Charles Gerday

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Top papers

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1 Xylanases, xylanase families and extremophilic xylanases. FEMS Microbiol Rev 2005 3.52
2 Psychrophilic enzymes: hot topics in cold adaptation. Nat Rev Microbiol 2003 3.18
3 Psychrophilic microorganisms: challenges for life. EMBO Rep 2006 2.57
4 Activity-stability relationships in extremophilic enzymes. J Biol Chem 2003 1.62
5 Molecular basis of cold adaptation. Philos Trans R Soc Lond B Biol Sci 2002 1.47
6 Structure of a full length psychrophilic cellulase from Pseudoalteromonas haloplanktis revealed by X-ray diffraction and small angle X-ray scattering. J Mol Biol 2005 1.17
7 A novel family 8 xylanase, functional and physicochemical characterization. J Biol Chem 2002 1.11
8 Crystal structures of a psychrophilic metalloprotease reveal new insights into catalysis by cold-adapted proteases. Proteins 2003 1.11
9 Structural and functional adaptations to extreme temperatures in psychrophilic, mesophilic, and thermophilic DNA ligases. J Biol Chem 2003 1.09
10 Kinetic and structural optimization to catalysis at low temperatures in a psychrophilic cellulase from the Antarctic bacterium Pseudoalteromonas haloplanktis. Biochem J 2004 1.08
11 The structure of a cold-adapted family 8 xylanase at 1.3 A resolution. Structural adaptations to cold and investgation of the active site. J Biol Chem 2002 1.05
12 Temperature adaptation of proteins: engineering mesophilic-like activity and stability in a cold-adapted alpha-amylase. J Mol Biol 2003 1.04
13 Activity, stability and flexibility in glycosidases adapted to extreme thermal environments. J Mol Biol 2003 1.04
14 Structural basis of alpha-amylase activation by chloride. Protein Sci 2002 1.00
15 Moritella cold-active dihydrofolate reductase: are there natural limits to optimization of catalytic efficiency at low temperature? J Bacteriol 2003 0.92
16 The linker region plays a key role in the adaptation to cold of the cellulase from an Antarctic bacterium. Biochem J 2007 0.90
17 Dual effects of an extra disulfide bond on the activity and stability of a cold-adapted alpha-amylase. J Biol Chem 2002 0.89
18 Metabolic enzymes from psychrophilic bacteria: challenge of adaptation to low temperatures in ornithine carbamoyltransferase from Moritella abyssi. J Bacteriol 2003 0.89
19 Extreme catalysts from low-temperature environments. J Biosci Bioeng 2004 0.86
20 Role of lysine versus arginine in enzyme cold-adaptation: modifying lysine to homo-arginine stabilizes the cold-adapted alpha-amylase from Pseudoalteramonas haloplanktis. Proteins 2006 0.82
21 Role of disulfide bridges in the activity and stability of a cold-active alpha-amylase. J Bacteriol 2005 0.82
22 The active site is the least stable structure in the unfolding pathway of a multidomain cold-adapted alpha-amylase. J Bacteriol 2005 0.82
23 The precursor of a psychrophilic alpha-amylase: structural characterization and insights into cold adaptation. Biochim Biophys Acta 2003 0.80
24 Adenylation-dependent conformation and unfolding pathways of the NAD+-dependent DNA ligase from the thermophile Thermus scotoductus. Biophys J 2004 0.79
25 Purification and characterization of a microbial dehydrogenase: a vanillin:NAD(P)+ oxidoreductase. Appl Biochem Biotechnol 2002 0.78
26 Cofactor binding modulates the conformational stabilities and unfolding patterns of NAD(+)-dependent DNA ligases from Escherichia coli and Thermus scotoductus. J Biol Chem 2003 0.77
27 Crystallization and preliminary X-ray analysis of a xylanase from the psychrophile Pseudoalteromonas haloplanktis. Acta Crystallogr D Biol Crystallogr 2002 0.77