selected publications
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academic article
- A Visualization Tool to Study Dyadic Caregiving Health Profiles.. Journal of aging and health. 36:583-596. 2024
- Engaging diverse populations in aging research during the COVID-19 pandemic: Lessons learned from four National Institutes of Health funded-Centers.. Frontiers in public health. -. 2023
- Influence of Care Network Characteristics on Physician Visit Experiences for Black, White, and Hispanic Older Adults With Dementia.. The journals of gerontology. Series B, Psychological sciences and social sciences. 78:S59-S70. 2023
- Liquid-Liquid Phase Separation to Study the Association of Proteins in Solution.. Methods in molecular biology (Clifton, N.J.). 253-267. 2023
- Structure and Enzymatic Activity of an Intellectual Disability-Associated Ornithine Decarboxylase Variant, G84R.. ACS omega. 7:34665-34675. 2022
- Large-Scale SARS-CoV-2 Testing Utilizing Saliva and Transposition Sample Pooling.. Journal of visualized experiments : JoVE. 2022
- Beta2-adrenoreceptor agonist clenbuterol produces transient decreases in alpha-synuclein mRNA but no long-term reduction in protein.. NPJ Parkinson's disease. 8:-. 2022
- Structural basis of binding and inhibition of ornithine decarboxylase by 1-amino-oxy-3-aminopropane.. The Biochemical journal. 478:4137-4149. 2021
- EFhd2 brain interactome reveals its association with different cellular and molecular processes.. Journal of neurochemistry. 159:992-1007. 2021
- Epigenetic inactivation of the autophagy-lysosomal system in appendix in Parkinson's disease.. Nature communications. 12:-. 2021
- Structure of an AMPK complex in an inactive, ATP-bound state.. Science (New York, N.Y.). 373:413-419. 2021
- Knowledge and Attitudes of two Latino Groups about Alzheimer Disease: a Qualitative Study.. Journal of cross-cultural gerontology. 36:265-284. 2021
- Gut Microbiota Dysbiosis Is Associated with Elevated Bile Acids in Parkinson's Disease.. Metabolites. 11. 2021
- Immigration-Related Trauma Associated With Metabolic Risk and Cognition in Hispanic and Latino Immigrant Populations. Innovation in aging. 2021
- Partnering with Middle Eastern/Arab American and Latino Immigrant Communities to Increase Participation in Alzheimer's Disease Research.. Ethnicity & disease. 30:765-774. 2020
- Validation of recombinant human protein purified from bacteria: An important step to increase scientific rigor.. Analytical biochemistry. -. 2020
- Glycosylated hemoglobin level, race/ethnicity, and cognition in midlife and early old age.. Research in human development. 17:20-40. 2020
- Hemispheric asymmetry in the human brain and in Parkinson's disease is linked to divergent epigenetic patterns in neurons.. Genome biology. 21:-. 2020
- Age of Migration and Cognitive Function Among Older Latinos in the United States.. Journal of Alzheimer's disease : JAD. 76:1493-1511. 2020
- EFhd2 Affects Tau Liquid-Liquid Phase Separation.. Frontiers in neuroscience. -. 2019
- Tau13 Antibody Preferentially Immunoprecipitates High Molecular Weight Tau Proteins.. Journal of Alzheimer's disease : JAD. 68:511-516. 2019
- Tau's Three-Repeat Domain and EFhd2 Co-incubation Leads to Increased Thioflavin Signal.. Frontiers in neuroscience. -. 2018
- A functional proteomics platform to reveal the sequence determinants of lysine methyltransferase substrate selectivity.. Science advances. 4:-. 2018
- EF Hand Domain Family Member D2 Is Required for T Cell Cytotoxicity.. Journal of immunology (Baltimore, Md. : 1950). 201:2824-2831. 2018
- Ezrin Expression is Increased During Disease Progression in a Tauopathy Mouse Model and Alzheimer's Disease.. Current Alzheimer research. 15:1086-1095. 2018
- A START-domain-containing protein is a novel marker of nervous system components of the sea cucumber Holothuria glaberrima.. Comparative biochemistry and physiology. Part B, Biochemistry & molecular biology. 57-65. 2017
- Oxidative stress in neurodegenerative disease: causation or association?. Oncotarget. 8:10777-10778. 2017
- Alzheimer's Disease in the Latino Community: Intersection of Genetics and Social Determinants of Health.. Journal of Alzheimer's disease : JAD. 58:979-992. 2017
- Biomarkers for the Early Detection and Progression of Alzheimer's Disease.. Neurotherapeutics : the journal of the American Society for Experimental NeuroTherapeutics. 14:35-53. 2017
- Editorial: Unraveling Neuroprotective and Neurodegenerative Signals in Neurodegeneration.. Frontiers in neuroscience. -. 2016
- Labeling Pathological Tau: An Important Quest for the Unknown.. Frontiers in neuroscience. -. 2016
- Diversity is Inclusion.. Journal of undergraduate neuroscience education : JUNE : a publication of FUN, Faculty for Undergraduate Neuroscience. 14:E20-1. 2016
- EFhd2, a Protein Linked to Alzheimer's Disease and Other Neurological Disorders.. Frontiers in neuroscience. -. 2016
- Profiling of Alzheimer's disease patients in Puerto Rico: A comparison of two distinct socioeconomic areas.. SAGE open medicine. -. 2016
- Tanycytic ependymoma in a 76-year-old Puerto Rican male.. International journal of clinical and experimental pathology. 7:7789-94. 2014
- Cdk5 phosphorylation of EFhd2 at S74 affects its calcium binding activity.. Protein science : a publication of the Protein Society. 23:1197-207. 2014
- Novel autoimmune response in a tauopathy mouse model.. Frontiers in neuroscience. -. 2014
- Identification and functional analysis of novel phosphorylation sites in the RNA surveillance protein Upf1.. Nucleic acids research. 42:1916-29. 2013
- Functional and structural analysis of the conserved EFhd2 protein.. Protein and peptide letters. 20:573-83. 2013
- Solution structure of the tandem acyl carrier protein domains from a polyunsaturated fatty acid synthase reveals beads-on-a-string configuration.. PloS one. 8:-. 2013
- EFhd2 is a novel amyloid protein associated with pathological tau in Alzheimer's disease.. Journal of neurochemistry. 125:921-31. 2013
- Frequency and clinicopathological characteristics of presenilin 1 Gly206Ala mutation in Puerto Rican Hispanics with dementia.. Journal of Alzheimer's disease : JAD. 33:1089-95. 2013
- Amphiphysin-1 protein level changes associated with tau-mediated neurodegeneration.. Neuroreport. 23:942-6. 2012
- Ethnoracial differences in the clinical characteristics of Alzheimer's disease at initial presentation at an urban Alzheimer's disease center.. The American journal of geriatric psychiatry : official journal of the American Association for Geriatric Psychiatry. 19:430-9. 2011
- Allylation of intraerythrocytic hemoglobin by raw garlic extracts.. Journal of medicinal food. 13:943-9. 2010
- Barnacle cement: a polymerization model based on evolutionary concepts.. The Journal of experimental biology. 212:3499-510. 2009
- Recent trends in Alzheimer disease mortality in the United States, 1999 to 2004.. Alzheimer disease and associated disorders. 23:165-70. 2009
- A novel calcium-binding protein is associated with tau proteins in tauopathy.. Journal of neurochemistry. 106:96-106. 2008
- Geographical differences in the occurrence of Alzheimer's disease mortality: United States versus Puerto Rico.. American journal of Alzheimer's disease and other dementias. 23:462-9. 2008
- Taxol and tau overexpression induced calpain-dependent degradation of the microtubule-destabilizing protein SCG10.. Experimental neurology. 202:152-60. 2006
- Synthesis of acid-cleavable light isotope-coded affinity tags (ICAT-L) for potential use in proteomic expression profiling analysis.. Bioconjugate chemistry. 17:248-54. 2006
- Increase in tau tyrosine phosphorylation correlates with the formation of tau aggregates.. Brain research. Molecular brain research. 138:135-44. 2005
- Recent advances in experimental modeling of the assembly of tau filaments.. Biochimica et biophysica acta. 1739:125-39. 2005
- Phosphorylated p38MAPK specific antibodies cross-react with sarkosyl-insoluble hyperphosphorylated tau proteins.. Journal of neurochemistry. 90:829-38. 2004
- The septin protein Nedd5 associates with both the exocyst complex and microtubules and disruption of its GTPase activity promotes aberrant neurite sprouting in PC12 cells.. Neuroreport. 14:31-7. 2003
- The exocyst complex associates with microtubules to mediate vesicle targeting and neurite outgrowth.. The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience. 21:3839-48. 2001
- Sequence elements that contribute to the degradation of yeast G alpha.. Genes to cells : devoted to molecular & cellular mechanisms. 3:307-19. 1998
- Rad23 links DNA repair to the ubiquitin/proteasome pathway.. Nature. 391:715-8. 1998