Marilyn Kozak

Marilyn Kozak
Nationality American
Fields Microbiology
Institutions Robert Wood Johnson Medical School
Alma mater Johns Hopkins University
Doctoral advisor Daniel Nathans
Other academic advisors Aaron Shatkin
Known for Kozak consensus sequence

Marilyn Kozak Ph.D. was a Professor of Biochemistry at the Robert Wood Johnson Medical School. She was previously at the University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey before the school was merged. She was awarded a Ph.D in microbiology by Johns Hopkins University studying the synthesis of the Bacteriophage MS2, advised by Daniel Nathans.[1][2] In her original faculty job proposal, she sought to study the mechanism of eukaryotic translation initiation, a problem long thought to have already been solved by Joan Steitz. [3] While in the Department of Biological Sciences at University of Pittsburgh, she published a series of studies that established the scanning model of translation initiation and the Kozak consensus sequence.[4][5][6]

References

  1. ↑ Kozak, M; Nathans, D (March 1972). "Translation of the genome of a ribonucleic acid bacteriophage.". Bacteriological reviews. 36 (1): 109–34. PMID 4555183.
  2. ↑ Kozak, M; Nathans, D (14 September 1972). "Differential inhibition of coliphage MS2 protein synthesis by ribosome-directed antibiotics.". Journal of Molecular Biology. 70 (1): 41–55. doi:10.1016/0022-2836(72)90162-3. PMID 4561347.
  3. ↑ Kozak, Marilyn (4 October 1993). "Identifying AUG Initiator Codons" (PDF). Citation Classic Commentaries. 36 (40). Retrieved 4 July 2015.
  4. ↑ Grissom, Abigail (15 October 1990). "Research: Top 10 Women Scientists Of The '80s: Making A Difference". The Scientist. Retrieved 4 July 2015.
  5. ↑ Kozak, M (26 October 1987). "An analysis of 5'-noncoding sequences from 699 vertebrate messenger RNAs.". Nucleic Acids Research. 15 (20): 8125–48. doi:10.1093/nar/15.20.8125. PMC 306349Freely accessible. PMID 3313277.
  6. ↑ Kozak, M (31 January 1986). "Point mutations define a sequence flanking the AUG initiator codon that modulates translation by eukaryotic ribosomes.". Cell. 44 (2): 283–92. doi:10.1016/0092-8674(86)90762-2. PMID 3943125.
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