Bashkim Kokona

Dynamics of Macromolecular Assembly Section, Laboratory of Cellular Imaging and Macromolecular Biophysics, National Institute of Biomedical Imaging and Bioengineering, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, 20892, United States of America.

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February 2016

Effect of helix length on the stability of the Lac repressor antiparallel coiled coil.

Authors:

Wheaton Little James P Robblee Caroline L Dahlberg Bashkim Kokona Robert Fairman

Biopolymers 2015 Jul;104(4):395-404

Department of Biology, Haverford College, 370 Lancaster Ave, Haverford, PA, 19041.

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July 2015

Testing the role of charge and structure on the stability of peptide-porphyrin complexes.

Authors:

James C Taggart Elizabeth Z Welch Mary F Mulqueen Vincent B Dioguardi Alexandra G Cauer Bashkim Kokona Robert Fairman

Biomacromolecules 2014 Dec 17;15(12):4544-50. Epub 2014 Nov 17.

Department of Biology, Haverford College , 370 Lancaster Avenue, Haverford, Pennsylvania 19041, United States.

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December 2014

Role of the coiled-coil structural motif in polyglutamine aggregation.

Authors:

Bashkim Kokona Zachary P Rosenthal Robert Fairman

Biochemistry 2014 Nov 24;53(43):6738-46. Epub 2014 Oct 24.

Department of Biology, Haverford College , 370 Lancaster Avenue, Haverford, Pennsylvania 19041, United States.

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November 2014

Effect of helical flanking sequences on the morphology of polyglutamine-containing fibrils.

Authors:

Bashkim Kokona Karl A Johnson Robert Fairman

Biochemistry 2014 Nov 24;53(43):6747-53. Epub 2014 Oct 24.

Department of Biology, Haverford College , 370 Lancaster Avenue, Haverford, Pennsylvania 19041, United States.

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November 2014

Effect of glutamate side chain length on intrahelical glutamate-lysine ion pairing interactions.

Authors:

Richard P Cheng Wei-Ren Wang Prashant Girinath Po-An Yang Raheel Ahmad Jhe-Hao Li Pier Hart Bashkim Kokona Robert Fairman Casey Kilpatrick Annmarie Argiros

Biochemistry 2012 Sep 29;51(36):7157-72. Epub 2012 Aug 29.

Department of Chemistry, National Taiwan University, Taipei 10617, Taiwan.

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September 2012

Characterization of mesoscale coiled-coil peptide-porphyrin complexes.

Authors:

Brian J Pepe-Mooney Bashkim Kokona Robert Fairman

Biomacromolecules 2011 Dec 7;12(12):4196-203. Epub 2011 Nov 7.

Department of Biology, Haverford College, Haverford, Pennsylvania 19041, United States.

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December 2011

Thermodynamic analysis of self-assembly in coiled-coil biomaterials.

Authors:

Betty P Tsang Heidi S Bretscher Bashkim Kokona Robert S Manning Robert Fairman

Biochemistry 2011 Oct 14;50(40):8548-58. Epub 2011 Sep 14.

Department of Biology, Haverford College, Haverford, Pennsylvania 19041, United States.

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October 2011

Positional effects on helical Ala-based peptides.

Authors:

Richard P Cheng Prashant Girinath Yuta Suzuki Hsiou-Ting Kuo Hao-Chun Hsu Wei-Ren Wang Po-An Yang Donald Gullickson Cheng-Hsun Wu Marc J Koyack Hsien-Po Chiu Yi-Jen Weng Pier Hart Bashkim Kokona Robert Fairman Tzu-En Lin Olivia Barrett

Biochemistry 2010 Nov;49(43):9372-84

Department of Chemistry, National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan.

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November 2010

Polyglutamine fibrils are formed using a simple designed beta-hairpin model.

Authors:

Melanie H Smith Timothy F Miles Molly Sheehan Katherine N Alfieri Bashkim Kokona Robert Fairman

Proteins 2010 Jun;78(8):1971-9

Department of Biology, Haverford College, Haverford, Pennsylvania 19041, USA.

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June 2010

Effect of highly fluorinated amino acids on protein stability at a solvent-exposed position on an internal strand of protein G B1 domain.

Authors:

Hsien-Po Chiu Bashkim Kokona Robert Fairman Richard P Cheng

J Am Chem Soc 2009 Sep;131(37):13192-3

Department of Chemistry, University at Buffalo, The State University of New York, Buffalo, New York 14260-3000, USA.

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September 2009

Self assembly of coiled-coil peptide-porphyrin complexes.

Authors:

Bashkim Kokona Andrew M Kim R Claire Roden Joshua P Daniels Brian J Pepe-Mooney Brian C Kovaric Julio C de Paula Karl A Johnson Robert Fairman

Biomacromolecules 2009 Jun;10(6):1454-9

Department of Biology, Haverford College, Haverford, Pennsylvania 19041, USA.

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June 2009

Design of a heterotetrameric coiled coil.

Authors:

Benjamin C Root Laurel D Pellegrino Emily D Crawford Bashkim Kokona Robert Fairman

Protein Sci 2009 Feb;18(2):329-36

Department of Biology, Haverford College, Pennsylvania 19041, USA.

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February 2009

The plasmid-encoded regulator activates factors conferring lysozyme resistance on enteropathogenic Escherichia coli strains.

Authors:

Nina Salinger Bashkim Kokona Robert Fairman Iruka N Okeke

Appl Environ Microbiol 2009 Jan 7;75(1):275-80. Epub 2008 Nov 7.

Department of Biology, Haverford College, 370 Lancaster Avenue, Haverford, PA 19041, USA.

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January 2009

Probing the oligomeric assemblies of pea porphobilinogen synthase by analytical ultracentrifugation.

Authors:

Bashkim Kokona Daniel J Rigotti Andrew S Wasson Sarah H Lawrence Eileen K Jaffe Robert Fairman

Biochemistry 2008 Oct 17;47(40):10649-56. Epub 2008 Sep 17.

Department of Biology, Haverford College, 370 Lancaster Avenue, Haverford, Pennsylvania 19041, USA.

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October 2008

Helix propensity of highly fluorinated amino acids.

Authors:

Hsien-Po Chiu Yuta Suzuki Donald Gullickson Raheel Ahmad Bashkim Kokona Robert Fairman Richard P Cheng

J Am Chem Soc 2006 Dec;128(49):15556-7

Department of Chemistry, University at Buffalo, The State University of New York, Buffalo, New York 14260-3000, USA.

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December 2006

Self-assembly of peptide porphyrin complexes: toward the development of smart biomaterials.

Authors:

Brian C Kovaric Bashkim Kokona Alexander D Schwab Margaret A Twomey Julio C de Paula Robert Fairman

J Am Chem Soc 2006 Apr;128(13):4166-7

Department of Biology, Haverford College, Pennsylvania 19041, USA.

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April 2006

Crystal structure of a glycyl radical enzyme from Archaeoglobus fulgidus.

Authors:

Lari Lehtiö J Günter Grossmann Bashkim Kokona Robert Fairman Adrian Goldman

J Mol Biol 2006 Mar 3;357(1):221-35. Epub 2006 Jan 3.

Institute of Biotechnology, University of Helsinki, PO Box 65, FIN-00014, Helsinki, Finland.

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March 2006

Single amino acid mutations alter the distribution of human porphobilinogen synthase quaternary structure isoforms (morpheeins).

Authors:

Lei Tang Sabine Breinig Linda Stith Adele Mischel Justin Tannir Bashkim Kokona Robert Fairman Eileen K Jaffe

J Biol Chem 2006 Mar 23;281(10):6682-90. Epub 2005 Dec 23.

Fox Chase Cancer Center, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19111, USA.

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March 2006

Quantitative atomic force microscopy image analysis of unusual filaments formed by the Acanthamoeba castellanii myosin II rod domain.

Authors:

Daniel J Rigotti Bashkim Kokona Theresa Horne Eric K Acton Carl D Lederman Karl A Johnson Robert S Manning Suzanne Amador Kane Walter F Smith Robert Fairman

Anal Biochem 2005 Nov 19;346(2):189-200. Epub 2005 Sep 19.

Department of Biology, Haverford College, 370 Lancaster Ave, Haverford, PA 19041, USA.

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November 2005

Rhodobacter capsulatus porphobilinogen synthase, a high activity metal ion independent hexamer.

Authors:

David W Bollivar Cheryl Clauson Rachel Lighthall Siiri Forbes Bashkim Kokona Robert Fairman Lenka Kundrat Eileen K Jaffe

BMC Biochem 2004 Nov 22;5:17. Epub 2004 Nov 22.

Department of Biology, Illinois Wesleyan University, P,O, Box 2900, Bloomington, IL 61702-2900, USA.

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November 2004

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