Publications

2009
A. Hucknall, Simnick, A. J. , Hill, R. T. , Chilkoti, A. , Garcia, A. , Johannes, M. S. , Clark, R. L. , Zauscher, S. , and Ratner, B. D. , “Versatile synthesis and micropatterning of nonfouling polymer brushes on the wafer scale”, Biointerphases, vol. 4, no. 2, p. FA50, 2009.
S. Zauscher and Chilkoti, A. , “Biological Applications of Polymer Brushes”, Biointerphases, vol. 4, no. 2. p. FA1, 2009.
J. A. MacKay, Chen, M. , McDaniel, J. R. , Liu, W. , Simnick, A. J. , and Chilkoti, A. , “Self-assembling chimeric polypeptide–doxorubicin conjugate nanoparticles that abolish tumours after a single injection”, Nature Materials, vol. 8, no. 12, pp. 993 - 999, 2009.
K. A. Trabbic-Carlson, Liu, L. , Kim, B. , and Chilkoti, A. , “Expression and purification of recombinant proteins from Escherichia coli: Comparison of an elastin-like polypeptide fusion with an oligohistidine fusion”, Protein Science, vol. 13, no. 12, pp. 3274 - 3284, 2009.
Y. Cho, Sagle, L. B. , Iimura, S. , Zhang, Y. , Kherb, J. , Chilkoti, A. , Scholtz, M. J. , and Cremer, P. S. , “Hydrogen Bonding of β-Turn Structure Is Stabilized in D2O”, Journal of the American Chemical Society, vol. 131, no. 42, pp. 15188 - 15193, 2009.
W. Gao, Liu, W. , MacKay, J. A. , Zalutsky, M. R. , Toone, E. J. , and Chilkoti, A. , “In situ growth of a stoichiometric PEG-like conjugate at a protein's N-terminus with significantly improved pharmacokinetics”, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, vol. 106, no. 36, pp. 15231 - 15236, 2009.
T. Christensen, Amiram, M. , Dagher, S. , Trabbic-Carlson, K. A. , Shamji, M. F. , Setton, L. A. , and Chilkoti, A. , “Fusion order controls expression level and activity of elastin-like polypeptide fusion proteins”, Protein Science, vol. 18, no. 7, pp. 1377 - 1387, 2009.
A. Hucknall, Rangarajan, S. , and Chilkoti, A. , “In Pursuit of Zero: Polymer Brushes that Resist the Adsorption of Proteins”, Advanced Materials, vol. 21, no. 23, pp. 2441 - 2446, 2009.
A. Hucknall, Kim, D. - H. , Rangarajan, S. , Hill, R. T. , Reichert, W. M. , and Chilkoti, A. , “Simple Fabrication of Antibody Microarrays on Nonfouling Polymer Brushes with Femtomolar Sensitivity for Protein Analytes in Serum and Blood”, Advanced Materials, vol. 21, no. 19, pp. 1968 - 1971, 2009.
G. J. Nusz, Curry, A. C. , Marinakos, S. M. , Wax, A. , and Chilkoti, A. , “Rational Selection of Gold Nanorod Geometry for Label-Free Plasmonic Biosensors”, ACS Nano, vol. 3, no. 4, pp. 795 - 806, 2009.
Y. Wu, MacKay, J. A. , McDaniel, J. R. , Chilkoti, A. , and Clark, R. L. , “Fabrication of Elastin-Like Polypeptide Nanoparticles for Drug Delivery by Electrospraying”, Biomacromolecules, vol. 10, no. 1, pp. 19 - 24, 2009.
2008
D. C. Chow, Nunalee, M. L. , Lim, D. W. , Simnick, A. J. , and Chilkoti, A. , “Peptide-based biopolymers in biomedicine and biotechnology”, Materials Science and Engineering: R: Reports, vol. 62, no. 4, pp. 125 - 155, 2008.
M. F. Shamji, Chen, J. , Friedman, A. H. , Richardson, W. J. , Chilkoti, A. , and Setton, L. A. , “Synthesis and characterization of a thermally-responsive tumor necrosis factor antagonist”, Journal of Controlled Release, vol. 129, no. 3, pp. 179 - 186, 2008.
F. Xu, Joon, H. M. , Trabbic-Carlson, K. A. , Chilkoti, A. , and Knoll, W. , “Surface plasmon optical study of the interfacial phase transition of elastinlike polypeptide grafted on gold”, Biointerphases, vol. 3, no. 3, p. 66, 2008.
M. F. Shamji, Whitlatch, L. , Friedman, A. H. , Richardson, W. J. , Chilkoti, A. , and Setton, L. A. , “An Injectable and In Situ-Gelling Biopolymer for Sustained Drug Release Following Perineural Administration”, Spine, vol. 33, no. 7, pp. 748 - 754, 2008.
B. Kim and Chilkoti, A. , “Allosteric Actuation of Inverse Phase Transition of a Stimulus-Responsive Fusion Polypeptide by Ligand Binding”, Journal of the American Chemical Society, vol. 130, no. 52, pp. 17867 - 17873, 2008.
J. J. Mock, Hill, R. T. , Degiron, A. , Zauscher, S. , Chilkoti, A. , and Smith, D. R. , “Distance-Dependent Plasmon Resonant Coupling between a Gold Nanoparticle and Gold Film”, Nano Letters, vol. 8, no. 8, pp. 2245 - 2252, 2008.
A. Valiaev, Lim, D. W. , Schmidler, S. , Clark, R. L. , Chilkoti, A. , and Zauscher, S. , “Hydration and Conformational Mechanics of Single, End-Tethered Elastin-like Polypeptides”, Journal of the American Chemical Society, vol. 130, no. 33, pp. 10939 - 10946, 2008.
D. L. Nettles, Kitaoka, K. , Hanson, N. A. , Flahiff, C. M. , Mata, B. A. , Hsu, E. W. , Chilkoti, A. , and Setton, L. A. , “In Situ Crosslinking Elastin-Like Polypeptide Gels for Application to Articular Cartilage Repair in a Goat Osteochondral Defect Model”, Tissue Engineering Part A, vol. 14, no. 7, pp. 1133 - 1140, 2008.
G. J. Nusz, Marinakos, S. M. , Curry, A. C. , Dahlin, A. , Höök, F. , Wax, A. , and Chilkoti, A. , “Label-free plasmonic detection of biomolecular binding by a single gold nanorod”, Analytical Chemistry, vol. 80, no. 4, pp. 984 - 989, 2008.
D. W. Lim, Nettles, D. L. , Setton, L. A. , and Chilkoti, A. , “In Situ Cross-Linking of Elastin-like Polypeptide Block Copolymers for Tissue Repair”, Biomacromolecules, vol. 9, no. 1, pp. 222 - 230, 2008.
M. R. Dreher, Simnick, A. J. , Fischer, K. , Smith, R. J. , Patel, A. , Schmidt, M. , and Chilkoti, A. , “Temperature Triggered Self-Assembly of Polypeptides into Multivalent Spherical Micelles”, Journal of the American Chemical Society, vol. 130, no. 2, pp. 687 - 694, 2008.
J. A. MacKay and Chilkoti, A. , “Temperature sensitive peptides: Engineering hyperthermia-directed therapeutics”, International Journal of Hyperthermia, vol. 24, no. 6, pp. 483 - 495, 2008.
2007
A. C. Curry, Nusz, G. J. , Chilkoti, A. , and Wax, A. , “Analysis of total uncertainty in spectral peak measurements for plasmonic nanoparticle-based biosensors”, Applied Optics, vol. 46, no. 10, p. 1931, 2007.
M. F. Shamji, Betre, H. , Kraus, V. B. , Chen, J. , Chilkoti, A. , Pichika, R. , Masuda, K. , and Setton, L. A. , “Development and characterization of a fusion protein between thermally responsive elastin-like polypeptide and interleukin-1 receptor antagonist: Sustained release of a local antiinflammatory therapeutic”, Arthritis & Rheumatism, vol. 56, no. 11, pp. 3650 - 3661, 2007.

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