The Feig Laboratory

Wayne State University
Department of Chemistry

Feig Lab Publications:

2007

Lee, T and Feig, AL (2007) The RNA Binding Protien Hfq Interacts Specifically with tRNAs, RNA, submitted for publication.

Lee, T and Feig, AL (2007) Thermodynamids of RNA:Protein Complexes as Exemplified by Escherichia coli Hfq. In Non-Protein Coding RNAs. Nils Walter, Sarah Woodson and Robert Batey, Eds. Springer Verlag, Heidelberg. in preparation.

Feig, AL. (2007) Applications of isothermal titration calorimetry in RNA biochemistry and biophysics. Biopolymers, DOI:10.1002/bip.20816 [pubmed]  [PDF]


2006

Mikulecky, PJ and Feig, AL. (2006) Heat Capacity Changes Associated with DNA Duplex Formation: Salt- and Sequence-Dependent Effects. Biochemistry, 45, 605-616. [Pubmed] [PDF]

Mikulecky, PJ and Feig, AL. (2006) Heat Capacity Changes Associated with Nucleic Acid Folding. Biopolymers, 81, 38 - 58. [Pubmed] [PDF]

Kerzmann, A and Feig, AL. (2006) Cholesterol, It's Not Just For Heart Disease Anymore. ACS Chemical Biology, 1, 141 - 144. [Pubmed] [PDF]


2004

Mikulecky, PJ, Kaw, M, Brescia, C, Takach, JC, Sledjeski, D, and Feig, AL. (2004) E. coli Hfq Has Distinct Interaction Surfaces for DsrA, rpoS and polyA RNAs. Nat. Struct. Mol. Biol. 11, 1206-1214. [Pubmed] [PDF]

Mikulecky, PJ and Feig, AL. (2004) Heat Capacity Changes in RNA Folding: Application of Perturbation Theory to Hammerhead Ribozyme Cold Denaturation Nucl. Acids Res. 32, 3967 – 3976. [Pubmed] [PDF]

Takach, J, Mikulecky, PJ, Feig, AL (2004) Salt–dependent Heat Capacity Changes for RNA Duplex Formation. J. Am. Chem. Soc. 126, 6530 – 6531. [Pubmed] [PDF]

Mikulecky, PJ, Takach, J, and Feig, AL. (2004) Entropy–driven Folding of an RNA Helical Junction: Isothermal Titration Calorimetric Analysis of the Hammerhead Ribozyme. Biochemistry, 43, 5870 – 5881. [Pubmed] [PDF]

Feig, AL. (2004) Challenge Your Teaching. Nature Struct. Mol. Biol. 11, 16 – 19. [Pubmed] [PDF]

2003

Brescia, CC, Mikulecky, PJ, Feig, AL, and Sledjeski, DD. (2003) Identification of the Hfq binding site on DsrA RNA: Hfq binds without altering DsrA secondary structure. RNA 9, 33 – 43. [Pubmed] [PDF]

2002

Bhattacharyay, S, Kerzmann, A, and Feig, AL. (2002) Fluorescent Analogs of UDP–Glucose and Their Use in Characterizing Substrate Binding by Toxin A from Clostridium difficile. Eur. J. Biochem. 269, 3425 – 3432. [Pubmed] [PDF]

Feig, AL and Jabri, E. (2002) Incorporation of Bioinformatics Exercises into the Undergraduate Biochemistry Curriculum. Biochem. and Mol. Biol. Ed. 30, 224 – 231. [Pubmed] [PDF]

Feig, AL. (2002) Ribozymes and RNA Catalysis. In The Encyclopedia of Catalysis. Istavan Horvath, Ed. John Wiley & Sons. New York; Vol 6. 85 – 116.
(Web publication at: http://www.mrw.interscience.wiley.com/enccat/articles/eoc182/frame.html.)

Mikulecky, PJ and Feig, AL. (2002) Cold Denaturation of the Hammerhead Ribozyme. J. Am. Chem. Soc. 124, 890 – 891. [Pubmed] [PDF]

2000

Feig, AL. (2000) The Use of Manganese as a Probe for Elucidation the Role of Magnesium Ions in Ribozymes. Metal Ions in Biological Systems; Vol. 37. H. Sigel and A. Sigel Ed.; Marcel Dekker, New York; p. 157 – 182. [PubMed]

Post-doctoral Work (with Prof. Olke Uhlenbeck)  

O’Rear, J, Wang, SL, Feig, AL, Uhlenbeck, OC, Herschlag, D. (2001) Comparison of the Hammerhead Cleavage Reactions Stimulated by Monovalent and Divalent Cations, RNA, 5, 537 – 545. [Pubmed] [PDF]

Feig, AL, Panek, M, Horrocks, WD, Jr., Uhlenbeck, OC. (1999) Probing the Binding of Tb(III) and Eu(III) to the Hammerhead Ribozyme by Luminescence Spectroscopy. Chem. and Biol. 6, 801 – 810. [Pubmed] [PDF]

Feig, AL, Uhlenbeck, OC. (1999) The Role of Metal Ions in RNA Biochemistry. In The RNA World; Second ed.; T. Cech, R. Gesteland and J. Atkins, Ed.; Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press: Cold Spring Harbor, NY, 287 – 320.

Feig, AL, Ammons, GE, Uhlenbeck, OC. (1998) Cryoenzymology of the Hammerhead Ribozyme. RNA 4, 1251 – 1258. [Pubmed] [PDF]

Feig, AL, Scott, WG, Uhlenbeck, OC. (1998) Inhibition of the Hammerhead Ribozyme Cleavage Reaction by Site–Specific Binding of Tb(III). Science 279, 81 – 84. [Pubmed] [PDF]

Ph.D. Thesis Work (with Prof. Stephen Lippard)

Feig, AL, Masschelein, A, Bakac, A, Lippard, SJ. (1997) Kinetic Studies of the Reactions of Carboxylate – Bridged Diiron(II) Complexes with Dioxygen to Form (mu–Oxo)diiron(III) Products. J. Am. Chem. Soc. 119, 334 – 342. [Pubmed] [PDF]

Feig, AL, Bautista, M, Lippard, SJ. (1996) A Carboxylate–Bridged Non–Heme Diiron Dinitrosyl Complex. Inorg. Chem. 35, 6892 – 6898. [Pubmed] [PDF]

Feig, AL, Becker, M, Schindler, S, van Eldik, R, & Lippard, SJ. (1996) Mechanistic Studies on the Formation and Decay of Diiron(III) Peroxo Complexes. Inorg. Chem. 35, 2590 – 2601. [Pubmed] [PDF]

Feig, AL, Lippard, SJ. (1994) Mechanistic Studies on the Reaction of Dioxygen with Diiron(II) Compounds to Form (mu–Peroxo)diiron(III) Complexes. J. Am. Chem. Soc. 116, 8410 – 8411. [Pubmed] [PDF]

Feig, AL, Lippard, SJ. (1994) Reactions of Non–Heme Iron(II) Centers with Dioxygen in Biology and Chemistry. Chem. Rev. 94, 759 – 805. [Pubmed] [PDF]

Liu, KE, Feig, AL, Goldberg, DP, Watton, SP, Lippard, SJ. (1993) Methane Monooxygenase: Models and Mechanism. In The Activation of Dioxygen and Homogeneous Catalytic Oxidation, Barton, D.H.R. et al., Eds.; Plenum: New York, p. 301 – 320.

Undergraduate Research

Feig, AL, Thederahn, T, Sigman, DS. (1988) The Mutagenicity of the Nuclease Activity of the 1,10 Phenanthroline – Copper Ion. Biochem. Biophys. Res. Comm. 155, 338 – 343. [Pubmed] [PDF]


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