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  • 2005 - Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)

Overview

David E. Wemmer is affiliated with the University of California, Berkeley in the United States. Their research contributions primarily lie within the fields of Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology, as well as Energy. Subfields they have contributed to include Molecular Biology, Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment, Genetics, and Materials Chemistry.

The main topics of Wemmer's work encompass Metalloenzymes and iron-sulfur proteins, Electrocatalysts for Energy Conversion, RNA modifications and cancer, Biochemical and Molecular Research, Chronic Lymphocytic Leukemia Research, Ubiquitin and proteasome pathways, and Protein Kinase Regulation and GTPase Signaling.

Recent publications by Wemmer include:

  • Environment and coordination of FeMo-co in the nitrogenase metallochaperone NafY, 2021, RSC Chemical Biology
  • Ybiv from Escherichia coli K12 is a HAD phosphatase, 2021, UNC Libraries
  • A Saturation-Mutagenesis Analysis of the Interplay Between Stability and Activation in Ras, 2022, bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)

Frequent collaborators in Wemmer's research have been Aaron H. Phillips, José A. Hernández, Lucía Payá-Tormo, Stefan Burén, and Bruno Cuevas-Zuviría.

The venues where Wemmer has published include RSC Chemical Biology, UNC Libraries, and bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory).

Wemmer was recognized as a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) in 2005.

Best Publications

  • Stable fluorescent complexes of double-stranded DNA with bis-intercalating asymmetric cyanine dyes: properties and applications

    Hays S. Rye;Stephen Yue;David E. Wemmer;Mark A. Quesada

  • A new redox cofactor in eukaryotic enzymes: 6-hydroxydopa at the active site of bovine serum amine oxidase

    Susan M. Janes;David Mu;David Wemmer;Alan J. Smith

  • Two-state allosteric behavior in a single-domain signaling protein.

    Brian F. Volkman;Doron Lipson;David E. Wemmer;Dorothee Kern

  • Assignment of the non-exchangeable proton resonances of d(C-G-C-G-A-A-T-T-C-G-C-G) using two-dimensional nuclear magnetic resonance methods.

    Dennis R. Hare;David E. Wemmer;Shan-Ho Chou;Gary Drobny

  • Mechanism for Activation of the EGF Receptor Catalytic Domain by the Juxtamembrane Segment

    Natalia Jura;Nicholas F. Endres;Nicholas F. Endres;Kate Engel;Kate Engel;Sebastian Deindl;Sebastian Deindl

  • Architecture and Membrane Interactions of the EGF Receptor

    Anton Arkhipov;Yibing Shan;Rahul Das;Rahul Das;Nicholas F. Endres;Nicholas F. Endres

  • Conformational Coupling across the Plasma Membrane in Activation of the EGF Receptor.

    Nicholas F. Endres;Rahul Das;Rahul Das;Adam W. Smith;Adam W. Smith;Anton Arkhipov

  • Molecular Imaging Using a Targeted Magnetic Resonance Hyperpolarized Biosensor

    Leif Schröder;Leif Schröder;Thomas J. Lowery;Thomas J. Lowery;Christian Hilty;Christian Hilty;David E. Wemmer;David E. Wemmer

  • Fourier transform multiple quantum nuclear magnetic resonance

    Gary Drobny;Alexander Pines;Steven Sinton;Daniel P. Weitekamp

  • Structural characterization of a 2:1 distamycin A.d(CGCAAATTGGC) complex by two-dimensional NMR

    Jeffrey G. Pelton;David E. Wemmer

  • A new cofactor in a prokaryotic enzyme: tryptophan tryptophylquinone as the redox prosthetic group in methylamine dehydrogenase

    William S. McIntire;David E. Wemmer;Andrei Chistoserdov;Mary E. Lidstrom

  • Mechanisms of cytoplasmic pH regulation in hypoxic maize root tips and its role in survival under hypoxia.

    Justin K. M. Roberts;Judy Callis;David Wemmer;Virginia Walbot

  • Functionalized xenon as a biosensor.

    Megan M. Spence;Seth M. Rubin;Ivan E. Dimitrov;E. Janette Ruiz

  • Binding modes of distamycin A with d(CGCAAATTTGCG)2 determined by two-dimensional NMR

    Jeffrey G. Pelton;David E. Wemmer

  • Antiparallel side-by-side dimeric motif for sequence-specific recognition in the minor groove of DNA by the designed peptide 1-methylimidazole-2 carboxamide netropsin

    Milan Mrksich;Warren S. Wade;Tammy J. Dwyer;Bernhard H. Geierstanger

  • Targeting the minor groove of DNA

    David E Wemmer;Peter B Dervan

  • The Mechanism of Linkage-Specific Ubiquitin Chain Elongation by a Single-Subunit E2

    Katherine E. Wickliffe;Sonja Lorenz;David E. Wemmer;David E. Wemmer;John Kuriyan

  • Complexes of the Minor Groove of DNA

    Bernhard H. Geierstanger;David E. Wemmer

  • Structure of a transiently phosphorylated switch in bacterial signal transduction

    Dorothee Kern;Brian F. Volkman;Peter Luginbühl;Michael J. Nohaile

  • Design of a G⋅C-Specific DNA Minor Groove-Binding Peptide

    Bernhard H. Geierstanger;Milan Mrksich;Peter B. Dervan;David E. Wemmer

Frequent Co-Authors

Alexander Pines
Alexander Pines University of California, Berkeley
Matthew B. Francis
Matthew B. Francis University of California, Berkeley
Sydney Kustu
Sydney Kustu University of California, Berkeley
Oleg Jardetzky
Oleg Jardetzky Stanford University
Brian F. Volkman
Brian F. Volkman Medical College of Wisconsin
John Kuriyan
John Kuriyan Vanderbilt University
Peter G. Schultz
Peter G. Schultz Scripps Research Institute
Peter B. Dervan
Peter B. Dervan California Institute of Technology
Sung-Hou Kim
Sung-Hou Kim University of California, Berkeley
Teresa Head-Gordon
Teresa Head-Gordon University of California, Berkeley

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