Selected Publications

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Accounts of Chemical Research, Vol 36, Issue 09 Cover Page
Cholesterol oxidase modelled in contact with cellular membrane and cholesterol
Sampson NS, Vrielink A. Cholesterol Oxidases: A Study of Nature's Approach to Protein Design.  
Acc Chem Res.
2003 Sep 16;36(9):713-722  HTML/PDF













Vrielink, A., Sampson, N.S.
Sub-Ångstrom Resolution Enzyme X-ray Structures:  Is Seeing Believing?
Curr Opin Struct Biol. 2003 Dec;13(6):709-15.  HTML/PDF

Lario PI, Vrielink A.
Atomic Resolution Density Maps Of the Backbone Carbonyl Groups Reveal Secondary Structure Dependent Differences in Electronic Distribution.  
J Am Chem Soc. 2003 Oct 22;125(42):12787-94.  HTML/PDF

Manjasetty BA, Powlowski J, Vrielink A.
Crystal structure of a bifunctional aldolase-dehydrogenase: sequestering a reactive and volatile intermediate.  Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2003 Jun 10;100(12):6992-7. Epub 2003 May 22: HTML/PDF


Lario PI, Sampson N, Vrielink A. (2003)
Sub-atomic Resolution Crystal Structure of Cholesterol Oxidase: What Atomic Resolution Crystallography Reveals about Enzyme Mechanism and the Role of the FAD Cofactor in Redox Activity.  J Mol Biol  326(5):1635-50  HTML/PDF

Gao YS, Vrielink A, MacKenzie R, Sztul E. (2002)
A novel type of regulation of the vimentin intermediate filament cytoskeleton by a Golgi protein.  Eur J Cell Biol 81(7):391-401   PDF


Burns CS, Aronoff-Spencer E, Dunham CM, Lario P, Avdievich NI, Antholine WE, Olmstead MM, Vrielink A, Gerfen GJ, Peisach J, Scott WG, Millhauser GL. (2002)
Molecular features of the copper binding sites in the octarepeat domain of the prion protein.  Biochemistry 41(12):3991-4001  HTML/PDF


Ye, Y. Sampson, N.S., Vrielink, A., & Lario, P.I. (2001).

The presence of a hydrogen bond between asparagine 485 and the pi system of FAD modulates the redox potential in the reaction catalyzed by cholesterol oxidase.  Biochemistry  40, 13779-13787.  HTML/PDF

Geyer, A., Fitzpatrick, T.B., Pawelek,, P., Kitzing, K., Vrielink, A., Ghisla, S. & Macheroux, P. (2001).
Structure and characterization of the glycan moiety of L-amino acid oxidase from the malayan pit viper Calloselasma rhodostoma.  European Journal of Biochemistry, 268, 4044-53.  Abstract

Lario, P.I., Bobechko, B., Bateman, K., Vrielink, A. & Huang, Z. (2001).
Purification and Characterization of the Human PDE4A Catalytic Domain (PDE4A330–723) Expressed in Sf9 Cells.  Archives of Biochemistry and Biophysics 394, 54-60.  PDF

Coulombe, R., Yue, K.Q., Ghisla, S. & Vrielink, A. (2001).
Oxygen access to the active site of cholesterol oxidase through a narrow channel is gated by an Arg-Glu pair.  Journal of Biological Chemistry  276, 30435-30441.  HTML/PDF

Manjasetty, B.A. Croteau, N. Powlowski, J & Vrielink, A. (2001).
Crystallization and preliminary x-ray analysis of dmpFG-encoded 4-hydroxy-2-ketovalerate aldolase-aldehyde dehydrogenase (acylating) from Pseudomonas sp. strain CF600.  Acta Crystallographica D 57, 582-585.  HTML/PDF

Ahvazi, B., Zhang, L., Ahvazi, B., Szittner, R., Vrielink, A., & Meighen, E (2000).
A histidine residue in the catalytic mechanism distinguishes Vibrio harveyi aldehyde dehydrogenase from other members of the aldehyde dehydrogenase superfamily.  Biochemistry. 39,14409-14418.  HTML/PDF

Pawelek, P., Cheah, J., Coulombe, R., Macheroux, P., Ghisla, S. & Vrielink, A. (2000).
The structure of L-amino acid oxidase reveals the substrate trajectory into an enantiomerically conserved active site.  EMBO Journal 19, 4204 - 4215.  HTML/PDF

Ahvazi, B., Coulombe, R. Delarge, M., Zhang, L., Vedadi, M., Meighen, E. & Vrielink, A. (2000)
Crystal structure of the NADP+ dependant aldehyde dehydrogenase from Vibrio harveyi. Structural implications for cofactor specificity and affinity.  Biochemical Journal 349, 853 - 861.  HTML/PDF

Kohls, D., Sulea, T., Purisima, E., MacKenzie, R. & Vrielink, A. (2000).
The crystal structure of the formiminotransferase domain of formiminotransferase-Cyclodeaminase: Implications for substrate channeling in a bifunctional enzyme.  Structure 8, 35-46.  HTML/PDF

Zhang, L. Ahvazi, B. Szittner, R., Vrielink, A. & Meighen, E. (1999).
Change of nucleotide specificity and enhancement of catalytic efficiency in single point mutants of Vibrio harveyi aldehyde dehydrogenase.  Biochemistry  38, 11440-11447.  HTML/PDF

Yue, K.Q., Kass, I.J., Sampson, N.S. & Vrielink, A. (1999)
Crystal Structure Determination of Cholesterol Oxidase from Streptomyces and Characterization of Key Active Site Mutants.  Biochemistry,  38, 4277-4286  HTML/PDF



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