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Aleksej Krunic


Direector, Shared Lab Resources, Medicinal Chemistry and Pharmacognosy
Research Assistant Professor, Medicinal Chemistry and Pharmacognosy

Contact

Address:

833 S. Wood Street, Chicago, IL, 60612

Office Phone:

(312) 996-4364

Email:

akrunic@uic.edu

Selected Publications

  • Krunic A, Orjala J. Application of high-field NMR spectroscopy for characterization and quantitation of submilligram quantities of isolated natural products.. Magnetic resonance in chemistry : MRC. 2015;53(12):1043-50. doi:10.1002/mrc.4304.

  • Jain AD, Potteti HG, Richardson BP, Kingsley LF, Luciano J, Ryuzoji A, Lee HD, Krunic AP, Mesecar A, Reddy S, Moore T. Probing the structural requirements of non-electrophilic naphthalene-based Nrf2 activators.. European journal of medicinal chemistry. 2015;103:252-68. doi:10.1016/j.ejmech.2015.08.049.

  • Luo S, Krunic A, Chlipala GE, Orjala J. Microseiramide from the Freshwater Cyanobacterium Microseira sp. UIC 10445.. Phytochemistry letters. 2015;13:47-52. doi:10.1016/j.phytol.2015.05.003.

  • Luo S, Kang HS, Krunic A, Chen W, Yang J, Woodard JL, Fuchs JR, Hyun Cho S, Franzblau SG, Swanson SM, Orjala J. Trichormamides C and D, antiproliferative cyclic lipopeptides from the cultured freshwater cyanobacterium cf. Oscillatoria sp. UIC 10045.. Bioorganic & medicinal chemistry. 2015;23(13):3153-62. doi:10.1016/j.bmc.2015.04.073.

  • Luo S, Kang HS, Krunic A, Chlipala GE, Cai G, Chen WG, Franzblau SM, Swanson S, Orjala J. Carbamidocyclophanes F and G with Anti-Mycobacterium tuberculosis Activity from the Cultured Freshwater Cyanobacterium Nostoc sp.. Tetrahedron letters. 2014;55(3):686-689. doi:10.1016/j.tetlet.2013.11.112.

  • Kang HS, Santarsiero BD, Kim H, Krunic A, Shen QM, Swanson SD, Chai H, Kinghorn A, Orjala J. Merocyclophanes A and B, antiproliferative cyclophanes from the cultured terrestrial Cyanobacterium Nostoc sp.. Phytochemistry. 2012;79:109-15. doi:10.1016/j.phytochem.2012.03.005.

  • Chlipala GE, Krunic A, Mo S, Sturdy M, Orjala J. CYANOS: a data management system for natural product drug discovery efforts using cultured microorganisms.. Journal of chemical information and modeling. 2011;51(1):171-80. doi:10.1021/ci100280a.

  • Mo S, Krunic AD, Santarsiero BG, Franzblau S, Orjala J. Hapalindole-related alkaloids from the cultured cyanobacterium Fischerella ambigua.. Phytochemistry. 2010;71(17-18):2116-23. doi:10.1016/j.phytochem.2010.09.004.

  • Mo S, Krunic AD, Santarsiero BG, Franzblau S, Orjala J. Hapalindole-related alkaloids from the cultured cyanobacterium Fischerella ambigua.. Phytochemistry. 2010;71(17-18):2116-23. doi:10.1016/j.phytochem.2010.09.004.

  • Chlipala GE, Sturdy M, Krunic AD, Lantvit DM, Shen Q, Porter K, Swanson S, Orjala J. Cylindrocyclophanes with proteasome inhibitory activity from the Cyanobacterium Nostoc sp.. Journal of natural products. 2010;73(9):1529-37. doi:10.1021/np100352e.

  • Chlipala GE, Pham HT, Nguyen VH, Krunic A, Shim SH, Soejarto DD, Orjala J. Nhatrangins A and B, aplysiatoxin-related metabolites from the marine cyanobacterium Lyngbya majuscula from Vietnam.. Journal of natural products. 2010;73(4):784-7. doi:10.1021/np100002q.

  • Mo S, Krunic AD, Pegan SG, Franzblau S, Orjala J. An antimicrobial guanidine-bearing sesterterpene from the cultured cyanobacterium Scytonema sp.. Journal of natural products. 2009;72(11):2043-5. doi:10.1021/np900288x.

  • Nikolic DS, Lankin DC, Chen S, Jaki BU, Krunic A, van Breemen RB, Fong HH, Farnsworth NR, Pauli GF. Cimipronidine, a cyclic guanidine alkaloid from Cimicifuga racemosa.. Journal of natural products. 2005;68(8):1266-70. doi:10.1021/np050066d.