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Sharon Ford
| Research Area | Selected Publications | Lab Members |
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Title | Lecturer and Academic Advisor |
| Office | 142G NRC | |
| Phone | 405-744-6707 | |
| sharon.ford@okstate.edu | ||
| Degree | Ph.D. Biochemistry. 1968-1974. University of Illinois, Urbana, IL. | |
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Teaching laboratory courses for graduate students, undergraduate majors, and non-biochemistry majors. Academic advisor to undergraduate biochemistry majors in the College of Arts and Sciences as well as undergraduate students in the College of Agricultural Sciences and Natural Resources.
Selected Publications (top)
Bhat S, Tang L, Krueger AD, Smith CL, Ford SR, Dickey LF, Petracek ME. (2004) The Fed-1 (CAUU)4 element is a 5' UTR dark-responsive mRNA instability element that functions independently of dark-induced polyribosome dissociation. Plant Mol Biol. 56(5):761-73.
Ford, S. R. and Leach, F. R. (1998) Bioluminescent Assay of the Guanylates. In Bioluminescence Methods and Protocols, a Volume in the Methods in Molecular Biology Series, ed. LaRose, R. A., Humana Press, Totowa, NJ, pp. 55-68.
Ford, S. R. and Leach, F. R. (1998) Improvements in the Application of Firefly Luciferase Assays. In Bioluminescence Methods and Protocols, a Volume in the Methods in Molecular Biology Series, ed. LaRose, R. A., Humana Press, Totowa, NJ, pp. 3-20.
Ford, S. R. and Leach, F. R. (1998) Bioluminescent Assay of Adenylate Energy. In Bioluminescence Methods and Protocols, a Volume in the Methods in Molecular Biology Series, ed. LaRose, R. A., Humana Press, Totowa, NJ, pp. 69-81.
Ye, L., Ford S. R. and Leach, F. R. (1997) Keeping Firefly Luciferase Happy while Measuring ATP. In A Practical Guide to Industrial Uses of ATP-Luminescence in Rapid Microbiology, eds. Stanley, P. E., Smitherland, R. and Simpson, W. J., Cara Technology Ltd., Lingfield, UK.
Ford, S. R., Yi, L., Buck, L. M., PanBior, A. B. D. and Learch, F. R. (1997) Chemical Modification of Firefly Luciferase. In Bioluminescence and Chemiluminescence: Molecular Reporting with Photons, Proceedings of 9th Int. Symposium 1996 , eds. Hastings, J. W., Kricka, L. J. and Stanley, P. E., Wiley and Sons.
Ford, S.R., Chenault, K.H., Bunton, L.S.,Hampton, G.J., McCarthy, J., Hall, M.S., Pangburn, S.J., Buck, L.M., Leach, F.R. (1996) Use of Firefly Luciferase for ATP Measurement: Other Nucleotides Enhance Turnover. J. Biolum. Chemilum. 11, 149-167.
Ford, S. R., Buck, L. M. and Leach, F. R. (1995) Does the Sulfhydryl or the Adenine Moiety of CoA Enhance Firefly Luciferase Activity? Biochim. Biophys. Acta 1252, 180-184.
Ford, S. R., Chenault, K. D., Hall, M. S., Pangburn, S. J. and Leach, F. R. (1994) Effects of Periodate-Oxidized ATP and Other Nucleotides on Firefly Luciferase. Arch. Biochem.Bbiophys. 314, 261-267.
Ford, S. R., Hall, M. S., Vaden, V. R., Webster, J. J. and Leach, F. R. (1994) Adenylate and Guanylate Energy Charges in a Subsurface Pseudomonas sp. Proc. Okla. Acad. Sci. 74, 31-36.
Ford, S. R., Vaden, V. R., Booth, J. L., Hall, M. S., Webster, J. J. and Leach, F. R. (1994) Bioluminescene Determination of 0.1 picomole Amounts of Guanine Nucleotides. J. Biolumin. Chemilumin 9, 251-265.
Ford, S. R., Hall, M. S. and Leach, F. R. (1992) Enhancement of Firefly Luciferase Activity by Cytidine Nucleotides. Anal. Biochem. 204, 283-291.
Ford, S. R., Hall, M. S. and Leach, F. R. (1992) Comparison of Properties of Commercially Available Crystalline Native and Recombinant Firefly Luciferases. J. Biolumin. Chemilumin. 7, 185-193.
Ford, S. R. and Leach, F. R. (1991) Firefly Luciferase-luciferin-ATP Mixtures Respond to Etheno-ATP with an Increased and Steady Production of Light: A Partial Explanation of the Limulus Ventral Photoreceptor Controversy. Am. J. Physiol. 30, Cell Physiol. 6, C1210-C1211.
Webster, J.J., Hall, M.S., Rich, C. N., Gilliland, S.E., Ford, S.R., and Leach, F.R. (1988) Improved Sensitivity of the Bioluminescent Determination of Numbers of Bacteria in Milk Samples. J. Food Protection 51, 949-954.
