Enrique M. De La Cruz, PhD
Associate Professor of Molecular Biophysics and Biochemistry
Departments & Organizations
Biological and Biomedical Sciences (BBS): Molecular Cell Biology, Genetics and Development: Cytoskeleton and Cell Morphogenesis | Biochemistry, Biophysics and Structural Biology: Membrane Biology and Motion
Molecular Biophysics and Biochemistry: Protein Folding and Dynamics
Research Interests
Actin; Kinetics; Myosin; Nucleotide; Processivity more...
Education
- Ph.D., Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, 1997
Selected Publications
- A Henn, W Cao, N Licciardello, SE Heitkamp, DD Hackney & EM De La Cruz (2010) Pathway of ATP utilization and duplex rRNA unwinding by the DEAD box helicase, DbpA. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. 107, 4046-50. *Faculty of 1000 “Must Read”
- EM De La Cruz, J Roland, BR McCullough, L Blanchoin, and J-L Martiel (2010) Origin of Twist-Bend Coupling in Actin Filaments. Biophys. J., 99:1852-1860.
- HF Chin, Y Cai, S Menon, S Ferro-Novick, KM Reinisch & EM De La Cruz (2009) Kinetic analysis of the guanine nucleotide exchange activity of TRAPP, a multimeric Ypt1p exchange factor. J. Mol. Biol. 389, 275-88.
