Yikun Li
Postdoctoral Fellow
Department of BiochemistryEmory University School of Medicine
4173 Rollins Research Center 1510 Clifton Rd.
Atlanta, Georgia 30322
Education:
09/1999-09/2003:
- Ph.D. in Cell & Molecular biology
Department of Cell & Molecular biology
School of Life Sciences,
University of Science & Technology of China (USTC)
09/1996-07/1999:
- M.S. in Molecular Genetics
School of life sciences,
SUN YAT-SEN University,
Guangzhou, P.R.China
09/1992-07/1996:
- B.S. in Biochemistry
Anhui University,
Hefei, Anhui, P.R.China
Research:
- Investigate the function and regulation of PP2A methylation;
- Investigate the role of PTPA (rrd1 and rrd2 in Saccharomyces cerevisiae) as a putative PP2A chaperone in Saccharomyces cerevisiae;
- Distinct P53-independent apoptosis (growth inhibition in Saccharomyces cerevisiae) pathway induced by adenovirus early region 4 transcription unit (E4orf4)
Research Appointment:
12/2003-present:
- Postdoctoral Fellow
Department of Biochemistry, School of Medicine
Emory University 1510 Clifton Road
Rollins Research Center
Atlanta, GA 30322
Publications:
- Zhou Z, Song X, Li Y, & Gong W. Unique Structural Characteristics of Peptide Deformylase from Pathogenic Bacterium Leptospira interrogans. J Mol Biol. 2004 21;339(1):207-15.