Publications

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Weisgerber AW, Otruba Z, Knowles MK. "Syntaxin clusters and cholesterol affect the mobility of Syntaxin1a." Biophys J. 2024 S0006-3495(24)00028-6. doi: 10.1016/j.bpj.2024.01.012.

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Bills BL, Hulser ML, Knowles MK. "Phospholipase D1 produces phosphatidic acid at sites of secretory vesicle docking and fusion." Mol Biol Cell. 2024  doi: 10.1091/mbc.E23-05-0189 

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Mahmood, A.*, Otruba, Z.*, Weisgerber, A.W., Palay, M.D., Nguyen, M.T., Bills, B.L., Knowles, M.K., "Exosome secretion kinetics are controlled by temperature" Biophysical Journal February 2023. DOI: 10.1016/j.bpj.2023.02.025

 

Weisgerber, A.W, Mahmood, A, Wehman, A.M., Knowles, M.K., "Molecular Regulation of Multivesicular Endosome Fusion and Exosome Secretion" in Exocytosis From Molecules to Cells by IOP Press/Biophysical Society Publications. Review December 2022. doi: 10.1088/978-0-7503-3771-7

 

Bills, B.L.  and Knowles, M.K., "Phosphatidic Acid Accumulates at Areas of Curvature in Tubulated Lipid Bilayers and Liposomes", Biomolecules, November 2022, doi: 10.3390/biom12111707 

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Moon, C.L., Alnaas, A.A., Cai, Y., Reed, S.M., Knowles, M.K., "Biochemically prepared C-reactive protein conformational states differentially affect C1q binding", BBA Advances, October 2022. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.bbadva.2022.100058

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Weisgerber, A, Knowles MK., "Dye – Substrate Interactions Affect the Dynamics of Extracellularly Labeled Membrane Proteins", BBA Advances, 2021,  Open access: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.bbadva.2021.100026 

 

Alhalwani AY, Repine JE, Knowles MK, Huffman JA., “Development of a sandwich ELISA with potential for selective quantification of human lactoferrin protein nitrated through disease or environmental exposure.” Anal Bioanal Chem. 2018, 410(4):1389-1396. doi: 10.1007/s00216-017-0779-7

 

Philip P. Cheney*, Alan W. Weisgerber*, Alec M. Feuerbach, and Michelle K. Knowles. "Single Lipid Molecule Dynamics on Supported Lipid Bilayers with Membrane Curvature". Membranes, 2017, Mar 15;7(1). pii: E15. doi: 10.3390/membranes7010015

 

Aml Alnaas, Carrie Moon, Mitchell Alton, Michelle K. Knowles, "Conformational Changes in C-Reactive Protein Affect Binding to Curved Membranes in a Lipid Bilayer Model of the Apoptotic Cell Surface", J. Phys. Chem B., 2017, doi: 10.1021/acs.jpcb.6b11505

 

Budy SM, Hamilton DJ, Cai Y, Knowles MK, Reed SM., "Polymer mediated layer-by-layer assembly of different shaped gold nanoparticles." J Colloid Interface Sci. 2017 Feb 1;487:336-347. doi: 10.1016/j.jcis.2016.10.022.

 

Kathryn P. Wall, Rebecca Dillon, and Michelle K. Knowles. "Fluorescence Quantum Yield Measurements of Fluorescent Proteins: A Laboratory Experiment for a Biochemistry or Molecular Biophysics Laboratory Course." Biochemistry and Molecular Biology Education, 2015, 43(1):52-9. doi: 10.1002/bmb.20837

 

Joshua C. Black, Philip P. Cheney, Travis Campbell, Michelle K Knowles. “Membrane curvature based lipid sorting using a nanoparticle patterned substrate.” Soft Matter, 2014,10, 2016-2023, doi: 10.1039/C3SM52522H

 

Philip P. Cheney, Mick D. Stachler, Michelle K. Knowles. “Single Molecule Tracking of P-glycoprotein in Live Cells Reveals Dynamic Heterogeneity.” 34th Annual International Conference of the IEEE EMBS, San Diego, California USA, 28 August - 1 September, 2012, 3159-3162.

 

Min S. Wang, Joshua C. Black, Michelle K. Knowles, and Scott M. Reed.“C-reactive protein (CRP) aptamer binds to monomeric but not pentameric form of CRP.”Analytical and Bioanalytical Chemistry, 2011, 401(4), 1309-18.  doi: 10.1007/s00216-011-5174-1.

 

Wolfhard Almers, Sebastian Barg, Xi Chen, , M. Midorikawa, M, and Lei Wan. “Watching the Exocytosis of Secretory Vesicles in Live Cells.” , 2011, 17(S2), 46-47. Published Abstract.

 

Michelle K. Knowles, Sebastian Barg, L. Wan, M. Midorikawa, X. Chen, and Wolfhard Almers, “Single secretory granules of live cells recruit syntaxin-1 and synaptosomal associated protein 25 (SNAP-25) in large copy numbers.”  Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS), 2010, 107 (48), 20810-20815. doi: 10.1073/pnas.1014840107

 

Sebastian Barg, Michelle K. Knowles, Lei Wan, Xi Chen, and Wolfhard Almers. “Syntaxin clusters assemble reversibly at sites of secretory granules in live cells.” Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS), 2010, 107 (48), 20804-20809. doi: 10.1073/pnas.1014823107

 

William Birdsong, Leonardo Fierro, Frank G Williams, Valeria Spelta, Ligia A Naves, Michelle K Knowles, Josephine Marsh-Haffner, John P Adelman, Wolfhard Almers, Robert P Elde, Edwin W McCleskey, “Sensing muscle ischemia: coincident detection of acid and ATP via interplay of two ion channels.” Neuron, 2010, 68, 739–749.   Doi: 10.1016/j.neuron.2010.09.029

 

Michelle K. Knowles, Aurelia Honerkamp-Smith, and Andrew H. Marcus, “Direct measurement of relative and collective diffusion in a dilute binary colloidal suspension.” Journal of Chemical Physics, 2005, 122(23), 234909.

 

Michelle K. Knowles, Marina G. Guenza, Roderick A. Capaldi, and Andrew H. Marcus, “Cytoskeletal-Assisted Dynamics of the Mitochondrial Reticulum in Living Cells.” Proceedings of the National Academy of Science (PNAS), 2002, 99 (23), 14772-14777.

 

Capaldi, R.A., R. Aggeler, R. Gilkerson, G. Hanson, M. Knowles, A. Marcus, D. Margineantu, M. Marusich, J. Murray, D. Oglesbee, S.J. Remington, and R. Rossignol, “A replicating module as the unit of mitochondrial structure and functioning.” Biochimica et Biophysica Acta, 2002, 1555, 192-195.

 

Tyler J. Grassman, Michelle K. Knowles, and Andrew H. Marcus, “Structure and Dynamics of Fluorescently Labeled Complex Fluids by Fourier Imaging Correlation Spectroscopy.” Physical Review E: Statistical, Nonlinear, and Soft Matter Physics, 2000, 62 (6), 8245-8257.

 

Michelle K. Knowles, Tyler J. Grassman, and Andrew H. Marcus, “Measurement of the Dynamic Structure Function of Fluorescently Labeled Complex Fluids by Fourier Imaging Correlation Spectroscopy.” Physical Review Letters, 2000, 85 (13), 2837-2840.

 

Michelle K. Knowles, Daciana Margineantu, Roderick A. Capaldi, and Andrew H. Marcus,“Translational Dynamics of Fluorescently Labeled Species by Fourier Imaging Correlation Spectroscopy.” American Chemical Society, Liquid Dynamics: Into the New Millennium (May 2001).