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John May
Pronouns: He/Him/His
Associate Professor
Chemistry & Biochemistry
University of Wisconsin-La Crosse
John May Pronouns: He/Him/His
Associate Professor
Chemistry & Biochemistry
Specialty area(s)
Biochemistry, Molecular Biology, Molecular Genetics and Physiology of Salmonella, Structural Biology
Current courses at UWL
CHM 103: General Chemistry I
CHM 103L: General Chemistry I Lab
CHM 417L: Biochemistry I: Macromolecules Lab
Education
NIH Postdoctoral Fellowship, Department of Microbial Pathogenesis, Yale School of Medicine
Ph.D. Biochemistry (2009) University of Wisconsin–Madison
B.S. Chemistry with concentration in Biochemistry (2003) Duke University
Career
Teaching history
CHM 103: General Chemistry I
CHM 103L: General Chemistry I Lab
CHM 417L: Biochemistry I: Macromolecules Lab
CHM 419: Advanced Biochemistry Lab
Research and publishing
*UWL undergraduate
*Thielen, M.K., *Vaneerd, C.K., Goswami, M., Carlson, E.E., and May, J.F. (2020) 2-Aminobenzothiazoles inhibit virulence gene expression and block polymyxin resistance in Salmonella enterica. ChemBioChem. https://doi.org/10.1002/cbic.202000422
*Stuttgen, G. M., *Grosskopf, J.D., *Berger, C.R., May, J.F., Bhattacharyya, B., and Weaver, T.M. (2020) Closed fumarase C active site structures reveal SS Loop
residue contribution in catalysis. FEBS Letters. 594: 337–357.
*Rasmussen, D.M., *Soens, R.W., *Davie, T.J., *Vaneerd, C.K., Bhattacharyya, B., and May, J.F. (2018) The structure of DcrB, a lipoprotein from Salmonella enterica,
reveals flexibility in the N-terminal segment of the Mog1p/PsbP-like fold.
Journal of Structural Biology. 204: 513–518.
May, J.F. and Groisman, E.A. (2013) Conflicting roles for a cell surface modification in Salmonella. Molecular Microbiology. 88: 970–983.
Wesener, D.A., May, J.F., Huffman, E.M., and Kiessling, L.L. (2013) UDP-galactopyranose mutase in nematodes. Biochemistry. 52: 4391–4398.
May, J.F., Levengood, M.R., Splain, R.A., Brown, C.D., and Kiessling, L.L. (2012) A processive carbohydrate polymerase that mediates bifunctional catalysis using a single active site. Biochemistry. 51: 1148–1159.
May, J.F., Splain, R.A., Brotschi, C., and Kiessling, L.L. (2009) A tethering mechanism for length control in a processive carbohydrate polymerization. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America. 106: 11851–11856.
Dykhuizen, E.C., May, J.F., Tongpenyai, A., and Kiessling, L.L. (2008) Inhibitors of UDP-galactopyranose mutase thwart mycobacterial growth. Journal of the American Chemical Society. 130: 6706–6707.
Carlson, E.E., May, J.F., and Kiessling, L.L. (2006) Chemical probes of UDP-galactopyranose mutase. Chemistry & Biology. 13: 825–837.
Pirrung, M.C., Liu, Y., Deng, L., Halstead, D.K., Li, Z., May, J.F., Wedel, M., Austin, D.A., and Webster, N.J. (2005) Methyl scanning: total synthesis of demethylasterriquinone B1 and derivatives for identification of sites of interaction with and isolation of its receptor(s). Journal of the American Chemical Society. 127: 4609–4624.
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