Ronald K. Gary

Professor of Biochemistry
Department of Chemistry & Biochemistry
University of Nevada, Las Vegas
4505 Maryland Parkway
Las Vegas, NV 89154-4003

Phone: (702) 895-1687
E-Mail: ronald.gary@unlv.edu



Gorjala P, and Gary RK. (2010). Beryllium sulfate induces p21CDKN1A expression and a senescence-like cell cycle arrest in susceptible cancer cell types. BioMetals 23: 1061-1073.

Hegde ML, Theriot CA, Das A, Hegde PM, Guo Z, Gary RK, Hazra TK, Shen B, and Mitra S. (2008). Physical and functional interaction between human oxidized base-specific DNA glycosylase NEIL1 and flap endonuclease 1. J. Biol. Chem. 283: 27028-27037.

Coates SSA, Lehnert BE, Sharma S, Kindell SM, and Gary RK. (2007). Beryllium induces premature senescence in human fibroblasts. J. Pharmacol. Exp. Ther. 322: 70-79.

Gary RK, and Jensen DA. (2005). The p53 inhibitor pifithrin-α forms a sparingly soluble derivative via intramolecular cyclization under physiological conditions. Mol. Pharm. 2: 462-474.

Sharma S, Sommers JA, Gary RK, Friedrich-Heineken E, Hubscher U, and Brosh Jr RM. (2005). The interaction site of flap endonuclease-1 with WRN helicase suggests a coordination of WRN and PCNA. Nucleic Acids Res. 33: 6769-6781.

Gary RK, and Kindell SM. (2005). Quantitative assay of senescence-associated β-galactosidase activity in mammalian cell extracts. Analytical Biochem. 343: 329-334.

Gary RK. (2004). The concentration-dependence of the ΔS term in the Gibbs free energy function: Application to reversible reactions in biochemistry. J. Chem. Educ. 81: 1599-1604.

Ramanathan K, Gary RK, Apostol A, and Rogers KR. (2003). A fluorescence-based assay for DNA damage induced by radiation, chemical mutagens and enzymes. Curr. Appl. Phys. 3: 99-106.

Lehnert NM, Gary RK, Marrone BL, and Lehnert BE. (2001). Inhibition of normal human lung fibroblast growth by beryllium. Toxicology 160: 119-127.

Clark AB, Valle F, Drotschmann K, Gary RK, and Kunkel TA. (2000). Functional interaction of proliferating cell nuclear antigen with MSH2-MSH6 and MSH2-MSH3 complexes. J. Biol. Chem. 275: 36498-36501.

Gary R, Kim K, Cornelius HL, Park MS, and Matsumoto Y. (1999). PCNA facilitates excision in long-patch base excision repair. J. Biol. Chem. 274: 4354-4363.

Gary R, Park MS, Nolan JP, Cornelius HL, Kozyreva OG, Tran HT, Lobachev KS, Resnick MA, and Gordenin DA. (1999). A novel role in DNA metabolism for the binding of Fen1/Rad27 to PCNA and implications for genetic risk. Mol. Cell. Biol. 19: 5373-5382.

Matsumoto Y, Kim K, Hurwitz J, Gary R, Levin DS, Tomkinson AE, and Park MS. (1999). Reconstitution of proliferating cell nuclear antigen-dependent repair of apurinic/apyrimidinic sites with purified human proteins. J. Biol. Chem. 274: 33703-33708.

Montecucco A, Rossi R, Levin DS, Gary R, Park MS, Motycka TA, Ciarrocchi G, Villa A, Biamonti G, and Tomkinson AE. (1998). DNA ligase I is recruited to sites of DNA replication by an interaction with proliferating cell nuclear antigen: identification of a common targeting mechanism for the assembly of replication factories. EMBO J. 17: 3786-3795.

Gary R, Ludwig DL, Cornelius HL, MacInnes MA, and Park MS. (1997). The DNA repair endonuclease XPG binds to proliferating cell nuclear antigen (PCNA) and shares sequence elements with the PCNA-binding regions of FEN-1 and cyclin-dependent kinase inhibitor p21. J. Biol. Chem. 272: 24522-24529.

Gary R, and Bretscher A. (1995). Ezrin self-association involves binding of an N-terminal domain to a normally masked C-terminal domain that includes the F-actin binding site. Mol. Biol. Cell 6: 1061-1075.

Bretscher A, Gary R, and Berryman M. (1995). Soluble ezrin purified from placenta exists as stable monomers and elongated dimers with masked C-terminal ezrin-radixin-moesin association domains. Biochemistry 34: 16830-16837.

Berryman M, Gary R, and Bretscher A. (1995). Ezrin oligomers are major cytoskeletal components of placental microvilli: A proposal for their involvement in cortical morphogenesis. J. Cell Biol. 131: 1231-1242.

Gary R, and Bretscher A. (1993). Heterotypic and homotypic associations between ezrin and moesin, two putative membrane-cytoskeletal linking proteins. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA 90: 10846-10850.

Franck Z, Gary R, and Bretscher A. (1993). Moesin, like ezrin, colocalizes with actin in the cortical cytoskeleton in cultured cells, but its expression is more variable. J. Cell Sci. 105: 219-231.

Woodward DF, Gary RK, Spada CS, Hawley SB, and Nieves AL. (1989). Time-dependent differences in the vasopermeability response to intradermal peptido-leukotrienes. J. Lipid Mediators 1: 63-73.

Woodward DF, Nieves AL, Williams LS, Gary RK, Wasserman MA, and Gleason JG. (1989). Interactive effects of peptidoleukotrienes and histamine on microvascular permeability and their involvement in experimental cutaneous and conjunctival immediate hypersensitivity. Eur. J. Pharmacol. 164: 323-333.

Gary RK, Woodward DF, Nieves AL, Williams LS, Gleason JG, and Wasserman MA. (1988). Characterization of the conjunctival vasopermeability response to leukotrienes and their involvement in immediate hypersensitivity. Invest. Ophthalmol. Visual Sci. 29: 119-126.