T. Glen Lawson

Charles A. Dana Professor of Chemistry and Biochemistry

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Chemistry and Biochemistry

Bonney Science Center, Room 315

About

Ph. D, Purdue University, 1984

FIELD OF RESEARCH

Biochemistry: Mechanisms and biological functions of the degradation of picornavirus proteins by the ubiquitin-mediated proteolytic system; Enzymology and turnover of viral proteases responsible for the processing of viral polyproteins; Messenger RNA structure and its role in the mechanism and regulation of translation in eukaryotic cells, particularly during viral infections.

Expertise

anti-viral host cell defense systems, biochemistry, enzymology and enzyme kinetics, mammalian protein synthesis (translation), molecular virology, nucleic acid chemistry and structure, picornavirus replication, protein purification and characterization, ubiquitin-mediated cellular proteolysis

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