Rensheng Luo
Dr.
Luo received Ph.D. degree from the Chinese Academy of Sciences.
He was a Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Illinois at
Champaign-Urbana and St Jude Children's Research Hospital prior
to joining the UM-St. Louis faculty as Research Assistant Professor
in the Spring of 2005.
luor@umsl.edu
Office: B433
Phone: (314) 516-5330
Fax: (314) 516-5342
Research Interests
Dr. Luo's research interests involve the use of NMR techniques for generating three-dimensional structural and dynamical information on biological macromolecules, organic compounds, and organometallic complexes. NMR is being increasingly applied in chemistry, biochemistry, biology, medicine, physics and materials science. Currently, Dr. Luo is the Director of the Nuclear Magnetic Resonance Facility. Current research interests also include collaboration with scientists in solving problems on all these and related subjects using NMR spectroscopy, as well as development of techniques and implementation of new NMR experiments for users at different areas.
Selected Publications
"Synthesis of diapocynin", M. S. Dasari, K. M. Richards, M. L. Alt, C. F. P. Crawford, A. Schleiden, J. Ingram, A. A. A. Hamidou, A. Williams, P. A. Chernovitz, R. Luo, G. Y. Sun, R.; Luchtefeld and R. E. Smith, Journal of Chemical Education, 2008, 85, 411
"Dose Formulation and Analysis of Diapocynin", R.. Luchtefeld, R. Luo, Rensheng; K. J. Stine, M. L. Alt, P. A. Chernovitz and R. E. Smith, Journal of Agricultural and Food Chemistry, 2008, 56, 301
"Dual Fluorescence from an Isonido ReIII Rhenacarborane Phosphine Complex, [7,10-m -H-7-CO-7,7-(PPh3)2-isonido-7,8,9-ReC2B7H9", S. W.Buckner, M. J. Fischer, P. A. Jelliss, R. Luo, S. D. Minteer, N. P. Rath and A. Siemiarczuk, Inorg. Chem., 2006, 45, 7339.
"Three-Dimensional 13C-Detected CH3-TOCSY Using Selectively Protonated Proteins: Facile Methyl Resonance Assignment and Protein Structure Determination", J. B. Jordan, H. Kovacs, Y. Wang, M. Mobli, R. Luo, C. Anklin, J. C. Hoch and R. W. Kriwacki, J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2006, 28, 9119.
"Solution NMR studies of an intrinsically unstructured protein within a dilute, 75 kDa eukaryotic protein assembly; probing the practical limits for efficiently assigning polypeptide backbone resonances", Y. Wang, I. Filippov, C. Richter, R. Luo and R. W. Kriwacki, ChemBioChem, 2005, 6, 2242.
“Solution structure of choline binding protein A, the major adhesin of Streptococcus pneumoniae", R. Luo, B. Mann, W. S. Lewis, A. Rowe, R. Heath, M. L. Stewart, A. E. Hamburger, S. Sivakolundu, E. R. Lacy, P. J. Bjorkman, E. Tuomanen, and R. W. Kriwacki, The EMBO Journal 24, 2005, 1, 34.
“NMR assignment of the R2 domain of pneumococcal choline binding protein A (CbpA)", R. Luo, B. Mann, E. Tuomanen, and R. W. Kriwacki, J. Biomol. NMR, 2005, 32(1), 93.
“Nitrate in soil humic acids revealed by nitrogen-14 nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy", X-A. Mao, Z. Xu, R. Luo, N. J Mathers, Y. H. Zhang, and P. G.Saffigna, Australian Journal of Soil Research, 2002, 40(5), 717.
“Raman scattering study of liquid ethylene glycol confined to nanoporous silica glasses", R. Luo, J. Jonas, J. Raman Spectr., 2001, 32, 975.
“NMR observation of hydrolysis of acetonitrile to acetamide catalyzed by binuclear silver cryptate", R. Luo, X-A. Mao, Z-Q. Pan and Q-H. Luo, Spectrochimica Acta Part A, Mol. and Biomol Spectr. 2000, 56, 1675.
"NMR diffusion and relaxation study on drug-protein interaction", R. Luo, M. Liu and X-A. Mao, Spectrochimica Acta Part A, Mol. and Biomol Spectr, 1999, 55, 1897.
"NMR diffusion and relaxation study on ibuprofen-HSA interaction", R. Luo, M. Liu and X-A. Mao, Applied Spectroscopy, 1999, 53, 776.
“A study on some alkaline earth metal cryptates - Synthesis, characterization, crystal structure and solution structure", Z-Q. Pan, R. Luo, Q-H. Luo, X-A. Mao et al Polyhedron, 1999, 18, 2185.
"Eliminating systematic error for heternuclear multiple quantum coherence diffusion experiments by bipolar pulse field gradient", R. Luo, M. Liu and X-A. Mao, Meas. Sci. Technol., 1998, 9, 1347.
"A study on a new barium (II) cryptate by NMR spectra and dynamic method.", Z. Pan, R. Luo et al., Spectroscopy Lett., 1998, 31, 1737.