Congratulations to Mahmoud, a graduate student in the lab of Nikolay Dokholyan! His paper was selected as the paper of the week in the February 19, 2016 issue of the Journal of Biological Chemistry.
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The Journal of Biological Chemistry (JBC) publishes papers based on original research that are judged to make a novel and important contribution to understanding the molecular and cellular basis of biological processes. Mahmoud’s article, “Gain-of-Function Mutation W493R in the Epithelial Sodium Channel Allosterically Reconfigures Intersubunit Coupling,” was published in the February 19, 2016 edition of JBC, volume 291, issue 8.
Mahmoud is currently a 3rd year graduate student working in the lab of Dr. Nikolay Dokholyan, Michael Hooker Distinguished Professor of Biochemistry & Biophysics. Mahmoud use computational and experimental methods to understand the molecular basis of diseases such as cystic fibrosis and hypertension.
Read more about Mahmoud’s paper and his research here: http://m.jbc.org/content/291/8/3682/suppl/DCAuthor_profile