Publications

Chesner LN, Essawy M, Warner C, Campbell C. DNA-protein crosslinks are repaired via homologous recombination in mammalian mitochondria. DNA Repair (Amst). 2021 Jan;97:103026. doi: 10.1016/j.dnarep.2020.103026. Epub 2020 Nov 25. PMID: 33316746; PMCID: PMC7855827.
Ji S, Park D, Kropachev K, Kolbanovskiy M, Fu I, Broyde S, Essawy M, Geacintov NE, Tretyakova NY. 5-Formylcytosine-induced DNA-peptide cross-links reduce transcription efficiency, but do not cause transcription errors in human cells. J Biol Chem. 2019 Nov 29;294(48):18387-18397. doi: 10.1074/jbc.RA119.009834. Epub 2019 Oct 9. PMID: 31597704; PMCID: PMC6885644.
Tiwari D, Park SW, Essawy MM, Dawadi S, Mason A, Nandakumar M, Zimmerman M, Mina M, Ho HP, Engelhart CA, Ioerger T, Sacchettini JC, Rhee K, Ehrt S, Aldrich CC, Dartois V, Schnappinger D. Targeting protein biotinylation enhances tuberculosis chemotherapy. Sci Transl Med. 2018 Apr 25;10(438):eaal1803. doi: 10.1126/scitranslmed.aal1803. PMID: 29695454; PMCID: PMC6151865.
Rebbeck RT, Essawy MM, Nitu FR, Grant BD, Gillispie GD, Thomas DD, Bers DM, Cornea RL. High-Throughput Screens to Discover Small-Molecule Modulators of Ryanodine Receptor Calcium Release Channels. SLAS Discov. 2017 Feb;22(2):176-186. doi: 10.1177/1087057116674312. Epub 2016 Oct 22. PMID: 27760856; PMCID: PMC5337111.