Location: Home > People People Name: Wei Yang Education: Ph. D. Positions: Professor Academic title: Professor Postal Code: 130022 Subject categories: Biochemistry Mailing Address: Changchun Institute of Applied Chemistry, Renming Street 5625, Changchun, Jilin, China E-mail: yangwei@ciac.jl.cn Resume: Received bachlor degree at 1993 at Tsinghua University, Beijing. Received master degree at 1996 at Tsinghua University also. Received Ph. D. degree at 2001 at Georgia State University, Atlanta, USA. Then from 2001 to 2007, carried out post-doc studies at Georgia State University. Became the professor at Changchun Institute of Apllied Chemistry at 2007. Direction: Protein structure and interaction studies by NMR Achievements:   Article: 1. Yang, W., Wilkins, A.L., Li, S.Y., Ye, Y. & Yang, J.J. (2005) The effects of Ca2+ binding on the dynamic properties of a designed Ca2+-binding protein. Biochemistry, 44, 8267-8273. 2.15. Yang, W., Wilkins, A.L., Ye, Y., Liu, Z.R., Li, S.Y., Urbauer, J. L., Hellinga, H. W., Kearney, A., van der Merwe, P. A. & Yang, J. J. (2005) Design of a calcium-binding protein with desired structure in a cell adhesion molecule. J. Am. Chem. Soc. 127, 2085-2093. 3.17. Yang W., Ye Y., Lee H., Liu Z.R., Hellinga H., Yang J.J. (2003) Rational design of calcium-binding protein. J. Am. Chem. Soc. 125, 6165-6171. 4.20. Yang W., Lee H.W., Hellinga H., Yang J.J. (2002) Structural analysis, identification, and design of calcium binding sites in proteins. Proteins 47, 344-356. 5.5. Zhou, Y., Yang, W., Lurtz, M. M., Ye, Y., Huang, Y., Lee, H. W., Chen, Y., Louis, C. F., and Yang, J. J. (2007) Identification of the calmodulin binding domain of connexin 43, J. Biol. Chem., 282, 35005-35017. Community service:   Commitment to research the situation: