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Bongsup P. Cho, Ph.D.
Professor of Medicinal Chemistry
bcho@uri.edu

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Education

  • Ph.D., University of Illinois, 1985

  • M.S., Yonsei University, Seoul, Korea, 1979

  • B.S., Yonsei University, Seoul, Korea, 1977

Research Interests:

  • Chemical carcinogenesis of polyarenes and their amino and nitro derivatives with   major emphasis on the molecular consequence of adduct formation in DNA

  • Structural  biology of carcinogen (drug)-macromolecular interactions, mechanisms of mutation,  DNA adduct chemistry.

Publications:

  • Product Ion Studies of Diastereomeric Benzo[ghi]fluoranthene Adducts of Deoxyadenosine by Electrospray Ionization and Quadrupole Ion Trap Mass Spectrometry, Acta Chemica Acta, 557, 191-197 (2006).
     

  • T. Yang, Y. Huang, and B. P. Cho. Synthesis and Characterization of Enantiomeric anti-2-Fluorobenzo[a]pyrene- 7,8-dihydrodiol-9,10-epoxides and their 2’-Deoxyguanosine and Oligodeoxynucleotide Adducts. Chem. Res. Toxicol., 19, 242-254 (2006).
     

  • S. R. Meneni, R. D’Mello, G. Norigian, G. Baker, L. Gao, M. P. Chiarelli, and B. P. Cho. Sequence effects of aminofluorene- modified DNA duplexes: UV thermodynamic and circular dichroism properties. Nucleic Acids Res., 34, 755-763 (2006).
     

  •  F. Liang, S. Meneni and B. P. Cho. Induced Circular Dichroism Characteristics as Conformational Probes for Carcinogenic Aminofluorene-DNA Adducts, Chem. Res. Toxicol., 19, 1040-1043 (2006).
     

  •  S. Meneni, S. M. Shell, Y. Zou, and B. P Cho. Conformation-specific Recognition of Carcinogen-DNA Adduct in E. coli. Nucleotide Excision Repair. Chem.. Res. Toxicol., 20, 6-10 (2007).
     

  • S. Meneni, F. Liang and B. P. Cho. Examination of the long-range effects of aminofluorene-induced conformational heterogeneity and its relevance to the mechanisms of translesion DNA synthesis. J. Mol. Biol., 366, 1387-1400 (2007).
     

  • S. Meneni, S. M. Shell, L. Gao, P. Jurecka, W. Lee, J. Sponer, Y. Zou, M. P. Chiarelli, and B. P. Cho. Spectroscopic and Theoretical Insights into Sequence Effects of Aminofluorene-induced Conformational Heterogeneity and Nucleotide Excision Repair. Biochemistry, 40, 11263-11278 (2007).
     

  • F. Liang and B. P. Cho. Probing the Thermodynamics of Aminofluorene-Induced Translesion DNA Synthesis by Differential Scanning Calorimetry. J. Am. Chem. Soc. (Communication), 129, 12108-12109 (2007).
     

  • Nidhi Jain, Yuyuan Li, Li Zhang, Srinivasa Meneni, and Bongsup Cho, Probing the Sequence Effects on NarI-Induced -2 Frameshift Mutagenesis by Dynamic 19F NMR, UV, and CD Spectroscopy, Biochemistry, 46, 13310-13321 (2007).
     

  • N. Jain, Y. K. Reshetnyak, L. Gao, M. P. Chiarelli, and B. P. Cho. Fluorescence probing of aminofluorene-induced conformational heterogeneity in DNA duplexes, Chem. Res. Toxicol. 21, :445-452 (2008).


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