Scholars@Duke

• Background
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  Education, Training, & Certifications

  • NIH Postdoctoral Fellow, Biological Chemistry & Molecular Pharmacology, Harvard Medical School 2009 - 2014
  • Ph.D., University of California - Berkeley 2008
  • B.S., Trinity College 2002
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  Previous Appointments & Affiliations

  • Assistant Professor of Chemistry, Chemistry, Trinity College of Arts & Sciences 2014 - 2021
  • Scholar in Residence in the Department of Chemistry, Chemistry, Trinity College of Arts & Sciences 2013 - 2014
• Recognition
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  In the News

  • SEP 21, 2021

    Office of Faculty Advancement

    Meet the Newly Tenured Faculty of 2021

  • FEB 18, 2021

    Trinity College of Arts and Sciences

    The Potential of Trinity's 2021 Sloan Fellowship Winners

  • FEB 15, 2021

    Three From Duke Named Sloan Fellows

  • OCT 5, 2020

    Duke Researchers Discover How Malaria Parasites Withstand a Fever’s Heat

  • JUN 4, 2020

    Trinity College of Arts and Sciences

    Thinking Big About Malaria, in the Lab and in the Classroom

  • JUN 27, 2019

    Malaria Parasites Hijack Your Genes to Set up Camp Inside Your Liver

  • MAY 22, 2018

    Malaria-Causing Parasite Manipulates Liver Cells to Survive

  • OCT 5, 2017

    Two Duke Faculty Win NIH New Innovator Awards

  • JAN 11, 2017

    Chemistry Professor Wins 2017 Marion Milligan Mason Award

  • OCT 2, 2014

    Emily Derbyshire: Prospecting for Malaria Drugs

  • AUG 25, 2014

    Cancer-Fighting Drugs Might Also Stop Malaria Early
• Research
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  External Relationships

  • Chan Zuckerberg Initiative / Silicon Valley Community Fund
  • Rutgers University
• Publications & Artistic Works
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  Selected Publications

  • Academic Articles

    • Schroeder, Erin A., Michael E. Chirgwin, and Emily R. Derbyshire. “Plasmodium's fight for survival: escaping elimination while acquiring nutrients. (Accepted)” Trends in Parasitology 38, no. 7 (July 2022): 544–57. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.pt.2022.04.004.
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    • D’Ambrosio, H. K., J. G. Ganley, A. M. Keeler, and E. R. Derbyshire. “A single amino acid residue controls acyltransferase activity in a polyketide synthase from Toxoplasma gondii (Accepted).” Iscience 25, no. 6 (June 17, 2022). https://doi.org/10.1016/j.isci.2022.104443.
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    • Lu, Kuan-Yi, Christopher R. Mansfield, Michael C. Fitzgerald, and Emily R. Derbyshire. “Chemoproteomics for Plasmodium Parasite Drug Target Discovery.” Chembiochem : A European Journal of Chemical Biology 22, no. 16 (August 2021): 2591–99. https://doi.org/10.1002/cbic.202100155.
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    • Bang, Sangsu, Christopher R. Donnelly, Xin Luo, Maria Toro-Moreno, Xueshu Tao, Zilong Wang, Sharat Chandra, Andrey V. Bortsov, Emily R. Derbyshire, and Ru-Rong Ji. “Activation of GPR37 in macrophages confers protection against infection-induced sepsis and pain-like behaviour in mice.” Nat Commun 12, no. 1 (March 17, 2021): 1704. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-021-21940-8.
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    • Sylvester, Kayla, Steven P. Maher, Dora Posfai, Michael K. Tran, McKenna C. Crawford, Amélie Vantaux, Benoît Witkowski, Dennis E. Kyle, and Emily R. Derbyshire. “Characterization of the Tubovesicular Network in Plasmodium vivax Liver Stage Hypnozoites and Schizonts.” Frontiers in Cellular and Infection Microbiology 11 (January 2021): 687019. https://doi.org/10.3389/fcimb.2021.687019.
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    • Lu, Kuan-Yi, Charisse Flerida A. Pasaje, Tamanna Srivastava, David R. Loiselle, Jacquin C. Niles, and Emily Derbyshire. “Phosphatidylinositol 3-phosphate and Hsp70 protect Plasmodium falciparum from heat-induced cell death.” Elife 9 (September 25, 2020): e56773. https://doi.org/10.7554/elife.56773.
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    • Ganley, Jack G., Ashmita Pandey, Kayla Sylvester, Kuan-Yi Lu, Maria Toro-Moreno, Sina Rütschlin, James M. Bradford, et al. “A Systematic Analysis of Mosquito-Microbiome Biosynthetic Gene Clusters Reveals Antimalarial Siderophores that Reduce Mosquito Reproduction Capacity.” Cell Chemical Biology 27, no. 7 (July 2, 2020): 817-826.e5. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.chembiol.2020.06.004.
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    • Posfai, Dora, Steven P. Maher, Camille Roesch, Amélie Vantaux, Kayla Sylvester, Julie Péneau, Jean Popovici, Dennis E. Kyle, Benoît Witkowski, and Emily R. Derbyshire. “Plasmodium vivax Liver and Blood Stages Recruit the Druggable Host Membrane Channel Aquaporin-3.” Cell Chemical Biology 27, no. 6 (June 2020): 719-727.e5. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.chembiol.2020.03.009.
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    • Ganley, Jack G., Hannah K. D’Ambrosio, Meg Shieh, and Emily R. Derbyshire. “Coculturing of Mosquito-Microbiome Bacteria Promotes Heme Degradation in Elizabethkingia anophelis.” Chembiochem : A European Journal of Chemical Biology 21, no. 9 (May 2020): 1279–84. https://doi.org/10.1002/cbic.201900675.
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    • Lu, Kuan-Yi, Baiyi Quan, Kayla Sylvester, Tamanna Srivastava, Michael C. Fitzgerald, and Emily R. Derbyshire. “Plasmodium chaperonin TRiC/CCT identified as a target of the antihistamine clemastine using parallel chemoproteomic strategy.” Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 117, no. 11 (March 3, 2020): 5810–17. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1913525117.
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    • Lu, Kuan-Yi, and Emily R. Derbyshire. “Tafenoquine: A Step toward Malaria Elimination.” Biochemistry 59, no. 8 (March 2020): 911–20. https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.biochem.9b01105.
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    • D’Ambrosio, Hannah K., and Emily R. Derbyshire. “Investigating the Role of Class I Adenylate-Forming Enzymes in Natural Product Biosynthesis.” Acs Chemical Biology 15, no. 1 (January 2020): 17–27. https://doi.org/10.1021/acschembio.9b00865.
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    • Raphemot, Rene, Maria Toro-Moreno, Kuan-Yi Lu, Dora Posfai, and Emily Rose Derbyshire. “Discovery of Druggable Host Factors Critical to Plasmodium Liver-Stage Infection.” Cell Chemical Biology 26, no. 9 (September 2019): 1253-1262.e5. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.chembiol.2019.05.011.
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    • Szamosvári, Dávid, Kayla Sylvester, Philipp Schmid, Kuan-Yi Lu, Emily R. Derbyshire, and Thomas Böttcher. “Close the ring to break the cycle: tandem quinolone-alkyne-cyclisation gives access to tricyclic pyrrolo[1,2-a]quinolin-5-ones with potent anti-protozoal activity.” Chemical Communications (Cambridge, England) 55, no. 49 (June 2019): 7009–12. https://doi.org/10.1039/c9cc01689a.
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    • Lee, Hyunji, Kayla Sylvester, Emily R. Derbyshire, and Jiyong Hong. “Synthesis and Analysis of Natural-Product-Like Macrocycles by Tandem Oxidation/Oxa-Conjugate Addition Reactions.” Chemistry (Weinheim an Der Bergstrasse, Germany) 25, no. 26 (May 2019): 6500–6504. https://doi.org/10.1002/chem.201900620.
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    • Raphemot, Rene, Amber Leigh Eubanks, Maria Toro-Moreno, Rechel Anne Geiger, Philip Floyd Hughes, Kuan-Yi Lu, Timothy Arthur James Haystead, and Emily Rose Derbyshire. “Plasmodium PK9 Inhibitors Promote Growth of Liver-Stage Parasites.” Cell Chem Biol 26, no. 3 (March 21, 2019): 411-419.e7. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.chembiol.2018.11.003.
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    • Eubanks, Amber L., Marisha M. Perkins, Kayla Sylvester, Jack G. Ganley, Dora Posfai, Paul C. Sanschargrin, Jiyong Hong, Piotr Sliz, and Emily R. Derbyshire. “In silico Screening and Evaluation of Plasmodium falciparum Protein Kinase 5 (PK5) Inhibitors.” Chemmedchem 13, no. 23 (December 2018): 2479–83. https://doi.org/10.1002/cmdc.201800625.
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    • Ganley, Jack G., Gavin Carr, Thomas R. Ioerger, James C. Sacchettini, Jon Clardy, and Emily R. Derbyshire. “Discovery of Antimicrobial Lipodepsipeptides Produced by a Serratia sp. within Mosquito Microbiomes.” Chembiochem : A European Journal of Chemical Biology 19, no. 15 (August 2018): 1590–94. https://doi.org/10.1002/cbic.201800124.
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    • Posfai, Dora, Kayla Sylvester, Anupama Reddy, Jack G. Ganley, Johannes Wirth, Quinlan E. Cullen, Tushar Dave, Nobutaka Kato, Sandeep S. Dave, and Emily R. Derbyshire. “Plasmodium parasite exploits host aquaporin-3 during liver stage malaria infection.” Plos Pathog 14, no. 5 (May 2018): e1007057. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.ppat.1007057.
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    • Posfai, Dora, Kayla Sylvester, Anupama Reddy, Jack G. Ganley, Johannes Wirth, Quinlan E. Cullen, Tushar Dave, Nobutaka Kato, Sandeep S. Dave, and Emily R. Derbyshire. “Plasmodium parasite exploits host aquaporin-3 during liver stage malaria infection.” Plos Pathogens 14, no. 5 (May 1, 2018). https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.ppat.100757.
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    • Posfai, Dora, Amber L. Eubanks, Allison I. Keim, Kuan-Yi Lu, Grace Z. Wang, Philip F. Hughes, Nobutaka Kato, Timothy A. Haystead, and Emily R. Derbyshire. “Identification of Hsp90 Inhibitors with Anti-Plasmodium Activity.” Antimicrob Agents Chemother 62, no. 4 (April 2018). https://doi.org/10.1128/AAC.01799-17.
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    • Ganley, Jack G., Maria Toro-Moreno, and Emily R. Derbyshire. “Exploring the Untapped Biosynthetic Potential of Apicomplexan Parasites.” Biochemistry 57, no. 4 (January 2018): 365–75. https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.biochem.7b00877.
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    • Totzke, Juliane, Deepak Gurbani, Rene Raphemot, Philip F. Hughes, Khaldon Bodoor, David A. Carlson, David R. Loiselle, et al. “Takinib, a Selective TAK1 Inhibitor, Broadens the Therapeutic Efficacy of TNF-α Inhibition for Cancer and Autoimmune Disease.” Cell Chem Biol 24, no. 8 (August 17, 2017): 1029-1039.e7. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.chembiol.2017.07.011.
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    • Kato, Nobutaka, Eamon Comer, Tomoyo Sakata-Kato, Arvind Sharma, Manmohan Sharma, Micah Maetani, Jessica Bastien, et al. “Diversity-oriented synthesis yields novel multistage antimalarial inhibitors.” Nature 538, no. 7625 (October 2016): 344–49. https://doi.org/10.1038/nature19804.
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    • Raphemot, Rene, Dora Posfai, and Emily R. Derbyshire. “Current therapies and future possibilities for drug development against liver-stage malaria.” The Journal of Clinical Investigation 126, no. 6 (June 2016): 2013–20. https://doi.org/10.1172/jci82981.
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    • Raphemot, Rene, Maria J. Lafuente-Monasterio, Francisco Javier Gamo-Benito, Jon Clardy, and Emily R. Derbyshire. “Discovery of Dual-Stage Malaria Inhibitors with New Targets.” Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy 60, no. 3 (December 14, 2015): 1430–37. https://doi.org/10.1128/aac.02110-15.
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    • Herman, Jonathan D., Lauren R. Pepper, Joseph F. Cortese, Guillermina Estiu, Kevin Galinsky, Vanessa Zuzarte-Luis, Emily R. Derbyshire, et al. “The cytoplasmic prolyl-tRNA synthetase of the malaria parasite is a dual-stage target of febrifugine and its analogs.” Science Translational Medicine 7, no. 288 (May 2015): 288ra77. https://doi.org/10.1126/scitranslmed.aaa3575.
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    • Derbyshire, Emily R., Vanessa Zuzarte-Luís, Andreia D. Magalhães, Nobutaka Kato, Paul C. Sanschagrin, Jinhua Wang, Wenjun Zhou, et al. “Chemical interrogation of the malaria kinome.” Chembiochem : A European Journal of Chemical Biology 15, no. 13 (September 2014): 1920–30. https://doi.org/10.1002/cbic.201400025.
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    • Derbyshire, Emily R., Jaeki Min, W Armand Guiguemde, Julie A. Clark, Michele C. Connelly, Andreia D. Magalhães, R Kiplin Guy, and Jon Clardy. “Dihydroquinazolinone inhibitors of proliferation of blood and liver stage malaria parasites.” Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy 58, no. 3 (January 2014): 1516–22. https://doi.org/10.1128/aac.02148-13.
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    • Derbyshire, Emily R., and Jon Clardy. “Closing in on a new treatment for sleeping sickness.” Elife 2 (July 9, 2013): e01042. https://doi.org/10.7554/elife.01042.
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    • Fernhoff, Nathaniel B., Emily R. Derbyshire, Eric S. Underbakke, and Michael A. Marletta. “Heme-assisted S-nitrosation desensitizes ferric soluble guanylate cyclase to nitric oxide.” The Journal of Biological Chemistry 287, no. 51 (December 2012): 43053–62. https://doi.org/10.1074/jbc.m112.393892.
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    • Gunn, Alexander, Emily R. Derbyshire, Michael A. Marletta, and R David Britt. “Conformationally distinct five-coordinate heme-NO complexes of soluble guanylate cyclase elucidated by multifrequency electron paramagnetic resonance (EPR).” Biochemistry 51, no. 42 (October 9, 2012): 8384–90. https://doi.org/10.1021/bi300831m.
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    • Carr, Gavin, Emily R. Derbyshire, Eric Caldera, Cameron R. Currie, and Jon Clardy. “Antibiotic and antimalarial quinones from fungus-growing ant-associated Pseudonocardia sp.” Journal of Natural Products 75, no. 10 (October 2012): 1806–9. https://doi.org/10.1021/np300380t.
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    • Derbyshire, Emily R., Miguel Prudêncio, Maria M. Mota, and Jon Clardy. “Liver-stage malaria parasites vulnerable to diverse chemical scaffolds.” Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 109, no. 22 (May 14, 2012): 8511–16. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1118370109.
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    • Derbyshire, Emily R., Ralph Mazitschek, and Jon Clardy. “Characterization of Plasmodium liver stage inhibition by halofuginone.” Chemmedchem 7, no. 5 (May 2012): 844–49. https://doi.org/10.1002/cmdc.201200045.
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    • Derbyshire, Emily R., and Michael A. Marletta. “Structure and regulation of soluble guanylate cyclase.” Annual Review of Biochemistry 81 (January 2012): 533–59. https://doi.org/10.1146/annurev-biochem-050410-100030.
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    • Dong, Carolyn K., Sameer Urgaonkar, Joseph F. Cortese, Francisco-Javier Gamo, Jose F. Garcia-Bustos, Maria J. Lafuente, Vishal Patel, et al. “Identification and validation of tetracyclic benzothiazepines as Plasmodium falciparum cytochrome bc1 inhibitors.” Chemistry & Biology 18, no. 12 (December 2011): 1602–10. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.chembiol.2011.09.016.
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    • Derbyshire, Emily R., Maria M. Mota, and Jon Clardy. “The next opportunity in anti-malaria drug discovery: the liver stage.” Plos Pathogens 7, no. 9 (September 22, 2011): e1002178. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.ppat.1002178.
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    • Derbyshire, Emily R., Michael B. Winter, Mohammed Ibrahim, Sarah Deng, Thomas G. Spiro, and Michael A. Marletta. “Probing domain interactions in soluble guanylate cyclase.” Biochemistry 50, no. 20 (May 3, 2011): 4281–90. https://doi.org/10.1021/bi200341b.
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    • Derbyshire, Emily R., Sarah Deng, and Michael A. Marletta. “Incorporation of tyrosine and glutamine residues into the soluble guanylate cyclase heme distal pocket alters NO and O2 binding.” The Journal of Biological Chemistry 285, no. 23 (June 2010): 17471–78. https://doi.org/10.1074/jbc.m109.098269.
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    • Ibrahim, Mohammed, Emily R. Derbyshire, Alexandra V. Soldatova, Michael A. Marletta, and Thomas G. Spiro. “Soluble guanylate cyclase is activated differently by excess NO and by YC-1: resonance Raman spectroscopic evidence.” Biochemistry 49, no. 23 (June 2010): 4864–71. https://doi.org/10.1021/bi100506j.
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    • Ibrahim, Mohammed, Emily R. Derbyshire, Michael A. Marletta, and Thomas G. Spiro. “Probing soluble guanylate cyclase activation by CO and YC-1 using resonance Raman spectroscopy.” Biochemistry 49, no. 18 (May 2010): 3815–23. https://doi.org/10.1021/bi902214j.
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    • Fernhoff, Nathaniel B., Emily R. Derbyshire, and Michael A. Marletta. “A nitric oxide/cysteine interaction mediates the activation of soluble guanylate cyclase.” Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 106, no. 51 (December 9, 2009): 21602–7. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.0911083106.
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    • Derbyshire, Emily R., Nathaniel B. Fernhoff, Sarah Deng, and Michael A. Marletta. “Nucleotide regulation of soluble guanylate cyclase substrate specificity.” Biochemistry 48, no. 31 (August 2009): 7519–24. https://doi.org/10.1021/bi900696x.
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    • Ibrahim, Mohammed, Emily R. Derbyshire, Michael A. Marletta, and Thomas G. Spiro. “Interaction of allosteric effectors with soluble guanylate cyclase heme domains: Role of heme distortion and propionate hydrogen bonding on synergistic activation.” Abstracts of Papers of the American Chemical Society 237 (March 22, 2009).
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    • Derbyshire, Emily R., and Michael A. Marletta. “Biochemistry of soluble guanylate cyclase.” Handbook of Experimental Pharmacology, no. 191 (January 2009): 17–31. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-68964-5_2.
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    • Winger, Jonathan A., Emily R. Derbyshire, Meindert H. Lamers, Michael A. Marletta, and John Kuriyan. “The crystal structure of the catalytic domain of a eukaryotic guanylate cyclase.” Bmc Structural Biology 8 (October 7, 2008): 42. https://doi.org/10.1186/1472-6807-8-42.
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    • Derbyshire, Emily R., Alexander Gunn, Mohammed Ibrahim, Thomas G. Spiro, R David Britt, and Michael A. Marletta. “Characterization of two different five-coordinate soluble guanylate cyclase ferrous-nitrosyl complexes.” Biochemistry 47, no. 12 (March 2008): 3892–99. https://doi.org/10.1021/bi7022943.
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    • Derbyshire, Emily R., and Michael A. Marletta. “Butyl isocyanide as a probe of the activation mechanism of soluble guanylate cyclase. Investigating the role of non-heme nitric oxide.” The Journal of Biological Chemistry 282, no. 49 (December 2007): 35741–48. https://doi.org/10.1074/jbc.m705557200.
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    • Martin, Nathaniel I., Emily R. Derbyshire, and Michael A. Marletta. “Synthesis and evaluation of a phosphonate analogue of the soluble guanylate cyclase activator YC-1.” Bioorganic & Medicinal Chemistry Letters 17, no. 17 (September 2007): 4938–41. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.bmcl.2007.06.039.
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    • Winger, Jonathan A., Emily R. Derbyshire, and Michael A. Marletta. “Dissociation of nitric oxide from soluble guanylate cyclase and heme-nitric oxide/oxygen binding domain constructs.” The Journal of Biological Chemistry 282, no. 2 (January 2007): 897–907. https://doi.org/10.1074/jbc.m606327200.
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    • Cary, Stephen P. L., Jonathan A. Winger, Emily R. Derbyshire, and Michael A. Marletta. “Nitric oxide signaling: no longer simply on or off.” Trends in Biochemical Sciences 31, no. 4 (April 2006): 231–39. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tibs.2006.02.003.
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    • Derbyshire, Emily R., Rosalie Tran, Richard A. Mathies, and Michael A. Marletta. “Characterization of nitrosoalkane binding and activation of soluble guanylate cyclase.” Biochemistry 44, no. 49 (December 2005): 16257–65. https://doi.org/10.1021/bi0515671.
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  • Conference Papers

    • Keim, Allison I., Dora Posfai, Timothy A. Haystead, and Emily R. Derbyshire. “Heat Shock Protein 90 is Critical for Plasmodium Parasite Liver Stage Development.” In Faseb Journal, Vol. 31. FEDERATION AMER SOC EXP BIOL, 2017.
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    • Eubanks, Amber L., and Emily R. Derbyshire. “Exploration of Plasmodium Kinases.” In Faseb Journal, Vol. 30. FEDERATION AMER SOC EXP BIOL, 2016.
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    • Eubanks, Amber L., and Emily R. Derbyshire. “Exploration of Plasmodium Kinases.” In Faseb Journal, Vol. 30. FEDERATION AMER SOC EXP BIOL, 2016.
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• Teaching & Mentoring
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  Recent Courses

  • CHEM 89S: First-Year Seminar 2022
  • CHEM 393: Research Independent Study 2022
  • CHEM 394: Research Independent Study 2022
  • CHEM 493: Research Independent Study 2022
  • CHEM 494: Research Independent Study 2022
  • CHEM 517: Molecules in Life and Disease 2022
  • MGM 293: Research Independent Study I 2022
  • MGM 593: Research Independent Study 2022
  • CHEM 393: Research Independent Study 2021
  • CHEM 394: Research Independent Study 2021
  • CHEM 493: Research Independent Study 2021
  • CHEM 494: Research Independent Study 2021
  • CHEM 517: Molecules in Life and Disease 2021
  • MGM 293: Research Independent Study I 2021
  • MGM 593: Research Independent Study 2021
  • CHEM 89S: First-Year Seminar 2020
  • CHEM 393: Research Independent Study 2020
  • CHEM 394: Research Independent Study 2020
  • CHEM 493: Research Independent Study 2020
  • CHEM 494: Research Independent Study 2020
  • MGM 293: Research Independent Study I 2020
  • MGM 593: Research Independent Study 2020

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