Transient interactions studied by NMR : iron sulfur proteins and their interaction partners
Xu, X.
Citation
Xu, X. (2009, January 21). Transient interactions studied by NMR : iron sulfur proteins and their interaction partners. Leiden. Retrieved from https://hdl.handle.net/1887/13428
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Acknowledgements
First of all, I would like to express my gratitude to Marcellus and Gerard for providing me the opportunity to study for a PhD degree in Leiden and for their continuous help and support.
I would like to acknowledge the following people for their scientific collaborations.
Prof. Rita Bernhardt and her group members Dr. Frank Hannemann, Reinle Wolfgang in Universität des Saarlandes (Germany) for supporting me plenty of protein Adx;
Prof. Dmitri Svergun, Dr. Peter Konarev in EMBL (Hamburg, Germany) for their help on the SAXS data collection and analysis;
Prof. David Knaff and his group members in Texas Tech. University (Texas, USA) for providing us ferredoxin, thioredoxin and various enzymes;
Prof. Peter Schürmann in Université de Neuchâtel (Neuchâtel, Switzerland) for providing me the protein FTR.
I would like to thank Dr. Joanathan Warrall for the stimulating discussion at the initial stage on the Adx project, Dr. Alexander Volkov for sharing his protocol on Cc expression and purification, Dr. Miguel Prudencio on mutagenesis and Dr.
Peter Kaizer for the discussion and help on the paramagnetic probe project, Dr.
Monica Vlasie, Qamar Bashir, Hanna Lindfors, Dr. Rinske Hulsker and Dr Antonietta Impagliazzo for the general scientific discussions.
Kees Erkelens, Fons Lefeber and Dr. Rainer Wechselberger (Utrecht) for NMR technical help. Anneloes Blok and Lionel Ndamba for their lab support.
I also want to thank linhua Jiang in biophysical chemistry group for his useful computer scripts on data management.
Last but not least, all the rest members of protein chemistry group are acknowledged for the wonderful research environment which makes my past 5 years transient.
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