Dept. of Chemistry & Biochemistry

18111 Nordhoff Street
Northridge, California 91330-8241

Phone: (818) 677-1200
Fax: (818) 677-4068M
E-mail: chemistry@csun.edu

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I-Nan Hsu

I-Nan Hsu

PROFESSOR

Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry
California State University, Northridge
Northridge, California, 91330-8262

telephone: (818) 677-3366
e-mail: inan.hsu@csun.edu
fax: (818) 677-4068

Office: Science 4303



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EDUCATION

  • B.S., Cheng Kung University, 1961
  • M.S., Tuskegee Institute, 1967
  • Ph.D., University of Oklahoma, 1971

POSTDOCTORAL APPOINTMENT

  • University of Pittsburgh, University of Toronto

COURSES TAUGHT

  • Chemistry 102L, General Chemistry II Laboratory
  • Chemistry 105, Principles of Chemistry
  • Chemistry 106, General Chemistry II for Engineering
  • Chemistry 351, Physical Chemistry I
  • Chemistry 352, Physical Chemistry II
  • Chemistry 352L, Physical Chemistry II Laboratory
  • Chemistry 355, Fundamentals of Physical Chemistry
  • Chemistry 355L, Experimental Physical Chemistry

RESEARCH INTERESTS

Crystallography

   Professor Hsu's research interests are in the areas of structure-function relationship of proteins, and molecular interaction of drugs by X-ray diffraction. Currently he is working on a number of enzymes. The aim is to determine their three-dimensional structures and to gain information for elucidating the catalytic mechanisms of these enzymes. Another research project involves drug association in crystals with molecular species which are representative of biological systems, such as water, peptides, lipids and nucleotides. The objective is to establish principles which govern the intermolecular behavior of drugs.



REPRESENTATIVE PUBLICATIONS

  1. "2-Aminopyridinium Salicylate," Hsu, I-N. and Gellert, R. W., Acta Cryst. (1988) C44, 311-313.
  2. "Reactivity of Trinuclear Ruthenium Clusters with Mercury Halides," with Rosenberg, E., Ryckman, D. and Gellert, R. W., Inorganic Chem. (1986) 25, 194-199.
  3. "The Structure of 9-Methyladenine Salicylic Acid," with Gellert, R. W., J. Cryst. Spect. Res. (1983) 13, 43-48.
  4. "The Tertiary Structure of Penicillopepsin: Towards a Catalytic Mechanism for Acid Proteases," with James, M. N. G., Hofmann, T. and Sielecki, A. R. in Structural Studies on Molecules of Biological Interest, eds. Dodson, Glusker, Sayre, Clarendon Press, Oxford, (1981) 350-389.