Publications

1. Michael K.E., Vernekar V.N., Keselowsky B.G. Meredith C.A., Latour R.A., Garcia A.J., Adsorption-induced conformational changes in fibronectin due to interactions with well-defined surface chemistries, Langmuir, 19: 8033-8040 (2003). More...

2. Taylor S., Qu L., Kitaygorodskiy A., Teske J., Latour R.A., Sun Y.-.P., Synthesis and characterization of peptide–functionalized polymeric nanoparticles, Biomacromolecules, 5: 245-248 (2004). More...

3. Qu L., Luo P.G., Taylor S., Lin Y., Huang W., Tzeng T.-R.J., Stutzenberger F., Latour R.A., and Sun Y-P., Visualizing Adhesion-Induced Agglutination of Escherichia coli with Mannosylated Nanoparticles, Journal of Nanoscience and Nanotechnology, 5:319-322 (2005). More...

4. Qu L., Gu L., Li H., Taylor S., Elkin T., Luo P.G., Tzeng T.-R.J., Stutzenberger F.J., Jiang X., Latour R.A., Williams A., Sun Y.-P., Galactosylated polymeric nanoparticles: Synthesis and adhesion interactions with Escherichia coli, J. Biomed. Nanotech., 1(1): 61-67 (2005). More...

5. Hylton D.M., Shalaby S.W., and Latour R.A., Direct correlation between adsorption induced changes in protein structure and platelet adhesion, J. Biomed. Mater. Res., 73A: 349-358 (2005). More...

6. Vernekar V.N. and Latour R.A., Adsorption thermodynamics of a mid-chain peptide residue on functionalized SAM surfaces using SPR, Materials Research Innovations, 9: 337-353 (2005). More...

7. Capadona J.R., Petrie T.A., Fears K.P., Latour R.A., Collard D.M., and Garcia A.J., Surface–nucleated assembly of fibrillar extracellular matrices, Advanced Materials,17: 2604-2608 (2005). More...

8. Luo P.G., Tzeng T.-R., Qu L., Lin Y., Caldwell E., Latour R.A., Stutzenberger F., Sun Y.-P., Quantitative analysis of bacterial aggregation mediated by bioactive nanoparticles, J. Biomedical Nanotechnology, 1: 291-296 (2005). More...

9. Molugu S., Qu L., Sun Y.-P., Tzeng T.-R., Stutzenberger F.J., and Latour R.A., In vitro and in vivo biocompatibility of mannosylated polystyrene nanoparticles, Journal of Biomed. Nanotechnol., 2: 1-10 (2006). More...

10. Sousa A., Sengonul M., Latour R.A., Kohn J., Libera M., Selective protein adsorption on a phase-separated solvent-cast biopolymer blend, Langmuir, 22: 6286-6292 (2006). More...

11. Fears K.P., Creager S.E., and Latour R.A., Determination of the surface pK of carboxylic and amine-terminated alkanethiols using surface plasmon resonance spectroscopy, Langmuir, 24: 837-843 (2008). More...

12. Wei, Y. and Latour R.A., Determination of adsorption free energy for peptide–surface interactions by SPR spectroscopy, Langmuir, 24: 6721-6729 (2008). More...

13. Sivaraman B., Fears K.P., Latour R.A., Investigation of the effects of surface chemistry and solution concentration on the conformation of adsorbed proteins using an improved circular dichroism method, Langmuir, 25: 3050-3056 (2009). More...

14. Guiseppi-Elie A., Choi S.-H., Geckeler K.E., Sivaraman B., and Latour R.A., Ultrasonic processing of single-walled carbon nanotube-glucose oxidase conjugates: Interrelation of bioactivity and structure, NanoBiotechnology, 4: 9-17 (2009). More...

15. Raynor J.E., Petrie T.A., Fears K.P., Latour R.A., Garcia A.J., and Collard D.M., Saccharide polymer brushes control protein and cell adhesion to titanium, Biomacromolecues, 10: 748-755 (2009). More...

16. Wei Y. and Latour R.A., Benchmark experimental data set and assessment of adsorption free energy for peptide–surface interactions, Langmuir, 25: 5637-5646 (2009). More...

17. Fears K.P., Latour R.A., Assessing the influence of adsorbed-state conformation on the bioactivity of adsorbed enzyme layers, Langmuir, 25: 13926-13933 (2009). More...

18. Fears K.P., Sivaraman B., Powell G.L., Wu Y., and Latour R.A., Probing the conformation and orientation of adsorbed enzymes using side-chain modification, Langmuir, 25: 9319-9327 (2009). More...

19. Sivaraman B. and Latour R.A., The relationship between platelet adhesion on surfaces and the structure versus the amount of adsorbed fibrinogen, Biomaterials, 31: 832-839 (2010). More...

20. Sivaraman B. and Latour R.A., The adherence of platelets to adsorbed albumin by receptor-mediated recognition of binding sites exposed by adsorption-induced unfolding, Biomaterials, 31: 1036-1044 (2010). More...

21. Wei Y. and Latour R.A., Correlation between desorption force measured by atomic force microscopy and adsorption free energy measured by surface plasmon resonance spectroscopy for peptide–surface interactions, Langmuir, 26(24): 18852-18861 (2010). More...

22. Sivaraman B. and Latour R.A., Delineating the roles of the GPIIb/IIIa and GP-Ib-IX-V platelet receptors in mediating platelet adhesion to adsorbed fibrinogen and albumin, Biomaterials, 32(23): 5365-70 (2011). More...

23. Sivaraman B. and Latour R.A., Time-dependent conformational changes in adsorbed albumin and its effect on platelet adhesion, Langmuir, 28(5): 2745-2752 (2012). More...

24. Thyparambil A.A., Wei Y., and Latour R.A., Determination of peptide–surface adsorption free energy for material surfaces not conducive to SPR or QCM using AFM, Langmuir, 28(13): 5687-94 (2012). More...

25. Wei Y., Thyparambil A.A., and Latour R.A., Peptide–surface adsorption free energy comparing solution conditions ranging from low to medium salt concentrations, Chem Phys Chem, 13(17): 3782-85 (2012). More...

26. Wei Y., Thyparambil A.A., and Latour R.A., Quantification of the influence of protein-protein interactions on adsorbed protein structure and bioactivity, Colloids and Surfaces B: Biointerfaces, 110: 363-371 (2013). More...

27. Thyparambil A.A., Wei Y., Wu Y., Latour R.A., Determination of orientation and adsorption-induced changes in tertiary structure of protein on material surfaces by chemical modification and peptide mapping, Acta Biomaterialia, 10: 2404-2414 (2014). More...

28. Wei Y., Thyparambil A.A., Latour R.A., Protein helical structure determination using CD spectroscopy for solutions with strong background absorbance from 190-230 nm, Biochimica et Biophysica Acta (BBA)–Proteins and Proteomics, 1844: 2331-2337 (2014). More...

29. Wei Y., Thyparambil A.A., Wu Y., Latour R.A., Adsorption-induced changes in ribonuclease A structure and bioactivity on solid surfaces, Langmuir, 30: 14849-14858 (2014). More...

30. Latour R.A., The Langmuir isotherm: A commonly applied but misleading approach for the analysis of protein adsorption behavior, J. Biomed. Mater. Res. A. 103A: 949-958 (2015). More...

31. Thyparambil A.A., Wei Y., Latour R.A., Experimental characterization of adsorbed protein orientation, conformation, and bioactivity, Biointerphases: In-Focus Issue on Bio Surface Analysis, 10: article 19002 pp. 1 to 14 (2015). More...

32. Gutowski S.M., Shoemaker J.T., Templeman K.L., Wei Y., Latour R.A., Bellamkonda R.V., LaPlaca M.C., Garcia A.J., Protease-degradable PEG-maleimide coating with on-demand release of IL-1Ra to improve tissue response to neural electrodes, Biomaterials, 44: 55-70 (2015). More...

33. Thyparambil A.A., Wei Y., Latour R.A., Evaluation of the effectiveness of surfactants and denaturants to elute and denature adsorbed proteins on different surface chemistries, Langmuir, 31: 11814-11824 (2015). More...

34. Reviakine I., Jung F., Braune S., Brash J., Latour R.A., van Oeveren W., Stirred, shaken, or stagnant: What goes on at the blood-biomaterial interface, Blood Reviews, 31: 11-21 (2017). More...

35. Braune S., Latour R.A., Lendlein A., Jung F., Comment on “Hemocompatibility of superhydrophobic titania surfaces, Adv. Healthcare Mater., vol. 6, article 1700294, pp. 1-2 (2017). More...

36. Fears K.P., Kolel-Veetil M.K., Barlow D.E., Bernstein N., Wahl K.J., So C.R., Li X., Kulp III J.L., Latour R.A., Clark T.D., High-performance nanomaterials formed by rigid yet extensible cyclic -peptide polymers, Nature Comm., 9: Article No. 4090, pp. 1-8 (2018). PMC6173727 More...

37. Sotiri I., Robichaud M., Lee D., Braune S., Gorbet M., Ratner B., Brash J., Latour R.A., Reviakine I., BloodSurf 2017: News from the blood-biomaterial frontier, Acta Biomaterialia, 87: 55-60 (2019). More...

38. Brash J.L., Horbett T.A., Latour R.A., Tengvall P., The blood compatibility challenge. Part 2: Protein adsorption phenomena governing blood reactivity, Acta Biomaterialia, 94: 11-24 (2019). More...

39. Braune S., Latour R.A., Reinthaler M., Landmesser U., Lendlein A., Jung F., In vitro thrombogenicity testing of biomaterials, Adv. Healthcare Mater., Article 1900527, pp. 1-17 (2019). More...

40. Latour R.A., Fundamental principles of the thermodynamics and kinetics of protein adsorption to material surfaces, Colloids and Surfaces B: Biointerfaces, 191, Article No. 110992, pp. 1-10 (2020). More...

 

Book Chapters

1. R.A. Latour, Biomaterials: Protein–surface interactions, in The encyclopedia of biomaterials and bioengineering, 2nd edition, G.E. Wnek and G.L. Bowlin (eds.), Informa Healthcare, Vol. 1, pp. 270-284 (2008). More...

2. T. Abramyan, G. Collier, T.G. Kucukkal, X. Li, J.A. Snyder, A.A. Thyparambil, N.A. Vellore, Y. Wei, J.A. Yancey, S.J. Stuart, R.A. Latour, Understanding protein–surface interactions at the atomistic level through the synergistic development of experimental and molecular simulation methods, Proteins at Interfaces III State of the Art, ACS Symposium Series, pp. 197-228 (2012). More...

3. M.J. Limo, C.C. Perry, Y. Wei, A.A. Thyparambil, R.A. Latour, Experimental characterization of peptide–surface interactions, Chapter 3 in Bio-Inspired Nanotechnology: From Surface Analysis to Applications, M.R. Knecht and T.R. Walsh (eds), Springer, New York, NY, 2014, pp. 37-94. More...

4. T.A. Horbett and R.A. Latour, Adsorbed proteins on biomaterials, in Biomaterials Science: An Introduction to Materials in Medicine, 4th Ed., W.R. Wagner, S.E. Sakiyama-Elbert, G. Zhang M., M.J. Yaszemski, (eds.), Chapter 2.1.2, Academic Press, Cambridge, MA, 2020, pp. 645-660. More...

5. B.D. Ratner and R.A. Latour, Role of water in biomaterials, Biomaterials Science: An Introduction to Materials in Medicine, 4th Ed., W.R. Wagner, S.E. Sakiyama-Elbert, G. Zhang M., M.J. Yaszemski, (eds.), Chapter 1.2.5, Academic Press, Cambridge, MA, 2020, pp. 77-82. More...

6. S.R. Hanson, E.I. Tucker, and R.A. Latour, Blood coagulation and blood-materials interactions, Biomaterials Science: An Introduction to Materials in Medicine, 4th Ed., W.R. Wagner, S.E. Sakiyama-Elbert, G. Zhang M., M.J. Yaszemski, (eds.), Chapter 2.2.6, Academic Press, Cambridge, MA, 2020, pp. 801-812. More...