Mukerji’s Study on Protein Binding Published in Biochemistry

Ishita Mukerji, professor of molecular biology and biochemistry, director of graduate studies, is the co-author of ““HU Binding to a DNA Four-Way Junction Probed by Förster Resonance Energy Transfer,” published in Biochemistry, issue 50, pages 1432–1441, 2011. This work specifically examines the Escherichia coli protein HU’s four-way junction interaction using fluorescence spectroscopic methods.

This work was supported by grants from the National Science Foundation and the Patrick and Catherine Weldon Donaghue Medical Research Foundation.