Recent Publications: Robert Jacobs

Publication
1999 Qureshi, A., C.S. Stevenson, C.L. Albert, R.S. Jacobs, and D.J. Faulkner. Homo- and Nor- Plakotenin, new carboxylic acids from the Palauan sponge Plakortis lita. J. Nat. Prod. 62(8):1205-07.
1999 Pennings, S.C., V.J. Paul, D.C. Dunbar, M.T. Hamman, W.A. Lumbang, B. Novack, and R.S. Jacobs. Unpalatable compounds in the marine gastropod Dolabella auricularia: distribution and effect of diet. J. Chem. Ecology 25(4):735-55.
2000 Tan, L.T., R.T. Williamson, K.S. Watts, W.H. Gerwick, K. McGough, and R.S. Jacobs. cis, cis and trans, trans-Ceratospongamide, new bioactive hepatapeptides from the Indonesian red alga Ceratdictyon spongiosum and symbiotic sponge Sigmadocia symbiotica. J. Org. Chem. 65(2):419-425.
2000 Bemis, D.L., V. Roussis, C. Vagias and R.S. Jacobs. Chloroplast fatty acid composition in mediterranean populations of the marine chlorophyte, Anadyomene stellata. Verlag der Zeitschrift für Naturforschung 55:569-75.
2000 MacPherson, J.C. and R.S. Jacobs. An 18.5 kDa protein from the amebocyte of Limulus polyphemus, homologous to the previously described amebocyte aggregation factor, expresses alternative phospholipase A2 activity. Comp. Biochem. and Physiol. Part B 127:31-44.
2001 Jacobs, R.S. Maribel Reyes: UC Santa Barbara CAMP Student. The California Alliance for Minority Participation (CAMP) Quarterly, pg. 10-13, Spring 2001.
2002 Stevenson, CS, E.A. Capper, A.K. Roshak, B. Marquez, E. Eichman, J.R. Jackson, M. Mattern, W.H. Gerwick, R.S. Jacobs, and L.A. Marshall. The identification and characterization of the marine natural product scytonemin as a novel antiproliferative pharmacophore. J. Pharm. Exp. Ther. 303(2): 858-66.
2002 Stevenson, CS, E.A. Capper, A.K. Roshak, B. Marquez, K. Grace, W.H. Gerwick, R.S. Jacobs, and L.A. Marshall. Scytonemin- A marine natural product inhibitor of kinases key in hyperproliferative inflammatory diseases. Inflammation Research 51(2): 112-4.
2003 Ata, Athar, Russel G. Kerr, Claudia E. Moya, and Robert S. Jacobs. Identification of anti-inflammatory diterpenes from the marine gorgonian Pseudopterogorgia elisabethae. Tetrahedron 59:4215-22.
2003 Madari, H; Panda, D.; Wilson, L., and Jacobs, R.S. Dicoumarol: A unique microtubule stabilizing natural product that is synergistic with taxol. Cancer Research 63:1214-20.
2003 Mydlarz, L.D, Jacobs R.S., Bohnlein, J and Kerr, R.G. 2003. Pseudopterosin biosynthesis in Symbiodinium sp., the dinoflagellate symbiont of Pseudopterogorgia elisabethae. Chemistry and Biology. Vol. 10, No. 11. November, 2003
2004 Madari, H. and Jacobs, R.S. An ethnopharmacological study of medicinal plant extracts used in ancient Persian medicinal formulations. Journal of Natural Products. 67 (8) 1204-1210. 2004
2004 Santiago-Vázquez L, L.D. Mydlarz, R. S. Jacobs and J.G. Pavlovich. 2003. Identification of hydroxy fatty acids by liquid chromatography-atmospheric pressure chemical ionization mass spectrometry in Euglena gracilis. Journal of Chromatography B. 803: 233-236. 2004
2004 Mydlarz, Laura D.; Jacobs, Robert S. Comparison of an inducible oxidative burst in free-living and symbiotic dinoflagellates reveals properties of the pseudopterosins. Phytochemistry 65(24), 3231-3241 2004
2005 Ross, C., V. Vreeland, J.H. Waite, and R.S. Jacobs. Rapid assembly of a wound plug: stage one of a two stage wound repair mechanism in the giant unicellular chlorophyte Dasycladus vermicularis. Journal of Phycology. 40 (1) 46-54. 2005
2005 Santiago-Vazquez, Lory Z.; Jacobs, Robert S.. Comparison of fatty acid composition of cell homogenates and isolated chloroplasts in Acetabularia crenulata (Lamouroux). Zeitschrift fuer Naturforschung, C: Journal of Biosciences 60(9/10), 757-763 2005
2005 Ross, Cliff; Kuepper, Frithiof C.; Vreeland, Valerie; Waite, J. Herbert; Jacobs, Robert S.. Evidence of a latent oxidative burst in relation to wound repair in the giant unicellular chlorophyte Dasycladus vermicularis. Journal of Phycology 41(3), 531-541 2005
2006 Mydlarz, Laura D.; Jacobs, Robert S.. An inducible release of reactive oxygen radicals in four species of gorgonian corals. Marine and Freshwater Behaviour and Physiology 39(2), 143-152 2006
2006 Moya, Claudia E.; Jacobs, Robert S.. Pseudopterosin A inhibits phagocytosis and alters intracellular calcium turnover in a pertussis toxin sensitive site in Tetrahymena thermophila. Comparative Biochemistry and Physiology, Part C: Toxicology & Pharmacology 143C(4), 436-443 2006
2006 Ross, Cliff; Kuepper, Frithjof C.; Jacobs, Robert S.. Involvement of Reactive Oxygen Species and Reactive Nitrogen Species in the Wound Response of Dasycladus vermicularis. Chemistry & Biology (Cambridge, MA, United States) 13(4), 353-364 2006