Publications
Selected Publications by Heidi R. Vollmer-Snarr
Vollmer-Snarr, H. R.; Pew, M. R.; Alvarez, M. L.; Cameron, D. J.; Chen, Z.; Walker, G. L.; Price, J. L.; Swallow, J. L., Amino-Retinoid Compounds in the Human Retinal Pigment Epithelium. In Retinal Degenerations: Mechanisms and Experimental Therapy; LaVail, M.M., Hollyfield, J.G., Anderson, R.E., Eds.; Adv. Exp. Med. Biol.; Kluwer Academic/Plenum Publishers: New York, 2006.
Mazzola, Robert D., Jr.; White, Timothy D.; Vollmer-Snarr, Heidi R.; West, F. G., Stereoselective Nazarov Cyclizations of Bridged Bicyclic Dienones, Org. Lett., 2005, 7, 2799-2801.
G. Karan, C. Lillo, Z. Yang, D. J. Cameron, K.G. Locke, Y. Zhao, S. Thirumalaichary, C. Li, D.G. Birch, H. R. Vollmer-Snarr, D.S. Williams, and K. Zhang, Lipofuscin accumulation, abnormal electrophysiology and photoreceptor degeneration in mutant ELOVL4 transgenic mice: a model for Stargardt macular degeneration, Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA, 2005, 102, 4164-4169.
Jockusch, S.; Ren, R. X.; Jang, Y. P.; Itagaki, Y.; Vollmer-Snarr, H. R.; Sparrow, J. R.; Nakanishi, K.; Turro, N. J., Photochemistry of A1E, a Retinoid with a Conjugated Pyridinium Moiety: Competition between Pericyclic Photooxygenation & Pericyclization, J. Am. Chem. Soc., 2004, 126, 4646-4652.
Sparrow, J. R.; Vollmer-Snarr, H. R.; Zhou, J.; Jang, Y. P.; Jockusch, S.; Itagaki, Y.; Nakanishi, K., A2E-epoxides Damage DNA in Retinal Pigment Epithelial cells. Vitamin E and other Antioxidants Inhibit A2E-epoxide formation, J. Biol. Chem., 2003, 278, 18207-18213.
Sparrow, J.R.; Cai, B.; Fishkin, N.; Jang, Y.P.; Krane, S.; Vollmer, H.; Zhou, J.; Nakanishi, K. A2E, a Fluorophore of RPE Lipofuscin: Can It Cause RPE Degeneration. In Retinal Degenerations: Mechanisms and Experimental Therapy; LaVail, M.M., Hollyfield, J.G., Anderson, R.E., Eds.; Adv. Exp. Med. Biol.; Kluwer Academic/Plenum Publishers: New York, 2003; 533, 205-212.
Albermann, C.; Soriano, A.; Jiang, J.; Vollmer, H.; Biggins, J. B.; Barton, W. A.; Lesniak, J.; Nikolov, D. B.; Thorson, J. S., Substrate Specificity of NovM: Implications for Novobiocin Biosynthesis and Glycorandomization, Org. Lett., 2003, 5, 933-936.
Ben-Shabat, S.; Parish, C. A.; Vollmer, H. R.; Itagaki, Y.; Fishkin, N.; Nakanishi, K.; Sparrow, J. R., Biosynthetic Studies of A2E, a Major Fluorophore of RPE Lipofuscin, J. Biol. Chem., 2002, 277, 7183-7190.
Sparrow, J. R.; Zhou, J.; Ben-Shabat, S.; Vollmer, H. R.; Itagaki, Y.; Nakanishi, K., Involvement of Oxidative Mechanisms in Blue Light Induced Damage to A2E-laden RPE, Invest. Ophthalmol. Visual Sci., 2002, 43, 1222-1227.
Baldwin, J. E.; Vollmer, H. R.; Lee, V., Total Synthesis of cytotoxic sponge alkaloids Motuporamines A and B, Tetrahedron Lett., 1999, 40, 5401-5404.
Vollmer, H. R., (4-tolylsulfonyl) hydrazones, Synlett, 1999, 11, 1844.

