User:Orly Alber

Orly Salama-Alber is a Ph.D student, under the supervision of Prof. Ed Bayer, in the department of Biological Chemistry at the Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot, Israel. Her main research focuses in the structural divergence of different modules in the cellulosome, and in the specific interactions that dictate cellulosome assembly using x-ray crystallography. Her contribution to CAZypedia was editing the cellulosome page.

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Orly achieved her master’s degree from the Weizmann Institute of Science under the supervision of Prof. Ed Bayer, studying the interaction between the ScaB- and CttA-XDockerin Modules to the ScaE-Cohesin in Ruminococcus flavefaciens using biochemical and structural techniques. During her undergraduate study in the department of Biotechnology Engineering at Ben-Gurion University, Beer-Sheva, Israel, Orly engineered and developed a fiber-optic based immunosensor for an early detection of ovarian cancer associated antibodies, under the supervision of Prof. Robert Marks.

E. mail: orly.salama at weizmann.ac.il

Publications

1. Bayer EA, Belaich JP, Shoham Y, and Lamed R. (2004). The cellulosomes: multienzyme machines for degradation of plant cell wall polysaccharides. Annu Rev Microbiol. 2004;58:521-54. DOI:10.1146/annurev.micro.57.030502.091022 |
2. Fontes CM and Gilbert HJ. (2010). Cellulosomes: highly efficient nanomachines designed to deconstruct plant cell wall complex carbohydrates. Annu Rev Biochem. 2010;79:655-81. DOI:10.1146/annurev-biochem-091208-085603 |
3. Bayer EA, Lamed R, White BA, and Flint HJ. (2008). From cellulosomes to cellulosomics. Chem Rec. 2008;8(6):364-77. DOI:10.1002/tcr.20160 |
4. Gilbert HJ (2007). Cellulosomes: microbial nanomachines that display plasticity in quaternary structure. Mol Microbiol. 2007;63(6):1568-76. DOI:10.1111/j.1365-2958.2007.05640.x |
5. Doi RH and Kosugi A. (2004). Cellulosomes: plant-cell-wall-degrading enzyme complexes. Nat Rev Microbiol. 2004;2(7):541-51. DOI:10.1038/nrmicro925 |