• "Structure and Thermotropic Phase Behavior of Fluorinated Phospholipid Bilayers: A
    Combined Attenuated Total Reflection FTIR Spectroscopy and Imaging Ellipsometry Study"
    Steffen Schuy, Simon Faiss, Nicholas Yoder, Venkateshwarlu Kalsani,
    Krishna Kumar,* Andreas Janshoff,* and Reiner Vogel*
    J. Phys. Chem. B 2008, 112, In Press.
    [Full Text-DOI: ]

  • "Peptide Tertiary Structure Nucleation by Sidechain Crosslinking with Metal Complexation and
    Double "Click" Cycloaddition"
    Oscar Torres, Deniz Yüksel, Matt Bernardina, Krishna Kumar and Dennis Bong*
    ChemBioChem 2008, 9, In Press.
    [Full Text-DOI: ]

  • "Fluorinated Amino Acids and Biomolecules in Protein Design and Chemical Biology"
    He Meng, Ginevra Clark and Krishna Kumar*
    in Fluorine in Bioorganic and Medicinal Chemistry Ojima, I. and Taguchi, T. Eds.,
    Blackwell Publishing 2008, In Press.

  • "Engineering and Characterization of a Single Chain Surrogate Light Chain Variable Domain"
    Lucia Morstadt, Andrew Bohm, Deniz Yüksel, Krishna Kumar, David B. Stollar and James D. Baleja*
    Protein Sci. 2008, 17, 458-465.
    [Full Text: HTML, PDF]

  • "Antimicrobial Activity and Protease Stability of Peptides Containing Fluorinated Amino Acids"
    He Meng and Krishna Kumar*
    J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2007, 129, 15615-15622.
    [Full Text-DOI: 10.1021/ja075373f]

    See also:
    "Fluorous Peptides Get Ready to Heal" by Stephen Ritter*
    C&EN 2007, 85 (37), pp. 36-37.
    [Full Text-HTML, PDF]

    "Putting the "F" in peptides" by Randall C Willis*
    Drug Discovery News 2007, December.
    [Full Text-HTML]

  • "Nanoscale Patterning in Mixed Fluorocarbon-Hydrocarbon Phospholipid Bilayers"
    Nicholas Yoder, Venkateshwarlu Kalsani, Steffen Schuy, Reiner Vogel, Andreas Janshoff* and Krishna Kumar*
    J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2007, 129, 9037-9043.
    [Full Text-DOI: 10.1021/ja070950l]

  • "The Role of Dimer Interface Histidine in the pH-Dependent Stability of
    Human Papillomavirus Type 16 E2 Protein"
    Kakoli Bose, Nicholas C. Yoder, Krishna Kumar and James D. Baleja*
    Biochemistry 2007, 46, 1402-1411.
    [Full Text-DOI: 10.1021/bi0611255]

  • "Fluorinated Amino Acids and Reagents in Protein Design and Biomolecule Separation"
    He Meng, Venkateshwarlu Kalsani and Krishna Kumar*
    ACS Symposium Series 2007, 949, 487-499.
    Current Fluoroorganic Chemistry. New Synthetic Directions, Technologies,
    Materials and Biological Applications. Soloshonok, V. A.; Mikami, K.; Yamazaki, T.;
    Welch, J. T., and Honek, J. Eds., Oxford University Press/ACS

  • "Bioorthogonal Noncovalent Chemistry: Fluorous Phases in Chemical Biology"
    Nicholas Yoder, Deniz Yüksel, Laila Dafik and Krishna Kumar*
    Curr. Opin. Chem. Biol. 2006, 10, 576-583.
    [Full Text-DOI: 10.1016/j.cbpa.2006.10.007]

  • "Fluorinated Interfaces Drive Self Association of Transmembrane Helices in Lipid Bilayers"
    Natascha Naarmann, Basar Bilgiçer, He Meng, Krishna Kumar* and Claudia Steinem*
    Angew. Chem., Int. Ed. 2006, 45, 2588-2591.
    [Full Text-DOI: 10.1002/anie.200503567]

  • "A Fluorous Capping Strategy for Fmoc-based Automated and Manual
    Solid Phase Peptide Synthesis"
    Vittorio Montanari and Krishna Kumar*
    Eur. J. Org. Chem. 2006, 874-877.
    [Full Text-DOI: 10.1002/ejoc.200500958]

  • "Selective Protein-Protein Interactions Driven by a Phenylalanine Interface"
    Nicholas C. Yoder and Krishna Kumar*
    J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2006, 128, 188-191.
    [Full Text-DOI: 10.1021/ja055494k]

  • "Enabling Routine Fluorous Capping in Solid Phase Peptide Synthesis"
    Vittorio Montanari and Krishna Kumar*
    J. Fluorine Chem. 2006, 127, 565-570.
    [Full Text-DOI: 10.1016/j.jfluchem.2005.12.028]

  • "Controlling Association of Vesicle Embedded Peptides by Alteration of the Physical
    State of the Lipid Matrix"
    Natascha Naarmann, Basar Bilgiçer, Krishna Kumar* and Claudia Steinem*
    Biochemistry 2005, 44, 5188-5195.
    [Full Text-DOI: 10.1021/bi050096f]

    See also: Biochemistry 2005, 44, 10750.
    [Full Text-DOI: 10.1021/bi058018f]

  • "De Novo Design of Defined Helical Bundles in Membrane Environments"
    Basar Bilgiçer and Krishna Kumar*
    Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A. 2004, 101, 15324-15329.
    [Full Text-DOI: 10.1073/pnas.0403314101]

    Also featured on the cover of PNAS

  • "Alternative Translations of a Single RNA Message: An Identity Switch of
    (2S,3R)-4,4,4-Trifluorovaline between Valine and Isoleucine Codons"
    Pin Wang, Alfio Fichera, Krishna Kumar and David Tirrell*
    Angew. Chem., Int. Ed. 2004, 43, 3664-3666.
    [Full Text-DOI: 10.1002/anie.200454036]

    Also featured as a Communications Frontispiece

  • "Just Add Water: A New Fluorous Capping Reagent for Facile Purification
    of Peptides Synthesized on the Solid Phase"
    Vittorio Montanari and Krishna Kumar*
    J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2004, 126, 9528-9529.
    [Full Text-DOI: 10.1021/ja0479033]

  • "A Highly Stereospecific and Efficient Synthesis of Homopentafluorophenylalanine"
    I. Ramesh Babu, Edward K. Hamill and Krishna Kumar*
    J. Org. Chem. 2004, 69, 5468-5470.
    [Full Text-DOI: 10.1021/jo049206z]

  • "Protein Design Using Unnatural Amino Acids"
    Basar Bilgiçer and Krishna Kumar*
    J. Chem. Ed. 2003, 80, 1275.
    [Full Text-HTML]

  • "Fluorinated Amino Acids in Protein Design and Engineering"
    Nicholas Yoder and Krishna Kumar*
    Chem. Soc. Rev. 2002, 31, 335-341.
    [Full Text-DOI: 10.1039/b201097f ]

    See also: Hot Articles - Royal Society of Chemistry
    Also featured in: Chemical Biology Virtual Journal - Royal Society of Chemistry

  • "A Simple and Efficient Method for the Resolution of All Four
    Diastereomers of 4,4,4-Trifluorovaline and 5,5,5-Trifluoroleucine"
    Xuechao Xing, Alfio Fichera and Krishna Kumar*
    J. Org. Chem. 2002, 67, 1722-1725.
    [Full Text-DOI: 10.1021/jo011097q]

    See also: J. Org. Chem. 2002, 67, 8290.
    [Full Text-DOI: 10.1021/jo027968t]

  • "Synthesis and Thermodynamic Characterization of Self-Sorting Coiled Coils"
    Basar Bilgiçer and Krishna Kumar*
    Tetrahedron 2002, 58, 4105-4112.
    [Full Text-DOI: 10.1016/S0040-4020(02)00260-0]

  • "Programmed Self-Sorting of Coiled Coils with
    Leucine and Hexafluoroleucine Cores"
    Basar Bilgiçer, Xuechao Xing and Krishna Kumar*
    J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2001, 123, 11815-11816.
    [Full Text-DOI: 10.1021/ja016767o]

    See also: Science & Technology Roundup
    C&EN 2001, 79 (49), p. 35.
    [Full Text-HTML, PDF]

  • "A Coiled Coil with a Fluorous Core"
    Basar Bilgiçer, Alfio Fichera and Krishna Kumar*
    J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2001, 123, 4393-4399.
    [Full Text-DOI: 10.1021/ja002961j]

    See also:
    "Fluorous Peptides" by Stu Borman*
    C&EN 2001, 79 (20), pp. 41-42.
    [Full Text-HTML, PDF]

    Heart Cut
    Chemical Innovation 2001, 31 (11), p. 10.
    [Full Text-HTML, PDF]

    "Steps Towards Nanotechnology" by Jeffrey Soreff*
    Institute for Molecular Manufacturing (IMM)
    IMM Report No. 26, October 23, 2001.
    [Full Text-HTML, PDF]

  • "A Novel Synthesis of Enantiomerically Pure 5,5,5,5',5',5'-Hexafluoroleucine"
    Xuechao Xing, Alfio Fichera and Krishna Kumar*
    Org. Lett. 2001, 3, 1285-1286.
    [Full Text- DOI: 10.1021/ol015567e]

  • "Fluorophobic Acceleration of Diels-Alder Reactions"
    Kathleen E. Myers and Krishna Kumar*
    J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2000, 122, 12025-26.
    [Full Text-DOI: 10.1021/ja0019777]


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