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Shuowei Cai

faculty

Shuowei Cai, PhD

Professor

Chemistry & Biochemistry

Contact

508-999-8807

508-999-8451

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Violette Research E201

Education

2001University of Massachusetts AmherstPhD
1998University of Massachusetts DartmouthMS
1993Nankai University, ChinaMS
1990Nankai University, ChinaBS

Research

Research interests

  • Bioanalytical and biophysical chemistry
  • Protein chemistry
  • Drug formulation
  • Pharmaceutical biotechnology

Select publications

  • Cai S., Singh B. R. (2004).
    A Distinct Utility of Amide III Infrared Band for Secondary Structure Estimation of Aqueous Protein Solutions Using Partial Least Square Methods
    Biochemistry, 43, 2541–2549.
  • Poirier M. A., Li H., Macosko J., Cai S., Amzel M., Ross C. A. (2002).
    Huntingtin Spheroids and Protofibrils as Precursors in Polyglutamine Fibrilization
    Journal of Biological Chemistry (J. Biol. Chem.), 277, 41032–41037.
  • Cai S., Singh B. R. (2001).
    Role of the Disulfide Cleavage Induced Molten Globule State of Type A Botulinum Neurotoxin in Its Endopeptidase Activity
    Biochemistry, 40, 15327–15333.
  • Cai S., Singh B. R. (2001).
    A Correlation between Differential Structural Features and the Degree of Endopeptidase Activity of Type A Botulinum Neurotoxin in Aqueous Solution
    Biochemistry, 40, 4693–4702.
  • Cai S., Singh B. R. (1999).
    Identification of β-turn and Random Coil Amide III Infrared Bands for Secondary Structure Estimation of Proteins
    Biophysical Chemistry (Biophys. Chem.), 80, 7–20.
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