Superfund Research Program
Geoffrey D. Bothun
University of Rhode Island
203 Crawford Hall
16 Greenhouse Road
Kingston, Rhode Island 02881-2018
Phone: 401-874-9518
Email: bothun@egr.uri.edu
Projects
- University of Rhode Island: PFAS Compound Effects on Metabolic Abnormalities in Rodents (2017-2022)
Publications
2022
- Marques E, Pfohl M, Wei W, Tarantola G, Ford L, Amaeze O, Alesio J, Ryu S, Jia X, Zhu H, Bothun GD, Slitt AL. 2022. Replacement per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) are potent modulators of lipogenic and drug metabolizing gene expression signatures in primary human hepatocytes. Toxicol Appl Pharmacol 442:115991. doi:10.1016/j.taap.2022.115991 PMID:35337807 PMCID:PMC9036616
- Naumann A, Alesio J, Poonia M, Bothun GD. 2022. PFAS fluidize synthetic and bacterial lipid monolayers based on hydrophobicity and lipid charge. J Environ Chem Eng 10:107351. doi:10.1016/j.jece.2022.107351 PMID:35463622 PMCID:PMC9029377
2021
- Alesio J, Slitt AL, Bothun GD. 2021. Critical new insights into the binding of poly- and perfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) to albumin protein. Chemosphere 287(Pt1):131979. doi:10.1016/j.chemosphere.2021.131979 PMID:34450368 (ahead of print)
- Fedorenko M, Alesio J, Fedorenko A, Slitt AL, Bothun GD. 2021. Dominant entropic binding of perfluoroalkyl substances (PFASs) to albumin protein revealed by 19 F NMR. Chemosphere 263(9):doi:10.1016/j.chemosphere.2020.128083 PMID:33297081