NAME POSITION TITLE
Jacob Brink Research Associate



 
 
INSTITUTE AND LOCATION DEGREE YEAR FIELD OF STUDY
Rijksuniversiteit Groningen, the Netherlands B.Sc. 1979 Chemistry
Rijksuniversiteit Groningen, the Netherlands M.Sc. 1983 Chemistry and Physics
Rijksuniversiteit Groningen, the Netherlands Ph.D. 1988 Chemistry and Physics
Baylor College of Medicine post-doc 1989 - present
Structural Biology



 
YEAR RESEARCH, PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE AND HONORS
1988 - 1990 Research Associate, Baylor College of Medicine
1990 - present Postdoctoral Fellow, W.M. Keck Center for Computational Biology


PUBLICATIONS

Roossien, F.F., Brink, J. and Robillard, G.T. (1983) A simple procedure for the synthesis of [32P]phospho-enol-pyruvate via the pyruvate kinase exchange reaction at equilibrium, Biochim. Biophys. Acta 760:185-187.

Brink, J., Hovmöller, S., Ragan, C.I., Cleeter, M.W.J., Boekema, E.J. and Van Bruggen, E.F.J. (1987) The structure of NADH:ubiquinone oxidoreductase from beef-heart mitochondria. Crystals containing an octameric arrangement of iron-sulphur protein fragments, Eur. J. Biochem. 166:287-294.

Brink, J., Boekema, E.J. and Van Bruggen, E.F.J. (1988) Electron microscopy and image analysis of the complexes I and V of the mitochondrial respiratory chain, Electron Microsc. Rev. 1:175-199.

Brink, J., Van Breemen, J.F.L., Keegstra, W. and Van Bruggen, E.F.J. (1989) Computer image analysis of two-dimensional crystals of beef heart NADH:ubiquinone oxidoreductase fragments. I. Comparison of crystal structures in various negative stains, Ultramicroscopy 27:79-90 and Ultramicroscopy 27:334.

Brink, J., Booy, F.P and Van Bruggen, E.F.J. (1989) Computer image analysis of two-dimensional crystals of beef heart NADH:ubiquinone oxidoreductase fragments. II. Comparison of frozen hydrated and negatively stained specimens, Ultramicroscopy 27:91-100.

Brink, J. and Chiu, W. (1991) Contrast analysis of cryo-images of n-paraffin recorded at 400 kV out to 2.1 Å resolution. J. Microscopy 161:279-295.

Rez, P., Chiu, W., Weiss, J.K. and Brink, J. (1991) The thickness determination of organic crystals under low dose conditions using electron energy loss spectroscopy. Microsc. Res. Tech. 21:166-170.

Brink, J., Chiu, W. and Dougherty, M. (1992) Computer-controlled spot-scan imaging of crotoxin complex crystals with 400 keV electrons at near-atomic resolution. Ultramicroscopy 46:229-240.

Leapman, R.D., Brink, J. and Chiu, W. (1993) Low-dose thickness measurement of glucose-embedded crystals crystals by electron energy loss spectroscopy and STEM dark-field imaging. Ultramicroscopy 52:157-166.

Brink, J. and Chiu, W. (1994) Applications of a Slow-Scan CCD Camera in Protein Electron Crystallography. J. Struct. Biology 113:23-34.

Brink, J. and Tam, M.W. (1996) Processing of electron diffraction patterns acquired on a slow-scan CCD camera. J. Struct. Biology 116:144-150.

Sherman, M.B., Brink, J. and Chiu, W. (1996) Performance of a slow-scan CCD camera for macromolecular imaging in a 400 kV electron cryomicroscope. Micron. 27(2):129-139.

Brink, J., Sherman, M. B., Berriman, J. and Chiu, W. (1998) Evaluation of Charging on Macromolecules in Electron Cryomicroscopy. Ultramicroscopy. 72:41-52.

Brink, J., Gross, H., Tittmann, P., Sherman, M. B. and Chiu, W. (1998) Reduction of Charging in Protein Electron Microscopy J. Microscopy. 191(1):67-73.

Frey, W., Brink, J., Schief, Jr., W.R., Chiu, W. and Vogel, V. (1998) Electron crystallographic Analysis of Two-dimensional Streptavidin Crystals coordinated to Metal-Chelated Lipid Monolayers. Biophys. J.. 74(5):2674-2679.

Brink, J., Ludtke, S., Yang, C.-Y., Gu, Z.-W., Wakil, S.J. and Chiu, W. (2002) Quaternary structure of human fatty acid synthase by electron cryomicroscopy. Proc. Nat'l. Acad. Sci. 99(1):138-143.

Ming, D., Kong, Y., Wakil, S.J. Brink, J. and Ma, J. (2002) Domain movements in human fatty acid synthase by quantized elastic deformational model. Proc. Nat'l. Acad. Sci. Accepted for publication.


Last update: November 30th 15th 1998