Makurath M.A., Whitley K.D., Nguyen B., Lohman T.M., & Chemla Y.R. (2019). “Regulation of Rep helicase unwinding by an auto-inhibitory subdomain.” Nucleic Acids Res. 2019 Mar 18;47(5):2523-2532. doi: 10.1093/nar/gkz023. (Abstract)
January 14th, 2019 – Washington University’s Dr. Michael Kinch spoke on PBS Living St. Louis about vaccines and the anti-vaccine movement of today.
Katarzyna Dubiel, Angela R. Myers, Alexander G. Kozlov, Olivia Yang, Jichuan Zhang, Taekjip Ha, Timothy M. Lohman, & James L. Keck (2019). “Structural Mechanisms of Cooperative DNA Binding by Bacterial Single-Stranded DNA-Binding Proteins” J Mol Biol. 2019 Jan 18;431(2):178-195. doi: 10.1016/j.jmb.2018.11.019. Epub 2018 Nov 22. (Abstract)
January 17th, 2019 – Andrea Soranno, PhD, Assistant Professor of Biochemistry and Molecular Biophysics received a new three year Research Grant Award from the Alzheimer’s Association (AARG) for his work entitled “Conformational analysis of ApoE isoforms and their role in AD mechanism”.
Lisa Eshun-Wilson, Rui Zhang, Didier Portran, Maxence Nachury, Daniel Toso, Thomas Lohr, Michelle Vendruscolo, Massimiliano Bonomi, James Fraser, & Eva Nogales (2019). “Effects of α-tubulin acetylation on microtubule structure and stability” bioRxiv. January 09, 2019. doi.org/10.1101/516591. (Abstract)
January 9th, 2019 – Weikai Li, PhD, assistant professor of biochemistry and molecular biophysics received a four year renewal from the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute for his research entitled “Structural and Functional Basis of the Vitamin K Cycle”.
On December 8th, 2018, the BMB Department celebrated its annual Holiday Party at Saratoga Lanes in Maplewood, MO. Everyone enjoyed bowling, pool and a visit from Santa.
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Kawaguchi M., Yamamoto K., Takeda N., Fukushima T., Yamashita F., Sato K., Kitamura K., Hippo Y., Janetka J.W., & Kataoka H. (2019). “Hepatocyte growth factor activator inhibitor-2 stabilizes Epcam and maintains epithelial organization in the mouse intestine.” Commun Biol. 2019 Jan 4;2:11. doi: 10.1038/s42003-018-0255-8. eCollection 2019. (Abstract)
Congratulations to John LeClair and Meng’ou (Mary) Zhu for receiving the 2018 David F. Silbert Summer Fellowship Award.
John LeClair worked with Drs. Lisa D McKenzie and Milan G Chheda on a project entitled “Characterizing the role of CHD4 in glioblastoma treatment response”, and Meng’ou (Mary) Zhu worked with Drs. Matthew J Walter and Michael O Alberti on a project entitled “Mutant U2AF1(Q157P) expression alters hematopoiesis in vivo.” (more…)
December 27th, 2018 – Weikai Li, PhD, assistant professor of biochemistry and molecular biophysics, along with Rui Zhang, PhD, assistant professor of biochemistry and molecular biophysics received a new three year, grant award from the W. M. Keck foundation for their research entitled “Terminal coupling enabled structure determination of human membrane proteins at atomic resolution”.