Professor and Associate Dean
Biochemistry

DH 612
(408) 924-4969
elaine.collins@sjsu.edu
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Education

B.S. Biochemistry, University of California Riverside, 1981
M.S. Biochemistry, University of California Riverside, 1983
Ph.D. Biochemistry, University of California Riverside, 1994

Courses Taught

Biochemistry
Biochemistry Lab
Problem Solving for Chemistry

Research Interests

• Structure and Function Studies of the Nuclear Receptor of Vitamin D. Hormone.
• Flexibility Enhanced Binding of Tat Peptides to TAR RNA.
• SJSU/Santa Clara County: Biotechnology Curriculum Development and Dissemination.

Selected Publications

• Acevedo, A., L. Stoynova, K. Davis, R. Solórzano, and E.D. Collins, Role of residues 143 and 278 of the human nuclear vitamin D receptor in the full-length andD165-215 deletion mutant, J. Steroid Biochem. Mol. Biol., in press, ( 2004).
• Stoynova, L., R. Solórzano, and E.D. Collins, Generation of large deletion mutants from plasmid DNA. Biotechniques, 36:402-406 ( 2004).
• Hsieh M., E.D. Collins, T. Blomquist and B. Lustig. Flexibility models of BIV TAR-Tat: models of peptide binding. J Biomole Struct Dynam,20:243-251 ( 2002).
• Norman, A.W., D. Adams, E.D. Collins, W.H. Okamura and R.J. Fletterick, Three-dimensional model of the ligand binding domain of the nuclear receptor for 1,25-dihydroxy-vitamin D ₃, J. Cell. Biochem., 74:323-333 ( 1999).
• Liu, Y-Y, E.D. Collins, A.W. Norman and S. Peleg, Differential interaction of 1 a,25-dihydroxyvitamin D ₃ analogues and their 20-epi homologues with the vitamin D receptor, J. Biol. Chem. 272:3336-3345 ( 1997).
• Zanello, S.B., E.D. Collins, M.J. Marinissen, A.W. Norman and R.L. Boland. Vitamin D receptor expression in chicken muscle tissue and cultured myoblasts. Horm. Metab. Res. 29:231-236 ( 1997).