Publications from Colorado State:

  • Diss, M. L.; Kennan, A. J.* "Heterotrimeric Coiled Coils with Core Residue Urea Side Chains" 2008, J. Org. Chem, A.S.A.P. Article [Albert I. Meyers Memorial Issue]. PDF.

  • Diss, M. L.; Kennan, A. J.* "Simultaneous Directed Assembly of Three Distinct Heterodimeric Coiled Coils" Org. Lett., 2008, 10, 3797-3800. PDF.

  • Diss, M. L.; Kennan, A. J.* "Orthogonal Recognition in Dimeric Coiled Coils via Buried Polar Group Modulation" J. Am. Chem. Soc., 2008, 130, 1321-1327. PDF.

  • Ryan, S. J.; Kennan, A. J.* "Variable Stability Heterodimeric Coiled-Coils from Manipulation of Electrostatic Interface Residue Chain Length" J. Am. Chem. Soc., 2007, 129, 10255-10260. PDF

  • Diss, M. L.; Kennan, A. J.* "Facile production of mono-substituted urea side chains in solid phase peptide synthesis" Biopolymers, 2007, 86, 276-281. PDF

  • Ryan, S. J.; Zhang, Y; Kennan, A. J.* "Convenient Access to Glutamic Acid Side Chain Homologs Compatible with Solid Phase Peptide Synthesis" Org. Lett., 2005, 7, 4765-4767. PDF

  • Schnarr, N. A.; Kennan, A. J.* "pH Switchable Strand Orientation in Peptide Assemblies" Org. Lett., 2005, 7, 395-398. PDF

  • Travisano, P.; Kennan, A. J.* "Tuning Stability of Coiled-Coil Heterotrimers by Selection of Steric Matching Partners" Org. Lett., 2004, 6, 4219-4222. PDF

  • Schnarr, N. A.; Kennan, A. J.* "Strand Orientation by Steric Matching: A Designed Antiparallel Coiled-Coil Trimer" J. Am. Chem. Soc., 2004, 126, 14447-14451. PDF

  • Schnarr, N. A.; Kennan, A. J.* "Coiled-Coil Surface Presentation: An Efficient HIV gp41 Binding Interface Mimic," J. Am. Chem. Soc., 2004, 126, 10260-10261. PDF

  • Schnarr, N. A.; Kennan, A. J.* "Sequential and Specific Exchange of Multiple Coiled-coil Components," J. Am. Chem. Soc., 2003, 125, 13046-13051. PDF

  • Schnarr, N. A.; Kennan, A. J.* "pH Triggered Strand Exchange in Coiled-Coil Heterotrimers," J. Am. Chem. Soc., 2003, 125, 6364-6365. PDF
  • Pal Bais, H.; Walker, T. S.; Kennan, A. J.; Stermitz, F. R.; Vivanco, J. M.* "Structure-dependent phytotoxicity of catechins and other flavonoids" J. Ag. Food Chem., 2003, 51, 897-901. PDF

  • Schnarr, N. A.; Kennan, A. J.* "Specific Control of Peptide Self-Assembly with Combined Hydrophobic and Hydrophilic Interfaces" J. Am. Chem. Soc., 2003, 125, 667-671. PDF

  • Schnarr, N. A.; Kennan, A. J.* "Peptide Tic-Tac-Toe: Heterotrimeric Coiled-Coil Specifity from Steric Matching of Multiple Hydrophobic Sidechains" J. Am. Chem. Soc., 2002, 124, 9779-9783. PDF

  • Schnarr, N. A.; Kennan, A. J.* "Coiled-Coil Formation Governed by Unnatural Hydrophobic Core Sidechains" J. Am. Chem. Soc., 2001, 123, 11081-11082. PDF

  • Zhang, Y.; Kennan, A. J.* "Efficient Introduction of Protected Guanidines in BOC Solid Phase Peptide Synthesis" Org. Lett., 2001, 3, 2341-2344. PDF

  • Publications from prior work:

  • Kennan, A. J.; Haridas, V.; Severin, K.; Lee, D. H.; Ghadiri, M. R.* "A de Novo Designed Peptide Ligase: A Mechanistic Investigation" J. Am. Chem. Soc., 2001, 123, 1797-1803. PDF

  • Severin, K.; Lee, D. H.; Kennan, A. J.; Ghadiri, M. R.* "An Artificial Peptide Ligase" Nature, 1997, 389, 706-709.


  • Kennan, A. J.; Whitlock, H. W. Jr.* "Host Catalyzed Isoxazole Ring Opening -- A Rationally Designed Artificial Enzyme" J. Am. Chem. Soc., 1996, 118, 3027-3028. PDF

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