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Jack Preiss
University Distinguished Professor

• B.S. 1953,City College of New York
• Ph.D. 1957,Duke University.
• Postdoctoral Fellow,1956-58,Duke Univ.
• Postdoctoral Fellow,1958-59, Washington Univ., St. Louis
• Postdoctoral Fellow,1959-60, Stanford School of Medicine
• Scientist,1960-62,National Institutes of Health.
• Faculty Member,1962-84, Univ of Calif. - Davis.
• Guggenheim Memorial Fellowship,1969-70.
• Charles Pfizer Award,1971,American Chemical Society.
• Alexander Von Humboldt Senior U.S. Scientist Award,1984.
• Chair, MSU Biochemistry,1985-89.
• Alsberg-Schoch Memorial,1990,American Assoc. of Cereal Chemists.
• Japanese Society of Starch Science Merit Award,1992.
• Distinguished Faculty Award,1994,MSU.
• Distinguished Faculty Award,1996,CNS Alumni Assoc.
• Distinguished Faculty Award,1997, Mich. Assoc. of Governing Boards.
• Loomis Lecturer,1998,Iowa State University.
• University Distinguished Professor,2001, MSU.
• Highly Cited Researcher,January 2004,ISI (isihighlycited.com)
• Fellow, American Association for the Advancement of Science, 2007
• Elected Fellow of the American Society of Plant Biology, 2008

preiss@msu.edu
116B Biochemistry
Michigan State University
East Lansing, MI 48824-1319
Office:517-353-3137
Lab:353-3247

Publication search:

Sheng F, Yep A, Feng L, Preiss J, Geiger JH. (2009) Oligosaccharide binding in Escherichia coli glycogen synthase. Biochemistry. 48(42):10089-97.

F Sheng, XF Jia, A Yep, J Preiss, JH Geiger. (2009) The Crystal Structures of the Open and Catalytically Competent Closed Conformation of Escherichia coli Glycogen Synthase. J. Biol. Chem. 284:17796-17807.

Preiss, J. (2009) Biochemistry and Molecular Biology of Glycogen Biosynthesis in Bacteria and Mammals and Starch synthesis in Plants. In Comprehensive Natural Products Chemistry II, Clair Byrne, Developmental Editor Elsevier, Inc., Oxford, UK. In Press.

Preiss, J. (2009) Glycogen: Biosynthesis and Regulation. In Escherichia coli and Salmonella typhimurium: Cellular and Molecular Biology, Third edition, (F.C. Neidhardt, editor in Chief) Amer. Soc. Microbiol., Washington, D.C. In Press.

Preiss J., Starch Biosynthesis in Plants, Volume 4, pp 362-376, in Wiley Encyclopedia of Chemical Biology, 2009, John Wiley & Sons, Hoboken.

Preiss, J. (2009) "Glycogen Biosynthesis", in The Encyclopedia of Microbiology, 3rd Edition, edited by Moselio Schaechter, Oxford: Elsevier, UK, pp. 145-158.

J.M. Shively, G. C. Cannon, S. Heinhorst, J.A. Fuerst, D.A. Bryant, E. Gantt, J.A. Maupin-Furlow, D. Schuler, F. Pfeifer, R. Docampo, C. Dahl, J. Preiss, A. Steinbuchel and B.A. Federici. (2009) Intracellular Stuctures of Prokaryotes: Inclusions, Compartments and Assemblages. IN Encyclopedia of Microbiology, 3rd Edition. (M. Schaechter, Ed.) Elsevier, Inc., Oxford, UK. Pp. 404-424.

Preiss, J. (2009) Biochemistry and Molecular Biology of Starch Biosynthesis. IN: Starch: Chemistry and Technology (3rd edition) R.L. Whistler and J. BeMiller (eds.) Elsevier, Inc., Oxford, UK, pp 83-147.

Ventriglia T, Ballicora MA, Teresa Ruíz, M, Pedro, MR, Valverde, F, Preiss, J, Romero JM. (2008) Evolutionary fate of ADP-glucose pyrophosphorylase gene family in Arabidopsis thaliana. Plant Physiol. 148: 65-76.

Preiss, J. (2007) PABMB: From 1994 to Present. IUBMB Life 59: 212-213.

Ballicora MA, Erben ED, Yazaki T, Bertolo AL, Demonte AM, Schmidt JR, Aleanzi M, Bejar CM, Figueroa CM, Fusari CM, Iglesias AA, Preiss J. (2007) Identification of Regions Critically Affecting Kinetics and Allosteric Regulation of the Escherichia coli ADP-glucose Pyrophosphorylase by Modeling and Pentapeptide-Scanning Mutagenesis. J Bacteriol. 189:5325-5333.

Ventriglia T, Ballicora MA, Crevillen P, Preiss J, Romero JM. (2007) Regulatory properties of potato-Arabidopsis hybrid ADP-Glucose Pyrophosphorylase. Plant Cell Physiol. 48:875-880.

Yep, A., Ballicora, M.A. and Preiss, Jack (2006) The ADP-glucose binding site of Escherichia coli Glycogen Synthase. Arch. Biochem. Biophysics, 453: 188-196.

Bejar, C.M., Ballicora, M.A. and Preiss, Jack (2006) Molecular architecture of the glucose1-phosphate site in ADP-glucose pyrophosphorylases. J. Biol. Chem. 281: 40473-84.

Bejar, C., Ballicora, M. A., Iglesias, A. A. and Preiss, J. (2006) ADP-glucose pyrophosphorylase's N-terminus: structural role in allosteric regulation. Biochem. Biophys. Research Commun. 343: 216-221.

Iglesias, A. A., Ballicora, M. A., Sesma J. I. and Preiss, J. (2006) Domain swapping between a cyanobacterial and a plant subunit ADP-glucose pyrophosphorylase. Plant and Cell Physiology. 47:523-530.

Preiss, J. (2006) Bacterial Glycogen Inclusions: Enzymology and Regulation of synthesis. In Microbiology Monographs Vol. 1, Chapter 4 (J.M. Shively, editor) Springer, Heidelberg, Germany. Pp. 71-108.

Jin, X., Ballicora, M.A., Preiss, J. and Geiger, James H. (2005) Crystal structure of potato tuber ADP-glucose pyrophosphorylase. Embo J. 24: 694-704.

Ballicora, Miguel A., Dubay, J.R., Devillers, C.H. And Preiss, J. (2005) Resurrecting the ancestral enzymatic role of a modulatory subunit. J. Biol. Chem. 280: 10189-10195. Cited by Journal as "Paper of the Week".

Yep, A., Ballicora, M. A. Sivak, M. N. and Preiss J. (2004) Identification and Characterization of a Critical Region in the Glycogen Synthase from Escherichia coli.J. Biol. Chem. 279: 8359-8367.

Yep, A., Ballicora, M. A. Sivak, M. N. and Preiss J. (2004) The active site of the Escherichia coli Glycogen Synthase is similar to the active site of retaining GT-B Glycosyltransferases. (2004) Biochem. Biophys. Res. Commun. 316: 960-966.

Bejar, C.M., Ballicora, M.A., , Gomez-Casati, D.F., Iglesias, A.A. And Preiss, J. (2004) The ADP-glucose pyrophosphorylase from Escherichia coli comprises two tightly bound distinct domains. FEBS letters, 573: 99-104.

Sakulsinghharoj, C., Choi, S.-B., Hwang, S.-K., Edwards, G.E., Bork, J., Meyer, C.R., Preiss, J. And Okita, T.W. (2004) Engineering starch biosynthesis for increasing rice seed weight: the role of the cytoplasmic ADP-glucose pyrophosphorylase. Plant Science 167: 1323-1333.

Ballicora, M.A., Iglesias, A.A., and Preiss J. (2004) ADP-glucose Pyrophosphorylase; a Regulatory enzyme for Plant Starch Synthesis. Photosynthesis Research, 79: 1-24.

Devillers, C.H., Piper, M.E., Ballicora, M.A. And Preiss, J. (2003) Characterization of the branching patterns of glycogen branching enzyme truncated on the N-terminus. Arch. Biochem. Biophys. 418: 34-38.

Freuauf, J.B. , Ballicora, M.A. And Preiss, J. (2003) ADP-glucose Pyrophosphorylase from potato tuber. Site-Directed Mutagenesis of Homologous Aspartic Acid Residues in the Small and Large Subunits. Plant J. 33: 503-511.

Crevillén, P., Ballicora, M.A., Mérida, Á. Preiss, J. And Romero, J. (2003) The different large subunit isoforms of Arabidopsis thaliana ADP-glucose pyrophosphorylase confer distinct kinetic and regulaton properties to the pheterotetrameric enzyme. J. Biol. Chem. 278: 28508-2515.

Ballicora, M.A., Iglesias, A.A., and Preiss J. (2003) ADP-glucose Pyrophosphorylase; a Regulatory enzyme for Bacterial Glycogen Synthesis. Microbial & Molec. Biol. Rev. 67: 213-225

Preiss, J. (2002) Glycogen Synthesis and its Regulation in Bacteria. In BioPolymers, Vol. 8 Polysaccharides II (Steinbüchel, A., ed.). Wiley-VCH Verlag GMBH, Weinheim, Germany. 21-35.

Abad, M.C., Binderup, K., Preiss, J. and Geiger, J. H. (2002) Crystallization and preliminary X-ray diffraction studies of Escherichia coli Branching Enzyme. Acta Crystallographica D series. D58 359-361.

Frueauf, J.B., Ballicora, A.M. And Preiss, J. (2002) Alteration of inhibitor specificity by site-directed mutagenesis of Arg294 in the ADP-glucose pyrophosphorylase from Anabaena PCC 7120. Arch. Biochem. Biophys. 400: 208-214.

Ballicora, M.A., Sesma, J.I., Iglesias, A.A. And Preiss, J. (2002) Characterization of Chimeric ADPglucose Pyrophosphorylases of Escherichia coli and Agrobacterium tumefaciens. Importance of the C-terminal Domain on the Selectivity for Allosteric Regulators. Biochemistry, 41: 9431-9437.

Binderup, K., Mikkelsen, R. And Preiss, J. (2002) Truncation of the Amino-Terminus of Branching Enzyme changes in Branching Pattern. Arch. Biochem. Biophys. 397: 279-285.

Abad, M.C., Binderup, K., Rios-Steiner, Jorge, Preiss, J. and Geiger, J. H. (2002) The X-ray Crystallographic structure of Escherichia coli Branching Enzyme. J. Biol. Chem. 277: 42164-42170.

Wu, M.-X. and Preiss, J. (2001) Abridged Forms of the Recombinant Escherichia coli ADP-glucose Pyrophosphorylase : The Importance of the N-Terminal Region for Allosteric Activation and Inhibition. Arch. Biochem. Biophys. 389, 159-165.

Frueauf, J.B., Ballicora, A.M. And Preiss, J. (2001) Aspartate residue 142 is important for catalysis by ADPGlc pyrophosphorylase from Escherichia coli. J. Biol. Chem. 276: 46319-46325.

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