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Board of Trustees Distinguished Professor Debra A. Kendall
picture Board of Trustees Distinguished Professor Debra A. Kendall
University of Connecticut
Molecular & Cell Biology, BPB G33
91 North Eagleville Road, Unit 3125
Storrs, CT 06269-3125

Telephone: (860) 486-1891
Fax: (860) 486-4331
E-Mail: debra.kendall@uconn.edu
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Education: Ph.D. Northwestern University; Postdoctoral study, Rockefeller University

Research Interests: Biochemical and biophysical analyses of membrane-interactive proteins to probe the relationship between structural properties and biological function; examination of signal peptides and protein export in prokaryotes; analyses of membrane protein folding and assembly; mapping the active site(s) of the cannabinoid receptor and signal transduction studies of this G-protein coupled receptor.

Selected Publications:


  • Musial-Siwek, M.S., Kendall, D.A. and Yeagle, P.L. (2008) Solution NMR of signal peptidase, a membrane protein, in press.

  • Rusch, S.L. and Kendall, D.A. (2007) Interactions that drive Sec-dependent bacterial protein transport, Biochemistry 46, 9665-9673.

  • Sun, C., Rusch, S.L., Kim, J. and Kendall, D.A. (2007) Chloroplast SecA and Escherichia coli SecA have Distinct Lipid and Signal Peptide Preferences, J. Bacteriol. 189, 1171-1175..

  • Musial-Siwek, M., Rusch, S.L. and Kendall, D.A. (2007) Selective Photoaffinity Labeling Identifies the Signal Peptide Binding Domain on SecA, J. Mol. Biol. 365, 637-648.

  • Rusch, S.L. and Kendall, D.A. (2007) Oligomeric states of the SecA and SecYEG core components of the bacterial Sec translocon, Biochim. Biophys. Acta 1768, 5-12.

  • D'Antona, A.M., Ahn, K.H., Wang, L., Mierke, D.F., Lucas-Lenard, J. and Kendall, D.A. (2006) A cannabinoid receptor 1 mutation proximal to the DRY motif results in constitutive activity and reveals intramolecular interactions involved in receptoractivation, Brain Res. 1108, 1-11.

  • D'Antona, A., Ahn, K. and Kendall, D.A. (2006) Mutations of CB1 T210 Produce Active and Inactive Receptor Forms: Correlations with Ligand Affinity, Receptor Stability, and Cellular Localization, Biochemistry 45, 5606-5617.