Selected Peer reviewed publications
F.M. Assadi-Porter, M. Tonelli, E. Maillet, K. Hallenga, O. Benard, M. Max and J. L. Markley, 2008. Direct NMR detection of the binding of functional ligands to the human sweet receptor, a heterodimeric family 3 GPCR. J. Am. Chem. Soc. 130, 7212-7213. [Article]
F.M. Assadi-Porter, S. Patry, and J. L. Markley, 2008. Efficient and rapid protein expression and purification of small high disulfide containing sweet protein brazzein in E. coli. Protein Expr Purif, 58, 263-8. [Article]
L. Guo, F.M. Assadi-Porter, J.E. Grant, J.L. Markley, A.E. Ruoho, 2006. One-step purification of bacterially expressed recombinant transduction α subunit and isotope labeled PDE6γ subunit for NMR analysis protein expression and purification. Protein Expr and Purif. Protein Expr and Purif. 51, 187-197. [Article]
F.M. Assadi-Porter, H. Blad, F. Abildgaard , C. Cornilescu, and J.L. Markley 2004. Brazzein, a small, sweet protein: effects of mutations on its structure, dynamics, and functional properties. Chemical Senses, 30, 190-191. [Article]
Z. Jin, V. Danilova, F.M. Assadi-Porter, J. L. Markley, and G. Hellekant, 2003. Critical regions for the sweetness of brazzein. FEBS Letters, 544, 33-37. [Article]
Z. Jin, V. Danilova, F.M. Assadi-Porter, J. L. Markley, and G. Hellekant, 2003. Monkey electrophysiological and human psychophysical responses to mutants of the sweet protein brazzein: Delineating brazzein sweetness. Chem. Senses, 28, 491-498. [Article]
F.M. Assadi-Porter, H. Blad, F. Abildgaard , and J.L. Markley 2003. Correlation of the Sweetness of variants of the protein brazzein with patterns of hydrogen bonds detected by NMR spectroscopy. J. Biol. Chem. 278 (33), 31331-31339. [Article]
F.M. Assadi-Porter, F. Abildgaard, and J.L. Markley 2001. Brazzein, a Potential Low-Calorie Protein Sweetener: Correlation between the Sweetness and Stability of Recombinant Brazzein Variants and Hydrogen Bonds Detected by Trans-Hydrogen-Bond NMR Couplings. 2nd IUPAC - International Symposium on Sweeteners in Japan.
F.M. Assadi-Porter, D., Aceti, J.L. Markley 2000. Insights from Mutagenesis Studies about the Sweet Determinant Sites of Brazzein, a Small, Heat Stable, Sweet-Tasting Protein. Archives of Biochemistry and Biophysics 376 (2): 259-265.
F.M. Assadi-Porter, D., Aceti, H. Cheng, J.L. Markley 2000. Efficient Procedure for Recombinant Production of Brazzein, a Small, Heat Stable, Sweet-Tasting Plant Protein. Archives of Biochemistry and Biophysics 376 (2): 252-258.
Invited Book Chapter
F.M. Assadi-Porter, M. Tonelli, and J. L. Markley, 2008. Chapter book in Sweetness and Sweeteners: Biology, Chemistry and Psychophysics; 2008, ACS Symposium Series 979, pp. 560-572. Oxford University Press. Editors; Deepthi K. Weerasinghe and Grant E. Dubois. Correlation of sweetness to structure and dynamics properties in brazzein protein analogs.