John Kloetzel

Associate Professor Emeritus

John KloetzelEmail: kloetzel@umbc.edu

Education

  • Postdoctoral, University of Colorado, 1970; Ph.D., Johns Hopkins University, 1967
  • A.B., University of Southern California

Intellectual Contributions

  • Sequence and properties of cagein, a coiled-coil scaffold protein linking basal bodies in the polykinetids of the ciliate Euplotes aediculatus. Kloetzel, J.A., Aubusson-Fleury, A. Butler, M.D., Banerjee, D. & Mozzicafreddo, M. (2021) J. Euk. Microbiol. 68:e12850
  • Structure and protein composition of a basal-body scaffold (“cage”) in the ciliated protozoan Euplotes. Kloetzel, J.A., and T.W. Brann (2012) J. Euk. Microbiol. 59:587-600.
  • Cytoskeletal proteins with N-terminal signal peptides:  plateins in the ciliate Euplotes define a new family of articulins. Kloetzel, J.A., A. Baroin-Tourancheau, C. Miceli, S. Barchetta,  J. Farmar, D. Banerjee, and A. Fleury-Aubusson (2003) J. Cell Science 116:1291-1303.
  • Identification and properties of plateins, major proteins in the cortical alveolar plates of Euplotes. Kloetzel, J.A. (1991) J. Protozool. 38:392-401.
  • Toxoplasma gondii:  further studies on the subpellicular network. Lemgruber L. Kloetzel JA, de Souza W, and Vommaro RC. Mem. Inst. Oswaldo Cruz 2009 104:706-709.