Derek Parsonage, Ph.D., Assistant Professor Biochemistry

Derek Parsonage, Ph.D.

Assistant Professor, Biochemistry

Contact Information

Academic: 336-716-2575 | Department: 336-716-2575

Email: parsonag@wakehealth.edu

Education & Training

Ph.D., University Birmingham-United Kingdom , 1984
B.Sc., University Birmingham-United Kingdom , 1980
Fellowship, University of Rochester Sch of Med & Dentistry, 1988

Memberships

Am Soc Of Emergency Radiology

Derek Parsonage, Ph.D.

Assistant Professor, Biochemistry

Contact Information

Academic: 336-716-2575 | Department: 336-716-2575

Email: parsonag@wakehealth.edu

Recent Publications

Cho S-H, Parsonage D, Thurston C, Dutton RJ, Poole LB, Collet J-F, Beckwith J. A new family of membrane electron transporters and its substrates, including a new cell envelope peroxiredoxin, reveal a broadened reductive capacity of the oxidative bacterial cell envelope. MBio. 2012;3(2):e00291-11.

Debnath A, Parsonage D, Andrade RM, He C, Cobo ER, Hirata K, Chen S, Garcia-Rivera G, Orozco E, Martinez MB, Gunatilleke SS, Barrios AM, Arkin MR, Poole LB, McKerrow JH, Reed SL. A high-throughput drug screen for Entamoeba histolytica identifies a new lead and target. Nat Med. 2012;18(6):956-960.

Nelson KJ, Parsonage D, Van Swearingen AED, Yuan Y, Salsbury FR, Hall A, Karplus PA, Poole LB. Specific residues in peroxiredoxins promote peroxide reactivity through effects on cysteine pKa, transition state stabilization and oligomerization [abstract]. Free Radic Biol Med. 2012;53(Suppl 2):S151.

Poole L, Karplus PA, Nelson K, Parsonage D. Active site and interface communication regulating peroxiredoxin functions [abstract]. Free Radic Biol Med. 2012;53(Suppl 2):S8.

Nirudodhi S, Parsonage D, Karplus PA, Poole LB, Maier CS. Conformational studies of the robust 2-Cys peroxiredoxin Salmonella typhimurium AhpC by solution phase hydrogen/deuterium (H/D) exchange monitored by electrospray ionization mass spectrometry. Int J Mass Spectrom. 2011;302(1-3):93-100.

Nelson KJ, Parsonage D.Measurement of peroxiredoxin activity

Reeves SA, Parsonage D, Nelson KJ, Poole LB. Kinetic and thermodynamic features reveal that Escherichia coli BCP is an unusually versatile peroxiredoxin. Biochemistry. 2011;50(41):8970-8981.

Parsonage D, Desrosiers DC, Hazlett KRO, Sun Y, Nelson KJ, Cox DL, Radolf JD, Poole LB. Broad specificity AhpC-like peroxiredoxin and its thioredoxin reductant in the sparse antioxidant defense system of Treponema pallidum. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2010;107(14):6240-6245.

Parsonage D, Reeves SA, Karplus PA, Poole LB. Engineering of fluorescent reporters into redox domains to monitor electron transfers. Methods Enzymol. 2010;474():1-21.

Hall A, Parsonage D, Poole LB, Karplus PA. Structural evidence that peroxiredoxin catalytic power is based on transition-state stabilization. J Mol Biol. 2010;402(1):194-209.

Parsonage D, Newton GL, Holder RC, Wallace BD, Paige C, Hamilton CJ, Dos Santos PC, Redinbo MR, Reid SD, Claiborne A. Characterization of the N-acetyl-alpha-D-glucosaminyl l-malate synthase and deacetylase functions for bacillithiol biosynthesis in Bacillus anthracis. Biochemistry. 2010;49(38):8398-8414.

Coffman LG, Parsonage D, D'Agostino RD Jr, Torti FM, Torti SV. Regulatory effects of ferritin on angiogenesis. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2009;106(2):570-575.

Hall A, Parsonage D, Horita D, Karplus PA, Poole LB, Barbar E. Redox-dependent dynamics of a dual thioredoxin fold protein: evolution of specialized folds. Biochemistry. 2009;48(25):5984-5993.

Wallen JR, Mallett TC, Boles W, Parsonage D, Furdui CM, Karplus PA, Claiborne A. Crystal structure and catalytic properties of Bacillus anthracis CoADR-RHD: implications for flavin-linked sulfur trafficking. Biochemistry. 2009;48(40):9650-9667.

Colussi T, Parsonage D, Boles W, Matsouka T, Mallett TC, Karplus PA, Claiborne A. Structure of alpha-glycerophosphate oxidase from Streptococcus sp.: a template for the mitochondrial alpha-glycerophosphate dehydrogenase. Biochemistry. 2008;47(3):965-977.

Parsonage D, Karplus PA, Poole LB. Substrate specificity and redox potential of AhpC, a bacterial peroxiredoxin. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2008;105(24):8209-8214.

Nelson KJ, Parsonage D, Hall A, Karplus A, Poole LB. Cysteine pKa values for the bacterial peroxiredoxin AhpC. Biochemistry. 2008;47(48):12860-68.

Nicely NI, Parsonage D, Paige C, Newton GL, Fahey RC, Leonardi R, Jackowski S, Mallett TC, Claiborne A. Structure of the type III pantothenate kinase from Bacillus anthracis at 2.0 angstrom resolution: implications for coenzyme A-dependent redox biology. Biochemistry. 2007;46(11):3234-3245.

Parsonage D, Nelson KJ, Day AE, Poole LB. Substrate specificity and chemical characterization of a bacterial peroxiredoxin, AhpC [abstract]. Free Radic Biol Med. 2007;43(Suppl 1):S113.