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Thayumanasamy Somasundaram
91 Chieftan Way
Kasha Lab - Room 414
Inst Molecular Biophysics
Florida State University
Tallahassee, FL 32306-4380, USA

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Recent Publications

Invited Talks

2. ‘Effective Communication in the world of Shared Resources‘, T. Somasundaram. 2013 First Annual Southeastern Association of Shared Resources, UGA, Athens, Georgia.

1. 'Cryo Crystallography at Synchrotrons', Fla Chapter of Amer Vac Soc Meeting, UCF, Orlando, March 12, 2007. PPT | PDF| PDF (Hand-out)

Journals and Book Articles

32.'The structure of lombricine kinase: implications for phosphagen kinase conformational changes', D.J. Bush, O. Kirillova, S.A. Clark, O. Davulcu, F. Fabiola, Q. Xie, Thayumanasamy Somasundaram, W.R. Ellington, and M.S. Chapman. J. Biol Chem. 286, 9338-9350 (2011).

31.'De-icing: Recovery of Diffraction Intensities in the presence of Ice Rings', Michael Chapman and Thayumanasamy Somasundaram. Acta Cryst. D66, 741-744 (2010).

30.'Spackling the crack: stabilizing human fibroblast growth factor-1 by targeting the N- and C-terminus β-strand interactions', Vikash Kumar Dubey, Jihun Lee, T. Somasundaram, Sachiko Blaber, and M. Blaber. J. Mol. Biol. 371(1), 256-268 (2007).

29.' Conversion of type I 4:6 to 3:5 ß-turn types in human acidic fibroblast growth factor ', Jihun Lee, Vikash Kumar Dubey, T. Somasundaram, and M. Blaber. Proteins: Structure, Function, and Bioinformatics 62(3), 686-697, 2006.

28.' A 1.10-Å atomic resolution x-ray structure of human fibroblast growth factor 1 ', M.J. Bernett, T. Somasundaram, and M. Blaber. Proteins: Structure, Function, and Bioinformatics 57(3), 626-634, 2004.

27.' The putative catalytic bases have, at most, an accessory role in the mechanism of arginine kinase ', P.S. Pruett, A. Azzi, S.A. Clark, M.S. Yousef, J.L. Gattis, T. Somasundaram, W.R. Ellington and M. S. Chapman. J Biol Chem 278(29), 26952-57 (2003).

26.' Structure determination of adeno-associated virus 2: three complete virus particles per asymmetric unit ', Q. Xie, T. Somasundaram , S. Bhatia, W. Bu and M. S. Chapman. Acta Cryst D59(6), 959-970 (2003).

25.' Induced fit in guanidino kinases-Comparison of substrate-free and transition state analog structures of arginine kinase ', M.S. Yousef, S. A. Clark, P. K. Pruett, T. Somasundaram , W. R. Ellington and M. S. Chapman. Protein Sci 12(1), 103-111 (2003).

24.' Refinement of the arginine kinase transition-state analogue complex at 1.2 A resolution: mechanistic insights ', M.S. Yousef, F. Fabiola, J.L. Gattis, T. Somasundaram , and M. S. Chapman. Acta Cryst D58(12), 2009-2017 (2002).