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Laura Lavery, Ph.D.

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laura.lavery@bcm.edu

Postdoctoral Associate: Mol. and Human Gen./Zoghbi Lab
Baylor College of Medicine
Houston, TX US

PhD from University of California, San Francisco: San Francisco, CA; Biophysics

Partridge JR, Lavery LA, Elnatan D, Naber N, Cooke R, Agard DA "A novel N-terminal extension in mitochondrial TRAP1 serves as a thermal regulator of chaperone activity." Elife.2014/December22;: Pubmed PMID: 25531069
Prestegard JH, Agard DA, Moremen KW, Lavery LA, Morris LC, Pederson K. "Sparse labeling of proteins: structural characterization from long range constraints.." J Magn Reson..2014/April;241:32–40. Pubmed PMID: 24656078
Lavery LA, Partridge JR, Ramelot T, Elnatan D, Kennedy M, Agard DA "Structural asymmetry in the closed state of mitochondrial Hsp90 (TRAP1) supports a two-step ATP hydrolysis mechanism." Mol Cell.2014/January23;53(2):330-343. Pubmed PMID: 24462206
Street TO, Lavery LA, Verba KA, Lee CT, Mayer MP, Agard DA "Cross-monomer substrate contacts reposition the hsp90 N-terminal domain and prime the chaperone activity." J Mol Biol..2012/January6;415(1):3-15. Pubmed PMID: 22063096

Street TO, Lavery LA, Agard DA "Substrate binding drives large-scale conformational changes in the hsp90 molecular chaperone." Mol Cell. 2011 April 8; 42 (1): 96-105. Pubmed PMID: 21474071
Krukenberg KA, Street TO, Lavery LA, Agard DA "Conformational dynamics of the molecular chaperone Hsp90." Q Rev Biophys.. 2011 March 18; 44 (2): 1-27. Pubmed PMID: 21414251
Chu TC, Marks JW 3rd, Lavery LA, Faulkner S, Rosenblum MG, Ellington AD, Levy M "Aptamer: toxin conjugates that specifically target prostate tumor cells." Cancer Res.. 2006 June 15; 66 (12): 5989-5992. Pubmed PMID: 16778167
Chu TC, Shieh F, Lavery LA, Levy M, Richards-Kortum R, Korgel BA, Ellington AD "Labeling Tumor Cells with Fluorescent Nanocrystal-Aptamer Bioconjugates." Biosens Bioelectron.. 2006 April 15; 21 (10): 1859-1866. Pubmed PMID: 16495043
Levskaya A, Chevalier AA, Tabor JJ, Simpson ZB, Lavery LA, Levy M, Davidson EA, Scouras A, Ellington AD, Marcotte EM, Voigt CA "Synthetic biology: engineering Escherichia coli to see light.." Nature. 2005 November 24; 438 (7067): 441-442. Pubmed PMID: 16306980