Dr. Christopher R. Meyer
Professor - Biochemistry
Office DBH 145  
Phone (714) 278-4173  
Lab DBH 145  
Phone (714) 278-5294  
Email cmeyer@fullerton.edu  

 
Teaching
Chem 421A  - Biological Chemistry
Chem 422 - Biochemistry Laboratory
Chem 472B*- Biotechnology Laboratory
Chem 423A- General Biochemistry
Chem 477*- Advances in Biotechnology
Chem 540 - Protein Chemistry
Education
Postdoctoral  Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI
Ph.d  1990    University of California, Riverside, Riverside, CA
B.Ac. 1985   California State University, Chico, Chico, CA 

Research

Biotechnology, protein engineering, enzyme structure/function, enzyme kinetics/mechanisms, regulation of metabolism on the enzyme level, carbon metabolism in bacteria and plants, secondary metabolism in plants, comparative enzymology
Recent Publications   ( student names bolded)
  1. Meyer, C. R., Borra, M., Igarashi, R., Lin, Y.-S., and Springsteel, M. (1999) Purification and Characterization of ADPGlucose Pyrophosphorylase from Rhodobacter Sphaeroides 2.4.1. Evidence for the Involvement of Arginine Residues in Allosteric Regulation. IN PRESS Arch. Biochem. Biophys. 371 (2) Nov. 15.
  2. Meyer, C. R., Yirsa, J., Gott, B., and Preiss, J. (1998). A Kinetic Study of Site- Directed Mutants of Escherichia coli ADPGlucose Pyrophosphorylase: The role of Residue 295 in Allosteric Regulation. Arch. Biochem. Biophys. 352, 247-254.
  3. Meyer, C. R., Bork, J., Nadler, S., Yirsa, J., and Preiss, J. (1998). Site-directed Mutagenesis of a Regulatory Site of Escherichia coli ADPGlucose Pyrophosphorylase: The Role of Residue 336 in Allosteric Behavior. Arch. Biochem. Biophys. 353, 1523-159.
  4. Zhang, Y., Chantler, S.E., Gupta, S., Zhao, Y., Leisy, D., Hannah, L. C., Meyer, C., Weston, J., Wu, M.-X., Preiss, J., and Okita, T.W. (1996) Molecular Approaches to enhance rice productivity through manipulations of starch metabolism during seed development. International Research Institute Rice Genetices III. P.O. Box 933, Manila, Philipines.
  5. Preiss, J., Iglesias, A., Hill M. A., Meyer C., Charng, Y.-Y., Bloksberg, L., Stark, D. M., Barry, G. F., Timmerman, K. P., and Kshore, G. M. (1995) In Progress in Plant Polymeric Carbohydrate Research (F. Meuser, D.J. Manners & W. Seibel, eds.) Behr’s Verlag GmbH & Co., Hamburg, Germany, pp. 3-7.
  6. Meyer, C. R., Ghosh, P., Nadler, S., and Preiss, J. (1993). Cloning, expression, and nucleotide sequence of a mutant ADPglucose pyrophosphorylase gene from Escherichia coli B. Arch. Biochem. Biophys. 302, 64-71.
  7. Iglesias, A. A., Barry, G. F., Meyer, C., Bloksberg, L., Nakata, P. A., Greene, T., Laughlin, M. J., Okita, T. W., Kishore, G. M., and Preiss, J. (1993). Expression of the Potato Tuber ADPglucose pyrophosphorylase in Escherichia coli. J. Biol. Chem. 268, 1081-1086.
  8. Meyer, C. R., Rustin, P., and Wedding, R. T. (1993). The effect of chemical modification by diethylpyrocarbonate on substrate and effector binding to phosphoenolpyruvate carboxylase from Crassula argentea. Evidence for a histidine residue in the malate binding site. Photosynthetica 28 (2), 259-272.
  9. Meyer, C. R., Ghosh, P., Remy, E., and Preiss, J. (1992). Cloning, expression, and nucleotide sequence of a mutant glgC gene from Escherichia coli B. J. Bact. 174,

    10. Ghosh, P., Meyer, C., Remy, E., Peterson, D., and Preiss, J. (1992). Biosynthesis of bacterial glycogen:     Cloning, expression, and nucleotide sequence of glgC gene from an allosteric mutant of Escherichia coli B.     Arch. Biochem. Biophys. 296, 122-128.

 
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