Biochemistry

Professor of Cell and Developmental Biology and Biochemistry Mary Schuler and colleagues have published a new study in Science.

Professor of Microbiology William Metcalf is lead author on a new study of ocean methane in Science. Up to 4 percent of the methane on Earth comes from the ocean’s oxygen-rich waters, but scientists have been unable to identify the source of this potent greenhouse gas. Now researchers report that...

Associate Professor of Biochemistry Raven Huang and colleagues have published "Molecular basis of bacterial protein Hen1 activating the ligase activity of bacterial protein Pnkp for RNA repair" in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

Cong Wu, a graduate student in the Department of Biochemistry, is the first author on "A protease for 'middle-down' proteomics" in Nature Methods.

Professor of Biochemistry James H. Morrissey has been appointed as the Roy and Eva Hong Professor of Molecular and Cellular Biology.

Assistant Professor of Biochemistry and Medical Biochemistry at the College of Medicine Lin-Feng Chen is corresponding author on a new study on RUNX3, a tumor suppressor in breast cancer.

Emad Tajkhorshid is corresponding author on "Accelerating Membrane Insertion of Peripheral Proteins with a Novel Membrane Mimetic Model," selected as the feature cover article in the May 2 issue of Biophysical Journal.

A new study led by Associate Professor of Biochemistry Satish Nair describes how bacteria use a previously unknown means to defeat an antibiotic.

Assistant Professor of Biochemistry, and Biophysics and Computational Biology, Maria Spies is corresponding author on "Tyrosine phosphorylation enhances RAD52-mediated annealing by modulating its DNA binding."

James Morrissey, Emad Tajkhorshid, and Stephen Sligar are featured in an article on blood clotting mechanisms in LAS News.