CHAPTERS IN BOOKS: 2015-2022 (Life time chapters published 17)
Pinto JT and Rivlin RS. Riboflavin. IN: Handbook of Vitamins. Nutritional, Biochemical, and Clinical Aspects. Gregory J, Stover P, Suttie JW and Zempleni J, eds. (New York, Taylor and Francis, Inc., Fifth Edition), Chapter 6: pp 192-265, 2014. ISBN: 13:978-1-4665-1556-7
Aquilato A, Lopez V, Doonan B, Hsieh T-C, Pinto JT, Wu E and Wu JM. BRAF Mutation in Melanoma and Dietary Polyphenols as Adjunctive Treatment Strategy. Chapter 102. IN: Polyphenols in Human Health and Disease: Vol 2; Watson RR, Preedy VR, and Zibadi S. eds. (Elsevier: San Diego, CA,) pp. 1353-1365, 2013.
Cooper AJL, Dorai T, Dorai B, Krasnikov BF, Li JY, Hallen A, and Pinto JT. Role of glutamine transaminases in nitrogen, sulfur, selenium and 1-carbon metabolism. Chapter 3, pp. 37-54, IN: Glutamine in Clinical Nutrition. Rajendram R, Preedy VR, and Patel VB. (Eds.) (Humana Press, New York) 2015.
Pinto JT, Hsieh TC, Wu JM. Genomic and nongenomic controls of vitamin D on cardiovascular health and disease. Chapter 5, pp 91-112. IN: Handbook of nutrition in heart health. Ronald Watson, Ph.D. and Sherma Zibadi, M.D., Ph.D., (Eds). Wageningen Academics, Wageningen Academic Publishers, (Netherlands), 2017.
Pinto JT, Hsieh TC, Brown S, Madrid J, Wu JM. Advances on effects of copper on cardiovascular health.Chapter 10, pp 213-228. IN: Handbook of nutrition in heart health. Ronald Watson, Ph.D. and Sherma Zibadi, M.D., Ph.D., (Eds). Wageningen Academics, Wageningen Academic Publishers, (Netherlands), 2017.
Schaafsma E., Pinto J, Garvey J, Garvey R, Wu JM, Hsieh T-C. Evolution from Gene to Gene Network: Using Bioinformatics to Gain Insights into Chemopreventive Mechanism of Resveratrol. Chapter 12, pp 309-328. IN: Resveratrol: State-of-the-art science and health applications; Joseph M. Wu, Tze-chen Hsieh (Eds). (World Scientific Publishing Co, Inc. Hackensack, N.J.), 2019.
JOURNAL ARTICLES PUBLISHED IN 2015-2022 (Life time publication 139 peer-reviewed manuscripts)
Pinto JT, Cooper AJL. From cholesterogenesis to steroidogenesis: Role of riboflavin and flavoenzymes in the biosynthesis of vitamin D. Adv Nutr 5: 144-163, 2014. PMID: 24618756. PMCID: PMC3951797.
Csiszar A, Csiszar A, Pinto JT, Gautam T, Kleusch C, Hoffmann B, Tucsek Z, Toth P, Sonntag WE, Ungvari Z. Resveratrol encapsulated in novel fusogenic liposomes activates Nrf2 and attenuates oxidative stress in cerebromicrovascular endothelial cells from aged rats. J Gerontol A Biol Sci Med Sci. 70(3):303-13. 2015. PMID:24642904.
Sinha I, Allen JE, Pinto JT, and Sinha R. Methylseleninic acid elevates REDD1 and inhibits prostate cancer cell growth despite AKT activation and mTOR dysregulation in hypoxia. Cancer Med. 3(2): 252-264, 2014. PMID: 24515947. PMCID: PMC3987075.
Vauzour D, Pinto JT, Cooper AJL, Spencer JPE. The neurotoxicity of 5-S-cysteinyldopamine is mediated by the early activation of ERK1/2 followed by the subsequent activation of ASK-1/JNK1/2 pro-apoptotic signalling. Biochem J. 463(1): 41-52, 2014. PMID:24938188.
Pinto JT, Krasnikov BF, Alcutt S, Jones ME, Dorai T, Villar MT, Artigues A, Li J, Cooper AJL. Kynurenine aminotransferase III and glutamine transaminase L are identical enzymes that have cysteine S-conjugate β-lyase Activity and can transaminate L-selenomethionine. J Biol Chem. 289(45), 30950-30961, 2014. PMID:25231977.
Kang Y, Nian H, Rajendran P, Kim E, Dashwood WM, Pinto JT, Boardman LA, Thibodeau SN, Limburg PJ, Löhr CV, Bisson WH, Williams DE, Ho E, Dashwood RH. HDAC8 and STAT3 repress BMF gene activity in colon cancer cells. Cell Death Disease 5(10): e1476, 2014. PMID: 25321483.
Sleiman SF, Olson DE, Bourassa MW, Karuppagounder SS, Zhang YL, Gale J, Wagner FF, Basso M, Coppola G, Pinto JT, Holson EB, Ratan RR. Hydroxamic based histone deacetylase (HDAC) inhibitors can mediate neuroprotection independent of HDAC inhibition. J Neurosci. 34(43):14328 –14337, 2014. PMID:25339746
Huang A, Pinto JT, Froogh G, Kandhi S, Qin J, Wolin MS, Hintze TH, Sun D. A role of homocysteinylation of ACE in endothelial dysfunction of arteries. Am J. Physiol., Heart Circ Physiol. 308(2):H92-H100, 2015. PMID: 25416191
Weston RE, Weston PJ, Futterman RF, Lepore SJ, Carolina DS, Pinto JT, Lang MA, Thomas RI, Cardwell JJ, Gordon AP. Effectiveness of a Modified Computer Assisted Instructional Tool In The Dissemination of Prostate Cancer Information to Men of African Descent Through Black Churches. J Afr Amer Studies 11(2):140-156. 2007.
Cooper AJL, Shurubor YI, Dorai T, Pinto JT, Isakova EP, Deryabina YI, Denton TT, Krasnikov BF. ω-Amidase – An underappreciated, but important enzyme in L-glutamine and L-asparagine metabolism in mammals. Amino Acids. 48(1):1-20, 2016. Review. Erratum in: Amino Acids. 47(12):2671-2, 2015. PMID: 26259930
Pinto JT, Zempleni J. Riboflavin. Adv Nutr. 7(5):973-975, 2016. PMID: 27633112
Dorai T, Pinto JT and Cooper AJL. Sweetening of glutamine metabolism in cancer cells by Rho GTPases through convergence of multiple oncogenic signaling pathways. Transl Cancer Res; 5(S2):S349-S356, 2016.
Schaafsma E, Hsieh T, Doonan BB, Pinto JT, Wu JM. Anticancer Activities of Resveratrol in Colorectal Cancer. Biol Med (Aligarh) 8(5): 217, 2016. doi:10.4172/0974-8369.1000317
Wu JM, Oraee A, Doonan BB, Pinto JT, Hsieh TC. Activation of NQO1 in NQO1*2 polymorphic human leukemic HL-60 cells by diet-derived sulforaphane. Exp Hematol Oncol. 5(1):27, 2016. PMID: 27625902
Jeitner TM, Kristoferson E, Azcona JA, Pinto JT, Stalnecker C, Erickson JW, Kung HF, Li J, Ploessl K, and Cooper AJL. Fluorination at the 4 position alters the substrate behavior of L-glutamine and L-glutamate: Implications for positron emission tomography of neoplasias. J Fluor Chem. 192(A):58-67, 2016. PMID: 28546645
Froogh G, Pinto JT, Le Y, Kandhi S, Aleligne Y, Huang A and Sun D. Chymase-dependent production of angiotensin II: an old enzyme in old hearts. Am J Physiol Heart Circ Physiol. 312(2):H223-H231, 2017 PMID: 27815252
Doonan BD, Schaafsma E, Pinto JT, Wu JM, and Hsieh T-C. Application of open-access databases to determine functional connectivity between resveratrol-binding protein QR2 and colorectal carcinoma. In Vitro Cell Dev Biol Anim. 53:575-578, 2017. Epub 2017 Jun 23. PMID: 28646291.
Nichenametla SN, Mattocks DAL, Malloy VL, and Pinto JT. Sulfur amino acid restriction-induced changes in redox-sensitive proteins are associated with slow protein synthesis rates. Ann N Y Acad Sci. 1418(1):80-94, 2018. PMID: 29377163
Jeitner T, Pinto JT, and Cooper AJL. Cystamine or cysteamine as inhibitors of transglutaminases in vivo. Biosci Rep. 2018 Sep 5; 38(5), 2018. PMID: 30054429
Karuppagounder SS, Alin L, Chen YX, Brand D, Bourassa MW, Dietrich K, Wilkinson CM, Nadeau CA., Kumar A, Perry S, Pinto JT, Darley-Usmar V, Sanchez S, Milne GL, Pratico D, Holman TR, Carmichael ST, Coppola G, Colbourne F, and Ratan RR. N-acetylcysteine targets 5 lipoxygenase-derived, toxic lipids and can synergize with PGE2 to inhibit ferroptosis and improve outcomes following hemorrhagic stroke in mice. Ann Neurol. 84(6):854-872, 2018.
Dorai T, Dorai B, Pinto JT, Grasso M, Cooper AJL. High Levels of Glutaminase II Pathway Enzymes in Normal and Cancerous Prostate Suggest a Role in 'Glutamine Addiction'. Biomolecules 10(1):2 2019.
Dorai T, Pinto JT, Travis T. Denton TT, Krasnikov BF, Cooper AJL. The Metabolic Importance of the Glutaminase II Pathway in Normal and Cancerous Cells. Anal Biochem. 2020 Dec 19:114083.
Cooper AJL, Dorai T, Pinto JT, Denton TT. The Metabolic Importance of the Overlooked Asparaginase II Pathway. Anal Biochem. 2020 Dec 22:114084.
Kumar A, Vaish M, Karuppagounder SS, Gazaryan I, Cave JW, Starkov AA, Anderson ET, Zhang S, Pinto JT, Rountree A, Wang W, Sweet IR, Ratan RR. HIF1α stability in hypoxia is not oxidant-initiated. Accepted for publication; eLife 2021;10:e72873. DOI: https://doi.org/10.7554/eLife.72873