January 2007 news
Jan. 31, 2007
Mick Petris's Lab
The Petris lab renewed an NIH grant ($1.5M total costs over five years).My biochemistry graduate student, Xiaoqing Mao, was first author on a paper in J.Biol.Chem. "A histidine-rich cluster mediates the ubiquitination and degradation of the human zinc transporter, hZIP4, and protects against zinc cytotoxicity."
Steve Van Doren's Lab
Congratulations to Z. Ding for defending his PhD dissertation successfully in December and for the acceptance of his paper for publication:Ding Z, Wang H, Liang X, Morris ER, Pandit S, Skolnick J, Walker JC, Van Doren SR. (2007) Phosphoprotein and Phosphopeptide Interactions with the FHA Domain from Arabidopsis Kinase-Associated Protein Phosphatase. Biochemistry.