Reviews

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Liposomal Nanocapsules in Food Science and Agriculture (with T.M. Taylor, P.M. Davidson, and J. Weiss), Critical Reviews in Food Science and Nutrition (2005)

Liposomes, spherical bilayer vesicles from dispersion of polar lipids in aqueous solvents, have been widely...

 

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Protein Targeting and Translocation (with D.A. Phoenix), Quarterly Review of Biology (2001)
 

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The Paradox of Plastid Transit Peptides: Conservation of Function Despite Divergence in Primary Structure, Biochimica et Biophysica Acta (2001)

Transit peptides are N-terminal extensions that facilitate the targeting and translocation of cytosolically synthesized precursors...

 

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Chloroplast Transit Peptides: Structure, Function, and Evolution, Trends in Cell Biology (2000)

It is thought that two to three thousand different proteins are targeted to the chloroplast,...

 

Research Papers

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Antimicrobial efficacy of eugenol microemulsions in milk against Listeria monocytogenes and Escherichia coli O157:H7 (with S. Gaysinsky, T.M. Taylor, P.M. Davidson, and J. Weiss), Journal of Food Protection (2008)

The antimicrobial activity of eugenol microemulsions (eugenol encapsulated in surfactant micelles) in ultrahigh-temperature pasteurized milk...

 

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Characterization of Antimicrobial-Bearing Liposomes by Zeta-Potential, Vesicle Size, and Encapsulation Efficiency (with T.M. Taylor, S. Gaysinsky, P.M. Davidson, and J. Weiss), Food Biophysics (2007)

Liposome entrapment may improve activity of protein or polypeptide antimicrobials against a variety of microorganisms....

 

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In vitro comparative kinetic analysis of the chloroplast Toc GTPases (with E.L. Reddick, M. Vaughn, S.J. Wright, and I. Campbell), Journal of Biological Chemistry (2007)

A unique aspect of protein transport into plastids is the coordinate involvement of two GTPases...

 

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Structural and Functional Changes in High-intensity Ultrasonicated Bovine Serum Albumin (with I. Gulseren, D. Guzey, and J. Weiss), Ultrasonics Sonochemistry (2007)

Effects of high-intensity ultrasonication on functional and structural properties of aqueous bovine serum albumin (BSA)...

 

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A Simple Atomic Force Microscopy Method The Visualization of Polar and Non-Polar Parts Organic Films (with A.A. Yu, P.R. Stoney, J.E. Norvillez, M. Vaughn, E.J. Pascial, M. Baldo, and F. Stellacci), Journal of Experimental Nanoscience (2006)

Here we present a scanning probe microscopy method that allows for the identification of regions...

 

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Interfacial Properties and Structural Conformation of Thermosonicated Bovice Serum Albumin (with D. Guzey, I. Gulseren, and J. Weiss), Food Hydrocolloids (2006)

Aqueous Bovine Serum Albumin (BSA) solutions were treated with high-intensity ultrasound (20 W cm−2) for...

 

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Growth inhibition of Escherichia coli O157:H7 and Listeria monocytogenes by Carvarol and Eugenol Encapsulated in Surfactant Micelles. Stability and Antimicrobial Efficiency of Eugenol Encapsulated in Surfactant Micelles (with S. Gaysinsky, P.M. Davidson, and J. Weiss), Journal of Agricultural Food Chemistry (2005)
 

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Molecular Characterization of a isoenzyme of the targeting peptide degrading protease, PreP2- catalysis, subcellular localization, expression and evolution (with S. Bhushan, A. Stahl, S. Nilsson, B. Lefebvre, D. McWilliams, S.J. Wright, M. Seki, D.A. Liberles, K. Shinozaki, M. Boutry, and E. Glaser), Plant & Cell Physiology (2005)

We have previously identified a zinc metalloprotease involved in the degradation of mitochondrial and chloroplast...

 

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Ultrasonic Spectroscopy and Differential Scanning Calorimetry of Liposomal Encapsulated Nisin (with M.T. Taylor, P.M. Davidson, and J. Weiss), Journal of Agricultural Food Chemistry (2005)

The thermal stability of phosphatidylcholine (PC) liposomes (colloidal dispersions of bilayer-forming polar lipids in aqueous...

 

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Modulation of cyanobacterial photosystem I deposition properties on alkanethiolate Au substrate by various experimental conditions (with Dibyendu Mukherjee, Michael Vaughn, and Bamin Khomami), Colloids and Surfaces B: Biointerfaces (2011)

We present results from atomic force microscopy (AFM) images indicating various experimental conditions, which alter...

 

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Optimization of photosynthetic hydrogen yield from platinized photosystem I complexes using response surface methodology (with Ifeyinwa J. Iwuchukwu, Ernest Iwuchukwu, Rosemary Le, Caitlin Paquet, Rapinder Sawhney, and Paul Frymier), International Journal of Hydrogen Energy (2011)

Light-dependent hydrogen production by platinized Photosystem I isolated from the cyanobacterium Thermosynechococcus elongatus BP-1 was...

 

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Controlling the Morphology of Photosystem I Assembly on Thiol-Activated Au Substrates (with Dibyendu Mukherjee, Mark May, Michael Vaughn, and Bamin Khomami), Langmuir (2010)

Morphological variations of Photosystem I (PS I) assembly on hydroxyl-terminated alkanethiolate self-assembled monolayer (SAM)/Au substrates...