Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, J. Stefan Institute

List of publications in 1995


in alphabetical order of the first authors (underlined are members of our department):

Gregor Anderluh, Jo"ze Punger"car, Borut "Strukelj, Peter Ma"cek, Franc Guben"sek (1995) The coding region of the equinatoxin II gene lacks introns. Croat. Chem. Acta 68 (3) 533-542 (S-518)

Jo"ze Brzin, Marjetka Kidri"c (1995) Proteinases and their inhibitors in plants: Role in normal growth and in response to various stress conditions. Biotechnol. Gen. Engng. Rev. 13, 421-467 (S-536)

Iztok Dolenc, Boris Turk, Galina Punger"ci"c, Anka Ritonja, Vito Turk (1995) Oligomeric structure and substrate induced inhibition of human cathepsin C. J. Biol. Chem. 270 (37) 21626-21631 (S-516)

Marko Dolinar, Darja Barli"c Maganja, Vito Turk (1995) Expression of full-length human procathepsin L cDNA in Escherichia coli and refolding of the expression product. Biol. Chem. Hoppe-Seyler 376, 385-388 (S-507)

Eva Ersdal-Badjou, Aiqin Lu, Xiaoming Peng, Veronique Picard, Pedram Zendehrouh, Boris Turk, Ingemar Bjork, Steven T. Olson, Susan C. Bock (1995) Elimination of glycosylation heterogeneity affecting heparin affinity of recombinant human antithrombin III by expression of a beta-like variant in baculovirus-infected insect cells. Biochem. J. 310, 323-330

Roman Hlodan, Roger H. Pain (1995) The folding and assembly pathway of tumour necrosis factor TNFalpha, a globular trimeric protein. Eur. J. Biochem. 231, 381-387 (S-511)

Roman Jerala, Gordon S. Rule (1995) A 3D 1H, 15N and 13C NOESY correlating experiment. J. Magn. Reson. 108, 294-298 (S-517)

Du"san Kordi"s, Franc Guben"sek (1995) Horizontal SINE transfer between vertebrate classes. Nature Genetics 10, 131-132 (S-509)

Janko Kos, Alojz "Smid, Marta Kra"sovec, Branka Svetic, Brigita Lenar"ci"c, Ivan Vrhovec, Janez "Skrk, Vito Turk (1995) Lysosomal proteases cathepsins D, B, H, L and their inhibitors stefins A and B in head and neck cancer. Biol. Chem. Hoppe-Seyler 376, 401-405 (S-510)

Igor Kri"zaj, E.G. Rowan, Franc Guben"sek (1995) Ammodytoxin A acceptor in bovine brain synaptic membranes. Toxicon 33 (4), 437-449 (S-506)

Robert Kuhelj, Marko Dolinar, Jo"ze Punger"car, Vito Turk (1995) The preparation of catalytically active human cathepsin B from its precursor expressed in Escherichia coli in the form of inclusion bodies. Eur. J. Biochem. 229, 533-539 (S-504)

Tamara T. Lah, Marguerite Hawley, Kenneth L. Rock, Alfred L. Goldberg (1995) Gamma-interferon causes a selective induction of the lysosomal proteases, cathepsins B and L, in macrophages. FEBS Lett. 363, 85-89 (S-500)

Tamara T. Lah, Gloria Calaf, Endre Kalman, Balasahib G. Shinde, Jose Russo, David Jarosz, James Zabrecky, Robert Somers, Ierachimel Daskal (1995) Cathepsins D, B and L in breast carcinoma and in transformed human breast epithelial cells (HBEC). Biol. Chem. Hoppe-Seyler 376, 357-363 (S-508)

John R. Martin, C. Jeremy Craven, Roman Jerala, Louise Kroon-"Zitko, Eva "Zerovnik, Vito Turk, Jonathan P. Waltho (1995) The three-dimensional solution structure of human stefin A. J. Mol. Biol. 246, 331-343 (S-495)

Roger Pain (1995) Overview of protein folding. In: Current protocols in protein science 6.4.1-6.4.7. John Wiley & Sons (S-544)

Alenka Pari"s, Borut "Strukelj, Jo"ze Punger"car, Metka Renko, Iztok Dolenc, Vito Turk (1995) Molecular cloning and sequence analysis of human preprocathepsin C. FEBS Lett. 369, 326-330 (S-512)

J.Z. Pedersen, B. Lomonte, R. Massoud, Franc Guben"sek, J.M. Gutierrez, S. Rufini (1995) Autocatalytic acylation of phospholipase-like myotoxins. Biochemistry 34 (14) 4670-4675 (S-503)

Maja Ravnikar, Borut "Strukelj, Mateja Polj"sak-Prijatelj, Irena Mavri"c, Pika Me"sko, Jo"ze Punger"car, Igor Kregar (1995) Immunolocalization of aspartic proteinase inhibitors in potato shoots induced by jasmonic acid in vitro. Acta Pharm. 45, 139-145 (S-515)

Karl Ritsert, Robert Huber, Dusan Turk, Rudolf Ladenstein, Karen Schmidt-Baese, Adalbert Bacher (1995) Studies of the lumazine synthase/riboflavin synthase complex of Bacillus subtilis: Crystal structure analysis of reconstituted, icosahedral beta-subunit capsids with bound substrate analogue inhibitor at 2.4 A resolution. J. Mol. Biol. 253, 151-167 (S-523)

Veronika Stoka, Maria Nycander, Brigita Lenar"ci"c, Carlos Labriola, Juan Jose Cazzulo, Ingemar Bjork, Vito Turk (1995) Inhibition of cruzipain, the major cysteine proteinase of the protozoan parasite, Trypanosoma cruzi, by proteinase inhibitors of the cystatin superfamily. FEBS Lett. 370, 101-104 (S-514)

Borut "Strukelj, Jo"ze Punger"car, Gregor Kopitar, Metka Renko, Brigita Lenar"ci"c, Selma Berbi'c, Vito Turk (1995) Molecular cloning and identification of a novel porcine cathelin-like antibacterial peptide precursor. Biol. Chem. Hoppe-Seyler 376, 507-510 (S-513)

Borut "Strukelj, Maja Ravnikar, Pika Me"sko, Mateja Polj"sak-Prijatelj, Jo"ze Punger"car, Gregor Kopitar, Igor Kregar, Vito Turk (1995) Molecular cloning and immunocytochemical localization of jasmonic acid inducible cathepsin D inhibitors from potato. In: Aspartic Proteinases: Structure, Function, Biology, and Biomedical Implications (Kenji Takahashi, ed.), Plenum Press, New York, pp. 293-298 (S-520)

Boris Turk, Anka Ritonja, Ingemar Bjork, Veronika Stoka, Iztok Dolenc, Vito Turk (1995) Identification of bovine stefin A, a novel protein inhibitor of cysteine proteinases. FEBS Lett. 360, 101-105 (S-496)

Boris Turk, Joseph G. Bieth, Ingemar Bjork, Iztok Dolenc, Du"san Turk, Nina Cimerman, Janko Kos, Adrijana "Coli"c, Veronika Stoka, Vito Turk (1995) Regulation of the activity of lysosomal cysteine proteinases by pH-induced inactivation and/or endogenous protein inhibitors, cystatins. Biol. Chem. Hope-Seyler 376, 225-230 (S-502)

Boris Turk, Veronika Stoka, Ingemar Bjork, Christian Boudier, Gunnar Johansson, Iztok Dolenc, Adrijana "Coli'c, Joseph G. Bieth, Vito Turk (1995) High-affinity binding of two molecules of cysteine proteinases to low-molecular-weight kininogen. Protein Science 4, 1874-1880 (S-519)

Du"san Turk, Marjeta Podobnik, Tatjana Popovi"c, Nobuhiko Katunuma, Wolfram Bode, Robert Huber, Vito Turk (1995) Crystal structure of cathepsin B inhibited with CA030 at 2.0-A resolution: A basis for the design of specific epoxysuccinyl inhibitors. Biochemistry 34 (14) 4791-4797 (S-501)

Vito Turk, Veronika Stoka, Boris Turk, Brigita Lenar"ci"c (1995) Properties, structure and interaction of lysosomal cysteine proteinases with their protein inhibitors cystatins. In: Expression of tissue proteinases and regulation of protein degradation as related to meat quality (A. Ouali, D.I. Deymer, F.J.M. Smulders, eds.) ECCEAMST, pp. 199-212 (S-522)


List of publications in 1996

Benjamin Adams, Richard Fowler, Martin Hudson, Roger Pain (1996) The role of the C-terminal lysine in the hinge bending mechanism of yeast phosphoglycerate kinase. FEBS Lett. 385, 101-104 (S-526)

Gregor Anderluh, Jo"ze Punger"car, Borut "Strukelj, Peter Ma"cek, Franc Guben"sek (1996) Cloning, sequencing, and expression of equinatoxin II. Biochem. Biophys. Res. Comm. 220, 437-442 (S-525)

Tadeja Bevec, Veronika Stoka, Galina Punger"ci"c, Iztok Dolenc, Vito Turk (1996) Major histocompatibility complex class II-associated p41 invariant chain fragment is a strong inhibitor of lysosomal cathepsin L. J. Exp. Med. 183, 1331-1338 (S-529)

Marjan Budihna, Primo"z Strojan, Lojze "Smid, Janez "Skrk, Ivan Vrhovec, Avgust "Zupevc, Zvonimir Rudolf, Miha "Zargi, Marta Kra"sovec, Branka Svetic, Nata"sa Kopitar-Jerala, Janko Kos (1996) Prognostic value of cathepsins B, H, L, D and their endogenous inhibitors stefins A and B in head and neck carcinoma. Biol. Chem. Hoppe-Seyler 377, 385-390 (S-539)

Nina Cimerman, Marinka Drobni"c Ko"sorok, Bruce D. Korant, Boris Turk, Vito Turk (1996) Characterization of cystatin C from bovine parotid glands: Cysteine proteinase inhibition and antiviral properties. Biol. Chem. Hoppe-Seyler 377, 19-23 (S-521)

Iztok Dolenc, Boris Turk, Janko Kos, Vito Turk (1996) Interaction of human cathepsin C with chicken cystatin. FEBS Lett. 392, 277-280 (S-541)

Roman Jerala, Paulo F.F. Almeida, Rodney L. Biltonen (1996) Simulation of the gel-fluid transition in a membrane composed of lipids with two connected acyl chains: Application of a dimer-move step. Biophys. J. 71, 609-615 (S-534)

Roman Jerala, Paulo F.F. Almeida, Qiang Ye, Rodney L. Biltonen, Gordon S. Rule (1996) 1H, 15N and 13C resonance assignments and secondary structure of group II phospholipase A2 from Agkistrodon piscivorus piscivorus: Presence of an amino-terminal helix in solution. J. Biomolec. NMR 7, 107-120 (S-535)

Gregor Kopitar, Marko Dolinar, Borut "Strukelj, Jo"ze Punger"car, Vito Turk (1996) Folding and activation of human procathepsin S from inclusion bodies produced in Escherichia coli. Eur. J. Biochem. 236, 558-562 (S-524)

Du"san Kordi"s, Franc Guben"sek (1996) Ammodytoxin C gene helps to elucidate the irregular structure of Crotalinae group II phospholipase A2 genes. Eur. J. Biochem. 240, 83-90 (S-540)

Janko Kos (1996) Lysosomal proteases and their inhibitors in malignant progression. In: Proceedings of the Croatian-Slovenian Meeting Molecular Oncology Today (Maja Osmak and Janez "Skrk, eds.), Croatian League against Cancer, Zagreb, pp. 89-96 (S-530/1)

Janko Kos, Borut "Stabuc, Marta Kra"sevec, Ana Schweiger, Branka Svetic, Nata"sa Kopitar-Jerala, Janja Ocvirk, Nina Cimerman, Zvonimir Rudolf, Ivan Vrhovec (1996) Lysosomal proteases cathepsins B, H, L and their inhibitors stefin A and cystatin C in sera of patients with metastatic melanoma. In: Proceedings of the Croatian-Slovenian Meeting Molecular Oncology Today (Maja Osmak and Janez "Skrk, eds.), Croatian League against Cancer, Zagreb, pp. 97-103 (S-530/2)

Janko Kos (1996) Cathepsins & their inhibitors - new factors for prognosis in cancer. Eur. Clin. Lab., June 1996 (S-538)

Igor Kri"zaj, Grazyna Faure, Franc Guben"sek, Cassian Bon (1996) Re-examination of crotoxin-membrane interactions. Toxicon 34, 1003-1009 (S-546)

Igor Kri"zaj, Avner Bdolah, Franc Guben"sek, Petra Ben"cina, Jo"ze Punger"car (1996) Protein and cDNA structures of an acidic phospholipase A2, the enzymatic part of an unususal, two-component toxin from Vipera palestinae, Biochem. Biophys. Res. Comm. 227, 374-379 (S-547)

Tamara T. Lah, Gloria Calaf, Endre Kalman, Balasahib G. Shinde, Robert Somers, Sandino Estrada, Enrique Salero, Jose Russo, Ierachimel Daskal (1996) Cathepsins D, B, and L in transformed human breast epithelial cells. Breast Canc. Res. Treat. 39, 221-233 (S-537)

Panayotis Ledakis, William T. Tester, Nirit Rosenberg, David Romero-Fischmann, Ierachimel Daskal, Tamara T. Lah (1996) Cathepsins D, B, and L in malignant human lung tissue. Clinical Cancer Res. 2, 561-568 (S-551)

Brigita Lenar"ci"c, Igor Kri"zaj, Petra "Zunec, Vito Turk (1996) Differences in specificity for the interactions of stefins A, B and D with cysteine proteinases. FEBS Lett. 395, 113-118 (S-548)

Adrijana Leonardi, Boris Turk, Vito Turk (1996) Inhibition of bovine cathepsins L and S by stefins and cystatins. Biol. Chem. Hoppe-Seyler 377, 319-321 (S-528)

Djurdjica Novak Despot, Janko Kos, Gregor Ser"sa, Maja "Cema"zar, Bojan Mitrovi"c, Janez "Skrk, Franc Guben"sek (1996) Boronated monoclonal antibodies: A new tool in cancer treatment. In: Proceedings of the Croatian-Slovenian Meeting Molecular Oncology Today (Maja Osmak and Janez "Skrk, eds.), Croatian League against Cancer, Zagreb, pp. 175-178 (S-530/4)

Roger Pain (1996) Determining the CD spectrum of a protein. Current protocols in protein science 7.6.1-7.6.23. J. Wiley & Sons (S-545)

Tatjana Popovi"c, Vida Puizdar, Anka Ritonja, Jo"ze Brzin (1996) Simultaneous isolation of human kidney cathepsins B, H, L and C and their characterisation. J. Chromatogr. B 681, 251-262 (S-533)

Anka Ritonja, Theresa H.T. Coetzer, Robert N. Pike, Clive Dennison (1996) The amino acid sequences, structure comparisons and inhibition kinetics of sheep cathepsin L and sheep stefin B. Comp. Biochem. Physiol. 114B, 193-198 (S-542)

Paola Storici, Alessandro Tossi, Brigita Lenar"ci"c, Domenico Romeo (1996) Purification and structural characterization of bovine cathelicidins, precursors af antimicrobial peptides. Eur. J. Biochem. 238, 769-776 (S-532)

Primo"z Strojan, Marjan Budihna, Janez "Skrk, Lojze "Smid, Janko Kos, Ivan Vrhovec (1996) Cathepsins B, H, L, D and their endogenous inhibitors stefins A and B in head and neck carcinoma. In: Proceedings of the Croatian-Slovenian Meeting Molecular Oncology Today (Maja Osmak and Janez "Skrk, eds.), Croatian League against Cancer, Zagreb, pp. 105-111 (S-530/3)

Primo"z Strojan, Marjan Budihna, Lojze "Smid, Janez "Skrk, Janko Kos, Ivan Vrhovec, Miha "Zargi, Avgust "Zupevc, Zvonimir Rudolf (1996) The role of cathepsins and stefins as prognostic factors in patients with carcinoma in the head and neck region. Med. Razgl. 35 Suppl. 6, 139-144 (S-555)

Boris Turk, Veronika Stoka, Vito Turk, Gunnar Johansson, Juan Jose Cazzulo, Ingemar Bjork (1996) High-molecular-weight kininogen binds two molecules of cysteine proteinases with different rate constants. FEBS Lett. 391, 109-112 (S-531)

Du"san Turk, Marjeta Podobnik, Robert Kuhelj, Marko Dolinar, Vito Turk (1996) Crystal structures of human procathepsin B at 3.2 and 3.3 A resolution reveal an interaction motif between a papain-like cysteine protease and its propeptide. FEBS Lett. 384, 211-214 (S-527)

Marc Vanhove, Xavier Raquet, Thimothy Palzkill, Roger H. Pain, Jean-Marie Frere (1996) The rate-limiting step in the folding of the cis-Pro167Thr mutant of TEM-1 beta-lactamase is the trans to cis isomerization of a non-prolinne peptide bond. Proteins: Struct. Funct. Genet. 25, 104-111 (S-543)

Alois Zajc, Maria Joao Romao, Boris Turk, Robert Huber (1996) Crystallographic and fluorescence studies of ligand binding to N-carbamoylsarcosine amidohydrolase from Arthrobacter sp. J. Mol. Biol. 263, 269-283 (S-549)


Last updated: April 18, 1997 (last reprint S-559).


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