Andrew Terentis, Ph.D.
Professor and Department Chair
Charles E. Schmidt College of Science
Chemistry and Biochemistry
Boca Raton Campus | PS 110E
Research Description
Use of Raman spectroscopy and computational studies to characterize peptide and oligonucleotide structures, and cell interactions; Raman spectroscopy and machine learning to characterize skin cancers; enzyme kinetics, and mechanisms; Physical Chemistry pedagogical development.
Selected Publications
- JG Ricca, X Mayali, J Qu, PK Weber, G Poirier, CP Dufresne, JW Louda, AC Terentis, Endogenous Production and Vibrational Analysis of Heavy-Isotope-Labeled Peptides from Cyanobacteria, ChemBioChem, 2024:e202400019. [DOI: 10.1002/cbic.202400019]
- M Wu, S Wang, S Pan, AC Terentis, J Strasswimmer, X Zhu, Deep Learning Data Augmentation for Raman Spectroscopy Cancer Tissue Classification, Scientific Reports, 2021:11(1);23842. [PMID: 34903743]
- TC Foo, JE Meacham, AC Terentis, KV Venkatachalam, Gamma cleavage is a rate-determining step in the gamma-elimination reaction of L-methionine analogues catalyzed by methionine-gamma-lyase, BBA – Proteins and Proteomics, 2021:1869(7);140652. [PMID: 33746063]
- YJ Lim, TC Foo, AWS Yeung, X Tu, Y Ma, CL Hawkins, PK Witting, GN Jameson, AC Terentis, SR Thomas, Human Indoleamine 2,3-Dioxygenase-1 is a Novel Mammalian Nitrite Reductase, Biochemistry, 2019:58(7):974-986. [PMID: 30585477]
- PJ Cosme, J Ye, S Sears, EP Wojcikiewicz, AC Terentis, Label-Free Confocal Raman Mapping of Transportan in Melanoma Cells, Molecular Pharmaceutics, 2018:15(3);851-860. [PMID: 29397737]
- SJ Friedman, AC Terentis, Analysis of G-Quadruplex Conformations using Raman and Polarized Raman Spectroscopy, Journal of Raman Spectroscopy, 2016:47(3);259-268. [DOI: 10.1002/jrs.4823]
- SA Fox, A Shanblatt, H Beckman, J Strasswimmer, AC Terentis, Raman Spectroscopy Differentiates Squamous Cell Carcinoma (SCC) From Normal Skin Following Treatment with a High-Powered CO2 Laser, Lasers in Surgery and Medicine, 2014:46(10);757–772. [PMID: 25345858]
- AC Terentis, SA Fox, SJ Friedman, ES Spencer, Confocal Raman microspectroscopy discriminates live human metastatic melanoma and skin fibroblast cells, Journal of Raman Spectroscopy, 2013:44(9);1205-1216.
- J Ye, SA Fox, M Cudic, EM Rezler, JL Lauer, GB Fields, AC Terentis, Determination of Penetratin Secondary Structure in Live Cells with Raman Microscopy, Journal of the American Chemical Society, 2010:132(3);980-988. [PMID: 20041639]