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Overview

Luis A. Marky is affiliated with the University of Nebraska Medical Center in the United States. Their research primarily focuses on biochemistry, genetics, and molecular biology, with an emphasis on molecular biology as a detailed subfield.

Their work spans a variety of interconnected topics including:

  • DNA and Nucleic Acid Chemistry
  • Protein Structure and Dynamics
  • RNA and protein synthesis mechanisms
  • Spectroscopy and Quantum Chemical Studies
  • Advanced biosensing and bioanalysis techniques
  • RNA Interference and Gene Delivery
  • Lipid Membrane Structure and Behavior

The scientist's publications have appeared most frequently in the Biophysical Journal and Nucleic Acids Research. The main research venues include:

  • Biophysical Journal
  • Nucleic Acids Research

Notable recent papers authored or co-authored by Luis A. Marky include:

  • "The human AP-endonuclease 1 (APE1) is a DNA G-quadruplex structure binding protein and regulates KRAS expression in pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma cells" (2022, Nucleic Acids Research)
  • "The volume changes of unfolding of dsDNA" (2022, Biophysical Journal)
  • "The Inclusion of a GCAA Tetraloop Affects the Unfolding Thermodynamics of Intramolecular DNA Structures" (2020, Biophysical Journal)
  • "Unfolding Thermodynamics of an RNA Pseudoknot and its DNA Analog" (2021, Biophysical Journal)
  • "Roles of electrostricted and structural hydration in the stability of nucleic acid duplexes" (2023, Biophysical Journal)

The scientist collaborates regularly with several frequent co-authors, including:

  • Irine Khutsishvili
  • Suravi Pramanik
  • Yingling Chen
  • Heyu Song
  • Sutapa Ray

Best Publications

  • Predicting DNA duplex stability from the base sequence.

    Kenneth J. Breslauer;Ronald Frank;Helmut Blocker;Luis A. Marky

  • Calculating thermodynamic data for transitions of any molecularity from equilibrium melting curves

    Luis A. Marky;Kenneth J. Breslauer

  • Side chain contributions to the stability of alpha-helical structure in peptides.

    Pingchiang C. Lyu;Mark I. Liff;Luis A. Marky;Neville R. Kallenbach

  • Folding of the Thrombin Aptamer into a G-Quadruplex with Sr2+: Stability, Heat, and Hydration

    Besik I. Kankia;Luis A. Marky

  • Enthalpy-entropy compensations in drug-DNA binding studies

    Kenneth J. Breslauer;David P. Remeta;Wan-Yin Chou;Robert Ferrante

  • Salt-dependent conformational transitions in the self-complementary deoxydodecanucleotide d(CGCAATTCGCG): evidence for hairpin formation.

    Luis A. Marky;Kenneth S. Blumenfeld;Sharon Kozlowski;Kenneth J. Breslauer

  • Origins of netropsin binding affinity and specificity: correlations of thermodynamic and structural data.

    Luis A. Marky;Kenneth J. Breslauer

  • Premelting and melting transitions in the d(CGCGAATTCGCG) self-complementary duplex in solution.

    Dinshaw J. Patel;Sharon A. Kozlowski;Janet A. Rice;Luis A. Marky

  • Structure, dynamics, and energetics of deoxyguanosine . thymidine wobble base pair formation in the self-complementary d(CGTGAATTCGCG) duplex in solution.

    Dinshaw J. Patel;Sharon A. Kozlowski;Luis A. Marky;Janet A. Rice

  • Thermodynamics of (dG-dC)3 double-helix formation in water and deuterium oxide

    Diane DePrisco Albergo;Luis A. Marky;Kenneth J. Breslauer;Douglas H. Turner

  • Interaction of Minor Groove Ligands to an AAATT/AATTT Site: Correlation of Thermodynamic Characterization and Solution Structure

    Dionisios Rentzeperis;Luis A. Marky;Tammy J. Dwyer;Bernhard H. Geierstanger

  • Extra adenosine stacks into the self-complementary d(CGCAGAATTCGCG) duplex in solution.

    Dinshaw J. Patel;Sharon A. Kozlowski;Luis A. Marky;Janet A. Rice

  • Unfolding of G-quadruplexes: energetic, and ion and water contributions of G-quartet stacking.

    Chris M. Olsen;William H. Gmeiner;Luis A. Marky

  • Differential scanning calorimetry of Cu,Zn-superoxide dismutase, the apoprotein, and its zinc-substituted derivatives.

    James A. Roe;Alison Butler;Diane M. Scholler;Joan Selverstone Valentine

  • Interaction of the dye ethidium bromide with DNA containing guanine repeats.

    Qiu Guo;Min Lu;Luis A. Marky;Neville R. Kallenbach

  • Energetic contributions for the formation of TAT/TAT, TAT/CGC(+), and CGC(+)/CGC(+) base triplet stacks.

    Ana Maria Soto;Jacqueline Loo;Luis A. Marky

  • The influence of the purine 2-amino group on DNA conformation and stability. II: Synthesis and physical characterization of d[CGT(2-NH2)ACG], d[CGU(2-NH2)ACG], and d[CGT(2-NH2)AT(2-NH2)ACG]

    Barbara L. Gaffney;Luis A. Marky;Roger A. Jones

  • DNA, RNA, and DNA/RNA Oligomer Duplexes: A Comparative Study of Their Stability, Heat, Hydration, and Mg2+ Binding Properties

    Besik I. Kankia;Luis A. Marky

  • Calorimetric determination of base‐stacking enthalpies in double‐helical DNA molecules

    Luis A. Marky;Kenneth J. Breslauer

  • The melting behavior of a DNA junction structure: a calorimetric and spectroscopic study.

    Luis A. Marky;Neville R. Kallenbach;Kathleen A. McDonough;Nadrian C. Seeman

  • Calorimetric and spectroscoptc Investigation of drug - DNA Interactions. I. The binding of netropsin to poly d(AT)

    Luis A. Marky;Kenneth S. Blumenfeld;Kenneth J. Breslauer

  • A Thermodynamic Characterization of the Interaction of a Cationic Copolymer with DNA

    Tatiana Bronich;Alexander Victorovich Kabanov;Luis A. Marky

  • Core cross-linked block ionomer micelles as pH-responsive carriers for cis-diamminedichloroplatinum(II)

    Hardeep S. Oberoi;Frederic C. Laquer;Luis A. Marky;Alexander V. Kabanov;Alexander V. Kabanov

  • Thermodynamics of drug-DNA interactions.

    Luis A. Marky;James G. Snyder;David P. Remeta;Kenneth J. Breslauer

Frequent Co-Authors

Kenneth J. Breslauer
Kenneth J. Breslauer Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey
Ana M. Soto
Ana M. Soto Tufts University
Souvik Maiti
Souvik Maiti Institute of Genomics and Integrative Biology
Keiichi Itakura
Keiichi Itakura City Of Hope National Medical Center
Tatiana K. Bronich
Tatiana K. Bronich University of Nebraska Medical Center
Alexander V. Kabanov
Alexander V. Kabanov University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Douglas H. Turner
Douglas H. Turner University of Rochester
Angel E. Garcia
Angel E. Garcia Los Alamos National Laboratory
Martin Egli
Martin Egli Vanderbilt University
Youri I. Pavlov
Youri I. Pavlov University of Nebraska Medical Center

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