Faculty and Their Research
Enzymology

Paul Bertics - email
Regulation of cellular growth and differentiation; enzymology of protein kinases; biochemical characterization and interaction of growth factor, growth hormone, and purinergic receptors; endotoxin signaling and macrophage activation

W. Wallace Cleland - email
Kinetics and mechanisms of enzymes; isotope effects

Michael M. Cox - email
Molecular biology and enzymology of genetic recombination and DNA repair

Elizabeth A. Craig - email
Protein folding in the cell ? the function of molecular chaperones in facilitating protein folding and protein translocation across membranes

John Denu - email
Mechanism and biological function of reversible protein modifications in signal transduction, chromatin dynamics and gene activation

Brian G. Fox - email
Biochemical, catalytic, and spectroscopic studies of redox active enzymes; protein engineering

Perry A. Frey - email
Mechanisms of enzyme and coenzyme action; stereochemistry and mechanisms of phospho- and nucleotidyl transferase action; structure and function of multienzyme complexes

Laura L. Kiessling - email
Biomolecular recognition processes; the chemistry and biology of protein-saccharide interactions

Robert Landick - email
RNA polymerase structure/function; regulation of transcript elongation in bacteria and humans

Ronald T. Raines - email
Chemical biology, protein design and engineering, enzymology

M. Thomas Record, Jr. - email
Biophysical studies of protein-nucleic acid interactions in transcription initiation in vitro and in E. coli; computational and experimental studies of polyelectrolyte properties of nucleic acids and their complexes

George H. Reed - email
Activation of enzymic reactions by metal ions; biophysical applications of spectroscopy