Daniel J., Kokona, Bashkim, Horne, Theresa, Acton, Eric K., Lederman, Carl D., Johnson, Karl A., Manning, Robert S., Kane, Suzanne Amador, Smith, Walter F., Fairman, Robert

Source: In Analytical Biochemistry 2005 346(2):189-200

Bioprospecting for Novel Natural Products in Ancient Non‐Actinobacteria

Authors: Hamrick, Grayson S., Hoang, June, Kokona, Bashkim, Charkoudian, Louise K.

Source: FASEB journal. 34(S1):1-1

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Heterologous Expression and Characterization of Ancient Orphaned Type II Polyketide Synthase Enzymes

Authors: Klein, Joshua G., Kokona, Bashkim, Charkoudian, Louise K.

Source: FASEB journal. 34(S1):1-1

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Constructing Combinatorial Synthases Using Acyl Carrier Protein Chimeras

Authors: Armstrong, Claire, Kokona, Bashkim, Charkoudian, Louise K.

Source: FASEB journal. 34(S1):1-1

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