Epernicus: Greg A Caputo, Ph.D.

Greg A Caputo, Ph.D.

Position:
Assistant Professor

Chemistry and Biochemistry

Rowan University (Glassboro, NJ)
Degrees:

Ph.D., Molecular and Cell Biology / Biochemistry, Stony Brook University (Stony Brook, NY)

B.Sc., Chemical Biology, Stevens Institute of Technology (Hoboken, NJ)
Past Advisors:

William F. DeGrado (as Post Doctoral Fellow)

Arthur E. Johnson (as Post Doctoral Fellow)

Erwin London (as Graduate Student - Ph.D.)
Research:
Biophysical characterization of peptide/protein interactions with lipid membranes

Communities:

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Greg Caputo's Publications (10)

Peptide Probes for Protein Transmembrane Domains.
Slivka PF, Wong J, Caputo GA, Yin H

ACS chemical biology. 2008 Jun 6
Computational design of peptides that target transmembrane helices.
Yin H, Slusky JS, Berger BW, Walters RS, Vilaire G, Litvinov RI, Lear JD, Caputo GA, Bennett JS, DeGrado WF

Science (New York, N.Y.). 2007 Mar 30;315(5820):1817-22
Activation of platelet alphaIIbbeta3 by an exogenous peptide corresponding to the transmembrane domain of alphaIIb.
Yin H, Litvinov RI, Vilaire G, Zhu H, Li W, Caputo GA, Moore DT, Lear JD, Weisel JW, Degrado WF, Bennett JS

The Journal of biological chemistry. 2006 Dec 1;281(48):36732-41
Position and ionization state of Asp in the core of membrane-inserted alpha helices control both the equilibrium between transmembrane and nontransmembrane helix topography and transmembrane helix positioning.
Caputo GA, London E

Biochemistry. 2004 Jul 13;43(27):8794-806
The effect of interactions involving ionizable residues flanking membrane-inserted hydrophobic helices upon helix-helix interaction.
Lew S, Caputo GA, London E

Biochemistry. 2003 Sep 16;42(36):10833-42
Determination of the membrane topology of Ost4p and its subunit interactions in the oligosaccharyltransferase complex in Saccharomyces cerevisiae.
Kim H, Yan Q, Von Heijne G, Caputo GA, Lennarz WJ

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America. 2003 Jun 24;100(13):7460-4
Cumulative effects of amino acid substitutions and hydrophobic mismatch upon the transmembrane stability and conformation of hydrophobic alpha-helices.
Caputo GA, London E

Biochemistry. 2003 Mar 25;42(11):3275-85
Using a novel dual fluorescence quenching assay for measurement of tryptophan depth within lipid bilayers to determine hydrophobic alpha-helix locations within membranes.
Caputo GA, London E

Biochemistry. 2003 Mar 25;42(11):3265-74
Interaction of the membrane-inserted diphtheria toxin T domain with peptides and its possible implications for chaperone-like T domain behavior.
Hammond K, Caputo GA, London E

Biochemistry. 2002 Mar 5;41(9):3243-53
Carboxypeptidase E, a prohormone sorting receptor, is anchored to secretory granules via a C-terminal transmembrane insertion.
Dhanvantari S, Arnaoutova I, Snell CR, Steinbach PJ, Hammond K, Caputo GA, London E, Loh YP

Biochemistry. 2002 Jan 8;41(1):52-60

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Greg A Caputo, Ph.D.

Assistant Professor

Biophysical characterization of peptide/protein interactions with lipid membranes

Greg Caputo's Genealogy

Greg Caputo's Publications (10)