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Sunney Chan
George Grant Hoag Professor of Biophysical Chemistry, Emeritus

"X-ray Absorption and EPR Studies on the Copper Ions Associated with the Particulate Methane Monooxygenase from Methylococcus capsulatus (Bath). Cu(I) Ions and Their Implications", H.-H.T. Nguyen, K.H. Nakagawa, B. Hedman, S.J. Elliott, M.E. Lidstrom, K.O. Hodgson and S.I. Chan, J. Am. Chem. Soc. 118 (50), 12766-12776 (1996).

"The Regio- and Stereoselectivity of Particulate Methane Monooxygenase from Methylococcus capsulatus (Bath)", S.J. Elliott, M. Zhu, H.-H.T. Nguyen, J.H.-K. Yip and S.I. Chan, J. Am. Chem. Soc., 119 (42), 9949-9955 (1997).

"The Particulate Methane Monooxygenase from Methylococcus capsulatus (Bath) is a Novel Copper-containing Three-subunit Enzyme. Isolation and Characterization", H.-H.T. Nguyen, S.J. Elliott, J.H.-K. Yip, and S.I. Chan, J. Biol. Chem., 273 (14) 7957-7966 (1998).

"Reaction of Escherichia coli Cytochrome bo3 with Substoichiometric Ubiquinol-2: A Freeze-Quench Electron Paramagnetic Resonance Investigation", B.E. Schultz, D.E. Edmonson, and S.I. Chan, Biochemistry, 37 (12), 4160-4168 (1998).

"Thermodynamics of Electron Transfer in Escherichia coli Cytochrome bo₃", B.E. Schultz and S.I. Chan, Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA, 95, (20) 11643-11648, Sep. 29 (1998).

"Reaction of Escherichia coli cytochrome bo3 and mitochondrial cytochrome bc1 with a photoreleasable decylubiquinol", K.C. Hansen, B.E. Schultz, G. Wang and S.I. Chan, Biochim. Biophys. Acta-Bioenergetics, 1456 (2-3) 121-137 (2000).

"Structures and Proton-Pumping Strategies of Mitochondrial Respiratory Enzymes", B.E. Schultz and S.I. Chan, Annual Review of Biophysics and Biomolecular Structure, Vol. 30, Annual Reviews, Inc., Palo Alto, (2001) in press.

"Preparation of a Water-Soluble "Cage" Based on 3¢ ,5¢ -Dimethoxybenzoin", R.S. Rock and S.I. Chan, J. Am. Chem. Soc., 120 (41), 10766-10767 Oct. 21 (1998).

"A Method for Photoinitiating Protein Folding in a Non-Denaturing Environment", K.C. Hansen, R.S. Rock, R.W. Larsen and S.I Chan, J. Am. Chem. Soc. (2000) in press.

"Electron Spin-Lattice Relaxation Measurement of the 3Fe-4S (S-3) Cluster in Succinate:Ubiquinone Reductase from Paracoccus denitrificans. A Detailed Analysis Based on a Dipole-Dipole Interaction Model", S.-C. Hung, C.V. Grant, J.M. Peloquin, A.R. Waldeck, H.-K. Lee, R.D. Britt, and S.I. Chan, J. Phys. Chem. B., 104 (19) 4402-4412 (2000).

"Purification and Characterization of a Cobalt-Activated carboxypeptidase from the Hyperthermophilic Archaeon Pyrococcus furiosus", T.C. Cheng, V. Ramakrishnan and S.I. Chan, Protein Science, 8 (11) 2474-2486, Nov. (1999).