Gary A. Lorigan

Gary A. Lorigan is a Professor of chemistry and biochemistry at Miami University. Professor Lorigan obtained his Ph.D. degree at the University of California, Davis, using pulsed EPR spectroscopy to study photosynthesis. Also, Dr. Lorigan conducted an NIH postdoctoral fellowship at the University of Pennsylvania probing the structure of membrane proteins with solid-state NMR spectroscopy. His current research program at Miami University is focused on studying the structural and dynamic properties of membrane proteins using a combination of solid-state NMR spectroscopy and EPR spectroscopy.

Biography Updated on 11 December 2007

Personal Home Page

http://www.cas.muohio.edu/chm/faculty/lorigan.htm

Articles in Scholarly Journals [Incomplete List]

  1. Structural divergence among cannabinoids influences membrane dynamics: A 2H Solid-State NMR analysis
    Biochimica et Biophysica Acta (BBA) - Biomembranes, vol. 1768, no. 9, pp. 2049–2059, 2007
  2. Characterization of lipid bilayer formation in aligned nanoporous aluminum oxide nanotube arrays
    Journal of Magnetic Resonance, vol. 187, no. 1, pp. 112–119, 2007
  3. Side Chain and Backbone Dynamics of Phospholamban in Phospholipid Bilayers Utilizing 2H and 15N Solid-State NMR Spectroscopy
    Biochemistry, vol. 46, no. 42, pp. 11695–11706, 2007
  4. Construction of Robust Open Metal-Organic Frameworks with Chiral Channels and Permanent Porosity
    Inorganic Chemistry, vol. 46, no. 7, pp. 2725–2734, 2007
  5. Determining the Helical Tilt Angle of a Transmembrane Helix in Mechanically Aligned Lipid Bilayers Using EPR Spectroscopy
    Journal of the American Chemical Society, vol. 129, no. 25, pp. 7710–7711, 2007
  6. The structural topology of wild-type phospholamban in oriented lipid bilayers using 15N solid-state NMR spectroscopy
    Protein Science, vol. 16, no. 11, pp. 2345–2349, 2007
  7. Journal of the American Chemical Society, vol. 128, no. 29, pp. 9549–9554, 2006
  8. Journal of the American Chemical Society, vol. 128, no. 37, pp. 12070–12071, 2006
  9. Probing membrane topology by high-resolution 1H–13C heteronuclear dipolar solid-state NMR spectroscopy
    Journal of Magnetic Resonance, vol. 178, no. 2, pp. 283–287, 2006
  10. Biochemistry, vol. 45, no. 23, pp. 7356–7365, 2006
  11. Biochemistry, vol. 45, no. 44, pp. 13312–13322, 2006
  12. Rapid cold-hardening increases membrane fluidity and cold tolerance of insect cells?
    Cryobiology, vol. 52, no. 3, pp. 459–463, 2006
  13. Exploring membrane selectivity of the antimicrobial peptide KIGAKI using solid-state NMR spectroscopy
    Biochimica et Biophysica Acta (BBA) - Biomembranes, vol. 1758, no. 9, pp. 1303–1313, 2006
  14. The structural properties of the transmembrane segment of the integral membrane protein phospholamban utilizing 13C CPMAS, 2H, and REDOR solid-state NMR spectroscopy
    Biochimica et Biophysica Acta (BBA) - Biomembranes, vol. 1758, no. 6, pp. 772–780, 2006
  15. Electron paramagnetic resonance studies of magnetically aligned phospholipid bilayers utilizing a phospholipid spin label: The effect of cholesterol
    Biochimica et Biophysica Acta (BBA) - Biomembranes, vol. 1714, no. 2, pp. 141–151, 2005
  16. Structural changes in a binary mixed phospholipid bilayer of DOPG and DOPS upon saposin C interaction at acidic pH utilizing P and H solid-state NMR spectroscopy
    Biochimica et Biophysica Acta (BBA) - Biomembranes, vol. 1717, no. 1, pp. 58–66, 2005
  17. Investigating the structural and dynamic properties of -doxylstearic acid in magnetically-aligned phospholipid bilayers by X-band EPR spectroscopy
    Chemistry and Physics of Lipids, vol. 133, no. 2, pp. 151–164, 2005
  18. Biochemistry, vol. 44, no. 30, pp. 10208–10217, 2005
  19. Solid-State NMR Studies of a Diverged Microsomal Amino-Proximate  12 Desaturase Peptide Reveal Causes of Stability in Bilayer: Tyrosine Anchoring and Arginine Snorkeling
    Biophysical Journal, vol. 90, no. 4, pp. 1249–1259, 2005
  20. Langmuir, vol. 21, no. 10, pp. 4291–4298, 2005
  21. The assembly of organic radical anions between metal-borate scaffolds
    Dalton Transactions, no. 17, p. 2941, 2005
  22. Langmuir, vol. 20, no. 14, pp. 5801–5808, 2004
  23. A H solid-state NMR spectroscopic investigation of biomimetic bicelles containing cholesterol and polyunsaturated phosphatidylcholine
    Chemistry and Physics of Lipids, vol. 132, no. 1, pp. 55–64, 2004
  24. The effects of cholesterol on magnetically aligned phospholipid bilayers: a solid-state NMR and EPR spectroscopy study
    Journal of Magnetic Resonance, vol. 168, no. 1, pp. 18–30, 2004
  25. Investigating fatty acids inserted into magnetically aligned phospholipid bilayers using EPR and solid-state NMR spectroscopy
    Journal of Magnetic Resonance, vol. 168, no. 2, pp. 228–237, 2004
  26. Investigating magnetically aligned phospholipid bilayers with EPR spectroscopy at Q-band (35GHz): optimization and comparison with X-band (9GHz)
    Journal of Magnetic Resonance, vol. 171, no. 1, pp. 71–79, 2004
  27. Synthesis and Characterization of a Series of (Diphenyldipyrazolylmethane)copper Complexes as Possible Precursors to Type I Blue Copper Protein Active Site Models
    European Journal of Inorganic Chemistry, vol. 2004, no. 5, pp. 1073–1080, 2004
  28. Solid-state2H NMR studies of the effects of cholesterol on the acyl chain dynamics of magnetically aligned phospholipid bilayers
    Magnetic Resonance in Chemistry, vol. 42, no. 2, pp. 132–138, 2004
  29. Biochemistry, vol. 43, no. 44, pp. 13899–13909, 2004
  30. An improved synthetic and purification procedure for the hydrophobic segment of the transmembrane peptide phospholamban
    Analytical Biochemistry, vol. 318, no. 1, pp. 146–151, 2003
  31. Investigating magnetically aligned phospholipid bilayers with various lanthanide ions for X-band spin-label EPR studies
    Biochimica et Biophysica Acta (BBA) - Biomembranes, vol. 1612, no. 1, pp. 52–58, 2003
  32. Calculating order parameter profiles utilizing magnetically aligned phospholipid bilayers for 2H solid-state NMR studies
    Solid State Nuclear Magnetic Resonance, vol. 24, no. 2-3, pp. 137–149, 2003
  33. Magnetically aligned phospholipid bilayers in weak magnetic fields: optimization, mechanism, and advantages for X-band EPR studies
    Journal of Magnetic Resonance, vol. 161, no. 1, pp. 77–90, 2003
  34. Characterization of Chromodulin by X-ray Absorption and Electron Paramagnetic Resonance Spectroscopies and Magnetic Susceptibility Measurements
    Journal of the American Chemical Society, vol. 125, no. 3, pp. 774–780, 2003
  35. Synthesis and conformational studies of a transmembrane domain from a diverged microsomal ?12-desaturase
    Analytical Biochemistry, vol. 308, no. 1, pp. 134–140, 2002
  36. Development of magnetically aligned phospholipid bilayers in mixtures of palmitoylstearoylphosphatidylcholine and dihexanoylphosphatidylcholine by solid-state NMR spectroscopy
    Biochimica et Biophysica Acta (BBA) - Biomembranes, vol. 1512, no. 2, pp. 206–214, 2001
  37. Investigating Magnetically Aligned Phospholipid Bilayers with EPR Spectroscopy at 94 GHz
    Journal of Magnetic Resonance, vol. 151, no. 2, pp. 253–259, 2001
  38. Magnetically Aligned Phospholipid Bilayers at the Parallel and Perpendicular Orientations for X-Band Spin-Label EPR Studies
    Journal of the American Chemical Society, vol. 123, no. 12, pp. 2913–2914, 2001
  39. Photosynthesis Research, vol. 66, no. 3, pp. 189–198, 2000
  40. Journal of the American Chemical Society, vol. 122, no. 29, pp. 7052–7058, 2000
  41. Magnitudes and Orientations of the 15N Chemical Shift Tensor of [1-15N]-2'-Deoxyguanosine Determined on a Polycrystalline Sample by Two-Dimensional Solid-State NMR Spectroscopy
    Journal of Magnetic Resonance, vol. 140, no. 2, pp. 315–319, 1999
  42. Journal of the American Chemical Society, vol. 121, no. 13, pp. 3240–3241, 1999
  43. Journal of the American Chemical Society, vol. 120, no. 51, pp. 13321–13333, 1998
  44. Journal of the American Chemical Society, vol. 117, no. 47, pp. 11780–11789, 1995
  45. Biochemistry, vol. 33, no. 40, pp. 12072–12076, 1994
  46. Biochemistry, vol. 33, no. 40, pp. 12283–12290, 1994
  47. Electron spin echo envelope modulation spectroscopy of the molybdenum center of xanthine oxidase
    Biochimica et Biophysica Acta (BBA) - Bioenergetics, vol. 1185, no. 3, pp. 284–294, 1994
  48. Identification of Histidine at the Catalytic Site of the Photosynthetic Oxygen-Evolving Complex
    Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, vol. 91, no. 2, pp. 704–708, 1994
  49. The g = 2 multiline EPR signal of the S2 state of the photosynthetic oxygen-evolving complex originates from a ground spin state
    Biochimica et Biophysica Acta (BBA) - Bioenergetics, vol. 1140, no. 1, pp. 95–101, 1992