Dr Yousef Abul-Haija
- Senior Scientist (School of Molecular Biosciences)
Publications
2021
Pow, R. W., Sinclair, Z. L., Bell, N. L. , Watfa, N., Abul-Haija, Y. M. , Long, D.-L. and Cronin, L. (2021) Enantioselective recognition of racemic amino alcohols in aqueous solution by chiral metal-oxide keplerate {Mo132} cluster capsules. Chemistry: A European Journal, 27(48), pp. 12327-12334. (doi: 10.1002/chem.202100899) (PMID:34196438)
2019
Doran, D., Abul-Haija, Y. M. and Cronin, L. (2019) Emergence of function and selection from recursively programmed polymerisation reactions in mineral environments. Angewandte Chemie (International Edition), 58(33), pp. 11253-11256. (doi: 10.1002/anie.201902287) (PMID:31206983) (PMCID:PMC6772075)
Debnath, S. et al. (2019) Tunable supramolecular gels by varying thermal history. Chemistry: A European Journal, 25(33), pp. 7881-7887. (doi: 10.1002/chem.201806281) (PMID:30945773)
Surman, A. J. , Rodriguez Garcia, M., Abul-Haija, Y. M. , Cooper, G. J.T. , Gromski, P. S., Turk-MacLeod, R., Mullin, M., Mathis, C., Walker, S. I. and Cronin, L. (2019) Environmental control programs the emergence of distinct functional ensembles from unconstrained chemical reactions. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 116(12), pp. 5387-5392. (doi: 10.1073/pnas.1813987116) (PMID:30842280) (PMCID:PMC6431231)
Suárez-Marina, I., Abul-Haija, Y. M. , Turk-MacLeod, R., Gromski, P. S., Cooper, G. J.T. , Olivé Olivé, A., Colón-Santos, S. and Cronin, L. (2019) Integrated synthesis of nucleotide and nucleosides influenced by amino acids. Communications Chemistry, 2, 28. (doi: 10.1038/s42004-019-0130-7)
Brito, A., Abul-Haija, Y. M. , Soares da Costa, D., Novoa-Carballal, R., Reis, R. L., Ulijn, R., Pires, R. A. and Pashkuleva, I. (2019) Minimalistic supramolecular proteoglycan mimics by co-assembly of aromatic peptide and carbohydrate amphiphiles. Chemical Science, 10, pp. 2385-2390. (doi: 10.1039/C8SC04361B) (PMID:30881666) (PMCID:PMC6385665)
2018
Yoshida, M. , Hinkley, T., Tsuda, S., Abul-Haija, Y. , Mcburney, R. T., Kulikov, V., Mathieson, J., Galinanes Reyes, S., Castro Spencer, M. D. and Cronin, L. (2018) Using evolutionary algorithms and machine learning to explore sequence space for the discovery of antimicrobial peptides. Chem, 4(3), pp. 533-543. (doi: 10.1016/j.chempr.2018.01.005)
Szymański, J. K., Abul-Haija, Y. M. and Cronin, L. (2018) Exploring strategies to bias sequence in natural and synthetic oligomers and polymers. Accounts of Chemical Research, 51(3), pp. 649-658. (doi: 10.1021/acs.accounts.7b00495) (PMID:29493212)
Pires, R. A., Abul-Haija, Y. M. , Reis, R. L., Ulijn, R. V. and Pashkuleva, I. (2018) Hydrogel nanomaterials for cancer diagnosis and therapy. In: Raghu, T., Singh, R., Laverty, G. and Donnelly, R. (eds.) Hydrogels: Design, Synthesis and Application in Drug Delivery and Regenerative Medicine. CRC Press, pp. 170-183. ISBN 9781498748612
Conte, M. P., Sahoo, J. K. K., Abul-Haija, Y. M. , Lau, K. H. A. and Ulijn, R. V. (2018) Biocatalytic self-assembly on magnetic nanoparticles. ACS Applied Materials and Interfaces, 10(3), pp. 3069-3075. (doi: 10.1021/acsami.7b15456) (PMID:29282971)
2017
Abul-Haija, Y. M. , Scott, G. G., Sahoo, J. K., Tuttle, T. and Ulijn, R. (2017) Cooperative, ion-sensitive co-assembly of tripeptide hydrogels. Chemical Communications, 53(69), pp. 9562-9565. (doi: 10.1039/C7CC04796G) (PMID:28805225)
Surman, A. J. , Rodriguez-Garcia, M., Abul-Haija, Y. , Cooper, G. J.T. , Donkers, K., Planchat i Barbarà, J. M., Kube, J., Mullin, M., Hezwani, M. and Cronin, L. (2017) Can a Reaction's Environment Program its Outcome, and Does it Matter? In: XVIIIth International Conference on the Origin of Life (LPI Contribution No. 1967), San Diego, CA, USA, 16-21 Jul 2017, p. 4006.
Sahoo, J. K., Pappas, C. G., Sasselli, I. R., Abul-Haija, Y. M. and Ulijn, R. V. (2017) Biocatalytic self-assembly cascades. Angewandte Chemie (International Edition), 56(24), pp. 6828-6832. (doi: 10.1002/anie.201701870) (PMID:28488273)
2015
Abul-Haija, Y. M. and Ulijn, R. V. (2015) Sequence adaptive peptide–polysaccharide nanostructures by biocatalytic self-assembly. Biomacromolecules, 16(11), pp. 3473-3479. (doi: 10.1021/acs.biomac.5b00893) (PMID:26418176)
Pappas, C. G. et al. (2015) Alignment of nanostructured tripeptide gels by directional ultrasonication. Chemical Communications, 51(40), pp. 8465-8468. (doi: 10.1039/c5cc02049b)
Pires, R. A., Abul-Haija, Y. M. , Costa, D. S., Novoa-Carballal, R., Reis, R. L., Ulijn, R. V. and Pashkuleva, I. (2015) Controlling cancer cell fate using localized biocatalytic self-assembly of an aromatic carbohydrate amphiphile. Journal of the American Chemical Society, 137(2), pp. 576-579. (doi: 10.1021/ja5111893) (PMID:25539667)
Frederix, P. W. J. M., Scott, G. G., Abul-Haija, Y. M. , Kalafatovic, D., Pappas, C. G., Javid, N., Hunt, N. T., Ulijn, R. V. and Tuttle, T. (2015) Exploring the sequence space for (tri-)peptide self-assembly to design and discover new hydrogels. Nature Chemistry, 7(1), pp. 30-37. (doi: 10.1038/nchem.2122) (PMID:25515887)
2014
Pappas, C. G., Abul-Haija, Y. M. , Flack, A., Frederix, P. W. J. M. and Ulijn, R. V. (2014) Tuneable Fmoc–Phe–(4-X)–Phe–NH2 nanostructures by variable electronic substitution. Chemical Communications, 50(73), pp. 10630-10633. (doi: 10.1039/C4CC04926H) (PMID:25074634)
Abul-Haija, Y. M. and Ulijn, R. V. (2014) Enzyme-responsive hydrogels for biomedical applications. In: Connon, C. J. and Hamley, I. W. (eds.) Hydrogels in Cell-Based Therapies. Series: RSC soft matter series. Royal Society of Chemistry: Cambridge, pp. 112-134. ISBN 9781849737982 (doi: 10.1039/9781782622055-00112)
Abul-Haija, Y. M. , Roy, S., Frederix, P. W. J. M., Javid, N., Jayawarna, V. and Ulijn, R. V. (2014) Biocatalytically triggered co-assembly of two-component core/shell nanofibers. Small, 10(5), pp. 973-979. (doi: 10.1002/smll.201301668) (PMID:24027125)
2013
Scott, G., Roy, S., Abul-Haija, Y. M. , Fleming, S., Bai, S. and Ulijn, R. V. (2013) Pickering stabilized peptide gel particles as tunable microenvironments for biocatalysis. Langmuir, 29(46), pp. 14321-14327. (doi: 10.1021/la403448s) (PMID:24144273)
Thornton, K., Abul-Haija, Y. M. , Hodson, N. and Ulijn, R. V. (2013) Mechanistic insights into phosphatase triggered self-assembly including enhancement of biocatalytic conversion rate. Soft Matter, 9(39), pp. 9430-9439. (doi: 10.1039/C3SM51177D)
2012
Abul-Haija, Y.M. , Roy, S., Frederix, P.W.J.M., Javid, N., Jayawama, V. and Ulijn, R.V. (2012) Peptide-amphiphiles Functionalization Via Co-assembly for Cell Culture. TERM STEM 2013 Nanotechnology as a Tool for Improving Tissue Engineering and Regenerative Medicine and POLARIS, Porto, Portugal, 07-12 Oct 2013.
2011
Fares, M. M., Tahboub, Y. R., Khatatbeh, S. T. and Abul-Haija, Y. M. (2011) Eco-friendly, vascular shape and interpenetrating poly (acrylic acid) grafted pectin hydrogels; biosorption and desorption investigations. Journal of Polymers and the Environment, 19(2), pp. 431-439. (doi: 10.1007/s10924-011-0296-2)
Assaf, S. M., Abul-Haija, Y. M. and Fares, M. M. (2011) Versatile pectin grafted poly (N-isopropylacrylamide); modulated targeted drug release. Journal of Macromolecular Science, Part A, 48(6), pp. 493-502. (doi: 10.1080/10601325.2011.573374)
2010
Fares, M. M., Assaf, S. M. and Abul-Haija, Y. M. (2010) Pectin grafted poly(N-vinylpyrrolidone): Optimization and in vitro controllable theophylline drug release. Journal of Applied Polymer Science, 117(4), pp. 1945-1954. (doi: 10.1002/app.32172)
Articles
Pow, R. W., Sinclair, Z. L., Bell, N. L. , Watfa, N., Abul-Haija, Y. M. , Long, D.-L. and Cronin, L. (2021) Enantioselective recognition of racemic amino alcohols in aqueous solution by chiral metal-oxide keplerate {Mo132} cluster capsules. Chemistry: A European Journal, 27(48), pp. 12327-12334. (doi: 10.1002/chem.202100899) (PMID:34196438)
Doran, D., Abul-Haija, Y. M. and Cronin, L. (2019) Emergence of function and selection from recursively programmed polymerisation reactions in mineral environments. Angewandte Chemie (International Edition), 58(33), pp. 11253-11256. (doi: 10.1002/anie.201902287) (PMID:31206983) (PMCID:PMC6772075)
Debnath, S. et al. (2019) Tunable supramolecular gels by varying thermal history. Chemistry: A European Journal, 25(33), pp. 7881-7887. (doi: 10.1002/chem.201806281) (PMID:30945773)
Surman, A. J. , Rodriguez Garcia, M., Abul-Haija, Y. M. , Cooper, G. J.T. , Gromski, P. S., Turk-MacLeod, R., Mullin, M., Mathis, C., Walker, S. I. and Cronin, L. (2019) Environmental control programs the emergence of distinct functional ensembles from unconstrained chemical reactions. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 116(12), pp. 5387-5392. (doi: 10.1073/pnas.1813987116) (PMID:30842280) (PMCID:PMC6431231)
Suárez-Marina, I., Abul-Haija, Y. M. , Turk-MacLeod, R., Gromski, P. S., Cooper, G. J.T. , Olivé Olivé, A., Colón-Santos, S. and Cronin, L. (2019) Integrated synthesis of nucleotide and nucleosides influenced by amino acids. Communications Chemistry, 2, 28. (doi: 10.1038/s42004-019-0130-7)
Brito, A., Abul-Haija, Y. M. , Soares da Costa, D., Novoa-Carballal, R., Reis, R. L., Ulijn, R., Pires, R. A. and Pashkuleva, I. (2019) Minimalistic supramolecular proteoglycan mimics by co-assembly of aromatic peptide and carbohydrate amphiphiles. Chemical Science, 10, pp. 2385-2390. (doi: 10.1039/C8SC04361B) (PMID:30881666) (PMCID:PMC6385665)
Yoshida, M. , Hinkley, T., Tsuda, S., Abul-Haija, Y. , Mcburney, R. T., Kulikov, V., Mathieson, J., Galinanes Reyes, S., Castro Spencer, M. D. and Cronin, L. (2018) Using evolutionary algorithms and machine learning to explore sequence space for the discovery of antimicrobial peptides. Chem, 4(3), pp. 533-543. (doi: 10.1016/j.chempr.2018.01.005)
Szymański, J. K., Abul-Haija, Y. M. and Cronin, L. (2018) Exploring strategies to bias sequence in natural and synthetic oligomers and polymers. Accounts of Chemical Research, 51(3), pp. 649-658. (doi: 10.1021/acs.accounts.7b00495) (PMID:29493212)
Conte, M. P., Sahoo, J. K. K., Abul-Haija, Y. M. , Lau, K. H. A. and Ulijn, R. V. (2018) Biocatalytic self-assembly on magnetic nanoparticles. ACS Applied Materials and Interfaces, 10(3), pp. 3069-3075. (doi: 10.1021/acsami.7b15456) (PMID:29282971)
Abul-Haija, Y. M. , Scott, G. G., Sahoo, J. K., Tuttle, T. and Ulijn, R. (2017) Cooperative, ion-sensitive co-assembly of tripeptide hydrogels. Chemical Communications, 53(69), pp. 9562-9565. (doi: 10.1039/C7CC04796G) (PMID:28805225)
Sahoo, J. K., Pappas, C. G., Sasselli, I. R., Abul-Haija, Y. M. and Ulijn, R. V. (2017) Biocatalytic self-assembly cascades. Angewandte Chemie (International Edition), 56(24), pp. 6828-6832. (doi: 10.1002/anie.201701870) (PMID:28488273)
Abul-Haija, Y. M. and Ulijn, R. V. (2015) Sequence adaptive peptide–polysaccharide nanostructures by biocatalytic self-assembly. Biomacromolecules, 16(11), pp. 3473-3479. (doi: 10.1021/acs.biomac.5b00893) (PMID:26418176)
Pappas, C. G. et al. (2015) Alignment of nanostructured tripeptide gels by directional ultrasonication. Chemical Communications, 51(40), pp. 8465-8468. (doi: 10.1039/c5cc02049b)
Pires, R. A., Abul-Haija, Y. M. , Costa, D. S., Novoa-Carballal, R., Reis, R. L., Ulijn, R. V. and Pashkuleva, I. (2015) Controlling cancer cell fate using localized biocatalytic self-assembly of an aromatic carbohydrate amphiphile. Journal of the American Chemical Society, 137(2), pp. 576-579. (doi: 10.1021/ja5111893) (PMID:25539667)
Frederix, P. W. J. M., Scott, G. G., Abul-Haija, Y. M. , Kalafatovic, D., Pappas, C. G., Javid, N., Hunt, N. T., Ulijn, R. V. and Tuttle, T. (2015) Exploring the sequence space for (tri-)peptide self-assembly to design and discover new hydrogels. Nature Chemistry, 7(1), pp. 30-37. (doi: 10.1038/nchem.2122) (PMID:25515887)
Pappas, C. G., Abul-Haija, Y. M. , Flack, A., Frederix, P. W. J. M. and Ulijn, R. V. (2014) Tuneable Fmoc–Phe–(4-X)–Phe–NH2 nanostructures by variable electronic substitution. Chemical Communications, 50(73), pp. 10630-10633. (doi: 10.1039/C4CC04926H) (PMID:25074634)
Abul-Haija, Y. M. , Roy, S., Frederix, P. W. J. M., Javid, N., Jayawarna, V. and Ulijn, R. V. (2014) Biocatalytically triggered co-assembly of two-component core/shell nanofibers. Small, 10(5), pp. 973-979. (doi: 10.1002/smll.201301668) (PMID:24027125)
Scott, G., Roy, S., Abul-Haija, Y. M. , Fleming, S., Bai, S. and Ulijn, R. V. (2013) Pickering stabilized peptide gel particles as tunable microenvironments for biocatalysis. Langmuir, 29(46), pp. 14321-14327. (doi: 10.1021/la403448s) (PMID:24144273)
Thornton, K., Abul-Haija, Y. M. , Hodson, N. and Ulijn, R. V. (2013) Mechanistic insights into phosphatase triggered self-assembly including enhancement of biocatalytic conversion rate. Soft Matter, 9(39), pp. 9430-9439. (doi: 10.1039/C3SM51177D)
Fares, M. M., Tahboub, Y. R., Khatatbeh, S. T. and Abul-Haija, Y. M. (2011) Eco-friendly, vascular shape and interpenetrating poly (acrylic acid) grafted pectin hydrogels; biosorption and desorption investigations. Journal of Polymers and the Environment, 19(2), pp. 431-439. (doi: 10.1007/s10924-011-0296-2)
Assaf, S. M., Abul-Haija, Y. M. and Fares, M. M. (2011) Versatile pectin grafted poly (N-isopropylacrylamide); modulated targeted drug release. Journal of Macromolecular Science, Part A, 48(6), pp. 493-502. (doi: 10.1080/10601325.2011.573374)
Fares, M. M., Assaf, S. M. and Abul-Haija, Y. M. (2010) Pectin grafted poly(N-vinylpyrrolidone): Optimization and in vitro controllable theophylline drug release. Journal of Applied Polymer Science, 117(4), pp. 1945-1954. (doi: 10.1002/app.32172)
Book Sections
Pires, R. A., Abul-Haija, Y. M. , Reis, R. L., Ulijn, R. V. and Pashkuleva, I. (2018) Hydrogel nanomaterials for cancer diagnosis and therapy. In: Raghu, T., Singh, R., Laverty, G. and Donnelly, R. (eds.) Hydrogels: Design, Synthesis and Application in Drug Delivery and Regenerative Medicine. CRC Press, pp. 170-183. ISBN 9781498748612
Abul-Haija, Y. M. and Ulijn, R. V. (2014) Enzyme-responsive hydrogels for biomedical applications. In: Connon, C. J. and Hamley, I. W. (eds.) Hydrogels in Cell-Based Therapies. Series: RSC soft matter series. Royal Society of Chemistry: Cambridge, pp. 112-134. ISBN 9781849737982 (doi: 10.1039/9781782622055-00112)
Conference or Workshop Item
Abul-Haija, Y.M. , Roy, S., Frederix, P.W.J.M., Javid, N., Jayawama, V. and Ulijn, R.V. (2012) Peptide-amphiphiles Functionalization Via Co-assembly for Cell Culture. TERM STEM 2013 Nanotechnology as a Tool for Improving Tissue Engineering and Regenerative Medicine and POLARIS, Porto, Portugal, 07-12 Oct 2013.
Conference Proceedings
Surman, A. J. , Rodriguez-Garcia, M., Abul-Haija, Y. , Cooper, G. J.T. , Donkers, K., Planchat i Barbarà, J. M., Kube, J., Mullin, M., Hezwani, M. and Cronin, L. (2017) Can a Reaction's Environment Program its Outcome, and Does it Matter? In: XVIIIth International Conference on the Origin of Life (LPI Contribution No. 1967), San Diego, CA, USA, 16-21 Jul 2017, p. 4006.