Moghaddam-Taaheri P, Leissa JA, Eppler HB, Jewell CM, and Karlsson AJ. 2021. Histatin 5 variant reduces Candida albicans biofilm viability and inhibits biofilm formation. Fungal Genetics and Biology 149, 103529. Journal link (free until April 15, 2021)
Lamp J, Ikonomova SP, Karlsson AJ, Xia Q, and Wang Y. 2020. Online capillary electrophoresis – mass spectrometry analysis of histatin-5 and its degradation products. Analyst 145, 4787-4794. Journal link
Adhikari S, Leissa JA, and Karlsson AJ. 2020. Beyond function: engineering improved peptides for therapeutic applications. AIChE Journal 66, e16776. Journal link
Ikonomova SP, Moghaddam-Taaheri P, Wang Y, Doolin MT, Stroka KM, Hube B, and Karlsson AJ. 2020. Effects of histatin 5 modifications on antifungal activity and kinetics of proteolysis. Protein Science 29, 480-93. Journal link
Gong Z, Doolin MT, Adhikari S, Stroka KM, and Karlsson AJ. 2019. Role of charge and hydrophobicity in translocation of cell-penetrating peptides into Candida albicans cells. AIChE Journal 65, e16768. Journal link
Sultan AS, Vila T, Hefni E, Karlsson AJ, and Jabra-Rizk MA. 2019. Evaluation of the antifungal and wound healing properties of a novel peptide-based bioadhesive hydrogel formulation. Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy 63, e00888-19. Journal link
Nikfarjam S, Ghorbani M, Adhikari S, Karlsson AJ, Jouravleva EV, Woehl TJ, and Anisimov MA. 2019. Irreversible nature of mesoscopic aggregates in lysozyme solutions. Colloid Journal 81, 546-54. Journal link
Adhikari S, Alahmadi TI, Gong Z, and Karlsson AJ. 2018. Expression of cell-penetrating peptides fused to protein cargo. Journal of Molecular Microbiology and Biotechnology 28, 159-68.Journal link
Moghaddam-Taaheri P and Karlsson AJ. 2018. Protein labeling in live cells for immunological applications. Bioconjugate Chemistry 29, 680-5. Journal link
Ikonomova SP, Le MT*, Kalla N*, and Karlsson AJ. 2018. Effect of linkers on immobilization of scFvs with biotin-streptavidin interaction. Biotechnology and Applied Biochemistry 65, 580-5. (*Equal contributions). Journal link|Pubmed link (free)
Gong Z, Ikonomova SP, and Karlsson AJ. 2018. Secondary structure of cell-penetrating peptides during interaction with fungal cells.Protein Science 59, 702-13. Journal link
Ikonomova SP, Moghaddam-Taaheri P, Jabra-Rizk MA, Wang Y, and Karlsson AJ. 2018. Engineering improved variants of the antifungal peptide histatin 5 with reduced susceptibility to Candida albicans secreted aspartic proteases and enhanced antimicrobial potency. FEBS Journal 285, 146-59. Journal link
Gong Z and Karlsson AJ. 2017. Translocation of cell-penetrating peptides into Candida fungal pathogens. Protein Science 26, 1714–1725. Journal link
Mair LO, Nacev A, Hilaman R, Stepanov PY, Chowdhury S, Jafari S, Hausfeld J, Karlsson AJ, Shirtliff ME, Shapiro B, and Weinberg IN. 2017. Biofilm disruption: rotating microrods remove microbes from surfaces, enhancing antimicrobial efficacy. Journal of Magnetism and Magnetic Materials 427, 81-84. Journal link
Gong Z, Walls MT, Karley A, and Karlsson AJ. 2016. Effect of a flexible linker on recombinant expression of cell-penetrating peptide fusion proteins and their translocation into fungal cells. Molecular Biotechnology 58, 838-849. Journal link|ReadCube (free)
Pathak GK, Ornstein H, Aranda-Espinoza H, Karlsson AJ, and Shah SB. 2016. Increases in retrograde injury signaling complex-related transcripts in central axons following injury. Neural Plasticity 2016, Article ID 3572506. Journal link (free)
Moghaddam-Taaheri P, Ikonomova SP, Gong Z, Wisniewski JQ, and Karlsson AJ. 2016.Bacterial inner-membrane display for screening a library of antibody fragments. Journal of Visualized Experiments 116, e54583. Journal link (free)
Ikonomova SP, He Z, and Karlsson AJ. 2016. A simple and robust approach to immobilization of antibody fragments. Journal of Immunological Methods 435, 7-16. Journal link
Kong EF, Tsui C, Boyce H, Ibrahim A, Hoag SW, Karlsson AJ, Meiller TF, Jabra-Rizk MA. 2016. Development and in vivo evaluation of a novel histatin-5 bioadhesive hydrogel formulation against oral candidiasis. Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy 50, 881-9. Journal link (free)
Liu R, Chen X, Falk SP, Mowery BP, Karlsson AJ, Weisblum B, Palecek SP, Masters KS, and Gellman SH. 2014. Structure–activity relationships among antifungal nylon-3 polymers: identification of materials active against drug-resistant strains of Candida albicans. Journal of the American Chemical Society 136, 4333-42. Journal link|Pubmed link (free)
Karlsson AJ, Lim H-K, Xu H, Rocco MA, Bratkowski MA, Ke A, and DeLisa MP. 2012.Engineering antibody fitness and function using membrane-anchored display of correctly folded proteins. Journal of Molecular Biology 416, 94-107. Featured on cover of February 10 issue. Journal link|Pubmed link (free)
Chongsiriwatana NP, Miller TM, Wetzler M, Vakulenko S, Karlsson AJ, Palecek SP, Mobashery S, and Barron AE. 2011. Short alkylated peptoid mimics of antimicrobial lipopeptides. Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy 55, 417-20. Journal link (free)|Pubmed link (free)
Karlsson AJ, Flessner RM, Gellman SH, Lynn DM, and Palecek SP. 2010. Polyelectrolyte multilayers fabricated from antifungal β-peptides: design of surfaces that exhibit antifungal activity against Candida albicans. Biomacromolecules 11, 2321-28. Journal link|Pubmed link (free)
Karlsson AJ, Pomerantz WC, Neilsen KJ, Gellman SH, and Palecek SP. 2009. Effect of sequence and structural properties on 14-helical β-peptide activity against Candida albicans planktonic cells and biofilms. ACS Chemical Biology 4, 567-79. Journal link
Li F, Svarovsky MJ, Karlsson AJ, Wagner JP, Marchillo K, Oshel P, Andes D, and Palecek SP. 2007. Eap1p, an adhesin that mediates Candida albicans biofilm formation in vitro and in vivo. Eukaryotic Cell 6, 931-9. Journal link (free)|Pubmed link (free)
Karlsson AJ, Pomerantz WC, Weisblum B, Gellman SH, and Palecek SP. 2006. Antifungal activity from 14-helical β-peptides. Journal of the American Chemical Society 128, 12630-1. Journal link