Steven Rokita
Professor
rokita@umd.edu
phone: 301.405.1816
fax: 301.405.9376
Rokita
Group
Chem. and Biochem. web site |
Honors and Awards:
NIH Postdoctoral Fellowship,
1983 -1985
Catacosinos Young Investigator
in Cancer Research,1988
University Exploratory
Research Investigator, 1987 - 1990
Outstanding Invention
(Copper-dependent recognition
of DNA), 2002
Faculty Excellence in
Research, College of
Life Science, UM College
Park, 2005
Faculty Excellence in Service, College of Life Sciences, UM College Park, 2006 |
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Willem F. Veldhuyzen, Praveen Pande and Steven E. Rokita
"A Transient Product of DNA Alkylation Can Be Stabilized by Binding
Localization" J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2003, 125, 14005-14013.
Qibing Zhou and Steven E. Rokita
"A General Strategy for Target-Promoted Alkylation in Biological
Systems" Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. (USA) 2003,
100, 15452-15457.
Takeo Ito and Steven E. Rokita "Criteria for Efficient Transport of Excess Electrons in
DNA" Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2004, 1839-1842.
Takeo Ito and Steven E. Rokita "Reductive
Electron Injection into Duplex by Aromatic Amines" J.
Am. Chem. Soc. 2004, 126, 15552-15559.
Emily E. Weinert, Kristen Frankenfield
and Steven E. Rokita "Time-dependent Evolution
of Adducts Formed Between Deoxynucleosides and
a Model Quinone Methide"Chem. Res.
Toxicol. 2005, 18, 1364-1370.
Takeo Ito, Sunita Thyagarajan, Kenneth
D. Karlin and Steven E. Rokita "Recognition
of Guanines at a Double Helix-Coil Junction
in DNA by a Trinuclear Copper Complex" Chem.
Commun. 2005, 4812-4814.
Jessica E. Friedman, James A. Watson
Jr., David W.-H. Lam and Steven E. Rokita "Iodotyrosine
deiodinase is the first mammalian member of the
NADH oxidase/flavin reductase superfamily" J.
Biol. Chem. 2006, 281, 2812-2819.
Sunita Thyagarajan, N. N. Murthy,
Amy Sargeant, Kenneth D. Karlin and Steven E.
Rokita "Selective DNA Strand Scission with
Binuclear Copper Complexes: Implications for
the Involvement of a Cu2-O2 Active Species" J.
Am. Chem. Soc. 2006, 128, 7003-7008.
Lei Li, Narasimha N. Murthy, Joshua
Telser, Lev. N. Zakharov, Glenn P. A. Yap, Arnold
L. Rheingold, Kenneth D. Karlin and
Steven E. Rokita "Targeted Guanine Oxidation
by a Dinuclear Copper(II) Complex a Single
Stranded/Double Stranded DNA Junctions" Inorg. Chem., in press.
Emily E. Weinert, Ruggero Dondi,
Stefano Colloredo-Melz, Kristen N. Frankenfield,
Charles H. Mitchell, Mauro Freccero and Steven
E. Rokita "Substituents on Quinone Methides
Strongly Modulate Formation and Stability of
Their Nucleophlic Adducts" J. Am. Chem.
Soc., in press.
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