Linda Randall

Linda Randall is a Professor Emerita of Biochemistry and Wurdack Chair Emerita of Biological Chemistry at the University of Missouri. Her research has shown unexpected and complex details of the movement of newly made proteins from the cytosol across membranes into the organelles of the cell. In particular, she found that the entire protein was kept unfolded by association with a chaperone and not just directed to cross membranes by its terminal leader sequence. In 1997, she was elected to the National Academy of Sciences of the USA because of the excellence of this work. She has received a number of other honors and awards. After twenty years at WSU, she moved to the University of Missouri.

Randall's research focuses on the mechanism of protein export in the bacterium Escherichia coli. Her laboratory demonstrated the role of chaperones in the transport and folding of proteins. Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science

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