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A.B., 1964, Barnard College Ph. D., 1967, University of Pittsburgh AWARDS & HONORS Board of Governors Professor of Chemistry and Chemical Biology Fellow, American Association for the Advancement of Science Fellow of the Biophysical Society 2000 Distinguished Service Award, Biophysical Society 2006 M.J. Buerger Award 2007-2009 Distinguished Lecturer, Sigma Xi 2010 Department of Chemistry Alumni Award, University of Pittsburgh Fellow, American Crystallographic Association 2012 Carl Brändén Award, Protein Society 2013 DeLano Award for Computational Biosciences, American Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology

研究领域

Biophysical Chemistry

As a founding member of the Worldwide Protein Data Bank (wwPDB) collaboration, we support scientific research and education by providing the essential Protein Data Bank (PDB) archive of information about the experimentally-determined structures of proteins, nucleic acids, and complex assemblies. The wwPDB organization ensures that the PDB is freely and publicly available to the global community. Members host deposition, annotation, and distribution centers for PDB data and collaborate on a variety of projects and outreach efforts, including developing tools and processes for validating and remediating structural data. The Research Collaboratory for Structural Bioinformatics (RCSB) PDB, a collaboration between Rutgers and the University of California, San Diego, RCSB PDB maintains the central repository of the PDB archive for the wwPDB, and provides resources that promote a structural view of biology, including a relational database, molecular viewers, structure comparison tools, and educational materials such as the Molecule of the Month series. EMDataBank.org is a joint effort of the Protein Data Bank in Europe, the RCSB, and National Center for Macromolecular Imaging that provides a global deposition and retrieval network for cryoEM map, model and associated metadata, and a portal for software tools for standardized map format conversion, map, segmentation and model assessment, visualization, and data integration. Three-dimensional EM structureWith the overarching goal of creating new knowledge about the interrelationships of sequence, structure and function, the Structural Biology Knowledgebase (SBKB) creates an information repository and web portal that highlights Protein Structure Initiative and broader structural biology research activities. It combines methodological, structural, and functional data in a single, easily-searchable website, and encourages collaborative interactions between the PSI and the biological communities. The work on these projects has been informed by our research and studies in structural biology, in particular protein-nucleic acid interactions, binary and ternary complexes with catabolite activating protein (CAP), and nucleic acids. Several studies have been focused on defining the precise molecular interactions involved in transcription activation by CAP. In a project led by Catherine Lawson, we obtained an experimental 3D map volume of a class I CAP-dependent transcription activation complex using single particle averaging of 2D electron microscopy images. The EM map volume and fitted coordinates are deposited in the EM Databank (EMD-5127) and PDB (id 3iyd). Three-dimensional EM structure of an intact activator-dependent transcription initiation complex. Electron microscopy reconstruction (20 Å resolution) of a transcription initiation complex from Escherichia coli comprising RNA polymerase holoenzyme (purple with alpha subunit C-terminal domain shown in green), catabolite activator protein (blue), and DNA (tan). The background is an electron micrograph of reconstituted complex particles in negative stain (Hudson et al., 2009).

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