Suren Tatulian
professor
Department of physics
University of Central Florida
United States of America
Biography
Dr. Tatulian received his PhD in Biology from Institute of Cell Biology, St. Petersburg, Russia in 1979. He worked as a Research Scientist in the Institute of Cell Biology, Academy of Sciences USSR, Leningrad, Russia for fifteen years (1977-1982). He joined Department of Molecular Physiology and Biological Physics, University of Virginia Medical School, Charlottesville, VA as a Research Associate in 1992 and a Assistant Professor of Research in 1995. He was an Associate Professor of Research in Molecular Biosciences, University of Kansas, Lawrence, KS for three years (1999-2001) before joining UCF where he is an Associate Professor.
Research Interest
Molecular biophysics; Biotechnology; Structure and function of proteins studied by protein engineering, spectroscopy, and computational techniques; Amyloidogenesis; Biomembrane structure and function; Interfacial enzymology; Protein-membrane interactions; Membrane electrostatics; adhesion and fusion; Enzymatic biofuel technologies.
Publications
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Taylor, M., Burress, H., Banerjee, T., Ray, S., Curtis, D., Tatulian, S.A., Teter, K. (2014) Substrate- induced unfolding of protein disulfide isomerase displaces the cholera toxin A1 subunit from its holotoxin. PLoS Pathog. 10(2), e1003925
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Matos, J.O., Goldblatt, G., Jeon, J.,Chen, B., and Tatulian, S.A. (2014) Pyroglutamylated Amyloid-b Peptide Reverses Cross b-sheets by a Prion-like Mechanism. J. Phys. Chem. B 118(21), 5637-5643
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Dow, B.A., Sukumar, N., Matos, J.O., Choi, M., Schulte, A., Tatulian, S.A., and Davidson, V.L. (2014) The sole tryptophan of amicyanin enhances its thermal stability but does not influence the electronic properties of the type 1 copper site. Arch. Biochem. Biophys. 550-551, 20-27
