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Jared Benjamin Parker, PhD

Adjunct Assistant Professor of Medicine (Infectious Diseases)
Sr. Research Investigator, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA
Department: Medicine

Contact information
3610 Hamilton Walk
Johnson Pavilion, Lab 503
Philadelphia, PA 19104
Education:
B.S. (Chemistry)
University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, AL, 2004.
PhD (Molecular Biophysics)
Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD, 2010.
Post-Graduate Training
Postdoctoral Researcher - Chemical Biology, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, 2010-2013.
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Description of Clinical Expertise

In Vitro Diagnostic Assay Development

Description of Research Expertise

Protein & DNA Biochemistry
Protein Engineering
DNA Repair
Genomic Editing

Selected Publications

Zhang Z, Baxter AE, Ren D, Qin K, Chen Z, Collins SM, Huang H, Komar CA, Bailer PF, Parker JB, Blobel GA, Kohli RM, Wherry EJ, Berger SL, Shi J.: Efficient engineering of human and mouse primary cells using peptide-assisted genome editing. Nature Biotechnology April 2023.

Parker JB, Walsh CT.: Action and timing of BacC and BacD in the late stages of biosynthesis of the dipeptide antibiotic bacilysin. Biochemistry 52(5): 889-901, Feb 2013.

Parker JB, Walsh CT.: Stereochemical outcome at four stereogenic centers during conversion of prephenate to tetrahydrotyrosine by BacABGF in the bacilysin pathway. Biochemistry 51(28): 5622-32, Jul 2012.

Parker JB, Walsh CT.: Olefin isomerization regiochemistries during tandem action of BacA and BacB on prephenate in bacilysin biosynthesis. Biochemistry 51(15): 3241-51, Apr 2012.

Parker JB, Stivers JT.: Dynamics of uracil and 5-fluorouracil in DNA. Biochemistry 50(5): 612-7, Feb 2011.

Grogan BC, Parker JB, Guminski AF, Stivers JT.: Effect of the thymidylate synthase inhibitors on dUTP and TTP pool levels and the activities of DNA repair glycosylases on uracil and 5-fluorouracil in DNA. Biochemistry 50(5): 618-27, Feb 2011.

Chung S, Parker JB, Bianchet M, Amzel LM, Stivers JT.: Impact of linker strain and flexibility in the design of a fragment-based inhibitor. Nat Chem Biol 5(6): 407-413, June 2009.

Parker JB, Stivers JT.: Uracil DNA glycosylase: revisiting substrate-assisted catalysis by DNA phosphate anions. Biochemistry 47(33): 8614-22, Aug 2008.

Parker JB, Bianchet MA, Krosky DJ, Friedman JI, Amzel LM, Stivers JT.: Enzymatic capture of an extrahelical thymine in the search for uracil in DNA. Nature 449(7161): 433-7, Sep 2007.

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