Kasuen Mauldin, Ph.D., R.D. Assistant Professor. Dr. Mauldin received her Ph.D. in Molecular and Biochemical Nutrition from University of California, Berkeley and completed her dietetics training at University of California, San Francisco Medical Center. She currently holds a joint appointment as a Research Scientist at Children's Hospital Oakland Research Institute and also teaches Dietetic Interns at UCSF Medical Center. Dr. Mauldin's research background is in lipoprotein metabolism, and her current interests include nutrition intervention studies and understanding the mechanisms involved in the development of obesity and the metabolic syndrome.
Articles
The Carboxyl-Terminal Segment of Apolipoprotein A-V Undergoes a Lipid-Induced Conformational Change (with B. L. Lee, M. Oleszczuk, B. D. Sykes, and R. O. Ryan), Biochemistry (2010)
Apolipoprotein (apo) A-V is a 343-residue, multidomain protein that plays an important role in regulation...
Apolipoprotein A-V N-Terminal Domain Lipid Interaction Properties In Vitro Explain the Hypertriglyceridemic Phenotype Associated with Natural Truncation Mutants (with V. Raussens, T. Forte, and R. O. Ryan), The Journal of Biological Chemistry (2009)
The N-terminal 146 residues of apolipoprotein (apo) A-V adopt a helix bundle conformation in the...
The N-Terminus of Apolipoprotein A-V Adopts a Helix-Bundle Molecular Architecture (with J. A. Beckstead, D. Lee, P. M.M. Weers, E. Guigard, C. M. Kay, and R. O. Ryan), Biochemistry (2008)
Previous studies of recombinant full-length human apolipoprotein A-V (apoA-V) provided evidence of the presence of...
Characterization of Apolipoprotein A-V Structure and Mode of Plasma Triacylglycerol Regulation (with R. O. Ryan), Current Opinion in Lipidology (2007)
Purpose of review: Cardiovascular disease is the leading cause of death in the USA, and...
The C Terminus of Apolipoprotein A-V Modulates Lipid-Binding Activity (with J. A. Beckstead, V. Gupta, C. P. Wan, V. R. Cook, R. B. Weinberg, P. M. Weers, and R. O. Ryan), The Journal of Biological Chemistry (2007)
Human apolipoprotein A-V (apoA-V) is a potent modulator of plasma triacylglycerol (TG) levels. To probe...