Dr Sigurd Wilbanks
Senior Lecturer
Biochemistry
Otago University
New Zealand
Biography
A.B. cum laude in Classics (Latin) at Harvard University. Thesis: Fortuna in TacitusÂ’ Annales under Richard Thomas. Ph.D. in Molecular Biology at University of California, Berkeley Dissertation: Adaptive Variation in Phycoerythrins under Professor Alexander N. Glazer. Postdoctoral Scholar at Stanford University School of Medicine with Professor David B. McKay
Research Interest
Protein Biochemistry
Publications
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Egor P. Tchesnokov, Matthias Fellner, Eleni Siakkou, Torsten Kleffmann, Lois W Martin, Sekotilani Aloi, Iain L Lamont, Sigurd M Wilbanks, and Guy N L Jameson., The Cysteine Dioxygenase Homologue from Pseudomonas aeruginosa Is a 3-Mercaptopropionate Dioxygenase., J Biol Chem 2015 vol. 290 (40) pp. 24424-24437,
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Matthias Fellner, Sekotilani Aloi, Egor P. Tchesnokov, Sigurd M Wilbanks, and Guy N L Jameson., Substrate and pH-Dependent Kinetic Profile of 3-Mercaptopropionate Dioxygenase from Pseudomonas aeruginosa., Biochemistry 2016 vol. 55 (9) pp. 1362-1371.
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Matthias Fellner, Eleni Siakkou, Abayomi S Faponle, Egor P. Tchesnokov, Sam P de Visser, Sigurd M Wilbanks, and Guy N L Jameson., Influence of cysteine 164 on active site structure in rat cysteine dioxygenase., J Biol Inorg Chem 2016.,
