Dr. Owen McDougal is an Associate Professor with the Department of Chemistry and
Biochemistry at Boise State University, where he has been a member of the faculty since
2006. He holds a Ph.D. in Chemistry from the University of Utah in Salt Lake City. Dr.
McDougal’s research interests include nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) spectroscopy,
biomedical research of neurotoxins, and properties of biomass fuel briquettes. Dr.
McDougal’s teaching interests focus on the instruction of Organic Spectroscopy. He has
worked toward a systematic approach to introduce NMR, IR, and GC-MS instrumentation and
to provide students with the opportunity to become very proficient in the analysis of
data acquired from this instrumentation. In addition to publishing and presenting, Dr.
McDougal has worked on a variety of grant projects. In 2009 he served as a collaborator
on a NIH Grant from the INBRE Program of the National Center for Research Resources.

Articles

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pKa Determination of Histidine Residues in α-Conotoxin MII Peptides by 1H NMR and Constant pH Molecular Dynamics Simulation (with David M. Granum, Mark Swartz, Conrad Rohleder, and C. Mark Maupin), Journal of Physical Chemistry B (2013)

α-Conotoxin MII (α-CTxMII) is a potent and selective peptide antagonist of neuronal nicotinic acetylcholine receptors...

 

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Minor Fibrillar Collagens, Variable Regions Alternative Splicing, Intrinsic Disorder, and Tyrosine Sulfation (with Ming Fang, Reed B. Jacob, and Julia Oxford), Protein & Cell (2012)

Minor fibrillar collagen types V and XI, are those less abundant than the fibrillar collagens...

 

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Accessible High-Throughput Virtual Screening Molecular Docking Software for Students and Educators (with Reed B. Jacob and Tim Andersen), PLoS Computational Biology (2012)

We survey low cost high-throughput virtual screening (HTVS) computer programs for instructors who wish to...

 

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Origin and Correction of Magnetic Field Inhomogeneity at the Interface in Biphasic NMR Samples (with Bryan T. Martin and Gerry C. Chingas), Journal of Magnetic Resonance (2012)

The use of susceptibility matching to minimize spectral distortion of biphasic samples layered in a...

 

Predicted Structure and Binding Motifs of Collagen a1(Xi) (with Julia Oxford, Lisa Warner, and Chris Mallory), Journal on Bioinformatics and Biotechnology (2011)

The amino propeptide of collagen a1(XI) (NPP) has been shown to bind glycosaminoglycans and to...

 

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Books

Introduction to Organic and Biological Chemistry (with Richard P. Steiner) (2010)
 

Introduction to Organic and Biological Chemistry (with Richard P. Steiner) (2009)
 

Presentations

Finding MRSA’s Kryptonite: Computational Directed Combatant Pentapeptides (with Reed B. Jacob and Kenneth A. Cornell), 90th Annual Meeting of the Pacific Division of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (2009)