Primary Recipient

UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS

Amount

$161,693.05

Award Date

7/26/2009

Administering Agency

Health and Human Services, Department of / National Institutes of Health

CDFA Number

93.701

CDFA Program Title

Trans-NIH Recovery Act Research Support

Description

We propose to analyze crystal structures of non-erythroid spectrin alpha II, to design and prepare mutants that will affect the spectrin II tetramerization region and the alpha and beta spectrin association, and to grow crystals of the alpha beta complex.