Evangelia Kapetaniou

19.12.2005
Department of Biochemistry and Food Chemistry, University of Turku, Turku

Crystallographic studies of enzyme stability

Reviewers:

Professor Jari Ylänne, Department of Environmental and Biological Sciences, University of Jyväskylä, Jyväskylä

Professor Juha Rouvinen, Department of Chemistry, University of Joensuu, Joensuu

Opponent:

Professor Janos Hajdu, Department of Cell and Molecular Biology, University of Uppsala, Sweden

Custos:

Professor Jyrki Heino, Department of Biochemistry and Food Chemistry, University of Turku, Turku

Publications:

  1. Dubnovitsky AP, Kapetaniou EG & Papageorgiou AC. (2003) Expression, purification, crystallization and preliminary crystallographic analysis of phosphoserine aminotransferase from Bacillus alcalophilus. Acta Crystallogr D Biol Crystallogr. 59:2319-21.
  2. Dubnovitsky AP, Kapetaniou, EG & Papageorgiou AC. (2005) Enzyme adaptation to alkaline pH: Atomic resolution (1.08 Å) structure of phosphoserine aminotransferase from Bacillus alkalophilus. Protein Sci. 14:97-110.
  3. Kapetaniou EG, Braaz R, Jendrossek D & Papageorgiou AC. (2005) Crystallization and preliminary X-ray analysis of a novel thermoalkalophilic poly(3-hydroxybutyrate) depolymerase (PhaZ7) from Paucimonas lemoignei. Acta Crystallogr. F61:479-481.
  4. Kapetaniou EG, Thanassoulas A, Dubnovitsky AP, Nounesis G & Papageorgiou AC. The effect of pH on the structure and stability of Bacillus circulans ssp. alkalophilus phosphoserine aminotransferase: crystallographic and thermodynamic studies. (submitted)