Patricia Ellison |
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Assistant Professor Office: (775)
784-4561
EDUCATION
B.S. 1983 University of Sheffield
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| MAJOR ACADEMIC/RESEARCH INTEREST | ||
| Regulation of smooth muscle myosins by phosphorylation and dephosphorylation. I am also interested in the interaction between myosin and actin, myosin light chain kinase and phosphatase. | ||
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Representative Publications |
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| Ellison, P.A., Z.S. DePew, and Cremo,
C.R... Both heads of tissue-derived smooth muscle heavy meromyosin
bind to actin in the presence of ADP. J. Biol. Chem., 2002: In
press. M211016200 Perrino, B.A., Wilson, A.J. Ellison, P. Clapp, L.H. Substrate selectivity and sensitivity to inhibition by FK506 and cyclosporin A of calcineurin heterodimers composed of the alpha or beta catalytic subunit. European Journal of Biochemistry, 2002. 269(14): p. 3540-8. Pearson, D.S. Holtermann, G. Ellison, P. Cremo, C. Geeves, M.A. A novel pressure-jump apparatus for the microvolume analysis of protein-ligand and protein-protein interactions: its application to nucleotide binding to skeletal-muscle and smooth-muscle myosin subfragment-1. The Biochemical Journal, 2002. 366(Pt 2): p. 643-51. Ellison, P.A., J.R. Sellers, and C.R. Cremo, Kinetics of smooth muscle heavy meromyosin with one thiophosphorylated head. J. Biol. Chem., 2000. 275: p. 15142-15151. Poole, K. I. V. Lorenz, M. Ellison, P. Evans, G. Rosenbaum, G. Boesecke, P. Holmes, K. C. Cremo, C. R.A low angle diffraction study of the structure of the actomyosin complex: effects of ADP binding. J. Muscle. Res. Cell Motility, 1997. 18: p. 264.v Ellison, P. A . & Engel, P. C. (1993) Intrinsic Crotonase Activity in a bacterial Butyryl-CoA Dehydrogenase. Biochem. Mol. Biol. Int. 29 605-612 Ellison, P. A. & Pai, E. (1991) Cloning of the FAD synthetase gene from B.ammoniagenes in "Flavins and Flavoproteins" (Walter de Gruyter & Co., Berlin, New York) pp.224-227 Ellison, P. A. & Engel, P. C. (1988)The Catalytic Versatility of the Butyryl-CoA Dehydrogenase from M.elsdenii. in :"Flavins and Flavoproteins" (Walter de Gruyter & Co., Berlin, New York) pp.181-184 Ellison, P. A. & Engel, P. C. (1987)Does Butyryl-CoA dehydrogenase catalyse thioester exchange? Biochem. Soc. Trans. 15 235-236 Ellison, P. A. & Engel, P. C. (1987) Enoyl CoA dehydrogenase activity in preparations of Butyryl-CoA Dehydrogenase from M.elsdenii . Biochem. Soc. Trans. 14 158 Ellison, P.A., Shaw, L. Williamson, G. & Engel, P.C. (1984) Oxygen reactivity of Butyryl-CoA Dehydrogenase from M.elsdenii and from ox-liver mitochondria: in "Flavins and Flavoproteins" (Walter de Gruyter & Co., Berlin, New York) pp.413-416 |
