e-mail: bohm@bbri.org
Principal Scientist, Boston Biomedical Research Institute (2002-present)
Post-Doc 1997. Yale University/HHMI
Research Interests
Please see the Bohm & Harrison Home Page for a summary
of my research interests and a listing of the current projects in my laboratory.
Publications
Obin, M., Leyy, B.Y., Meinke, G., Bohm, A., Lee, R.H., Gaudet, R., Hopp, J.A., Arshavsky, V.A.,
Willardson, B.A., Taylor, A. (2002) Ubiquination of the Trasducin beta gamma Subunit Complex.
Journal of Biological Chemistry 277, 44566-44575.
Drum, C.L., Yan, S.-Z., Bard, J., Shen, Y.-Q., Lu, D., Soelaiman, S., Grabarek, Z., Bohm, A.*,
Tang, W.-J*. (2002) Structural basis for the activation of the anthrax adenylyl cyclase exotoxin
by calmodulin. Nature 415, 396-402.
Drum, C.L., Shen, Y., Rice, P.A., Bohm, A., Tang, W.-T. Crystallization and Preliminary
X-ray Study of the Edema Factor Exotoxin Adenylyl Cyclase Domain from Bacillus Anthracis in the Presence
of its activator, Calmodulin. Acta Crystallographica D57, 1881-1884.
Skiba N.P., Martemyanov, K.A., Elfeinbein, A., Hopp, J.A., Bohm, A., Simonds, W.F., and
Arshavsky, V.Y. (2001) GS9-G beta 5 substrate selectivity in photoreceptors. Opposing effects of constituent
domains yield high affinity of RGS interaction with the G protein-effector complex. Journal of Biological Chemistry
276:37365-72.
Drum, C.L., Yan, S.-Z., Sarac, R., Mabuchi, Y., Beckingham, K., Bohm, A., Grabarek, Z., Tang, W.-J. (2000)
An Extended Conformation of Calmodulin Induces Interactions between the Structural Domains of Adenylyl
Cyclase from Bacillus anthracis to Promote Catalysis. Journal of Biological Chemistry 275, 36334-340.
Bard J, Zhelkovsky AM, Helmling S, Earnest TN, Moore CL, Bohm A. (2000) Structure of yeast Poly(A)
polymerase alone and in complex with 3'-dATP. Science 289, 1346-1349.
Bohm, A., Gaudet, R, Sigler, P.B. (1997) Structural aspects of heterotrimeric G-protein signalling.
Current Opinions in Biotechnology 8, 480-487.
Gaudet, R., Bohm, A., Sigler, P.B. (1996) Crystal structure of the complex of transducin beta-gamma and
its regulator, phosducin. Cell 87, 577-588.
Sondek, J., Bohm, A., Lambright, D.G., Hamm, H.E., Sigler, P.B. (1996) The 2.1 Angstrom crystal structure
of a G-protein beta-gamma dimer. Nature 379, 369-374.
Lambright, D.G., Sondek, J., Bohm, A., Skiba, N.P., Hamm, H.E., Sigler, P.B. (1996) The 2.0 Angstrom
structure of a heterotrimeric G-protein. Nature 379, 311-319.
Taylor, E.W., Fear, A.-L., Bohm, A., Kim, S.-H., Koths, K. (1994) Structure-function studies on
recombinant human macrophage colony stimulating factor (M-CSF). Journal of Biological Chemistry
269, 31171-31177.
Kim, R., Holbrook, E.L, Jancarik, J., Pandit, J., Weng, X., Bohm, A., Kim, S.H. (1994) High resolution
crystals and preliminary X-ray diffraction studies of catalytic RNA. Acta Crystallographica D50, 290-292.
Rozwarski, D., Bazan, F., Clore, M., Bohm, A., Hatada, M., Wlodawer, A., Karplus, A. (1994) Structural
comparisons among the short chain helical cytokines. Structure 2, 159-173.
Harrison, C.J., Bohm, A., Nelson, H.C.M. (1994) Crystal structure of the DNA binding domain of the heat
shock transcription factor. Science 263, 224-227.
Pandit, J., Bohm, A., Jancarik, J., Halenbeck, R., Koths, K., Kim, S.H. (1992) Three dimensional structure
of dimeric human recombinant macrophage colony stimulating factor. Science 258, 1358-1362.
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Scientist, Boston Biomedical Research Institute (1997-2002)
Adjunct Assistant Professor, Tufts University School of Medicine (1998-present)
Post-Doc 1994. U.C. Berkeley/Dept. of Energy
Ph.D. 1992. Biophysics, University of California at Berkeley
B.S. 1987. Biochemisty, State University of New York at Binghamton