Faculty Profile

Gerd LaMar
Professor of Chemistry
Chemistry
201 Chemistry Building
Office 752-0958
Lab
lamar@chem.ucdavis.edu
 

Degrees:
1964 - PhD - Princeton University - Chemistry

Grad Group Affiliations and Specialties:
Biophysics

Publications:
La Mar GN, JD Satterlee, and JS de Ropp. 2000. NMR of Hemoproteins. In:The Porphyrin Handbook. 5:185-298

de Ropp JS, P Mandal, and GN La Mar. 1999. Solution 1H NMR investigation of the heme cavity and substrate binding site in cyanide-inhibited horseradish peroxidase. Biochemistry. 38:1077-1086

Wang PL, L Calzolai, KL Bren, Q Teng, FE Jenney Jr., PS Brereton, JB Howard, M W W Adams, and GN La Mar. 1999. Secondary structure extensions in Pyrococcus furiosus ferredoxin destabilize the disulfide bond relative to that in other hyperthermostab

Research Interests:
The determination of the solution structure of biopolymers by nuclear magnetic resonance with emphasis on metalloenzymes such as heme and iron-sulfur proteins; mechanism of assembly of b-type