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  1. A new group of glycoside hydrolase family 13 α-amylases with an aberrant catalytic triad

    Article • Scientific Reports, March 2017, Nature

    Dr. Stefan Janecek, Professor Lubbert Dijkhuizen

  2. New insight in cereal starch degradation: identification and structural characterization of four α-amylases in bread wheat

    Article • January 2017, De Gruyter

    Dr. Stefan Janecek

  3. Domain evolution in enzymes of the neopullulanase subfamily

    Article • Microbiology, December 2016, Society for General Microbiology

    Dr. Stefan Janecek

  4. Remarkable evolutionary relatedness among the enzymes and proteins from the α-amylase family

    Article • Cellular and Molecular Life Sciences, May 2016, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr. Stefan Janecek

  5. Amylolytic glycoside hydrolases

    Article • Cellular and Molecular Life Sciences, April 2016, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr. Stefan Janecek

  6. α-Amylases from Archaea: Sequences, Structures and Evolution

    Article • January 2016, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr. Stefan Janecek

  7. In silico analysis of family GH77 with focus on amylomaltases from borreliae and disproportionating enzymes DPE2 from plants and bacteria

    Article • Biochimica et Biophysica Acta (BBA) - Proteins and Proteomics, October 2015, Elsevier

    Dr. Stefan Janecek

  8. Novel family GH3 β-glucosidases or β-xylosidases of unknown function found in various animal groups, including birds and reptiles

    Article • Carbohydrate Research, May 2015, Elsevier

    Dr. Stefan Janecek

  9. A new GH13 subfamily of alpha-amylases

    Article • Biologia, January 2015, De Gruyter

    Dr. Stefan Janecek

  10. Protein engineering of selected residues from conserved sequence regions of a novel Anoxybacillus α-amylase

    Article • Scientific Reports, July 2014, Springer Science + Business Media

    Associate Prof. Dr. Kian Mau Goh, Dr. Stefan Janecek

  11. Two structurally related starch-binding domain families CBM25 and CBM26

    Article • Biologia, January 2014, De Gruyter

    Dr. Stefan Janecek

  12. α-Amylase: an enzyme specificity found in various families of glycoside hydrolases

    Article • Cellular and Molecular Life Sciences, June 2013, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr. Stefan Janecek

  13. Tracing the evolution of the α-amylase subfamily GH13_36 covering the amylolytic enzymes intermediate between oligo-1,6-glucosidases and neopullulanases

    Article • Carbohydrate Research, February 2013, Elsevier

    Dr. Stefan Janecek

  14. Gene make-up: rapid and massive intron gains after horizontal transfer of a bacterial α-amylase gene to Basidiomycetes

    Article • BMC Evolutionary Biology, January 2013, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr. Stefan Janecek

  15. In silico identification of catalytic residues and domain fold of the family GH119 sharing the catalytic machinery with the α-amylase family GH57

    Article • FEBS Letters, July 2012, Wiley

    Dr. Stefan Janecek

  16. Sequence fingerprints of enzyme specificities from the glycoside hydrolase family GH57

    Article • World Journal of Surgery, April 2012, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr. Stefan Janecek

  17. Association of Novel Domain in Active Site of Archaic Hyperthermophilic Maltogenic Amylase fromStaphylothermus marinus

    Article • Journal of Biological Chemistry, January 2012, American Society for Biochemistry & Molecular Biology (ASBMB)

    Dr. Stefan Janecek

  18. In silico biosynthesis of virenose, a methylated deoxy-sugar unique to Coxiella burnetii lipopolysaccharide

    Article • Proteome Science, January 2012, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr. Stefan Janecek

  19. Structural and evolutionary aspects of two families of non-catalytic domains present in starch and glycogen binding proteins from microbes, plants and animals

    Article • Enzyme and Microbial Technology, October 2011, Elsevier

    Dr. Stefan Janecek

  20. Sequence-Structural Features and Evolutionary Relationships of Family GH57 α-Amylases and Their Putative α-Amylase-Like Homologues

    Article • Journal of Protein Chemistry, July 2011, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr. Stefan Janecek

  21. Characterization of Maltase Clusters in the Genus Drosophila

    Article • Journal of Molecular Evolution, November 2010, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr. Stefan Janecek

  22. Gene Sequence, Bioinformatics and Enzymatic Characterization of α-Amylase from Saccharomycopsis fibuligera KZ

    Article • Journal of Protein Chemistry, June 2010, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr. Stefan Janecek

  23. Morphological, physiological, molecular and phylogenetic characterization of new environmental isolates of Acanthamoeba spp. from the region of Bratislava, Slovakia

    Article • Biologia, January 2010, De Gruyter

    Dr. Stefan Janecek

  24. Tyrosine 39 of GH13 α-amylase from Thermococcus hydrothermalis contributes to its thermostability

    Article • Biologia, January 2010, De Gruyter

    Dr. Stefan Janecek

  25. Looking for the ancestry of the heavy-chain subunits of heteromeric amino acid transporters rBAT and 4F2hc within the GH13 α-amylase family

    Article • FEBS Journal, October 2009, Wiley

    Dr. Stefan Janecek

  26. The carbohydrate-binding module family 20 - diversity, structure, and function

    Article • FEBS Journal, August 2009, Wiley

    Dr. Stefan Janecek

  27. Invariant glycines and prolines flanking in loops the strand β2 of various (α/β)8-barrel enzymes: A hidden homology?

    Article • Protein Science, December 2008, Wiley

    Dr. Stefan Janecek

  28. Domain evolution in the GH13 pullulanase subfamily with focus on the carbohydrate-binding module family 48

    Article • Biologia, January 2008, De Gruyter

    Dr. Stefan Janecek

  29. Sequence Fingerprints in the Evolution of the α-Amylase Family

    Article • January 2008, Elsevier

    Dr. Stefan Janecek

  30. A remote but significant sequence homology between glycoside hydrolase clan GH-H and family GH31

    Article • FEBS Letters, February 2007, Wiley

    Dr. Stefan Janecek

  31. The evolution of putative starch-binding domains

    Article • FEBS Letters, October 2006, Wiley

    Dr. Stefan Janecek

  32. α-Amylase from Thermococcus hydrothermalis: Re-cloning aimed at the improved expression and hydrolysis of corn starch

    Article • Enzyme and Microbial Technology, October 2006, Elsevier

    Dr. Stefan Janecek

  33. A new clan of CBM families based on bioinformatics of starch-binding domains from families CBM20 and CBM21

    Article • FEBS Journal, November 2005, Wiley

    Dr. Stefan Janecek

  34. Pectin methylesterases: sequence-structural features and phylogenetic relationships

    Article • Carbohydrate Research, September 2004, Elsevier

    Dr. Stefan Janecek

  35. Bioinformatics of the glycoside hydrolase family 57 and identification of catalytic residues in amylopullulanase from Thermococcus hydrothermalis

    Article • FEBS Journal, June 2004, Wiley

    Dr. Stefan Janecek

  36. Relation between domain evolution, specificity, and taxonomy of the α-amylase family members containing a C-terminal starch-binding domain

    Article • FEBS Journal, January 2003, Wiley

    Dr. Stefan Janecek

  37. A motif of a microbial starch-binding domain found in human genethonin

    Article • Bioinformatics, November 2002, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Dr. Stefan Janecek

  38. Pectin degrading glycoside hydrolases of family 28: sequence-structural features, specificities and evolution

    Article • Protein Engineering Design and Selection, September 2001, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Dr. Stefan Janecek

  39. Relationship of sequence and structure to specificity in the α-amylase family of enzymes

    Article • Biochimica et Biophysica Acta (BBA) - Protein Structure and Molecular Enzymology, March 2001, Elsevier

    Dr. Stefan Janecek

  40. Location of repeat elements in glucansucrases of Leuconostoc and Streptococcus species

    Article • FEMS Microbiology Letters, November 2000, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Dr. Stefan Janecek

  41. Common phylogeny of catalase-peroxidases and ascorbate peroxidases

    Article • Gene, October 2000, Elsevier

    Dr. Stefan Janecek

  42. Thermophilic archaeal amylolytic enzymes

    Article • Enzyme and Microbial Technology, January 2000, Elsevier

    Dr. Stefan Janecek

  43. The evolution of starch-binding domain

    Article • FEBS Letters, July 1999, Wiley

    Dr. Stefan Janecek

  44. Close Evolutionary Relatedness of α-Amylases from Archaea and Plants

    Article • Journal of Molecular Evolution, April 1999, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr. Stefan Janecek

  45. Sequence similarity between xylose isomerase and replicase: Another TIM-barrel in the replicase structure?

    Article • International Journal of Biological Macromolecules, October 1997, Elsevier

    Dr. Stefan Janecek

  46. Domain Evolution in the α-Amylase Family

    Article • Journal of Molecular Evolution, September 1997, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr. Stefan Janecek

  47. The tentative (α/β)8-barrel in the pathway of β-carotene biosynthesis: lycopene cyclase has an amino acid sequence similar to that of xylose isomerase

    Article • Biochemical Journal, November 1996, Portland Press Ltd.

    Dr. Stefan Janecek

  48. Close evolutionary relatedness among functionally distantly related members of the (α/β)8-barrel glycosyl hydrolases suggested by the similarity of their fifth conserved sequence region

    Article • FEBS Letters, December 1995, Wiley

    Dr. Stefan Janecek

  49. Similarity of differentβ-strands flanked in loops by glycines and prolines from distinct (α/β)8-barrel enzymes: Chance or a homology?

    Article • Protein Science, June 1995, Wiley

    Dr. Stefan Janecek

  50. Functionally essential, invariant glutamate near the C-terminus of strand β5 in various (α/β)8-barrel enzymes as a possible indicator of their evolutionary relatedness

    Article • Protein Engineering Design and Selection, January 1995, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Dr. Stefan Janecek

  51. Parallel β/α-barrels of α-amylase, cyclodextrin glycosyltransferase and oligo-1,6-glucosidase versus the barrel of β-amylase: Evolutionary distance is a reflection of unrelated sequences

    Article • FEBS Letters, October 1994, Wiley

    Dr. Stefan Janecek

  52. Sequence Similarities and Evolutionary Relationships of Microbial, Plant and Animal alpha-amylases

    Article • FEBS Journal, September 1994, Wiley

    Dr. Stefan Janecek

  53. Evolution of parallel β/α-barrel enzyme family lightened by structural data on starch-processing enzymes

    Article • Journal of Protein Chemistry, October 1993, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr. Stefan Janecek

  54. Does the increased hydrophobicity of the interior and hydrophilicity of the exterior of an enzyme structure reflect its increased thermostability?

    Article • International Journal of Biological Macromolecules, October 1993, Elsevier

    Dr. Stefan Janecek

  55. Sequence similarities in (α/β)8-barrel enzymes revealed by conserved regions of α-amylase

    Article • FEBS Letters, January 1993, Wiley

    Dr. Stefan Janecek

  56. α-Amylases and approaches leading to their enhanced stability

    Article • FEBS Letters, June 1992, Wiley

    Dr. Stefan Janecek

  57. Chemical stabilization ofBacillus subtilis α-amylase by modification with D-glucono-δ-lactone

    Article • Biotechnology Techniques, March 1992, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr. Stefan Janecek

  58. Amylolytic Enzymes: Types, Structures and Specificities

    Article • Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr. Stefan Janecek