Lenita Viitanen

23.4.2010
Department of Biosciences, Åbo Akademi University, Turku

Structural Features of Ligand Binding: Sterol Carrier Protein-2 and Glycolipid Transfer Protein

Reviewers:

Dr. (title of docent) Tommi Nyrönen, CSC -IT Center for Science Ltd., Espoo, Finland

Dr. Antti Haapalainen, Department of Biochemistry, University of Oulu, Oulu, Finland

Opponent:

Associate Professor Que Lan, Department of Entomolgy, Unversity of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, USA

Custos:

Professor Mark S. Johnson, Department of Biosciences, Åbo Akademi University, Turku

Publications:

  1. Edqvist J, Rönnberg E, Rosenquist S, Blomqvist K, Viitanen L, Salminen TA, Nylund M, Tuuf J & Mattjus P. (2004) Plants express a lipid transfer protein with high similarity to mammalian sterol carrier protein-2. J Biol Chem. Dec 17;279(51):53544-53.
  2. Viitanen L, Nylund M, Eklund DM, Alm C, Eriksson AK, Tuuf J, Salminen TA, Mattjus P & Edqvist J. (2006) Characterization of SCP-2 from Euphorbia lagascae reveals that a single Leu/Met exchange enhances sterol transfer activity. FEBS J. Dec;273(24):5641-55.
  3. Zheng BS, Rönnberg E, Viitanen L, Salminen TA, Lundgren K, Moritz T & Edqvist J. (2008) Arabidopsis sterol carrier protein-2 is required for normal development of seeds and seedlings. J Exp Bot. 59(12):3485-99.
  4. West G, Viitanen L, Alm C, Mattjus P, Salminen TA & Edqvist J. (2008) Identification of a glycosphingolipid transfer protein GLTP1 in Arabidopsis thaliana. FEBS Journal 275(13):3421-3437.