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Wei, S., Xie, Z., Filenova, E., and Brew, K. (2003) Drosophila TIMP is a potent inhibitor of MMPs and TACE: similarities in structure and function to TIMP-3. Biochemistry 42, 12200-12207.

Cui, T., Wei, S., Brew, K., and Leng, F. (2005) Energetics of binding the mammalian high mobility group protein HMGA2 to poly(dA-dT)2 and poly(dA)poly(dT). J. Mol. Biol. 352, 629-645.

Wei, S., Kashiwagi, M., Kota, S., Xie, Z., Nagase, H., and Brew, K. (2005) Reactive site mutations in TIMP-3 disrupt inhibition of MMPs but not ADAM-17 (TACE). J. Biol. Chem. 280, 32877-32882.

Iyer, S., Wei, S., Brew, K., and Acharya, K.R. (2007) Crystal structure of the catalytic domain of matrix metalloproteinase-1 in complex with the inhibitory domain of tissue inhibitor of metalloproteinase-1. J. Biol. Chem. 282, 364-371.

Lauer-Fields, J.L., Cudic, M., Wei, S., Mari, F., Fields, G.B., and Brew, K. (2007) Engineered sarafotoxins as TIMP-like MMP inhibitors. J. Biol. Chem. 282, 26948-26955.

Hamze A.B.†, Wei, S.†, Bahudhanapati, H., Kota, S., Acharya, K.R., and Brew, K. (2007) Constraining specificity in the N-domain of tissue inhibitor of metalloproteinases-1; gelatinase-selective inhibitors. Protein Sci. 16, 1905-1913. † Equal contributors.

Van Doren, S.R., Wei, S., Gao, G., Dague, B.B., Palmier, M.O., Bahudhanapati, H., Brew, K. (2008) Inactivation of N-TIMP-1 by N-terminal acetylation when expressed in Bacteria. Biopolymers 89, 960-968.

Wei, S.*, Whittaker, C., Xu, G., Bridges, L.C., Shah, A., White, J.M., and DeSimone, D.W. (2010) Conservation and divergence of ADAM family proteins in the Xenopus genome. BMC Evol. Biol. 10: 211. * Corresponding author.

Wei, S.*, Xu, G., Bridges, L.C., Williams, P., White, J.M., and DeSimone, D.W.* (2010) ADAM13 induces cranial neural crest by cleaving class B ephrins and regulating Wnt signaling. Dev. Cell 19: 345-352. * Corresponding authors.

Wu, Y., Wei, S., Van Doren, S.R., and Brew, K. (2011) Entropy increases from different sources support the high-affinity binding of the N-terminal inhibitory domains of the tissue inhibitors of metalloproteinases (N-TIMPs) to the catalytic domains of matrix metalloproteinases (MMPs) -1 and -3. J. Biol. Chem. 286, 16891-16899.

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Xu, G., Wei, S., White, J.M., and DeSimone, D.W. Identification and characterization of a novel ADAM10-like metalloproteinase in Xenopus. In preparation.