Contact Information:
Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry
University of California, San Diego
Parking Lot 207, Bubble Building
9500 Gilman Drive, 0127
La Jolla, CA 92093-1027 USA

TEL: (858) 822-5931
FAX: (858) 822-4821
email: cvgrant@chem.ucsd.edu

Education:
Ph.D. in Physical Chemistry (December 1999)
University of California, Davis

B.S. in Chemsitry (Spring 1994)
Fort Lewis College, Durango, Colorado

Publications:

Sinha, N., Grant, C.V.; Rotondi, K.S.; Feduik-Rotondi, L.; Gierasch, L.M.; and Opella, S.J.(2005) Peptides and the Development of Double- and Triple- Resonance Solid-State NMR of Aligned Samples. J. Peptide Res. 65: 605-620.

De Angelis, A. A.; Jones, D. H.; Grant,C. V.; Park,S. H.; Mesleh, M. H.; Opella, S. J.(2005) NMR Experiments on Aligned Samples of Membrane Proteins. Meth. Enzymol. 39: 350-382.

Sinha, N.; Grant, C. V. ; Wu, A. ; De Angelis, A. A. ; Howell, S. C. ; Opella,S. J. (2005) SPINAL Modulated Decoupling in High Field Double- and Triple-Resonance Solid-State NMR Experiments on Stationary Samples. J. Magn. Reson. 177: 197-202.

Grant, C. V.; McElheny, D.; Frydman, V.; Frydman, L. ( 2006) Solid-State NMR Investigation of Sodium-Nucleotide Complexes. Magn. Reson. Chem. 44: 366-374.

Sinha, N.; Grant,C. V.; Park, S. H. ; Brown, J. M.; Opella, S. J.(2007) Triple Resonance Experiments for Aligned Sample Solid-State NMR of 13C and 15N Labeled Proteins. J. Magn. Reson. 186: 51-64.

Grant, C. V.; Sit,S. L.; De Angelis, A. A.; Wu, A.; Kuong, K.; Plesniak, L.; Opella, S. J.(2007) An Efficient 1H/31P Solid-state NMR Probe that Utillizes a Scroll Coil. J. Magn. Reson. 188: 279-284.

Grinshtein, J.; Grant C. V.; Frydman, L. (2002) Separate-local-field NMR Spectroscopy on Half-integer Quadrupolar Nuclei. J. Am. Chem. Soc. 124, 13344-13345.

Grant C. V.; Frydman, V.; Harwood, J. S.; Frydman, L. (2002) 59Co Solid-State NMR as a New Probe for Elucidating Metal Binding in Polynucleotides. J. Am. Chem. Soc. 124, 834-842.

Hoogstraten, C. G.; Grant, C. V.; Horton, T. E.; DeRose, V. J.; Britt R. D. (2002) Structural Analysis of Metal Ion Ligation to Nucleotides and Nucleic Acids Using Pulsed EPR Spectroscopy. J. Am. Chem. Soc. 124, 834-842.

Grant C. V.; Frydman, V.; Frydman, L. (2000) Solid-State 25Mg NMR of a Magnesium(II) Adensosine 5'-triphosphate Complex. J. Am. Chem. Soc., 122, 11743-11744.

Hung, S-C.; Grant, C. V.; Peloquin, J. M.; Waldeck, A. R.; Britt, R. D.; Chan, S. I. (2000) ESEEM Studies of Succinate : Ubiquinone Reductase from Paracoccus Denitrificans. J. Biol. Inorg. Chem., 5, 593-602.

Hung, S-C.; Grant, C. V.; Peloquin, J. M.; Waldeck, A. R.; Britt, R. D.; Chan, S. I. (2000) Electron Spin-Lattice Relaxation Measurement of the 3Fe - 4S (S-3) Cluster in Succinate:Ubiquinone Reductase From Paracoccus Denitrificans; A Detailed Analysis Based on a Dipole - Dipole Interaction Model. J Phys. Chem. A, 104, 4402-4412.

Grant, C. V.; Geiser-Bush, K. M.; Cornman, C. R.; Britt, R. D. (1999) Probing the Molecular Geometry of Five-Coordinate Vanadyl Complexes with Pulsed ENDOR. Inorg. Chem. 38, 6285-6288.

Grant, C. V.; Cope, W.; Ball, J. A.; Maresch, G. G.; Gaffney, B. J.; Fink, W.; Britt, R. D. (1999) Electronic Structure of the Aqueous Vanadyl Ion Probed by 9 and 94 GHz EPR and Pulsed ENDOR Spectroscopies and Density Functional Theory Calculations. J. Phys. Chem. B, 103, 10627-10631.

Morrissey, S. R., Horton, T. E., Grant, C. V., Hoogstraten, C. G., Britt, R. D., DeRose, V. J. (1999) Mn(II)-Nitrogen Interactions in RNA Probed by Electron Spin-Echo Envelope Modulation Spectroscopy: Application to the Hammerhead Ribozyme. J. Am. Chem. Soc., 121, 9215-9218.

Campbell, K. A.; Yikilmaz, E.; Grant, C. V.; Gregor, W.; Miller, A. F.; Britt, R. D. (1999) Parallel Polarization EPR Characterization of the Mn(III) Center of Oxidized Manganese-Superoxide Dismutase., J. Am. Chem. Soc., 121, 14714-4715.

Grant, C. V.; Ball, J. A.; Hamstra, B. J.; Pecoraro, V. L.; Britt, R. D. (1998) 51V ESE - ENDOR Studies of Oxovanadium(IV) Complexes: Investigation of the Nuclear Quadrupole Interaction. J. Phys. Chem. B, 102, 8145-8150.

Rothschopf, G.; Zoller, J.; Lewis, R.; Grant, C.; Schur, R.; Estler, R. (1995) Electronic State Detection/Partitioning of Atomic Nickel During Resonant Laser Ablation. Int. J. Mass Spectrom. Ion Processes, 151, 167-174.