Professor of Biology
Room 505NE
Phone:(718)951-5600 ex 1949
email: plipke@brooklyn.cuny.edu



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Prof. Lipke



Education
  • Post-doctoral Fellow 1976-1978
    Department of Zoology
    University of Wisconsin, Maderson

  • Ph.D. (Biochemistry) 1977
    University of California at Berkeley

  • B.S. (Chemistry) 1971
    University of Chicago, Illinois

Research Specialities

Cell Adhesion in fungal life and pathogenesis;
baker's yeast sexual agglutinins
and
Candida albicans ALs proteins.

Cell surface architecture in yeast:
a novel drug target.

Bioinformatics and evolution in fungal cell walls.

Selected Publications
    A few highlights from publications in major journals:
  • Coronado, J., O. Attie, S.L.Epstein, W.-G Qiu, and P.N.Lipke. 2006. Composition-modified matrices improve identification of homologs of S. cerevisiae low-complexity glycoproteins. Euk. Cell 5: in press

  • Klotz, S.A., N.K. Gaur, J. Rauceo, D.F. Lake, Y. Park, K.S. Hahm, and P.N. Lipke. 2004. A 23-mer Peptide (Fn/23) with Dual Antifungal Properties: Inhibition of Adherence and Killing of Candida albicans . Antimicrobial Agents Chemother. 48: 4337-4341.

  • Kipnis, P., Thomas, N., Ovalle, R. and Lipke, P.N. 2004. The v-SNARE Bet1p is required for cell wall cross-linking of S. cerevisiae alpha-Agglutinin. Microbiology. 150: 3219-3228.

  • Rauceo, J., N.K. Gaur, J.E. Edwards, S.A. Klotz, K.-G. Lee, and P.N. Lipke. 2004. Global Cell-surface Conformational Shift Mediated by a Candida Adhesin Infect. Immun. 72: 4948-4955.

  • Klotz, S.A., N.K. Gaur, D.F. Lake, V. Chan, J. Rauceo, and P.N. Lipke. 2004. Analysis of Binding of Small Peptides by Candida albicans and Saccharomyces cerevisiae expressing Adhesins, Ala1/Als5p or Als1p Infect. Immun.72(4):2029-34

  • Jue, C.K. and P.N. Lipke. 2002. Roles of Fig2p in mating and agglutination in Saccharomyces cerevisiae. Euk. Cell 1: 843-845.

  • Shen, Z.M., L. Wang, J. Pike, C.K. Jue, H. Zhao, H. de Nobel, J. Kurjan, and P.N. Lipke. 2001. Delineation of Functional Regions within the Subunits of the Saccharomyces cerevisiae Cell Adhesion Molecule alpha-Agglutinin. J. Biol. Chem. 276:15768-15775

  • Zhao, H., M.H. Chen, Z.-M. Shen, P.C. Kahn, and P.N. Lipke. 2001. Environmentally-induced conformational switching in the yeast cell adhesion protein, alpha-agglutinin. Protein Science 10: 1113-1123

  • Zhao, H., Z.-M Shen, P.C. Kahn, and P.N. Lipke. 2001. Interaction-Agglutinin and alpha-Agglutinin, Saccharomyces cerevisiae Sexual Cell Adhesion Molecules. J. Bacteriol. 183: 2874-2880

  • Ovalle, R., C. Soll, F. Lim, C. Flanagan, T. Rotunda, and P.N. Lipke. (2001). Systematic analysis of oxidative degradation of polysaccharides using PAGE and HPLC/MS. Carbohydrate Res. 330: 131-139.

Journal Reviewing

  • J. Bacteriology. Editorial Board 1993-1999
  • Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci.
  • J. Cell Biol.
  • Molec. Cell Biol.
  • Analyt. Biochem.
  • J. Internat. Peptide Res.
  • Molec. Microbiol.
  • EMBO J.
  • Fungal Genetics and Biology
  • Eukaryotic Cell
  • J. Clinical Microbiology
  • FEMS Microbiology Letters
  • Analytical Biochem.