Patent

Nucleic Acid Ligands Specific for Glutamate Receptors (2005), pending. Niu, L., Huang, Z., Shi,

    H., Li, G. & Lis, J. T.  

Recent Publications

Li, G., Sheng, Z.Y, Huang, Z. & Niu, L. (2005) Biochemistry, in press. Kinetic Mechanism of the 

    Channel Opening of GluRDflip AMPA Receptor

 

Huang, Z., Li, G., Pei, W.M., Sosa, L. A. & Niu, L. (2005) J. Neurosci. Methods 142, 159-166.

    Enhancing Protein Expression in Single HEK-293 Cells

 

Li, G. & Niu, L. (2004) J. Biol. Chem. 279, 3990–3997. How Fast Does the GluR1Qflip AMPA 

    Receptor Channel Open?

 

Li, G., Pei, W. M. & Niu, L. (2003) Biochemistry 42, 12358-12366. Channel-Opening Kinetics of 

    GluR2Qflip AMPA Receptor: A Laser-Pulse Photolysis Study

 

Li, G., Oswald, R. E. & Niu, L. (2003) Biochemistry 42, 12367-12375. Channel-Opening Kinetics 

    of the GluR6 Kainate Receptor

Niu L, Kim, J. M. & Khorana, H. G. (2002) Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA 99, 13409-13412. Structure    

               and function in rhodopsin: Asymmetric reconstitution of rhodopsin in liposomes.

 

Bruel, C., Cha, K., Niu, L. & Khorana, H. G. (2000) Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA, 97, 3010-3015. 
  Rhodopsin Kinase: Two mAbs Binding Near the Carboxyl Terminus Cause Time-dependent Inactivation

 

Hess, G. P., Ulrich, A. H., Bretinger, H.-G., Niu, L., Armanda, G., Grewer, C., Ippolito, J. E.,

    Lee, S., Jayaraman, V., Srivastava, S. & Coombs, S. E. (2000) Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA 97,

    13895-13900. Mechanism-based Discovery of Ligands that Prevent Inhibition of the Nicotinic 

    Acetylchoine Receptor by Cocaine and MK-801

 

Gee, K. R., Niu, L., Schaper, K., Jayaraman, V. & Hess, G. P. (1999) Biochemistry 38, 3140-3147.

    Synthesis and Photochemistry of a Photolabile Precursor of N-Methyl-D-Aspartate (NMDA) That 

    Is Photolyzed in the Microsecond Time Region and Is Suitable for Chemical Kinetic Investigations

    of the NMDA receptor

 

Niu, L., Vazquez, R. W., Nagel, G., Friedrich, T., Bamberg, E., Oswald, R. E. & Hess, G. P. (1996)

    Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA, 93, 12964-12968. Rapid Chemical Kinetic Techniques for Investigations

    of Neurotransmitter Receptors Expressed in Xenopus Oocytes

 

Niu, L., Wieboldt, R., Ramesh, D., Carpenter, B. K. & Hess, G. P. (1996) Biochemistry 35, 8136-8142.

    Synthesis and Characterization of a Caged Receptor Ligand Suitable for Chemical Kinetic 

    Investigations of the Glycine Receptor in the 3 µs Time Domain

 

Niu, L., Gee, K. R., Schaper, K. & Hess, G. P. (1996) Biochemistry 35, 2030-3036. Synthesis and 

    Photochemical Properties of a Kainate Precursor, and Activation of Kainate and AMPA

    Receptor-Channels on a Microsecond Time Scale