Lale Dawut

Lab. Molecular Gerontology, NIA, NIH

5600 Nathan Shock Dr.

Baltimore, MD 21224

 (410) 558-8576

 

 

 

 

Research Experience and Education:

 

August 2000 August – the present

Senior Research Associate, Molecular Gerontology Lab., National Institute of Aging, National Institute of Health, John Hopkins University

5600 Nathan Sock Drive, Baltimore, Maryland, USA

 

January 1992 – July 2000

Post Doctoral Research Associate, Department of Biochemistry and Biophysics, School of Medicine.

University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, North Carolina, USA.

 

September 1985 – December 1991

Lecturer of Forensic Science, Department of Law, Xinjiang University, Urumqi, P.R.China.

 

March 1984 – March 1985

Visiting Scholar, Department of Forensics, Shanghai Huadong University.

 

September 1979 – June 1983

Medical Doctor Degree, Department of Medical Science, Xinjiang Medical Technology University.

 

 

Publications:

 

1.      von Kobbe, C., Harrigan, J., May, A., Opresko, P., Dawut, L., Cheng, W., and Bohr, V.A. “ A central role for the WRN/PARP-1 complex in the poly (ADP-RIBOSYL)ation pathway after DNA damage.”

2.      von Kobbe, C., Karmakar, P., Dawut, L., Opresko, P., Zeng, X., Brosh Jr., R.M., Hickson, I.D. and Bohr, V.A. “Colocalization, physical and functional interaction between Werner and Bloom syndrome proteins.” J. Biol. Chem., 277, 22035-44, 2002.

3.      Thresher RJ, Vitaterna MH, Miyomoto Y, Kazantsev A, Hsu DS, Petit C, Selby CP, Dawut L, Smithies O, Takabashi JS, Sancar A (1998) “Role of mouse cryplochrome blue-light photoreceptor in circadian photoresponses.” Science 282, 1490-1494.

4.      Nalhotra K, Kim ST, Batschauer A, Dawut L, Sancar A (1995) “Putative blue-light photoreceptors from Arabidopsis thaliana and Sinapis alba with a high degree of sequence homology to DNA photoyase contain the two photolase cofactors but lack DNA repair activity.” Biochemistry 34: 6892-6899.

5.      Poly(ADP-ribose) polymerase 1 regulates both the exonuclease and helicase activities of the Werner syndrome protein Cayetano von Kobbe, Jeanine A. Harrigan, Valerie Schreiber, Patrick Stiegler Jason Piotrowski, Lale Dawut,  and Vilhelm A. Bohr Nucl. Acids. Res. 2004 32: 4003-4014.

 

 

Language Skills:

 

English, Chinese and Uighur/Turkish