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Michael C. Kiel, Ph.D.

email: mkiel@es.marywood.edu

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Educational Background: B.S. Towson State University; Ph.D. University of Toronto; Post-doctoral research at University of Pennsylvania.

Teaching Interests: cell biology and cell culture; molecular biology; microbiology; biotechnology.

Research Interests: Mechanisms of protein synthesis; Control of gene expression, particularly at the translation level; Protein/protein and protein/RNA interactions

Recent Research Articles:

Seo, H.-S., Kiel, M.C., Pan, D., Raj, V.S., Kaji, A. and Cooperman, B.S. (2004) "Kinetics and Thermodynamics of RRF, EF-G and Thiostrepton Interaction on the E. coli Ribosome." Biochemistry 43, 12728-12740.

Moll, I., Hirokawa, G., Kiel, M.C., Kaji, A. and Bläsi, U. (2004) "Translation Initiation with 70S Ribosomes: An Alternate Pathway for Leaderless mRNAs." Nucleic Acids Res. 32, 3354-3363.

Agrawal, R., Sharma, M.W., Kiel, M.C., Hirokawa, G., Booth, T.M., Spahn, C.M., Grassucci, R.A., Kaji, A. and Frank, J. (2004) "Visualization of Ribosome Recycling Factor on the Escherichia coli 70S Ribosome: Functional Implications." Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. 101, 8900-8905.

Kiel, M.C., Raj, V.S., Kaji, H. and Kaji, A. (2003) "Release of Ribosome-bound Ribosome Recycling Factor (RRF) by Elongation Factor G (EF-G)." J. Biol. Chem. 278, 48041-48050.

 

 

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