Artyom Gritsunov

PostDoc
Department of Cell and Systems Biology
University of Toronto
25 Harbord St., Toronto, ON M5S 3G5

Email: artyom.gritsunov@mail.utoronto.ca

Current Research

• Artyom is working on expression of Drosophila rhodopsin genes in
  yeast
• His major interests lie in understanding of how different factors
  affect rhodopsin light activation.

Education

• PhD. Cell and Systems Biology (2015-2024)
• BSc. Biochemistry specialist at UofT (2011-2015)

Peer Reviewed Publications

• Gritsunov, A., Peek, J. , Diaz Caballero, J. , Guttman, D. and Christendat, D. (2018), Structural and biochemical approaches uncover multiple evolutionary trajectories of plant quinate dehydrogenases. Plant J, 95: 812-822.
• Shabalin, I.G., Gritsunov, A., Hou, J., Sławek, J., Miks, C.D., Cooper, D.R., Minor, W. and Christendat, D. (2020), Structural and biochemical analysis of Bacillus anthracis prephenate dehydrogenase reveals an unusual mode of inhibition by tyrosine via the ACT domain. FEBS J. doi:10.1111/febs.15150 + Protein structure PDB id: 5V0S