Publications

86. kinact/KI Value Determination for Penicillin-Binding Proteins in Live Cells

Shirley, J.D.; Gillingham, J.R.; Nauta, K.M.; Diwakar, S.; Carlson, E. E. bioRxiv, 2024, 592586. ACS Infect. Dis. 2024, DOI: 10.1021/acsinfecdis.4c00370.

Co-first authors


https://doi.org/10.1101/2024.05.05.592586

85. Challenges of Biological Complexity in the Study of Nanotoxicology

Northwick, A. B. and Carlson, E. E. ChemRxiv, 2024, DOI:10.26434/chemrxiv-2024-54zn7. Chem. Res. Toxicol. 2024, DOI: 10.1021/acs.chemrestox.4c00220.

 https://doi.org/10.26434/chemrxiv-2024-54zn7

84. Recent Advances in High-Throughput Screening Methods for Bacteria

Addis, H. A. and Carlson, E. E. Under Review.

83. β-Lactam Titration Assays to Evaluate Penicillin-Binding Protein Selectivity

Sharan, D. and Carlson, E. E. Methods Mol. Biol. In Press.

82. Evaluation of expanded 2-aminobenzothiazole library as inhibitors of a model histidine kinase and virulence suppressors in Pseudomonas aeruginosa


Fihn, C. A., Lembke, H. K., Gaulin, J., Bouchard, P., Penningroth, M. R., Crone, K. K., Vogt, G. A., Gilbertsen, A. J., Ayotte, Y., Couthino de Oliveira, L., Serrano-Wu, M. H., Drouin, N., Hung, D. T., Hunter, R. C. and Carlson, E. E. Bioorganic Chem., 2024, 153, 107840.


https://doi.org/10.1016/j.bioorg.2024.107840 

81. Modern Materials Provoke Ancient Behavior: Bacterial Resistance to Metal Nanomaterials.

Mitchell, S. L.; Hudson-Smith, N.; Sharan, D.; Haynes, C. L.; Carlson, E. E. ES: Nano, 2024, 11, 483-493.

https://doi.org/10.1039/D3EN00420A

Included in an issue dedicated to the memory of Joel Pedersen.

80. Penicillin-binding protein redundancy in Bacillus subtilis enables growth during alkaline shock

Mitchell, S. M., Kearns, D. B. and Carlson, E. E. bioRxiv, 2023, 533529v1. Appl. Environ. Microbiol., 2024, 90, e0054823.

 https://doi.org/10.1128/aem.00548-23

79. Targeting multidrug resistant Staphylococcus infections with bacterial histidine kinase inhibitors

Espinasse, A., Goswami, M., Yang, J., Vorasin, O., Ji, Y.* and Carlson, E. E.* Chem Sci, 2023, 14, 5028-5037.

Co-first authors


https://doi.org/10.1039/D2SC05369A

78. Cationic Polymers Enable Internalization of Negatively Charged Chemical Probe into Bacteria

Lembke, H. K.,  Espinasse, A., Hanson, M. G., Grimme, C. J., Tan, Z., Reinke, T. M. and Carlson, E. E. ACS Chem. Biol., 2023, 18, 2063–2072

Co-first authors

https://doi.org/10.1021/acschembio.3c00351

77. Activity-Based Probes in Pathogenic Bacteria: Investigating Drug Targets and Molecule Specificity


Lembke, H. K. and Carlson, E. E. Curr. Opin. Chem. Biol, 2023, 76, 102359.


https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cbpa.2023.102359

Included in volume entitled, "Chemical Microbiology" edited by Erin Carlson and Pamela Chang

76. Complex metal oxide nanomaterials directly generate reactive oxygen species and induce its production in bacteria.

Sharan, D.; Wolfson, D.; Gavin, A. G.; Green, C.; Lembke, P.; Hamers, R. J.; Feng, Z. V.; Carlson, E. E. ES: Nano, 2023, 10, 1978-1992. 

https://doi.org/10.1039/D2EN01144A

Selected for Journal Cover

75. Metabolomics Reveals a "Trimeric" γ-Actinorhodin from Streptomyces coelicolor M145

Marshall, A. P.; Carlson, E. E. ChemBioChem 2023, 24, e202200757.

http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/cbic.202200757

74. Live-cell Profiling of Penicillin-Binding Protein Inhibitors in Escherichia coli MG1655

Shirley, J. D.; Nauta, K.; Carlson, E. E. ACS Infect. Dis. 2022, 8, 1241-1252.

https://doi.org/10.1021/acsinfecdis.2c00004

73. Combined Structural Analysis and Molecular Dynamics Reveal Novel Penicillin-Binding Protein Inhibition Mode with β-Lactones

Flanders, P. L.; Contreras-Martel, C.; Brown, N. W.; Shirley, J. D.; Martins, A.; Nauta, K. M.; Dessen, A.; Carlson, E. E.;* Ambrose. E. A.* ACS Chem. Biol. 2022, 17, 3110-3120.

https://doi.org/10.1021/acschembio.2c00503 

Selected for Journal Cover

72. Development of a single culture E. coli expression system for the enzymatic synthesis of fluorinated tyrosine and its incorporation into proteins

Olson, N. M.; Johnson, J. A.; Peterson, K. E.; Henisch, S. C.; Marshall, A. P.; Smanski, M. J.; Carlson, E. E.; Pomerantz, W. C. K. J. Fluor. Chem. 2022, 261-262, 110014.

https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jfluchem.2022.110014

71. Activity-Based ATP Analogue Probes for Bacterial Histidine Kinases

Lembke. H.K. and Carlson, E.E. Methods Enzym, 2022, 664, 59-84.

Included in volume entitled, "Chemical Microbiology" edited by Erin Carlson. 

https://dx.doi.org/10.1016/bs.mie.2022.01.003

70. Expanded Profiling of β-Lactam Selectivity for Penicillin-Binding Proteins in Streptococcus pneumoniae D39

Sharan, D. and Carlson, E. E. Biol. Chem. 2022, 403, 433-443.

Invited for issue entitled, "Chemical Biology in Drug Discovery."

https://dx.doi.org/10.1515/hsz-2021-0386

69. High-level carbapenem tolerance requires antibiotic-induced outer membrane modifications

Murtha, A. N.;  Kazi, M. I.; Schargel, R. D.; Cross, T.; Fihn, C. A.; Cottoir, V.; Carlson, E. E.; Boll, J. M.; Dörr, T. PLoS Pathogens, 2022, 18, e1010307.

https://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.ppat.1010307

68. Looks can be deceiving: Bacterial enzymes work through unanticipated mechanism

Shirley, J. D. and Carlson, E. E. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA 2021, 118, e2114568118.

Invited Commentary for:  Biochemical reconstitution defines new functions for membrane-bound glycosidases in assembly of the bacterial cell wall. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA 2021, 118, e2103740118.

https://dx.doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2114568118

67. Targeting a Highly-Conserved Domain in Bacterial Histidine Kinases to Generate Inhibitors with Broad Spectrum Activity

Fihn, C. A. and Carlson, E. E. Curr. Opin. Microbiol. 2021, 61, 107-114. Invited.

https://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.mib.2021.03.007

66. Organization of Peptidoglycan Synthesis in Nodes and Separate Rings at Different Stages of Cell Division of Streptococcus pneumoniae

Perez, A. J.; Boersma, M. J.; Bruce, K. E.; Lamanna, M. M.; Shaw, S. L.; Tsui, H. T.; Taguchi, A.; Carlson, E. E.; VanNieuwenhze, M. S.; Winkler, M. E. Mol. Microbiol. 2021, 115, 1152-1169. 

https://dx.doi.org/10.1111/mmi.14659

65. Comparison of Bioorthogonal β-Lactone Activity-Based Probes for Selective Labeling of Penicillin-Binding Proteins

Brown, N. W.; Shirley, J. D.; Marshall, A. P.; Carlson, E. E. ChemBioChem, 2021, 22, 193-202.

Co-first authors

Named Very Important Paper (VIP)

https://dx.doi.org/10.1002/cbic.202000556

Invited for Journal Cover

Invited article in special issue entitled, “Chemical Proteomics and Metabolomics.”

64. Modified nucleoside triphosphates in bacterial research for in vitro and live-cell applications

Espinasse, A.; Lembke, H. K.; Cao, A. A.; Carlson, E. E. RSC Chem. Bio. 2020, 1, 333-351. 

Included in the Small Molecules for Chemical Biology topical collection!

https://dx.doi.org/10.1039/d0cb00078g

63. 2-Aminobenzothiazoles inhibit virulence gene expression and block polymyxin resistance in Salmonella enterica

Thielen, M. K.; Vaneerd, C. K.; Goswami, M.; Carlson, E. E.; May, J. ChemBioChem, 2020, 21, 3500-3503. 

https://dx.doi.org/10.1002/cbic.202000422

62. Advancing Chemical Microbiology

Kiessling, L. L. and Carlson, E. E. ACS Chem. Biol., 2020, 15, 1115-1118. 

Editorial for the special issue entitled, "Chemical Microbiology". Erin was the guest editor for this amazing issue!

https://dx.doi.org/10.1021/acschembio.0c00330

61. Harnessing β-Lactam Antibiotics for Illumination of the Activity of Penicillin-Binding Proteins in Bacillus subtilis

Sharifzadeh, S.; Dempwolff, F.; Kearns, D. B.; Carlson, E. E. ACS Chem. Biol. 2020, 15, 1242-1251.

Invited paper in Special Issue entitled, "Chemical Microbiology"

https://doi.org/10.1021/acschembio.9b00977

60. Enzyme-Targeted Fluorescent Small Molecule Probes for Bacterial Imaging

Marshall, A. P.; Shirley, J. D.; Carlson, E. E. Curr. Opin. Chem. Biol. 2020, 57, 155-165. Invited.

Co-first authors

https://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.cbpa.2020.05.012

59. Chemical Tools for Selectivity Activity Profiling of Bacterial Penicillin-Binding Proteins

Sharifzadeh, S.; Brown, N. W.; Shirley, J. D.; Bruce, K. E.; Winkler, M. E.; Carlson, E. E. Methods Enzym. 2020, 638, 27-55

https://dx.doi.org/10.1016/bs.mie.2020.02.015

58. Mechanistic Studies of Bioorthogonal ATP Analogs for Assessment of Histidine Kinase Autophosphorylation

Espinasse, A.; Wen, X.; Goodpaster, J. D.; Carlson, E. E. ACS Chem. Biol. 2020, 15, 1252-1260.

Invited paper in Special Issue entitled, "Chemical Microbiology"

https://dx.doi.org/10.1021/acschembio.9b01024

57. Ion Mobility Mass Spectrometry as an Efficient Tool for Identification of Streptorubin B in Streptomyces coelicolor M145

Marshall, D. P.; Johnson, A. R.; Vega, M. M.; Thompson, R. J.; Carlson, E. E. J. Nat. Prod. 2020, 83, 159-163. 

https://dx.doi.org/10.1021/acs.jnatprod.9b00828

56. Gender Performance Gaps Across Different Assessment Methods and the Underlying Mechanisms: The Case of Incoming Preparation and Test Anxiety

Salehi, S.; Cotner, S.; Azarin, S.; Carlson, E. E.; Driessen, M.; Ferry, V. E.; Harcombe, W.; McGaugh, S.; Wassenberg, D.; Yonas, A.; Ballen, C. J. Front. Educ. 2019, 4, 107.

https://dx.doi.org/10.3389/feduc.2019.00107

55. Chronic Exposure to Complex Metal Oxide Nanoparticles Elicits Rapid Resistance in Shewanella oneidensis MR-1

Mitchell, S. L.; Hudson-Smith, N. V.; Cahill, M. S.; Reynolds, B. N.; Frand, S. D.; Green, C. M.; Wang, C.; Hang, M. N.; Tapia Hernandez, R.; Hamers, R. J.; Feng, Z. V.; Haynes, C. L.; Carlson, E. E. Chem. Sci. 2019, 10, 9768-9781.

**Press releases from NSF, AAAS, Chemistry World, UMN, and Star Tribune.

https://dx.doi.org/10.1039/C9SC01942A

54. Preferential Binding of Cytochrome c to an Anionic Ligand-Coated Gold Nanoparticle: A Complementary Computational and Experimental Approach

Tollefson, E. J.; Allen, C. R.; Chong, G.; Zhang, X.; Rozanov, N. D.; Bautista, A.; Cerda, J. J.; Pedersen, J. A.; Murphy, C. J.; Carlson, E. E.;* Hernandez, R.* ACS Nano, 2019, 13, 6856-6866.

Co-first authors

https://dx.doi.org/10.1021/acsnano.9b01622

53. Structure Elucidation of Macrolide Antibiotics Using MSn Analysis and Deuterium Labelling

Johnson, A. R.; Carlson, E. E. J. Am. Soc. Mass Spectrom., 2019, 30, 1464-1480.

https://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s13361-019-02210-w

52. Silencing cryptic specialized metabolism in Streptomyces by the nucleoid-associated protein Lsr2

Gehrke, E. J.; Zhang, X., Pimentel-Elardo, S. M.; Johnson, A. R.; Rees, C. A.; Jones S. E.; Hindra; Gehrke, S. S.; Turvey S.; Boursalie, S.; Hill, J. E.; Carlson, E. E.; Nodwell, J. R.; Elliot M. A. Elife, 2019, 8, e47691.

https://elifesciences.org/articles/47691

51. Biological Impact of Lithium Intercalating Complex Metal Oxides to Model Bacterium Bacilis subtillus

Feng, Z. V.; Miller, B.; Linn, T. G.; Pho, T.; Hoang, K. N. L.; Hang, M. N.; Mitchell, S. L.; Tapia Hernandez, R.; Carlson, E. E.; Hamers, R. J. Environ. Sci.: Nano 2019, 6, 305-314.

https://dx.doi.org/10.1039/C8EN00995C

50. Activity-Based Protein Profiling Methods to Study Bacteria: The Power of Small Molecule Electrophiles

Sharifzadeh, S.; Shirley, J. D.; Carlson, E. E. In: Curr. Top. Microbiol. and Immunol. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. Edited Cravatt, B. F.; Hsu, K-L.; Weerapana, E. 2019. Invited Book Chapter.

https://dx.doi.org/10.1007/82_2018_135

49. Streptomyces volatile compounds influence exploration and microbial community dynamics by altering iron availability

Jones, S. E.; Pham, C. A.; Zambri, M.; McKillip, J.; Carlson, E. E.; Elliot, M. A. mBio 2019, 10, e00171-19.

https://mbio.asm.org/content/10/2/e00171-19

Selected as Editor's Pick!

Highlighted in: Editor’s Choice in Science: Funk, M. A. Stinky molecules undermine competitors. Science 2019, 364, 142.

Malone J: F1000Prime Recommendation of [Jones SE et al., MBio 2019 10(2)]. In F1000Prime, 21 Mar 2019; https://facultyopinions.com/article/735257236.

48. Chemoselective Tagging to Promote Natural Product Discovery

Tollefson, E. J. and Carlson, E. E. Ed. Tao, W. A., Zhang, Y. In: Mass Spectrometry-Based Chemical Proteomics, John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 2019, 187-206. Invited Book Chapter.

 https://doi.org/10.1002/9781118970195.ch7.9b01622

47. Disarming the virulence arsenal of Pseudomonas aeruginosa by blocking two-component system signaling

Goswami, M.; Espinasse, A.; Carlson, E. E. Chem. Sci., 2018, 10, 7332-7337.

Selected as part of the 2018 Chemical Science HOT Article Collection https://pubs.rsc.org/en/journals/articlecollectionlanding?sercode=sc&the...

https://dx.doi.org/10.1039/C8SC02496K

46. Tiny Things with Enormous Impact: Nanotechnology in the Fight Against Infectious Disease

Mitchell, S. L. and Carlson, E. E. ACS Infect. Dis. 2018, 12, 1432-1435. Invited View Point.

https://dx.doi.org/10.1021/acsinfecdis.8b00138

45. Real-Time Visualization of In Vitro Transcription of a Fluorescent RNA Aptamer: An Experiment for the Upper-Division Undergraduate or First-Year Graduate Laboratory

Heili, J. M.; Gomez-Garcia, J.; Gaut, N. J.; Cash, B. W.; Aufdembrink, L. M.; Heffron, B. A.; Shirley, J. S.; Carlson, E. E.; Admala, K. P.; Engelhart, A. E. J. Chem. Ed. 2018, 95, 1867–1871.

https://dx.doi.org/10.1021/acs.jchemed.7b00735

44. Exploration of the effects of γ-phosphate modified ATP analogs on histidine kinase autophosphorylation

Chase, O. M.; Espinasse, A.; Carlson, E. E. Biochemistry 2018, 57, 4368–4373.


https://dx.doi.org/10.1021/acs.biochem.8b00485

43. Screening Serine/Threonine and Tyrosine Kinase Inhibitors for Histidine Kinase Inhibition

Wilke, K. E.; Fihn, C. A.; Carlson, E. E. Bioorg. Med. Chem. 2018, 26, 5322-5326.


https://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.bmc.2018.04.047

42. Rational Design Of Selective Adenine-Based Scaffolds For Inactivation Of Bacterial Histidine Kinases

Goswami, M.; Wilke, K. E.; Carlson, E. E. J. Med. Chem., 2017, 60, 8170-8182.


https://dx.doi.org/10.1021/acs.jmedchem.7b01066

41. Novel Electrophilic Scaffold for Imaging of Essential Penicillin-Binding Proteins in Streptococcus pneumoniae

Sharifzadeh, S.; Boersma, M. J.; Kocaoglu, O.; Shokri, A.; Brown, C. L.; Shirley, J. D.; Winkler, M. E. and Carlson, E. E. ACS Chem. Biol. 2017, 12, 2849-2857.


https://doi.org/10.1021/acschembio.7b00614

40. Mass Spectrometry-Based Assay for the Rapid Detection of Thiol-Containing Natural Products

Capehart, S. L. and Carlson, E. E. Chem. Commun. 2016, 52, 13229-13232.


https://doi.org/10.1039/C6CC07111B

39. Progress and Prospects for Small-Molecule Probes of Bacterial Imaging. 

Kocaoglu, O. and Carlson, E. E. Nat. Chem. Biol. 2016, 12, 472-478. Invited Perspective.


https://doi.org/10.1038/nchembio.2109

38. Sharing and community curation of mass spectrometry data with Global Natural Products Social Molecular Networking

Wang, M.; Carver, J. J.; Phelan, V. V.; Sanchez, L. M.; Garg, N.; Peng, Y.; Nguyen, D. D.; Watrous, J.; Kapono, C. A.; Luzzatto-Knaan, T.; Porto, C.; Bouslimani, A.; Melnik, A. V.; Meehan, M. J.; Liu, W.T.; Crüsemann, M.; Boudreau, P. D.; Esquenazi, E.; Sandoval-Calderón, M.; Kersten, R. D.; Pace, L. A.; Quinn, R. A.; Duncan, K. R.; Hsu, C. C.; Floros, D. J.; Gavilan, R. G.; Kleigrewe, K.; Northen, T.; Dutton, R. J.; Parrot, D.; Carlson, E. E.; Aigle, B.; Michelsen, C. F.; Jelsbak, L.; Sohlenkamp, C.; Pevzner, P.; Edlund, A.; McLean, J.; Piel, J.; Murphy, B. T.; Gerwick, L.; Liaw, C. C.; Yang, Y. L.; Humpf, H. U.; Maansson, M.; Keyzers, R. A; Sims, A. C.; Johnson, A. R.; Sidebottom, A. M.; Sedio, B. E.; Klitgaard, A.; Larson, C. B.; Boya, P. C. A.; Torres-Mendoza, D.; Gonzalez, D. J.; Silva, D. B.; Marques, L. M.; Demarque, D. P.; Pociute, E.; O'Neill, E. C.; Briand, E.; Helfrich, E. J.; Granatosky, E. A.; Glukhov, E.; Ryffel, F.; Houson, H.; Mohimani, H.; Kharbush, J. J.; Zeng, Y.; Vorholt, J. A.; Kurita, K. L.; Charusanti, P.; McPhail, K. L.; Nielsen, K. F.; Vuong, L.; Elfeki, M.; Traxler, M. F.; Engene, N.; Koyama, N.; Vining, O. B.; Baric, R.; Silva, R. R.; Mascuch, S. J.; Tomasi, S.; Jenkins, S.; Macherla, V.; Hoffman, T.; Agarwal, V.; Williams, P. G.; Dai, J.; Neupane, R.; Gurr, J.; Rodríguez, A. M.; Lamsa, A.; Zhang, C.; Dorrestein, K.; Duggan, B. M.; Almaliti, J.; Allard, P. M.; Phapale, P.; Nothias, L. F.; Alexandrov, T.; Litaudon, M.; Wolfender, J. L.; Kyle, J. E.; Metz, T. O.; Peryea, T.; Nguyen, D. T.; VanLeer, D.; Shinn, P.; Jadhav, A.; Müller, R.; Waters, K. M.; Shi, W.; Liu, X.; Zhang, L.; Knight, R.; Jensen, P. R.; Palsson, B. Ø.; Pogliano, K.; Linington, R. G.; Gutiérrez, M.; Lopes, N. P.; Gerwick, W. H.; Moore, B. S.; Dorrestein, P. C.; Bandeira, N. Nat. Biotechnol. 2016, 34, 828-837.


https://doi.org/10.1038/nbt.3597

37. Thiol-ene Enabled Detection of Thiophosphorylation as a Labeling Strategy for Phosphoproteins

Wilke, K. E. and Carlson, E. E. Methods Mol. Biol. 2016, 1355, 3-15. Invited.


https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4939-3049-4_1

36. New Approaches to Understanding Bacterial Histidine Kinase Activity and Inhibition

Wilke, K. E. and Carlson, E. E. In Kinomics: Approaches and Applications, Kraatz, H.B.; Martic, S., Eds.; WILEY-VCH: Weinheim, 2015, pp 233-254. Invited Book Chapter.


https://doi.org/10.1002/9783527683031.ch10

35. Profiling of Beta-Lactam Selectivity for Penicillin-Binding Proteins in Streptococcus pneumoniae D39

Kocaoglu, O.; Tsui, H-C. T.; Winkler, M. E; Carlson, E. E. Antimicrob. Agents Chemother. 2015, 59, 3548-3555.

Co-first authors


https://doi.org/10.1128/aac.05142-14

34. Inactivation of Multiple Bacterial Histidine Kinases by Targeting the ATP-Binding Domain

Wilke, K. E.; Francis, S.; Carlson, E. E. ACS Chem. Biol. 2015, 10, 328-335.


https://doi.org/10.1021/cb5008019

33. Profiling of Beta-Lactam Selectivity for Penicillin-Binding Proteins in Escherichia coli DC2

 Kocaoglu, O. and Carlson, E. E. Antimicrob. Agents Chemother. 2015, 59, 2785-2790.


https://doi.org/10.1128/aac.04552-14

32. Chemoselective Enrichment as a Tool to Increase Access to Bioactive Natural Products: Case Study Borrelidin

Trader, D. J. and Carlson, E. E. Bioorg. Med. Chem. Lett. 2015, 25, 4767-4769. 25th Anniversary Issue Entitled, "Recent Advances in Medicinal Chemistry and Chemical Biology.”


https://doi.org/10.1016/j.bmcl.2015.07.062

31. Accurate Mass MS/MS/MS Analysis of Siderophores Ferrioxamine B and E1 by Collision-Induced Dissociation Electrospray Mass Spectrometry

Sidebottom, A. M; Karty, J. A.; Carlson, E. E. J. Am. Soc. Mass Spectrom. 2015, 26, 1899-1902.


https://doi.org/10.1007/s13361-015-1242-7

30. Collision-Induced Dissociation Mass Spectrometry: A Powerful Tool for Natural Product Structure Elucidation

Johnson, A. J. and Carlson, E. E. Anal. Chem. 2015, 87, 10668-10678. Invited Feature.

Selected for virtual issue of Analytical Chemistry to “Highlight Selected Women Analytical Chemists.” https://pubs.acs.org/page/ancham/vi/womenanalyticalchemists 


https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.analchem.5b01543

29. A Reinvigorated Era of Bacterial Secondary Metabolite Discovery

Sidebottom, A. M. and Carlson, E. E. Curr. Opin. Chem. Biol. 2015, 24, 104-111. Invited Review in –Omics Themed Issue.


https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cbpa.2014.10.014

28. Biological Responses to Engineered Nanomaterials: Needs for the Next Decade

Murphy, C. J.; Vartanian, A. M.; Geiger, F. M.; Hamers, R. J.; Pedersen, J.; Cui, Q.; Haynes, C. L.; Carlson, E. E.; Hernandez, R.; Klaper, R. D.; Orr, G.; Rosenzweig, Z. ACS Cent. Sci. 2015, 1, 117-123.


https://doi.org/10.1021/acscentsci.5b00182

27. Negatively-Charged Helices in the Gas Phase

Johnson, A. R.; Dilger, J. M.; Glover, M. S.; Clemmer, D. E.; Carlson, E. E. Chem. Commun. 2014, 50, 8849-8851. Invited article in 2015 Emerging Investigators Issue.


https://doi.org/10.1039/C4CC03257H

26. PBP2x localizes separately from PBP2b and other peptidoglycan synthesis proteins during later stages of cell division of Streptococcus pneumoniae D39

Tsui, H-C. T.; Boesma, M. J.; Vella, S. A.; Kocaoglu, O.; Kuru, E.; Perceny, J. K.; Carlson, E. E.; VanNieuwenhze, M. S.; Brun. Y. V.; Shaw, S. L.; Winkler, M. E. Mol. Microbiol. 2014, 94, 21-40.

Co-first authors

**Highlighted in: Cadby, I. T. and Lovering, A. L. Molecular surveillance of the subtle septum: discovering a new mode of peptidoglycan synthesis in streptococci. Mol. Microbiol. 2014, 94, 1-4.


https://doi.org/10.1111/mmi.12745



**Selected for Journal Cover Image




25. Towards the Development of Solid Supported Reagents for Separation of Alcohol-Containing Compounds by Steric Environment

Trader, D. J. and Carlson, E. E. Tetrahedron, 2014, 70, 4191-4196. Invited article in Special Issue to honor Sarah Reisman for receipt of the Tetrahedron Young Investigator Award.


https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tet.2014.03.040

24. Requirement of Essential Pbp2x and GpsB for Septal Ring Closure in Streptococcus pneumoniae D39

Land, A. D.; Tsui, H-C. T.; Kocaoglu, O.; Vella, S. A.; Shaw, S. L.; Keen, S. K.; Sham, L. T.; Carlson, E. E.; Winkler, M. E. Mol. Microbiol. 2013, 90, 939-955.

Co-first authors


https://doi.org/10.1111/mmi.12408



**Selected for Journal Cover Image



23. Integrated Metabolomics Approach Facilitates Discovery of an Unpredicted Natural Product Suite from Streptomyces coelicolor M145

Sidebottom, A. M.; Johnson, A. R.; Karty, J. A.; Trader, D. J.; Carlson, E. E. ACS Chem. Biol. 2013, 8, 2009-2016.


https://doi.org/10.1021/cb4002798

22. Taming of a Superbase for Selective Phenol Desilylation and Natural Product Isolation

Trader, D. J. and Carlson, E. E. J. Org. Chem. 2013, 78, 7349-7355.


https://doi.org/10.1021/jo4010298

21. Thiol-ene Enabled Detection of Thiophosphorylated Kinase Substrates

Garber, K. C. A. and Carlson, E. E. ACS Chem. Biol. 2013, 8, 1671-1676.


https://doi.org/10.1021/cb400184v

20. Plant Pigment Identification: A Classroom and Outreach Activity

Garber, K. C. A.; Odendaal, A. Y.; Carlson, E. E. J. Chem. Ed. 2013, 90, 755-759.

Co-first authors


https://doi.org/10.1021/ed200823t

19. Mechanistic Insight into Inhibition of Two-Component System Signaling

Francis, S.; Wilke, K. E.; Brown, D. E.; Carlson, E. E. Med. Chem. Commun. 2013, 4, 269-277. Invited Article in the New Talent Themed Issue.


https://doi.org/10.1039/C2MD20308A

18. All Signals Lost

Wilke, K. E. and Carlson, E. E. Sci. Transl. Med. 2013, 5, 203ps12. Invited Perspective.


https://doi.org/10.1126/scitranslmed.3006670

17. Penicillin-Binding Protein Imaging Probes

Kocaoglu, O. and Carlson, E. E. Curr. Prot. Chem. Bio. 2013, 5, 239-250. Invited.


https://doi.org/10.1002/9780470559277.ch130102

16. Chemoselective Hydroxyl Group Transformation: An Elusive Target

Trader, D. J. and Carlson, E. E. Mol. BioSyst. 2012, 8, 2484-2493. Invited Review in Emerging Investigators Themed Issue

**Selected as Molecular BioSystems HOT Article and highlighted on their blog, http://blogs.rsc.org/mb/ (7/17/2012).


https://doi.org/10.1039/C2MB25122A

15. Selective Penicillin-Binding Protein Imaging Probes Reveal Substructure in Bacterial Cell Division

Kocaoglu, O.; Calvo, R. A.; Sham, L. T.; Cozy, L. M.; Lanning, B. R.; Francis, S.; Winkler, M. E.; Kearns, D. B.; Carlson, E. E. ACS Chem. Biol. 2012, 7, 1746-1753. 

**Highlighted by: Walker, S. and Pasquina, L., Faculty of 1000, 05 Nov 2012; DOI: 10.3410/f.717960899.793463846.


https://doi.org/10.1021/cb300329r

14. Activity-Based Probe for Histidine Kinase Signaling

Wilke, K. E.; Francis, S.; Carlson, E. E. J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2012, 134, 9150-9153. 

**Highlighted in: J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2012, 134, 10715-10716.


https://doi.org/10.1021/ja3041702

13. Siloxyl Ether Functionalized Resins for Chemoselective Enrichment of Carboxylic Acids

Trader, D.J. and Carlson, E. E. Org. Lett. 2011, 13, 5652-5655.


https://doi.org/10.1021/ol202376m

12. Chemoselective Enrichment for Natural Products Discovery

Odendaal, A. Y.; Trader, D. J.; Carlson, E. E. Chem. Sci. 2011, 2, 760-764. 

Co-first authors

**Highlighted in: Chem. & Eng. News, 2011, 89, Feb 14, 34-35 and Chemistry World (http://www.rsc.org/chemistryworld/News/2011/February/15021101.asp).


https://doi.org/10.1039/C0SC00620C

11. Mass Spectrometry for Systems-Level Biological Analysis

Carlson, E. E. Nat. Chem. Biol. 2010, DOI: 10.1038/nchembio.490. Invited.


https://www.nature.com/nchembio/journal/v6/n12/pdf/nchb-primer007.pdf

10. Natural Products as Chemical Probes

Carlson, E. E. ACS Chem. Biol. 2010, 5, 639-653. Invited.


https://doi.org/10.1021/cb100105c

Mentored Publications

9. A General Glycomimetic Strategy Yields Non-Carbohydrate Inhibitors of DC-SIGN

Garber, K. C. A.; Wangkanont, K.; Carlson, E. E.; Kiessling, L. L. Chem. Commun. 2010, 46, 6747-6749.


https://doi.org/10.1039/C0CC00830C

8. Enrichment Tags for Enhanced-Resolution Profiling of Hydrophilic Metabolites

Carlson, E. E. and Cravatt, B. F. J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2007, 129, 15780-15782.


https://doi.org/10.1021/ja0779506

7. Chemoselective Probes for Metabolite Enrichment and Profiling

Carlson, E. E. and Cravatt, B. F. Nat. Methods, 2007, 4, 429-435. 

**Highlighted in: J. Prot. Res. 2007, 6, 2049 and Anal. Chem. 2007, 79, 3957.


https://doi.org/10.1038/nmeth1038

6. The Search for Chemical Probes to Illuminate Carbohydrate Function

Kiessling, L. L. and Carlson, E. E. In Chemical Biology. From Small Molecules to System Biology and Drug Design. Schreiber, S. L., Kapoor, T. M., Wess, G., Eds.; WILEY-VCH: Weinheim, 2007, pp 635-667. Invited Book Chapter.


 https://doi.org/10.1002/9783527619375.ch11a

5. Chemical Probes of UDP-Galactopyranose Mutase

Carlson, E. E.; May, J. F.; Kiessling, L. L. Chem. Biol. 2006, 13, 825-837.


https://doi.org/10.1016/j.chembiol.2006.06.007

4. Novel Heterocyclic Trans Olefin Analogues of N-{4-[4-(2,3-Dichlorophenyl)piperazin-1-yl]butyl}arylcarboxamides as Selective Probes with High Affinity for the Dopamine D3 Receptor

Grundt, P.; Carlson, E. E.; Cao, J.; Bennett, C. J.; Luedtke, R. R.; McElveen, E.; Taylor, M.; Newman, A. H. J. Med. Chem. 2005, 48, 839-848.


https://doi.org/10.1021/jm049465g

3. Identification of Inhibitors for UDP-Galactopyranose Mutase

Soltero-Higgin, M.; Carlson E. E.; Phillips, J. H.; Kiessling, L. L. J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2004, 126, 10532-10533.


https://doi.org/10.1021/ja048017v

2. A Unique Catalytic Mechanism for UDP-Galactopyranose Mutase

Soltero-Higgin, M.; Carlson, E. E.; Gruber, T. D.; Kiessling, L. L. Nat. Struct. Mol. Biol. 2004, 11, 539-543. 

**Highlighted in: Nat. Struct. Mol. Biol. 2004, 11, 497-498.


https://doi.org/10.1038/nsmb772

1. Improved Chemical Syntheses of 1- and 5-Deazariboflavin

Carlson, E. E. and Kiessling, L. L. J. Org. Chem. 2004, 69, 2614-2617.


https://doi.org/10.1021/jo049859f