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Giovanna Ferro-Luzzi Ames is affiliated with the University of California, Berkeley in the United States. The academic profile of Giovanna Ferro-Luzzi Ames shows engagement in research activities within this institution, although specific fields of study or research topics are not detailed.

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Best Publications

  • Resolution of Bacterial Proteins by Polyacrylamide Gel Electrophoresis on Slabs MEMBRANE, SOLUBLE, AND PERIPLASMIC FRACTIONS

    Giovanna Ferro-Luzzi Ames

  • Two-dimensional gel electrophoresis of membrane proteins

    Giovanna F. L. Ames;Kishiko Nikaido

  • Crystal structure of the ATP-binding subunit of an ABC transporter.

    Li-Wei Hung;Iris Xiaoyan Wang;Kishiko Nikaido;Pei-Qi Liu

  • Repetitive extragenic palindromic sequences: A major component of the bacterial genome

    Michael J. Stern;Giovanna Ferro-Luzzi Ames;Noel H. Smith;E. Clare Robinson

  • Protein Composition of the Outer Membrane of Salmonella typhimurium: Effect of Lipopolysaccharide Mutations

    Giovanna Ferro-Luzzi Ames;Elena Negri Spudich;Hiroshi Nikaido

  • Three-dimensional structures of the periplasmic lysine/arginine/ornithine-binding protein with and without a ligand.

    B H Oh;J Pandit;C H Kang;K Nikaido

  • Membranes and Transport

    H. R. Kaback;Jen-Shiang Hong;Giovanna Ames

  • Genome walking by single-specific-primer polymerase chain reaction: SSP-PCR

    Venkatakrishna Shyamala;Giovanna Ferro-Luzzi Ames

  • Structure-function analysis of the histidine permease and comparison with cystic fibrosis mutations.

    V Shyamala;V Baichwal;E Beall;G F Ames

  • Structural model of the nucleotide-binding conserved component of periplasmic permeases.

    Carol S. Mimura;Stephen R. Holbrook;Giovanna Ferro-Luzzi Ames

  • Bacterial periplasmic permeases belong to a family of transport proteins operating from Escherichia coli to human: Traffic ATPases

    Giovanna Ferro-Luzzi Ames;Carol S. Mimura;Venkatakrishna Shyamala

  • A single amino acid substitution in a histidine-transport protein drastically alters its mobility in sodium dodecyl sulfate-polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis.

    K. Dale Noel;Kishiko Nikaido;Giovanna Ferro-Luzzi Ames

  • Reconstitution of a bacterial periplasmic permease in proteoliposomes and demonstration of ATP hydrolysis concomitant with transport.

    Lauren Bishop;Romeo Agbayani;Suresh V. Ambudkar;Peter C. Maloney

  • DNA gyrase binds to the family of prokaryotic repetitive extragenic palindromic sequences

    Young Yang;Giovanna Ferro-Luzzi Ames

  • Two periplasmic transport proteins which interact with a common membrane receptor show extensive homology: complete nucleotide sequences.

    Christopher F. Higgins;Giovanna Ferro-Luzzi Ames

  • COMPONENTS OF HISTIDINE TRANSPORT: HISTIDINE-BINDING PROTEINS AND hisP PROTEIN

    Giovanna Ferro-Luzzi Ames;Julia Lever

  • ATP-binding sites in the membrane components of histidine permease, a periplasmic transport system

    Ann C. Hobson;Robert Weatherwax;Giovanna Ferro-Luzzi Ames

  • Traffic ATPases: a superfamily of transport proteins operating from Escherichia coli to humans.

    Giovanna Ferro‐Luzzi Ames;Carol S. Mimura;Stephen R. Holbrook;Venkatakrishna Shyamala

  • Characterization of the Adenosine Triphosphatase Activity of the Periplasmic Histidine Permease, a Traffic ATPase (ABC Transporter)

    Cheng Eureka Liu;Pei-Qi Liu;Giovanna Ferro-Luzzi Ames

  • The membrane-bound proteins of periplasmic permeases form a complex. Identification of the histidine permease HisQMP complex.

    R E Kerppola;V K Shyamala;P Klebba;G F Ames

Frequent Co-Authors

Christopher F. Higgins
Christopher F. Higgins Hammersmith Hospital
Sung-Hou Kim
Sung-Hou Kim University of California, Berkeley
Sean Parkin
Sean Parkin University of Kentucky
Byung-Ha Oh
Byung-Ha Oh Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology
Sydney Kustu
Sydney Kustu University of California, Berkeley
Eric R. Prossnitz
Eric R. Prossnitz University of New Mexico
Bruce N. Ames
Bruce N. Ames University of California, Berkeley
Jesse C. Rabinowitz
Jesse C. Rabinowitz University of California, Berkeley
Hiroshi Nikaido
Hiroshi Nikaido University of California, Berkeley
Robert Landick
Robert Landick University of Wisconsin–Madison

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