Former Graduate Students
Reeder Robinson, Graduate Student
BS Biochemistry, Virginia Tech (Honors) 2010
Hometown: Virginia Beach, VA Period: 2010-2015 Current Position: Postdoctoral associate at the Medical University of South Carolina in the laboratory of Dr. Nathan Dulloff. Honors: Vincent Massey Award 2014 Kendall King Award for Best Senior Graduate Student 2013 Anderson Award for Best Junior Graduate Students, 2011 Fralin Summer Fellow 2008 Fralin Graduate Fellowship 2010 Project: Characterization of bacterial siderophore hydroxylases. Publications: 1) Robinson, R., Sobrado, P. (2011) Substrate Binding Modulates the Activity of Mycobacterium smegmatis G (MbsG), a Flavin-Dependent Monooxygenase Involved in the Biosynthesis of Hydroxamate-Containing Siderophores. Biochemistry. 50. 8489-96. 2) Romero, E., Robinson, R., Sobrado, P., (2012) Monitoring the Reductive and Oxidative Half-Reactions of a Flavin Dependent Monooxygenase Using Stopped-flow Spectrophotometer. JoVe. 61. 3) Qi, J., Robinson, R., Sobrado, P. (2012) A Fluorescence Polarization Binding Assay to Identify Inhibitors of Flavin-Dependent Monooxygenases. Analytical Biochemistry. 425. 80-7. 4) Dhatwalia, R., Harkewal, S., Solano, L.M., Oppenheimer, M., Robinson, R., Ellerbrock, J.E., Sobrado, P., Tanner, J.J. (2012) Identification of the NAD(P)H Binding Site of Eukaryotic UDP-Galactopyranose Mutase. J. Am. Chem. Soc. 134. 18132-8 5) Robinson, R., Sobrado, P. (2012) Flavin-Dependent Monooxygenases in Siderophore Biosynthesis (2012) In Flavin and Flavoprotein Handbook. De Gruytler. (Hille, Miller, Palfey Eds). In Press 6) Han, A., Robinson, R., Badieyan, S., Ellerbrock, J. Sobrado, P. (2013) Tryptophan-47 in the active site of Methylophaga sp. Strain SK1 flavin monooxygenase is important for hydride transfer. Arch. Biochem. Biophys. 532. 46-53. 7) Robinson, R., Basieyan, S., Sobrado, P. (2013) C4a-hydroperoxyflavin formation in N-hydroxylating flavin monooxygenases is mediates by the 2’-OH of the nicotinamide ribose of NADP+. Biochemistry. 52. 9089-9091. Rapid Report 8) Robinson, R., Rodriguez, P., Sobrado, P. (2014) Mechanistic studies on the flavin-dependent N6-lysine monooxygenase MbsG reveal an unusual control for catalysis. Arch. Biochem. Biophys. In press 9) Robinson, R., Francescheni, S., Fedkenheuer, M., Rodriguez, P., Ellerbrock, P., Romero, E., Echandi, M.P., Martin del Campo, J., Sobrado, P. (2014) Arg279 is the key regulator of coenzyme selectivity in the flavin-dependent ornithine monooxygenase SidA. Biochim. Biophys. Acta. 1844. 778-784. 10) Robinson, R., Klancher, C., Rodriguez, P., and Sobrado, P. (2018) Flavin oxidation in flavin dependent N-monooxygenase. Protein Science, 1:90-99. |