TH811A
Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry
San Francisco State University 1600 Holloway Ave., San Francisco, CA 94132.
415-338-7714
luckey(at)sfsu.edu (replace (at) with @)
Short Bio:
My Ph.D. research showed that the TonA protein (now called FhuA) was the receptor for ferrichrome, which was the first identification of an iron transport protein in the bacterial outer membrane. My postdoctoral work demonstrated the specificity of the purified LamB protein (maltoporin from E. coli) for uptake of maltose and maltodextrins in reconstituted liposomes. My research group has continued to focus on maltoporin structure and biogenesis, demonstrating that its two cysteines make an intrasubunit disulfide bond (later confirmed by the x-ray structure) that contributes to the thermostability of the trimer. We also carry out folding studies and investigate assembly of the trimer.
For twenty-five years I have taught courses in biochemistry, membrane biochemistry and cancer. I am author of a textbook, Membrane Structural Biology published in 2008 by Cambridge University Press. I have three children and one grandchild.
