James H. McKerrow, M.D.

Pathologist

Education

Sunny Stony Brook School of Medicine 1976

Selected Research and Publications

1. Tejman-Yarden N, Miyamoto Y, Leitsch D, Santini J, Debnath A, Gut J, McKerrow JH, Reed SL, Eckmann L. A reprofiled drug, auranofin, is effective against metronidazole-resistant Giardia lamblia. Antimicrob Agents Chemother. 2013 Feb 12.
2. Lee GM, Balouch E, Goetz DH, Lazic A, McKerrow JH, Craik CS. Mapping Inhibitor Binding Modes on an Active Cysteine Protease via Nuclear Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopy. Biochemistry. 2012 Dec 18; 51(50):10087-98.
3. Mashiyama ST, Koupparis K, Caffrey CR, McKerrow JH, Babbitt PC. A Global Comparison of the Human and T. brucei Degradomes Gives Insights about Possible Parasite Drug Targets. PLoS Negl Trop Dis. 2012 Dec; 6(12):e1942.
4. O'Donoghue AJ, Eroy-Reveles AA, Knudsen GM, Ingram J, Zhou M, Statnekov JB, Greninger AL, Hostetter DR, Qu G, Maltby DA, Anderson MO, Derisi JL, McKerrow JH, Burlingame AL, Craik CS. Global identification of peptidase specificity by multiplex substrate profiling. Nat Methods. 2012 Nov; 9(11):1095-100.
5. Navarro G, Chokpaiboon S, De Muylder G, Bray WM, Nisam SC, McKerrow JH, Pudhom K, Linington RG. Hit-to-lead development of the chamigrane endoperoxide merulin A for the treatment of African sleeping sickness. PLoS One. 2012; 7(9):e46172.
6. Dos Santos Filho JM, Moreira DR, de Simone CA, Ferreira RS, McKerrow JH, Meira CS, Guimarães ET, Soares MB. Optimization of anti-Trypanosoma cruzi oxadiazoles leads to identification of compounds with efficacy in infected mice. Bioorg Med Chem. 2012 Nov 1; 20(21):6423-33.
7. Frevert U, Movila A, Nikolskaia OV, Raper J, Mackey ZB, Abdulla M, McKerrow J, Grab DJ. Early invasion of brain parenchyma by African trypanosomes. PLoS One. 2012; 7(8):e43913.
8. Broadhurst MJ, Leung JM, Lim KC, Girgis NM, Gundra UM, Fallon PG, Premenko-Lanier M, McKerrow JH, McCune JM, Loke P. Upregulation of retinal dehydrogenase 2 in alternatively activated macrophages during retinoid-dependent type-2 immunity to helminth infection in mice. PLoS Pathog. 2012; 8(8):e1002883.
9. Lavrado J, Mackey Z, Hansell E, McKerrow JH, Paulo A, Moreira R. Antitrypanosomal and cysteine protease inhibitory activities of alkyldiamine cryptolepine derivatives. Bioorg Med Chem Lett. 2012 Oct 1; 22(19):6256-60.
10. Debnath A, Tunac JB, Galindo-Gómez S, Silva-Olivares A, Shibayama M, McKerrow JH. Corifungin, a New Drug Lead against Naegleria, Identified from a High-Throughput Screen. Antimicrob Agents Chemother. 2012 Nov; 56(11):5450-7.
11. Gunatilleke SS, Calvet CM, Johnston JB, Chen CK, Erenburg G, Gut J, Engel JC, Ang KK, Mulvaney J, Chen S, Arkin MR, McKerrow JH, Podust LM. Diverse inhibitor chemotypes targeting Trypanosoma cruzi CYP51. PLoS Negl Trop Dis. 2012; 6(7):e1736.
12. Debnath A, Parsonage D, Andrade RM, He C, Cobo ER, Hirata K, Chen S, García-Rivera G, Orozco E, Martínez MB, Gunatilleke SS, Barrios AM, Arkin MR, Poole LB, McKerrow JH, Reed SL. A high-throughput drug screen for Entamoeba histolytica identifies a new lead and target. Nat Med. 2012 Jun; 18(6):956-60.
13. Sojka D, Franta Z, Frantová H, Bartosová P, Horn M, Váchová J, O'Donoghue AJ, Eroy-Reveles AA, Craik CS, Knudsen GM, Caffrey CR, McKerrow JH, Mares M, Kopácek P. Characterization of gut-associated cathepsin D hemoglobinase from tick Ixodes ricinus (IrCD1). J Biol Chem. 2012 Jun 15; 287(25):21152-63.
14. Ingram JR, Rafi SB, Eroy-Reveles AA, Ray M, Lambeth L, Hsieh I, Ruelas D, Lim KC, Sakanari J, Craik CS, Jacobson MP, McKerrow JH. Investigation of the proteolytic functions of an expanded cercarial elastase gene family in Schistosoma mansoni. PLoS Negl Trop Dis. 2012; 6(4):e1589.
15. Marcellino C, Gut J, Lim KC, Singh R, McKerrow J, Sakanari J. WormAssay: a novel computer application for whole-plate motion-based screening of macroscopic parasites. PLoS Negl Trop Dis. 2012 Jan; 6(1):e1494.
16. Quezada LA, Sajid M, Lim KC, McKerrow JH. A blood fluke serine protease inhibitor regulates an endogenous larval elastase. J Biol Chem. 2012 Mar 2; 287(10):7074-83.
17. Ben Khalaf N, De Muylder G, Louzir H, McKerrow J, Chenik M. Leishmania major protein disulfide isomerase as a drug target: enzymatic and functional characterization. Parasitol Res. 2012 May; 110(5):1911-7.
18. Johnson TA, Sohn J, Inman WD, Estee SA, Loveridge ST, Vervoort HC, Tenney K, Liu J, Ang KK, Ratnam J, Bray WM, Gassner NC, Shen YY, Lokey RS, McKerrow JH, Boundy-Mills K, Nukanto A, Kanti A, Julistiono H, Kardono LB, Bjeldanes LF, Crews P. Natural product libraries to accelerate the high-throughput discovery of therapeutic leads. J Nat Prod. 2011 Dec 27; 74(12):2545-55.
19. Abdulla MH, Lim KC, McKerrow JH, Caffrey CR. Proteomic identification of IPSE/alpha-1 as a major hepatotoxin secreted by Schistosoma mansoni eggs. PLoS Negl Trop Dis. 2011 Oct; 5(10):e1368.
20. Ingram J, Knudsen G, Lim KC, Hansell E, Sakanari J, McKerrow J. Proteomic analysis of human skin treated with larval schistosome peptidases reveals distinct invasion strategies among species of blood flukes. PLoS Negl Trop Dis. 2011 Sep; 5(9):e1337.

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