Selected Publications
  1. Mounce, B., Kurt, N., Ellison, P.A., Cavagnero, S. ‘Nonrandom distribution of intramolecular contacts in native single-domain proteins’ Proteins. in press (2008).

  2. Ellis, J.P., Bakke, C.K., Kirchdoerfer, R.N., Jungbauer, L.M., Cavagnero, S. ‘Chain Dynamics of Nascent Polypeptides Emerging from the Ribosome’ ACS Chem. Biol. in press (2008).

  3. Kurt, N., Mounce, B., Ellison, P.A., Cavagnero, S. ‘Residue-Specific Contact Order and Contact Breadth in Single-Domain Proteins: Implications for Folding as a Function of Chain Elongation’ Biotechnol. Prog., 24 (3), 570-575 (2008)

  4. Kurt, Cavagnero, S. 'Nonnative Helical Motif in a Chaperone-Bound Protein Fragment' Biophys. J. 94, 48-50 (2008).

  5. Eun, Y.-J., Kurt, N., Sekhar, A., Cavagnero, S. ‘Thermodynamic and Kinetic Characterization of ApoHmpH, a Fast-Folding Bacterial Globin’ J. Mol. Biol. 376, 879-897 (2008).

  6. Kirchdoerfer, R.N., Huang, J.-T., Isola, M.K., Cavagnero, S. 'Fluorescence-Based Analysis of Aminoacyl- and Peptidyl-tRNA by Low-pH Sodium Dodecyl Sulfate-Polyacrylamide Gel Electrophoresis' Analyt.
    Biochem
    . 364, 92-94 (2007).

  7. Jungbauer, L.M., Cavagnero, S. 'Characterization of Protein Expression and Folding in Cell-Free Systems by MALDI-TOF Mass Spectrometry' Anal. Chem., 78, 2841-2852 (2006).

  8. Cavagnero, S., Kurt, N. ‘Folding and Misfolding as a Function of Polypeptide Chain Elongation: Conformational Trends and Implications for Intracellular Events’' in Misbehaving Proteins: Protein (Mis)Folding,
    Aggregation, and Stability
    , ed. A.M. Tsai and R.M. Murphy, Springer, 217-246 (2006).


  9. Ellison, P.A., Cavagnero, S. "Role of Unfolded State Heterogeneity and En-Route Ruggedness in Protein
    Folding Kinetics" Protein Sci., 15, 564-582 (2006).


  10. Jungbauer, L.M., Bakke, C.K., Cavagnero, S. 'Experimental and Computational Analysis of Translation Products in Apomyoglobin Expression', J. Mol. Biol., 357, 1121-1143 (2006).

  11. Bakke, C.K., Jungbauer, L.M., Cavagnero, S. 'In Vitro Expression and Characterization of Native Apomyoglobin under Low Molecular Crowding Conditions', Prot. Expr. and Purif., 45, 381-392 (2006).

  12. Kurt, N., Rajagopalan, S., Cavagnero, S. 'Effect of Hsp70 Chaperone on the Folding and Misfolding of an Elongating Protein Chain', J. Mol. Biol., 355, 809-820 (2006).

  13. Chow, C.K., Kurt, N., Murphy, R.M., Cavagnero, S. 'Structural Characterization of Apomyoglobin Self-Associated Species in Aqueous Buffer and Urea Solution', Biophys. J., 90, 298-309 (2006).

  14. Kurt, N., Cavagnero, S. 'The Burial of Solvent-Accessible Surface Area is a Predictor of Polypeptide Folding and Misfolding as a Function of Chain Elongation', J. Am. Chem. Soc., 127, 15690-15691 (2005).


  15. Cavagnero, S., Jungbauer, L.M. 'Painting Protein Misfolding in the Cell in Real Time with an Atomic-Scale Brush', Trends in Biotechnology, 23, 157-162 (2005).

  16. Rajagopalan S, Chow, C.K., Ragunathan, V., Fry, C., Cavagnero, S. 'NMR Spectroscopic Filtration of Polypeptides and Proteins in Complex Mixtures', J. Biomol. NMR, 29, 505-516 (2004).

  17. Chow, C.C., Chow, C.K., Rhagunathan, V., Huppert, T., Kimball, E., Cavagnero, S. ‘Chain Length Dependence of Apomyoglobin Folding: Structural Evolution from Misfolded Sheets to Native Helices’, Biochemistry, 42, 7090-7099 (2003).

  18. Cavagnero, S. ‘Using NMR to Determine Protein Structure in Solution’, J. Chem. Ed., 80, 125-127 (2003).