Dr. Renee Diane Wegrzyn

Profile

Academic positionPost Doc
Research fieldsAnatomy and Physiology,Biochemistry,Cell Biology
KeywordsYeast, Molecular chaperones, Ribosomes, Protein misfolding, Translation

Current contact address

CountryUnited States of America
CityWashington
InstitutionAdvanced Research Projects Agency for Health (ARPA-H)

Host during sponsorship

Prof. Dr. Elke DeuerlingZentrum für Molekulare Biologie Heidelberg (ZMBH), Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg, Heidelberg
Start of initial sponsorship01/05/2004

Programme(s)

2004Humboldt Research Fellowship Programme

Publications (partial selection)

2005Wegrzyn, R.D., D. Hofmann, F. Merz, R. Nikolay, T. Rauch, C. Graf, and E. Deuerling A Conserved Motif Is Prerequisite for the Interaction of NAC with Ribosomal Protein L23 and Nascent Chains. In: Journal of Biological Chemistry, 2005, 2847-2857
2005Rauch, T., H.A Hundley, C. Pfund, R.D. Wegrzyn, W. Walter, G. Kramer, S-Y. Kim, I. Sinning, E.A. Craig, and E. Deuerling Dissecting functional similarities of ribosome-associated chaperones from Saccharomyces cerevisiae and Escherichia coli. In: Molecular Microbiology , 2005, 357-365
2005Wegrzyn, R.D. and E. Deuerling: Molecular guardians for newborn proteins: ribosome-associated chaperones and their role in protein folding. . In: Cell and Molecular Life Sciences, 2005, 2727-2738
2004Kramer, G., A. Rutkowska, R.D. Wegrzyn, H. Patzelt, T.A. Kurz, F. Merz, T. Rauch, S. Vorderwulbecke, E. Deuerling, and B. Bukau Functional dissection of Escherichia coli trigger factor: unraveling the function of individual domains. In: Journal of Bacteriology , 2004, 3777-3784