Career:
David R. Davies was born in Wales in 1927.1945-1952: M.A. and Ph.D., Physical Chemistry, Magdalen College, Oxford, England.
1952-1954: Noyes Fellow, California Institute of Technology, with Linus Pauling.
1954-1955: Research Associate, Albright and Wilson, Birmingham, England.
1955-1961: Visiting Scientist, National Institutes of Mental Health, NIH, Bethesda.
1959 and 1963-1964: Visiting Scientist, MRC Lab of Molecular Biology, U.K.
1972-1973: Visiting Associate, Max Planck Institute for Medical Research, Heidelberg, and Professor, University of Heidelberg.
1961 - present: Chief, Section on Molecular Structure, Lab of Molecular Biology, National Institutes of Diabetes, Digestive and Kidney Diseases, NIH, Bethesda, MD.
Some Selected Publications
Davies DR, Cohen GH. Interaction of protein antigens with antibodies. Proc Natl Acad Sci USA, 93, 7-12, 1996.
Dyda F, Hickman AB, Jenkins TM, Engelman A, Craigie R, Davies DR. Crystal structure of the catalytic domain of HIV-1 integrase reveals similarity with other polynucleotidyl transferases. Science 1994;266:1981-1986.
Davies DR, Wlodawer A. Cytokines and their receptor complexes. FASEB 1994;9:50-56.
D. Davies, & S. Chacko (1993). Antibody Structure 26:421-427. Accounts of chemical research.
Li M, Dyda F, Benhar I, Pastan I, Davies DR. The crystal structure of pseudomonas aeruginosa exotoxin domain III with nicotinamide and AMP: conformational differences with the intact exotoxin. PNAS 1995.
S. Daopin, K. Piez, Y. Ogawa, & D. Davies (1992). Science 257:369-373. Crystal structure of TGF-[[beta]]2: an unusual fold for the superfamily.
B. Shaanan, A.M. Gronenborn, G.H. Cohen, G.L. Gilliland, B. Veerapandian, D. R. Davies & G.M. Clore (1992). Science 257:961-964. Combining structural information from solution and crystallographic studies: joint x-ray and NMR refinement.
S. Daopin, G.H. Cohen, & D. Davies (1992). Science 258:1161-1162. Structural similarity between TGF-[[beta]] and nerve growth factor.
Other Interests:
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