Biochemistry and Enzymology Faculty

   
Assistant Professor of Cellular & Structural Biology

  • Regulation of glycoprotein oligosaccaride biosynthesis
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    Associate Professor of Pharmacology

  • Protein-DNA interactions and DNA chaperones
  • Macromolecular interactions
  • Enzymatic mechanism
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    Professor of Pediatrics
    Professor of Cell and Structural Biology

  • Flavoprotiens and iron-sulfur proteins
  • Inherited metabolic diseases
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    Professor, Biochemistry & Molecular Genetics
    Director, Program in Biomolecular Structure
    John Stewart Endowed Chair, Peptide Chemistry

  • Prediction of folding, stability and structure of proteins from amino acid sequence using tropomyosin and de novo designed proteins
  • De novo design of templates for generating conformation-specific antibodies that recognize a-helices in proteins
  • development of high-performance liquid chromatography and capillary electrophoresis methodology for separation of peptides and proteins
  • development of conformational-specific combinatorial peptide libraries for drug discovery
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    Assistant Professor of Pharmacology

  • Determinants of alcohol binding sites in proteins
  • Structure-functions relationships in proteins
  •   Jeffrey S. Kieft, Ph.D.
    Assistant Professor of Biochemistry and Molecular Genetics

  • The mechanism of internal ribosomal entry
  • RNA-protein recognition strategies
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    Assistant Professor of Pharmacology

  • Molecular mechanisms of protein-protein and protein-phospholipid interactions
  • Design of membrane mimetic systems for NMR
  • Development of quantitative methods for determining the orientation of proteins within membranes