Michael Mossing
Associate Professor
Chemistry & Biochemistry
The University of Mississippi
United States of America
Biography
Dr. Michael Mossing is Associate Professor of Chemistry & Biochemistry at The University of Mississippi. He has done his B.S from Michigan State University, Ph.D. from University of Wisconsin and Postdoctoral Fellow in Massachusetts Institute of Technology. His research aims at characterizing the thermodynamic and kinetic properties of these protein-DNA interactions.
Research Interest
Biophysical chemistry; DNA binding protein structure and function; combinatorial mutagenesis; protein engineering and expression; circular dichroism, fluorescence, and NMR spectroscopy; thermodynamics and kinetics of protein folding and macromolecular recognition; the coupling of protein folding and assembly to DNA recognition
Publications
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Satumba WJ, Mossing MC. (2002) Folding and assembly of lambda Cro repressor dimers are kinetically limited by proline isomerization. Biochemistry; 41 : 14216-14224.
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Mollah AK, Stennis RL, Mossing MC. (2003) Stability of monomeric Cro variants: Isoenergetic transformation of a type I′ to a type II′ βâ€hairpin by single amino acid replacements. Protein science; 12 : 1126-3110.
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Jia H, Satumba WJ, Bidwell GL, Mossing MC. (2005) Slow assembly and disassembly of λ Cro repressor dimers. J mol bio; 350 : 919-929.
