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Overview

Billy W. Day is affiliated with the University of Pittsburgh in the United States. Their research centers primarily on medicine and biochemistry, genetics, and molecular biology.

The scientist has contributed extensively to the fields of molecular biology, pulmonary and respiratory medicine, health, toxicology and mutagenesis, surgery, and cancer research. Their work emphasizes neonatal respiratory health research, respiratory support and mechanisms, congenital diaphragmatic hernia studies, effects and risks of endocrine disrupting chemicals, hemoglobinopathies and related disorders, carcinogens and genotoxicity assessment, and neonatal health and biochemistry.

Frequent publication venues for their work include:

  • Free Radical Biology and Medicine
  • Antioxidants
  • International Journal of Molecular Sciences
  • Archives of Toxicology
  • PLoS ONE

Among their recent papers are:

  • Role of Myeloperoxidase, Oxidative Stress, and Inflammation in Bronchopulmonary Dysplasia (2024, Antioxidants)
  • N-acetyl-lysyltyrosylcysteine amide, a novel systems pharmacology agent, reduces bronchopulmonary dysplasia in hyperoxic neonatal rat pups (2021, Free Radical Biology and Medicine)
  • Quo vadis blood protein adductomics? (2021, Archives of Toxicology)
  • Role of endoplasmic reticulum stress in impaired neonatal lung growth and bronchopulmonary dysplasia (2022, PLoS ONE)
  • Cellular Senescence Contributes to the Progression of Hyperoxic Bronchopulmonary Dysplasia (2023, American Journal of Respiratory Cell and Molecular Biology)

They have collaborated frequently with several co-authors including Kirkwood A. Pritchard, Stephen Naylor, Ru-Jeng Teng, Xigang Jing, and Tzong-Jin Wu.

Best Publications

  • Discodermolide, a cytotoxic marine agent that stabilizes microtubules more potently than taxol.

    E. Ten Haar;R. J. Kowalski;E. Hamel;C. M. Lin

  • Structure-activity analysis of the interaction of curacin A, the potent colchicine site antimitotic agent, with tubulin and effects of analogs on the growth of MCF-7 breast cancer cells.

    Pascal Verdier-Pinard;Jing Yu Lai;Hae Dong Yoo;Jurong Yu

  • Regulation of the autophagy protein LC3 by phosphorylation

    Salvatore J. Cherra;Scott M. Kulich;Scott M. Kulich;Guy Uechi;Manimalha Balasubramani

  • A common pharmacophore for a diverse set of colchicine site inhibitors using a structure-based approach.

    Tam Luong Nguyen;Connor McGrath;Ann R Hermone;James C Burnett

  • The Microtubule-Stabilizing Agent Discodermolide Competitively Inhibits the Binding of Paclitaxel (Taxol) to Tubulin Polymers, Enhances Tubulin Nucleation Reactions More Potently than Paclitaxel, and Inhibits the Growth of Paclitaxel-Resistant Cells

    Richard J. Kowalski;Paraskevi Giannakakou;Sarath P. Gunasekera;Ross E. Longley

  • Theory and applications of surface plasmon resonance, resonant mirror, resonant waveguide grating, and dual polarization interferometry biosensors.

    Hikmat N. Daghestani;Billy W. Day

  • Zebrafish chemical screening reveals an inhibitor of Dusp6 that expands cardiac cell lineages

    Gabriela Molina;Andreas Vogt;Ahmet Bakan;Weixiang Dai

  • Small Molecule Modulators of Endogenous and Co-chaperone-stimulated Hsp70 ATPase Activity *

    Sheara W. Fewell;Christine M. Smith;Michael A. Lyon;Teodora Pene Dumitrescu

  • APC Is Essential for Targeting Phosphorylated β-Catenin to the SCFβ-TrCP Ubiquitin Ligase

    YunYun Su;Chunjiang Fu;Shinji Ishikawa;Alessandra Stella

  • Histone Deacetylase Inhibitor Enhances Recovery after AKI

    Chiara Cianciolo Cosentino;Nataliya I. Skrypnyk;Lauren L. Brilli;Takuto Chiba

  • Cyclostreptin binds covalently to microtubule pores and lumenal taxoid binding sites

    Rubén M Buey;Enrique Calvo;Isabel Barasoain;Oriol Pineda

  • A functionalizable polyester with free hydroxyl groups and tunable physiochemical and biological properties

    Zhengwei You;Haiping Cao;Jin Gao;Paul H. Shin

  • Select pyrimidinones inhibit the propagation of the malarial parasite, Plasmodium falciparum

    Annette N. Chiang;Juan-Carlos Valderramos;Raghavan Balachandran;Raj J. Chovatiya

  • Synergistic effects of peloruside A and laulimalide with taxoid site drugs, but not with each other, on tubulin assembly.

    Ernest Hamel;Billy W. Day;John H. Miller;M. Katherine Jung

  • Reduction of Ferrylmyoglobin and Ferrylhemoglobin by Nitric Oxide: A Protective Mechanism against Ferryl Hemoprotein-Induced Oxidations

    Nikolai V. Gorbunov;Anatoly N. Osipov;Billy W. Day;Beatriz Zayas-Rivera

  • Identification of ATP Citrate Lyase as a Positive Regulator of Glycolytic Function in Glioblastomas

    Marie E. Beckner;Wendy Fellows-Mayle;Zhe Zhang;Naomi R. Agostino

  • Mild, efficient Friedel-Crafts acylations from carboxylic acids using cyanuric chloride and AlCl3.

    Cyrous O Kangani;Billy W Day

  • Meayamycin inhibits pre–messenger RNA splicing and exhibits picomolar activity against multidrug-resistant cells

    Brian J. Albert;Peter A. McPherson;Kristine O'Brien;Nancy L. Czaicki

  • Tubulin Assembly, Taxoid Site Binding, and Cellular Effects of the Microtubule-Stabilizing Agent Dictyostatin†

    Charitha Madiraju;Michael C. Edler;Ernest Hamel;Brianne S. Raccor

  • Prospective Association between Lipid Soluble Antioxidants and Coronary Heart Disease in Men The Multiple Risk Factor Intervention Trial

    Rhobert W. Evans;B. Jessica Shaten;Billy W. Day;Lewis H. Kuller

  • Orphan Nuclear Receptor Pregnane X Receptor Sensitizes Oxidative Stress Responses in Transgenic Mice and Cancerous Cells

    Haibiao Gong;Shivendra V. Singh;Sharda P. Singh;Ying Mu

Frequent Co-Authors

Peter Wipf
Peter Wipf University of Pittsburgh
Dennis P. Curran
Dennis P. Curran University of Pittsburgh
Valerian E. Kagan
Valerian E. Kagan University of Pittsburgh
John S. Lazo
John S. Lazo University of Virginia
Ernest Hamel
Ernest Hamel National Institutes of Health
David E. Kelley
David E. Kelley University of Pittsburgh
Thomas E. Smithgall
Thomas E. Smithgall University of Pittsburgh
Vladimir A. Tyurin
Vladimir A. Tyurin University of Pittsburgh
Jeffrey L. Brodsky
Jeffrey L. Brodsky University of Pittsburgh

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