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Professor Paul F. Cook

Office: PHSC 219A
Phone: (405) 325-4581
Email: pcook@ou.edu


Paul F. Cook

  • Grace B. Kerr Centenial Professor of Chemistry and Biochemistry
  • B.A. (Our Lady of the Lake College, San Antonio, Texas) 1972
  • Ph.D. (University of California at Riverside) 1976.

  • NIH Postdoctoral Fellowship (University of Wisconsin, Madison) 1977-1979.
  • Alexander von Humboldt Research Fellowship, 1/87-2/88; 2/95-8/95
  • National Institutes of Health Research Career Development Award, 1983-1988
  • Co-Chair, Gordon Conference on Enzymes, Coenzymes, and Metabolic Pathways, 1993.
  • Editorial Board, Biochimica Biophysica Acta, 11/97-10/03.
  • Associate Editor, Protein and Peptide Letters, 4/94-Present.
  • Editorial Advisory Board, Life Science Advances, 7/86-6/95.
  • Editorial Board, Journal of Biological Chemistry, 7/84-6/90; 7/01-6/06.
  • Editorial Board, Journal of Theoretical Biology, 2/88-3/89.
  • National Institutes of Health, Biochemistry Study Section, 7/87-6/89; 7/90-6/92.
Division:
  • Biochemistry/Mechanistic Enzymology

Research Interests
  • Application of kinetic, spectroscopic, and recombinant techniques to the elucidation of mechanism of enzyme action. NAD-malic enzyme, 6-phosphogluconate dehydrogenase, serine acetyltransferase, O-acetylserine sulfhydrylase, and aspartase.


 


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