Current Publications for Ben Glasgow, M.D. (pubmed)
Focused Publications- Human Tear Proteins including Tear Lipocalin
1. Gasymov, O. K., Abduragimov, A.R., Prasher P, Yusifov T.N., and Glasgow B.J. (2005) Tear Lipocalin: Evidence for a scavenging function to remove lipids from the human corneal surface, Invest Ophthalmol Vis Sci 46 , 3589-3596.
2. Gasymov, O. K., Abduragimov, A. R., Yusifov, T. N., and Glasgow, B. J. (2004) Interstrand loops CD and EF act as pH-dependent gates to regulate fatty acid ligand binding in tear lipocalin, Biochemistry 43 , 12894-12904.
3. Fluckinger, M., Haas, H., Merschak, P., Glasgow, B. J., and Redl, B. (2004) Human tear lipocalin exhibits antimicrobial activity by scavenging microbial siderophores, Antimicrob Agents Chemother 48 , 3367-3372.
4. Gasymov, O. K., Abduragimov, A. R., Gasimov, E. O., Yusifov, T. N., Dooley, A. N., and Glasgow, B. J. (2004) Tear lipocalin: potential for selective delivery of rifampin, Biochim Biophys Acta 1688 , 102-111.
5. Gasymov, O. K., Abduragimov, A. R., Yusifov, T. N., and Glasgow, B. J. (2003) Resolving near-ultraviolet circular dichroism spectra of single trp mutants in tear lipocalin, Anal Biochem 318 , 300-308.
6. Glasgow, B. J., Abduragimov, A. R., Gassymov, O. K., Faull, K. F., Yusifov, T. N., and Lehrer, R. I. (2002) Characterization of a lipophilin in rabbit tears, Adv Exp Med Biol 506 , 573-580.
7. Glasgow, B. J., Abduragimov, A. R., Gassymov, O. K., Yusifov, T. N., Ruth, E. C., and Faull, K. F. (2002) Vitamin E associated with the lipocalin fraction of human tears, Adv Exp Med Biol 506 , 567-572.
8. Glasgow, B. J., Abduragimov, A. R., Gasymov, O. K., and Yusifov, T. N. (2002) Tear lipocalin: structure, function and molecular mechanisms of action, Adv Exp Med Biol 506 , 555-565.
9. Gasymov, O. K., Abduragimov, A. R., Yusifov, T. N., and Glasgow, B. J. (2002) Relaxation of beta-structure in tear lipocalin and enhancement of retinoid binding, Invest Ophthalmol Vis Sci 43 , 3165-3173.
10. Gasymov, O. K., Abduragimov, A. R., Yusifov, T. N., and Glasgow, B. J. (2002) RET and anisotropy measurements establish the proximity of the conserved Trp17 to Ile98 and Phe99 of tear lipocalin, Biochemistry 41 , 8837-8848.
11. Gasymov, O. K., Abduragimov, A. R., Yusifov, T. N., and Glasgow, B. J. (2001) Site-directed tryptophan fluorescence reveals the solution structure of tear lipocalin: evidence for features that confer promiscuity in ligand binding, Biochemistry 40 , 14754-14762.
12. Lehrer, R. I., Nguyen, T., Zhao, C., Ha, C. X., and Glasgow, B. J. (2000) Secretory lipophilins: a tale of two species, Ann N Y Acad Sci 923 , 59-67.
13. Abduragimov, A. R., Gasymov, O. K., Yusifov, T. N., and Glasgow, B. J. (2000) Functional cavity dimensions of tear lipocalin, Curr Eye Res 21 , 824-832.
14. Yusifov, T. N., Abduragimov, A. R., Gasymov, O. K., and Glasgow, B. J. (2000) Endonuclease activity in lipocalins, Biochem J 347 Pt 3 , 815-819.
15. Gasymov, O. K., Abduragimov, A. R., Yusifov, T. N., and Glasgow, B. J. (2000) Resolution of ligand positions by site-directed tryptophan fluorescence in tear lipocalin, Protein Sci 9 , 325-331.
(Glasgow publications continued)