Scott Singleton
Independent Research
Published (reverse chronological order)
- Lee, A.M., Wigle, T.J., and Singleton, S.F.*, “Two-Tiered High-Throughput Screening-Compatible Assay for Inhibitors of RecA Activities,” Analytical Biochemistry (in press).
- Wigle, T.J., and Singleton, S.F.*, “Directed Molecular Screening for RecA ATPase Inhibitors,” Bioorganic & Medicinal Chemistry Letters, DOI 10.1016/j.bmcl.2007.04.013 (2007).
- Cline, D.J., Holt, S.L., and Singleton, S.F.*, “Inhibition of Escherichia coli RecA by a Rationally Redesigned Helical Peptide,” Organic & Biomolecular Chemistry, DOI DOI: 10.1039/B703159A (2007).
- Singleton, S.F.*, Roca, A.I., Lee, A.M., and Xiao, J., “Probing the Structures of RecA-DNA Filaments. Advantages of a Flurescent Guanine Analog,” Tetrahedron 63: 3553-3566 (2007).
- Lee, A.M., Xiao, J., and Singleton, S.F.*, “Origins of Sequence Selectivity in Homologous Genetic Recombination: Insights from Rapid Kinetic Probing of RecA-mediated DNA Strand Exchange,” Journal of Molecular Biology 360: 343-359 (2006).
- Xiao, J., Lee, A.M., and Singleton, S.F.*, “Direct evaluation of a kinetic model for RecA-mediated DNA strand exchange: Importance of nucleic acid dynamics and entropy during homologous genetic recombination,” ChemBioChem 7: 1265-1278 (2006).
- Lee, A.M. and Singleton, S.F.*, “Intersubunit Electrostatic Complementarity in the RecA Nucleoprotein Filament Regulates Nucleotide Substrate Specificity and Conformational Activation,” Biochemistry 45: 4514-4529 (2006).
- Wigle, T.J., Lee, A.M., and Singleton, S.F.*, “Conformationally Selective Binding of Nucleotide Analogs to Escherichia coli RecA: A Ligand-Based Analysis of the RecA ATP-Binding Site,” to Biochemistry 45: 4502-4513 (2006).
- Xiao, J., Lee, A.M., and Singleton, S.F.*, “Construction and Evaluation of a Kinetic Scheme for RecA-mediated DNA Strand Exchange,” Biopolymers 81: 473-496 (2006).
- Lee, A.M., and Singleton, S.F., “A Molecular Target for Suppression of the evolution of Antibiotic Resistance: Inhibition of the Escherichia coli RecA Protein by N6-(1-Naphthyl)-ADP,” Journal of Medicinal Chemistry, 48: 5408-5411 (2005).
- Lee, A.M., and Singleton, S.F., “Inhibition of the Escherichia coli RecA protein: zinc(II), copper(II) and mercury(II) trap RecA as inactive aggregates,” Journal of Inorganic Biochemistry, 98: 1981-1986 (2004).
- Roca, A.I., and Singleton, S.F., “Direct Evaluation of a Mechanism of Activation of the RecA Nucleoprotein Filament,” Journal of the American Chemical Society, 125: 15366-15375 (2003).
- Singleton, S.F., Simonette, R.A., Sharma, N.C., and Roca, A.I., “Intein-Mediated Affinity-Fusion Purification of the Escherichia coli RecA Protein,” Protein Expression & Purification, 26: 476-488 (2002).
- Xiao, J., and Singleton, S.F., “Elucidating a Key Intermediate in Homologous DNA Strand Exchange: Structural Characterization of the RecA·Triple-Stranded-DNA Complex Using Fluorescence Resonance Energy Transfer,” Journal of Molecular Biology, 320: 529-558 (2002).
- Singleton, S.F., and Xiao, J., “The Stretched DNA Geometry of Recombination and Repair Nucleoprotein Filaments,” Biopolymers (Nucleic Acid Science), 61: 145-158 (2002).
- Peng, Z.-H., Sharma, V., Singleton, S.F., and Gershon, P.D., “Synthesis and Application of a Chain-Terminating Dinucleotide mRNA Cap Analog,” Organic Letters, 4: 161-164 (2002).
- Singleton, S.F., Shan, F., Kanan, M.W., McIntosh, C.M., Stearman, C.J., Helm, J.S., and Webb, K.J., “Facile Synthesis of a Fluorescent Deoxycytidine Analogue Suitable for Probing the RecA Nucleoprotein Filament,” Organic Letters, 3: 3919-3922 (2001).
- Berger, M.D., Lee, A.M., Simonette, R.A., Jackson, B.E., Roca, A.I., and Singleton, S.F., “Design and Evaluation of a Tryptophanless RecA Protein with wild type Activity,” Biochemical and Biophysical Research Communications, 286: 1195-1203 (2001).
In preparation.
- Wigle, T.J. and Singleton, S.F., “Toward Functionally Selective Inhibitors of RecA from Pathogenic Bacteria,” for ChemBioChem.
- Singleton, S.F., Lee, A.L., and Benkovic, S.J., "Tuning the Catalytic Activity of Escherichia coli Dihydrofolate Reductase Using Chemical Denaturants and Viscogens," for Biochemistry.
- Sharma, N.C., Simonette, R.A., and Singleton, S.F., “A Semi-synthetic Genetic Circuit for the Selection of Rare, Site-specific Proteases from Gigascale Libraries,” for Protein Engineering.
- Wigle, T.J., Zeng, B.-B., and Singleton, “Bismuth-dithiol Inhibition of the Escherichia coli RecA Protein,” for Journal of Inorganic Biochemistry.
- Sharma, N.C., and Singleton, S.F., “Rapid Activity Screens for Human Viral Proteases in Escherichia coli,” for Protein Engineering.
- Cline, D.J., Kamilaris, A., and Singleton, S.F., “Modulation of the Helical Stabilities of Peptide Inhibitors of Escherichia coli RecA,” for Journal of the American Chemical Society.
- Hadimani, M.B., Guntas, D., Lee, A.M., and Singleton, S.F., “Cyclo-Sal Pronucleotides of AZT: Antibacterial Agents that Bypass Drug Resistance,” for Bioorganic and Medicinal Chemistry.
Undergraduate, Graduate and Postdoctoral Research
Published (reverse chronological order).
- Cannon, W.R., Singleton, S.F., and Benkovic, S.J., “A Perspective on Biological Catalysis,” Nature Structural Biology, 3: 821-833 (1996).
- Wagner, C.R., Huang, Z., Singleton, S.F., and Benkovic, S.J., “The Molecular Basis for Non-Additive Mutational Effects in Escherichia coli Dihydrofolate Reductase,” Biochemistry, 34: 15671-15680 (1995).
- Plum, G.E., Pilch, D.S., Singleton, S.F., and Breslauer, K.J., “Nucleic Acid Hybridization: Triplex Stability and Energetics,” Annual Reviews of Biophysics and Biomolecular Structure, 24: 319–350 (1995).
- Singleton, S.F., and Dervan, P.B., “Temperature Dependence of the Energetics of Oligonucleotide-Directed Triple Helix Formation at a Single DNA Site,” Journal of the American Chemical Society, 116: 10376–10382 (1994).
- Singleton, S.F., and Dervan, P.B., “Equilibrium Association Constants for Oligonucleotide-Directed Triple Helix Formation at Single DNA Sites: Linkage to Cation Valence and Concentration,” Biochemistry, 32: 13171–13179 (1993).
- Singleton, S.F., and Dervan, P.B., “Influence of pH on the Equilibrium Association Constants for Oligodeoxyribonucleotide-Directed Triple Helix Formation at Single DNA Sites,” Biochemistry, 31: 10995–11003 (1992).
- Singleton, S.F., and Dervan, P.B., “Thermodynamics of Oligonucleotide-Directed Triple Helix Formation: An Analysis Using Quantitative Affinity Cleavage Titration,” Journal of the American Chemical Society, 114: 6957–6965 (1992).
- Plum, G.E., Park, Y.-W., Singleton, S.F., and Dervan, P.B., “Thermodynamic Characterization of the Stability and the Melting Behavior of a DNA Triplex: A Spectroscopic and Calorimetric Study,” Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences U.S.A., 87: 9436–9440 (1990).
- Plummer, B.F., and Singleton, S.F., “An Analysis of the Electronic Transitions of Aceanthrylene,” Journal of Physical Chemistry, 94: 7363–7366 (1990).
- Plummer, B.F., and Singleton, S.F., “Triplets, Biradicals, Radical Ions, and the Heavy-Atom Solvent Effect in the Photodimerization of Aceanthrylene,” Journal of Physical Chemistry , 93: 5515–5520 (1989).
- Plummer, B.F., and Singleton, S.F., “The Photodimerization of Aceanthrylene,” Tetrahedron Letters , 28: 4801–4804 (1987).