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Peter Chivers
Assistant Professor
Dept. of Biochemistry and
Molecular Biophysics |
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Mailing Address:
WUSM - Biochemistry Dept.
660 S. Euclid Ave., MS8231
St. Louis, MO 63110
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Research Interests
Intracellular nickel trafficking in microbes - transport and regulation studied by a combination of biochemical, genetic, and structural methods
Selected Publications
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Iwig, J.S. and Chivers, P.T. DNA recognition and wrapping by Escherichia coli RcnR. J Mol Biol 393:514-526 (2009).
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Benanti, E.L. and Chivers, P.T. An intact urease assembly pathway is required to compete with NikR for nickel Ions in Helicobacter pylori. J Bacteriol 191:2405-2409 (2009)
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Bradley, M.J., Chivers, P.T. and Baker, N.A. Molecular dynamics simulation of the Escherichia coli NikR protein: Equilibrium conformational fluctuations reveal interdomain allosteric communication pathways. J Mol Biol. 378:1155-1173 (2008).
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Iwig, J.S., Leitch, S., Herbst, R.W., Maroney, M.J. and Chivers, P.T. Ni(II) and Co(II) sensing by Escherichia coli RcnR. J Am Chem Soc. 130:7592-7606 (2008).
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Nick McElhinny, S.A., Gordenin, D.A., Stith, C.M., Burgers, P.M. and Kunkel, T.A. Division of labor at the eukaryotic replication fork. Mol Cell. 30:137-144 (2008).
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Benanti, E.L. and Chivers, P.T. The N-terminal arm of the Helicobacter pylori Ni2+-dependent transcription factor NikR is required for specific DNA-binding. J Biochem 282:20365-20375 (2007).
