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Dean C. Crick is affiliated with Colorado State University in the United States. Their research spans multiple areas within biochemistry, genetics, molecular biology, medicine, and chemistry, reflecting a multidisciplinary approach to scientific inquiry.

The scientist has published extensively in the fields of biochemistry, genetics, and molecular biology, with 14 publications related to these main fields, alongside 12 in medicine and 9 in chemistry. Their subfields of study include molecular biology, infectious diseases, inorganic chemistry, epidemiology, and organic chemistry.

Key topics of Dean C. Crick's work focus on:

  • Tuberculosis Research and Epidemiology
  • Biochemical and Molecular Research
  • Vanadium and Halogenation Chemistry
  • Cancer Therapeutics and Mechanisms
  • Carbohydrate Chemistry and Synthesis
  • Microbial Natural Products and Biosynthesis
  • ATP Synthase and ATPases Research

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Dean C. Crick include Debbie C. Crans, Jordan T. Koehn, Venugopal Pujari, Kateryna Kostenkova, and Zeyad Arhouma.

Their publication record includes recent papers such as:

  • PtIV- or MoVI-substituted decavanadates inhibit the growth of Mycobacterium smegmatis (2021, Journal of Inorganic Biochemistry)
  • Synthetic Sansanmycin Analogues as Potent Mycobacterium tuberculosis Translocase I Inhibitors (2021, Journal of Medicinal Chemistry)
  • Exploring Growth of Mycobacterium smegmatis Treated with Anticarcinogenic Vanadium Compounds (2022, Inorganics)
  • The Acid-Base Equilibrium of Pyrazinoic Acid Drives the pH Dependence of Pyrazinamide-Induced Mycobacterium tuberculosis Growth Inhibition (2020, ACS Infectious Diseases)
  • Do bioactive 8-hydroxyquinolines oxidovanadium(IV) and (V) complexes inhibit the growth of M. smegmatis? (2022, Journal of Inorganic Biochemistry)

Dean C. Crick has contributed to journals including ACS Infectious Diseases, Journal of Inorganic Biochemistry, Journal of Medicinal Chemistry, Inorganics, and Journal of Bacteriology. The most frequent venues for publication are ACS Infectious Diseases and Journal of Inorganic Biochemistry.

Best Publications

  • Biosynthesis of the arabinogalactan-peptidoglycan complex of Mycobacterium tuberculosis

    Dean C. Crick;Sebabrata Mahapatra;Patrick J. Brennan

  • Phosphatidylinositol Is an Essential Phospholipid of Mycobacteria

    Mary Jackson;Dean C. Crick;Patrick J. Brennan

  • Export-mediated assembly of mycobacterial glycoproteins parallels eukaryotic pathways.

    Brian C. VanderVen;Jeffery D. Harder;Dean C. Crick;John T. Belisle

  • Multitarget Drug Discovery for Tuberculosis and Other Infectious Diseases

    Kai Li;Lici A. Schurig-Briccio;Xinxin Feng;Ashutosh Upadhyay

  • Novel Insights into the Mechanism of Inhibition of MmpL3, a Target of Multiple Pharmacophores in Mycobacterium tuberculosis

    Wei Li;Ashutosh Upadhyay;Fabio L. Fontes;E. Jeffrey North

  • Decaprenylphosphoryl arabinofuranose, the donor of the D-arabinofuranosyl residues of mycobacterial arabinan, is formed via a two-step epimerization of decaprenylphosphoryl ribose.

    Katarína Mikušová;Hairong Huang;Tetsuya Yagi;Marcelle Holsters

  • Identification of the namH Gene, Encoding the Hydroxylase Responsible for the N-Glycolylation of the Mycobacterial Peptidoglycan

    Jon B. Raymond;Sebabrata Mahapatra;Dean C. Crick;Martin S. Pavelka

  • Unique Mechanism of Action of the Thiourea Drug Isoxyl on Mycobacterium tuberculosis

    Benjawan Phetsuksiri;Mary Jackson;Hataichanok Scherman;Michael R. McNeil

  • The Cell-Wall Core of Mycobacterium tuberculosis in the Context of Drug Discovery.

    Patrick J Brennan;Dean C Crick

  • A Phosphorylated Pseudokinase Complex Controls Cell Wall Synthesis in Mycobacteria

    Christine L. Gee;Kadamba G. Papavinasasundaram;Sloane R. Blair;Christina E. Baer

  • Novel salvage pathway utilizing farnesol and geranylgeraniol for protein isoprenylation.

    Dean C. Crick;Douglas A. Andres;Charles J. Waechter

  • Antiinfectives targeting enzymes and the proton motive force

    Xinxin Feng;Wei Zhu;Lici A. Schurig-Briccio;Steffen Lindert

  • Lipidomic analyses of Mycobacterium tuberculosis based on accurate mass measurements and the novel "Mtb LipidDB".

    Mark J. Sartain;Donald L. Dick;Christopher D. Rithner;Dean C. Crick

  • Menaquinone synthesis is critical for maintaining mycobacterial viability during exponential growth and recovery from non-replicating persistence.

    Rakesh K. Dhiman;Sebabrata Mahapatra;Richard A. Slayden;Melissa E. Boyne

  • Biosynthesis of the galactan component of the mycobacterial cell wall.

    Katarı́na Mikušová;Tetsuya Yagi;Richard Stern;Michael R. McNeil

  • Ppm1, a novel polyprenol monophosphomannose synthase from Mycobacterium tuberculosis.

    Sudagar S Gurcha;Alain R Baulard;Laurent Kremer;Camille Locht

  • Targeting the formation of the cell wall core of M. tuberculosis.

    Clifton E. Barry;Dean C. Crick;Michael R. McNeil

  • Inhibition of the First Step in Synthesis of the Mycobacterial Cell Wall Core, Catalyzed by the GlcNAc-1-phosphate Transferase WecA, by the Novel Caprazamycin Derivative CPZEN-45

    Yoshimasa Ishizaki;Chigusa Hayashi;Kunio Inoue;Masayuki Igarashi

  • Discovery of Selective Menaquinone Biosynthesis Inhibitors against Mycobacterium tuberculosis

    Joy Debnath;Shajila Siricilla;Bajoie Wan;Dean C. Crick

  • MINI REVIEW Biosynthesis of the arabinogalactan-peptidoglycan complex of Mycobacterium tuberculosis

    Dean C. Crick;Sebabrata Mahapatra;Patrick J. Brennan

Frequent Co-Authors

Patrick J. Brennan
Patrick J. Brennan Colorado State University
Michael R. McNeil
Michael R. McNeil Colorado State University
Delphi Chatterjee
Delphi Chatterjee Colorado State University
Mary Jackson
Mary Jackson Colorado State University
Elliot R. Bernstein
Elliot R. Bernstein Colorado State University
Debbie C. Crans
Debbie C. Crans Colorado State University
Erik H. Anderson
Erik H. Anderson Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
John T. Belisle
John T. Belisle Colorado State University
Gurdyal S. Besra
Gurdyal S. Besra University of Birmingham
Tanya Parish
Tanya Parish Seattle Children's Hospital

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