Publications

Peer Reviewed Articles

• Brooks, C.L., B.G. Kim, P. Aphale, B. Kleeman and G.C. Johnson:  Phosphorylated Variants of Bovine Prolactin.  Molecular and Cellular Endocrinology 71:117-123 (1990).

• Kim, B.G. and Brooks C.L.:  Isolation and Characterization of Phosphorylated Bovine Prolactin. Biochemical Journal 296: 41-47 (1993).

• Brooks, C.L., Isaacs L.A. and Wicks, J.R.:  Preparative Purification of Phosphorylated and                Nonphosphorylated Bovine Prolactin.  Molecular and Cellular Endocrinology 99:301-305 (1994).

• Wicks, J.R. and Brooks, C.L.  Biological Activity of Phosphorylated and Dephosphorylated Bovine Prolactin. Molecular and Cellular Endocrinology 112:223-229 (1995).

• Maciejewski, P.M., Peterson, F.C., Anderson P.J., and Brooks, C.L..  Mutation of Serine 90 to Glutamic Acid Mimics Phosphorylation of Bovine Prolactin. Journal of Biological Chemistry 270:27661-27665 (1995)

• Oglesbee, M., Liu, Z., Kenney, H., and Brooks, C.L.  The Highly Inducible Member of the 70kDa Family of Heat Shock Proteins Increases Canine Distemper Virus Polymerase Activity. Journal General Virology 77:2125-2135 (1996).

• Permyakov, E.A., Veprintsev, D.B., Deikus, G.Y., Permyakov, S.E., Kalinichenko, L.P., Grischenko, V.M., and Brooks, C.L. pH-induced Transition and Zn²⁺-binding Properties of Bovine Prolactin.  FEBS Letters 405:273-276 (1997).

• Anderson, P.J., Brooks, C.L. and Berliner, L.J.  Functional Identification of Calcium Binding Residues in Bovine  α-Lactalbumin. Biochemistry 36:11648-11643 (1997).

• Peterson, F.C. and Brooks, C.L. Identification of a Motif Associated with the Lactogenic Actions of Human Growth Hormone.  J. Biol. Chem. 272:21444-21448 (1997).

• Brooks, C.L. and Saiduddin, S.  Phosphorylation of Bovine Prolactin Eliminates Luteotrophic Activity in the Rat.  Life Sciences 63:1281-1287 (1998).

• Wicks, J.R. and Brooks, C.L.  Prolactin Kinase Activity in Bovine Anterior Pituitary Subcellular Fractions. Molec. Cell. Endo.  147: 125-132 (1999).

• Peterson, F.C. Anderson, P.J., Berliner, L.J. and Brooks, C.L.  Efficient Expression, Folding and Characterization of Small Molecular Weight Proteins with a pT7-7-derived Phagemid. Protein Expression and Purification, 15:16-23 (1999).

• Duda, K.M. and Brooks, C.L.  Human Growth Hormone Site 2 Lactogenic Activity Requires a Distant Tyrosine 164.  FEBS Letters, 449: 120-124 (1999).

• Wicks, J.R. and Brooks, C.L.  Growth Hormone Kinase Activity in Bovine Anterior Pituitary Subcellular Fractions.  Endocrine 10: 77-82 (1999).

• Veprintsev, D.B., Naryan, M, Permyakov, S.E., Uversky, V.N., Brooks, C.L., Cherskaya, A.M.,Permyakov, E.A. and Berliner, L.J.  Fine Tuning the N-terminus of a Calcium α-lactalbumin. Binding Protein.   Proteins: Structure, Function and Genetics 37: 65-72 (1999).

• Peterson, F.C. and Brooks, C.L.  Species Specificity of Growth Hormone.  FEBS Letters 472:276-282 (2000).

• Permykov, S.E., Veprintsev, D.B., Brooks, C.L., Permykov, E.A. and Berliner, L.J.   α- lactalbumin:Zinc Binding in Bovine  Sequence Homology May Not Be a Predictor of Subtile Functional Features. Proteins: Structure, Function and Genetics 40: 106-111 (2000).

• Frangione-Beebe, M., Albrecht, B., Dakappagari, N., Rose, R.T, Brooks, C.L., Schwendeman, S.P., Lairmore, M.D. and Kaumaya, P.T.P.  Enhanced Immunogenicity of a Conformational Epitope of Human T-Lymphotropic Virus Type 1 using a Novel Chimeric Peptide.  Vaccine 19: 1068-1081 (2001).

• Permyakov,  S.E., Uversky, V.N., Veprintsev, D.B., Cherskaya, A.M., Brooks, C.L.,  Permyakov, E.A. and Berliner, L.J.  α-Lactalbumin: Effects Mutating Aspartate in the Calcium  Binding Site of  on the Protein Stability and Cation Binding.  Protein Engineering 14: 785-789   (2001).

• Zhang, X., Glendening, C., Link, H., Parks, C.L., Brooks, C.L., Uden, and Oglesbee, M.  Identification and Characterization of a Regulatory Domain on the Carboxy Terminus of Measles Virus Nucleocapsid Protein.  Journal of Virology 76: 8737-8746 (2002).

• Schenck, E.J.H., Canfield J.M. and Brooks, C.L., Functional Relationship of Serine 90 Phosphorylation and the Surrounding Putative Salt Bridge in Bovine Prolactin.  Molecular Cellular Endocrinology 204: 117-125 (2003).

• Duda, K.M. and Brooks, C.L., Identification of Residues Outside the Two Binding Sites that are Critical for the Lactogenic Activity of Human Growth Hormone.  J. Biol. Chem. 278: 22734-22739 (2003).

• Duda, K.M. and Brooks, C.L., Differential Effects of Zinc on Functionally Distinct Human Growth Hormone Mutations.  Protein Engineering 16: 531-534 (2003).

• Svensson, M., Fast, J., Mossberg, A.-K., Duringer, C., Gustafsson, L., Hallgren, O., Brooks, C.L., Berliner, L., Linse, S. and Svanborg, C.  α-Lactalbumin Unfolding is Not Sufficient to Cause Apoptosis but is Required for the        Conversion to Hamlet (human α-lactalbumin made lethal to tumor cells).  Protein Science 12: 2794-2804 (2003).

• Peterson, F.C. and Brooks, C.L., Mini-helix-1 is Required for Lactogenic But Not Somatotrophic Activity of Human    Lactogenic Hormones.  Protein Engineering, Design and Selection, 17: 417-424 (2004).

• Sivaprasad, U. and C.L. Brooks , Mechanism of Ordered Lactogen Receptor Binding by Human Prolactin.  Biochemistry, 43: 13755-13765 (2004).

• Permyakov S.E., Makhatadze G.I., Owenius R., Uversky V.N., Brooks C.L., Permykov, E.A. and Berliner, L.J., How to Improve Nature: Study of the Electrostatic Properties of the Surface of α-Lactalbumin. Protein Engineering, Design and Structure 18: 425-422 (2005).

• Schenck, E.J.H. and Brooks, C.L., Effects of S85E Bovine Growth Hormone in Transgenic Mice. Experimental Biology and Medicine 231: 296-302 (2006).

• Chaudhury C., Brooks C.L., Carter D.C., Robinson J.M. and Anderson C.L. Albumin Binding to FcRn: Distinct from the FcRn-IgG Interaction.  Biochemistry,45: 4983-4990 (2006).