Ellen Yeh

Publications

• Chemical rescue of malaria parasites lacking an apicoplast defines organelle function in blood-stage Plasmodium falciparum. Yeh E, DeRisi JL. PLoS Biol. 2011; 9 (8): e1001138
• Immediate incubation reduces indeterminate results for QuantiFERON-TB Gold in-tube assay. Herrera V, Yeh E, Murphy K, Parsonnet J, Banaei N. J Clin Microbiol. 2010; 48 (8): 2672-6
• Preferential lower respiratory tract infection in swine-origin 2009 A(H1N1) influenza. Yeh E, Luo RF, Dyner L, Hong DK, Banaei N, Baron EJ, Pinsky BA. Clin Infect Dis. 2010; 50 (3): 391-4
• Real-time PCR testing for mecA reduces vancomycin usage and length of hospitalization for patients infected with methicillin-sensitive staphylococci. Nguyen DT, Yeh E, Perry S, Luo RF, Pinsky BA, Lee BP, Sisodiya D, Baron EJ, Banaei N. J Clin Microbiol. 2010; 48 (3): 785-90
• Hair sheep blood, citrated or defibrinated, fulfills all requirements of blood agar for diagnostic microbiology laboratory tests. Yeh E, Pinsky BA, Banaei N, Baron EJ. PLoS One. 2009; 4 (7): e6141
• Characterization of the aminocarboxycyclopropane-forming enzyme CmaC. Kelly WL, Boyne MT, Yeh E, Vosburg DA, Galonić DP, Kelleher NL, Walsh CT. Biochemistry. 2007; 46 (2): 359-68
• Chlorination by a long-lived intermediate in the mechanism of flavin-dependent halogenases. Yeh E, Blasiak LC, Koglin A, Drennan CL, Walsh CT. Biochemistry. 2007; 46 (5): 1284-92
• Enzymatic generation of the antimetabolite gamma,gamma-dichloroaminobutyrate by NRPS and mononuclear iron halogenase action in a streptomycete. Ueki M, Galonić DP, Vaillancourt FH, Garneau-Tsodikova S, Yeh E, Vosburg DA, Schroeder FC, Osada H, Walsh CT. Chem Biol. 2006; 13 (11): 1183-91
• Flavin redox chemistry precedes substrate chlorination during the reaction of the flavin-dependent halogenase RebH. Yeh E, Cole LJ, Barr EW, Bollinger JM, Ballou DP, Walsh CT. Biochemistry. 2006; 45 (25): 7904-12
• Nature's inventory of halogenation catalysts: oxidative strategies predominate. Vaillancourt FH, Yeh E, Vosburg DA, Garneau-Tsodikova S, Walsh CT. Chem Rev. 2006; 106 (8): 3364-78
• Cryptic chlorination by a non-haem iron enzyme during cyclopropyl amino acid biosynthesis. Vaillancourt FH, Yeh E, Vosburg DA, O'Connor SE, Walsh CT. Nature. 2005; 436 (7054): 1191-4
• Robust in vitro activity of RebF and RebH, a two-component reductase/halogenase, generating 7-chlorotryptophan during rebeccamycin biosynthesis. Yeh E, Garneau S, Walsh CT. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2005; 102 (11): 3960-5
• Enhanced macrocyclizing activity of the thioesterase from tyrocidine synthetase in presence of nonionic detergent. Yeh E, Lin H, Clugston SL, Kohli RM, Walsh CT. Chem Biol. 2004; 11 (11): 1573-82
• Type II thioesterase restores activity of a NRPS module stalled with an aminoacyl-S-enzyme that cannot be elongated. Yeh E, Kohli RM, Bruner SD, Walsh CT. Chembiochem. 2004; 5 (9): 1290-3