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Kevin Griffith

B.S., Biology (1995)

Appalachian State University

griffith@umbc.edu

Program

  Ph.D. in Molecular and Cell Biology

Mentor

  Richard Wolf

Research

 

 

Publications

 
Griffith KL, Shah IM, Myers TE, O'Neill MC, Wolf RE Jr.
 

Evidence for "pre-recruitment" as a new mechanism of transcription activation in Escherichia coli: The large excess of SoxS binding sites per cell relative to the number of SoxS molecules per cell. Biochem Biophys Res Commun. 2002 291:979-986. [PubMed listing]

Griffith KL, Wolf RE
 

Comprehensive alanine scanning mutagenesis of the Escherichia coli transcriptional activator SoxS: identifying amino acids important for DNA binding and transcription activation. J Mol Biol. 2002 322:237-257. [PubMed Listing] [PDF file]

Griffith KL, Wolf RE Jr.
 

Measuring beta-Galactosidase Activity in Bacteria: Cell Growth, Permeabilization, and Enzyme Assays in 96-Well Arrays.
Biochem Biophys Res Commun. 2002 290:397-402. [PubMed listing]

Griffith KL, Wolf RE.
  Systematic mutagenesis of the DNA binding sites for SoxS in the Escherichia coli zwf and fpr promoters: identifying nucleotides required for DNA binding and transcription activation.
Mol Microbiol. 2001 42:571. [PubMed listing]
Griffith KL, Wolf RE Jr.
  Systematic mutagenesis of the DNA binding sites for SoxS in the Escherichia coli zwf and fpr promoters: identifying nucleotides required for DNA binding and transcription activation.
Mol Microbiol. 2001 40:1141-54. [PubMed listing]
Robinson PR, Griffith K, Gross JM, O'Neill MC.
  A back-propagation neural network predicts absorption maxima of chimeric human red/green visual pigments.
Vision Res. 1999 39:1707-12. [PubMed listing]

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