Guy Dodson

Guy Dodson

Guy Dodson
Born George Guy Dodson
January 13, 1937
Palmerston North, New Zealand
Died December 24, 2012 (aged 75)
York, UK
Fields X-ray crystallography
Institutions
Alma mater University of New Zealand (BSc, PhD)
Influences Dorothy Hodgkin
Notable awards
Spouse Eleanor Dodson[1]
Children four[1]

Website

(George) Guy Dodson FRS FMedSci (13 January 1937 – 24 December 2012), was a biochemist who specialised in protein crystallography at the University of York.[2][3][4][5][6][7][8][9]

Education

Dodson graduated from the University of New Zealand where he was awarded a Bachelor of Science and Doctor of Philosophy degrees.

Career

Dodson did postdoctoral research with Dorothy Hodgkin at the University of Oxford.[10][11][12][13] He devised along with Hodgkin, very intricate experimental, crystallographic and computer techniques that led to the final solution of the structure of insulin. Dodson was head of the structural biology laboratories at the University of York and National Institute for Medical Research, London. During his career he collaborated with many scientists[9] including Dale Wigley, Gideon Davies,[4] Andrzej Brzozowski,[14] Leo Brady[15] and Max Perutz.[16]

Awards and honours

Dodson was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society (FRS) in 1994. His nomination reads

“ Guy Dodson's major researches have been concerned with the Xray analysis of a variety of crystalline proteins many now being carried out with increasing speed and accuracy through the use of synchrotron radiation. His most considerable work, on insulin, extends from his part in the first solution of the 2 zinc insulin crystal structure to the refeinement of the atomic parameters of both protein and water moledules at 1.5A resolution. He has recently explored remarkable conformational variations of the insulin molecule under different conditions, which give rise to three different hexamers, dimers at different pH and a monomeric despentapeptide insulin. He is at present investigating structure activity relations of genetically engineered varieties of insulin. Other systems he has studied include a series of bacterial ribonucleases and the T state of haemoglobin as seen in the partially liganded T alpha oxy beta deoxy, T alpha met beta met and T alpha deoxy beta deoxy human haemoglobins, crystallised from polyethyleneglycol. It is characteristic of him that he has created a laboratory to which protein crystals are brought from all over the world and their structures solved.[17] ”

Dodson was also a Foreign Member of the Indian National Science Academy (ForMemINSA) and the Academy of Medical Sciences (FMedSci).

Personal life

Dodson was married to the scientist Eleanor Dodson with whom he had four children.[1]

References

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 DODSON, Prof. Eleanor Joy. Who's Who 2014 (online Oxford University Press ed.). A & C Black, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing plc. (subscription required)
  2. ↑ Professor Guy Dodson, Department of Chemistry, University of York, retrieved 29 December 2012.
  3. ↑ De Meyts, P. (2013). "In Memoriam: Guy Dodson (1937–2012)". Frontiers in Endocrinology 4. doi:10.3389/fendo.2013.00033.
  4. ↑ 4.0 4.1 Wigley, D.B.; Davies, G.J.; Dodson, E.J.; Maxwell, A; Dodson, G (1991). "Crystal structure of an N-terminal fragment of the DNA gyrase B protein". Nature 351 (6328): 624–629. Bibcode:1991Natur.351..624W. doi:10.1038/351624a0. PMID 1646964.
  5. ↑ Davies, G. J.; Dodson, G. G.; Hubbard, R. E.; Tolley, S. P.; Dauter, Z.; Wilson, K. S.; Hjort, C.; Mikkelsen, J. M. L.; Rasmussen, G.; Schülein, M. (1993). "Structure and function of endoglucanase V". Nature 365 (6444): 362–4. doi:10.1038/365362a0. PMID 8377830.
  6. ↑ Baker, E. N. (2013). "Guy Dodson FRS (1937–2012)". Acta Crystallographica Section D Biological Crystallography 69 (3): 490. doi:10.1107/S0907444913004186.
  7. ↑ Prof Guy Dodson on YouTube
  8. ↑ Written evidence submitted by Professor Guy Dodson, FRS, FMS, ForMemINSA, parliament.uk
  9. ↑ 9.0 9.1 Guy Dodson's publications indexed by the Scopus bibliographic database, a service provided by Elsevier.
  10. ↑ Blundell, T. L.; Dodson, G. G.; Dodson, E.; Hodgkin, D. C.; Vijayan, M. (1971). "X-ray analysis and the structure of insulin". Recent progress in hormone research 27: 1–40. PMID 4946130.
  11. ↑ Blundell, T.L.; Cutfield, J.F.; Cutfield, S.M.; Dodson, E.J.; Dodson, G.G.; Hodgkin, D.C.; Mercola, D.A.; Vijayan, M. (1971). "Atomic positions in rhombohedral 2-zinc insulin crystals". Nature 231 (5304): 506–511. doi:10.1038/231506a0. PMID 4932997.
  12. ↑ Adam, M. G.; Coller, L.; Hodgkin, D. C.; Dodson, G. G. (1966). "X-ray crystallographic studies on zinc insulin crystals". The American Journal of Medicine 40 (5): 667–671. doi:10.1016/0002-9343(66)90146-X. PMID 5941965.
  13. ↑ Dodson, Guy (2002). "Dorothy Mary Crowfoot Hodgkin, O.M. 12 May 1910 - 29 July 1994". Biographical Memoirs of Fellows of the Royal Society 48: 179–219. doi:10.1098/rsbm.2002.0011.
  14. ↑ Brzozowski, A. M.; Derewenda, U.; Derewenda, Z. S.; Dodson, G. G.; Lawson, D. M.; Turkenburg, J. P.; Bjorkling, F.; Huge-Jensen, B.; Patkar, S. A.; Thim, L. (1991). "A model for interfacial activation in lipases from the structure of a fungal lipase-inhibitor complex". Nature 351 (6326): 491. doi:10.1038/351491a0.
  15. ↑ Brady, L.; Brzozowski, A. M.; Derewenda, Z. S.; Dodson, E.; Dodson, G.; Tolley, S.; Turkenburg, J. P.; Christiansen, L.; Huge-Jensen, B.; Norskov, L.; Thim, L.; Menge, U. (1990). "A serine protease triad forms the catalytic centre of a triacylglycerol lipase". Nature 343 (6260): 767–70. doi:10.1038/343767a0. PMID 2304552.
  16. ↑ Perutz, M. F.; Wilkinson, A. J.; Paoli, M.; Dodson, G. G. (1998). "The Stereochemical Mechanism of the Cooperative Effects in Hemoglobin Revisited". Annual Review of Biophysics and Biomolecular Structure 27: 1. doi:10.1146/annurev.biophys.27.1.1.
  17. ↑ "EC/1994/13:Dodson, George Guy". London: The Royal Society. Archived from the original on 2014-10-29.