NACP Publications

Bea, J. W., De Heer, H. D., & Schwartz, A. L. (2016). Symptom management: Weight gain. In D. Alberts, M. Lluria-Prevatt, S. Kha & K. Weihs (Eds.), Supportive Cancer Care. (pp. 241-269). New York: Springer.

Briehl , M. M. (2015). Oxygen in human health from life to death – An approach to teaching redox biology and signaling to graduate and medical students.  Redox Biology, 5, 124–139. doi: 10.1016/j.redox.2015.04.002. PMID: 25912168. PMCID: PMC4412967

Brown, S. R., Joshweseoma, L., Flood, T., & Coe, K. (2010). Process for determining the cancer burden of the Hopi tribe. Public Health Reports, 125, 793-800. PMID: 21121224. PMCID: PMC2966660

Brown, S. R., Nuno, T., Joshweseoma, L., Begay, R. C., Goodluck, C., & Harris, R. B. (2011). Impact of a community-based breast cancer screening program on Hopi women. Preventive Medicine, 52(5), 390-393. doi: 10.1016/j.ypmed.2011.02.012. PMID: 21371495. PMCID: PMC3113717

Brown, S. R., Joshweseoma, L., Saboda, K., Sanderson, P., Ami, D., & Harris, R. (2015). Cancer screening on the Hopi reservation: A model for success in a Native American community. Journal of Community Health, 40(6), 1165-1172. doi:10.1007/s10900-015-0043-z PMID: 26091896 PMCID: PMC4704091

Campbell, N. R., & Ingram, J. C. (2014). Characterization of 234U/238U Activity Ratios and Potential Inorganic Uranium Complexation Species in Unregulated Water Sources in the Southwest Region of the Navajo Reservation. In Water Reclamation and Sustainability. (pp. 77-94). Elsevier Inc. doi: 10.1016/B978-0-12-411645-0.00004-3

Coryell, V. H., & Stearns, D. M. (2006). Molecular analysis of HPRT mutations generated in Chinese hamster ovary EM9 cells by uranyl acetate, by hydrogen peroxide, and spontaneously. Molecular Carcinogenesis. 45, 60-72. doi: 10.1002/mc.20155 PMID: 16299811

Fricker, A., Park, C., & Gage, M. (2012). Changes in rotational diffusion as a function of protein size and crowding conditions. Curr Chem Res, 2(1), 21-27.

George, S. A., Whittaker, A. M., & Stearns, D. M. (2011). Photoactivated uranyl ion produces single strand breaks in plasmid DNA. Chemical Research in Toxicology, 25, 1830-1832. doi: 10.1021/tx200410x PMID: 22013951 PMCID: PMC3224808

Gustafson, H. L., Yao, S., Goldman, B. H., Lee, K., Spier, C. M., LeBlanc, M. L., Briehl, M. M. (2014). Genetic polymorphisms in oxidative stress-related genes are associated with outcomes following anthracycline-based therapy for aggressive B-cell non-Hodgkin lymphoma. American Journal of Hematology, 89, 639-645. doi: 10.1002/ajh.23709. PMID: 24633940 PMCID: PMC4137041

Heintze, E., Aguilera, C., Davis, M., Fricker, A., Li, Q., Martinez, J., & Gage, M. J. (2011). Toxicity of depleted uranium complexes is independent of p53 activity. Journal of Inorganic Biochemistry, 105(2), 142-148. doi: 10.1016/j.jinorgbio.2010.10.010. PMID: 21194611 PMCID: PMC3018829

Huenneke, L. F., Stearns, D. M., Martinez, J. D., Laurila, K. (2017) Key Strategies for Building Research Capacity of Univeristy Faculty Members. Innovative Higher Education. doi: 10.007/s10755-017-9394-y.

Huynh, J., & Laukaitis, C. (2016). Panel testing reveals nonsense and missense CDH1 mutations in families without hereditary diffuse gastric cancer. Medical Genetics & Genomic Medicine, 4(2), 232-236. doi: 10.1 002/mgg3.197. PMID: 27064202. PMCID: PMC4799867

Janoušek, V., Karn, R. C., & Laukaitis, C. M. (2013). The role of retrotransposons in gene family expansions: Insights from the mouse Abp gene family. BMC Evolutionary Biology, 13(107) doi: 10.1186/1471-2148-13-107. PMID: 23718880. PMCID: PMC3669608

Kaochar, S., Shanks, L., & Weinert, T. (2010). Checkpoint genes and Exo1 regulate nearby inverted repeat fusions that form dicentric chromosomes in saccharomyces cerevisiae. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 107(50), 21605-21610. doi: 10.1073/pnas.1001938107. PMID: 21098663. PMCID: PMC3003031

Karn, R. C., Chung, A. G., & Laukaitis, C. M. (2013). Shared and unique proteins in human, mouse and rat saliva proteomes: Footprints of functional adaptation. Proteomes, 1(3), 275-89. doi: 10.3390/proteomes1030275. PMID: 24926433. PMCID: PMC4051352

Karn, R. C., Chung, A. G., & Laukaitis, C. M. (2014). Did androgen-binding protein paralogs undergo neo- and/or sub-functionalization as the Abp gene region expanded in the mouse genome? PLoS ONE, 9(12), e115454.doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0115454. PMID: 25531410. PMCID: PMC4274081

Karn, R. C., & Laukaitis, C. M. Comparative proteomics of mouse tears and saliva: Evidence from large protein families for functional adaptation. Proteomes, 3(3), 283-297. doi:10.3390/proteomes3030283

Laurila, K., Ingram, J. C., Briehl, M. M., & Trotter, R. T. (2015). Weaving the Web: Evaluation Strategies to Help Native-American Undergraduate Research Training Programs Navigate Students to Success. CURQ on the Web, 35(3), 4. PMID:26665169. PMCID: PMC4671630. NIHMSID: NIHMS703426

Ma, W. K., Hendrix, R., Stewart, C., Campbell, E. V., Lavarias, M., Morris, K., Gage, M. J. (2013). FlgM proteins from different bacteria exhibit different structural characteristics. Biochimica et Biophysica Acta, 1834(4), 808-816. doi: 10.1016/j.bbapap.2013.01.010. PMID: 23352839. PMCID: PMC3650836

Nelson-Moseke, A. C., Jeter, J. M., Cui, A., Roe, D. J., Chambers, S. K., & Laukaitis, C. M. (2013). An unusual BRCA mutation distribution in a high risk cancer genetics clinic. Familial Cancer, 12(1), 83-87. doi: 10.1007/s10689-012-9581-z. PMID: 23179792. PMCID: PMC3563940

Paek, A. L., Jones, H., Kaochar, S., & Weinert, T. (2010). The role of replication bypass pathways in dicentric chromosome formation in budding yeast. Genetics, 186(4), 1161-1173. doi: 10.1534/genetics.110.122663. PMID: 20837992. PMCID: PMC2998301

Paek, A. L., Kaochar, S., Jones, H., Elezaby, A., Shanks, L., & Weinert, T. (2009). Fusion of nearby inverted repeats by a replication-based mechanism leads to formation of dicentric and acentric chromosomes that cause genome instability in budding yeast. Genes & Development, 23(24), 2861-2875. doi:10.1101/gad.1862709. PMID: 20008936. PMCID: PMC2800083

Pasilis, S. P., & Pemberton, J. E. (2008). Spectroscopic investigation of uranyl(VI) and citrate coadsorption to Al2O3. Geochimica Et Cosmochimica Acta., 72(2), 277-287. doi:10.1016/j.gca.2007.09.036

Pasilis, S. P., Somogyi, A., Herrmann, K., & Pemberton J.E. (2006). Ions generated from uranyl nitrate solutions by electrospray ionization (ESI) and detected with fourier transform ion-cyclotron resonance (FT-ICR) mass spectrometry. Journal of the American Society for Mass Spectrometry, 17(2), 230-240. doi: 10.1016/j.jasms.2005.10.015. PMID: 16418004

Purohit, R., Fritz, B., The, J., Issaian, A., Weichsel, A., David, C., . . . Montfort, W. (2014). YC-1 binding to the beta subunit of soluble guanylyl cyclase overcomes allosteric inhibition by the alpha subunit. Biochemistry, 53(1), 101-114.doi: 10.1021/bi4015133. PMID: 24328155. PMCID: PMC3914721

Purohit, R., Weichsel, A., & Montfort, W. R. (2013). Crystal structure of the alpha subunit PAS domain from soluble guanylyl cyclase. Protein Science, 22, 1439–1444. doi: 10.1002/pro.2331. PMID: 23934793. PMCID: PMC3795502

Ramanathan, S., Mazzalupo, S., Boitano, S., & Montfort, W. R. (2011). Thrombospondin-1 and angiotensin II inhibit soluble guanylyl cyclase through an increase in intracellular calcium concentration. Biochemistry, 50(36), 7787-7799. doi: 10.1021/bi201060c. PMID: 21823650. PMCID: PMC3168727

Raymond-Whish, S., Mayer, L. P., O’Neal, T., Martinez, A., Sellers, M., Christian, P. J., . . . Dyer, C. A. (2007). Drinking water with uranium below the US EPA water standard causes estrogen receptor–dependent responses in female mice.  Environmental Health Perspectives, 115(12), 1711-1716. doi:10.1289/ehp.9910

Robinson, F., Sandoval, J., Baldwin, J., & Sanderson, P. (2005). Breast cancer education for Native American women: Creating culturally relevant communications. Clinical Journal of Oncology Nursing, 9(6), 689-692. doi: 10.1188/05.CJON.689-692. PMID: 16381544

Robinson, M. S., Anthony, T. R., Littau, S. R., Herckes, P., Nelson, X., Poplin, G. S., & Burgess, J. L. (2008). Occupational PAH exposures during prescribed pile burns. Annals of Occupational Hygiene, 52(6), 497-508. doi: 10.1093/annhyg/men027. PMID: 18515848 PMCID: PMC2732184

Robinson, M. S., Zhao, M., Zack, L., Brindley, C., Portz, L., Quarterman, M., . . . Herckes, P. (2011). Characterization of PM2.5 collected during broadcast and slash-pile prescribed burns of predominately ponderosa pine forests in Northern Arizona. Atmospheric Environment, 45, 2087-2094. DOI: 10.1016/j.atmosenv.2011.01.051. PMID: 21625396 PMCID: PMC3101022

Romagnolo, D. F., Daniels, K. D., Grunwald, J. T., Ramos, S. A., Propper, C. R., & Selmin, O. I. (2016). Epigenetics of breast cancer: Modifying role of environmental and bioactive food compounds. Molecular Nutrition and Food Research, 60, 1310–1329. doi: 10.1002/mnfr.201501063.  PMID: 27144894

Sanderson, P. R., Teufel-Shone, N. I., Baldwin, J. A., Sandoval, N., & Robinson, F. (2010). Breast cancer education for Navajo women: A pilot study evaluating a culturally relevant video. Journal of Cancer Education, 25(2), 217-223. doi: 10.1007/s13187-009-0036-7. PMID: 20111913 PMCID: PMC2881164

Schwartz, A. L., Biddle-Newberry, M., & de Heer, H. D. (2015). Randomized trial of exercise and an online recovery tool to improve rehabilitation outcomes of cancer survivors, The Physician and Sportsmedicine, 43(2) 1-7. doi: 10.1080/00913847.2015.1005547. PMID: 25598168. PMCID: PMC4678001.

Somogyi, A., Pasilis, S. P., & Pemberton, J. E. (2007). Electrospray ionization of uranyl-citrate complexes: Adduct formation and ion-molecule reactions in 3D ion trap and ion cyclotron resonance trapping instruments. International Journal of Mass Spectrometry, 265, 281-294. doi:10.1016/j.ijms.2007.02.050

Stearns, D. M., Yazzie, M., Bradley, A. S., Coryell, V. H., Shelley, J. T., Ashby, A., . . . Lantz, R. C. (2005). Uranyl acetate induces hprt mutations and uranium–DNA adducts in Chinese Hamster ovary EM9 cells. Mutagenesis, 20(6), 417-423. DOI: 10.1093/mutage/gei056. PMID: 16195314

Trotter II, R. T., Laurila, K., Alberts, D., & Huenneke, L. F. (2014). A diagnostic evaluation model for complex research partnerships with community engagement: The partnership for Native American Cancer Prevention (NACP) model. Evaluation and Program Planning, 48C, 10-20. doi: 10.1016/j.evalprogplan.2014.09.001. PMID: 25265164. PMCID: PMC4293028

Webber, T., Gurung, S., Saul, J., Baker, T., Spatara, M., Freyer, M., . . . Gage, M. (2009). The C-terminus of the P22 tailspike protein acts as an independent oligomerization domain for monomeric proteins. Biochemistry Journal, 419(595), 595–602. doi:10.1042/BJ20081449. PMCID: PMC4561578.  NIHMSID: NIHMS719739

Webber, T. M., Allen, A. C., Ma, W. K., Molloy, R. G., Kettelkamp, C. N., Dow, C. A., & Gage, M. J. (2009). Conformational detection of p 53’s oligomeric state by flash fluorescence. Biochemical and Biophysical Research Communications, 384(1), 66-70. doi: 10.1016/j.bbrc.2009.04.073. PMID: 19393630 PMCID: PMC2743378

Wilson, J., Young, A., Civitello, E. R., & Stearns, D. M. (2014). Analysis of heat-labile sites generated by reactions of depleted uranium and ascorbate in plasmid DNA. Journal of Biological Inorganic Chemistry, 19(1), 45-57. doi: 10.1007/s00775-013-1057-6. PMID: 24218036. PMCID: PMC3880606

Wilson, J., Zuniga, M. C., Yazzie, F., & Stearns, D. M. (2014). Synergistic cytotoxicity and DNA strand breaks in cells and plasmid DNA exposed to uranyl acetate and UV radiation. Journal of Applied Toxicology, 35, 338-349. doi: 10.1002/jat.3015. PMID: 24832689. PMCID: PMC4428325

Yazzie, M., Gamble, S. L., Civitello, E. R., & Stearns, D. M. (2003). Uranyl acetate causes DNA single strand breaks in vitro in the presence of ascorbate (vitamin C). Chemical Research in Toxicology, 16(4), 524-530. DOI: 10.1021/tx025685q. PMID: 12703969

Arambula Solomon TG, Jones D, Laurila K, Ritchey J, Cordova-Marks FM, Hunter AU, Villanueva B.
Using the Community Readiness Model to Assess American Indian Communities Readiness to Address Cancer Prevention and Control Programs.
J Cancer Educ. 2023 Feb;38(1):206-214. doi: 10.1007/s13187-021-02100-4.

Armin JS, Williamson HJ, Begay A, Etcitty J, Attakai A, Russell K, Baldwin JA.
Adapting a Cancer Screening Education Program for Native American Women with Disabilities.
Int J Environ Res Public Health. 2022 Jul 29;19(15):9280. doi: 10.3390/ijerph19159280.

Atwell B, Chen CY, Christofferson M, Montfort WR, Schroeder J.
Sorting nexin-dependent therapeutic targeting of oncogenic epidermal growth factor receptor.
Cancer Gene Ther. 2023 Feb;30(2):267-276. doi: 10.1038/s41417-022-00541-7.

Bailey KS, Brown HE, Lekic V, Pradeep K, Merchant JL, Harris RB.
Helicobacter pylori treatment knowledge, access and barriers: A cross-sectional study.
Helicobacter. 2023 Apr;28(2):e12954. doi: 10.1111/hel.12954.

Badgandi HB, Weichsel A, Montfort WR.
Nitric oxide delivery and heme-assisted S-nitrosation by the bedbug nitrophorin.
J Inorg Biochem. 2023 Sep;246:112263. doi: 10.1016/j.jinorgbio.2023.112263.

Bokulich NA, Łaniewski P, Adamov A, Chase DM, Caporaso JG, Herbst-Kralovetz MM.
Multi-omics data integration reveals metabolome as the top predictor of the cervicovaginal microenvironment.
PLoS Comput Biol. 2022 Feb 23;18(2):e1009876. doi: 10.1371/journal.pcbi.1009876.

Bycura D, Santos AC, Shiffer A, Kyman S, Winfree K, Sutliffe J, Pearson T, Sonderegger D, Cope E, Caporaso JG.
Impact of Different Exercise Modalities on the Human Gut Microbiome.
Sports (Basel). 2021 Jan 21;9(2):14. doi: 10.3390/sports9020014.

Chen CY, Lee W, Renhowe PA, Jung J, Montfort WR.
Solution structures of the Shewanella woodyi H-NOX protein in the presence and absence of soluble guanylyl cyclase stimulator IWP-051.
Protein Sci. 2021 Feb;30(2):448-463. doi: 10.1002/pro.4005.

Garcia DO, Valdez LA, Aceves B, Bell ML, Rabe BA, Villavicencio EA, Marrero DG, Melton F, Hooker SP.
mHealth-Supported Gender- and Culturally Sensitive Weight Loss Intervention for Hispanic Men With Overweight and Obesity: Single-Arm Pilot Study.
JMIR Form Res. 2022 Sep 21;6(9):e37637. doi: 10.2196/37637.

Jimenez NR, Maarsingh JD, Łaniewski P, Herbst-Kralovetz MM.
Commensal Lactobacilli Metabolically Contribute to Cervical Epithelial Homeostasis in a Species-Specific Manner.
mSphere. 2023 Feb 21;8(1):e0045222. doi: 10.1128/msphere.00452-22.

Lee NR, King A, Vigil D, Mullaney D, Sanderson PR, Ametepee T, Hammitt LL.
Infectious diseases in Indigenous populations in North America: learning from the past to create a more equitable future.
Lancet Infect Dis. 2023 May 3:S1473-3099(23)00190-1. doi: 10.1016/S1473-3099(23)00190-1.

Łaniewski P, Herbst-Kralovetz MM.
Connecting microbiome and menopause for healthy ageing.
Nat Microbiol. 2022 Mar;7(3):354-358. doi: 10.1038/s41564-022-01071-6.

Morales CG, Jimenez NR, Herbst-Kralovetz MM, Lee NR.
Novel Vaccine Strategies and Factors to Consider in Addressing Health Disparities of HPV Infection and Cervical Cancer Development among Native American Women.
Med Sci (Basel). 2022 Sep 13;10(3):52. doi: 10.3390/medsci10030052.

Quinonez-Zanabria E, Valencia CI, Asif W, Zeng J, Wong AC, Cruz A, Chipollini J, Lee BR, Gachupin FC, Hsu CH, Batai K.
Racial and Ethnic Disparities in Preoperative Surgical Wait Time and Renal Cell Carcinoma Tumor Characteristics.
Healthcare (Basel). 2021 Sep 8;9(9):1183. doi: 10.3390/healthcare9091183.

Vogtmann E, Han Y, Caporaso JG, Bokulich N, Mohamadkhani A, Moayyedkazemi A, Hua X, Kamangar F, Wan Y, Suman S, Zhu B, Hutchinson A, Dagnall C, Jones K, Hicks B, Shi J, Malekzadeh R, Abnet CC, Pourshams A.
Oral microbial community composition is associated with pancreatic cancer: A case-control study in Iran.
Cancer Med. 2020 Jan;9(2):797-806. doi: 10.1002/cam4.2660.