Professor
Structure-function relationships of plant proteins
Protein-protein interactions in plant signal transduction
Protein engineering
Selected Publications
Rao, A.G. The outlook for protein engineering in crop improvement. Plant Physiology (2008, in press)
Barry, J.K., Selinger, D., Wang, C, Olsen, O-A & Rao,
A.G. Biochemical characterization of a truncated penta-EF-Hand
Ca2+ binding protein from Maize. Biochim Biophys
Acta. 1764, p.239 (2006)z
Wang, C., Barry, J.K., Min, Z., Tordsen, G., Rao, A.G.,
Olsen, O-A. The calpain domain of the maize DEK1 protein contains the
conserved catalytic triad and functions as a cysteine proteinase.
J.Biol.Chem. 278, p. 34467 (2003)
Fabrick, J., Behnke, C., Czapla, T., Balasubramaniam, N., Rao,
A.G.,Kramer, K.J. & Reeck, G.R. Effects of a potato cysteine
proteinase inhibitor on midgut proteolytic enzyme activity and growth
of the Southern Corn Rootworm, Diabrotica undecimpinctata(Coleoptera:
Chrysomelidae) Insect Biochem. & Mol.Biol.
32, p.405. (2002)
Sleister, H.M., & Rao, A. G. Subtractive immunization:
A tool for the generation of discriminatory antibodies to proteins of
similar sequence. J. Immunol. Meth. 261, p.213
(2002)
Roesler, K.R. & Rao, A. G. Rapid gastric fluid
digestion and biochemical characterization of engineered proteins enriched
in essential amino acids. J. Agric Food Chem.
49, p. 3443. (2001)
Sleister, H.M., & Rao, A. G. Strategies to generate
antibodies capable of distinguishing between proteins with >90% amino
acid identity. J. Immunol. Meth. 252, p.121
(2001)
Roesler, Keith R & Rao, A.G. A single disulfide
bond restores thermodynamic and proteolytic stability to an extensively
mutated protein. Protein Sci. 9, p. 1642 (2000)
