selected publications

• conference proceeding

  • ENHANCEMENT OF HEAT TRANSFER WITH POOL AND SPRAY IMPINGEMENT BOILING ON MICROPOROUS AND NANOWIRE SURFACE COATINGS.  819-828. 2010
  • FREQUENCY-DOMAIN THERMOREFLECTANCE TECHNIQUE FOR MEASURING THERMAL CONDUCTIVITY AND INTERFACE THERMAL CONDUCTANCE OF THIN FILMS.  371-379. 2010

• journal article

  • Gold-Catalyzed Cyclization Leads to a Bridged Tetracyclic Indolenine that Represses beta-Lactam Resistance.  Angewandte Chemie International Edition. 9546-9549. 2015
  • Novel Scaffolds of Cell-Active Histone Demethylase Inhibitors Identified from High-Throughput Screening.  SLAS Discovery. 821-827. 2015
  • Structure-Activity Relationship Studies of the Tricyclic Indoline Resistance-Modifying Agent.  Journal of Medicinal Chemistry. 3803-3817. 2014
  • Bio-inspired synthesis yields a tricyclic indoline that selectively resensitizes methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) to β-lactam antibiotics.  Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America. 15573-15578. 2013
  • Computationally Designed Peptide Inhibitors of the Ubiquitin E3 Ligase SCFFbx4.  ChemBioChem. 445-451. 2013
  • Wafer-scale fabrication of silicon nanowire arrays with controllable dimensions.  Applied Surface Science. 8649-8655. 2012
  • Stable high areal capacity lithium-ion battery anodes based on three-dimensional Ni-Sn nanowire networks.  Journal of Power Sources. 46-51. 2012
  • Enhancing Flow Boiling Heat Transfer in Microchannels for Thermal Management with Monolithically-Integrated Silicon Nanowires.  Nano Letters. 3385-3390. 2012
  • Three-Dimensional Ni/TiO₂ Nanowire Network for High Areal Capacity Lithium Ion Microbattery Applications.  Nano Letters. 655-660. 2012
  • Largazole and Its Derivatives Selectively Inhibit Ubiquitin Activating Enzyme (E1).  PLoS ONE. 2012
  • Enhancing Ni-Sn nanowire lithium-ion anode performance by tailoring active/inactive material interfaces.  Journal of Power Sources. 10207-10212. 2011
  • Cellular Abundance of Mps1 and the Role of Its Carboxyl Terminal Tail in Substrate Recruitment.  Journal of Biological Chemistry. 38730-38739. 2010
  • Ultrafast thermoreflectance techniques for measuring thermal conductivity and interface thermal conductance of thin films.  Journal of Applied Physics. 2010
  • Structural Basis of Selective Ubiquitination of TRF1 by SCF^Fbx4.  Developmental Cell. 214-225. 2010
  • Structural and mechanistic insights into Mps1 kinase activation.  Journal of Cellular and Molecular Medicine. 1679-1694. 2009
  • Regulation of Kinetochore Recruitment of Two Essential Mitotic Spindle Checkpoint Proteins by Mps1 Phosphorylation.  Molecular Biology of the Cell. 10-20. 2009
  • Ligand-dependent ubiquitination of Smad3 is regulated by casein kinase 1 gamma 2, an inhibitor of TGF-β signaling.  Oncogene. 7235-7247. 2008
  • Activation of Mps1 promotes transforming growth factor-β-independent Smad signaling.  Journal of Biological Chemistry. 18327-18338. 2007
  • Ubiquitination of p21^Cip1/WAF1 by SCF^Skp2: Substrate requirement and ubiquitination site selection.  Biochemistry. 14553-14564. 2005
  • Exploring Smad signaling pathways in normal and cancer cells..  Developmental Biology. 581-581. 2005
  • Molecular and biochemical characterization of the Skp2-Cks1 binding interface.  Journal of Biological Chemistry. 51362-51369. 2004
  • Control of cell cycle-dependent degradation of c-Ski proto-oncoprotein by Cdc34.  Oncogene. 5643-5653. 2004
  • Negative regulation of SCF^Skp2 ubiquitin ligase by TGF-β signaling.  Oncogene. 1064-1075. 2004
  • Identification of novel protein-protein interactions using a versatile mammalian tandem affinity purification expression system.  Molecular & Cellular Proteomics. 1225-1233. 2003
  • A negatively charged amino acid in Skp2 is required for Skp2-Cks1 interaction and ubiquitination of p27(Kip1).  Journal of Biological Chemistry. 32390-32396. 2003