Publications

1) Kriech, M. A., Conboy, J.C., “Label-Free Chiral Detection of Melittin Binding to a Membrane”, J. Am. Chem. Soc., 2003, 125, 1148-1149.

2) Kriech, M. A., Conboy, J.C., “Measuring Melittin Binding to Planar Supported Lipid Bilayer by Chiral Second Harmonic Generation”, Anal. Chim. Acta, 2003, 496, (1-2), 143-153.

3) Cherney, D. P., Conboy, J. C., Harris, J. M., "Optical-Trapping Raman Microscopy Detection of Single Unilamellar Lipid Vesicles", Anal. Chem. 2003, 75, 6621-6628.

4) Kriech, M. A., Conboy, J.C., “Counter-Propagating Second Harmonic Generation: A New Technique for the Investigation of Molecular Chirality at Interfaces”, Opt. Soc. Am. B, 2004, 21, 1013-1022.

5) Fitchett, B., Knepp, T., Conboy, J.C., “1-Alkyl-3-Methylimidazolium Bis(perfluoroalkylsulfonyl)imide Water-Immiscible Ionic Liquids: The Effect of Water on Electrochemical and Physical Properties”, J. Electrochem. Soc. 2004, 151, E219-E225.

6) Liu, J., Conboy, J. C., “Phase Transition of a Single Lipid Bilayer Measured by Sum-Frequency Vibrational Spectroscopy”, J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2004, 126, 8894-8895.

7) Liu, J., Conboy, J. C., “Direct Measurement of the Transbilayer Movement of Phospholipids by Sum-Frequency Vibrational Spectroscopy”, J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2004, 126, 8376-8377.

8) Fitchett, B., Conboy, J. C., “Structure of the Room-Temperature Ionic Liquid/SiO2 Interface Studied by Sum-Frequency Vibrational Spectroscopy”, J. Phys. Chem. B, 2004, 108, 20255-20262.

9) Kriech, M. A., Conboy, J.C., “Imaging Chirality with Surface Second Harmonic Generation Microscopy”, J. Am. Chem. Soc., 2005, 127,2834-2835.

“Imaging Chiral Molecules on Surfaces”, C&E News, 2005, 83, 32.

10) Kriech, M. A., Conboy, J.C., “Using the Intrinsic Chirality of a Molecule as a Label-Free Probe to Detect Molecular Adsorption to a Surface by Second Harmonic Generation”, Appl. Spectrosc., 2005, 59, 746-753.

11) Fitchett, B. D., Rollins, J. B., Conboy, J. C., “1-Alkyl-3-Methylimidazolium Bis(perfluoroalkylsulfonyl)imide Water-Immiscible Ionic Liquids: Electrochemical Properties at Liquid-Liquid Interfaces”, J. Electrochem. Soc., 2005, 152, E251-E258.

12) Liu, J., Conboy, J. C., “1,2-Diacyl-Phosphaditylcholine Flip-Flop Measured Directly by Sum-Frequency Vibrational Spectroscopy”, Biophysical J., 2005, 89, 2522�2532.

13) Liu, J., Conboy, J. C., “Structure of a Gel Phase Lipid Bilayer Prepared by the Langmuir-Blodgett/Langmuir-Sh�fer Method Characterized by Sum-Frequency Vibrational Spectroscopy”, Langmuir, 2005, 21, 9091 - 9097.

14) Fitchett, B.,Rollins, J. B., Conboy, J. C., “Interfacial Tension and Electrocapillary Measurements of the Room Temperature Ionic Liquid/Aqueous Interface”, Langmuir, 2005, 21, 12179-12186.

15)Conboy, J.C., “Sum-Frequency Vibrational Spectroscopy”, McGraw-Hill, 2006 Yearbook of Science and Technology, McGraw-Hill, New York, 2006

16) Evans-Nguyen, Kenyon M., Fuierer, Ryan R., Fitchett, Brian D., Tolles, Lauren R., Conboy, John C., Schoenfisch, Mark H., “Changes in Adsorbed Fibrinogen upon Conversion to Fibrin.”, Langmuir, 2006, 22,5115-5121.

17) Anglin, T. C., Liu, J., Conboy, J. C., “Facile Lipid Flip-Flop in a Phospholipid Bilayer Induced by Gramicidin A Measured by Sum-Frequency Vibrational Spectroscopy Structure”, Biophysical J., 2007, 9, L01-L03.

18) Rollins, J. B., Fitchett, B., Conboy, J. C., “Structure and Orientation of the Imidazolium Cation at the Room Temperature Ionic Liquid/SiO2 Interface Measured by Sum-Frequency Vibrational Spectroscopy”, J. Phys. Chem. B, 2007, 111, 4990-4999.

19) Liu, J., Conboy, J. C., “Asymmetric Distribution of Lipids in a Phase Segregated Phospholipid Bilayer Observed by Sum-Frequency Vibrational Spectroscopy”, J. Phys. Chem. C, 2007, 111, 8988-8999.

20) Anglin, T. C, Conboy, J. C., “Lateral Pressure Dependence of the Phospholipid Transmembrane Diffusion Rate in Planar-Supported Lipid Bilayers”, Biophysical J., 2008, 95, 186-193.

21) Smith, K, Gale, B. K., Conboy, J. C., “Micropatterned Lipid Bilayer Arrays Created by a Continuous Flow Micro-spotter”, Analytical Chemistry, 2008, 80, 7980-7987.

22) Liu, J., Conboy, J. C., “Phase Segregation in Cholesterol + DSPC Lipid Bilayers Examined by Sum-Frequency Vibrational Spectroscopy”,Vibrational Spectroscopy, 2009, 50, 106-115.

23) Nguyen, T, Rembert, K.,Conboy, J.C., “Label-Free Detection of Drug-Membrane Association using Ultraviolet-Visible Sum-Frequency Generation”, Journal of the American Chemical Society, 2009, 131, 1401-1403.

24) Rollins, J. B., Conboy, J. C., “Kinetics and Thermodynamics of Hydrogen Oxidation and Oxygen Reduction in Hydrophobic Room-Temperature Ionic Liquids”, Journal of the Electrochemical Society, 2009, 156, B943-B954.

25) James R. Joubert, Kathryn A. Smith, Erin Johnson, John P. Keogh, Vicki H. Wysocki,Bruce K. Gale, John C. Conboy, and S. Scott Saavedra, “Stable, Ligand-Doped, Poly(bis-SorbPC) Lipid Bilayer Arrays for Protein Binding and Detection”, Applied Materials and Interfaces, 2009, 1, 1310-1315.

26) Timothy C. Anglin,Krystal L. Brown, John C. Conboy,“Phospholipid Flip-flop Modulated by Transmembrane Peptides WALP and Melittin”,Journal of Structural Biology, 2009, 168, 37-52.

27) Anglin, T. C, Conboy,J. C., “Kinetics and thermodynamics of flip-flop in binary phospholipid membranes measured by sum-frequency vibrational spectroscopy”, Biochemistry, 2009, 48, 10220-10234.

28) Anglin, T. C, Hao, L.,Cooper, M. P., Chandler, K., Conboy,J. C., “Free Energy and Entropy of Activation for Phospholipid Flip-Flop in Planar Supported Lipid Bilayers”, Journal of Physical Chemistry B, 2010, 114, 1903-1914.

29) Smith, K., Conboy, J.C., “Using Micropatterned Lipid Bilayer Arrays to Measure the Effect of Membrane Composition on Merocyanine 540 Binding”, Biochimica et Biophysica Acta, Biomembranes, 2011, 1808, 1611-1617.

30) Nguyen, Trang T.; Conboy, John C, “High-Throughput Screening of Drug-Lipid Membrane Interactions via Counter-Propagating Second Harmonic Generation Imaging”, Analytical Chemistry, 2011, 83, 5979-5988.

31) Brown, K, Conboy, J.C., “Electrostatic Induction of Lipid Asymmetry”, Journal of the American Chemical Society, 2011, 133, 8794-8797.

32) Nguyen, Trang T.;Rembert, Kelvin; Conboy, John C.,“Label-Free Detection of Drug-Membrane Association Using Ultraviolet-Visible Sum-Frequency Generation”, [Erratum to document cited in CA150:159298], Journal of the American Chemical Society, 2011, 133, 6096-6097.

33) Nguyen, Trang T.; Sly,Krystal L.; Conboy, John C.,“Comparison of the Energetics of Avidin, Streptavidin, NeutrAvidin, and Anti-Biotin Antibody Binding to Biotinylated Lipid Bilayer Examined by Second-Harmonic Generation”, Analytical Chemistry, 2012, 84, 201-208.

34) Sly, Krystal L.; Nguyen, Trang T; Conboy, John C., "Lens-less surface second harmonic imaging" Opt. Express, 2012, 20, 21953-21967.

35) Smith, Kathryn A.; Conboy, John C., “A Simplified Sum-Frequency Vibrational Imaging Setup Used for Imaging Lipid Bilayer Arrays”, Analytical Chemistry, 2012, 84, 8122-8126.

36) Liu, J.; Brown, Krystal L.; Conboy, J. C., “The effect of cholesterol on the intrinsic rate of lipid flip-flop as measured by sum-frequency vibrational spectroscopy”, Faraday Discussions, 2013, 161 (Lipid and Membrane Biophysics), 45-61.

37) Brown, K, Conboy, J. C., “Lipid Flip-​Flop in Binary Membranes Composed of Phosphatidylserine and Phosphatidylcholine”, Journal of Physical Chemistry B., 2013, 117, 15041-15050.

38) Sly, Krystal L.; Mok, S.-W; Conboy, John C., "Second Harmonic Correlation Spectroscopy: A Method for Determining Surface Binding Kinetics and Thermodynamics" Analytical Chemistry, 2013, 85, 8429-8435.

39) Allhusen, John S.; Conboy John C., “Preparation and Characterization of Conductive and Transparent Ruthenium Dioxide Sol-Gel Films”, ACS Applied Materials and Interfaces, 2013, 5, 11683-11681.

40) de Beer, Alex G. F.; Chen, Yixing; Scheu, Rudiger; Conboy, John C.; Roke, Sylvie , “Analysis of Complex Spectra Using Fourier Filtering”, Journal of Physical Chemistry C., 2013, 117, 26582-26587.

41) Stokes, Grace Y.; Conboy, John C.; “Measuring Selective Estrogen Receptor Modulator (SERM)​-​Membrane Interactions with Second Harmonic Generation”, JACS, 2014, 136, 1409-1417.

42) Sly, Krystal L.; Conboy, John C.; “Determination of Multivalent Protein-​Ligand Binding Kinetics by Second-​Harmonic Correlation Spectroscopy”, Analytical Chemistry, 2014, 86, 11045-11054.

 

43) Brown, K, Conboy, J. C., “Phosphatidylglycerol Flip-Flop Suppression due to Headgroup Charge Repulsion”, Journal of Physical Chemistry B, 2015, 119, 10252–10260.

44) Allhusen, John S.; Kimball, Dylan R., Conboy John C., “The Structural Origins of Cholesterol Accelerated Lipid Flip-Flop Studied by Sum-Frequency Vibrational Spectroscopy”, Journal of Physical Chemistry B, 2016, 120, 3157-3168

45) Allhusen, Conboy John C., “The Ins and Outs of Lipid Flip-Flop”, Accounts of Chemical Research, 2017, 50, 58-65

 

46) Sly, Krystal L.; Conboy, John C., “Second Harmonic Correlation Spectroscopy: Theory and Principles for Determining Surface Binding Kinetics”, Applied Spectroscopy, 2017, 71, 1368-1379. 

 

47) Tran, Renee J.; Sly, Krystal L.; Conboy, John C., “Applications of Surface Second Harmonic Generation in Biological Sensing”, Annual Review of Analytical Chemistry,2017, 10, 387-414.  

 

48) Reynolds, Aaron J.; Conboy, John C., “Barium titanate nanoparticle based nonlinear optical humidity sensor”, Sensors and Actuators, B: Chemical,2018, 273, 921-926. 

 

49) Tran, Renee J.; Lalonde, Matthew S,; Sly, Krystal L.; Conboy, John C., “Mechanistic Investigation of HIV-1 Gag Association with Lipid Membranes”, Journal of Physical Chemistry B, 2019, 123, 4673-4687.

 

50) Victoria Cheng, Dylan R. Kimball, and Dr. John C. Conboy, “Determination of the Rate-Limiting Step in Fatty Acid Transport”, J. Phys. Chem. B,2019, 123, 33, 7157–7168

 

51) Tran, Renee J.; Sly, Krystal L.; Conboy, John C., “Revealing the Kinetic Advantage of a Competitive Small-​Molecule Immunoassay by Direct Detection”, Analytical Chemistry, 2020, 92, 13163-13171

 

52) Aruna Gorusupudi, Rameshu Rallabandi, Binxing Li, Ranganathan Arunkumar, J. David Blount, Gregory T. Rognon, Fu-Yen Chang, Alexander Wade, Steven Lucas, John C. Conboy, Jon D. Rainier, and Paul S. Bernstein, “Retinal bioavailability and functional effects of a synthetic very-long-chain polyunsaturated fatty acid in mice”, Proceeding of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 2021, 118, e2017739118

 

53) Aaron M. Fleming, Renee Tran, Carla A. Omaga, Shereen A. Howpay Manage, Cynthia J. Burrows, John C. Conboy, “Second Harmonic Generation Interrogation of the Endonuclease APE1 Binding Interaction with G-Quadruplex DNA”, Analytical Chemistry 2022, 94 (43), 15027-15032.

 

54) Victoria Cheng, Rameshu Rallabandi, Aruna Gorusupudi, Steven Lucas, Gregory Rognon, Paul S. Bernstein, Jon D. Rainier, John C. Conboy,  “Influence of very-long-chain polyunsaturated fatty acids on membrane structure and dynamics”, Biophys J., 2022, 121 (14), 2730-2741

 

55) Victoria Cheng and John C. Conboy, “Inhibitory Effect of Lanthanides on Native Lipid Flip-Flop”,  J. Phys. Chem. B, 2022, 126, 7651−7663

 

56) Joshua M Taylor, John C Conboy, “Issues with lipid probes in flip-flop measurements: A comparative study using sum-frequency vibrational spectroscopy and second-harmonic generation”, J. Chem. Phys., 2023, 161, 085194-1-17

 

57) Joshua M Taylor, John C Conboy, “Sum-frequency vibrational spectroscopy, a tutorial: Applications for the study of lipid membrane structure and dynamics”, Biointerphases, 2023, 19, 031201-1-13