Paper Publications

• [1]Yilin Yan, Yangzhong Liu, Mirco Sorci, Georges Belfort, Joyce W. Lustbader, Shirley ShiDu Yan, and Chunyu Wang. Surface Plasmon Resonance and Nuclear Magnetic Resonance Studies of ABAD-A? Interaction. Biochemistry. 2007, 46, 1724-1731.
• [2]Yangzhong Liu; Li-Hua Ma; Xuhong Zhang; Tadashi Yoshida; James D. Satterlee; Gerd N. La Mar. Characterization of the spontaneous "aging" of the heme oxygenase from the pathological bacterium Nisseria meningitidis via cleavage of the C-terminus in contact with the substrate; Implications for functional studies and the crystal structure. Biochemistry 2006; 45(12); 3875-3886.
• [3]Yangzhong Liu; Li-Hua Ma; Xuhong Zhang; Tadashi Yoshida, James D. Satterlee; Gerd N. La Mar. 1H NMR study of the influence of hemin vinyl?methyl substitution on the interaction between the C-terminus and substrate and the "aging" of the heme oxygenase from Nisseria meningitidis. Induction of active site structural heterogeneity by a two-fold symmetric hemin. Biochemistry 2006; 45(46); 13875-13888.
• [4]Li-Hua Ma; Yangzhong Liu; Xuhong Zhang; Tadashi Yoshida; Kevin C. Langry; Kevin M. Smith, Gerd N. La Mar. Modulation of the axial water hydrogen-bonding properties by chemical modification of the substrate in resting state, substrate-bound heme oxygenase from Nisseria meningitidis; Coupling to the distal H-bond network via ordered water molecules. Journal of the American Chemical Society 2006; 128(19); 6391-6399.
• [5]Li-Hua Ma, Yangzhong Liu, Xuhang Zhang, Tadashi Yoshida and Gerd N. La Mar. 1H NMR study of the magnetic properties and electronic structure of the hydroxide complex of substrate-bound heme oxygenase from Nisseria meningitides; Influence of the axial water deprotonation on the distal H-bond network. Journal of the American Chemical Society 2006; 128(20); 6657-6668.
• [6]Yangzhong Liu; Xuhong Zhang; Tadashi Yoshida; Gerd N. La Mar. Solution 1H NMR characterization of the distal H-bond network and the effective axial field in the resting-state, high-spin ferric, substrate-bound complex in heme oxygenase from N. meningitidis. Journal of the American Chemical Society. 2005, 127(17) 6409-6422..
• [7]Yangzhong Liu; Xuhong Zhang; Tadashi Yoshida; Gerd N. La Mar. 1H NMR characterization of the solution active site structure of substrate-bound, cyanide-inhibited heme oxygenase from Neissesae meningitides. Biochemistry 2004, 43 (31) 10112-10126..
• [8]Yangzhong Liu; Einar Sletten. Interaction between macrocyclic nickel complexes and the nucleotides GMP, AMP, and ApG.. Journal of Inorganic Biochemistry 2003, 93(3-4), 190-196.
• [9]Yangzhong Liu; Jo Vinje; Concetta Pacifico; Giovanni Natile; Einar Sletten. Formation of adenine-N3/guanine-N7 cross-link in the reaction of trans-oriented platinum substrates with dinucleotides. Journal of the American Chemical Society 2002, 124(43), 12854-12862.
• [10]Liu, Yangzhong; Intini, Francesco P.; Natile, Giovanni; Sletten, Einar. Kinetic study of the reaction between an antitumor 15N labeled trans-platinum iminoether complex and GMP by [1H, 15N] HMQC NMR. Journal of the Chemical Society, Dalton Transactions 2002, (18), 3489-3495.