Book chapters:

1. Besemann, C.,Denton, A., Yekkirala, A., Hutchison, R.S., and Anderson, M.A. (2006)

DifferentialAssociation Rules: Understanding Annotations in Protein Interaction Networks.In Advanced Data Mining Technologies in Bioinformatics  (Hui-Huang Hsu, Ed.) pg 269-282, IdeaGroup Inc.

2. Besemann, C.,Denton, A., Yekkirala, A., Hutchison, R.S., and Anderson, M.A. (2007)

DifferentialAssociation Rules: Understanding Annotations in Protein Interaction Networks.In Intelligent Information Technologies: Concepts, Methodologies, Tools andApplications, Volumes 1-4, (Sugumaran, V, Ed.), pg 620-630, Idea Group Inc.

Research Papers:

1. Liu, H., Ladage,K., Iyer, J., Yekkirala, A., and Hutchison, R.S. (2004) Targetedscreening for PsbO mutations in Chlamydomonas reinhardtii. In Photosynthesis:Fundamental Aspects to Global Perspectives, Proceedingsof the 13th International Congress on Photosynthesis. ACG Publishing,Lawrence, KS

2. Besemann, C.,Denton, A., Yekkirala, A., Hutchison, R.S., and Anderson, M.A. (2004)

DifferentialAssociation Rule Mining for the Study of Protein-Protein Interaction Networks. In proceedings 4th Workshop on DataMining in Bioinformatics in conjunction with The Tenth ACM SIGKDD InternationalConference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining. Seattle, WA, USA

3. Lunzer, M., Yekkirala,A., Hebbel, R. P. and Portoghese, P.S. (2007) Naloxone acts as a potent analgesicin mice with sickle cell disease. Proc.Natl. Acad. Sci., USA. 104, 6061-6065.

4. Zhang, S., Yekkirala,A. S., Tang, Y. & Portoghese P. S. (2009) A bivalent ligand (KMN-21)antagonist for μ/κ heterodimeric opioid receptors. Bioorg.Med. Chem. Lett. 19, 6978-6980.

5. Yekkirala, A.S., Kalyuzhny, A. E. & Portoghese, P. S. (2009) Standard OpioidAgonists Activate Heteromeric Opioid Receptors: Evidence for Morphine and[d-Ala2-MePhe4-Glyol5] Enkephalin as Selective μ−δ Agonists. ACS Chem. Neurosci., 1,146 – 154.

6. Yekkirala, A.S., Lunzer, M. M., McCurdy, C. R., Powers, M. P., Roerig, S. C. &Portoghese, P. S. (2011) N-Naphthoyl-β-naltrexamine (NNTA), a selective activatorof μ/κ opioid receptor heteromers. Proc.Natl. Acad. Sci. USA. DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1016277108

7. Metcalf, M., Yekkirala,A. S., Powers, M. D., Kitto, K., Fairbanks, C. A., Wilcox, G. L., andPortoghese, P. S. (2012) The δ Opioid Receptor Agonist SNC80 SelectivelyActivates Heteromeric μ–δ Opioid Receptors. ACS Chem. Neurosci. DOI: 10.1021/cn3000394

8. Yekkirala, A. S. (2012) Two to tango: GPCR oligomers and GPCR-TRP channel interactionsin nociception. Life Sci. (in press)