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Professor Ann H. West

Office: CHBA 220
Phone: (405) 325-1529
Email: 
awest@ou.edu
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Ann H. West

  • Professor
  • B.A., Wesleyan University, 1983
  • Ph.D., Yale University, 1991

  • Postdoctoral Fellowship, The Jane Coffin Childs Memorial Fund for Medical Research, 1992-1995.
  • Junior Faculty Research Award, University of Oklahoma, 1997.
  • Cottrell Scholar Award, 1999
  • Irene Rothbaum Award (Outstanding Assistant Professor, OU College of Arts and Sciences), 2001
  • Edith Kinney Gaylord Presidential Professor, 2001-2005
Division:
  • Biochemistry

Research Interests
  • Biochemical and structural analysis of an osmoregulatory multi-step phosphorelay signal transduction pathway in yeast; Protein phosphorylation; Protein structure determination by X-ray crystallography.

Positions available in the lab



Selected Recent Publications

Tan, H., Janiak-Spens, F. and West, A.H. (2007). Functional characterization of the phosphorelay protein Mpr1p from Schizosaccharomyces pombe. FEMS Yeast Res. 7: 912-921.

Menon, V., Li, D., Chauhan, N., Rajnarayanan, R., Dubrovska, A., West, A.H. and Calderone, R. (2006). Functional studies of the Ssk1p response regulator protein of Candida albicans as determined by phenotypic analysis of receiver domain point mutants. Mol. Microbiol. 62: 997-1013.

Andi, B., Cook, P.F. and West, A.H. (2006). Crystal structure of the his-tagged saccharopine reductase from Saccharomyces cerevisiae at 1.7-Å resolution. Cell Biochem. Biophys. 46: 17-26.

Xu, H., Andi, B., Qian, J., West, A.H. and Cook, P.F. (2006). The α-aminoadipate pathway for lysine biosynthesis in fungi. Cell Biochem. Biophys. 46: 43-64.

Porter, S.W. and West, A.H. (2005). A common docking site for response regulators on the yeast phosphorelay protein YPD1. Biochim. Biophys. Acta 1748: 138-145.

Janiak-Spens, Cook, P.F. and West, A.H. (2005). Kinetic analysis of YPD1-dependent phosphotransfer reactions in the yeast osmoregulatory phosphorelay system. Biochemistry 44: 377-386.

 

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