Leszek Rychlewski

Molecular determinants archetypical to the phylum Nematoda (2009)

Yin, Yong, Martin, John, Abubucker, Sahar, Wang, Zhengyuan, Wyrwicz, Lucjan, Rychlewski, Leszek, ...

Abstract Background Nematoda diverged from other animals between 600–1,200 million years ago and has become one of the most diverse animal phyla on earth. Most nematodes are free-living animals,...

A Support Vector Machine Approach to the Identification of Phosphorylation (2008)

Dariusz Plewczyński, Adrian Tkacz, Adam Godzik, Leszek Rychlewski

Abstract: We describe a bioinformatics tool that can be used to predict the position of phosphorylation sites in proteins based only on sequence information. The method uses the support vector...

Structural bioinformatics XtalPred: a web server for prediction of protein crystallizability (2008)

Lukasz Slabinski, Lukasz Jaroszewski, Leszek Rychlewski, Ian A. Wilson, Scott A, Adam Godzik, ...

Summary: XtalPred is a web server for prediction of protein crystallizability. The prediction is made by comparing several features of the protein with distributions of these features in TargetDB and...

BIOINFORMATICS APPLICATIONS NOTE Sequence analysis (2008)

Dariusz Plewczynski, Adrian Tkacz, Lucjan Stanisław Wyrwicz, Leszek Rychlewski

Vol. 21 no. 10 2005, pages 2525–2527 doi:10.1093/bioinformatics/bti333 AutoMotif server: prediction of single residue post-translational modifications in proteins

Supplementary information: (2008)

Dariusz Plewczyński, Jakub Paś, Marcin Von Grotthuss, Leszek Rychlewski

3D-Hit is a fast scanning method for detecting structural similarities between proteins. The algorithm is based on a hashing function, which decomposes proteins into segments of 13 residues. The...

3D-Fun: predicting enzyme function from structure (2008)

Von Grotthuss, Marcin, Plewczynski, Dariusz, Vriend, Gert, Rychlewski, Leszek

The ‘omics’ revolution is causing a flurry of data that all needs to be annotated for it to become useful. Sequences of proteins of unknown function can be annotated with a putative function by...

The challenge of protein structure determination lessons from structural genomics (2007)

Slabinski, Lukasz, Jaroszewski, Lukasz, Rodrigues, Ana P.C., Rychlewski, Leszek, Wilson, Ian A., Lesley, Scott A., ...

The process of experimental determination of protein structure is marred with a high ratio of failures at many stages. With availability of large quantities of data from high-throughput structure...

Evaluation of 3D-Jury on CASP7 models (2007)

Kaján, László, Rychlewski, Leszek

Abstract Background 3D-Jury, the structure prediction consensus method publicly available in the Meta Server http://meta.bioinfo.pl/ , was evaluated using models gathered in the 7 th round of the...

Realm of PD-(D/E)XK nuclease superfamily revisited: detection of novel families with modified transitive meta profile searches (2007)

Knizewski, Lukasz, Kinch, Lisa N, Grishin, Nick V, Rychlewski, Leszek, Ginalski, Krzysztof

Abstract Background PD-(D/E)XK nucleases constitute a large and highly diverse superfamily of enzymes that display little sequence similarity despite retaining a common core fold and a few critical...

Regular paper Fold recognition insights into function of herpes ICP4 protein (2007)

Lucjan S. Wyrwicz, Leszek Rychlewski

ICP4 is an important factor regulating the life cycle of HSV1. This conserved protein has several molecular functions, including activation of expression of viral late gene transcripts and inhibition...

XtalPred: a web server for prediction of protein crystallizability (2007)

Slabinski, Lukasz, Jaroszewski, Lukasz, Rychlewski, Leszek, Wilson, Ian A., Lesley, Scott A., Godzik, Adam

Summary: XtalPred is a web server for prediction of protein crystallizability. The prediction is made by comparing several features of the protein with distributions of these features in TargetDB and...

PDB-UF: database of predicted enzymatic functions for unannotated protein structures from structural genomics (2006)

Von Grotthuss, Marcin, Plewczynski, Dariusz, Ginalski, Krzysztof, Rychlewski, Leszek, Shakhnovich, Eugene I

Abstract Background The number of protein structures from structural genomics centers dramatically increases in the Protein Data Bank (PDB). Many of these structures are functionally unannotated...

BMC Bioinformatics Database (2006)

Marcin Von Grotthuss, Dariusz Plewczynski, Krzysztof Ginalski, Leszek Rychlewski, Eugene I Shakhnovich, Leszek Rychlewski, ...

PDB-UF: database of predicted enzymatic functions for unannotated protein structures from structural genomics

NOTES Human Herpesvirus 1 UL24 Gene (2005)

Encodes A Potential, Lisa Kinch, Nick V. Grishin, Leszek Rychlewski, Krzysztof Ginalski

Using Meta-BASIC, a highly sensitive method for detection of distant similarity between proteins, we have identified another potential PD-(D/E)XK endonuclease in human herpesvirus 1 (HHV-1) encoded...

FFAS03: a server for profile-profile sequence alignments (2005)

Jaroszewski, Lukasz, Rychlewski, Leszek, Li, Zhanwen, Li, Weizhong, Godzik, Adam

The FFAS03 server provides a web interface to the third generation of the profile–profile alignment and fold-recognition algorithm of fold and function assignment system (FFAS) [L. Rychlewski, L....

Practical lessons from protein structure prediction (2005)

Ginalski, Krzysztof, Grishin, Nick V., Godzik, Adam, Rychlewski, Leszek

Despite recent efforts to develop automated protein structure determination protocols, structural genomics projects are slow in generating fold assignments for complete proteomes, and spatial...

LiveBench-8: The large-scale, continuous assessment of automated protein structure prediction (2005)

Rychlewski, Leszek, Fischer, Daniel

We present the results of the evaluation of the latest LiveBench-8 experiment. These results provide a snapshot view of the state of the art in automated protein structure prediction, just before the...

AutoMotif server: prediction of single residue post-translational modifications in proteins (2005)

Plewczynski, Dariusz, Tkacz, Adrian, Wyrwicz, Lucjan Stanislaw, Rychlewski, Leszek

Summary: The AutoMotif Server allows for identification of post-translational modification (PTM) sites in proteins based only on local sequence information. The local sequence preferences of short...

AutoMotif Server: prediction of single residue post-translational modifications in proteins (2005)

Plewczynski, Dariusz, Tkacz, Adrian, Wyrwicz, Lucjan Stanisaw, Rychlewski, Leszek

The AutoMotif Server allows for identification of post-translational modification (PTM) sites in proteins based only on local sequence information. The local sequence preferences of short segments...

Identification of novel restriction endonuclease-like fold families among hypothetical proteins (2005)

Kinch, Lisa N., Ginalski, Krzysztof, Rychlewski, Leszek, Grishin, Nick V.

Restriction endonucleases and other nucleic acid cleaving enzymes form a large and extremely diverse superfamily that display little sequence similarity despite retaining a common core fold...

Integrated web service for improving alignment quality based on segments comparison (2004)

Plewczynski, Dariusz, Rychlewski, Leszek, Ye, Yuzhen, Jaroszewski, Lukasz, Godzik, Adam

Abstract Background Defining blocks forming the global protein structure on the basis of local structural regularity is a very fruitful idea, extensively used in description, and prediction of...

The PDB-preview database: a repository of in-silico models of "on-hold" PDB entries (2004)

Fischer, Daniel, Pa, Jakub, Rychlewski, Leszek

Summary: The PDB-Preview database is a dynamic web repository of in-silico predicted 3D models of experimentally determined structures that are deposited into the PDB but are not yet publicly...

Detecting distant homology with Meta-BASIC (2004)

Ginalski, Krzysztof, Von Grotthuss, Marcin, Grishin, Nick V., Rychlewski, Leszek

Meta-BASIC (http://basic.bioinfo.pl) is a novel sensitive approach for recognition of distant similarity between proteins based on consensus alignments of meta profiles. Specifically, Meta-BASIC...

The PDB-Preview database: a repository of in-silico models of 'on-hold' PDB entries (2004)

Fischer, Daniel, Pas, Jakub, Rychlewski, Leszek

Summary: The PDB-Preview database is a dynamic web repository of in-silico predicted three-dimensional (3D) models of experimentally determined structures that are deposited into the PDB but are not...

The PDB-preview database: a repository of in-silico models of "on-hold" PDB entries (2004)

Fischer, Daniel, Pa, Jakub, Rychlewski, Leszek

Summary: The PDB-Preview database is a dynamic web repository of in-silico predicted 3D models of experimentally determined structures that are deposited into the PDB but are not yet publicly...

BioMed Central (2004)

Bmc Bioinformatics, Dariusz Plewczynski, Leszek Rychlewski, Yuzhen Ye

Software Integrated web service for improving alignment quality based on segments comparison

ELM server: a new resource for investigating short functional sites in modular eukaryotic proteins (2003)

Rune Linding, Christine Gemünd, Sophie Chabanis-davidson, Morten Mattingsdal, Scott Cameron, ...

Multidomain proteins predominate in eukaryotic proteomes. Individual functions assigned to different sequence segments combine to create a complex function for the whole protein. While on-line...

3D-Jury: a simple approach to improve protein structure predictions (2003)

Ginalski, Krzysztof, Elofsson, Arne, Fischer, Daniel, Rychlewski, Leszek

Motivation: Consensus structure prediction methods (meta-predictors) have higher accuracy than individual structure prediction algorithms (their components). The goal for the development of the...

Ligand-Info, searching for similar small compounds using index profiles (2003)

Von Grotthuss, Marcin, Pas, Jakub, Rychlewski, Leszek

Motivation: The Ligand-Info system is based on the assumption that small molecules with similar structure have similar functional (binding) properties. The developed system enables a fast and...

Detection of reliable and unexpected protein fold predictions using 3D-Jury (2003)

Ginalski, Krzysztof, Rychlewski, Leszek

3D-Jury is a fully automated protein structure meta prediction system accessible via the Meta Server interface (http://BioInfo.PL/Meta). This is one of the meta predictors, which have made a...

ELM server: a new resource for investigating short functional sites in modular eukaryotic proteins (2003)

Puntervoll, Pål, Linding, Rune, Gemünd, Christine, Chabanis-Davidson, Sophie, Mattingsdal, Morten, Cameron, Scott, ...

Multidomain proteins predominate in eukaryotic proteomes. Individual functions assigned to different sequence segments combine to create a complex function for the whole protein. While on-line...

ORFeus: detection of distant homology using sequence profiles and predicted secondary structure (2003)

Ginalski, Krzysztof, Pas, Jakub, Wyrwicz, Lucjan S., Grotthuss, Marcin Von, Bujnicki, Janusz M., Rychlewski, Leszek

ORFeus is a fully automated, sensitive protein sequence similarity search server available to the academic community via the Structure Prediction Meta Server (http://BioInfo.PL/Meta/). The goal of...

The 2002 Olympic Games of Protein Structure Prediction (2003)

Fischer, Daniel, Rychlewski, Leszek

The summer of every even year is considered by the protein structure prediction community as the Olympic Games season, because in addition to a number of continuous benchmarking experiments such as...

RNA:(guanine-N2) methyltransferases RsmC/RsmD and their homologs revisited – bioinformatic analysis and prediction of the active site based on the uncharacterized Mj0882 protein structure (2002)

Bujnicki, Janusz M, Rychlewski, Leszek

Abstract Background Escherichia coli guanine-N2 (m 2 G) methyltransferases (MTases) RsmC and RsmD modify nucleosides G1207 and G966 of 16S rRNA. They possess a common MTase domain in the C-terminus...

In silico identification, structure prediction and phylogenetic analysis of the 2'-O-ribose (cap 1) methyltransferase domain in the large structural protein of ssRNA negative-strand viruses (2002)

Bujnicki, Janusz M., Rychlewski, Leszek

The Escherichia coli RrmJ gene product has recently been shown to be the 23S rRNA:U2552 specific 2′-O-ribose methyltransferase (MTase) (RrmJ). Its structure has been solved and refined to 1.5 Å...

Reassignment of specificities of two cap methyltransferase domains in the reovirus lambda2 protein (2001)

Bujnicki, Janusz M, Rychlewski, Leszek

Abstract Background The reovirus λ2 protein catalyzes mRNA capping, that is, addition of a guanosine to the 5' end of each transcript in a 5'-to-5' orientation, as well as transfer of a methyl group...

A study of quality measures for protein threading models (2001)

Cristobal, Susana, Zemla, Adam, Fischer, Daniel, Rychlewski, Leszek, Elofsson, Arne

Abstract Background Prediction of protein structures is one of the fundamental challenges in biology today. To fully understand how well different prediction methods perform, it is necessary to use...

mRNA:guanine-N7 cap methyltransferases: identification of novel members of the family, evolutionary analysis, homology modeling, and analysis of sequence-structure-function relationships (2001)

Bujnicki, Janusz M, Feder, Marcin, Radlinska, Monika, Rychlewski, Leszek

Abstract Background The 5'-terminal cap structure plays an important role in many aspects of mRNA metabolism. Capping enzymes encoded by viruses and pathogenic fungi are attractive targets for...

BMC Research Bioinformatics article (2001) 2:5 A study of quality measures for protein threading models (2001)

Susana Cristobal, Adam Zemla, Daniel Fischer, Leszek Rychlewski, Arne Elofsson, Leszek Rychlewski, ...

© 2001 Cristobal et al; licensee BioMed Central Ltd. Verbatim copying and redistribution of this article are permitted in any medium for any noncommercial purpose, provided this notice is preserved...

and (2001)

Janusz M Bujnicki, Marcin Feder, Monika Radlinska, Leszek Rychlewski, Leszek Rychlewski

mRNA:guanine-N7 cap methyltransferases: identification of novel

Pcons: A neural-network-based consensus predictor that improves fold recognition (2001)

Lundström, Jesper, Rychlewski, Leszek, Bujnicki, Janusz, Elofsson, Arne

During recent years many protein fold recognition methods have been developed, based on different algorithms and using various kinds of information. To examine the performance of these methods...

Structure prediction meta server (2001)

Bujnicki, Janusz M., Elofsson, Arne, Fischer, Daniel, Rychlewski, Leszek

Summary: The Structure Prediction Meta Server offers a convenient way for biologists to utilize various high quality structure prediction servers available worldwide. The meta server translates the...

Three-dimensional modeling of the I-TevI homing endonuclease catalytic domain, a GIY-YIG superfamily member, using NMR restraints and Monte Carlo dynamics (2001)

Bujnicki, Janusz M., Rotkiewicz, Piotr, Kolinski, Andrzej, Rychlewski, Leszek

Using a recent version of the SICHO algorithm for in silico protein folding, we made a blind prediction of the tertiary structure of the N-terminal, independently folded, catalytic domain (CD) of the...

ToolShop: prerelease inspections for protein structure prediction servers (2001)

Rychlewski, Leszek

Summary: The ToolShop server offers a possibility to compare a protein tertiary structure prediction server with other popular servers before releasing it to the public. The comparison is conducted...

LiveBench-1: Continuous benchmarking of protein structure prediction servers (2001)

Bujnicki, Janusz M., Elofsson, Arne, Fischer, Daniel, Rychlewski, Leszek

We present a novel, continuous approach aimed at the large-scale assessment of the performance of available fold-recognition servers. Six popular servers were investigated: PDB-Blast, FFAS, T98-lib,...

Unusual evolutionary history of the tRNA splicing endonuclease EndA: Relationship to the LAGLIDADG and PD-(D/E)XK deoxyribonucleases (2001)

Bujnicki, Janusz M., Rychlewski, Leszek

The tRNA splicing endoribonuclease EndA from Methanococcus jannaschii is a homotetramer formed via heterologous interaction between the two pairs of homodimers. Each monomer consists of two...

Research Reassignment of specificities of two cap methyltransferase domains in the reovirus λ2 protein (2001)

Janusz M Bujnicki, Leszek Rychlewski

Background: The reovirus λ2 protein catalyzes mRNA capping, that is, addition of a guanosine to the 5 ′ end of each transcript in a 5′-to-5 ′ orientation, as well as transfer of a methyl group...

The 2000 Olympic Games of protein structure prediction; fully automated programs are being evaluated vis-a-vis human teams in the protein structure prediction experiment CAFASP2 (2000)

Fischer, Daniel, Elofsson, Arne, Rychlewski, Leszek

In this commentary, we describe two new protein structure prediction experiments being run in parallel with the CASP experiment, which together may be regarded as the 2000 Olympic Games of structure...

MaxSub: an automated measure for the assessment of protein structure prediction quality (2000)

Siew, Naomi, Elofsson, Arne, Rychlewski, Leszek, Fischer, Daniel

Motivation: Evaluating the accuracy of predicted models is critical for assessing structure prediction methods. Because this problem is not trivial, a large number of different assessment measures...

Detection of reliable and unexpected protein fold predictions using 3D-Jury

Ginalski, Krzysztof, Rychlewski, Leszek

3D-Jury is a fully automated protein structure meta prediction system accessible via the Meta Server interface (http://BioInfo.PL/Meta). This is one of the meta predictors, which have made a...

ORFeus: detection of distant homology using sequence profiles and predicted secondary structure

Ginalski, Krzysztof, Pas, Jakub, Wyrwicz, Lucjan S., Grotthuss, Marcin Von, Bujnicki, Janusz M., Rychlewski, Leszek

ORFeus is a fully automated, sensitive protein sequence similarity search server available to the academic community via the Structure Prediction Meta Server (http://BioInfo.PL/Meta/). The goal of...

ELM server: a new resource for investigating short functional sites in modular eukaryotic proteins

Puntervoll, Pål, Linding, Rune, Gemünd, Christine, Chabanis-Davidson, Sophie, Mattingsdal, Morten, Cameron, Scott, ...

Multidomain proteins predominate in eukaryotic proteomes. Individual functions assigned to different sequence segments combine to create a complex function for the whole protein. While on-line...

Protein structure prediction for the male-specific region of the human Y chromosome

Ginalski, Krzysztof, Rychlewski, Leszek, Baker, David, Grishin, Nick V.

The complete sequence of the male-specific region of the human Y chromosome (MSY) has been determined recently; however, detailed characterization for many of its encoded proteins still remains to be...

Detecting distant homology with Meta-BASIC

Ginalski, Krzysztof, Von Grotthuss, Marcin, Grishin, Nick V., Rychlewski, Leszek

Meta-BASIC (http://basic.bioinfo.pl) is a novel sensitive approach for recognition of distant similarity between proteins based on consensus alignments of meta profiles. Specifically, Meta-BASIC...

Practical lessons from protein structure prediction

Ginalski, Krzysztof, Grishin, Nick V., Godzik, Adam, Rychlewski, Leszek

Despite recent efforts to develop automated protein structure determination protocols, structural genomics projects are slow in generating fold assignments for complete proteomes, and spatial...

Identification of novel restriction endonuclease-like fold families among hypothetical proteins

Kinch, Lisa N., Ginalski, Krzysztof, Rychlewski, Leszek, Grishin, Nick V.

Restriction endonucleases and other nucleic acid cleaving enzymes form a large and extremely diverse superfamily that display little sequence similarity despite retaining a common core fold...

FFAS03: a server for profile–profile sequence alignments

Jaroszewski, Lukasz, Rychlewski, Leszek, Li, Zhanwen, Li, Weizhong, Godzik, Adam

The FFAS03 server provides a web interface to the third generation of the profile–profile alignment and fold-recognition algorithm of fold and function assignment system (FFAS) [L. Rychlewski, L....

Human Herpesvirus 1 UL24 Gene Encodes a Potential PD-(D/E)XK Endonuclease

Kniżewski, Łukasz, Kinch, Lisa, Grishin, Nick V., Rychlewski, Leszek, Ginalski, Krzysztof

Using Meta-BASIC, a highly sensitive method for detection of distant similarity between proteins, we have identified another potential PD-(D/E)XK endonuclease in human herpesvirus 1 (HHV-1) encoded...

Detection of reliable and unexpected protein fold predictions using 3D-Jury

Ginalski, Krzysztof, Rychlewski, Leszek

3D-Jury is a fully automated protein structure meta prediction system accessible via the Meta Server interface (http://BioInfo.PL/Meta). This is one of the meta predictors, which have made a...

ORFeus: detection of distant homology using sequence profiles and predicted secondary structure

Ginalski, Krzysztof, Pas, Jakub, Wyrwicz, Lucjan S., Grotthuss, Marcin Von, Bujnicki, Janusz M., Rychlewski, Leszek

ORFeus is a fully automated, sensitive protein sequence similarity search server available to the academic community via the Structure Prediction Meta Server (http://BioInfo.PL/Meta/). The goal of...

ELM server: a new resource for investigating short functional sites in modular eukaryotic proteins

Puntervoll, Pål, Linding, Rune, Gemünd, Christine, Chabanis-Davidson, Sophie, Mattingsdal, Morten, Cameron, Scott, ...

Multidomain proteins predominate in eukaryotic proteomes. Individual functions assigned to different sequence segments combine to create a complex function for the whole protein. While on-line...

Protein structure prediction for the male-specific region of the human Y chromosome

Ginalski, Krzysztof, Rychlewski, Leszek, Baker, David, Grishin, Nick V.

The complete sequence of the male-specific region of the human Y chromosome (MSY) has been determined recently; however, detailed characterization for many of its encoded proteins still remains to be...

Detecting distant homology with Meta-BASIC

Ginalski, Krzysztof, Von Grotthuss, Marcin, Grishin, Nick V., Rychlewski, Leszek

Meta-BASIC (http://basic.bioinfo.pl) is a novel sensitive approach for recognition of distant similarity between proteins based on consensus alignments of meta profiles. Specifically, Meta-BASIC...

Practical lessons from protein structure prediction

Ginalski, Krzysztof, Grishin, Nick V., Godzik, Adam, Rychlewski, Leszek

Despite recent efforts to develop automated protein structure determination protocols, structural genomics projects are slow in generating fold assignments for complete proteomes, and spatial...

Identification of novel restriction endonuclease-like fold families among hypothetical proteins

Kinch, Lisa N., Ginalski, Krzysztof, Rychlewski, Leszek, Grishin, Nick V.

Restriction endonucleases and other nucleic acid cleaving enzymes form a large and extremely diverse superfamily that display little sequence similarity despite retaining a common core fold...

FFAS03: a server for profile–profile sequence alignments

Jaroszewski, Lukasz, Rychlewski, Leszek, Li, Zhanwen, Li, Weizhong, Godzik, Adam

The FFAS03 server provides a web interface to the third generation of the profile–profile alignment and fold-recognition algorithm of fold and function assignment system (FFAS) [L. Rychlewski, L....

Human Herpesvirus 1 UL24 Gene Encodes a Potential PD-(D/E)XK Endonuclease

Kniżewski, Łukasz, Kinch, Lisa, Grishin, Nick V., Rychlewski, Leszek, Ginalski, Krzysztof

Using Meta-BASIC, a highly sensitive method for detection of distant similarity between proteins, we have identified another potential PD-(D/E)XK endonuclease in human herpesvirus 1 (HHV-1) encoded...

LiveBench-8: The large-scale, continuous assessment of automated protein structure prediction

Rychlewski, Leszek, Fischer, Daniel

We present the results of the evaluation of the latest LiveBench-8 experiment. These results provide a snapshot view of the state of the art in automated protein structure prediction, just before the...

LiveBench-1: Continuous benchmarking of protein structure prediction servers

Bujnicki, Janusz M., Elofsson, Arne, Fischer, Daniel, Rychlewski, Leszek

We present a novel, continuous approach aimed at the large-scale assessment of the performance of available fold-recognition servers. Six popular servers were investigated: PDB-Blast, FFAS, T98-lib,...

Pcons: A neural-network–based consensus predictor that improves fold recognition

Lundström, Jesper, Rychlewski, Leszek, Bujnicki, Janusz, Elofsson, Arne

During recent years many protein fold recognition methods have been developed, based on different algorithms and using various kinds of information. To examine the performance of these methods...

Unusual evolutionary history of the tRNA splicing endonuclease EndA: Relationship to the LAGLIDADG and PD-(D/E)XK deoxyribonucleases

Bujnicki, Janusz M., Rychlewski, Leszek

The tRNA splicing endoribonuclease EndA from Methanococcus jannaschii is a homotetramer formed via heterologous interaction between the two pairs of homodimers. Each monomer consists of two α/β...

3D-Fun: predicting enzyme function from structure

Von Grotthuss, Marcin, Plewczynski, Dariusz, Vriend, Gert, Rychlewski, Leszek

The ‘omics’ revolution is causing a flurry of data that all needs to be annotated for it to become useful. Sequences of proteins of unknown function can be annotated with a putative function by...

The challenge of protein structure determination—lessons from structural genomics

Slabinski, Lukasz, Jaroszewski, Lukasz, Rodrigues, Ana P.C., Rychlewski, Leszek, Wilson, Ian A., Lesley, Scott A., ...

The process of experimental determination of protein structure is marred with a high ratio of failures at many stages. With availability of large quantities of data from high-throughput structure...

Deciphering the genetic determinants for aerobic nicotinic acid degradation: The nic cluster from Pseudomonas putida KT2440

Jiménez, José I., Canales, Ángeles, Jiménez-Barbero, Jesús, Ginalski, Krzysztof, Rychlewski, Leszek, García, José L., ...

The aerobic catabolism of nicotinic acid (NA) is considered a model system for degradation of N-heterocyclic aromatic compounds, some of which are major environmental pollutants; however, the...