The Sprague Lab at MUSC

Improving Health, One Molecule at a Time

Publications


MUSC


BRD9 functions as a methylarginine reader to regulate AKT-EZH2 signaling


Sasha Yin, Charles Brobbey, Lauren E. Ball, Tianmin Fu, Daniel J. Sprague, Wenjian Gan

Science Advances, 2025


Postdoctoral Work


The TRIM33 Bromodomain Recognizes Histone Lysine Lactylation


Raymundo Nuñez, Paul F. W. Sidlowski, Erica A. Steen, Sarah L. Wynia-Smith, Daniel J. Sprague, Robert F. Keyes, Brian C. Smith

ACS Chemical Biology, 2024 Nov 18


Zinc-chelating BET bromodomain inhibitors equally target islet endocrine cell types


Rachel A. Jones Lipinski, Jennifer S. Stancill, Raymundo Nunez, Sarah L. Wynia-Smith, Daniel J. Sprague, Joshua A. Nord, Amir Bird, John A. Corbett, Brian C. Smith

American Journal of Physiology -- Regulatory, Integrative and Comparative Physiology, 2024 May 29


Target-based discovery of a broad spectrum flukicide


Daniel J. Sprague, Sang-Kyu Park, Svenja Gramberg, Lisa Bauer, Claudia M. Rohr, Evgeny G. Chulkov, Emery Smith, Louis Scampavia, Timothy P. Spicer, Simone Haeberlein, Jonathan S. Marchant

Nature Structural and Molecular Biology, 2024 May 7


TRP drop, TRP drop: a steady patter of anti-schistosomal target illumination


Daniel J. Sprague#, Claudia M. Rohr#, Jonathan S. Marchant

Frontiers in Parasitology, 2024 Feb 12


The anthelmintic meclonazepam activates a schistosome transient receptor potential channel


Sang-Kyu Park#, Daniel J. Sprague#, Claudia M. Rohr, Evgeny G. Chulkov, Ian Petrow, Sushil Kumar, Jonathan S. Marchant

Journal of Biological Chemistry, 2024 Jan


The anthelmintic activity of praziquantel analogs correlates with different structure-activity relationships at TRPMPZQ orthologs


Daniel J. Sprague*, Marc Kaethner, Sang-Kyu Park, Claudia M. Rohr, Jade L. Harris, David Maillard, Thomas Spangenberg, Britta Lundstrom-Stadelmann, Jonathan S. Marchant*

ACS Medicinal Chemistry Letters, 2023 Oct 25


Mu-Opioid Receptor Selective Superagonists Produce Prolonged Respiratory Depression


Nicholas J. Malcolm, Barbara Palkovic, Daniel J. Sprague, Maggie M. Calkins, Janelle K. Lanham, Adam L. Halberstadt, Astrid G. Stucke, John D. McCorvy

iSCIENCE, 2023 Jun 13


Molecular and cellular basis of praziquantel action in the cardiovascular system


Nawal A. Yahya, Janelle K. Lanham, Daniel J. Sprague, Oleg Palygin, John D. McCorvy, Jonathan S. Marchant

American Journal of Physiology -- Cell Physiology, 2023 Feb 1


Natural variation in the binding pocket of a parasitic flatworm TRPM channel resolves the basis for praziquantel sensitivity


Claudia M. Rohr, Daniel J. Sprague, Sang-Kyu Park, Nicholas J. Malcolm, Jonathan S. Marchant

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 2023 Jan 3


Fluorinated triphenylphosphonium analogs improve cell selectivity and in vivo detection of mito-metformin


Mahmoud AbuEid, Robert F. Keyes, Donna McAllister, Francis Peterson, Ishaque Pulikkal Kadamberi, Daniel J. Sprague, Pradeep Chaluvally-Raghavan, Brian C. Smith, Michael B. Dwinell

iSCIENCE, 2022 Dec 22


Identification of a dihydropyridine scaffold that blocks ryanodine receptors


Gihan S. Gunaratne, Robyn T. Rebbeck, Lindsey M. McGurran, Yasheng Yan, Thiago Arzua, Talia Frolkis, Daniel J. Sprague, Xiaowen Bai, Razvan L. Cornea, Timothy F. Walseth, Jonathan S. Marchant

iSCIENCE, 2022 Jan 22


Trisubstituted 1,3,5-Triazines: The First Ligands of the sY12-Binding Pocket on Chemokine CXCL12


Daniel J. Sprague, Anthony E. Getschman, Tyler G. Fenske, Brian F. Volkman, Brian C. Smith

ACS Medicinal Chemistry Letters, 2021 Oct 18


Development of activity-based probes for the protein deacylase Sirt1


Christopher J. Goetz, Daniel J. Sprague, Brian C. Smith

Bioorganic Chemistry, 2020 Aug 26


Covalent-Fragment Screening of BRD4 Identifies a Ligandable Site Orthogonal to the Acetyl-Lysine Binding Sites


Michael D. Olp, Daniel J. Sprague, Christopher J. Goetz, Stefan G. Kathman, Sarah L. Wynia-Smith, Shifali Shishodia, Steven B. Summers, Ziyang Xu, Alexander V. Statsyuk, Brian C. Smith

ACS Chemical Biology, 2020 Mar 9


Graduate/Undergraduate Work


Count on It! Accurately Measured Respiratory Rate Is Associated with Lung Function and Clinical Severity in Children with Acute Asthma Exacerbations


Donald H. Arnold, Cody H. Penrod, Daniel J. Sprague, Tina V. Hartert

Journal of Pediatrics, 2016 Aug


Adaptation of a small-molecule hydrogen-bond donor catalyst to an enantioselective hetero-Diels-Alder reaction hypothesized for brevianamide biosynthesis


Daniel J. Sprague, Benjamin N. Nugent, Ryan A. Yoder, Brandon A. Vara, Jeffrey N. Johnston

Organic Letters, 2015 Jan 31


Enantio- and periselective nitroalkene Diels–Alder reaction


Maurice J. Narcis, Daniel J. Sprague, Burjor Captain, Norito Takenaka

Organic & Biomolecular Chemistry, 2012 Dec 14