Laura L. Kiessling

Laura L. Kiessling is an American biochemist, and Professor of Chemistry and Biochemistry, at University of Wisconsin–Madison.^[1][2] She is the director of the Keck Center for Chemical Genomics, and the NIH Chemistry-Biology Interface Training Program.

She graduated from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology with a B.S., and from Yale University with a PhD. She edits ACS Chemical Biology.

Awards

• 2008 Guggenheim Fellow
• 1999 MacArthur Fellows Program^[3]
• Wilbur Cross Medalist ^[4]

Works

• E. C. Dykhuizen, J. F. May, A. Tongpenyai, and L. L. Kiessling. "Inhibitors of UDP-Galactopyranose Mutase Thwart Mycobacterial Growth". 2008, J. Am. Chem. Soc. 130, 6706-6707.
• E. M. Kolonko and L. L. Kiessling. "A polymeric domain that promotes cellular internalization". 2008, J. Am. Chem. Soc. 130, 5626-5627.
• E. S. Underbakke, Y. Zhu, and L. L. Kiessling. "Isotope-Coded Affinity Tags with Tunable Reactivites for Protein Footprinting". 2008, Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 47, 9677-9680.
• C. B. Carlson, P. Mowery, R. M. Owen, E. C. Dykhuizen and L. L. Kiessling. "Selective Tumor Cell Targeting Using Low Affinity Multivalent Interactions". 2007, ACS Chem. Biol. 2, 119-127.
• E. B. Puffer, J. K. Pontrello, J. J. Hollenbeck, J. A. Kink, and L. L. Kiessling. "Activating B Cell Signaling with Defined Multivalent Ligands". 2007, ACS Chem. Biol. 2, 252-262.
• L. L. Kiessling, J. E. Gestwicki and L. E. Strong (2006). "Synthetic Ligands as Probes of Signal Transduction." 2006, Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 45, 2348-2368.
• J. K. Pontrello, M. J. Allen, E. S. Underbakke, and L. L. Kiessling. "Solid-Phase Synthesis of Polymers Using the Ring-Opening Metathesis Polymerization". 2005, J. Am. Chem. Soc. 127, 14536-14537.
• Y. He, R. J. Hinklin, J. Chang and L. L. Kiessling. "Stereoselective N-Glycosylation by Staudinger Ligation." 2004, Org. Lett. 6, 4479-4482.
• M. L. Soltero-Higgin, E. E. Carlson, T. D. Gruber and L. L. Kiessling. "A Unique Catalytic Mechanism for UDP-Galactopyranose Mutase" 2004, Nature Mol. Struct. Biol. 11, 539-543.
• T. Young and L. L. Kiessling. "A Strategy for the Synthesis of Sulfated Peptides". 2002, Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. Eng. 41, 3449-3451.
• J. E. Gestwicki, C. W. Cairo, L. E. Strong, K. A. Oetjen and L. L. Kiessling. "Influencing Receptor - Ligand Binding Mechanisms with Multivalent Ligand Architecture". 2002, J. Am. Chem. Soc. 124, 14922-14933.
• C. R. Bertozzi and L. L. Kiessling. "Chemical Glycobiology", 2001, Science 291, 2357-64.299
• R. J. Hinklin and L. L. Kiessling. "Glycosyl Sulfonylcarbamates: New Glycosyl Donors with Tunable Reactivity". 2001, J. Am. Chem. Soc. 123, 3379-3380.
• B. L. Nilsson, L. L. Kiessling and R. T. Raines (2000). "Staudinger Ligation: A Peptide from a Thioester and Azide", Org. Lett. 2, 1939-1941.
• N. Maki, J. E. Gestwicki, L. L. Kiessling and J. Adler (2000). "Motility and Chemotaxis of Filamentous Cells of Escherichia coli", J. Bacteriol. 182, 4337-4342.
• S. D. Burke, Q. Zhao, M. C. Schuster and L. L. Kiessling (2000). "Synergistic Formation of Soluble Lectin Clusters by a Templated Multivalent Saccharide Ligand", J. Am. Chem. Soc 122, 4518-4519.

References

External links

• "Laura L. Kiessling", Scientific Commons