Publications

*undergraduate co-author

Kim, J. H.*; Scherer, G.*; Lumpkin, D. S.*; Rao, K.*; Puentes Flores, C. D.*; Van Arnam, E. B. Amycolatopsis From Desert Specialist Fungus-Growing Ants Suppress Contaminant Fungi Using the Antibiotic ECO-0501. Applied & Environmental Microbiology 2023, 89 (2), e01838-22.

Hansen, K. A.*; Kim, R. R.*; Lawton, E. S.*; Tran, J.*; Lewis, S. K.*; Deol, A. S.*; and Van Arnam, E. B. Bacterial Associates of a Desert Specialist Fungus-Growing Ant Antagonize Competitors Using a Nocamycin Analog. ACS Chemical Biology 2022, 17 (7), 1824-1830.

Fukuda, T. T. H.; Helfrich, E. J. N.; Mevers, E.; Melo, W. G. P.; Van Arnam, E. B.; Andes, D. R.; Currie, C. R.; Pupo, M. T.; Clardy, J. Specialized Metabolites Reveal Evolutionary History and Geographic Dispersion of a Multilateral Symbiosis. ACS Central Science 2021, 7 (2), 292–299. 

Chang, P. T.*; Rao, K.*; Longo, L. O.*; Lawton, E. S.*; Scherer, G.*; Van Arnam, E. Thiopeptide Defense by an Ant’s Bacterial Symbiont. Journal of Natural Products 2020, 83 (3), 725–729. 

McDonald, B. R.; Chevrette, M. G.; Klassen, J. L.; Horn, H. A.; Caldera, E. J.; Wendt-Pienkowski, E.; Cafaro, M. J.; Ruzzini, A. C.; Van Arnam, E. B.; Weinstock, G. M.; Gerardo, N. M.; Poulsen, M.; Suen, G.; Clardy, J.; Currie, C. R. Biogeography and Microscale Diversity Shape the Biosynthetic Potential of Fungus-Growing Ant-Associated Pseudonocardia. bioRxiv preprint 2019. 

Van Arnam, E. B.; Currie, C. R.; Clardy, J. Defense Contracts: Molecular Protection in Insect-Microbe Symbioses. Chemical Society Reviews 2018, 47 (5), 1638–1651.

Van Arnam, E. B.; Ruzzini, A. C.; Sit, C. S.; Horn, H.; Pinto-Tomás, A. A.; Currie, C. R.; Clardy, J. Selvamicin, an Atypical Antifungal Polyene from Two Alternative Genomic Contexts. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 2016, 113 (46), 12940–12945. 

Van Arnam, E. B.; Ruzzini, A. C.; Sit, C. S.; Currie, C. R.; Clardy, J. A Rebeccamycin Analog Provides Plasmid-Encoded Niche Defense. Journal of the American Chemical Society 2015, 137 (45), 14272–14274. 

Sit, C. S.; Ruzzini, A. C.; Van Arnam, E. B.; Ramadhar, T. R.; Currie, C. R.; Clardy, J. Variable Genetic Architectures Produce Virtually Identical Molecules in Bacterial Symbionts of Fungus-Growing Ants. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 2015, 112 (43), 13150–13154. 

Dougherty, D. A.; Van Arnam, E. B. In Vivo Incorporation of Non-Canonical Amino Acids by Using the Chemical Aminoacylation Strategy: A Broadly Applicable Mechanistic Tool. ChemBioChem 2014, 15 (12), 1710–1720. 

Van Arnam, E. B.; Dougherty, D. A. Functional Probes of Drug–Receptor Interactions Implicated by Structural Studies: Cys-Loop Receptors Provide a Fertile Testing Ground: Miniperspective. Journal of Medicinal Chemistry 2014, 57 (15), 6289–6300. 

Van Arnam, E. B.; Blythe, E. E.*; Lester, H. A.; Dougherty, D. A. An Unusual Pattern of Ligand-Receptor Interactions for the 7 Nicotinic Acetylcholine Receptor, with Implications for the Binding of Varenicline. Molecular Pharmacology 2013, 84 (2), 201–207. 

Blum, A. P.; Van Arnam, E. B.; German, L. A.*; Lester, H. A.; Dougherty, D. A. Binding Interactions with the Complementary Subunit of Nicotinic Receptors. J. Biol. Chem. 2013, 288 (10), 6991–6997. 

Van Arnam, E. B.; Lester, H. A.; Dougherty, D. A. Dissecting the Functions of Conserved Prolines within Transmembrane Helices of the D2 Dopamine Receptor. ACS Chem. Biol. 2011, 6 (10), 1063–1068. 

Baures, P. W.; Caldwell, A. W.; Cashman, C. R.; Masse, M. T.; Van Arnam, E. B.; Conry, R. R. The Influence by Substituents on the Intermolecular Hydrogen-Bonding Interactions in Imidazole-4,5-Dicarboxylic Acid Derivatives. Crystal Growth & Design 2006, 6 (9), 2047–2052.