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Postdoctoral Research
Electrodetection of small molecules by conformation-mediated signal enhancement. Murugappan K*, Sundaramoorthy U*, Damry AM*, Nisbet DR, Jackson CJ, Tricoli A. (2022) JACS Au. 2 (11), 2481-2490
Surface Functionalization and Texturing of Optical Metasurfaces for Sensing Applications. Karawdeniya B, Damry AM, Murugappan K, Manjunath S, Bandara YMN, Jackson CJ, Tricoli A, Neshev D. (2022) Chem. Rev. 122 (19), 14990-15030
When Less Gold is More: Selective Attomolar Biosensing at the Nanoscale. Dastidar MG, Murugappan K, Damry AM, Nisbet DR, Nolan C, Tricoli A. (2022) Adv. Funct. Mater. 3 (24), 2105433
Substrate dynamics contribute to enzymatic specificity in human and bacterial methionine adenosyltransferases. Gade M, Tan LL, Damry AM, Sandhu M, Brock JS, Delaney A, Villar-Briones A, Jackson CJ, Laurino P. (2021) JACS Au. 1 (12), 2349-2360
Resonant Dielectric Metagratings for Response Intensified Optical Sensing. Aoni RA, Manjunath S, Karawdeniya BI, Kamali KZ, Xu L, Damry AM, Jackson CJ, Tricoli A, Miroschnichenko A, Rahmani M, Neshev D. (2021) Adv. Funct. Mater. 32 (3), 2103143
The Evolution and Engineering of Enzyme Activity Through Tuning Conformational Landscapes. Damry AM, Jackson CJ. (2021) Protein Eng. Des. Sel. 34, gzab009
Structural and Functional Characterization of a Putative de novo Protein in Drosophila. Lange A, Patel PH, Heames B, Damry AM, Saenger T, Jackson CJ, Findlay GD, Bornberg-Bauer E. (2021) Nat. Commun. 12, 1667
Consensus Mutagenesis and Ancestral Reconstruction Provide Insight into the Substrate Specificity and Evolution of the Front-End Δ6-Desaturase Family. Li D*, Damry AM*, Petrie JR, Singh SP, Jackson CJ. (2020) Biochemistry 59 (14), 1398-1409
Graduate Research
Computational remodeling of an enzyme conformational landscape for altered substrate selectivity. St-Jacques AD, Rodriguez JM, Eason MG, Foster SM, Khan ST, Damry AM, Goto NK, Thompson MC, Chica RA. (2023) Nat. Commun. 14, 6058
Origin of Conformational Dynamics in a Globular Protein. Damry AM, Mayer MM, Broom A, Goto NK, Chica RA. (2019) Comms. Biol. 2, 433
Rational Design of Proteins that Exchange on Functional Timescales. Davey JA*, Damry AM*, Goto NK, Chica RA. (2017) Nature Chem. Biol. 13, 1280-1285
Dissecting the Role of Conformational Change and Membrane Binding by the Bacterial Cell Division Regulator MinE in the Stimulation of MinD ATPase Activity. Ayed SH, Cloutier AD, McLeod LJ, Foo ACY, Damry AM, Goto NK. (2017) J. Biol. Chem. 292, 20732-20743
Structure-Guided Rational Design of Red Fluorescent Proteins: Towards Designer Genetically-Encoded Fluorophores. Eason MG*, Damry AM*, Chica RA. (2017) Curr. Opin. Struct. Biol. 45, 91-99
Prediction of Stable Globular Proteins using Negative Design with Non-native Backbone Ensembles. Davey JA, Damry AM, Euler CK, Goto NK, Chica RA. (2015) Structure 23, 2011-2021
Continuous Colorimetric Screening Assay for Detection of D-Amino Acid Aminotransferase Mutants Displaying Altered Substrate Specificity. Barber JEB, Damry AM, Calderini GF, Walton CJW, Chica RA. (2014) Anal. Biochem. 15 (463), 23-30.