EMBO Associate Member
Jonathan Beckwith
EMBO 1989
Harvard Medical School, Boston, United States
Disulfide bond formation in bacteria and archaea
We are characterizing pathways for protein disulfide bond formation in bacteria and archaea; using protein disulfide bond formation pathways in bacteria as targets for potential antibiotics; and developing novel high-throughput screening procedures.
Keywords
Bacterial protein secretion / protein translocation / disulfide bond formation & protein folding / cytoplasmic thiol redox pathways