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Nafshi R and Lezon TR. Predicting the Effects of Drug Combinations Using Probabilistic Matrix Factorization. Front Bioinform 1:708815 (2021).
Erdem C, Lee AV, Taylor DL, Lezon TR. Inhibition of RPS6K reveals context-dependent Akt activity in luminal breast cancer cells. PLoS Computational Biology 17: e1009125 (2021). PMID: 34191793
Pei F, Li H, Henderson MH, Titus SA, Jadhav A, Simeonov A, Cobanoglu MC, Mousavi SH, Shun T, McDermott L, Iyer P, Fioravanti M, Carlisle D, Friedlander RM, Bahar I, Taylor DL, Lezon TR, Stern AM, Schurdak, ME. Connecting neuronal cell protective pathways and drug combinations in a Huntington’s disease model through the application of quantitative systems pharmacology. Scientific Reports 7:17803 (2017). PMID: 29259176
Suofu Y, Li W, Jean-Alphonse FG, Jiao J, Khattar NK, Li J, Baranov SV, Leronni D, Mihalik AC, He Y, Cecon E, Wehbi V, Kim J, Heath BE, Baranova OV, Wang X, Gable M, Kretz E, Di Benedetto G, Lezon TR, Ferrando L, Larkin TM, Sullivan MLG, Yablonska S, Wang J, Minnigh MB, Guillaumet G, Suzenet F, Richardson RM, Poloyac S, Stolz DB, Jockers R, Witt-Enderby P, Carlisle DL, Vilardaga J-P, Friedlander RM. Dual role of mitochondria in producing melatonin and driving GPCR signaling to block cytochrome c release. Proc Natl Acad Sci USA 114:E7997-E8006 (2017). PMID: 28874589
Spagnolo DM, Al-Kofahi Y, Zhu P, Lezon TR, Gough A, Stern AM, Lee AV, Ginty F, Sarachan B, Taylor DL, Chennubholta C. Platform for quantitative evaluation of spatial intratumoral heterogeneity in multiplexed fluorescence images. Cancer Research 77:e71–74 (2017).
Bergman S and Lezon TR. Modeling global changes induced by local perturbations to the HIV-1 capsid. J Mol Graphics Modelling 71:218-226 (2017). PMID: 27951510
Gough A, Stern AM, Maier J, Lezon T, Shun T-Y, Chennubhotla C, Schurdak ME, Haney SA and Taylor DL. Biologically relevant heterogeneity: Metrics and practical insights. SLAS Discovery 22:213-227 (2017). PMID: 28231035
Spagnolo DM, Gyanchandani R, Al-Kofahi Y, Stern AM, Lezon TR, Gough A, Meyer DE, Ginty F, Sarachan B, Fine J, Lee AV, Taylor DL, Chennubhotla SC. Pointwise mutual information quantifies intratumor heterogeneity in tissue sections labeled with multiple fluorescent biomarkers. J Pathol Inform 7:47 (2016). PMID: 27994939
Erdem C, Nagle AM, Casa AJ, Litzenburger BC, Wang Y, Taylor DL, Lee AV and Lezon TR. Proteomic screening and lasso regression reveal differential signaling in insulin and insulin-like growth factor I pathways. Mol Cell Proteomics 15:3045-3057 (2016). PMID: 27364358
Gough A, Chen N, Schurdak M, Shun TY, Lezon T, Boltz R, Reese C, Wagner J, Vernetti L, Grandis J, Lee A and Taylor DL. Identifying and Quantifying Heterogeneity in High Content Analysis: Application of Heterogeneity Indices to Drug Discovery. PLoS ONE 9:e102678 (2014). PMID: 4103836
Bakan A, Dutta A, Mao W, Liu Y, Chennubhotla C, Lezon TR and Bahar I. Evol and ProDy for bridging protein sequence evolution and structural dynamics. Bioinformatics 30:2681-2683 (2014). PMID: 24849577
Lezon TR and Bahar I. Constraints imposed by the membrane selectively guide the alternating access dynamics of the glutamate transporter GltPh. Biophys J 102:1331-1340 (2012). PMID: 22455916
Lezon TR. The effects of rigid motions on elastic network model force constants. Proteins 80:1133-1142 (2012). PMID: 22228562
Lezon TR and Bahar I. Using entropy maximization to understand the determinants of structural dynamics beyond native contact topology. PloS Comp Biol 6:e1000816 (2010). PMID: 20585542
Bahar I, Lezon TR, Bakan A and Shrivastava IH. Normal mode analysis of biomolecular structures: functional mechanisms of membrane proteins. Chem Rev 110:1463-1497 (2010). PMID: 19785456
Bahar I, Lezon TR, Yang L-W and Eyal E. Global dynamics of proteins: Bridging between structure and function. Ann Rev Biophys 39:23-32 (2010). PMID: 20192781
Lezon TR, Sali A and Bahar I. Global motions of the nuclear pore complex: insights from elastic network models. PLoS Comp Biol 5: e1000496 (2009). PMID: 19730674 Science Editor's Choice
Lezon TR, Banavar JR, Cieplak M, Maritan A and Fedoroff NV. Using the principle of entropy maximization to infer genetic interaction networks from gene expression patterns. Proc Natl Acad Sci USA 103:19033-19038 (2006). PMID: 17138668
Lezon TR, Banavar JR and Maritan A. The origami of life. J Phys: Condens Matter 18:847-888 (2006).
Banavar JR, Cieplak M, Flammini A, Hoang TX, Kamien RD, Lezon TR, Marenduzzo D, Maritan A, Seno F, Snir Y and Trovato A. Geometry of proteins: hydrogen bonding, sterics and marginally compact tubes. Phys Rev E. 73:031921 (2006). PMID: 16605572
Lezon TR, Banavar JR, Lesk AM and Maritan A. What determines the spectrum of protein native state structures? Proteins 63:273-277 (2006). PMID: 16470841
Lezon T, Banavar JR and Maritan A. Recognition of coarse-grained protein tertiary structure. Proteins 55:536-547 (2004). PMID: 15103618
Taylor DL, Gough A, Schurdak ME, Vernetti L, Chennubhotla CS, Lefever D, Pei F, Faeder JR, Lezon TR, Stern AM and Bahar I. Harnessing Human Microphysiology Systems as Key Experimental Models for Quantitative Systems Pharmacology, in Handbook of Experimental Pharmacology. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, 2019.
Schurdak ME, Pei F, Lezon TR, Carlisle D, Friedlander R, Taylor DL, Stern AM. A Quantitative Systems Pharmacology Approach to Infer Pathways Involved in Complex Disease Phenotypes, in Phenotypic Screening. Methods in Molecular Biology, vol 1787. Edited by Wagner B. Humana Press, New York, NY, 2018. PMID: 29736721
Gough A, Lezon T, Faeder JR, Chennubhotla C, Murphy RF, Critchley-Thorne R and Taylor DL. High-content analysis with cellular and tissue systems biology: A bridge between cancer cell biology and tissue-based diagnostics, in The Molecular Basis of Cancer. Edited by Mendelsohn J, Gray JW, Howley PM, Israel MA and Thompson CB. Elsevier, 2014.
Zomot E, Bakan A, Shrivastava IH, DeChancie J, Lezon TR and Bahar I. Sodium-coupled secondary transporters: insights from structure-based computations, in Molecular Machines. Edited by Roux B. World Scientific, 2011.
Lezon TR, Shrivastava IH, Yang Z and Bahar I. Elastic network models for biomolecular dynamics: Theory and application to membrane proteins and viruses, in Handbook on Biological Networks. Edited by Boccaletti S, Latora V and Moreno Y. World Scientific, 2009.
Lezon TR, Banavar JR, Cieplak M, Fedoroff NV and Maritan A. The most probable genetic interaction networks inferred from gene expression patterns, in Analysis of Microarray Data: A Network-Based Approach. Edited by Dehmer M and Emmert-Streib F. Wiley, 2008.