Bruce A. Averill, Ph.D.

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Chemistry University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA 
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Parents

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Richard Hadley Holm grad student 1969-1973 MIT
 (Synthetic analogues of the active sites of non-heme iron-sulfur proteins)
Robert Heinz Abeles post-doc Brandeis
William H. Orme-Johnson post-doc 1976 UW Madison

Children

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Julie A. Kovacs research assistant 1981 Michigan State
Susan Kauzlarich grad student 1980-1985 Michigan State
Michael W. Crowder grad student 1993 UVA
Teng-Ming Chen post-doc 1986-1988 UVA
Susan Latturner research scientist 1993 UVA
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Dikiy A, Funhoff EG, Averill BA, et al. (2002) New insights into the mechanism of purple acid phosphatase through (1)H NMR spectroscopy of the recombinant human enzyme. Journal of the American Chemical Society. 124: 13974-5
Funhoff EG, Ljusberg J, Wang Y, et al. (2001) Mutational analysis of the interaction between active site residues and the loop region in mammalian purple acid phosphatases. Biochemistry. 40: 11614-22
Pinkse MW, Merkx M, Averill BA. (1999) Fluoride inhibition of bovine spleen purple acid phosphatase: characterization of a ternary enzyme-phosphate-fluoride complex as a model for the active enzyme-substrate-hydroxide complex. Biochemistry. 38: 9926-36
Merkx M, Pinkse MW, Averill BA. (1999) Evidence for nonbridged coordination of p-nitrophenyl phosphate to the dinuclear Fe(III)-M(II) center in bovine spleen purple acid phosphatase during enzymatic turnover. Biochemistry. 38: 9914-25
Merkx M, Averill BA. (1999) Probing the role of the trivalent metal in phosphate ester hydrolysis: Preparation and characterization of purple acid phosphatases containing Al(III)Zn(II) and In(III)Zn(II) active sites, including the first example of an active aluminum enzyme Journal of the American Chemical Society. 121: 6683-6689
Merkx M, Averill BA. (1998) The activity of oxidized bovine spleen purple acid phosphatase is due to an Fe(III)Zn(II) 'impurity'. Biochemistry. 37: 11223-31
Merkx M, Averill BA. (1998) Ga3+ as a functional substitute for Fe3+: preparation and characterization of the Ga3+Fe2+ and Ga3+Zn2+ forms of bovine spleen purple acid phosphatase. Biochemistry. 37: 8490-7
LaCroix LB, Shadle SE, Wang Y, et al. (1996) Electronic structure of the perturbed blue copper site in nitrite reductase: Spectroscopic properties, bonding, and implications for the entatic/rack state Journal of the American Chemical Society. 118: 7755-7768
Gorst C, Merkx M, Scholte M, et al. (1995) The Di-iron center in bovine spleen purple acid phosphatase Journal of Inorganic Biochemistry. 59: 379
Averill BA, Vincent JB. (1993) Electronic absorption spectroscopy of nonheme iron proteins. Methods in Enzymology. 226: 33-51
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