Pamela Riggs-Gelasco
Associate Professor of Chemistry & Biochemistry

Recipient of the 2004 SSM Distinguished Achievement Award

A 1998 Recipient of an Award from the
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Office: SCIC 305 Phone: (843)-953-7182 E-mail gelascop@cofc.edu
  • CHEM 111 Principles of Chemistry I Departmental Syllabus
  • CHEM 112 Principles of Chemistry II Departmental Syllabus
  • CHEM 111L and CHEM 112L
  • CHEM 351 Biochemistry I
  • CHEM 352 Biochemistry II
  • CHEM 354L Biochemistry Lab

    • Recent Publications

  • Riggs-Gelasco, P. J. Price, J. C., Guyer, R. B., Brehm, J. H.*, Barr, E. W., Bollinger, J. M., Jr., and Krebs, C. ““EXAFS-Spectroscopic Evidence for a Fe=O Unit in the Fe(IV) Intermediate Observed during Oxygen Activation by Taurine:-Ketoglutarate Dioxygenase””, J. Am. Chem. Soc., 2004, 126, 8108-8109.

  • Brehm, J.*, Riggs-Gelasco, P. “The 50th Anniversary of the Watson and Crick DNA Structure: Protein Explorer Tutorials of DNA structures for Educators and Students”, The Chemical Educator, 2003, 8, 375-377.

  • Baldwin, J., Krebs, C., Saleh, L., Stelling, M.*, Huynh, B. H., Bollinger, J. M., Riggs-Gelasco, P. “Structural Characterization of the Peroxodiiron(III) Intermediate Generated during Oxygen Activation by the W48A/D84E Variant of Ribonucleotide Reductase Protein R2 from Escherichia coli”,Biochemistry, 2003, 42, 13269-13279.

  • Baldwin, J., Voegtli, W., Khidekel, N., Moenne-Loccoz, P., Krebs, C., Pereira, A., Ley, B., Huynh, B. H., Loehr, T., Riggs-Gelasco, P., Rosenzweig, A., Bollinger, J. M. "Rational Reprogramming of the R2 subunit of Escherichia coli Ribonucleotide Reductase into a Self-Hydroxylating Monooxygenase", J. Am. Chem. Soc., 2001 123, 7017-7030

  • "EXAFS Characterization of the Intermediate X from the Assembly of the E. coli Ribonucleotide Reductase R2 Factor", , P.J. Riggs-Gelasco, L. Shu, S. Chen, D. Burdi, B.H. Hunyh, L. Que, and J. Stubbe, 1998 120(5), 849-860 J. Am. Chem. Soc. ,

  • "Reduced Derivatives of the Mn Cluster in the Oxygen Evolving Complex of Photosystem II: An EXAFS Study", P.J. Riggs-Gelasco, R. Mei, C.F. Yocum, and J.E. Penner-Hahn, J. Am. Chem. Soc., 1996, 118, 2387-2399.

  • "X-ray Absorption Spectroscopy of Calcium Substituted Derivatives of the Oxygen Evolving Complex of Photosysten II", P.J. Riggs-Gelasco, R. Mei, D.F. Ghanotakis, C.F. Yocum, and J.E. Penner-Hahn, J. Am. Chem. Soc., 1996, 118, 2400-2410.

  • "XAFS of DInuclear Metal Sites in Proteins and Model Compounds", P.J. Riggs-Gelasco, T.L. Stemmler, and J.E. Penner-Han, Coord. Chem. Rev. 1995 144 245-286
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