Bettina Bommarius

Building: Petit IBB
Office: 3412
Phone: 404.385.3089
Fax: 404.894.2291
bettina [dot] bommarius [at] chbe [dot] gatech [dot] edu (email)

Mailing Address

Georgia Institute of Technology
School of Chemical &
Biomolecular Engineering
311 Ferst Drive, N.W.
Atlanta, GA 30332-0100

Education

Diploma in Biology, University of Cologne, Germany, 1993
Ph.D. Biology, University of Düsseldorf, Germany, 1997

Research Interests

  • Biocatalysis

  • Protein Engineering

  • Protein Purification

  • Infectious Diseases

  • Bioanalytics

Selected Publications

  1. B. Bommarius, H. Jenssen, M. Elliott, J. Kindrachuk, M. Pasupuleti, H. Gieren, K.E. Jaeger, R.E. Hancock, D. Kalman, "Cost-effective expression and purification of antimicrobial and host defense peptides in Escherichia coli", Peptides, 2010, 31, 1957-1965.

  2. N.H. Schlieben, K. Niefind, J. Müller, B. (Bommarius) Riebel, W. Hummel, D. Schomburg, "Atomic resolution structures R-specific alcohol dehydrogenase from Lactobacillus brevis provide the structural bases of its substrate and cosubstrate specificity", J. Mol. Biol., 2005, 349, 801-813.

  3. G.T. Lountos, B. (Bommarius) Riebel, W.B. Wellborn, A.S. Bommarius, A.M. Orville, "Crystallization and preliminary analysis of a water-forming NADH oxidase from Lactobacillus sanfranciscensis", Acta Crystallogr. D Biol. Crystallogr., 2004, 60, 2044-2047.

  4. K. Niefind, J. Müller, B. (Bommarius) Riebel, W. Hummel, D. Schomburg, "The crystal structure of R-specific alcohol dehydrogenase from Lactobacillus brevis suggests the structural basis of its metal dependency", J. Mol. Biol., 2003, 327, 317-328.

  5. B. (Bommarius) Riebel, P.R. Gibbs, W.B. Wellborn, and A.S. Bommarius, "Cofactor  regeneration of both NAD+ from NADH and NADP+ from NADPH: NADH oxidase from Lactobacillus sanfranciscensis",  Adv. Synth. Catal., 2003, 345, 707-712.

  6. B. (Bommarius) Riebel, P.R. Gibbs, W.B. Wellborn, and A.S. Bommarius, "Cofactor regeneration of NAD+ from NADH: Novel water-forming NADH oxidases", Adv. Synth. Catal., 2002, 344, 1156-1169.

  7. B. (Bommarius) Riebel, W. Hummel, "Antibody-supported screening of alcohol dehydrogenases", Biotechnol. Lett., 2001, 23, 231-234.

  8. K. Niefind, B. (Bommarius) Riebel, J. Müller, W. Hummel, and D. Schomburg, "Crystallization and Preliminary Characterization of Crystals of R-alcohol dehydrogenase from Lactobacillus brevis", Acta Crystallogr. D Biol. Crystallogr., 2000, 56,1696-1698.

  9. W. Hummel, and  B. (Bommarius) Riebel, "Chiral alcohols by enantioselective enzymatic oxidation", Enz. Eng., 1996, 13, 713-716.

  10. K. Seelbach, B. (Bommarius) Riebel, W. Hummel, M.-R. Kula, V.I. Tishkov, A.M. Egorov, C. Wandrey, and U. Kragl, "A novel, efficient regenerating method of NADPH using a new formate dehydrogenase", Tetrahedron Lett., 1996, 37, 1377-1380.