{"id":352,"date":"2021-05-26T17:18:44","date_gmt":"2021-05-26T17:18:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/faculty.cortland.edu\/hickslab\/?page_id=352"},"modified":"2026-02-04T20:05:08","modified_gmt":"2026-02-04T20:05:08","slug":"publications","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/faculty.cortland.edu\/hickslab\/publications\/","title":{"rendered":"Publications"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>SUNY Cortland undergraduate authors are in bold. MIV-REU students are underlined.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>15. <strong>Sean P. Zupko<\/strong>, <strong>Amelia T. Konstanty<\/strong>, Steve J. Mayclin, Ryan Choi, Dmitry Serbzhinskiy, <span style=\"text-decoration: underline\">Emily Robles<\/span>, <span style=\"text-decoration: underline\">Victoria Moses<\/span>, Lynn K. Barrett, Wesley C. Van Voorhis, Tom E. Edwards, Peter J. Myler, Andrew T. Torelli, Jarrod B. French and Katherine A. Hicks. Crystal structure of a short-chain dehydrogenase from <em>Brucella ovis<\/em> with apo and coenzyme NAD<sup>+<\/sup>-bound protomer chains,<em> Acta Cryst. F., <\/em><strong>2025<\/strong>, <em>F81<\/em>, 487-494.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Cover article for December 2025 issue of <em>Acta Cryst. F.<\/em><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>14. Nandini Sharma, <strong>Zachary R. Turlington<\/strong>, <strong>Sean P. Zupko<\/strong>, <strong>Michael N. Catoggio<\/strong>, Christine M. Lukacs, Dmitry Serbzhinskiy, Jan Abendroth, Thomas E. Edwards, Donald D. Lorimer, <span style=\"text-decoration: underline\">George Barrera<\/span>, <span style=\"text-decoration: underline\">Sydney Willis,<\/span> <span style=\"text-decoration: underline\">Olive Beyer,<\/span> <span style=\"text-decoration: underline\">Sarah Toay,<\/span> <span style=\"text-decoration: underline\">Teng Da Li<\/span>, Andrew T. Torelli, Katherine A. Hicks, and Jarrod B. French<strong>. <\/strong>Structural and kinetic analysis of distinct active and inactive states of <em>Burkholderia cenocepacia<\/em> orotate phosphoribosyltransferase, <em>Arch. Biochem. and Biophys. <\/em><strong>2025<\/strong>, <em>766<\/em>, 110332-110339<em>.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>13. Kafi K. J.\u00a0 Belfon,\u00a0 <span style=\"text-decoration: underline\">Olive\u00a0 Beyer<\/span>,\u00a0 Jan Abendroth,\u00a0 David M.\u00a0 Dranow,\u00a0 Donald D.\u00a0 Lorimer,\u00a0 Ariel Abramov,\u00a0 <span style=\"text-decoration: underline\">Yazmine Latimore<\/span>,\u00a0 <span style=\"text-decoration: underline\">Connor\u00a0 Hamilton<\/span>,\u00a0 <span style=\"text-decoration: underline\">Aniah Dawkins,\u00a0<\/span> <span style=\"text-decoration: underline\">Isabella Hinojosa<\/span>,\u00a0 <span style=\"text-decoration: underline\">Xavier Martinez<\/span>,\u00a0 <span style=\"text-decoration: underline\">Sofia Mirabal,<\/span>\u00a0 <span style=\"text-decoration: underline\">Miriam Duncan<\/span>,\u00a0 <span style=\"text-decoration: underline\">Reagan Womack<\/span>,\u00a0 <span style=\"text-decoration: underline\">Lillian Hicks<\/span>,\u00a0 <span style=\"text-decoration: underline\"><strong>Zachary R.\u00a0 Turlington<\/strong><\/span>,\u00a0 Thomas E.\u00a0 Edwards,\u00a0 Andrew T.\u00a0 Torelli,\u00a0 Katherine A.\u00a0 Hicks and\u00a0 Jarrod B.\u00a0 French. Crystal structure of a short chain dehydrogenase from <em>Burkholderia cenocepacia<\/em> J2315 in complex with NADP<sup>+<\/sup> and benzoic acid, <em>Acta Cryst. F., <\/em><strong>2024<\/strong>, <em>F80<\/em>, 348-355.<\/p>\n<p>12. Brian C. Richardson,<sup>**<\/sup><strong> Zachary R. Turlington,<sup>**<\/sup> Sofia Vaz Ferreira de\u00a0Macedo, Sara K. Phillips, <\/strong>Kay Perry,<strong> Savannah G. Brancato, Emmalee W. Cooke, Jonathan R. Gwilt, <\/strong>Andrew J. Roering, Francis M. Rossi, Mark J. Snider, Jarrod B. French, and Katherine A. Hicks. Structural and functional characterization of a novel Class A flavin monooxygenase from <em>Bacillus niacini,<\/em> <em>Biochemistry<\/em> <strong>2024<\/strong>, 63(19), 2506-2516.<\/p>\n<p><strong> **<\/strong> These authors contributed equally.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-390 size-medium\" src=\"http:\/\/faculty.cortland.edu\/hickslab\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2026\/02\/TOC-figure_FMO-161x300.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"161\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/faculty.cortland.edu\/hickslab\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2026\/02\/TOC-figure_FMO-161x300.jpeg 161w, https:\/\/faculty.cortland.edu\/hickslab\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2026\/02\/TOC-figure_FMO.jpeg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 161px) 100vw, 161px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>11. <strong>Zachary R. Turlington<\/strong>, <strong>Sofia Vaz Ferreira de\u00a0Macedo<\/strong>, Kay Perry, Sam L. Belsky, Jennifer A. Faust, Mark J. Snider, and Katherine A. Hicks. Ligand bound structure of a 6\u2010hydroxynicotinic acid 3\u2010monooxygenase provides mechanistic insights. <em>Archives of Biochemistry and Biophysics<\/em>, (2024) 752: 109859-109866.<\/p>\n<p>10. Humberto DeVitto, Kafi Blfon, Nandini Sharma, <u>Sarah Toay<\/u>, Jan Abendroth, David M. Dranow, Donald D. Lorimer, <u>Sydney Willis<\/u>, <u>George Barrera<\/u>, <u>Olive Beyer<\/u>, <u>Teng Da Li<\/u>, Thomas E. Edwards, Katherine A. Hicks, Andrew T. Torelli, and Jarrod B. French. Characterization of an <em>Acinetobacter baumannii<\/em> monofunctional phosphomethylpyrimidine kinase that is inhibited by pyridoxal phosphate, <em>Biochemistry<\/em>, (2024) 63(4), 576-585.<\/p>\n<p>9. Faisal Aziz, Kanamata Reddy, Virneliz Fernandez Bega, Raja Dey, Katherine Hicks, Sumitha Rao, Luis Jordan, Emery Smith, Justin Shumate, Louis Scampavia, Nicholas Carpino, Timothy Spicer, and Jarrod French. Rebamipide and derivatives are potent, selective inhibitors of histidine phosphatase activity of the Suppressor of T cell Receptor Signaling Proteins, <em>Journal of Medicinal Chemistry<\/em>, (2024) 67(3), 1949-1960.<\/p>\n<p>8. <strong>Sara K. Phillips<\/strong>,\u00a0 <strong>Savannah G. Brancato<\/strong>,\u00a0 Samantha N. MacMillan,\u00a0 Mark J. Snider,\u00a0 Andrew J. Roering and\u00a0 Katherine A. Hicks<strong>. <\/strong>Synthesis and crystallographic characterization of 2,6-dihydroxypyridine, <em>Acta Crystallographica,\u00a0Section\u00a0E, Crystallographic Communications, <\/em>(2023) E79, 1147-1150.<\/p>\n<p>7. Scott W. Perkins, May Z. Hlaing, Katherine A. Hicks, Lauren J. Rajakovich, and Mark J. Snider. Mechanism of the Multistep Catalytic Cycle of 6-Hydroxynicotinate-3-Monooxygenase Revealed by Global Kinetic Analysis, <em>Biochemistry<\/em>, (2023), 62 (10), 1553-1567. <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-360 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/faculty.cortland.edu\/hickslab\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2023\/10\/Perkins_TOC-figure-300x200.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/faculty.cortland.edu\/hickslab\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2023\/10\/Perkins_TOC-figure-300x200.gif 300w, https:\/\/faculty.cortland.edu\/hickslab\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2023\/10\/Perkins_TOC-figure-449x300.gif 449w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>6. Kathryn M. McCulloch and Katherine A. Hicks. Development and Implementation of a Bioinfographics Assignment in Second-Semester Biochemistry: Metabolic Pathways beyond the Classroom. <em>The Journal of Chemical Education<\/em>, (2022) 99 (10), 3623-3629.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-361 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/faculty.cortland.edu\/hickslab\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2023\/10\/infographics_TOC-figure-300x161.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"161\" \/><\/p>\n<p>5. Kent D. Nakamoto, Scott W. Perkins, Selim Gerislioglu, Mark A. Anderson, Katherine A. Hicks, and Mark J. Snider. <sup>\u00a0\u00a0<\/sup>Mechanism of 6-hydroxynicotinate 3-monooxygenase, a flavin-dependent decarboxylative hydroxylase involved in aerobic nicotinic acid catabolism, <em>Biochemistry<\/em>, (2019) 58(13), 1751-1763.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-298 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/faculty.cortland.edu\/hickslab\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2020\/10\/TOC-biochemistry-2-300x133.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"133\" \/><\/p>\n<p>4. Weijie Zhou, Andrew Tsai, <strong>Devon A. Dattmore<\/strong>, <strong>Devin P. Stives<\/strong>, Iva Chitrakar, Alexis Maria D\u2019alessandro, Shiv Patel, Katherine A. Hicks, and Jarrod B. French. Crystal structure of <em>E. coli<\/em> PRPP synthetase, <em>BMC Structural Biology, <\/em>(2019), 19(1), 1-7.<\/p>\n<p>3. Roger Shek, <strong>Devon A. Dattmore<\/strong>, <strong>Devin P. Stives<\/strong>, <strong>Ashley L. Jackson<\/strong>, Christa H. Chatfield, Katherine A. Hicks, and Jarrod B. French. \u201cStructural and Functional Basis for Targeting <em>Campylobacter jejuni<\/em> Agmatine Deiminase To Overcome Antibiotic Resistance,\u201d <em>Biochemistry<\/em>, (2017) 56 (51), 6734-6742.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-296 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/faculty.cortland.edu\/hickslab\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2020\/10\/toc-biochemistry-jarrod-christa-300x272.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"272\" srcset=\"https:\/\/faculty.cortland.edu\/hickslab\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2020\/10\/toc-biochemistry-jarrod-christa-300x272.gif 300w, https:\/\/faculty.cortland.edu\/hickslab\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2020\/10\/toc-biochemistry-jarrod-christa-331x300.gif 331w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>2. Katherine A. Hicks. \u201cMeasuring Norfloxacin Binding to Trypsin Using a Fluorescence Quenching Assay in an Upper-Division, Integrated Laboratory Course,\u201d <em>The Journal of Chemical Education<\/em>, (2016), 93(2), 380-382.<\/p>\n<p>1. Katherine A. Hicks, <strong>Meigan E. Yuen<\/strong>, <strong>Wei Feng Zhen<\/strong>, <strong>Tyler J. Gerwig<\/strong>, <strong>Ryan W. Story<\/strong>, Megan C. Kopp, and Mark J. Snider. \u201cStructural and Biochemical Characterization of 6-Hydroxynicotinic Acid 3-Monooxygenase, a Novel Decarboxylative Hydroxylase Involved in Aerobic Nicotinate Degradation,\u201d <em>Biochemistry, <\/em>(2016), 55(24), 3432-3446.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-297 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/faculty.cortland.edu\/hickslab\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2020\/10\/TOC-biochemistry-I-300x135.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"135\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SUNY Cortland undergraduate authors are in bold. MIV-REU students are underlined. 15. Sean P. Zupko, Amelia T. Konstanty, Steve J. Mayclin, Ryan Choi, Dmitry Serbzhinskiy, Emily Robles, Victoria Moses, Lynn K. Barrett, Wesley C. Van Voorhis, Tom E. Edwards, Peter J. Myler, Andrew T. Torelli, Jarrod B. French and Katherine A. Hicks. Crystal structure of a short-chain dehydrogenase from Brucella ovis with apo and coenzyme NAD+-bound protomer chains, Acta Cryst. F., 2025, F81, 487-494. Cover article for December 2025 issue of Acta Cryst. F. 14. Nandini Sharma, Zachary R. Turlington, Sean P. Zupko, Michael N. Catoggio, Christine M. 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