Janet R. Kumita, Ph.D.

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University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada 
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protein engineering
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Andrew Woolley grad student 2003 University of Toronto
 (Reversible control of peptide structure and activity by an azobenzene photo-switch.)
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Mañucat-Tan NB, Chowdhury A, Cataldi R, et al. (2023) Hypochlorite-induced oxidation promotes aggregation and reduces toxicity of amyloid beta 1-42. Redox Biology. 63: 102736
Cao Y, Adamcik J, Diener M, et al. (2021) Different Folding States from the Same Protein Sequence Determine Reversible vs Irreversible Amyloid Fate. Journal of the American Chemical Society
Limbocker R, Mannini B, Cataldi R, et al. (2020) Rationally Designed Antibodies as Research Tools to Study the Structure-Toxicity Relationship of Amyloid-β Oligomers. International Journal of Molecular Sciences. 21
Terol PA, Kumita JR, Hook SC, et al. (2015) Solvent exposure of Tyr10 as a probe of structural differences between monomeric and aggregated forms of the amyloid-β peptide. Biochemical and Biophysical Research Communications
Chan FTS, Kaminski Schierle GS, Kumita JR, et al. (2013) Protein amyloids develop an intrinsic fluorescence signature during aggregation Analyst. 138: 2156-2162
Mossuto MF, Bolognesi B, Guixer B, et al. (2011) Disulfide bonds reduce the toxicity of the amyloid fibrils formed by an extracellular protein. Angewandte Chemie (International Ed. in English). 50: 7048-51
Bolognesi B, Kumita JR, Barros TP, et al. (2010) ANS binding reveals common features of cytotoxic amyloid species. Acs Chemical Biology. 5: 735-40
Yerbury JJ, Poon S, Meehan S, et al. (2007) The extracellular chaperone clusterin influences amyloid formation and toxicity by interacting with prefibrillar structures. Faseb Journal : Official Publication of the Federation of American Societies For Experimental Biology. 21: 2312-22
Bredenbeck J, Helbing J, Kumita JR, et al. (2005) Alpha-helix formation in a photoswitchable peptide tracked from picoseconds to microseconds by time-resolved IR spectroscopy. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America. 102: 2379-84
Burns DC, Flint DG, Kumita JR, et al. (2004) Origins of helix-coil switching in a light-sensitive peptide. Biochemistry. 43: 15329-38
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