Department of Biochemistry and Molecular
Biology,
J. Stefan Institute
List of publications in 2003
in alphabetical order of the first authors
(underlined are members of our department):
M.S. Cheon, S.H. Kim, V. Ovod, N. Kopitar Jerala, J.I. Morgan,
Y. Hatefi, T. Ijun, T. Takenava, G. Lubec (2003) Protein levels of
genes encoded
on chromosome 21 in fetal Down syndrome brain: Challenging the gene
dosage
effect hypothesis (Part III). Amino Acids 24, 127-134 (S-759)
Iztok Dolenc, Marko Mihelič (2003) Purification and primary
structure determination of human lysosomal dipeptidase. Biol. Chem.
384, 317-320
(S-752)
Katja Galeša, Roger Pain, Maarten A. Jongsma, Vito Turk,
Brigita Lenarčič (2003) Structural characterization of
thyroglobulin type-1
domains of equistatin. FEBS Lett. 539, 120-124 (S-755)
Kristina Gruden, Tatjana Popovič, Nina Cimerman, Igor
Križaj, Borut Štrukelj (2003) Diverse enzymatic specificities of
digestive
proteases, 'intestains', enable Colorado potato beetle larvae to
counteract
the poptato defence mechanism. Biol. Chem. 384, 305-301 (S-754)
Saša Jenko, Iztok Dolenc, Gregor Gunčar, Andreja Doberšek, Marjeta
Podobnik, Dušan Turk (2003) Crystal structure of stefin A in
complex with cathepsin H: N-terminal residues of inhibitors can adapt
to the active sites of endo- and exopeptidases. J. Mol. Biol. 326,
875-885 (S-753)
Klaus Kayser, Natalia Richter, Peter Hufnagl, Gian Gayser, Janko Kos, Bernd Werle
(2003) Expression, proliferation activity and clinical significance of
cathepsin B and cathepsin L in operated lung cancer. Anticancer Res.
23, 2767-2772 (S-773)
Pika Meško Brguljan, Vito Turk, Nina Cimerman, Jože Brzin, Igor Križaj,
Tatjana Popovič (2003) Human brain cathepsin H as a neuropeptide and
bradykinin metabolizing enzyme. Peptides 24, 1977-1984 (S-773a)
Irena Mlinaric-Rascan,
Boris Turk (2003) B
cell receptor-mediated nuclear fragmentation proceeds in WEHI 231 cells
in the absence of detectable DEVDase and FRase activity. FEBS Lett. 553
(2003) 51-55 (S-775)
B. Oppert, T.D. Morgan, K. Hartzer, B. Lenarčič, K. Galeša, J.
Brzin, V. Turk, K. Yoza, K. Ohtsubo, K.J. Kramer (2003) Effects of
proteinase inhibitors on digestive proteinases and growth of the red
flour beetle,
Trifolium castaneum (Herbst) (Coleoptera: Tenebrionidae). Comp.
Biochem.
Physiol. C 134, 481-490 (S-758)
Marjetka Podobnik, Tanya F. Weitze, Mike O'Donnell, John Kuriyan
(2003) Nucleotide-induced conformational changes in an isolated Escherichia
coli DNA polymerase III clamp loader subunit. Structure 11, 253-263
(S-757)
Aleš Premzl, Valentina Zavašnik-Bergant, Vito Turk, Janko Kos (2003)
Intracellular and extracellular cathepsin B facilitate invasion of
MCF-10A neoT cells through reconstituted extracellular matrix in vitro.
Experim. Cell Res. 283, 206-214 (S-751)
Aleš Premzl, Janko Kos
(2003) Cysteine and aspartic proteases cathepsins B and D determine the
invasiveness of MCF10A neoT cells. Radiol. Oncol. 37(4), 241-8. (S-767)
Petra Prijatelj, Jernej Šribar, Gabriela Ivanovski, Igor Križaj,
Franc
Gubenšek, Jože Pungerčar (2003) Identification of a novel biniding
site
for calmodulin in ammodytoxin A, a neurotoxic group IIA phospholipase
A2.
Eur. J. Biochem. 270, 3018-3025 (S-761)
Jerica Rozman-Pungerčar,
Nataša Kopitar-Jerala, Matthew Bogyo, Dušan Turk, Olga Vasiljeva, Ivica
Štefe, Peter Vandenabeele, Dieter Brömme, Vida Puizdar, Marko Fonović, Mojca
Trstenjak-Prebanda, Iztok Dolenc, Vito Turk, Boris Turk (2003)
Inhibition of papain-like cysteine proteases and legumain by
caspase-specific inhibitors: when reaction mechanism is more important
than specificity. Cell Death Differ. 10, 881-888 (S-763)
Janez Ščančar, Radmila Milačič, Miha Benedik, Igor Križaj
(2003) Total metal concentrations in serum of dialysis patients and
fractionation of Cu, Rb, Al, Fe and Zn in spent continous ambulatory
peritoneal dialysis fluids. Talanta 59, 355-364 (S-748)
Jernej Šribar, Alenka Čopič,
Mateja Poljšak-Prijatelj, Jošt Kuret, Uroš Logonder, Franc Gubenšek,
Igor Križaj (2003) R25 is an intracellular membrane receptor for
a snake venom secretory phospholipase A2. FEBS Lett. 553, 309-314
(S-764)
Jernej Šribar, Nicholas E. Sherman, Petra Prijatelj,
Grazyna Faure, Franc Gubenšek, Jay W. Fox, Alastair Aitken, Jože
Pungerčar, Igor Križaj (2003) The neurotoxic phospholipase A2
associates, through a non-phosphorylated binding motif, with 14-3-3-
protein [gamma] and [epsylon] isoforms. Biochem. Biophys. Res. Comm.
302, 691-696 (S-765)
Boris Turk, Hans Fritz (2003) Vito Turk - 30 years of research
on cysteine proteases and their inhibitors (Editorial) (2003) Biol.
Chem. 384, 833-836 (S-760)
Dušan Turk, Gregor Gunčar (2003) Lysosomal cysteine proteases
(cathepsins): promising drug targets. Acta Cryst. D59, 203-213 (S-750)
Dušan Turk, Boris Turk, Vito
Turk (2003) Papain-like lysosomal cysteine
proteases and their inhibitors: drug discovery targets? Biochem. Soc.
Symp. 70, 15-30 (S-765)
Olga Vasiljeva, Marko
Dolinar, Vito Turk, Boris Turk (2003) Recombinant human
cathepsin H lacking the mini chain is an endopeptidase. Biochemistry
42, 13522-13528 (S-772)
Vera Župunski, Dušan Kordiš,
Franc Gubenšek (2003) Adaptive evolution in the snake venom
Kunitz/BPTI protein family. FEBS Lett. 547, 131-136 (S-762)
List of publications in 2004
in alphabetical order of the first authors
(underlined are members of our department):
Dieter Brömme, Ferez S. Nallaseth, Boris Turk (2004)
Production and activation of recombinant papain-like cysteine
proteases. Methods 32, 199-206 (S-774)
Mateja Cegnar, Aleš
Premzl, Valentina Zavašnik-Bergant, Julijana Kristl, Janko Kos
(2004) Poly(lactide-co-glycolide) nanoparticles as carrier system for
delivering cysteine protease inhibitor cystatin into tumor cells.
Exper. Cell Res. 301, 223-231 (S-789)
Tina Cirman, Kristina
Orešić, Gabriela Droga Mazovec, Vito Turk, John C. Reed, Richard
M. Myers, Guy S. Salvesen, Boris
Turk (2004) Selective disruption of lysosomes in HeLa cells
triggers apoptosis mediated by cleavage of Bid by multiple papain-like
lysosomal cathepsins. J. Biol. Chem. 279, 3578-3587 (S-768)
Tamara Čimbora-Zovko, Sergeja Bombek, Janez Košmrlj, Lidija Kovačić, Slovenko
Polanc, Ana Katalinić, Maja Osmak (2004) Development of potential
anti-cancer agents: Diazenes and derivatives. Drug Devel. Res. 61,
95-100 (S-793)
Saša Čučnik, Igor Križaj,
Blaž Rozman, Tanja Kveder, Borut Božič (2004) Concomitant isolation of
protein C inhibitor and unnicked [beta]2-glycoprotein I. Clin. Chem.
Lab.
Med. 42 (2), 171-174 (S-771)
Tadej Čepeljnik, Igor
Križaj, Romana Marinšek-Logar (2004) Isolation and
characterization of the Pseudobutyrivibrio
xylanivorans Mz5T xylanase XynT - the first family 11
endoxylanase from rumen Butyrivibrio-related
bacteria. Enz. Microb. Technol. 34, 219-227 (S-769)
S. Čučnik, T. Kveder, I.
Križaj, B. Rozman, B. Božič (2004) High avidity
anti-beta2-glycoprotein I antibodies in patients with antiphospholipid
syndrome. Ann. Rheum. Dis. 63, 1478-1482 (S-792)
Ndeye Ndack Diop, Marjetka
Kidrič, Anne Repellin, Monique Gareil, Agnes d'Arcy-Lameta, Ahn
Thu Pham Thi, Yasmine Zuily-Fodil (2004) A multicystatin is induced by
drought-stress in cowpea (Vigna
unculata (L.) Walp.) leaves. FEBS Lett. 577, 545-550 (S-788)
Marko Fonović, Dieter
Brömme, Vito Turk,
Boris Turk (2004) Human cathepsin F: expression in baculovirus
system, characterization and inhibition by protein inhibitors. Biol.
Chem. 385, 505-509 (S-783)
Katja Galeša, Richard
M. Thomas, Marjetka Kidrič,
Roger H. Pain (2004) Clitocypin, a new cysteine proteinase
inhibitor, is monomeric: impact on the mechanism of folding. Biochem.
Biophy.s Res. Comm. 324, 576-578 (S-786)
Benjamin Gorinšek, Franc
Gubenšek, Dušan Kordiš (2004) Evolutionary genomics of
Chromoviruses in Eukaryotes. Mol. Biol. Evol. 21 (5), 781-798 (S-787)
Bara Hieng,
Kristina Ugrinović, Jelka Šuštar-Vozlič, Marjetka Kidrič (2004)
Different classes of proteases are involved in the response to drought
of Phaseolus vulgaris L. cultivars differing in sensitivity. J. Plant
Physiol. 161, 519-530 (S-781)
Gabriela Ivanovski, Toni
Petan, Igor Križaj, Michael H. Gelb, Franc Gubenšek, Jože Pungerčar
(2004) Basic amino acid residues in the bata-structure region
contribute, but not critically, to presynaptic neurotoxicity of
ammodytoxin A. Biochim. Biophys. Acta 1702, 217-225 (S-784)
Saša Jenko, Miha
Škarabot, Manca Kenig,
Gregor Gunčar, Igor Muševič, Dušan Turk, Eva Žerovnik
(2004) Different propensity to form amyloid fibrils by two homologous
proteins - human stefins A and B: Searching for explanation. Proteins
55, 417-425. (S-776)
Manca Kenig, Selma
Berbić, Aida Kriještorac, Louise
Kroon-Žitko, Magda Tušek, Maruša Pompe-Novak, Eva Žerovnik (2004)
Differences in aggregation properties of three site-specific mutants of
recombinant human stefin B. Protein Sci. 13, 63-70 (S-770)
Blaž Kralj, Janez Ščančar, Igor
Križaj, Miha Benedik, Peter Bukovec, Radmila Milačič (2004)
Determination of high molecular mass Al species in serum and spent CAPD
fluids of dialysis patients combining SEC and anion-exchange FPLC with
ETAAS detection. J. Anal. At. Spectrom. 19, 101-106 (S-766)
Uroš Petrovič, Jernej
Šribar, Alenka Pariš, Marjan Rupnik, Mojca Kržan, Nina Vardjan, Franc Gubenšek,
Robert Zorec, Igor Križaj
(2004) Ammodytoxin, a neurotoxic secreted phospholipase A2, can act in
the cytosol of the nerve cell. Biochem. Biophys. Res. Comm. 324,
981-985 (S-782)
Alejandro Rabossi, Veronika
Stoka, Vida Puizdar, Vito Turk, Luis A. Quesada-Allué
(2004) Novel aspartyl proteinase associated to fat body histolysis
during Ceratitis capitata
early metamorphosis. Arch. Insect Biochem. Physiol. 57, 51-67 (S-790)
Andrea Rossi, Quinn Deveraux, Boris Turk, Andrej Sali
(2004) Comprehensive search for cysteine cathepsins in the human
genome. Biol. Chem. 385, 363-372 (S-777)
L. Sacchi, R. Bellazzi, C. Larizza, P. Magni, T. Curk, U. Petrovic, B. Zupan
(2004) Clustering gene expression data with temporal abstractions. In:
MEDINFO 2004, M. Fieschi et al. (eds.), Amsterdam: IOS Press, pp.
798-802 (S-791)
Igor Štern, Norbert
Schaschke, Luis Moroder,
Dušan Turk (2004) Crystal structure of NS-134 in complex with
bovine cathepsin B: a two-headed epoxysuccinyl inhibitor extends along
the entire active-site cleft. Biochem. J. 381, 511-517 (S-780)
Boris Turk, Dusan Turk, Iztok
Dolenc, Vito Turk (2004) Dipeptidyl-peptidase I. In: Handbook of
Proteolytic Enzymes, 2nd Edn. Elsevier Ltd. pp. 192-1196 (S-785)
Vito Turk, Janko
Kos, Boris Turk
(2004) Cysteine cathepsins (proteases) - On the main stage of cancer?
Cancer Cell 5 (5), 409-420 (S-778)
Valentina
Zavašnik-Bergant, Ana Schweiger, Tadeja Bevec, Rastko Golouh, Vito Turk, Janko Kos (2004)
Inhibitory p41 isoform of invariant chain and its potential target
enzymes cathepsins L and H in distinct populations of macrophages in
human lymph nodes. Immunology 112, 378-385 (S-779)
Last updated: September 12, 2006 (last
reprint
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