Herbert Weissbach
PhD: George Washington University, 1957
Distinguished Research Professor
Research interests: oxidative damage,again, mol. biol., biochemistry

Contact information
Office: SC 220/221
Phone: (561) 297-2596
Email: hweissba@fau.edu
http://www.fau.edu/divdept/biology/people/hweiss.htm

Etienne, F., Spector, D., Brot, N., Weissbach, H. 2003. A methionine sulfoxide reductase in Escherichia coli that reduces the R enantiomer of methionine sulfoxide. Biochem. & Biophys. Res. Comm. In Press.

Ruan, H., Tang, X. D., Chen, M. -L., Joiner, M.A., Sun, G., Brot, N., Weissbach, H., Heinemann, S. H., Iverson, L., Wu, C. -F., Hoshi, T. 2002. High-quality life extension by the enzyme peptide methionine sulfoxide reductase. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA. 99, 2748-2753.

Lowther, W. T., Weissbach, H., Etienne, F., Brot, N., Matthews, B. W. 2002. The “Mirrored” Methionine Sulfoxide Reductases of Neisseria gonorrhoeae pilB. Nature Structural Biology. 9 (5), 348-352.

Skaar, E. P., Tobiason, D. M., Quick, J., Judd, R. C., Weissbach, H., Etienne F., Brot, N., Seifert, H. S. 2002. The outer membrane localization of the Neisseria gonorrhoeae MsrA/B is involved in survival against reactive oxygen species. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA. 99, 10108-10113.

Weissbach, H., Etienne, F., Hoshi, T., Heinemann, S. H., Lowther, W. T., Matthews, B., St. John, G., Nathan, N., Brot, N. 2002. Peptide Methionine Sulfoxide Reductase: Structure, Mechanism of Action, and Biological Function. Arch. Biochem. Biophys. 397(2), 172-178.

Forster, A. C., Weissbach, H., and Blacklow, S. C. 2001. A reconstruction of Oligopeptide Synthesis From Purified E. coli Components Using Five His-Tagged Initiation and Elongation Factors and the Epsilon Enhancer Sequence. Analytical Biochemistry. 297(1), 60-70.

 
 


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