Welcome to the Steed Lab at UNC Asheville! We are a group of biochemists tinkering with a biomolecular machine to discover its mechanism (and how to break it). More technically, we probe the interactions and structural dynamics of the rotor and stator of bacterial ATP synthases to determine how an electrochemical gradient is used to power rotary motion. We also evaluate potential antibiotics that target ATP synthase from pathogens and characterize ATP synthase mutations that lead to rare human diseases.
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