Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, J. Stefan Institute

List of publications in 1997

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


 

Gregor Anderluh, Jo"ze Punger"car, Igor Kri"zaj, Borut "Strukelj, Franc Guben"sek, Peter Ma"cek (1997) N-terminal truncation mutagenesis of equinatoxin II, a pore-forming protein from the sea anemone Actinia equina. Protein Engineering 10, 751-755 (S-573)

Tadeja Bevec, Veronika Stoka, Galina Punger"ci"c, Juan Jose Cazzulo, Vito Turk (1997) A fragment of the major histocompatibility complex class II - associated p41 invariant chain inhibits cruzipain, the major cysteine proteinase from Trypanosoma cruzi. FEBS Lett. 401, 259-261 (S-559)

Juan Jose Cazzulo, Veronika Stoka, Vito Turk (1997) Cruzipain, the major cysteine proteinase from the protozoan parasite Trypanosoma cruzi. Biol. Chem. 378, 1-10 (S-661)

Eileen Ebert, Bernd Werle, Britta Jülke, Natasa Kopitar-Jerala, Janko Kos, Tamara Lah, Magnus Abrahamson, Eberhard Spiess, Werner Ebert (1997) Expression of cysteine protease inhibitors stefin A, stefin B, and cystatin C in human lung tumor tissue. Adv. Exp. Med. Biol. 421, 259-265 (S-580)

Kristina Gruden, Borut "Strukelj, Maja Ravnikar, Mateja Polj"sak-Prijatelj, Irena Mavri"c, Jo"ze Brzin, Jo"ze Punger"car, Igor Kregar (1997) Potato cysteine proteinase inhibitor gene family: molecular cloning, characterisation and immunocytochemical localisation studies. Plant Mol. Biol. 34, 317-323 (S-569)

Franc Guben"sek, Du"san Kordi"s (1997) Venom phospholipase A2 genes and their molecular evolution. In: Venom phospholipase A2 enzymes: Structure, function and mechanism (R.M. Kini, ed.), J. Wiley & Sons, pp. 73-95 (S-557)

Franc Guben"sek, Igor Kri"zaj, Jo"ze Punger"car (1997) Monomeric phospholipase A2 neurotoxins. In: Venom phospholipase A2 enzymes: Structure, function and mechanism (R.M. Kini, ed.), J. Wiley & Sons, pp. 245-268 (S-558)

Hans-Heinrich Heidtmann, Ursula Salge, Magnus Abrahamson, Mojca Ben"cina, Lili Kastelic, Nata"sa Kopitar-Jerala, Vito Turk, Tamara T. Lah (1997) Cathepsin B and cysteine proteinase inhibitors in human lung cancer cell lines. Clin. Exp. Metastasis 15, 368-381 (S-572)

Du"san Kordi"s, Franc Guben"sek (1997) Bov-B long interspersed repreated DNA (LINE) sequences are present in Vipera ammodytes phospholipase A2 genes and in genomes of Viperidae snakes. Eur. J. Biochem. 246, 772-779 (S-568)

Janko Kos, Borut Štabuc, Ana Schweiger, Marta Krašovec, Nina Cimerman, Nataša Kopitar-Jerala, Ivan Vrhovec (1997) Cathepsins B, H, and L and their inhibitors stefin A and cystatin C in sera of melanoma patients. Clinical Cancer research 3, 1815-1822 (S-575)

Samo Kreft, Maja Ravnikar, Pika Me"sko, Jo"ze Punger"car, Andrej Umek, Igor Kregar, Borut "Strukelj (1997) Jasmonic acid inducible aspartic proteinase inhibitors from potato. Phytochem. 44, 1001-1006 (S-560)

Igor Kri"zaj, Grazyna Faure, Franc Guben"sek, Cassian Bon (1997) Neurotoxic phospholipases A2 ammodytoxin and crotoxin bind to distinct high-affinity protein acceptors in Torpedo marmorata electric organ. Biochemistry 36, 2779-2787 (S-563)

Tamara T. Lah, Janko Kos, Andrej Blejec, Sne"zana Frkovi"c-Georgio, Rastko Golouh, Ivan Vrhovec, Vito Turk (1997) The expression of lysosomal proteinases and their inhibitors in breast cancer: Possible relationship to prognosis of the disease. Pathology Oncology Reseach 3, 89-99 (S-576)

Brigita Lenar"ci"c, Anka Ritonja, Borut "Strukelj, Boris Turk, Vito Turk (1997) Equistatin, a new inhibitor of cysteine proteinases from Actinia equina, is structurally related to thyroglobulin type-1 domain J. Biol. Chem. 272, 13899-13903 (S-570)

Bojana Mozeti"c-Francky, Vladimir Coti"c, Anka Ritonja, Eva "Zerovnik, Andrej Francky (1997) High-yield expression and purification of recombinant human macrophage migration inhibitory factor. Protein Express. Purif. 9, 115-124 (S-562)

Djurdica Novak Despot, Janko Kos, Gregor Ser"sa, Maja "Cema"zar, Janez "Skrk, Franc Guben"sek (1997) Boronated CDI 315B monoclonal antibody and its potential use in boron neutron capture therapy. In: Advances in neutron capture therapy. Vol. II, Chemistry and biology (B. Larsson, J. Crawford, R. Weinreich, eds.). Elsevier Science B.V. pp. 516-518 (S-581)

Marjetka Podobnik, Robert Kuhelj, Vito Turk, Du"san Turk (1997) Crystal structure of the wild-type human procathepsin B at 2.5 A resolution reveals the native active site of a papain-like cysteine protease zymogen. J. Mol. Biol. 271, 774-788 (S-574)

Jo"ze Punger"car, Gregor Anderluh, Peter Ma"cek, Franc Guben"sek, Borut "Strukelj (1997) Sequence analysis of the cDNA encoding the precursor of equinatoxin V, a newly discovered hemolysin from the sea anemone Actinia equina. Biochim. Biophys. Acta 1341, 105-107 (S-578)

Ana Schweiger, Borut "Stabuc, Tatjana Popovi'c, Vito Turk, Janko Kos (1997) Enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay for the detection of total cathepsin H in human tissue cytosols and sera. J. Immunol. Methods 201, 165-172 (S-564)

Lojze "Smid, Primo"z Strojan, Marjan Budihna, Janez "Skrk, Ivan Vrhovec, Miha "Zargi, Janko Kos (1997) Prognostic value of cathepsins B, D and stefins A and B in laryngeal carcinoma. Eur. Arch. Othorinolaryngol. 254 Supl. 1, S150-S153 (S-556)

Boris Turk, Ingrid Brieditis, Susan C. Bock, Steven T. Olson, Ingemar Bjork (1997) The oligosaccharide side chain on Asn-135 of alpha-antithrombin, absent in beta-antithrombin, decreases the heparin affinity of the inhibitor by affecting the heparin-induced conformational change. Biochemistry 36, 6682-6691 (S-571)

Boris Turk, Vito Turk, Du"san Turk (1997) Structural and functional aspects of papain-like cysteine proteinases and their protein inhibitors. Biol. Chem. 378, 141-150 (S-566)

Vito Turk, Marjetka Podobnik, Brigita Lenar"ci"c, Tadeja Bevec, Veronika Stoka, Boris Turk, Du"san Turk (1997) New aspects of the regulation of activity of cysteine proteinases. In: Medical aspects of proteases and protease inhibitors (N. Katanuma et al., eds.) IOS Press, pp. 3-14 (S-582)

Marc Vanhove, Gilliane Guillaume, Philippe Ledent, John H. Richards, Roger H. Pain, Jean-Marie Frere (1997) Kinetic and thermodynamic consequences of the removal of the Cys-77 - Cys-123 disulphide bond for the folding of TEM-1 beta-lactamase. Biochem. J. 321, 413-417 (S-554)

Bernd Werle, Britta Jülke, Tamara Lah, Janko Kos, Eberhard Spiess, Werner Ebert (1997) Cathepsin B and cathepsin L: Prognostic factors in human lung cancer? In: Proteolysis in cell functions (Eds.: V.K. Hopsu-Havu et al.), IOS Press, pp. 472-478 (S-579)

Petra Zrim"sek, Janko Kos, Franc Guben"sek (1997) The use of antibodies in determination of pharmacologically active sites ion protein toxins. Vet. Nov. 23, 131-136 (S-565)

Eva "Zerovnik, Roman Jerala, Luise Kroon-"Zitko, Vito Turk, Karel Lohner (1997) Characterization of the equilibrium intermediates in acid denaturation of human stefin B. Eur. J. Biochem. 245, 365-372 (S-567)

Eva "Zerovnik, Nina Cimerman, Janko Kos, Vito Turk, Karl Lohner (1997) Thermal denaturation of huamn cystatin C and two of its variants; Comparison to chicken cystatin. Biol. Chem. 378, 1199-1203 (S-577)



Last updated: February 13, 1998 (last reprint S-582).



List of publications in 1998

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

Gregor Anderluh, Ariana Barli"c, Igor Kri"zaj, Gianfranco Menestrina, Franc Guben"sek, Peter Ma"cek (1998) Avidin-FITC topolgical studies with three cysteine mutants of equinatoxin II, a sea anemone pore-forming protein. Biochem. Biophys. Res. Comm. 242, 187-190 (S-585)

Bla"z Cigi'c, Igor Kri"zaj, Bogdan Kralj, Vito Turk, Roger H. Pain (1998) Stoichiometry and heterogeneity of the pro-region chain in tetrameric human cathepsin C. Biochim. Biophys. Acta 1382, 143-150 (S-587)

Iztok Dolenc, Erika Seemüller, Wolfgang Baumeister (1998) Decelerated degradation of short peptides by the 20S proteasome. FEBS Lett. 434, 357-361 (S-605)

John A. Foekens, Janko Kos, Harry A. Peters, Marta Kra"sovec, Maxime P. Look, Nina Cimerman, Marion E. Meijer-van Gelder, Sonja C. Henzen-Longmans, Wim L.J. van Putten, Jan G.M. Klijn (1998) Prognostic significance of cathepsins B and L in primary breast cancer. J. Clin. Oncol. 16, 1013-1021 (S-590)

Kristina Gruden, Borut "Strukelj, Tatjana Popovi"c, Brigita Lenar"ci"c, Tadeja Bevec, Jo"ze Brzin, Igor Kregar, Jana Herzog-Velikonja, Willem J. Stiekema, Dirk Bosch, Maarten A. Jongsma (1998) The cysteine protease activity of Colorado potato beetle (Leptinotarsa decemlineata Say) guts, which is insensitive to potato protease inhibitors, is inhibited by thyroglobulin type-1 domain inhibitors. Insect Biochem. Mol. Biol. 28, 549-560 (S-602)

Gregor Gun"car, Marjetka Podobnik, Jo"ze Punger"car, Borut "Strukelj, Vito Turk, Du"san Turk (1998) Crystal structure of porcine cathepsin H determined at 2.1 A resolution: location of the mini-chani C-terminal carboxyl group defines cathepsin H aminopeptidase function. Structure 6, 51-61 (S-583)

Roman Jerala, Eva "Zerovnik, Jurka Kidri"c, Vito Turk (1998) pH-induced conformational transitions of the propeptide of human cathepsin L. J. Biol. Chem. 273, 11498-11504 (S-595)

Du"san Kordi"s, Franc Guben"sek (1998) Unusual horizontal transfer of a long interspersed nuclear element between distant vertebrate classes. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA 95, 10704-10709 (S-604)

Du"san Kordi"s, Franc Guben"sek (1998) The Bov-B LINEs found in Vipera ammodytes toxic PLA2 genes are widespread in snake genomes. Toxicon 36, 1585-1590 (S-609)

Du"san Kordi"s, Avner Bdolah, Franc Guben"sek (1998) Positive Darwinian selection in Vipera palestinae phospholipase A2 genes is unexpectedly limited to the third exon. Biochem. Biophys. Res. Comm. 251, 613-619 (S-610)

Janko Kos, Hans-Jorgen Nielsen, Marta Kra"sovec, Ib Jarle Christensen, Nina Cimerman, Ross W. Stephens, Nils Brünner (1998) Prognostic values of cathepsin B abd carcinoembryonic antigen in sera of patients with colorectal cancer. Clin. Cancer Res. 4, 1511-1516 (S-596)

Janko Kos, Tamara Lah (1998) Cysteine proteinases and their endogenous inhibitors: Target proteins for prognosis, diagnosis and therapy in cancer (Review). Oncology Reports 5, 1349-1361 (S-607)

Tamara T. Lah, Janko Kos (1998) Cysteine proteinases in cancer progression and their clinical relevance for progression. Biol. Chem. 379, 125-130 (S-586)

Brigita Lenar"ci"c, Tadeja Bevec (1998) Thyropins - New structurally related proteinase inhibitors. Biol. Chem. 379, 105-111 (S-584)

Tatjana Popovi"c, Marjetka Kidri"c, Vida Puizdar, Jo"ze Brzin (1998) Purification and characterization of two cysteine proteinases from Phaseolus vulgaris leaves. Plant Physiol. Biochem. 36, 637-645 (S-603)

Jo"ze Punger"car, Nata"sa Vu"cemilo, Grazyna  Faure, Cassian Bon, Hubertus M. Verheij, Franc Guben"sek, Igor Kri"zaj (1998) Ammodytin L, an inactive phospholipase A2 homologue with myotoxicity in mice, binds to the presynaptic acceptor of the beta-neurotoxic ammodytoxin C in Torpedo: An indication for a phospholipase A2 activity-independent mechanism of action of beta-neurotoxins in fish? Biochem. Biophys. Res. Comm. 244, 514-518 (S-592)

Erika Seemüller, Istok Dolenc, Andrei Lupas (1998) Eukaryotic 20S proteasome. In: Barrett, A.J., Rawlings, N.D. & Woessner, J.F. (eds) Handbook of Proteolytic Enzymes, Academic Press, London. pp. 495-505 (S-606)

Janez Sketelj, Neva "Crne-Finderle, Borut "Strukelj, Jo"ze V. Trontelj, Dirk Pette (1998) Acetylcholinesterase mRNA level and synaptic activity in rat muscles depend on nerve-induced pattern of muscle activation. J. Neuroscience 18, 1944-1952 (S-591)

Veronika Stoka, James H. McKerrow, Juan Jose Cazzulo, Vito Turk (1998) Substrate inhibition of cruzipain is not affected by the C-terminal domain. FEBS Lett. 429, 129-133 (S-597)

Boris Turk, Iztok Dolenc, Vito Turk (1998) Dipeptidyl-peptidase I. In: Barrett, A.J., Rawlings, N.D. & Woessner, J.F. (eds) Handbook of Proteolytic Enzymes, Academic Press, London. pp. 631-634 (S-599)

Du"san Turk, Gregor Gun"car, Marjetka Podobnik, Boris Turk (1998) Revised definition of substrate binding sites of papain-like cysteine proteases. Biol. Chem. 379, 137-147 (S-588)

Marc Vanhove, Anabelle Lejeune, Giliane Guillaume, Richard Virden, Roger H. Pain, Franz X. Schmid, Jean-Marie Frere (1998) A collapsed intermediate with nonnative packing of hydrophobic residues in the folding of TEM-1 beta-lactamase. Biochemistry 37, 1941-1950 (S-589)

M. Vanhove, A. Lejeune, R. H. Pain (1998) Beta-lactamases as models for protein-folding studies. Cell. Mol. Life Sci. 54, 372-377 (S-594)

Nata"sa Vu"cemilo, Alenka "Copi"c, Franc Guben"sek, Igor Kri"zaj (1998) Identification of a new high-affinity binding protein for neurotoxic phospholipases A2. Biochem. Biophys. Res. Comm. 251, 209-212 (S-608)

Eva "Zerovnik, Gregor Kopitar, Janko Kos, Vito Turk (1998) Refolding of recombiant sulphonated procathepsin S and of reduced chicken cystatin; implications for renaturation experiments. Biochim. Biophys. Acta 1383, 211-218 (S-593)

Eva "Zerovnik, Roman Jerala, Louise Kroon-"Zitko, Vito Turk (1998) Stability and folding studies of two homologous proteins, human stefins A and B. Acta Chim. Slov. 45, 161-172 (S-598)

Eva "Zerovnik, Richard Virden, Roman Jerala, Vito Turk, Jonathan P. Waltho (1998) On the mechanism of human stefin B folding: I. Comparison to homologous stefin A. Influence of pH and trifluoroethanol on the fast and slow folding phases. Proteins: Structure, Function and Genetics 32, 296-303 (S-600)

Eva "Zerovnik, Roman Jerala, Richard Virden, Louise Kroon "Zitko, Vito Turk, Jonathan P. Waltho (1998) On the mechanism of human stefin B folding: II. Folding from GuHCl unfolded, TFE denatured, acid denatured, and acid intermediate states. Proteins: Structure, Function and Genetics 32, 304-313 (S-601)
 


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