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  • Gao, X., Wan, J., Liu, B., Ma, M., Shen, B., Qian, S. B. Quantitative profiling of initiating ribosomes in vivo Nature Methods  2015 12:147-153  DOI:10.1038/nmeth.3208  PMID:25486063  PMCID:PMC4344187
  • Tran, T., Childs-Disney, J. L., Liu, B., Guan, L. R., Rzuczek, S., Disney, M. D. Targeting the r(CGG) repeats that cause FXTAS with modularly assembled small molecules and oligonucleotides ACS Chemical Biology  2014 9:904-912  DOI:10.1021/cb400875u  PMID:24506227  PMCID:PMC4287843
  • Liu, B., Behura, S. K., Clem, R. J., Schneemann, A., Becnel, J., Severson, D. W., Zhou, L. P53-mediated rapid induction of apoptosis conveys resistance to viral infection in drosophila melanogaster PLoS Pathogens  2013 9:e1003137  DOI:10.1371/journal.ppat.1003137  PMID:23408884  PMCID:PMC3567152
  • Disney, M. D., Liu, B., Yang, W. Y., Sellier, C., Tran, T., Charlet-Berguerand, N., Childs-Disney, J. L. A small molecule that targets r(CGG)(exp) and improves defects in fragile X-associated tremor ataxia syndrome ACS Chemical Biology  2012 7:1711-1718  DOI:10.1021/cb300135h  PMID:22948243  PMCID:PMC3477254
  • Nagle, A., Wu, T., Kuhen, K., Gagaring, K., Borboa, R., Francek, C., Chen, Z., Plouffe, D., Lin, X. N., Caldwell, C., Ek, J., Skolnik, S., et al. Imidazolopiperazines: Lead optimization of the second-generation antimalarial agents Journal of Medicinal Chemistry  2012 55:4244-4273  DOI:10.1021/jm300041e  PMID:22524250  PMCID:PMC3350218
  • Klionsky, D. J., Abdalla, F. C., Abeliovich, H., Abraham, R. T., Acevedo-Arozena, A., Adeli, K., Agholme, L., Agnello, M., Agostinis, P., Aguirre-Ghiso, J. A., Ahn, H. J., Ait-Mohamed, O., et al. Guidelines for the use and interpretation of assays for monitoring autophagy Autophagy  2012 8:445-544  DOI:10.4161/auto.19496  PMID:22966490  PMCID:PMC3404883
  • Liu, B., Zhang, Y., Sage, J. T., Soltis, S. M., Doukov, T., Chen, Y., Stout, C. D., Fee, J. A. Structural changes that occur upon photolysis of the fe(ii)(a3)-co complex in the cytochrome ba(3)-oxidase of thermus thermophilus: A combined x-ray crystallographic and infrared spectral study demonstrates co binding to cu-b Biochimica et Biophysica Acta-Bioenergetics  2012 1817:658-665  DOI:10.1016/j.bbabio.2011.12.2010  PMID:22226917  PMCID:PMC3294259
  • Doppalapudi, V. R., Huang, J., Liu, D. G., Jin, P., Liu, B., Li, L. N., Desharnais, J., Hagen, C., Levin, N. J., Shields, M. J., Parish, M., Murphy, R. E., et al. Chemical generation of bispecific antibodies Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America  2010 107:22611-22616  DOI:10.1073/pnas.1016478108  PMID:21149738  PMCID:PMC3012461
  • Liu, B., Kodadek, T. Investigation of the relative cellular permeability of DNA-binding pyrrole-imidazole polyamides Journal of Medicinal Chemistry  2009 52:4604-4612  DOI:10.1021/jm9002999  PMID:19610652  PMCID:PMC2810552
  • Liu, B., Chen, Y., Doukov, T., Soltis, S. M., Stout, C. D., Fee, J. A. Combined microspectrophotometric and crystallographic examination of chemically reduced and x-ray radiation-reduced forms of cytochrome ba(3) oxidase from thermus thermophilus: Structure of the reduced form of the enzymes Biochemistry  2009 48:820-826  DOI:10.1021/bi801759a  PMID:19140675  PMCID:PMC2638058
  • Archer, C. T., Burdine, L., Liu, B., Ferdous, A., Johnston, S. A., Kodadek, T. Physical and functional interactions of monoubiquitylated transactivators with the proteasome Journal of Biological Chemistry  2008 283:21789-21798  DOI:10.1074/jbc.M803075200  PMID:18515799  PMCID:PMC2490782
  • Liu, B., Luna, V. M., Chen, Y., Stout, C. D., Fee, J. A. An unexpected outcome of surface engineering an integral membrane protein: Improved crystallization of cytochrome ba(3) from thermus thermophilus Acta Crystallographica Section F-Structural Biology and Crystallization Communications  2007 63:1029-1034  DOI:10.1107/s1744309107054176  PMID:18084085  PMCID:PMC2344090
  • Liu, B., Archer, C. T., Burdine, L., Gillette, T. G., Kodadek, T. Label transfer chemistry for the characterization of protein-protein interactions Journal of the American Chemical Society  2007 129:12348-12349  DOI:10.1021/ja072904r  PMID:17894490  PMCID:PMC2529226
  • Yu, P., Liu, B., Kodadek, T. A convenient, high-throughput assay for measuring the relative cell permeability of synthetic compounds Nature Protocols  2007 2:23-30  DOI:10.1038/nprot.2007.1  PMID:17401333
  • Liu, B., Burdine, L., Kodadek, T. Chemistry of periodate-mediated cross-linking of 3,4-dihydroxylphenylalanine-containing molecules to proteins Journal of the American Chemical Society  2006 128:15228-15235  DOI:10.1021/ja065794h  PMID:17117875  PMCID:PMC2568988
  • Alluri, P., Liu, B., Yu, P., Xiao, X. S., Kodadek, T. Isolation and characterization of coactivator-binding peptoids from a combinatorial library Molecular Biosystems  2006 2:568-579  DOI:10.1039/b608924k  PMID:17216038
  • Liu, B., Yu, P., Alluri, P. G., Kodadek, T. Simple reporter gene-based assays for hairpin poly(amide) conjugate permeability and DNA-binding activity in living cells Molecular Biosystems  2005 1:307-317  DOI:10.1039/b511514k  PMID:16880996
  • Liu, B., Alluri, P. G., Yu, P., Kodadek, T. A potent transactivation domain mimic with activity in living cells Journal of the American Chemical Society  2005 127:8254-8255  DOI:10.1021/ja0515295  PMID:15941237
  • Yu, P., Liu, B., Kodadek, T. A high-throughput assay for assessing the cell permeability of combinatorial libraries Nature Biotechnology  2005 23:746-751  DOI:10.1038/nbt1099  PMID:15908941
  • Card, K. F., Price-Schiavi, S. A., Liu, B., Thomson, E., Nieves, E., Belmont, H., Builes, J., Jiao, J. A., Hernandez, J., Weidanz, J., Sherman, L., Francis, J. L., et al. A soluble single-chain T-cell receptor IL-2 fusion protein retains MHC-restricted peptide specificity and IL-2 bioactivity Cancer Immunology Immunotherapy  2004 53:345-357  DOI:10.1007/s00262-003-0450-3  PMID:14610621
  • Powell, D., Shen, Y., Tsui, L. C., Kruglyak, S., Royal, C. D. M., Nakamura, Y., Tanaka, Y., Jasperse, M., Belmont, J. W., Terry, S. F., Phillips, M. S., Lander, E. S., et al. The International HapMap project Nature  2003 426:789-796  DOI:10.1038/nature02168  PMID:14685227
  • Liu, B., Han, Y., Ferdous, A., Corey, D. R., Kodadek, T. Transcription activation by a pna-peptide chimera in a mammalian cell extract Chemistry & Biology  2003 10:909-916  DOI:10.1016/j.chembiol.2003.09.008  PMID:14583257
  • Liu, B., Han, Y., Corey, D. R., Kodadek, T. Toward synthetic transcription activators: Recruitment of transcription factors to DNA by a pna-peptide chimera Journal of the American Chemical Society  2002 124:1838-1839  DOI:10.1021/ja0164226  PMID:11866581
  • Liu, B., Yu, J. Q., Eng, A. Q., Zhou, P., Xiao, S. Study on selective alkylation of guaiacol with camphene over H-Mordenite Chinese Journal of Organic Chemistry  1995 15:318-322