| University of Delaware | 204B Drake Hall | Newark, DE 19716 | <div class="ExternalClassC6121D581883407CB1BB4E6D6972A926"><p style="text-align:justify;">​<strong>B.A., 1969, Cambridge University; Ph.D., 1972, University of Kent at Canterbury; Postdoctoral, 1973 – 1978, University of Michigan</strong></p></div> | <div class="ExternalClassF770873EE9774A6AB79665FBACE03DB6"><p>Our laboratory discovered a new family of enzymes that are facile catalysts of disulfide bond generation in a wide range of proteins over a variety of cellular locales. </p><p>These QSOX enzymes are found widely - from the smallest free-living eukaryotes to humans. We have studied the role of QSOX in oxidative protein folding using a range of techniques including enzyme kinetics, rapid reaction studies, absorbance and fluorescence spectroscopy, NMR, and mass spectrometry. </p><p>Building on this work, we are now developing methods to evaluate the thiol/disulfide redox state of mammalian cells – both in culture and within biological tissues. </p><p>We are also developing high-resolution imaging approaches to study the construction and properties of disulfide-rich biomaterials.</p></div> | <div class="ExternalClassAFAF851CF82C4983AC3BA4FFC82876AF"><ul style="text-align:left;"><li>Rapid Bioorthogonal Chemistry Turn-on through Enzymatic or Long Wavelength Photocatalytic Activation of Tetrazine Ligation. Zhang H, Trout WS, Liu S, Andrade GA, Hudson DA, Scinto SL, Dicker KT, Li Y, Lazouski N, Rosenthal J, Thorpe C, Jia X, Fox JM. (2016) J Am Chem Soc. 138, 5978-83; PubMed PMID: 27078610</li><li>Challenges in the Evaluation of Thiol-reactive Inhibitors of Human Protein Disulfide Isomerase. Foster, C.K. and Thorpe, C. (2017) Free Radic. Biol. Med. 108, 741-749; PubMed PMID: 28465261</li><li>Chemistry and Enzymology of Disulfide Cross-linking in Proteins. Fass, D. and Thorpe, C. (2018) Chemical Reviews 118, 1169-1198;  PubMed PMID: 28699750</li><li>Designing Flavoprotein-GFP Fusion Probes for Analyte-Specific Ratiometric Fluorescence Imaging. Hudson, D.A., Caplan, J.L., and Thorpe, C. (2018) Biochemistry, 57, 1178-1189; PubMed PMID: 29341594</li><li>Gaussia princeps luciferase: a bioluminescent substrate for oxidative protein folding. Yu, T, Laird, J.R., Prescher, J.A., and Thorpe, C. (2018) Protein Science 27, 1509-1517; PMID: 29696739</li></ul></div> | | | | Current Research | Representative Publications | | | | | cthorpe@udel.edu | | Thorpe, Colin | | (302) 831-2689 | <img alt="" src="/Images%20Bios/Colin%20Thorpe.JPG" style="BORDER:0px solid;" /> | Willis F. Harrington Professor | | | | | | | | http://sites.udel.edu/thorpelab | | | | | | | | |
