Professor Kehinde Okonjo
Professor of Biophysical Chemistry
BSc; PhD
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Research Interests
Kinetics and equilibrium of the reaction of protein sulphydryl groups with Ellman's reagent, 5,5'-dithiobis(2-nitrobenzoate).
Awards & Honours
Federal Government of Nigeria Scholarship, 1964-1967 for first degree.
Studentship of the National Institutes of Health (U.S.A.), 1970 – 1972, from a grant awarded to my PhD supervisor, Professor John G. Beetlestone.
Fellowship of the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation, Bonn, Germany, for postdoctoral studies at the Max Planck Institute for Biophysical Chemistry, Goettingen, 1973 – 1975.
Fellowship of the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation, Bonn, Germany, for research at the Max Planck Institute for Physiological Chemistry, Dortmund, 1989-1990.
Fellowship of the Max Planck Society, Germany, for research at the Max Planck Institute for Physiological Chemistry, Dortmund, 1990 -1991.
Winner of the Royal Society of Chemistry Grant for International Authors (1998) in recognition of my publications in The Journal of the Chemical Society(Faraday Transactions), an international journal of physical chemistry.
Teaching Areas
Physical Chemistry and Physical Biochemistry courses at the undergraduate and postgraduate levels.
Current Postgraduate Supervision
Abiola Edobor-Osor, Dept. of Chemistry: MSc
Selected Publications (17)
2. REACTIVITIES OF THE SULPHYDRYL GROUPS OF DOG HEMOGLOBIN
[ Download 641.06 kB ]3. A second pathway of activation of the Torpedo acetylcholine receptor channel
[ Download 705.55 kB ]4. The Effect of Heme-linked Ionizable Groups on Cyanide Binding to Methemoglobin
[ Download 689.92 kB ]6. Ligand-dependent reactivity of the CysB5[23] b sulfhydryl group of the major haemoglobin of chicken
[ Download 272.14 kB ]8. Subunit iron spin heterogeneity in human aquomethemoglobin A
[ Download 282.45 kB ]14. The uptake of protons by heme-linked ionizable groups on azide binding to methemoglobin
[ Download 342.40 kB ]15. Effect of Organic Phosphates on the Sulfhydryl Reactivities of Oxyhemoglobins A and S*
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