Professor Sunney Ignatius CHAN（陳長謙教授）

Honorary Professor of Chemistry (deceased)
B.Sc., Ph.D. (Berkeley)
Member of Academia Sinica, Taipei

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Position

Honorary Professor of Chemistry, The Chinese University of Hong Kong

 

Research Interests

Physical biochemistry; structure and function of membrane proteins; bioenergetics; electron and ion transport across biological membranes; bioinorganic chemistry; protein folding; spectroscopic methods for the determination of structure of molecules; magnetic resonance spectroscopy; x-ray spectroscopy and EXAFS.

 

Representative Publications

1.	J. Lin, S.G. Wu and S.I. Chan: “Electron Transfer from Cytochrome c to 8-azido-ATP-Modified Cytochrome c Oxidase” Biochemistry, 34, 6335-6343 (1995).
2.	S.M. Musser and S.I. Chan: “Understanding the Cytochrome c Oxidase Proton Pump: Thermodynamics of Redox Linkage” Biophys. J., 68, 2543-2555 (1995).
3.	S. Cavagnero, Z.H. Zhou, M.W.W. Adams and S.I. Chan: “Response of Rubredoxin from Pyrococcus furiosus to Environmental Changes: Implications for the Origin of Hyperthermostability” Biochemistry, 34, 9865-9873 (1995).
4.	S.M. Musser, M.H.B. Stowell and S.I. Chan: “Cytochrome c Oxidase: Chemistry of a Molecular Machine”, In: “Advances in Enzymology and Related Areas of Molecular Biology”, Alton Meister, (editor) John Wiley & Sons, Chichester, Publishers (1995) pp. 79-208.
5.	B. Wilkinson, M. Zhu, N.D. Priestley, H.-H.T. Nguyen, H. Morimoto, P.G. Williams, S.I. Chan and H.G. Floss: “A Concerted Mechanism for Ethane Hydroxylation by the Particulate Methane Monooxygenase from Methylococcus capsulatus (Bath)” J. Am. Chem. Soc., 118, 921-922 (1996).
6.	M.H.B. Stowell, R.S. Rock, D.C. Rees and S.I. Chan: “Efficient Synthesis of Photolabile Alkoxy Benzoin Protecting Groups” Tetrahedron Letters, 37, 307-310 (1995).
7.	H.-H.A.T. Nguyen, M. Zhu, S.J. Elliott, K.H. Nakagawa, B. Hedman, A.M. Costelo, T.L. Peeples, B. Wilkinson, H. Morimoto, P.G. Williams, H.G. Floss, M.E. Lidstrom, K.O. Hodgson and S.I. Chan: “The Biochemistry of the Particulate Methane Monooxygenase”, In:”Microbial Growth on C1 Compounds”, Mary E. Lidstrom and F. Robert Tabita, editors, Kluwer Academic Publishers, pp. 150-158 (1996).