Dr. Tamiko N Porter

Assistant Professor
Ph.D. Texas A&M University

Contact information:

Room: 230-AF NSB,
Department of Chemistry
Prairie View A&M University
MS 2215
P.O. Box 519, 
Prairie View, Texas 77446 

Phone: 936-261-3113
Fax: 936-261-3117
E-mail: tnporter@pvamu.edu

Area of Interest

• Enzyme catalysis
• Forensic applications of DNA technologies
• Chemical education

Current Research Activities

My current research interest focus on three areas:

• Structure-function relationships of metalloenzymes;
• Methods of enhancing our undergraduate Forensic Chemistry program
• College readiness of K-12 students

Selected publications

• Williams, L., Nguyen, T., Li, Y. Porter, T.N., Raushel, F.M. “Uronate isomerase: a nonhydrolytic member of the amidohydrolase superfamily with an ambivalent requirement for a divalent metal ion” Biochemistry 2006, 45:7453-62
• Porter, T.N., Li, Y., Raushel, F.M. “Mechanism of Bacterial Dihydroorotase” Biochemistry 2004, 43: 16285-16292
• Thoden, J.B., Phillips, G.N., Neal, T.M., Raushel, F.M., Holden, H.M. "Molecular Structure of Dihydroorotase: A Paradigm for Catalysis Through the Use of a Binuclear Metal Center" Biochemistry 2001, 40: 6989-6997