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Vizcarra Lab

Publications

Underline indicates a student researcher. * indicates a corresponding author.

  1. Vizcarra CL, Trainor RF, McDonald AR, Richardson CT, Potoyan D, Nash JA, Lundgren B, Luchko T, Hocky GM, Foley JJ, Atherton TJ, Stokes GY* (2024) An interdisciplinary effort to integrate coding into science courses, Nature Computational Science, 4: 803–804. PubMed

  2. de Sousa Lobo Querido R, Ji X, Lakha R, Goodyear RJ, Richardson GP, Vizcarra CL, Olson ES* (2023) Visualizing collagen fibers in the tectorial and basilar membranes using CNA35, a fluorescently labelled bacterial-adhesion protein, Journal of the Association for Research in Otolaryngology, 24: 147–157. PubMed

  3. Lakha R, Hachicho C, Mehlenbacher MR, Wilcox DE, Austin RN, Vizcarra CL* (2023) Metallothionein-3 attenuates the effect of Cu2+ ions on actin filaments, Journal of Inorganic Biochemistry, 242: 112157. PubMed

  4. Orman M, Landis M, Oza A, Nambiar D, Gjeci J, Song K, Huang V, Klestzick A, Hachicho C, Liu SQ, Kamm JM, Bartolini F, Vadakkan JJ, Rojas CM, Vizcarra CL* (2022) Alterations to the broad-spectrum formin inhibitor SMIFH2 modulate potency but not specificity, Scientific Reports, 12: 13520. PubMed

  5. Mehlenbacher MR, Elsiesy R, Lakha R, Villones RL, Orman M, Vizcarra CL*, Meloni G*, Wilcox DE*, Austin RN* (2022) Metal Binding and Interdomain Thermodynamics of Mammalian Metallothionein 3: Enthalpically Favoured Cu+ Supplants Entropically Favoured Zn2+ to form Cu4+ Clusters Under Physiological Conditions, Chemical Science, 13: 5289–5304. PubMed

  6. Williams SC, Luongo D, Orman M, Vizcarra CL, Austin RN* (2022) An alkane monooxygenase (AlkB) family in which all electron transfer partners are covalently bound to the oxygen-activating hydroxylase, Journal of Inorganic Biochemistry, 228: 111707. PubMed

  7. Lakha R, Montero AM, Jabeen T, Costeas CC, Ma J, Vizcarra CL* (2021) Variable autoinhibition among deafness-associated variants of Diaphanous 1 (DIAPH1), Biochemistry, 60: 2320–2329. PubMed

  8. Williams SC, Forsberg AP, Lee J, Vizcarra CL, Lopatkin AJ, Austin RN* (2021) Investigation of the prevalence and catalytic activity of rubredoxin-fused alkane monooxygenases (AlkBs), Journal of Inorganic Biochemistry, 219: 111409. PubMed

  9. Vizcarra CL and Quinlan ME* (2017) Actin filament assembly by bacterial factors VopL/F: Which end is up?, Journal of Cell Biology, 216: 1211–1213. PubMed

  10. Bradley AO, Vizcarra CL, Bailey H, Quinlan ME* (2020) Spire stimulates nucleation by Cappuccino and binds both ends of actin filaments, Molecular Biology of the Cell, 31: 273–286. PubMed

  11. Silkworth WT, Kunes KL, Nickel GC, Phillips ML, Quinlan ME*, Vizcarra CL* (2018) The Neuron Specific Formin Delphilin Nucleates but Does Not Enhance Actin Filament Elongation, Molecular Biology of the Cell, 29: 610–621. PubMed

  12. AhYoung AP, Koehl A, Vizcarra CL, Cascio D, Egea PF* (2016) Structure of a putative ClpS N-end rule adaptor protein from the malaria pathogen Plasmodium falciparum, Protein Science, 25: 689–701. PubMed

  13. Oztug Durer ZA, McGillivary RM, Kang H, Elam WA, Vizcarra CL, Hanein D, De La Cruz EM, Reisler E, Quinlan ME* (2015) Metavinculin tunes the flexibility and the architecture of vinculin-induced bundles of actin filaments, Journal of Molecular Biology, 427: 2782–2798. PubMed

  14. Vizcarra CL, Bor B, and Quinlan ME* (2014) The role of formin tails in actin nucleation, processive elongation, and filament bundling, Journal of Biological Chemistry, 289: 30602–30613. PubMed

  15. Roth-Johnson EA, Vizcarra CL, Bois JS, and Quinlan ME* (2014) Interaction between microtubules and the Drosophila formin Cappuccino and its effect on actin assembly, Journal of Biological Chemistry, 289: 4395–4404. PubMed

  16. Bor B, Vizcarra CL, Phillips ML, and Quinlan ME* (2012) Autoinhibition of the formin Cappuccino in the absence of canonical autoinhibitory domains, Molecular Biology of the Cell, 23: 3801–3813. PubMed

  17. Chen MMY, Snow CD, Vizcarra CL, Mayo SL, and Arnold FH* (2012) Comparison of random mutagenesis and semi-rational designed libraries for improved cytochrome P450 BM3-catalyzed hydroxylation of small alkanes, Protein Engineering, Design & Selection, 25: 171–178. PubMed

  18. Vizcarra CL†, Kreutz B†, Rodal AA, Toms AV, Lu J, Zheng W, Quinlan ME*, and Eck MJ* (2011) Structure and function of the interacting domains of Spire and Fmn-family formins, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences USA, 108: 11884–11889. (†Co-first authors) PubMed

  19. Vizcarra CL, Zhang N, Marshall SA, Wingreen N, Zeng C, and Mayo SL* (2008) An improved pairwise decomposable finite difference Poisson-Boltzmann method for computational protein design, Journal of Computational Chemistry, 29: 1153–1162. PubMed

  20. Treynor TP, Vizcarra CL, Nedelcu D, and Mayo SL* (2007) Computationally designed libraries of fluorescent proteins evaluated by preservation and diversity of function, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences USA, 104: 48–53. PubMed

  21. Marshall SA, Vizcarra CL, and Mayo SL* (2005) One- and two-body decomposable Poisson-Boltzmann methods for protein design calculations, Protein Science, 14: 1293. PubMed

  22. Vizcarra CL and Mayo SL* (2005) Electrostatics in Computational Protein Design, Current Opinion in Chemical Biology, 9: 622–626. PubMed