Debra Dunaway-Mariano
Professor Emeritus
- Email:
- dd39@unm.edu
- Education:
- Ph.D. in Chemistry, 1975, Texas A&M University
- Personal Website
Research Area/s:
Catalysis, Chemical Biology and Biochemistry, Organic Chemistry
Education
- B.S. in Chemistry, 1973, Texas A&M University
- Ph.D. in Chemistry, 1975, Texas A&M University
- NIH Postdoctoral Fellow 1977-79, University of Wisconsin
Research
- Molecular and Biological Diversity
- Biological Catalysis
- Mining Genomes for Novel Chemicals and Catalysts
- Drug Targeting and Design
- Enzyme Folding and Dynamics
- Enzyme Engineering for Biofuel Biosynthesis and Pollutant Degradation
- Chemienzymatic Organic Synthesis
Selected Publications
- The Enzyme Function Initiative. Gerlt JA, Allen KN, Almo SC, Armstrong RN, Babbitt PC, Cronan JE, Dunaway-Mariano D, Imker HJ, Jacobson MP, Minor W, Poulter CD, Raushel FM, Sali A, Shoichet BK, Sweedler JV. Biochemistry 50, 9950-62 (2011)
- Rational design, synthesis and evaluation of first generation inhibitors of the Giardia lamblia fructose-1,6-biphosphate aldolase.Li Z, Liu Z, Cho DW, Zou J, Gong M, Breece RM, Galkin A, Li L, Zhao H, Maestas GD, Tierney DL, Herzberg O, Dunaway-Mariano D, Mariano PS. J Inorg Biochem. 105, 509-17 (2011).
- Regioselectivity of enzymatic and photochemical single electron transfer promoted carbon-carbon bond fragmentation reactions of tetrameric lignin model compounds. Cho DW, Latham JA, Park HJ, Yoon UC, Langan P, Dunaway-Mariano D, Mariano PS. J Org Chem. 76, 2840-52 (2011).
- Homo sapiens Dullard Protein Phosphatase Shows a Preference for the Insulin-Dependent Phosphorylation Site of Lipin1. Wu R, Garland M, Dunaway-Mariano D, Allen KN. Biochemistry 50, 3045-7 (2011).
- Divergence of Chemical Function in the Alkaline Phosphatase Superfamily: Structure and Mechanism of the P-C Bond Cleaving Enzyme Phosphonoacetate Hydrolase. Kim A, Benning MM, Oklee S, Quinn J, Martin BM, Holden HM, Dunaway-Mariano D. Biochemistry. 50, 3481-94 (2011).
