Clifford Gee, PhD

Assistant Professor

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College of Arts and Sciences
Chemistry
Biochemistry
Chemistry Faculty
RGSB - Rigge Science Building - 309F

Clifford Gee, PhD

Assistant Professor

Research Focus

Chemical Biology
Biophysics
Peptide Chemistry
Antimicrobial Drug Discovery

Department

Chemistry and Biochemistry

Position

Assistant Professor

Books

  • , Applications of Fluorine Magnetic Resonance for Small-Molecule Screening, Ligand Development, and Oxygen Sensing 2017

Publications

  • mBio
    Miao Yi, etal Inhibitors of trehalose-6-phosphate synthase activity in fungal pathogens compromise thermal tolerance pathways 2025
  • Nature communications
    Scott Daniel C, etal Principles of paralog-specific targeted protein degradation engaging the C-degron E3 KLHDC2
    15:1, p. 8829 - 19 2024
  • Molecular Cell
    Scott Daniel C., etal E3 ligase autoinhibition by C-degron mimicry maintains C-degron substrate fidelity
    83:5 2023
  • ACS Medicinal Chemistry Letters
    Buchholz Caroline R., etal Fragment-Based NMR Screening of the BPTF PHD Finger Methyl Lysine Reader Leads to the First Small-Molecule Inhibitors
    14:10 2023
  • Tuberculosis
    Fernando Dinesh M., etal Biophysical analysis of the Mycobacteria tuberculosis peptide binding protein DppA reveals a stringent peptide binding pocket
    132 2022
  • Journal of Medicinal Chemistry
    Cui Huarui, etal A Structure-based Design Approach for Generating High Affinity BRD4 D1-Selective Chemical Probes
    65:3 2022
  • Tuberculosis
    Fernando Dinesh M., etal Biophysical analysis of the Mycobacteria tuberculosis peptide binding protein DppA reveals a stringe
    132 2022
  • Journal of Chemical Education
    Bur Scott K., etal Fragment-Based Ligand Discovery Using Protein-Observed 19F NMR: A Second Semester Organic Chemistry CURE Project
    98:6 2021
  • Nature Communications
    Yang Seung Wook, etal Structural basis for substrate recognition and chemical inhibition of oncogenic MAGE ubiquitin ligases
    11:1 2020
  • ACS Infectious Diseases
    Wallace Miranda J., etal Discovery and Characterization of the Antimetabolite Action of Thioacetamide-Linked 1,2,3-Triazoles as Disruptors of Cysteine Biosynthesis in Gram-Negative Bacteria
    6:3 2020
  • ACS Infectious Diseases
    Grzegorzewicz Anna E., etal Mechanisms of Resistance Associated with the Inhibition of the Dehydration Step of Type II Fatty Acid Synthase in Mycobacterium tuberculosis
    6:2 2020
  • ChemBioChem
    Gee Clifford T., etal Dual Labeling of the CBP/p300 KIX Domain for 19F NMR Leads to Identification of a New Small-Molecule Binding Site
    19:9 2018
  • Journal of Medicinal Chemistry
    Ayoub Alex M., etal BET Bromodomain Inhibitors with One-Step Synthesis Discovered from Virtual Screen
    60:12 2017
  • ACS Nano
    Lee Amani L., etal Oxygen Sensing with Perfluorocarbon-Loaded Ultraporous Mesostructured Silica Nanoparticles
    11:6 2017
  • Journal of Chemical Education
    Gee Clifford T., etal Quantifying Protein Concentrations Using Smartphone Colorimetry: A New Method for an Established Test
    94:7 2017
  • Nature Protocols
    Gee Clifford T., etal Protein-observed 19F-NMR for fragment screening, affinity quantification and druggability assessment
    11:8 2016
  • RSC Advances
    Hawk Laura M. L., etal Paramagnetic relaxation enhancement for protein-observed 19F NMR as an enabling approach for efficient fragment screening
    6:98 2016
  • Angewandte Chemie - International Edition
    Gee Clifford T., etal Fragment screening and druggability assessment for the CBP/p300 KIX domain through protein-observed 19F NMR spectroscopy
    54:12 2015

Grants

  • INBRE: Protein Tetris: Profiling Substrates of the Bacterial Peptide Transporters SaOpp3A and SaDtpT/Sponsor: University of Nebraska Medical Center/UNMC

  • INBRE: Protein Tetris: Profiling the Substrates of Bacterial Transporters/Sponsor: University of Nebraska Medical Center/UNMC

Awards

  • 2023 IGGY Award
    Office of Student Success