Award Address (Nakanishi Prize, sponsored by The Nakanishi Prize Endowment). Probing the assembly and function of biosystems

ORGN 661

Stephen Benkovic, sjb1@psu.edu, Department of Chemistry, The Pennsylvania State University, 414 Wartik Laboratory, University Park, PA 16802
The application of pre-steady state kinetic protocols, particularly those that draw upon fluorescent readouts such as fluorescence resonance energy transfer, has been extremely powerful in increasing our understanding as to how biological systems assemble and function. Examples featuring the assembly of protein units that constitute a multi-protein replisome that acts in DNA replication, and the interplay between enzymic catalysis and protein conformation will be highlighted.
 

Nakanishi Prize
1:00 PM-5:00 PM, Wednesday, 16 March 2005 Convention Center -- Ballroom 20A-B, Oral

Division of Organic Chemistry

The 229th ACS National Meeting, in San Diego, CA, March 13-17, 2005