Elizabeth Wittenborn

Post-doctoral associate

Education:

University of California, Berkeley

356 Stanley Hall, Berkeley, CA 94720

Email: ecwittenborn<spAm>berkeley.edu

Phone: (510) 642-8766

Publications:

Cohen SE, Brignole EJ, Wittenborn EC, Can M, Thompson S, Ragsdale SW, Drennan CL. (2020) Negative stain electron microscopy reveals dramatic structural rearrangements in Ni-Fe-S-dependent carbon monoxide dehydrogenase/acetyl-CoA synthase. Structure, 28:1-7.
Cohen SE, Can M, Wittenborn EC, Hendrickson R, Ragsdale SW, Drennan CL. (2020) Crystallographic characterization of the carbonylated A-cluster in carbon monoxide dehydrogenase/acetyl-CoA synthase. ACS Catal., 10(17):9741–9746.
Wittenborn EC, Guendon C, Merrouch M, Benvenuti M, Fourmond V, Léger C, Drennan CL, Dementin S. (2020) The Solvent-Exposed Fe-S D-Cluster Contributes to Oxygen-Resistance in Desulfovibrio vulgaris Ni-Fe Carbon Monoxide Dehydrogenase. ACS Catal., 10(13): 7328-7335.
Wittenborn EC, Cohen SE, Merrouch M, Léger C, Fourmond V, Dementin S, Drennan CL. (2019) Structural insight into metallocofactor maturation in carbon monoxide dehydrogenase. J. Biol. Chem., 294(35): 13017-13026.
Wittenborn EC, Merrouch M, Ueda C, Fradale L, Léger C, Fourmond V, Pandelia M-E, Dementin S, Drennan CL. (2018) Redox-dependent rearrangements in the NiFeS cluster of carbon monoxide dehydrogenase. eLife, 7:e39451.
Wittenborn EC, Jost M, Wei Y, Stubbe J, Drennan CL. (2016) Structure of the catalytic domain of the class I polyhydroxybutyrate synthase from Cupriavidus necator. J. Biol. Chem., 291(48):25264-25277.
Chen PYT, Wittenborn EC, and Drennan CL. (2016) Nitrogen fixation: Waltzing around cofactors. eLife, 5:e13977.