Dmitrii I. Levitsky
Head of Laboratory
LABORATORY OF MOLECULAR ORGANIZATION OF BIOLOGICAL STRUCTURE
AN Bach Institute of Biochemistry
Russian Federation
Biography
Dr. Dmitrii I. Levitsky completed his M.S.(1976), Moscow State University (School of Biology, Department of Molecular Biology); Ph.D. (1981), Moscow State University; Doctor of Biological Sciences (Biochemistry) – 1992, A.N.Bach Institute of Biochemistry, Russian Academy of Science; Professor of Biochemistry – 2001, A.N.Bach Institute of Biochemistry, Russian Academy of Sciences. He also won the 1990 – Prize of the Academy of Sciences of the USSR.
Research Interest
Structural and functional studies of myosin, actin, and tropomyosin – the main proteins of muscles and many other systems of biological motility. The use of the method of differential scanning calorimetry (DSC) for studies on the thermal unfolding of these proteins and for probing structural changes that occur in these proteins during their functioning. Structure, regulation of activity, and denaturation of key energy-providing enzymes of skeletal muscle – glycogen phosphorylase b and kinase phosphorylase. Effects of molecular crowding on structural and functional properties of these enzymes.
