Clark Ford
Associate Professor
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Education:
Ph.D., Genetics, University of Iowa, 1981
Interests: Genetic engineering of glucoamylase;
structure/function relationships of cloned gene products; recovery
and purification of fusion proteins.
Office: 2567 Food Sciences Building
Phone: (515) 294-0343
Fax: (515) 294-8181
Email: cfford@iastate.edu
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Publications:
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Holding, David R., Brenda G. Hunter, Taijoon Chung, Bryan C. Gibbon, Clark F. Ford, Arvind K.
Bharti, Joachim Messing, Bruce R. Hamaker, and Brian A. Larkins. (2008). Genetic analysis of opaque2 modifier loci in quality protein maize. Theor Appl Genet 117, 157-170
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McDaniel, Allison, Erica Fuchs, Ying Liu, and Clark Ford. (2008). Directed evolution of Aspergillus niger glucoamylase to increase thermostability. Microbial Biotechnology 1, 523-531
- Wang, Yue, Erica Fuchs, Roberto Da Silva, Allison McDaniel, Janice Seibel, and Clark Ford. (2006). Improvement of Aspergillus niger glucoamylase thermostability by directed evolution. Starch/Stärke, 58, 501-508.
- Cornett, Catherine A.G., Tsuei-Yun Fang, Peter
J. Reilly, and Clark Ford (2003). Starch-binding domain shuffling
in Aspergillus niger glucoamylase. Protein Eng. 16, 521-529.
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Allen, Martin J., Erica B. Fuchs, and Clark
F. Ford (2002). Asp238®Asn creates a novel consensus N-glycosylation
site in Aspergillus awamori glucoamylase. Starch/Stärke 54, 385-392.
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Khan, Saber M., Peter J. Reilly, and Clark Ford
(2000) Thermal and Molecular Characterization of Aspergillus awamori
Glucoamylase Catalytic and Starch-Binding Domains. Starch/Stärke
52, 385-397.
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Liu, Hsuan-Liang, Yann Doleyres, Pedro M. Coutinho,
Clark Ford, and Peter J. Reilly (2000) Replacement and deletion
mutations in the catalytic domain and belt region of Aspergillus
awamori glucoamylase to enhance thermostability. Protein Eng. 13,
655-659.
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Ford, C.F. (1999) Improving operating performance
of glucoamylase by mutagenesis. Current Opinion in Biotechnology
10, 353-357.
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Liu, Hsuan-Liang, Clark Ford, and Peter J. Reilly.
(1999) Mutations to alter Aspergillus awamori glucoamylase selectivity.
IV. Combinations of N20C/A27C, S30P, G137A, 311-314 Loop, S411A
and S436P. Protein Eng. 12, 163-172.
Patents:
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Allen, M., T.-Y. Fang, Y. Li, H.-L. Liu, H.-M.
Chen, P. Coutinho, R. Honzatko, and C. Ford (2003) Protein Engineering
of Glucoamylase to Increase pH Optimum, Substrate Specificity
and Thermostability. U.S. Patent # 09/236,063. Filed 1999.
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