College of Liberal Arts and Sciences

Department of Chemistry

Jacob Petrich

Physical, Biophysical, Analytical Chemistry

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Selected Publications

  1. Chemiluminescent activation of the antiviral activity of hypericin: a molecular flashlight. S. L. Carpenter, M. J. Fehr, G. A. Kraus, and J. W. Petrich. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA. 91, 12273 (1994).

  2. Photophysics and biological applications of 7-azaindole and its analogs. A. S. Smirnov, D. S. English, R. L. Rich, J. Lane, L. Teyton, A. W. Schwabacher, S. Luo, R. W. Thornburg, and J. W. Petrich. J. Phys. Chem. B 101, 2758 (1997).

  3. Picosecond linear dichroism and anisotropy of hypocrellin: Towards a unified picture of the photophysics of hypericin and hypocrellin. K. Das, A. V. Smirnov, M. D. Snyder, and J. W. Petrich. J. Phys. Chem. B 102, 6098 (1998).

  4. Subcellular distributions and excited state processes of hypericin in neurons. D. S. English, R. T. Doyle, J. W. Petrich, and P. G. Haydon. Photochem. Photobiol. 69, 301 (1999).

  5. Photophysics of hypericin in complex with subcellular components: Interactions with human serum albumin. K. Das, A. V. Smirnov, J. Wen, P. Miskovsky, and J. W. Petrich. Photochem. Photobiol. 69, 633 (1999)

  6. A. V. Smirnov, K. Das, D. S. English, Z. Wan, G. A. Kraus, and J. W. Petrich. Excited-State Intramolecular H-Atom Transfer of Hypericin and Hypocrellin A Investigated by Fluorescence Upconversion. J. Phys. Chem. A 103, 7949 (1999).

  7. Ashby, K. D., Wen, J., Chowdhury, P., Casey, T. A., Rasmussen, M. A., and J. W. Petrich. Fluorescence of dietary porphyrins as a basis for real-time detection of fecal and ingesta contamination on meat. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA. In press.

  8. Datta, A., Bandyopadhyay, P., Wen, J., Petrich, J. W., and M. S. Gordon. Coupling of Large-Amplitude Side Chain Motions to The Excited-State H-Atom Transfer of Perylene Quinones: Application of Theory and Experiment to Calphostin C. J. Phys. Chem. A, 105, 1057 (2001).

  9. Jin Wen, Scott W. Nelson, Richard B. Honzatko, Herbert J. Fromm, and Jacob W. Petrich, Environment of tryptophan 57 in Porcine fructose-1,6-bisphosphatase studied by time-resolved fluorescence and site-directed mutagenesis. Photochem. Photobiol. 74, 679 (2001).

  10. Suman Kundu, Barry Snyder, Kaustuv Das, Pramit Chowdhury, Jaehun Park, Jacob W. Petrich, and Mark S. Hargrove, The leghemoglobin proximal heme pocket directs oxygen dissociation and stabilizes bound heme. Proteins. 46, 268 (2002)