Publications of Dr. Matthew D. Disney

1. Testa SM, Disney MD, Turner DH, and Kierzek R. Thermodynamics of RNA-RNA duplexes with 2- or 4-thiouridines: implications for antisense design and targeting a group I intron. Biochemistry, (1999), 38, 16655-16662.
2. Disney MD, Testa SM, and Turner DH. Targeting a pneumocystis carinii group I intron with methylphosphonate oligonucleotides:  Backbone charge is not required for binding or reactivity.  Biochemistry, (2000), 39, 6991-7000.
3. Disney MD, Gryaznov SM, and Turner DH. Contributions of individual nucleotides to tertiary binding of substrate by a pneumocystis carinii group I intron.  Biochemistry, (2000), 39, 14269-14278.
4. Disney MD, Haidaris CG, and Turner DH.  Recognition elements for 5' exon substrate binding to the candida albicans group I intron.  Biochemistry, (2001), 40, 6507-6519.
5. Disney MD, Matray T, Gryaznov SM, and Turner DH.  Binding enhancement by tertiary interactions and suicide inhibition of a candida albicans group I intron by phosphoramidate and 2' O-methyl hexanucleotides.  Biochemistry, (2001), 40, 6520-6526.
6. Disney MD and Turner DH.  tertiary interactions with an imino G · A pair facilitate binding of the 5' exon and guanosine substrates to the candida albicans group I Intron.  Biochemistry, (2002), 41, 8113-8119.
7. Childs JL, Disney MD, and Turner DH.  Oligonucleotide directed misfolding of RNA (ODMir) inhibits group I Intron self-splicing.  Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences USA, (2002), 99, 11091-11096.
8. Disney MD, Haidaris, CG, and Turner DH.  Uptake and antifungal activity of oligonucleotides in candida albicans.  Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences USA, (2003), 100, 1530-1534.
9. Du H, Disney MD, Miller BL, and Krauss T.  Hybridization-based unquenching of DNA hairpins on Au surfaces:  Prototypical “Molecular Beacon” biosensors.  Journal of the American Chemical Society, (2003), 125, 4012-4013.
10. Mathews DH, Disney MD, Childs JL, Schroeder SJ, Zuker M, and Turner DH.  Incorporating chemical modification restraints into a dynamic programming algorithm improves prediction of RNA secondary structure.  Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences USA, (2004), 101, 7287-7292.
11. Disney MD, Childs JL, and Turner DH.  Targeting RNA with oligonucleotides: inhibition of group I Intron self-splicing. Biopolymers, (2004), 73, 151-161.
12. Disney MD, Magnet S, Blanchard JS, and Seeberger PH.  Aminoglycoside microarrays to study antibiotic resistance.  Angewandte Chemie International Edition, (2004), 43, 1591-1594.
13. Disney MD and Seeberger PH.  Aminoglycoside microarrays to explore carbohydrate-RNA interactions.  Chemistry-A European Journal, (2004), 10, 3308-3314.
14. Disney MD and Seeberger PH.  Carbohydrate arrays as tools in glycomics.  Drug Discovery Today: Tools, (2004), 4, 151-158.
15. Disney MD, Zheng J, Swager T, and Seeberger PH.  Detection of escherichia coli with carbohydrate-functionalized fluorescent polymers. Journal of the American Chemical Society, (2004), 126, 13343-13346.
16. Ratner DM, Adams EA, Disney MD, and Seeberger PH.  Carbohydrate microarrays as tools to probe glycobiology. ChemBioChem, (2004), 5, 1375-1383.
17. Disney MD, Childs JL, and Turner DH. Hoechst 33258 inhibits group I Intron self-splicing by affecting RNA folding. ChemBioChem, (2004), 5, 1647-1652.
18. Disney MD and Seeberger PH.  Carbohydrate Arrays to Probe Cell Adhesion and to Facilitate Pathogen Detection.  Chemistry and Biology, (2004), 11, 1701-1707.
19. Disney MD, Stephenson R, Wright TW, Haidaris CG, Turner DH, and Gigliotti F. Antimicrobial activity of Hoechst 33258 against pneumocystis carinii, F. sp. muris, candida albicans, and candida dubliniensis.  Antimicrobial Agents Chemotherapy, (2005), 49, 1326-1330.
20. Disney MD, Hook D, Namamoto K, Seeberger PH, and Seebach D. N-linked glycosylatedy beta-peptides are resistant to degradation by glycoamidase A.  Chemistry & Biodiversity, (2005), 2, 1624-1634.
21. Brun MA, Disney MD, and Seeberger PH.  Miniaturization of microwave-assisted carbohydrate fictionalization to create oligosaccharide microarrays. ChemBioChem, (2006), 7, 421-4.
22. Kehr J-C, Zilliges Y, Disney MD, Ratner DM, Bouchier C, Seeberger PH, Tandeau de Marsac N, and Dittmann E.  A mannan binding lectin is involved in cell–cell attachment in a toxic strain of Microcystis aeruginosa.  Mol Microbiol., (2006), 59, 893-906.
23. Barrett OJ, Childs JL, and Disney MD.  Chemical microarrays to identify ligands that bind pathogenic cells.  ChemBioChem, (2006), 7, 1882-1885.
24. Disney MD and Childs-Disney, JL.  Using selection to identify and chemical microarray to study the RNA internal loops recognized by 6’ acylated kanamycin A. ChemBioChem, (2007), 8, 649-656.
25. Childs-Disney, JL, Wu, M, Pushechnikov, A, Aminova, O, and Disney, MD. A small molecule microarray platform to select RNA internal loop-ligand interactions. ACS Chem. Biol., (2007) Nov 20, 2(11), 745-754. Epub 2007 Nov 2.
26. Disney, MD and Barrett, OJ. An aminoglycoside microarray platform for directly monitoring and studying antibiotic resistance. Biochemistry, (2007) Oct 9, 46(40), 11223-11230. Epub 2007 Sept 15.
27. Childs-Disney, JL, Disney, MD. A simple ligation-based method to increase the information density in sequencing reactions used to deconvolute nucleic acid selections. RNA, (2008), 14(2), 390-394. Epub 2007 Dec 7.