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Thomas G Spiro

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1 Cu(I) recognition via cation-pi and methionine interactions in CusF. Nat Chem Biol 2007 2.28
2 Definitive evidence for monoanionic binding of 2,3-dihydroxybiphenyl to 2,3-dihydroxybiphenyl 1,2-dioxygenase from UV resonance Raman spectroscopy, UV/Vis absorption spectroscopy, and crystallography. J Am Chem Soc 2002 1.45
3 FeNO structure in distal pocket mutants of myoglobin based on resonance Raman spectroscopy. Biochemistry 2003 1.24
4 Time-resolved absorption and UV resonance Raman spectra reveal stepwise formation of T quaternary contacts in the allosteric pathway of hemoglobin. J Mol Biol 2004 1.23
5 Differential sensing of protein influences by NO and CO vibrations in heme adducts. J Am Chem Soc 2006 1.23
6 Modulation of the heme electronic structure and cystathionine beta-synthase activity by second coordination sphere ligands: The role of heme ligand switching in redox regulation. J Inorg Biochem 2009 1.22
7 Quantum chemical evaluation of protein control over heme ligation: CO/O2 discrimination in myoglobin. J Phys Chem B 2005 1.08
8 Protein dynamics from time resolved UV Raman spectroscopy. Curr Opin Struct Biol 2008 1.07
9 Trans-dioxo manganese(V) porphyrins. J Am Chem Soc 2007 1.05
10 Dynamics of carbon monoxide binding to CooA. J Biol Chem 2004 1.05
11 Dynamics of carbon monoxide binding to cystathionine beta-synthase. J Biol Chem 2006 1.05
12 Modeling of ligation-induced helix/loop displacements in myoglobin: toward an understanding of hemoglobin allostery. J Am Chem Soc 2006 1.04
13 A conformational switch to beta-sheet structure in cytochrome c leads to heme exposure. Implications for cardiolipin peroxidation and apoptosis. J Am Chem Soc 2007 1.03
14 Spectroscopic studies of the corrinoid/iron-sulfur protein from Moorella thermoacetica. J Am Chem Soc 2006 1.03
15 Characterization of two different five-coordinate soluble guanylate cyclase ferrous-nitrosyl complexes. Biochemistry 2008 1.01
16 DFT analysis of axial and equatorial effects on heme-CO vibrational modes: applications to CooA and H-NOX heme sensor proteins. Biochemistry 2008 1.00
17 Porphyrin distortion during affinity maturation of a ferrochelatase antibody, monitored by Resonance Raman spectroscopy. J Am Chem Soc 2004 1.00
18 Reversible heme-dependent regulation of human cystathionine β-synthase by a flavoprotein oxidoreductase. Biochemistry 2011 0.99
19 Vibrational and electronic couplings in ultraviolet resonance Raman spectra of cyclic peptides. Biophys Chem 2003 0.99
20 Intermediacy of poly(L-proline) II and beta-strand conformations in poly(L-lysine) beta-sheet formation probed by temperature-jump/UV resonance Raman spectroscopy. Biochemistry 2006 0.99
21 Porphyrin distortion from resonance Raman intensities of out-of-plane modes: Computation and modeling of N-methylmesoporphyrin, a ferrochelatase transition state analog. J Phys Chem A 2005 0.99
22 Heme regulation of human cystathionine beta-synthase activity: insights from fluorescence and Raman spectroscopy. J Am Chem Soc 2009 0.98
23 Early events in apomyoglobin unfolding probed by laser T-jump/UV resonance Raman spectroscopy. Biochemistry 2005 0.97
24 Activation mechanism of the CO sensor CooA. Mutational and resonance Raman spectroscopic studies. J Biol Chem 2003 0.97
25 Hemoglobin site-mutants reveal dynamical role of interhelical H-bonds in the allosteric pathway: time-resolved UV resonance Raman evidence for intra-dimer coupling. J Mol Biol 2004 0.94
26 Tunable kHz deep ultraviolet (193-210 nm) laser for Raman application. Appl Spectrosc 2005 0.94
27 Temperature-jump apparatus with Raman detection based on a solid-state tunable (1.80-2.05 microm) kHz optical parametric oscillator laser. Appl Spectrosc 2006 0.93
28 New light on NO bonding in Fe(III) heme proteins from resonance Raman spectroscopy and DFT modeling. J Am Chem Soc 2010 0.93
29 Heme displacement mechanism of CooA activation: mutational and Raman spectroscopic evidence. J Biol Chem 2006 0.91
30 Comparison and contrasts between the active site PKs of Mn-superoxide dismutase and those of Fe-superoxide dismutase. J Am Chem Soc 2002 0.91
31 Probing soluble guanylate cyclase activation by CO and YC-1 using resonance Raman spectroscopy. Biochemistry 2010 0.91
32 Investigation of an unnatural amino acid for use as a resonance Raman probe: Detection limits, solvent and temperature dependence of the νC≡N band of 4-cyanophenylalanine. J Raman Spectrosc 2008 0.89
33 Multicopper oxidase involvement in both Mn(II) and Mn(III) oxidation during bacterial formation of MnO(2). J Biol Inorg Chem 2012 0.89
34 Spectroscopic studies of the anaerobic enzyme-substrate complex of catechol 1,2-dioxygenase. J Am Chem Soc 2005 0.88
35 Dynamics of allostery in hemoglobin: roles of the penultimate tyrosine H bonds. J Mol Biol 2005 0.88
36 Mechanism of the CO-sensing heme protein CooA: new insights from the truncated heme domain and UVRR spectroscopy. J Inorg Biochem 2007 0.88
37 Enthalpic and entropic stages in alpha-helical peptide unfolding, from laser T-jump/UV Raman spectroscopy. J Am Chem Soc 2007 0.87
38 The molecular biogeochemistry of manganese(II) oxidation. Biochem Soc Trans 2012 0.87
39 UV Raman monitoring of histidine protonation and H-(2)H exchange in plastocyanin. J Inorg Biochem 2002 0.85
40 Role of ligand bending in the photodissociation of O2 vs CO-heme: a time-dependent density functional study. J Am Chem Soc 2003 0.84
41 Heme reactivity is uncoupled from quaternary structure in gel-encapsulated hemoglobin: a resonance Raman spectroscopic study. J Am Chem Soc 2012 0.83
42 Differential control of heme reactivity in alpha and beta subunits of hemoglobin: a combined Raman spectroscopic and computational study. J Am Chem Soc 2014 0.83
43 His26 protonation in cytochrome c triggers microsecond β-sheet formation and heme exposure: implications for apoptosis. J Am Chem Soc 2012 0.82
44 Mn(II,III) oxidation and MnO2 mineralization by an expressed bacterial multicopper oxidase. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 2013 0.82
45 Probing domain interactions in soluble guanylate cyclase. Biochemistry 2011 0.82
46 Soluble guanylate cyclase is activated differently by excess NO and by YC-1: resonance Raman spectroscopic evidence. Biochemistry 2010 0.81
47 Linking conformation change to hemoglobin activation via chain-selective time-resolved resonance Raman spectroscopy of protoheme/mesoheme hybrids. J Biol Inorg Chem 2009 0.81
48 Site mutations disrupt inter-helical H-bonds (alpha14W-alpha67T and beta15W-beta72S) involved in kinetic steps in the hemoglobin R-->T transition without altering the free energies of oxygenation. Biophys Chem 2003 0.80
49 Microsecond melting of a folding intermediate in a coiled-coil peptide, monitored by T-jump/UV Raman spectroscopy. J Phys Chem B 2006 0.80
50 Activation of soluble guanylyl cyclase by four-coordinate metalloporphyrins: evidence for a role for porphyrin conformation. Biochemistry 2002 0.79
51 Ultrafast charge transfer in nickel phthalocyanine probed by femtosecond Raman-induced Kerr effect spectroscopy. J Am Chem Soc 2014 0.78
52 Mode recognition in UV resonance Raman spectra of imidazole: histidine monitoring in proteins. J Phys Chem B 2012 0.77
53 DFT analysis of co-alkyl and co-adenosyl vibrational modes in B12-cofactors. Inorg Chem 2006 0.77
54 Subunit-selective interrogation of CO recombination in carbonmonoxy hemoglobin by isotope-edited time-resolved resonance Raman spectroscopy. Biochemistry 2009 0.77
55 Pulling NO out of thin air. Nat Chem Biol 2005 0.76
56 Electronic structure and ligand vibrations in FeNO, CoNO, and FeOO porphyrin adducts. Inorg Chem 2013 0.75
57 Distinguishing unfolding and functional conformational transitions of calmodulin using ultraviolet resonance Raman spectroscopy. Protein Sci 2014 0.75
58 Copper Binding Sites in the Manganese-Oxidizing Mnx Protein Complex Investigated by Electron Paramagnetic Resonance Spectroscopy. J Am Chem Soc 2017 0.75
59 Density functional theory analysis of molybdenum isotope fractionation. J Phys Chem A 2007 0.75