User:Yusuf Tutar
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- Yusuf Tutar
- Cumhuriyet University, Faculty of Pharmacy
- Department of Basic Sciences
- Division of Biochemistry
- Sivas, 58140, TURKEY
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Dr. Yusuf TUTAR is the Head of Biochemistry Division and the head of Basic Sciences Department at Faculty of Pharmacology, Cumhuriyet University, Sivas Turkey. Dr. Tutar is also the Head of Biomedical Engineering Program at the same university. He obtained his M.Sc. and Ph.D. at Oregon State University and Texas Tech University respectively. He pursued his postdoctoral study at National Institutes of Health (NIH/NIDDK), USA. His research focuses on Biochemistry, Biophysics, Genetics and Molecular Biology with specialization in the fields of protein structure-function, protein folding, prion, microrna, pseudogenes, molecular cancer, proteomics, genomics, protein expression and characterization by spectroscopic and calorimetric methods.
Education
- 2005, VF, National Institutes of Health
- 2003, PhD, Texas Tech University
- 1998, MS, Oregon State University
- 1994, BS, Cumhuriyet University
Research interests
- Molecular Cancer Research (Prostate, thyroid, renal, colon) and epigenetic (RT-PCR and Microarray).
- MicroRNA, pseudogens and transfection.
- Prion, translation termination in eukaryotes, and transcription initiation in prokaryotes.
- Investigating structure-function relationship of biological macromolecules with biochemical, biophysical, genetics and molecular biological methods.
- Recombinant DNA technology, molecular sub-cloning, transformation and protein expression.
- Protein purification (Heat shock, Catabolite repressorand S100P proteins) and characterisation (Spectroscopy:Fluorescence, Luminescence, CD, FTIR; Calorimetry: NanoDSC and ITC; Chromatography: HPLC and FPLC; Other techniques: MALDI-TOF, GC, SPR)
Publications
- Goldbeter A and Koshland DE Jr. An amplified sensitivity arising from covalent modification in biological systems. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 1981 Nov;78(11):6840-4. DOI:10.1073/pnas.78.11.6840 |
- JACOB F and MONOD J. Genetic regulatory mechanisms in the synthesis of proteins. J Mol Biol. 1961 Jun;3:318-56. DOI:10.1016/s0022-2836(61)80072-7 |
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- ISBN:0879697164
