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  • Kron MA, Erttmann K, Unnasch T, Greene B.  (1992) Characterization of a possible tRNA-synthetase gene from O. volvulus.  Molec Biochem Parasitol 52:289-92.
  • Kron MA, Ali MH. (1994) Characterization of a variant tandem repeat in Sudanese Onchocerca volvulus.  Trop Med Parasitol 44:113-115.
  • Kron MA, Pandy J, Guzman J. (1994) Immunoglobulin Allotypes in Ecuadorian Cayapa Amerindians with onchocerciasis.  Human Genetics 93:517-19.
  • Kron MA, Marquard K, Hartlein M, Price S, Leberman R. (1995) An immunodominant antigen from Brugia malayi is an asparaginyl-tRNA synthetase.  FEBS Letters 394:122-124.
  • Amano J, Rumbea J, Olsen J, Konbloch J, Kron MA. (1997) Bartonellosis in Ecuador: serosurvey and current status of cutaneous verrucous disease.  Am J Trop Medicine 57(2):174-179.
  • Padmalayam I, Anderson B, Kron MA, Kelly T. (1997) The 75-Kilodalton antigen of Bartonella bacilliformis is a structural homologue of the cell division protein FtsZ.  J Bacteriol 179 (14):4545-4552.
  • Lazdins J, Kron MA. (1999) New molecular targets for filariasis. Parasitol. Today 15(8):305-307.
  • Hirikata M, Suwa A, Nagai S, Kron MA. (1999) Characterization of anti-KS: autoantibody against human cytoplasmic AsnRS.  J Immunology 162(4):2315-20.
  • Kron MA, Bernadette R, Belizario V, Paney J. (1999) Immunoglobin allotypes in the Bicolano of Sorsogon, Philippines: implications of phenotypes for filariasis.  Exp Clin Immunogen 16:65-71.
  • Kron MA, Walker E, Ramirez B, Hernandez L. (2000) Lymphatic filariasis in the Philippines. Parasitology Today 6(8):329-333.
  • Kron MA, Ammunarez M, Pandy J, Rumbea J. (2000) Hyperimmunoglobulinemia E in the absence of filariasis-the Huaorani of Ecuador.  Asthma Allergy Proceedings 21(6):335-341.
  • Beaulande M, Kron MA, Hartlein M. (2001) Anti-KS autoantibody inhibits aminoacylation and increases  affinity of human asparaginyl tRNA synthetase for tRNA.  FEBS Letters 494(3):170-174.
  • Howard OM, Dong HF, Yang D, Raben N, Nagaraju K, Rosen A, Casciola-Rosen L, Hartlein M, Kron MA, Yang D, Yiadom K, Dwivedi S, Plotz PH, Oppenheim JJ.  (2002) Histidyl-tRNA synthetase and asparaginyl-tRNA synthetase, autoantigens in myositis, activate chemokine receptors on T   lymphocytes and immature dendritic cells.  J Exp Med  Sep 16;196(6):781-91
  • Kron MA, Hartlein M. (2003) Chapter: “Aminoacyl-tRNA Synthetases and Disease” in the Aminoacyl-tRNA synthetases, Landes Biosciences Publishers.  Eds: Michael Ibba, Christopher Franklyn and Stephen Cusack.. 
  • Kron MA, Hartlein M, Kuhn L, Grotli M, Cusack S. (2003) Strategies for Antiflarial Drug Development.  J Parasitology 89:S226-S235.
  • Kron MA, Petridis M, Milev Y, Leykam J, Hartlein M. (2003) Expression, localization and   alternative function of asparaginyl-tRNA synthetase in Brugia malayi. Mol Biochem Parasitology 129:33-39.
  • Whitby D, Marshall VA, Bagni RK, Wang CD, Gamache CJ, Guzman JR, Kron MA, Ebbesen P, Biggar RJ. Whitby D. (2004) Genotypic characterization of Kaposi’s sarcoma – associated herpesvirus in asymptomatic infected subjects from isolated populations.  J General Virology 85:155-163.
  • Ramirez B, Hernandez L, Kron MA. (2004) Contrasting microfilarial rates in neighboring rural Philippines villages with lymphatic filariasis.  AM J Trop Med 71(1):17-23.
  • Kron MA , Petridis M,  Haertlein M, Libranda-Ramirez B, Scaffidi LE. (2005) Do tissue levels of autoantigenic aminoacyl-tRNA synthetase predict clinical disease?  Med Hypotheses 65(6):1124-7. 
  • Dhananjeyan MR, Milev YP, Kron MA, Nair MG. (2005) Synthesis and activity of substituted anthra-quinones against human filarial parasite, Brugia malayi.  J Med Chem 21;48(8):2822-30.
  • Sukuru SC, Crepin T, Milev Y, Marsh LC, Hill JB, Anderson RJ, Morris JC, Rohatgi A, O'mahony G, Grotli M, Danel F, Page MG, Hartlein M, Cusack S, Kron MA, Kuhn LA. (2006) Discovering New Classes of Brugia malayi Asparaginyl-tRNA Synthetase Inhibitors and Relating Specificity to Conformational Change. J  Comput Aided Molec  Design., April 28. 
  • Ramirez BL, Howard OM, Dong HF, Edamatsu T, Gao P, Hartlein M, Kron MA. (2006) Brugia malayi Asparaginyl-Transfer RNA Synthetase Induces Chemotaxis of Human Leukocytes and Activates G-Protein-Coupled Receptors CXCR1 and CXCR2.  J Infect Dis. 15;193(8):1164 - 71.
  • Dalmacio L, B Ramirez, JR Ricaforte, EO Domingo and M Kron. (2007) Molecular epidemiology of Hepatitis G Virus (HGV) infection among risk groups. Acta  Medica Philippina. 52:212-217
  • Dalmacio L, OB Findji, BL Ramirez, T Schmidt and M Kron (2007)  Molecular identification and phage sensitivity of bioluminescent bacteria isolated from the coastal waters of Woodshole, Massachusetts.    Asia Life Sciences Journal 23:34-39.
  • B. Motin, L. Cruz, F. Gifford, Kron MA. (2007) A Modified Socio Culture Development Index (SCDI) for the Aytas of Kanawan, Morong,. Bataan, Philippines, Indigenous Perspectives.
  • Kron, MA, Ramirez, BL, Ramirez, Y. (2007) Capacity building in anthelmintic drug Discovery.  Expert Opinion Drug Discovery 2(S1):1-8.
  • Kron MA, Leykam J, Kopaczewski J, Matus I. (2007) Identification of diadenosine triphosphate in Brugia malayi by reverse phase high performance liquid chromatography and MALDI mass spectrometry.  J Chromatograpy B. Sep 1;856(1-2):234-8.