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Chan PH, Lairson LL, Lee HJ, Wakarchuk WW, Strynadka NC, Withers SG, et al. NMR Spectroscopic Characterization of the Sialyltransferase CstII from Campylobacter jejuni: Histidine 188 Is the General Base. Biochemistry. 2009;48:11220-30. Abstract
Lairson LL, Henrissat B, Davies GJ, Withers SG. Glycosyltransferases: Structures, functions, and mechanisms. Annu Rev Biochem. 2008;77:521-55. Abstract
Lairson LL, Wakarchuk WW, Withers SG. Alternative donor substrates for inverting and retaining glycosyltransferases. Chemical Communications. 2007:365-7. Abstract
Chiu CP, Lairson LL, Gilbert M, Wakarchuk WW, Withers SG, Strynadka NC. Structural analysis of the alpha-2,3-sialyltransferase cst-i from Campylobacter jejuni in apo and substrate-analogue bound forms. Biochemistry. 2007;46:7196-204. Abstract
Lairson LL, Watts AG, Wakarchuk WW, Withers SG. Using substrate engineering to harness enzymatic promiscuity and expand biological catalysis. Nat Chem Biol. 2006;2:724-8. Abstract
Aharoni A, Thieme K, Chiu CP, Buchini S, Lairson LL, Chen HM, et al. High-throughput screening methodology for the directed evolution of glycosyltransferases. Nat Methods. 2006;3:609-14. Abstract
Mildvan AS, Xia Z, Azurmendi HF, Legler PM, Balfour MR, Lairson LL, et al. Hydrogen bonding in the mechanism of GDP-mannose mannosyl hydrolase. J Mol Struct. 2006;790:160-7. Abstract
Xia ZY, Azurmendi HF, Lairson LL, Withers SG, Gabelli SB, Bianchet MA, et al. Mutational, structural, and kinetic evidence for a dissociative mechanism in the GDP-mannose mannosyl hydrolase reaction. Biochemistry. 2005;44:8989-97. Abstract
Chiu CP, Watts AG, Lairson LL, Gilbert M, Lim D, Wakarchuk WW, et al. Structural analysis of the sialyltransferase CstII from Campylobacter jejuni in complex with a substrate analog. Nat Struct Mol Biol. 2004;11:163-70. Abstract
Chiu CP, Gilbert M, Lairson LL, Watts A, Wakarchuk WW, Withers SG, et al. Towards the understanding of the catalytic mechanism and substrate specificities of sialyltransferases from Campylobacter jejuni. Glycobiology. 2004;14:245.

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Ross A, Soares DC, Covelli D, Pannecouque C, Budd L, Collins A, et al. Oxovanadium(IV) cyclam and bicyclam complexes: potential CXCR4 receptor antagonists. Inorg Chem. 2010;49(3):1122-32. Abstract
Delgado-Jaime MU, Mewis CP, Kennepohl P. Blueprint XAS: a Matlab-based toolbox for the fitting and analysis of XAS spectra. J Synchrotron Radiat. 2010;17(1):132-7. Abstract
Bates JI, Kennepohl P, Gates DP. Abnormal reactivity of an N-heterocyclic carbene (NHC) with a phosphaalkene: a route to a 4-phosphino-substituted NHC. Angew Chem Int Ed Engl. 2009;48(52):9844-7.
Sriskandakumar T, Petzold H, Bruijnincx PC, Habtemariam A, Sadler PJ, Kennepohl P. Influence of oxygenation on the reactivity of ruthenium-thiolato bonds in arene anticancer complexes: insights from XAS and DFT. J Am Chem Soc. 2009;131(37):13355-61. Abstract
Kennepohl P, Wasinger EC, DeBeer George S. X-ray spectroscopic approaches to the investigation and characterization of photochemical processes. J Synchrotron Radiat. 2009;16(Pt 4):484-8. Abstract
Karunakaran-Datt A, Kennepohl P. Redox photochemistry of methionine by sulfur K-edge X-ray absorption spectroscopy: potential implications for cataract formation. J Am Chem Soc. 2009;131(10):3577-82. Abstract
Martin-Diaconescu V, Kennepohl P. Effects of hyperconjugation on the electronic structure and photoreactivity of organic sulfonyl chlorides. Inorg Chem. 2009;48(3):1038-44. Abstract
Praetorius JM, Allen DP, Wang R, Webb JD, Grein F, Kennepohl P, et al. N-heterocyclic carbene complexes of Rh: reaction with dioxygen without oxidation. J Am Chem Soc. 2008;130(12):3724-5. Abstract
Getty K, Delgado-Jaime MU, Kennepohl P. Assignment of Pre-edge Features in the Ru K-edge X-ray Absorption Spectra of Organometallic Ruthenium Complexes. Inorganica Chim Acta. 2008;361(4):1059. Abstract
Getty K, Delgado-Jaime MU, Kennepohl P. An electronic rationale for observed initiation rates in ruthenium-mediated olefin metathesis: charge donation in phosphine and N-heterocyclic carbene ligands. J Am Chem Soc. 2007;129(51):15774-6. Abstract

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