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Last published 2026
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Djamali Muhoza

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Assistant Professor

Also affiliated: Fayetteville Public Library (2018)

Faculty Researcher

3 h-index 16 pubs 109 cited

  • Peptides
  • Glutathione Transferase
  • Hot Temperature
  • Humans
  • Recombinant Fusion Proteins
  • Recombinant Proteins
  • Antineoplastic Agents
  • Neoplasms
  • ras Proteins
  • Biochemistry
  • p21-Activated Kinases
  • Endoplasmic Reticulum Chaperone BiP
  • Adenosine Triphosphate
  • Animals
  • Hypoxia

Biography and Research Information

OverviewAI-generated summary

Djamali Muhoza's research focuses on biochemistry, biophysics, and molecular biology, with a specialization in protein purification, characterization, and interaction studies. His work also involves the discovery and testing of small molecule inhibitors. Muhoza's doctoral research investigated the effects of drugs on Ras-related proteins and their interactions with effectors. He has published on the simplification of purification methods for heat-stable recombinant low molecular weight proteins and peptides derived from GST-fusion products, as well as on the purification of bioactive PAK1-derived peptides. Muhoza has also explored the potential of targeting K-Ras mutations for cancer treatment and developed cost-effective models for enzyme kinetics and inhibition relevant to biochemistry education and research. He has collaborated on multiple publications with researchers from the University of Arkansas at Fayetteville.

Metrics

  • h-index: 3
  • Publications: 16
  • Citations: 109

Selected Publications

  • Abstract 4123 Dual Targeting of Cdc42 and Rac1 Reveals Novel Small-Molecule Inhibitors of Metastasis in Triple-Negative Breast Cancer (2026)
    Journal of Biological Chemistry DOI OpenAlex
  • One-step purification of a bioactive PAK1-derived peptide (2025)
    Analytical Biochemistry DOI OpenAlex
  • A cost‐effective enzyme kinetics and inhibition model for biochemistry education and research (2024)
    Biochemistry and Molecular Biology Education 1 citation DOI OpenAlex
  • A Simple Purification Method for Heat-Stable Recombinant Low Molecular Weight Proteins and Peptides Via GST-Fusion Products (2023)
    Methods in molecular biology 1 citation DOI OpenAlex
  • Targeting K-Ras Mutations Show Promise Towards Ending Ras’s“Undruggable” Era (2022)
    Protein and Peptide Letters 2 citations DOI OpenAlex
  • Simplification of the purification of heat stable recombinant low molecular weight proteins and peptides from GST-fusion products (2021)
    Journal of Chromatography B 12 citations DOI OpenAlex
  • Characterizing the Influence of Two Small Molecule Targets Towards the Ras-Related Protein Cdc42 (2020)
    Biophysical Journal DOI OpenAlex
  • The Effects of a Small-Molecule Inhibitor on Cdc42, its Mutant and its Interaction with Effector Proteins (2020)
    Biophysical Journal DOI OpenAlex
  • Characterizing the Direct Influence of a Small Molecule on a RAS-Related Protein Interaction (2019)
    Biophysical Journal DOI OpenAlex
  • Two Small Molecules, ZCL278 and AZA197 Show Promise in Influencing Protein Interactions Involving the Ras-Related Protein Cell division cycle 42 [Cdc42] to Modulate Its Oncogenic Potential (2017)
    Open Journal of Biophysics 4 citations DOI OpenAlex
  • Biochemical and Biophysical Characterization of a Small Molecule Interaction with the Ras-Related Protein Cdc42 (2017)
    Biophysical Journal DOI OpenAlex
  • Characterization of the Influence of a Small Molecule on a Ras-Related Protein-Protein Interaction (2016)
    Biophysical Journal DOI OpenAlex
  • Endoplasmic Reticulum Stress-Induced Autophagy Provides Cytoprotection from Chemical Hypoxia and Oxidant Injury and Ameliorates Renal Ischemia-Reperfusion Injury (2015)
    PLoS ONE 89 citations DOI OpenAlex

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