Benjamin E Turk, PhD
Associate Professor of Pharmacology
Departments & Organizations
Biological and Biomedical Sciences (BBS): Molecular Cell Biology, Genetics and Development | Molecular Medicine, Pharmacology, and Physiology | Biochemistry, Biophysics and Structural Biology: Cell Cycle and Signal Transduction; Protein Folding, Dynamics and Degradation
Signal Transduction
Pharmacology
Signal Transduction
Research Interests
Cell signaling; Protein kinases; Chemical biology; Proteomics; Metalloproteases; Protein engineering more...
Education
- B.A., Oberlin College, 1990
- Ph.D., Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1999
Selected Publications
- Mok, J., Kim, P. M., Lam, H. Y. K., Piccirillo, S., Zhou, X., Jeschke, G. R., Sheridan, D. L., Parker, S. A., Desai, V., Jwa, M., Cameroni, E., Niu, H., Good, M., Remenyi, A., Ma, J. N., Sheu, Y., Sassi, H. E., Sopko, R., Chan, C. S. M., De Virgilio, C., Hollingsworth, N. M., Lim, W. A., Stern, D. F., Stillman, B., Andrews, B. J., Gerstein, M. B., Snyder, M. and Turk, B. E. Deciphering protein kinase specificity through large-scale analysis of yeast phosphorylation site motifs. Sci. Signal. 3, ra12 (2010).
- Caescu, C. I., Jeschke, G. R. and Turk, B. E. Active site determinants of substrate recognition by the metalloproteinases TACE and ADAM10. Biochem. J. 424, 79-88 (2009).
- Turk, B. E. Understanding and exploiting substrate recognition by protein kinases. Curr. Opin. Chem. Biol. 12, 4-10 (2008).
