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Overview

Colin Thorpe is a researcher affiliated with the University of Delaware in the United States. Their work primarily spans the field of Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology, with key subfields in Molecular Biology, Organic Chemistry, Cancer Research, Cell Biology, and Biomedical Engineering.

The scientist's research topics include advanced biosensing and bioanalysis techniques, click chemistry and applications, radical photochemical reactions, extracellular vesicles in disease, nanoplatforms for cancer theranostics, protease and inhibitor mechanisms, and cancer, hypoxia, and metabolism.

Frequent co-authors in their publications are:

  • Catherine S. Millar-Haskell
  • Jason P. Gleghorn
  • Chuanqi Wang
  • He Zhang
  • Tao Zhang

Thorpe's papers have appeared in several journals including bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory), Journal of the American Chemical Society, Journal of Extracellular Biology, and Cancers.

The recent papers authored or co-authored by Colin Thorpe include:

  • Enabling In Vivo Photocatalytic Activation of Rapid Bioorthogonal Chemistry by Repurposing Silicon-Rhodamine Fluorophores as Cytocompatible Far-Red Photocatalysts, 2021, Journal of the American Chemical Society
  • Secretion of the disulphide bond generating catalyst QSOX1 from pancreatic tumour cells into the extracellular matrix: Association with extracellular vesicles and matrix proteins, 2022, Journal of Extracellular Biology
  • Matrix mechanics, not hypoxia, modulate quiescin sulfhydryl oxidase 1 (QSOX1) in pancreatic tumor cells, 2022, bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • QSOX1 Modulates Glioblastoma Cell Proliferation and Migration In Vitro and Invasion In Vivo, 2024, Cancers
  • Structure of the Disulfide-rich Modules of a Striking Tandem Repeat Protein, Avian Cysteine-Rich Eggshell Membrane Protein, 2025, bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)

Best Publications

  • Quantification of Thiols and Disulfides

    Jakob R. Winther;Colin Thorpe

  • Generating disulfides enzymatically: Reaction products and electron acceptors of the endoplasmic reticulum thiol oxidase Ero1p

    Einav Gross;Carolyn S. Sevier;Nimrod Heldman;Elvira Vitu

  • Acyl-CoA dehydrogenases - a mechanistic overview

    Sandro Ghisla;Colin Thorpe

  • Structure and mechanism of action of the acyl-CoA dehydrogenases.

    Colin Thorpe;Jujng-Ja P. Kim

  • Chemistry and Enzymology of Disulfide Cross-Linking in Proteins.

    Deborah Fass;Colin Thorpe

  • An acyl-coenzyme A dehydrogenase assay utilizing the ferricenium ion.

    Thomas C. Lehman;Daniel E. Hale;Ajay Bhala;Colin Thorpe

  • Sulfhydryl oxidases: emerging catalysts of protein disulfide bond formation in eukaryotes.

    Colin Thorpe;Karen L Hoober;Sonali Raje;Nicole M Glynn

  • New water-soluble phosphines as reductants of peptide and protein disulfide bonds: reactivity and membrane permeability.

    Daniel J. Cline;Sarah E. Redding;Stephen G. Brohawn;James N. Psathas

  • Augmenter of liver regeneration: a flavin-dependent sulfhydryl oxidase with cytochrome c reductase activity.

    Scott R. Farrell;Colin Thorpe

  • Cyclic voltammetry and derivative cyclic voltabsorptometry of purified horse heart cytochrome c at tin-doped indium oxide optically transparent electrodes

    Edmond F. Bowden;Fred M. Hawkridge;Jan F. Chlebowski;Eric E. Bancroft

  • Acyl-coenzyme A dehydrogenase from pig kidney. Purification and properties.

    Colin Thorpe;Rowena G. Matthews;Charles H. Williams

  • Rapid Bioorthogonal Chemistry Turn-on through Enzymatic or Long Wavelength Photocatalytic Activation of Tetrazine Ligation

    Han Zhang;William S. Trout;Shuang Liu;Gabriel A. Andrade

  • Oxidative protein folding: from thiol-disulfide exchange reactions to the redox poise of the endoplasmic reticulum.

    Devin A. Hudson;Shawn A. Gannon;Colin Thorpe

  • Sulfhydryl Oxidase from Egg White: A FACILE CATALYST FOR DISULFIDE BOND FORMATION IN PROTEINS AND PEPTIDES *

    Karen L. Hoober;Stacey L. Sheasley;Hiram F. Gilbert;Colin Thorpe

  • Mechanism of thiolate-disulfide interchange reactions in biochemistry.

    Robert D. Bach;Olga Dmitrenko;Colin Thorpe

  • Mechanistic studies with general acyl-CoA dehydrogenase and butyryl-CoA dehydrogenase: evidence for the transfer of the beta-hydrogen to the flavin N(5)-position as a hydride

    Sandro Ghisla;Colin Thorpe;Vincent Massey

  • Oxidative Protein Folding and the Quiescin–Sulfhydryl Oxidase Family of Flavoproteins

    Vamsi K. Kodali;Colin Thorpe

  • A Sulfhydryl Oxidase from Chicken Egg White

    Karen L. Hoober;Bhavana Joneja;Harold B. White;Colin Thorpe

  • Inactivation of General Acyl-CoA Dehydrogenase from Pig Kidney by a Metabolite of Hypoglycin A*

    Alexandra Wenz;Colin Thorpe;Sandro Ghisla

  • Multidomain Flavin-Dependent Sulfhydryl Oxidases

    Donald L. Coppock;Colin Thorpe

Frequent Co-Authors

Sandro Ghisla
Sandro Ghisla University of Konstanz
Joel P. Schneider
Joel P. Schneider National Institutes of Health
Vincent Massey
Vincent Massey University of Michigan–Ann Arbor
M. W. Anders
M. W. Anders University of Rochester Medical Center
Robert D. Bach
Robert D. Bach University of Delaware
David P. Ballou
David P. Ballou University of Michigan–Ann Arbor
Rowena G. Matthews
Rowena G. Matthews University of Michigan–Ann Arbor
Vernon E. Anderson
Vernon E. Anderson Case Western Reserve University
Robert J. Gorelick
Robert J. Gorelick National Institutes of Health
Xinqiao Jia
Xinqiao Jia University of Delaware

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