Thomas Steitz

Thomas Arthur Steitz

Thomas Arthur Steitz, född 1940 i Milwaukee är en amerikansk biokemist, verksam som professor vid Yale University. 2009 tilldelades han Nobelpriset i kemi "för studier av ribosomens struktur och funktion", delat med amerikanen Venkatraman Ramakrishnan och israeliskan Ada Yonath.

Publikationer i urval

• Yin, Y.W. and Steitz, T.A. Structural basis for the transition from initiation to elongation transcription in T7 RNA polymerase. Science 298, 1387-1395 (2002)
• Schmeing, T.M., Huang, K.S., Strobel, S.A. and Steitz, T.A. An induced-fit mechanism to promote peptide bond formation and exclude hydrolysis of peptidyl-tRNA. Nature 438, 520-524 (2005)
• Tu, D., Blaha, G., Moore, P.B. and Steitz, T.A. Structures of MLSBK antibiotics bound to mutated large ribosomal subunits provide a structural explanation for resistance. Cell 121, 257-270 (2005)
• Li, W., Kamtekar, S., Xiong, Y., Sarkis, G.J., Grindley, N.D.F. and Steitz, T.A. Structure of a synaptic γδ resolvase tetramer covalently linked to two cleaved DNAs. Science 309, 1210-1215 (2005)
• Bailey, S., Wing, R.A. and Steitz, T.A. The structure of T. aquaticus DNA polymerase III is distinct from eukaryotic replicative DNA polymerases. Cell, in press (2006)

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