2007-2008 Pingry SMART Team

Bacteriophage lysins

Cooperating Scientists: Dr. Vince Fischetti (head of lab) and Dr. Ray Schuch, Rockefeller University The 2008 Pingry SMART Team Students: (listed alphabetically by last name) Jonathan Ciriello, Mac Cordrey, Danielle Cosentino, Calvin Jones, Becky Krakora, Bozhena Lisko, Yamini Nabar, Will Pinke, Neha Srivastava.  Supervising teacher: Tommie Hata

Bacteriophage Lysin PlyB	UDP-GlcNAc 2-Epimerase

The Models

PlyB Lysin-Spacefill model ZCorp Plaster Model PlyB Lysin-Backbone model ZCorp Plaster Model Epimerase-Substrate in active site ZCorp Plaster Model Epimerase-No substrate in active site ZCorp Plaster Model