Faculty Research Groups

Nicole S. Sampson, Professor

B.S. Harvey Mudd College, 1985
Ph.D. University of California, Berkeley, 1990
American Cancer Society Postdoctoral Fellowship, Harvard University, 1991-1993

Phone: (631) 632-7952

Fax: (631) 632-5731

Email:

Sampson Group Website

Positions

Member of Graduate Programs in: Chemistry, Biochemistry & Structural Biology, Molecular & Cellular Pharmacology

Co-Director Chemical Biology Training Program

Member of Institute of Chemical Biology and Drug Discovery

Associate Dean of Curriculum, College of Arts and Sciences

Chemical Biology, Enzymology & Metabolomics

The research in our laboratory focuses on understanding the relationship between protein structure and protein function and synthesizing chemical tools to probe and control biological function. Work is ongoing in five different areas:

Awards/Honors

Camille and Henry Dreyfus Foundation New Faculty Award, 1993-1998
National Science Foundation Career Award, 1996-2000
American Chemical Society Arthur C. Cope Scholar Award, 2001
American Chemical Society Pfizer Award in Enzyme Chemistry, 2005
Research Foundation of SUNY Research and Scholarship Award, 2005

Publications

Romoff, T. T.; Sampson, N. S.; van Eikeren, P., (1987) "Regioselectivity and Kinetics of Hydride Transfer in Substituted 1-Benzyl-3-quinolinecarboxamide Redox Reactions," J. Org. Chem. 52, 4454-4459.

Sampson, N. S.; Bartlett, P. A., (1988) "Synthesis of Phosphonic Acid Derivatives by Oxidative Activation of Phosphinate Esters," J. Org. Chem. 53, 4500-4503.

Sampson, N. S.; Bartlett, P. A., (1991) "Peptidic Phosphonylating Agents as Irreversible Inhibitors of Serine Proteases and Models of the Tetrahedral Intermediates," Biochemistry 30, 2255-2263.

Bone, R.; Sampson, N. S.; Bartlett, P. A.; Agard, D. A., (1991) "Crystal Structures of a-Lytic Protease Complexes with Irreversibly Bound Phosphonate Esters," Biochemistry 30, 2263-2272.

Sampson, N. S.; Bartlett, P. A., (1991) "Attempted de Novo Design, Synthesis, and Evaluation of a Ligand for the Allosteric Site of Phosphofructokinase," J. Org. Chem. 56, 7179-7183.

Sampson, N. S.; Knowles, J. R., (1992) "Segmental Movement: Definition of the Structural Requirements for Loop Closure in Catalysis by Triosephosphate Isomerase," Biochemistry, 31, 8482-8487.

Sampson, N. S.; Knowles, J. R., (1992) "Segmental Motion in Catalysis: Investigation of a Critical Hydrogen Bond for Loop Closure in the Reaction of Triosephosphate Isomerase," Biochemistry, 31, 8488-8494.

Kass, I. J.; Sampson, N. S., (1995) "The Isomerization Catalyzed by Brevibacterium sterolicum Cholesterol Oxidase Proceeds Stereospecifically with One Base," Biochem. Biophys. Res. Commun., 206, 688-693.

Sampson, N. S.; Kass, I. J., (1997) "Isomerization but not Oxidation is Suppressed by a Single Point Mutation, E361Q, in the Reaction Catalyzed by Cholesterol Oxidase," J. Am. Chem. Soc., 119, 855-862.

Ghoshroy, K. B.; Zhu, W.; Sampson, N. S., (1997) "Investigation of Membrane Disruption in the Reaction Catalyzed by Cholesterol Oxidase," Biochemistry, 36, 6133-6140.

Pyluck, A.; Ruiyong, Y.; Galligan Jr, E.; Primakoff, P.; Myles, D. G.; Sampson, N. S., (1997) "ECD Peptides Inhibit In Vitro Fertilization in Mice," Bioorg. Med. Chem. Lett., 7, 1053-1058.

Sampson, N. S.; McCann, A. E., (1997) "4,5-Cyclopropano-Cholestan-3b-Ol Substrates for Cholesterol Oxidase and Their 1H NMR Assignments, " J. Org. Chem., 62, 5893 -5897.

Sampson, N. S.; Chen, X., (1998) "Improved Expression of Brevibacterium sterolicum Cholesterol Oxidase in Escherichia coli by Genetic Modification," Prot. Exp. Purific., 12, 347-352

Sampson, N. S.; Kass, I. J.; Ghoshroy, K. B., (1998) "A Truncated W Loop Mutant of Cholesterol Oxidase Has Altered Substrate Specificity," Biochemistry, 37, 5770-5778.

á Sun, J.; Sampson, N. S., (1998) "Determination of the Amino Acid Requirements for a Protein Hinge in Triosephosphate Isomerase," Prot. Science, 7, 1495-1505.

Kass, I. J.; Sampson, N. S., (1998) "The Importance of Glu361 Position in the Reaction Catalyzed by Cholesterol Oxidase," Bioorg. Med. Chem. Lett., 8, 2663-2668.

Chen, H.; Pyluck, A.; Janik, M.; Sampson, N. S., (1998) "Peptides Corresponding to the Epidermal Growth Factor-like Domain of Mouse Fertilin: Synthesis and Biological Activity," Biopolymers (Peptide Science), 47, 299-307.

Kass, I. J.; Sampson, N. S., (1998) "Evaluation of the Role of His447 in the Reaction Catalyzed by Cholesterol Oxidase,"Biochemistry, 37, 17990-18000.

Chen, H.; Sampson, N.S., (1999) "Mediation of Mammalian Sperm-Egg Fusion: Evidence That Mouse Egg a6b1 Integrin is the Receptor for Sperm Fertilinb," Chem. Biol., 6, 1-10.

Yue, Q. K.; Kass, I. J.; Sampson, N. S.; Vrielink, A., (1999) "Crystal Structure Determination of Cholesterol Oxidase from Streptomyces and Structural Characterization of Key Active Site Mutants," Biochemistry, 38, 4277-4286.

Sun, J.; Sampson, N. S., (1999) "Understanding Protein Lids: Kinetic Analysis of Active Hinge Mutants in Triosephosphate Isomerase," Biochemistry, 38, 11474-11481.

Gupta, S.; Li, H.; Sampson, N. S., (2000) "Characterization of Fertilinb-Disintegrin Binding Specificity in Sperm-Egg Adhesion," Bioorg. Med. Chem., 8, 723-729.

McCann, A.; Sampson, N. S., (2000) "A C6-FAD Adduct is Formed Upon Irreversible Inactivation of Cholesterol Oxidase by 2a,3a-Cyclopropano-5a-cholestan-3b-ol," J. Am.Chem. Soc., 122, 35-39.

Chen, X.; Wolfgang, D.; Sampson, N. S., (2000) "Use of the Parallax-Quench Method to Determine the Position of the Active-Site Loop of Cholesterol Oxidase in Lipid Bilayers," Biochemistry, 39, 13383-13389.

Sampson, N. S. (2001) "Dissection of a Flavo-Enzyme Active Site: the Reaction Catalyzed by Cholesterol Oxidase," Antioxidants and Redox Signalling, 3, 839-846.

Xiang, J; Sun, J.; Sampson, N. S. (2001) "The Importance of Hinge Sequence for Loop Function and Catalytic Activity in the Reaction Catalyzed by Triosephosphate Isomerase," J. Mol. Biol, 307, 1103-1112.

Sampson, N. S.; Sarah T. Ryan; Deborah A. Enke; Dominic Cosgrove; Victor Koteliansky; Philip Gotwals (2001) "Global Gene Expression Analysis Reveals a Role for the a1Integrin in Renal Pathogenesis," J. Biol. Chem, 276 34182-34188.

Sampson, N.S.; Mrksich, M.; Bertozzi, C.R. (2001) "Surface Molecular Recognition," Proc. Nat. Acad. Sci. U.S.A. 98, 12870-12871.

Ye, Y.; Lario, P. Vrielink, A.; Sampson, N. S. (2001) "Structural and Kinetic Analysis of the Role of Asn485 in the Reaction Catalyzed by Cholesterol Oxidase," Biochemistry, 40, 13779-13787.

Sampson, N. S. (2001) "The Emerging Global Paradigm for Scientific Research," in New Voices in Chemistry, Chem. Eng. News, 26 Mar 2001, p. 187.

Gupta, S.; Sampson, N. S. (2001) "Dimyristoylated Peptides Incorporated into Lipsomes Are Polyvalent Fertilinb Mimics," Org. Lett. 3, 3333-333.

Li, H.; Sampson, N. S. (2002) "Structural Analysis of Cyclic Peptide Fertilinb Mimics That Are Ligands for a6b1 Integrin," J. Pep. Res. 59, 49-54

Ye, Y.; Liu, Pingsheng; Anderson, R.; Sampson, N. S. (2002) "Construction of a Catalytically Inactive Cholesterol Oxidase Mutant: Investigation of the Interplay Between Active Site Residues Glutamate 361 and Histidine 447," Arch. Biochem Biophys. 402, 235-242.

Roberts, S.K.; Sampson, N. S. (2003) "Increased Polymer Length of Oligopeptide-substituted Polynorbornenes using LiCl," J. Org. Chem. 68, 2020-2023.

Lario, P.; Sampson, N.S.; Vrielink, A. (2003) "Sub-atomic resolution crystal structure of cholesterol oxidase: What atomic resolution crystallography reveals about enzyme mechanism and the role of the FAD cofactor in redox activity," J. Mol. Biol. 326 1635-1650.

Roberts, S. K.; Konkar, S.; Sampson, N. S. (2003) "Comparison of Fertilinb Peptide-Substituted Polymers and Liposomes as Inhibitors of In Vitro Fertilization," ChemBioChem 4, 1229-1231 .

Sampson, N. S.; Vrielink, A. (2003) "Cholesterol Oxidases: A Study of Nature’s Approach to Protein Design," Acc. Chem. Res 36, 713-722.

Kempf, J. G.; Jung, J-y.; Sampson, N. S.; Loria, J. P. (2003) Off-Resonance TROSY (R1p-R1) for Quantitation of Fast Exchange Processes in Large Proteins," J. Am. Chem. Soc. 125, 12064-12065.

Vrielink, A.; Sampson, N. S.; (2003) "Sub-Ångstrom Resolution Protein Structures: Is Seeing Believing?," Curr. Opin. Struct. Biol. 13, 709-713.

Ahn, K-w.; Sampson, N. S. (2004) "Cholesterol Oxidase Senses Subtle Changes in Lipid Structure," Biochemistry 43, 827-836.

Konkar, S.; Gupta, S.; Sampson, N. S. (2004) "Fertilinb Liposomes Inhibit In Vitro Fertilization by Steric Stabilization," Bioorg. Med. Chem. Lett. 4, 1381-1384.

Xiang, J.; Sampson, N. S. (2004) "Library Screening Studies to Investigate Substrate Specificity in the Reaction Catalyzed by Cholesterol Oxidase," Prot. Engineering, Design Selection, 17, 341-348.

Kursula, I.; Salin, M.; Sun, J.; Borledge, B.; Haapalainen, A.; Sampson, N. S.; Wierenga, R. K. (2004) "Understanding Protein Lids: Structural Analysis of Active Hinge Mutants in Triosephosphate Isomerase," Prot. Engineering, Design Selection, 17, 375-382.

Xiang, J.; Jung, J-y.; Sampson, N. S. (2004) "Entropy Effects on Protein Hinges: the Reaction Catalyzed by Triosephosphate Isomerase," Biochemistry, 43, 11436-11445.

Roberts, S. K.; Sampson, N. S. (2004) "A Facile Synthetic Route Leading to Fluorescently Labeled ROMP Polymers," Org. Lett., 6, 3253-3255.

Baessler, K.; Lee, Y.; Sampson, N.S. (2005) "ROMP of norbonyl oligopeptides: A versatile synthetic method for exploring receptor topology, "in Understanding Biology Using Peptides, S. Blondelle, ed. American Peptide Society,59-60.

Lee, Y.; Sampson, N. S.; (2006) "ROMPing the Cellular Landscape: Linear Scaffolds for Molecular Recognition," Curr. Opin. Struct. Biol. 16, 544-550.

Baessler, K.; Lee, Y.; Roberts, K. S.; Facompre, N.; Sampson, N. S. (2006) "Multivalent fertilin? oligopeptides: the dependence of fertilization inhibition on length and density," Chem. Biol. 13, 251-259.

Lee, J; Parker, K. L.*; Sampson, N. S.* (2006) "Amino Acid-Bearing ROMP polymers with a Stereoregular Backbone," J. Am. Chem. Soc. 128, 4578-4579.

Lee, Y.; Sampson, N. S. (2006) "ROMPing the Cellular Landscape: Linear Scaffolds for Molecular Recognition," Curr. Opin. Struct. Biol. 16, 544-550.

Lee, Y.; Baessler, K.; Sampson, N. S. (2006) "ROMP of norbornyl oligopeptides: A versatile synthetic method for exploring receptor topology," in Understanding Biology Using Peptides, S. Blondelle, ed., American Peptide Society (2005), 59-60.

Kempf, J. G.; Jung, J-y.; Ragain, C.; Sampson, N. S.; Loria, J. P. (2007) "Dynamic requirements for a functional protein hinge," J. Mol. Biol. 368, 131-149.

Nesbitt, N. M.; Sampson, N.S. (2007) "Antifungal Tradecraft by Cholesterol Oxidase," Chem. Biol. 14, 238-241.

Yang, X; Dubnau, E. Smith, I; Sampson, N. S. (2007) "Rv1106c from Mycobacterium tuberculosis is a 3b-hydroxysteroid dehydrogenase," Biochemistry,46, 9058-9067.

Lyubimov, A. Y.; Heard, K. Tang, H.; Sampson, N. S; Vrielink, A. (2007) "Distortion of flavin geometry linked to ligand binding in cholesterol oxidase," Protein Science, 16, 2647-2656.

Sampson, N. S. and Kwak, S. (2008) " Catalysis at the membrane Interface: Cholesterol oxidase as a case study", in Proceedings of the 3rd International Beilstein Workshop on Experimental Standard Conditions of Enzyme Characterizations. Beilstein, Germany.

Chen, L.; Lyubimov, A. Y.; Vrielink, A.; Sampson, N. S. (2008) "A hydrophobic tunnel that determines oxygen binding affinity in the reaction catalyzed by cholesterol oxidase," Biochemistry, 47, 5368–5377.

Elalami, A; Baessler, K.; Kong, F.; Sampson, N. S.; Kreit, J. (2008) "Subcellular forms of cholesterol oxidase from Rhodococcus sp. CIP 105 335: induction, solubilization and characterization," in Current Research Topics in Applied Microbiology and Microbial Biotechnology, World Scientific Publishing.

Dufour, A.; Sampson, N. S.; Zucker, S.; Cao, J. (2008) "Role of the hemopexin domain of matrix metalloproteinase-9 in cell migration," J. Cell Physiol., 217, 643-651.

Lee, Y.; Sampson, N. S. (2009) "Polymeric ADAM protein mimics interrogate mammalian sperm-egg binding," ChemBioChem, 10, 929-937.

Song, A..; Parker, K.*; Sampson, N. S.* (2009) "Synthesis of copolymers by alternating romp (AROMP)," J. Am. Chem. Soc., 131, 3444–3445.

Baessler, K.; Lee, Y.; Sampson, N. S. (2009) "b1 Integrin is an adhesion protein for sperm binding to eggs," ACS Chem. Biology, 4, 357-366. [link for non-subscribers][link for subscribers][podcast][point of view]

Yang, X.; Nesbitt, N. M.; Dubnau, E.; Smith, I.; Sampson, N. S. (2009), "Cholesterol metabolism increases the metabolic pool of propionate in M. tuberculosis," Biochemistry, 48, 3819-3821. [link for non-subscribers][link for subscribers]

Kreit, J; Sampson, N. S. (2009) "Cholesterol oxidase: Physiological functions," FEBS,276, 6844-6856.[link]

Lyubimov, A. Y.; Chen, L.; Sampson, N. S.; Vrielink, A. (2009) "A hydrogen-bonding network is important for oxidation and isomerization in the reaction catalyzed by cholesterol oxidase," Acta Crys. D, 65, 1222-1231. [link]

Nesbitt, N. M.; Fontán, P.; Kolesnikova, I.; Smith, I.; Sampson, N. S.*; Dubnau, E.* (2010) "A thiolase of M. tuberculosis is required for virulence and for production of androstenedione and androstadienedione from cholesterol," Infect. Immun., 78. 275-282. [PMC2798224]

Song, A.; Lee, J.; Parker, K. A.; Sampson, N. S. (2010) "Scope of the ring opening metathesis polymerization (ROMP) reaction of 1-substituted cyclobutenes," J. Am. Chem. Soc., 132, 10513–10520. DOI: 10.1021/ja1037098 [link]

Song, A.; Parker, K. A.; Sampson, N. S. (2010) "Cyclic alternating ROMP (CAROMP). Rapid access to functionalized cyclic polymers," Org. Lett. in press. DOI: 10.1021/ol101432m [link]

Dufour, A., Sampson, N. S., Kuscu, C., Zucker, S. and Cao, J. "Roles of MMP-9 homodimer and heterodimer in cell migration," J. Biol. Chem., 285., 35944-56. .10.1074/jbc.M109.091769 [link]

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