H. Gobind Khorana

Affiliations: 
Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, United States 
Area:
molecular mechanisms of visual transduction
Website:
http://www.nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/medicine/laureates/1968/khorana-bio.html
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(1922 - 2011)
The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1968 was awarded jointly to Robert W. Holley, Har Gobind Khorana and Marshall W. Nirenberg "for their interpretation of the genetic code and its function in protein synthesis".
http://www.nasonline.org/member-directory/deceased-members/53832.html
https://biology.mit.edu/events/h_gobind_khorana_memorial
http://web.mit.edu/newsoffice/2011/obit-khorana-1110.html
http://dx.doi.org/10.1126/science.1217138
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/11/14/us/h-gobind-khorana-1968-nobel-winner-for-rna-research-dies.html

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Parents

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Roger John Sidney Beer grad student 1948 University of Liverpool (Chemistry Tree)
Alexander Robertson grad student 1948 University of Liverpool (Chemistry Tree)
Vladimir Prelog post-doc 1948-1949 ETH Zürich (Chemistry Tree)
Alexander Robertus Todd research scientist 1950-1952 Cambridge (Chemistry Tree)

Children

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Ramin M Hakami grad student MIT (Chemistry Tree)
John Gilbert Moffatt grad student 1952-1953 University of British Columbia (Chemistry Tree)
John Gilbert Moffatt grad student 1956 University of British Columbia (Chemistry Tree)
Marsha Rich Rosner grad student 1978 MIT (Cell Biology Tree)
Bruce Kendall Burnett grad student 1982 MIT (Chemistry Tree)
Reynold Charles Verret grad student 1982 MIT (Evolution Tree)
Shiladitya DasSarma grad student 1979-1984 MIT (Chemistry Tree)
Marie-Alda Gilles-Gonzalez grad student 1988 MIT (Chemistry Tree)
Lawrence J. Stern grad student 1983-1989 MIT (Chemistry Tree)
Prashen Chelikani post-doc MIT (Chemistry Tree)
William O. Curatolo post-doc MIT (Chemistry Tree)
Erwin London post-doc MIT (Chemistry Tree)
A. Richard Morgan post-doc UW Madison (Chemistry Tree)
Daniel D. Oprian post-doc MIT (Neurotree)
Alonzo H. Ross post-doc MIT (Chemistry Tree)
Heinz Schaller post-doc UW Madison (Chemistry Tree)
Yotaroh Takagaki post-doc MIT (Chemistry Tree)
Robert Warner Chambers post-doc 1956 UBC (Chemistry Tree)
Peter T. Gilham post-doc 1956-1958 UBC (Chemistry Tree)
Michael Smith post-doc 1956-1961 UBC (Chemistry Tree)
Arturo Falaschi post-doc 1961-1962 UW Madison (Neurotree)
Uttam L. RajBhandary post-doc 1964 UW Madison (Chemistry Tree)
Dieter Söll post-doc 1962-1965 UW Madison (Chemistry Tree)
Thazhuthaveetil Mathai Jacob post-doc 1961-1966 UW Madison (Chemistry Tree)
Saran Adhar Narang post-doc 1963-1966 (Chemistry Tree)
Robert D. Wells post-doc 1964-1966 UW Madison (Chemistry Tree)
Hans Kössel post-doc 1964-1967 UW Madison (Microtree)
Johan Hubert van de Sande post-doc 1970 UW Madison (Chemistry Tree)
Arthur Landy post-doc 1974-1975 MIT (Chemistry Tree)
Frank S. Guziec post-doc 1975-1976 MIT (Chemistry Tree)
Chhitar Mal Gupta post-doc 1978 MIT (Chemistry Tree)
Hagan P. Bayley post-doc 1979-1981 MIT (Chemistry Tree)
Mark S. Braiman post-doc 1983-1986 MIT (Chemistry Tree)
Sabine Flitsch post-doc 1988 MIT (Chemistry Tree)
Thomas P. Sakmar post-doc 1985-1990 MIT (Chemistry Tree)
Ellen M.M. de Brabander-van den Berg post-doc 1989-1990 MIT (Chemistry Tree)
Santanu Bhattacharya post-doc 1989-1991 MIT (Chemistry Tree)
José Bubis post-doc 1989-1991 MIT (Cell Biology Tree)
Mark P. Krebs post-doc 1988-1993 MIT (Neurotree)
Krishnarao Appasani post-doc 1991-1994 Science (Chemistry Tree)
Marvin H. Caruthers research scientist 1973 MIT (Chemistry Tree)
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Ou WB, Yi T, Kim JM, et al. (2011) The roles of transmembrane domain helix-III during rhodopsin photoactivation. Plos One. 6: e17398
Ahuja S, Crocker E, Eilers M, et al. (2009) Location of the retinal chromophore in the activated state of rhodopsin*. The Journal of Biological Chemistry. 284: 10190-201
Takayama H, Chelikani P, Reeves PJ, et al. (2008) High-level expression, single-step immunoaffinity purification and characterization of human tetraspanin membrane protein CD81. Plos One. 3: e2314
McKibbin C, Farmer NA, Jeans C, et al. (2007) Opsin stability and folding: modulation by phospholipid bicelles. Journal of Molecular Biology. 374: 1319-32
McKibbin C, Toye AM, Reeves PJ, et al. (2007) Opsin stability and folding: the role of Cys185 and abnormal disulfide bond formation in the intradiscal domain. Journal of Molecular Biology. 374: 1309-18
Chelikani P, Hornak V, Eilers M, et al. (2007) Role of group-conserved residues in the helical core of beta2-adrenergic receptor. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America. 104: 7027-32
Werner K, Lehner I, Dhiman HK, et al. (2007) Combined solid state and solution NMR studies of alpha,epsilon-15N labeled bovine rhodopsin. Journal of Biomolecular Nmr. 37: 303-12
Zhao X, Nagai Y, Reeves PJ, et al. (2006) Designer short peptide surfactants stabilize G protein-coupled receptor bovine rhodopsin. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America. 103: 17707-12
Chelikani P, Reeves PJ, Rajbhandary UL, et al. (2006) The synthesis and high-level expression of a beta2-adrenergic receptor gene in a tetracycline-inducible stable mammalian cell line. Protein Science : a Publication of the Protein Society. 15: 1433-40
Kota P, Reeves PJ, Rajbhandary UL, et al. (2006) Opsin is present as dimers in COS1 cells: identification of amino acids at the dimeric interface. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America. 103: 3054-9
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