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  1. Crystallographic fragment-binding studies of the Mycobacterium tuberculosis trifunctional enzyme suggest binding pockets for the tails of the acyl-CoA substrates at its active sites and a potential substrate-channeling path between them

    Article • Acta Crystallographica Section D Structural Biology, July 2024, International Union of Crystallography

    rik wierenga

  2. Managing macromolecular crystallographic data with a laboratory information management system

    Article • Acta Crystallographica Section D Structural Biology, July 2024, International Union of Crystallography

    rik wierenga, Edward Daniel

  3. Structural enzymology studies with the substrate 3S‐hydroxybutanoyl‐CoA: bifunctional MFE1 is a less efficient dehydrogenase than monofunctional HAD

    Article • FEBS Open Bio, March 2024, Wiley

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  4. Crystallographic fragment binding studies of theMycobacterium tuberculosistrifunctional enzyme suggest binding pockets for the tails of the acyl-CoA substrates at its active sites and a potential substrate channeling path between them

    Article • January 2024, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press

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  5. Enzymes of the crotonase superfamily: Diverse assembly and diverse function

    Article • Current Opinion in Structural Biology, October 2023, Elsevier

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  6. Crystal structures and kinetic studies of a laboratory evolved aldehyde reductase explain the dramatic shift of its new substrate specificity

    Article • IUCrJ, June 2023, International Union of Crystallography

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  7. An engineered variant of MECR reductase reveals indispensability of long-chain acyl-ACPs for mitochondrial respiration

    Article • Nature Communications, February 2023, Springer Science + Business Media

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  8. Neutron structures of Leishmania mexicana triosephosphate isomerase in complex with reaction-intermediate mimics shed light on the proton-shuttling steps

    Article • IUCrJ, June 2021, International Union of Crystallography

    Dr Matthew P Blakeley, rik wierenga

  9. Structure of transmembrane prolyl 4-hydroxylase reveals unique organization of EF and dioxygenase domains

    Article • Journal of Biological Chemistry, January 2021, American Society for Biochemistry & Molecular Biology (ASBMB)

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  10. Crystallographic binding studies of rat peroxisomal multifunctional enzyme type 1 with 3-ketodecanoyl-CoA: capturing active and inactive states of its hydratase and dehydrogenase catalytic sites

    Article • Acta Crystallographica Section D Structural Biology, November 2020, International Union of Crystallography

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  11. Structure of transmembrane prolyl 4-hydroxylase reveals unique organization of EF and dioxygenase domains

    Article • October 2020, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press

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  12. A community proposal to integrate structural bioinformatics activities in ELIXIR (3D-Bioinfo Community)

    Article • F1000Research, April 2020, Faculty of 1000, Ltd.

    Dr. Alexandre M.J.J. Bonvin, Dr Anastassis Perrakis, rik wierenga, Prof. Bohdan Schneider, Dr John M Hancock

  13. Complementary substrate specificity and distinct quaternary assembly of the Escherichia coli aerobic and anaerobic β-oxidation trifunctional enzyme complexes

    Article • Biochemical Journal, July 2019, Portland Press Ltd.

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  14. The peroxisomal zebrafish SCP2-thiolase (type-1) is a weak transient dimer as revealed by crystal structures and native mass spectrometry

    Article • Biochemical Journal, January 2019, Portland Press Ltd.

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  15. Structural enzymology binding studies of the peptide-substrate-binding domain of human collagen prolyl 4-hydroxylase (type-II): High affinity peptides have a PxGP sequence motif

    Article • Protein Science, September 2018, Wiley

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  16. Structural enzymology comparisons of multifunctional enzyme, type-1 (MFE1): the flexibility of its dehydrogenase part

    Article • FEBS Open Bio, November 2017, Wiley

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  17. Crystal structures of two monomeric triosephosphate isomerase variants identifiedviaa directed-evolution protocol selecting forL-arabinose isomerase activity

    Article • Acta Crystallographica Section F Structural Biology Communications, May 2016, International Union of Crystallography

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  18. The SCP2-thiolase-like protein (SLP) of Trypanosoma brucei is an enzyme involved in lipid metabolism

    Article • Proteins Structure Function and Bioinformatics, May 2016, Wiley

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  19. Crystal structure of Trypanosoma brucei SCP2-thiolase like protein ( TbSLP) in complex with acetoacetyl-CoA.

    Article • May 2016, Protein Data Bank, Rutgers University

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  20. Crystal structure of Trypanosoma brucei SCP2-thiolase like protein ( TbSLP) form-I.

    Article • May 2016, Protein Data Bank, Rutgers University

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  21. Crystal structure of Trypanosoma brucei SCP2-thiolase like protein ( TbSLP) form-II.

    Article • May 2016, Protein Data Bank, Rutgers University

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  22. The extended structure of the periplasmic region of CdsD, a structural protein of the type III secretion system of Chlamydia trachomatis

    Article • Protein Science, March 2016, Wiley

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  23. Structures of yeast peroxisomal Δ3,Δ2-enoyl-CoA isomerase complexed with acyl-CoA substrate analogues: the importance of hydrogen-bond networks for the reactivity of the catalytic base and the oxyanion hole

    Article • Acta Crystallographica Section D Biological Crystallography, October 2015, International Union of Crystallography

    rik wierenga

  24. Human Δ3,Δ2-enoyl-CoA isomerase, type 2: a structural enzymology study on the catalytic role of its ACBP domain and helix-10

    Article • European Journal of Biochemistry, January 2015, Wiley

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  25. The crystal structure of human mitochondrial 3-ketoacyl-CoA thiolase (T1): insight into the reaction mechanism of its thiolase and thioesterase activities

    Article • Acta Crystallographica Section D Biological Crystallography, November 2014, International Union of Crystallography

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  26. The crystal structure of Δ3-Δ2-enoyl-CoA isomerase

    Article • Journal of Molecular Biology, June 2001, Elsevier

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  27. Oxyanion Holes and Their Mimics

    Article • Wiley

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