Research Projects

In the year 1996 six University teachers and two research scientists carried out their research at the Biochemistry Section. In addition, over sixteen research assistants and students were employed for longer and shorter periods of time during 1996. The research efforts in the Biochemistry Subdivison include projects in the following fields: biochemistry, biotechnology, clinical chemistry, food chemistry and nutrition. The following research projects were active in the year 1996:

• Águsta Guðmundsdóttir
  Genetic diversity of cod serine proteases
  
• Águsta Guðmundsdóttir
  Protein engineered elastase with improved properties
  
• Águsta Guðmundsdóttir
  Production of psychrophilic cod collagenase in yeast
  
• Baldur Símonarson
  The selenoenzyme glutathione peroxidase: affinity chromatography, purification and improvements of the assay for activity
  
• Bjarni Ásgeirsson
  Amino acid sequence determination of cod alkaline phosphatase and crystallization
  
• Bjarni Ásgeirsson
  Determination of structural and enzymatic properties for chymotrypsin C variant from cod
  
• Bjarni Ásgeirsson
  Development of specific affinity isolation method for purification of leucine aminopeptidase from Atlantic cod
  
• Bjarni Ásgeirsson
  Effects of nucleophiles, ionic strength and metal ions on kinetic steps that transform the mechanism of alkaline phosphatase catalysed hydrolysis into transphosphorylation
  
• Bjarni Ásgeirsson
  Monotoring the presence of the Leu68 Gln68 cystatin C variant in cerebrospinal fluids and monocyte cultures by mass spectrometry
  
• Bjarni Ásgeirsson
  Properties of cold-adapted alkaline phosphatases from marine bacteria
  
• Bjarni Ásgeirsson
  The role of autolysis in temperature stability of cod chymotrypsins
  
• Bjarni Ásgeirsson
  Thermodynamic stability of cod alkaline phosphatase dimers and monomers
  
• Hörður Filippusson
  Affinity chromatography and its application to enzyme and protein preparation
  
• Hörður Filippusson
  Production and properties of equine chorionic gonadotropin (eCG, PMSG) from pregnant mare serum
  
• Hörður Filippusson
  The preparation, properties and applications of carboxylesterases from ovine liver
  
• Hörður Filippusson
  The production of valuable biochemicals from animal sources
  
• Ingibjörg Harðardóttir
  Effects of dietary fish oils on infection
  
• Jón Bragi Bjarnason
  Application of cod proteinases in research and medicine
  
• Jón Bragi Bjarnason
  Collagenase I from the pyloric caeca of Atlantic cod
  
• Jón Bragi Bjarnason
  Reprolysin and atrolysin; metalloproteinases from snake venom
  
• Jón Bragi Bjarnason
  Structure, specificity and stability of cod collagenase II
  
• Jón Bragi Bjarnason, Bergur Benediktsson
  Application of cod proteinases in food industry
  
• Jón Bragi Bjarnason, Bergur Benediktsson
  Purification of cod proteinases. A continuous column system
  
• Jón Bragi Bjarnason, Sigríður Ólafsdóttir
  Black-spot formation in lobster
  
• Jón Bragi Bjarnason, Sigríður Ólafsdóttir
  Multifunctional proteinase from Antarctic krill
  
• Jón Bragi Bjarnason, Sigríður Ólafsdóttir
  Structure and stability of cod elastase
  
• Magnús Már Kristjánsson
  Cold-adaption of proteins. Studies of serine proteinases from psychrophilic microorganisms
  
• Magnús Már Kristjánsson
  Comparative study of properties of enzymes from psychrophilic, mesophilic and thermophilic microorganisms
  
• Sigmundur Guðbjarnason
  Adrenoceptors in heart muscle and in cultured myocytes
  
• Sigmundur Guðbjarnason
  Glycosphingolipids in heart muscle
  
• Sigmundur Guðbjarnason
  Studies on Icelandic medicinal herbs