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Articles in Scholarly Journals [Incomplete List]

1. Molecular determinants for FMN-binding in Desulfovibrio gigas flavoredoxin
   FEBS Letters, vol. 581, no. 23, pp. 4397–4402, 2007
2. Tailoring cutinase activity towards polyethylene terephthalate and polyamide 6,6 fibers
   Journal of Biotechnology, vol. 128, no. 4, pp. 849–857, 2007
3. Probing key DNA contacts in AraR-mediated transcriptional repression of the Bacillus subtilis arabinose regulon
   Nucleic Acids Research, vol. 35, no. 14, pp. 4755–4766, 2007
4. Modeling hydration mechanisms of enzymes in nonpolar and polar organic solvents
   FEBS Journal, vol. 274, no. 9, pp. 2424–2436, 2007
5. A robust metallo-oxidase from the hyperthermophilic bacterium Aquifex aeolicus
   FEBS Journal, vol. 274, no. 11, pp. 2683–2694, 2007
6. The lactate dehydrogenases encoded by the ldh and ldhB genes in Lactococcus lactis exhibit distinct regulation and catalytic properties - comparative modeling to probe the molecular basis
   FEBS Journal, vol. 274, no. 22, pp. 5924–5936, 2007
7. Functional Domains of the Bacillus subtilis Transcription Factor AraR and Identification of Amino Acids Important for Nucleoprotein Complex Assembly and Effector Binding
   Journal of Bacteriology, vol. 188, no. 8, pp. 3024–3036, 2006
8. Pathways of H2 toward the Active Site of [NiFe]-Hydrogenase
   Biophysical Journal, vol. 91, no. 6, pp. 2035–2045, 2006
9. The Bsmoc group as a novel scaffold for the design of irreversible inhibitors of cysteine proteases
   Bioorganic & Medicinal Chemistry Letters, vol. 16, no. 10, pp. 2738–2741, 2006
10. Biochemistry, vol. 45, no. 34, pp. 10376–10384, 2006
11. The Journal of Physical Chemistry B, vol. 110, no. 7, pp. 3385–3394, 2006
12. Journal of Physical Chemistry B, vol. 110, no. 29, pp. 14444–14451, 2006
13. Revertant mutants G550E and 4RK rescue cystic fibrosis mutants in the first nucleotide-binding domain of CFTR by different mechanisms
    Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, vol. 103, no. 47, pp. 17891–17896, 2006
14. The Journal of Physical Chemistry B, vol. 109, no. 30, pp. 14691–14706, 2005
15. Biochemistry, vol. 44, no. 37, pp. 12391–12401, 2005
16. Sulphate respiration from hydrogen in bacteria: a structural biology overview
    Progress in Biophysics and Molecular Biology, vol. 89, no. 3, pp. 292–329, 2005
17. Hydrogenases in Desulfovibrio vulgaris Hildenborough: structural and physiologic characterisation of the membrane-bound [NiFeSe] hydrogenase
    JBIC Journal of Biological Inorganic Chemistry, vol. 10, no. 6, pp. 667–682, 2005
18. Electric-Field-Induced Redox Potential Shifts of Tetraheme Cytochromes c3 Immobilized on Self-Assembled Monolayers: Surface-Enhanced Resonance Raman Spectroscopy and Simulation Studies
    Biophysical Journal, vol. 88, no. 6, pp. 4188–4199, 2005
19. Water Dependent Properties of Cutinase in Nonaqueous Solvents: A Computational Study of Enantioselectivity
    Biophysical Journal, vol. 89, no. 2, pp. 999–1008, 2005
20. Reorganization and Conformational Changes in the Reduction of Tetraheme Cytochromes
    Biophysical Journal, vol. 89, no. 6, pp. 3919–3930, 2005
21. Theoretical Identification of Proton Channels in the Quinol Oxidase aa3 from Acidianus ambivalens
    Biophysical Journal, vol. 87, no. 6, pp. 4316–4325, 2004
22. Role of the Anti-Sigma Factor SpoIIAB in Regulation of  G during Bacillus subtilis Sporulation
    Journal of Bacteriology, vol. 186, no. 12, pp. 4000–4013, 2004
23. Investigation of protonatable residues in Rhodothermus marinus caa 3 haem-copper oxygen reductase: comparison with Paracoccus denitrificans aa 3 haem-copper oxygen reductase
    Journal of Biological Inorganic Chemistry, vol. 9, no. 2, pp. 124–134, 2004
24. Effect of immobilization support, water activity, and enzyme ionization state on cutinase activity and enantioselectivity in organic media
    Biotechnology and Bioengineering, vol. 85, no. 4, pp. 442–449, 2004
25. Molecular basis for redox-Bohr and cooperative effects in cytochromec3 fromDesulfovibrio desulfuricans ATCC 27774: Crystallographic and modeling studies of oxidized and reduced high-resolution structures at pH 7.6
    Proteins: Structure, Function, and Bioinformatics, vol. 54, no. 1, pp. 135–152, 2003
26. Redox-Bohr and Other Cooperativity Effects in the Nine-heme Cytochrome c from Desulfovibrio desulfuricans ATCC 27774: CRYSTALLOGRAPHIC AND MODELING STUDIES
    Journal of Biological Chemistry, vol. 278, no. 38, pp. 36455–36469, 2003
27. A Biochemical and Molecular Characterization of LEP1, an Extensin Peroxidase from Lupin
    Journal of Biological Chemistry, vol. 278, no. 42, pp. 41389–41399, 2003
28. Constant-pH molecular dynamics using stochastic titration
    The Journal of Chemical Physics, vol. 117, no. 9, p. 4184, 2002
29. Molecular and Biochemical Characterization of a Highly Stable Bacterial Laccase That Occurs as a Structural Component of the Bacillus subtilis Endospore Coat
    Journal of Biological Chemistry, vol. 277, no. 21, pp. 18849–18859, 2002
30. Gene Cluster of Rhodothermus marinus High-Potential Iron-Sulfur Protein:Oxygen Oxidoreductase, a caa3-Type Oxidase Belonging to the Superfamily of Heme-Copper Oxidases
    Journal of Bacteriology, vol. 183, no. 2, pp. 687–699, 2001
31. The Mechanism of Superoxide Scavenging by Archaeoglobus fulgidus Neelaredoxin
    Journal of Biological Chemistry, vol. 276, no. 42, pp. 38995–39001, 2001
32. Conformational Component in the Coupled Transfer of Multiple Electrons and Protons in a Monomeric Tetraheme Cytochrome
    Journal of Biological Chemistry, vol. 276, no. 47, pp. 44044–44051, 2001
33. The Journal of Physical Chemistry B, vol. 105, no. 1, pp. 293–309, 2001
34. Journal of Computer-Aided Molecular Design, vol. 15, no. 8, pp. 721–740, 2001
35. Studies of the reduction and protonation behavior of tetraheme cytochromes using atomic detail
    JBIC Journal of Biological Inorganic Chemistry, vol. 7, no. 1-2, pp. 200–216, 2001
36. Incorporating knowledge-based biases into an energy-based side-chain modeling method: Application to comparative modeling of protein structure
    Biopolymers, vol. 59, no. 2, pp. 72–86, 2001
37. [NiFe] hydrogenase from Desulfovibrio desulfuricans ATCC 27774: gene sequencing, three-dimensional structure determination and refinement at 1.8 Å and modelling studies of its interaction with the tetrahaem cytochrome c 3
    Journal of Biological Inorganic Chemistry, vol. 6, no. 1, pp. 63–81, 2001
38. Ionic strength dependence of the non-physiological electron transfer between flavodoxin and cytochrome c 553 from D. vulgaris
    Journal of Biological Inorganic Chemistry, vol. 5, no. 6, pp. 730–737, 2000
39. Evolution of the Thyroid Hormone-Binding Protein, Transthyretin
    General and Comparative Endocrinology, vol. 119, no. 3, pp. 241–255, 2000
40. Improved modeling of side-chains in proteins with rotamer-based methods: A flexible rotamer model
    Proteins: Structure, Function, and Genetics, vol. 37, no. 4, pp. 530–543, 1999
41. Improvement of side-chain modeling in proteins with the self-consistent mean field theory method based on an analysis of the factors influencing prediction
    Biopolymers, vol. 50, no. 2, pp. 111–131, 1999
42. Comparative redox and p K a calculations on cytochrome c 3 from several Desulfovibrio species using continuum electrostatic methods
    Journal of Biological Inorganic Chemistry, vol. 4, no. 1, pp. 73–86, 1999
43. Effects of protein-protein interactions on electron transfer: docking and electron transfer calculations for complexes between flavodoxin and c -type cytochromes
    Journal of Biological Inorganic Chemistry, vol. 4, no. 3, pp. 360–374, 1999
44. Nine-haem cytochrome c from Desulfovibrio desulfuricans ATCC 27774 : primary sequence determination, crystallographic refinement at 1.8 and modelling studies of its interaction with the tetrahaem cytochrome c 3
    Journal of Biological Inorganic Chemistry, vol. 4, no. 4, pp. 478–494, 1999
45. The caa3 terminal oxidase of the thermohalophilic bacterium Rhodothermus marinus: a HiPIP:oxygen oxidoreductase lacking the key glutamate of the D-channel
    Biochimica et Biophysica Acta (BBA) - Bioenergetics, vol. 1413, no. 1, pp. 1–13, 1999
46. Crystal Structure of Cardosin A, a Glycosylated and Arg-Gly-Asp-containing Aspartic Proteinase from the Flowers of Cynara cardunculus L.
    Journal of Biological Chemistry, vol. 274, no. 39, pp. 27694–27701, 1999
47. Industrial & Engineering Chemistry Research, vol. 37, no. 8, pp. 3189–3194, 1998
48. Theoretical studies on the redox-Bohr effect in cytochrome c 3 from Desulfovibrio vulgaris Hildenborough
    Journal of Biological Inorganic Chemistry, vol. 2, no. 6, pp. 714–727, 1997
49. Ab initio determination of the crystal structure of cytochrome c6 and comparison with plastocyanin
    Structure, vol. 3, no. 11, pp. 1159–1169, 1995
50. Perturbation-Relaxation Molecular Dynamics Simulations as a Tool to Explore Conformational Space. Reversible Response of the L3 Loop in Porin Towards Charge Screening Effects
    Molecular Simulation, vol. 15, no. 1, pp. 35–46, 1995
51. L3 loop-mediated mechanisms of pore closing in porin: a molecular dynamics perturbation approach
    "Protein Engineering, Design and Selection", vol. 8, no. 1, pp. 5–12, 1995
52. On the stability and plastic properties of the interior L3 loop in R.capsulatus porin. A molecular dynamics study
    "Protein Engineering, Design and Selection", vol. 7, no. 4, pp. 487–493, 1994