Dr. Karl A. Wilson

Professor
Biological Sciences
Binghamton University
United States of America

Professor Molecular Biology
Biography

Karl A. Wilson is the Professor Emeritus of Biological Sciences at Binghamton University (the State University of New York at Binghamton), and Research Associate at the Paleonological Research Institution. He received a B.A. in Biology and a Ph.D. in Biochemistry from the State University of New York at Buffalo. The study of the metabolism of proteins in plant systems has been the emphasis of his academic research. However, his interest in paleontology, and the Devonian of New York State in particular, stems from his introduction to fossils at the age of 7, when his father took his Cub Scout den on a field trip to nearby Eighteen Mile Creek, a classic Middle Devonian locality.

Research Intrest

Proteolysis in Plants; Proteomics of Multigene Families

List of Publications
Qi X, Wilson KA, Tan-Wilson AL. Characterization of the major protease involved in the soybean β-conglycinin storage protein mobilization. Plant Physiology. 1992 Jun 1;99(2):725-33.
McGrain AK, Chen JC, Wilson KA, Tan-Wilson AL. Proteases catalysing processing and degradation of Kunitz soybean trypsin inhibitor during seed maturation. Phytochemistry. 1992 Feb 1;31(2):421-6.
Papastoitsis G, Wilson KA. Initiation of the degradation of the soybean Kunitz and Bowman-Birk trypsin inhibitors by a cysteine protease. Plant physiology. 1991 Aug 1;96(4):1086-92.