Kier,
Ann B., D.V.M., Ph.D., DACLAM
Professor
Email:
akier@cvm.tamu.edu
Phone: 1-979-862-1509
Office: 206B VMS
Curriculum Vitae (Download)
Scholarly Interest:
Understanding
the actions of intracellular lipid binding proteins: fatty acid binding
proteins, sterol carrier proteins, and fatty acyl CoA binding proteins.
Using biochemical, structural and molecular biological approaches, how
these proteins affect lipid absorption and metabolism, and how they
may serve as ligands for second messengers or activators for nuclear
transcription factors. As well as in vitro studies,
fat absorption, trafficking, and pathology are studied in genetically
altered mice over expressing the respective proteins or in gene deleted
mice in which these proteins are not expressed. Collaborative research:
pathology of transgenic mice.
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