Publications

Cristina C. Santarossa, Yupeng Li, Sara Yousef, Hale S. Hasdemir, Carlos C. Rodriguez, Max B. Haase, Minkyung Baek, Nicolas Coudray, John G. Pavek, Kimber N. Focke, Annika L. Silverberg, Carmelita Bautista, Johannes Yeh, Michael T. Marty, David Baker,Emad Tajkhorshid, Damian C. Ekiert, Gira Bhabha. LetA defines a structurally distinct transporter family involved in lipid trafficking. Nature 651, 1097–1106 (2026) PMID: 41565823

Jin Hee Yoo, Cristina Santarossa, Audrey Thomas, Damian Ekiert, K. Heran Darwin. Characterization of a cytokinin-binding protein locus in Mycobacterium tuberculosis. J Bacteriol. 3, 207:e00003-25 (2025) PMID: 40013803

Cristina C. Santarossa, Keith Mickolajczyk, Jonathan Steinman, Linas Urnavicious, Nan Chen, Nicolas Coudray, Damian Ekiert, Gira Bhabha, Tarun M. Kapoor. Targeting Allostery in the Dynein Motor Domain with Small Molecule Inhibitors. Cell Chem Biol. 28, 1460-1473 (2021) PMID: 34015309

Jonathan B. Steinman, Cristina C. Santarossa, Rand M. Miller, Lola S. Yu, Anna S. Serpinskaya, Hideki Furukawa, Sachie Morimoto, Yuta Tanaka, Mitsuyoshi Nishitani, Moriteru Asano, Ruta Zalyte, Alison E Ondrus, Alex G. Johnson, Fan Ye, Maxence V. Nachury, Yoshiyuki Fukase, Kazuyoshi Aso, Michael A. Foley, Vladimir I. Gelfand, James K. Chen, Andrew P. Carter, Tarun M. Kapoor. Chemical structure-guided design of dynapyrazoles, cell-permeable dynein inhibitors with a unique mode of action. eLife. 6:e25174 (2017) PMID: 28524820

Anna Rodina, Tony Taldone, Yanlong Kang, Pallav D. Patel, John Koren III, Pengrong Yan, Erica M. DaGama Gomes, Chenghua Yang, Maulik R. Patel, Liza Shrestha, Stefan O. Ochiana, Cristina Santarossa, Ronnie Maharaj, Alexander Gozman, Marc B. Cox, Hediye Erdjument-Bromage, Ronald C. Hendrickson, Leandro Cerchietti, Ari Melnick, Monica L. Guzman, and Gabriela Chiosis. Affinity purification probes of potential use to investigate the endogenous Hsp70 interactome in cancer. ACS Chem. Biol. 9, 1698-1705 (2014) PMID: 24934503