Publications

Article PDFs and links are listed – please contact me directly if there are broken links or paywalls that get in your way! My Google Scholar profile is generally more up-to-date.

* equal contribution, † corresponding author

Preprints:

Howard MK*, Hoppe N*, Huang XP, Macdonald CB, Mehrota E, Rockefeller Grimes P, Zahm A, Trinidad D, English J, Coyote-Maestas W†, Manglik A† (2024) Molecular basis of proton-sensing by G protein-coupled receptors. Pre-print available on Biorxiv

Rao J, Xin R*, Macdonald C*, Howard MK, Estevam GO, Yee SW, Wang M, Fraser JS, Coyote-Maestas W†, Pimentel H† (2023) Rosace: a robust deep mutational scanning analysis framework employing position and mean-variance shrinkage. Pre-print available on Biorxiv

2024

Polacco BJ*, Lobingier BT*, Blythe EE, Abreu N, Khare P, Howard MK, Gonzalez-Hernandez AJ, Xu J, Li Q, Novy B, Naing ZZC, Shoichet BK, Coyote-Maestas W, Levitz J, Krogan NJ, Zastrow MV†, Hüttenhain R† (2023) Profiling the proximal proteome of the mu opioid receptor identifies novel regulators of receptor signaling and trafficking. Nature Chemical biology. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41589-024-01588-3 Link Biorxiv preprint PDF

Chen S, Puri A, Bell B, Fritsche J, Palacios HH, Balch M, Sprunger ML, Howard MK, Patterson JN, Patti GJ, Davis AA, and Jackrel ME† (2023) HtrA1 prevents and reverses α-synuclein aggregation, rendering it non-toxic and seeding incompetent. Nature Communications. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-024-46538-8 Link Research Square preprint PDF

2023

Shrimali PC, Chen S*, Das A*, Dreher R*, Howard MK*, Ryan J, Buck J, Kim D, Sprunger M, Rudra JS†, Jackrel ME† (2023) Amyloidogenic Propensity of Self-Assembling Peptides and their Adjuvent Potential for use as DNA Vaccines. Acta Biomaterialia. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.actbio.2023.08.015 Link Biorxiv preprint PDF

Howard MK, Miller KR, Sohn BS, Ryan JR, Xu A, Jackrel ME† (2023) Probing the drivers of Staphylococcus aureus biofilm protein amyloidogenesis and disrupting biofilms with engineered protein disaggregases. mBio. https://doi.org/10.1128/mbio.00587-23 PDF Link

2020

Howard MK, Sohn BS, von Borcke J, Xu A, Jackrel ME† (2020) Functional analysis of proposed substrate-binding residues of Hsp104. PLoS ONE. 15(3):e0230198. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0230198 PDF Link