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CAROLYN R. BERTOZZI, PHD

Vice Chair, Department of Chemistry; Professor of Chemistry and Molecular and Cell Biology, UC Berkeley
Professor of Molecular and Cellular Pharmacology, UCSF

CONTACT

crb@berkeley.edu
(510) 643-1682 (voice)
(510) 643-2628 (fax)

820 Latimer Hall, Dept. of Chemistry, University of California, Berkeley, CA 94720-1640

additional websites:

Bertozzi Lab Website (UC-Berkeley)

EDUCATION

Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, B.A., 1988, Chemistry
University of California, Berkeley, CA, Ph.D., 1993, Chemistry
University of California, San Francisco, CA, Postdoc, 1993-1995, Immunology

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

1993-1995

American Cancer Society Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Anatomy, UCSF

1996-1999

Assistant Professor, Department of Chemistry, UC Berkeley, UCB

1996-present

Faculty Associate, Materials Sciences Division, LBNL

1999-2002

Associate Professor, Departments of Chemistry and Molecular and Cell Biology, UCB

1999- 2006

Department Head, Biological Nanostructures Facility of the Molecular Foundry, LBNL

2000-present

Investigator, HHMI

2001-present

Vice Chair, Department of Chemistry, UC Berkeley

2002-present

Professor, Departments of Chemistry and Molecular and Cell Biology, UCB

2002-present

Professor, Department of Molecular Pharmacology, UCSF

2006-present

Director, Molecular Foundry, LBNL

HONORS & AWARDS

1995

Camille and Henry Dreyfus New Faculty Award

1996

Pew Scholars Award

1997

Burroughs Wellcome New Investigator Award in Pharmacology

1997

Alfred P. Sloan Research Fellow

1997

Horace S. Isbell Award in Carbohydrate Chemistry (ACS)

1998

Research Corporation Research Innovation Award

1998

Glaxo Wellcome Scholar

1998

Beckman Young Investigator Award

1999

Arthur C. Cope Scholar Award (ACS)

1999

Camille Dreyfus Teacher-Scholar Award

1999

MacArthur Foundation Award

2000

Presidential Early Career Award in Science and Engineering (PECASE)

2000

Merck Academic Development Program Award

2001

ACS Award in Pure Chemistry

2001

UC Berkeley Distinguished Teaching Award

2001

Donald Sterling Noyce Prize for Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching

2002

Fellow of the AAAS

2002

Irving Sigal Young Investigator Award of the Protein Society

2003

Member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences

2004

Agnes Fay Morgan Research Award from Iota Sigma Pi

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS

(from more than 150)

Mahal, L. K.; Yarema, K. J.; Bertozzi, C. R. Engineering Chemical Reactivity on Cell Surfaces Through Oligosaccharide Biosynthesis. Science 1997, 276, 1125-1128..

Lemieux, G. A.; Yarema, K. J.; Jacobs, C. L.; Bertozzi, C. R. Exploiting Differences in Sialoside Expression for Selective Targeting of MRI Contrast Reagents. J. Am. Chem. Soc. 1999, 121, 4278-4279.

Shin, Y.; Winans, K. A.; Backes, B. J.; Kent, S. B. H.; Ellman, J. A.; Bertozzi, C. R. Fmoc-Based Synthesis of Peptide-aThioesters: Application to the Total Chemical Synthesis of a Glycoprotein by Native Chemical Ligation. J. Am. Chem. Soc. 1999, 121, 11684-11689.

Saxon, E.; Bertozzi, C. R. Cell Surface Engineering by a Modified Staudinger Reaction. Science 2000, 287, 2007-2010.

Hang, H. C., Bertozzi, C. R. Ketone Isosteres of 2-N-Acetamido Sugars as Substrates for Metabolic Cell Surface Engineering. J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2001, 123, 1242-1243.

Bertozzi, C. R.; Kiessling, L. L. Chemical Glycobiology. Science 2001, 291, 2357-2364.

Lemieux, G. A.; Bertozzi, C. R. Modulating Cell Surface Immunoreactivity by Metabolic Induction of Unnatural Carbohydrate Antigens. Chem. Biol. 2001, 8, 265-275.

Yarema, K. J.; Goon, S.; Bertozzi, C. R. Metabolic Selection of Glycosylation Defects in Human Cells. Nature Biotechnol. 2001, 19, 553-558.

Jacobs, C. L.; Goon, S.; Yarema, K. J.; Hinderlich, S.; Hang, H. C.; Chai, D. H.; Bertozzi, C. R. Substrate Specificity of the Sialic Acid Biosynthetic Pathway. Biochemistry 2001, 40, 12864-12874.

Mahal, L. K.; Charter, N. W.; Angata, K.; Fukuda, M.; Koshland, D. E., Jr.; Bertozzi, C. R. A Small Molecule Modulator of Poly-α 2,8-Sialic Acid Expression on Cultured Neurons and Tumor Cells. Science 2001, 294, 380-382.

Marcaurelle, L. A.; Mizoue, L. S.; Wilken, J.; Oldham, L.; Kent, S. B. H.; Handel, T. M.; Bertozzi, C. R. Chemical Synthesis of Lymphotactin, a Glycosylated Chemokine with a C-terminal Mucin-like Domain. Chem. Eur. J. 2001, 7, 1129-1132.

Marcaurelle, L. A.; Bertozzi, C. R. Chemoselective Elaboration of O-Linked Glycopeptide Mimetics by Alkylation of 3-ThioGalNAc. J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2001, 123, 1587-1595.

Kiick, K. L.; Saxon, E.; Tirrell, D. A.; Bertozzi, C. R. Incorporation of Azides into Recombinant Proteins for Chemoselective Modification by the Staudinger Ligation. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A. 2002, 99, 19-24.

Winans, K. A.; Bertozzi, C. R. An Inhibitor of the Human UDP-GlcNAc 4-Epimerase Identified from a Uridine-Based Library: A Strategy to Inhibit O-Linked Glycosylation. Chem. Biol. 2002, 9, 113-129.

Verdugo, D. E.; Bertozzi, C. R. A 96-Well Dot-Blot Assay for Carbohydrate Sulfotransferases. Anal. Biochem. 2002, 307, 330-336.

Mougous, J. D.; Green, R. E.; Williams, S. J.; Brenner, S. E.; Bertozzi, C. R. Sulfotransferases and Sulfatases in Mycobacteria. Chem. Biol. 2002, 9, 767-776.

Saxon, E.; Luchansky, S. J.; Hang, H. C.; Yu, C.; Lee, S. C.; Bertozzi, C. R. Investigating Cellular Metabolism of Synthetic Azidosugars Using the Staudinger Ligation. J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2002, 124, 14893-14902.

Luchansky, S. J.; Hang, H. C.; Saxon, E.; Grunwell, J. R.; Yu, C.; Dube, D. H.; Bertozzi, C. R. Constructing Azide-Labeled Cell Surfaces Using Polysaccharide Biosynthetic Pathways. Meth. Enzymol. 2003, 362, 249-272.

Lemieux, G. A.; de Graffenried, C. L.; Bertozzi, C. R. A Fluorogenic Dye Activated by the Staudinger Ligation. J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2003, 128, 4708-4709.

Goon, S.; Schilling, B.; Tullius, M. V.; Gibson, B. W.; Bertozzi, C. R. Metabolic Incorporation of Unnatural Sialic Acids into Haemophilus ducreyi Lipooligosaccharides. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A. 2003, 100, 3089-3094.

Vocadlo, D. J.; Hang, H. C.; Kim, E. J.; Hanover, J. A.; Bertozzi, C. R. A Chemical Approach for Identifying O-GlcNAc Modified Proteins in Cells. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A. 2003, 100, 9116-9121.

Wojczyk, B. S.; Stwora-Wojczyk, M. M.; Hagen, F. K.; Striepen, B.; Hang, H. C.; Bertozzi, C. R.; Roos, D. S.; Spitalnik, S. L. cDNA Cloning and Expression of UDP-N-acetyl-D-galactosamine:Polypeptide N-Acetylgalactosaminyltransferase T1 from Toxoplasma gondii. Mol. Biochem. Parasitol., 2003, 131, 93-107.

de Graffenried, C. L.; Laughlin, S. T.; Kohler, J. J.; Bertozzi, C. R. A Small-Molecule Switch for Golgi Sulfotransferases. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A. 2004, 101, 16715-16720.

Kohler, J. J.; Czlapinski, J. L.; Laughlin, S. T.; Schelle, M. W.; de Graffenried, C. L.; Bertozzi, C. R. Directing Flux in Glycan Biosynthetic Pathways with a Small Molecule Switch. ChemBioChem 2004, 5, 1455-1458.

Hang, H. C.; Yu, C.; Kato, D. L.; Bertozzi, C. R. A Metabolic Labeling Approach Towards Proteomic Analysis of Mucin-type O-Linked Glycosylation. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A. 2003, 100, 14846-14851.

Hang, H. C.; Yu, C.; Pratt, M. R.; Bertozzi, C. R. Probing Glycosyltransferase Activities with the Staudinger Ligation. J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2004, 126, 6-7.

Luchansky, S. J.; Goon, S.; Bertozzi, C. R. Expanding the Diversity of Unnatural Cell Surface Sialic Acids. ChemBioChem 2004, 5, 371-374.

Hang, H. C.; Yu, C.; Ten Hagen, K. G.; Tian, E.; Winans, K. A.; Tabak, L. A.; Bertozzi, C. R. Small Molecule Inhibitors of Mucin-type O-Linked Glycosylation from a Uridine-based Library. Chem. Biol. 2004, 11, 337-345.

Macmillan, D.; Bertozzi, C. R. Modular Assembly of Glycoproteins: Toward the Synthesis of GlyCAM-1 by Using Expressed Protein Ligation. Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2004, 43, 1355-1359.

Pratt, M. R.; Hang, H. C.; Ten Hagen, K. G.; Rarick, J.; Gerken, T. A.; Tabak, L. A.; Bertozzi, C. R. Deconvoluting the Functions of Polypeptide N-a-Acetylgalactosaminyltransferase (ppGalNAcT) Family Members by Glycopeptide Substrate Profiling. Chem. Biol. 2004, 11, 1009-1016.

Luchansky, S. J.; Bertozzi, C. R. Azido Sialic Acids can Modulate Cell Surface Interactions. ChemBioChem 2004, 5, 1706-1709.

Prescher, J. A.; Dube, D. H.; Bertozzi, C. R. Chemical Remodelling of Cell Surfaces in Living Animals. Nature 2004, 430, 873-877.

Luchansky, S. J.; Argade, S.; Hayes, B. K.; Bertozzi, C. R. Metabolic Functionalization of Recombinant Glycoproteins. Biochemistry 2004, 43, 12358-12366.

Mougous, J. D.; Petzold, C. J.; Senaratne, R. H.; Lee, D. H.; Akey, D. L.; Lin, F. L.; Munchel, S. E.; Pratt, M. R.; Riley, L. W.; Leary, J. A.; Berger, J. M.; Bertozzi, C. R. Identification, Function and Structure of the Mycobacterial Sulfotransferase that Initiates Sulfolipid-1 Biosynthesis. Nature Struct. Mol. Biol. 2004, 11, 721-729.

Agard, N. J.; Prescher, J. A.; Bertozzi, C. R. A Strain-Promoted [3+2] Azide-Alkyne Cycloaddition for Covalent Modification of Biomolecules in Living Systems. J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2004, 126, 15046-15047.

Tian, E.; Ten Hagen, K. G.; Shum, L.; Hang, H. C.; Imbert, Y.; Young, W. W., Jr.; Bertozzi, C. R.; Tabak, L. A. An Inhibitor of O-Glycosylation Induces Apoptosis in NIH3T3 Cells and Developing Mouse Embryonic Mandibular Tissues. J. Biol. Chem. 2004, 279, 50382-50390.

Vocadlo, D. J.; Bertozzi, C. R. A Strategy for Functional Proteomic Analysis of Glycosidase Activity from Cell Lysates. Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2004, 43, 5338-5342.

Lin, F., Hoyt, H. M.; van Halbeek, H.; Bergman, R. G.; Bertozzi, C. R. Mechanistic Investigation of the Staudinger Ligation. J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2005, 127, 2686-2695.

Prescher, J. A.; Bertozzi, C. R. Chemistry in Living Systems. Nature Chem. Biol. 2005, 1, 13-21.

Hang, H. C.; Bertozzi, C. R. The Chemistry and Biology of Mucin-Type O-Linked Glycosylation. Bioorg. Med. Chem. 2005, 13, 5021-5034.

Carroll, K. S.; Gao, H.; Chen, H.; Leary, J. A.; Bertozzi, C. R. Investigation of the Iron-Sulfur Cluster in Mycobacterium tuberculosis APS Reductase: Implications for Substrate Binding and Catalysis. Biochemistry 2005, 44, 14647-14657.

Mougous, J. D.; Lee, D. H.; Hubbard, S. C.; Schelle, M. W.; Vocadlo, D. J.; Berger, J. M.; Bertozzi, C. R. Molecular Basis for G protein Control of ATP Sulfurylase in Bacteria. Molecular Cell 2006, 21, 109-122.

Rush, J. S.; Bertozzi, C. R. An α-formylglycine building block for Fmoc-based solid phase peptide synthesis. Org. Lett. 2006, 8, 131-134.

Carroll, K. S.; Gao, H.; Chen, H.; Stout, C. D.; Leary, J. A.; Bertozzi, C. R. A Conserved Mechanism for Sulfonucleotide Reduction. PloS Biology 2005, 3 (8), e250.

Chandra, R. A.; Douglas, E. S.; Mathies, R. A.; Bertozzi, C. R.; Francis, M. B. Programmable Cell Adhesion Encoded by DNA Hybridization. Angew. Chem. Int. Ed., 2006, in press.

Joseph D. Mougous, Ryan H. Senaratne, Christopher J. Petzold, Madhulika Jain, Dong H. Lee, Michael W. Schelle, Michael D. Leavell, Jeffery S. Cox, Julie A. Leary, Lee W. Riley & Carolyn R. Bertozzi. A Novel Sulfated Metabolite Produced by stf3 Negatively Regulates the Virulence of Mycobacterium tuberculosis. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A. 2006, in press.

Ryan H. Senaratne, Darshan DeSilva, Spencer J. Williams, Joseph D. Mougous, Tianjiao Zhang, Stephen Chan, Ben Sidders, John Chan, Carolyn R. Bertozzi, and Lee W. Riley. 5'-Adenosinephosphosulfate Reductase (CysH) Protects Mycobacterium tuberculosis Against Reactive Nitrogen and Oxygen Species and Adaptive Immunity. Molecular Microbiology 2006, in press.

Juan Perez-Vilar, Raean Mabolo, Cheryl T. McVaugh, Carolyn R. Bertozzi, and Richard C. Boucher. Mucin Granule Intraluminal Organization in Living Mucous/Goblet cells. Roles of Protein Post-translational Modifications and Secretion. J. Biol. Chem. 2006, in press.

Dube, D. H.; Prescher, J. A.; Quang, C. N.; Bertozzi, C. R. Probing Mucin-type O-linked Glycosylation in Living Animals. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A. 2006, in press.

Valdez, C. A.; Bertozzi, C. R. Synthesis of 5"-fluoro and 5",6"-difluoro uridine 5'-diphospho-N-acetylgalactosamine. J. Org. Chem. 2006, accepted.

5/5/06

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