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PUBLICATIONS 1983-2008

- in peer reviewed journals only

 
1983                                                                                                                        
Rupprecht A. and J. Piškur (1983) A simple mechanochemical method for studying structure and dynamics of biopolymer fibers in various media. Acta Chem. Scand. B 37: 863-864.

1984                                                                                                                        
Piškur J., B. Kus and M. Grabnar (1984) Expression of the proAB operon in Salmonella typhimurium under osmotic stress. Periodicum Biologorum (Zagreb) 86: 311-314.

Piškur J., Z. Podlesek, B. Kus and M. Grabnar (1984) Control mechanisms of proline biosynthesis in Salmonella typhimurium. Bioloski Vestnik (Ljubljana) 32: 71-76.

1985                                                                                                                        
Piškur J. , Z. Podlesek, B. Kus and M. Grabnar (1985) Regulation of the proline biosynthetic pathway in Salmonella typhimurium. Periodicum Biologorum (Zagreb) 87: 49-54.

1987                                                                                                                        
Piškur J. (1987) The origin of mitochondrial membranes. Bioloski Vestnik (Ljubljana) 35: 83-90.

1988                                                                                                                        
Piškur J. (1988) Transmission of the yeast mitochondrial genome: the impact of intergenic sequences. Ph.D. Thesis. The Australian National University, Canberra.

Piškur J. (1988) A 5 kb intergenic region containing ori1 in the mitochondrial DNA of Saccharomyces cerevisiae is dispensable for expression of the respiratory phenotype. FEBS Lett. 229: 145-149.

Piškur J. (1988) Transmission of yeast mitochondrial loci to progeny is reduced when nearby intergenic regions containing ori sequences are deleted. Mol Gen. Genet. 214: 425-432.

Piškur J. (1988) Sensitivity of intergenic regions of yeast mitochondrial DNA to single-strand-specific nucleases. FEBS Lett. 238: 435-440.

1989                                                                                                                        
Piškur J. (1989) Respiratory-competent yeast mitochondrial DNAs generated by deleting intergenic regions. Gene 81: 165-168.

Piškur J. (1989) Transmission of the yeast mitochondrial genome to progeny: the impact of the intergenic sequences. Mol. Gen. Genet. 218: 161-168.

1991                                                                                                                        
Piškur J. and M.C. Kielland-Brandt (1991) Conversion of synthetic oligonucleotides to duplex DNA by commercial linker DNA. Methods in Molecular and Cellular Biology 2: 228-229.

1992                                                                                                                        
Piškur J. (1992) Pravni vidiki varnosti pri delu z genetsko modificiranimi organismi (in Slovenian; Legal aspects of gene technology). In: Biotehnologija (P. Raspor, Ed.) BIA, Ljubljana, pp 599-610.

1993                                                                                                                        
Piškur J. (1993) Genteknologiens etiske og juridiske utfordringer (in Norwegian; Ethical and legal aspects of gene technology). Mennesker og rettigheter (Oslo) 11: 360-364.

Piškur J. and M.C. Kielland-Brandt (1993) Folding and secretion of Saccharomyces cerevisiae carboxypeptidase Y are influenced by fusion with short heterologous peptides. Biotechnol. Appl. Biochem. 18: 239-257.

Piškur J., D. Kolbak, L. Sřndergaard and M.B. Pedersen (1993) The dominant mutation Suppressor of black indicates that de novo pyrimidine biosynthesis is involved in the cuticulum tanning in Drosophila. Mol. Gen. Genet. 241: 335-340.

1994                                                                                                                        
Piškur J. (1994) Inheritance of the yeast mitochondrial genome. Plasmid 31: 229-241.

Piškur J., Ĺ. Rasmuson-Lestander, E. Arnasson and C. Roos (Editors) (1994) Abstracts of papers presented at the Nordic Drosophila Meeting 1994. Hereditas 121: 207-212.

Rupprecht A., J. Piškur, J. Schultz, L. Nordenskioeld, Z. Song and G. Lahajnar (1994) Mechanochemical study of conformational transitions and melting of Li-, Na-, K- and CsDNA fibers in ethanol-water solutions. Biopolymers 34: 897-920.

Schultz J., A. Rupprecht, Z. Song, J. Piškur, L. Nordenskioeld and G. Lahajnar (1994) A mechanochemical study of MgDNA fibers in ethanol-water solutions. Biophysical Journal 66: 810-819.

1995                                                                                                                        
Piškur J. and A. Rupprecht (1995) Aggregated DNA in ethanol solution. FEBS Lett. 375: 174-178.

Piškur J., L. Sřndergaard, Z. Gojkovic, B. Stokbro, C. Hjulsager, J. Davidson, E. DeMoll, J. Rawls and E. Bahn (1995) Observed resistance to pyrimidine analogs and sensitivity to uracil in Drosophila is attributed to deregulation of pyrimidine metabolism. Advances in Experimental Medicine and Biology 370: 559-565.

Piškur J., S. Smole Mozina, J. Stenderup and M.B. Pedersen (1995) A mitochondrial molecular marker, ori-rep-tra, for differentiation of yeast species. Applied and Environmental Microbiology 61: 2780-2782.

1997                                                                                                                        
Piškur, J. (1997) The transmission disadvantage of yeast mitochondrial intergenic mutants is eliminated in the mgt1 (cce1) background. J. Bacteriol. 179: 5614-5617.

Chandler, D., M.E. McGuffin, J. Piškur, J. Yao, B.S. Baker and W. Mattox (1997) Evolutionary conservation of regulatory strategies for the sex determination factor transformer-2. Mol. Cell. Biol. 17: 2908-2919.

Hermansen, T.D. and J. Piškur (1997) Revision in sequence of a putative regulatory domain of Drosophila's CPSase. Paths to Pyrimidines (Lexington) 5: 26-28.

1998                                                                                                                        
Munch-Petersen, B., J. Piškur and L. Sřndergaard (1998) The single deoxynucleoside kinase in Drosophila melanogaster, Dm-dNK, is multifunctional and differs from the mammalian deoxynucleoside kinases. Adv. Exp. Med. Biol. 431: 465-469.

Gojkovic, Z., S. Paracchini and J. Piškur (1998) A new model organism for studying the catabolism of pyrimidines and purines. Adv. Exp. Med. Biol. 431: 475-479. 

Munch-Petersen, B., J. Piškur and L. Sřndergaard (1998) Four deoxynucleoside kinase activities from Drosophila melanogaster are contained within a single monomeric enzyme, a new multifunctional deoxynucleoside kinase. J. Biol. Chem. 273: 3926-3931.

Naumov, G.I., E.S. Naumova, G. Marinoni and J. Piškur (1998) Genetic analysis of the yeast Saccharomyces castellii, S. exiguus and S. martiniae. Russian Journal of Genetics 34: 457-460.

Piškur, J., S. Smole, C. Groth, R.F. Petersen and M.B. Pedersen (1998) Structure and genetic stability of mitochondrial genomes vary among yeasts of the genus Saccharomyces. Int. J. System. Bacteriol. 48: 1015-1024.

Masneuf, I., J. Hansen, C. Groth, J. Piškur and D. Dubourdieu (1998) New hybrids between Saccharomyces sensu stricto yeast species found among wine and cider production strains. Appl. Environ. Microbiol. 64: 3887-3892.

1999                                                                                                                        
Piškur, J., Z. Gojkovic and E. Bahn (1999) A synthetic combination of mutations, including fs(1)pyrSu(b), rSu(b) and b, causes female sterility and reduces embryonic viability in Drosophila melanogaster. Mol. Gen. Genet. 261: 553-557.

Simmons, A.J., J.M. Rawls, J. Piškur and J.N. Davidson (1999) A mutation that uncouples allosteric regulation of carbamyl phosphate synthetase in Drosophila. J. Mol. Biol. 287: 277-286.

Groth, C., J. Hansen, and J. Piškur (1999) A natural chimeric yeast containing genetic material from three species. Int. J. System. Bacteriol. 49: 1933-1938.

Petersen, R.F., T. Nilsson-Tillgren and J. Piškur (1999) Karyotypes of Saccharomyces sensu lato species. Int. J. System. Bacteriol. 49: 1925-1931.

Aleksenko, A., W. Liu, Z. Gojkovic, J. Nielsen and J. Piškur (1999) Structural and transcriptional analysis of the pyrABCN, pyrD and pyrF genes in Aspergillus nidulans and the evolutionary origin of fungal dihydroorotases. Mol. Microbiol. 33: 599-611.

Naumov, G.I. and J. Piškur (1999) Pheromone activity of collection strains of the Saccharomyces sensu lato yeasts. Microbiologia (Moscow) 68 (N6): 859-862.

Marinoni, G., M. Manuel, R.F. Petersen, J. Hvidtfeldt, P. Sulo and J. Piškur (1999) Horizontal transfer of genetic material among Saccharomyces yeasts. J. Bacteriol. 181: 6488-6496.

2000                                                                                                                        
Gojkovic, Z., K. Jahnke, K. Schnackerz and J. Piškur (2000) PYD2 encodes 5,6-dihydropyrimidine aminohydrolase which participates in a novel fungal catabolic pathway. J. Mol. Biol. 295: 1073-1087.

Munch-Petersen, B., W. Knecht, C. Lenz, L. Sřndergaard and J. Piškur (2000) Functional expression of a multisubstrate deoxyribonucleoside kinase from Drosophila melanogaster and its C-terminal deletion mutants. J. Biol. Chem. 275: 6673-6679.

Petersen R.F., G. Marinoni, M.L. Nielsen and J. Piškur (2000) Molecular approaches for analysing diversity and phylogeny among yeast species. Contrib. Microbiol. (Karger, Basel) 5: 15-35.

Knecht, W., B. Munch-Petersen and J. Piškur (2000) Identification of residues involved in the specificity and regulation of the Drosophila ultrafast multisubstrate deoxyribonucleoside kinase. J. Mol. Biol. 301: 827-837. 

Groth, C., R.F. Petersen and J. Piškur (2000) Diversity in organisation and the origin of gene orders in the mitochondrial DNA molecules of the genus Saccharomyces. Mol. Biol. Evol. 17: 1833-1841.

Spirek, M., A. Horvath, J. Piškur and P. Sulo (2000) Functional cooperation between the nuclei of Saccharomyces cerevisiae and mitochondria from other yeast species. Curr. Genet. 38: 202-207

Langkjćr, R.B., M.L. Nielsen, P.R. Daugaard, W. Liu and J. Piškur (2000) Yeast chromosomes have been significantly reshaped during their evolutionary history. J. Mol. Biol 304: 271-288.

Kristoffersen, P., G.B. Jensen, K. Gerdes and J. Piškur (2000) Bacterial toxin-antitoxin gene system as containment control in yeast cells. Appl. Environ. Microbiol. 66: 5524 - 5526.

Knecht, W., B. Munch-Petersen, and J. Piškur (2000) Polyclonal Antibodies against the ultrafast multisubstrate deoxyribonucleoside kinase from Drosophila melanogaster. In: Purine and Pyrimidine Metabolism in Man X (E. Zoref-Shani and O. Sperling, Eds.), Kluyver Academic / Plenum Press, New York.

2001                                                                                                                        
Mřller,K., L. Olsson, and J. Piškur (2001) Ability for anaerobic growth is not sufficient for development of the petite phenotype in Saccharomyces yeasts. J. Bacteriol. J. Bacteriol. 183: 2485-2489.

Piškur, J. (2001) Origin of the duplicated regions in the yeast genomes. Trends Genet. 17: 302-303.

Gojkovic, Z., M. Sandrini and J. Piškur (2001) Eukaryotic -alanine synthases are functionally related but have a high degree of structural diversity. Genetics 158: 999-1011.

Johansson, K., S. Ramaswamy, C. Ljungcrantz, W. Knecht, J. Piškur, B. Munch-Petersen, S. Eriksson and H. Eklund (2001) Structural basis for substrate specificities of cellular deoxyribonucleoside kinases. Nature Structural Biology 8: 616-620.

Mřller, K., L. Tidemand, J.R. Winther, L. Olsson, J. Piškur and J. Nielsen (2001) Production of a heterologous proteinase A by Saccharomyces klyveri. Appl. Microbiol. Biotechnol 57: 216-219.

2002                                                                                                                        
Mřller, K., B. Cristensen, J. Forster, J. Piškur, J. Nielsen and L. Olsson (2002) Aerobic glucose metabolism of Saccharomyces kluyveri: Growth, metabolite production and quantification of metabolic fluxes. Biotechnol. Bioeng. 77: 186 – 193.

Knecht, W, G.E. Petersen G.E.,B. Munch-Petersen and J. Piškur (2002) Deoxyribonucleoside kinases belonging to the thymidine kinase 2 (TK2)-like group vary significantly in substrate specificity, kinetics and feed-back regulation. J. Mol. Biol. 315: 529-540.

Mřller K., C. Bro, J. Piškur, J. Nielsen and L. Olsson (2002) Steady-state and transient-state analyses of aerobic fermentation in Saccharomyces kluyveri. FEMS Yeast Research 2: 233-244.

Knecht, W., M.P.B. Sandrini, K. Johansson, H. Eklund, B. Munch-Petersen and J. Piškur (2002) A few amino acid substitutions can convert deoxyribonucleoside kinase specificity from pyrimidines to purines. EMBO J 21: 1873-1880.

Petersen, R.F., R.B. Langkjćr, J. Hvidtfeldt, J. Gartner, W. Palmen, D.W. Ussery and J. Piškur (2002) In heritance and organisation of the mitochondrial genome differ between two Saccharomyces yeasts. J. Mol. Biol. 318: 627 – 636.

Ullrich A., W. Knecht, J. Piškur and M. Loeffler (2002) Plant dihydroorotate dehydrogenase differs significantly in substrate specificity and inhibition from the animal enzymes. FEBS Letters 529: 346 – 350.

2003                                                                                                                        
Hansen, J. and J. Piškur (2003) Fungi in Brewing: Biodiversity and biotechnology perspectives. In Handbook of Fungal Biotechnology (Arora D.K., Editor). Marcel Dekker, New York, pp.: 233-248. 

Langkjćr, R.B., P.F. Cliften, M. Johnston and J. Piskur (2003) Yeast genome duplication was followed by asynchronous differentiation of duplicated genes. Nature 421: 484 - 852.

Marinoni G., J. Piškur and M.A. Lachance (2003) Ascospores of large-spored Metschnikowia species are genuine meiotic products of these yeasts. FEMS Yeast Research 3: 85 – 90.

Gojkovic, Z., L. Rislund, B. Andersen, M.P.B. Sandrini, P.F. Cook, K.D. Schnackerz and J. Piškur (2003) Dihydropyrimidine amidohydrolases and dihydroorotases share the same origin and several enzymatic properties. Nucleic Acids Res. 31: 1683-1692.

Knecht, W., G.E. Petersen, M.P.B. Sandrini, L. Sřndergaard, B. Munch-Petersen and J. Piškur (2003) Mosquito has a single multisubstrate deoxyribonucleoside kinase characterised by unique substrate specificity. Nucleic Acids Res. 31: 1665-1672. 

Mikkelsen, N.E., K. Johansson, A. Karlsson, W. Knecht, G. Andersen, J. Piškur, B. Munch-Petrsen and H. Eklund (2003) Structural basis for feedback inhibition of the deoxyribonucleoside salvage pathway: Studies of the Drosophila deoxyribonucleoside kinase. Biochemistry 42: 5706–5712.

Langkjćr, R.B., S. Casaregola, D.W. Ussery, C. Gaillardin and J. Piškur (2003) Sequence analysis of three mitochondrial DNA molecules reveals interesting differences among Saccharomyces yeasts. Nucleic Acids Res. 31: 3081-3091.

Spirek, M., J. Yang, C. Groth, R.F. Petersen, R.B. Langkjćr, E.S. Naumova, P. Sulo, G.I. Naumov and J. Piškur (2003) High-rate evolution of Saccharomyces sensu lato chromosomes. FEMS Yeast Res. 3: 363-373.

Dobritzsch, D., Z. Gojkovic, B. Andersen and J. Piškur (2003) Crystallization and preliminary X-ray analysis of -alanine synthase from the yeast Saccharomyces kluyveri. Acta Cryst. D59: 1267 – 1269. 

Vernis, L., J. Piškur and J.F. Diffley (2003) Reconstruction of an efficient thymidine salvage pathway in Saccharomyces cerevisiae. Nucleic Acids Res. 31: e120.

Lundgren, S., Z. Gojkovic, J. Piskur and D. Dobritzsch (2003) Yeast -alanine synthase shares structural scaffold and origin with di-zinc-dependent exopeptidases. J. Biol. Chem. 278: 51851 – 51862.

Sulo, P., M. Spirek, A. Soltesova, G. Marinoni and J. Piškur (2003) The efficiency of functional mitochondrial replacement in Saccharomyces species has directional character. FEMS Yeast Res. 1567: 1-8.

Hansen, J., T. Felding, P.F. Johannesen, J. Piškur, C.L. Christensen and K. Olesen (2003) Further development of the casette-based pYC plasmid system by incorporation of the dominant hph, nat and AUR1-C gene markers and the lacZ reporter system. FEMS Yeast Res. 4: 323-327.

2004                                                                                                                        
Mřller, K., R.B. Langkjćr, J. Nielsen, J. Piškur and L. Olsson (2004) Pyruvate decarboxylases from the petite-negative yeast Saccharomyces kluyveri. Mol. Genet. Genomics 270: 558–568.
Gojković, Z., W. Knecht, E. Zameitat, J. Warneboldt, J.-B. Coutelis, Y. Pynyaha, C. Neuveglise, K. Mřller, M. Löffler and J. Piškur (2004) Horizontal gene transfer promoted the evolution of the ability to propagate under anaerobic conditions in yeasts. Mol. Genet. Genomics 271: 387-393.

Piškur, J., M.P. Sandrini, W. Knecht and B. Munch-Petersen(2004) Animal deoxyribonucleoside kinases: ‘forward’ and ‘retrograde’ evolution of their substrate specificity. FEBS Lett. 560: 3-6.

Zameitat, E., W. Knecht, J. Piškur and M. Löffler (2004) Two different dihydroorotate dehydrogenases from yeast Saccharomyces kluyveri. FEBS Lett. 268: 129-134.

Piškur, J. and R.B. Langkjćr (2004) Yeast genome sequencing: the power of comparative genomics. Mol. Microbiol. 53: 381-389.

2005                                                                                                                        
Mentel, M., J. Piškur, C. Neuveglise, A. Rycovska, G. Cellengova and J. Kolarov (2005) Triplicate genes for mitochondrial ADP/ATP carriers in the aerobic yeast Yarrowia lipolytica are regulated differentially in the absence of oxygen. Mol. Genet. Genomics 273: 84-91.

Sandrini, M.P.B. and J. Piškur (2005) Deoxyribonucleoside kinases: two enzyme families catalyze the same reaction. Trends Biochem. Sci. 30: 225- 228.

Dobritzsch, D., B. Andersen and J. Piškur (2005) Crystallization and X-ray diffraction analysis of dihydropyrimidinase from Saccharomyces kluyveri. Acta Cryst. F61: 359-362.

Welin, M., Skovgaard T., Knecht, W., Zhu, C., Berenstein, D., Munch-Petersen, B., Piskur, J. and Eklund, J. (2005) Structural basis for the changed substrate specificity of Drosophila melanogaster deoxyribonucleoside kinase mutant N64D. FEBS J. 272:3733- 3742.

2006                                                                                                                        
Piskur, J., Rozpedowska E., Polakova, S., Merico, A. and Compagno C. (2006) How did Saccharomyces yeasts evolve to become a good brewer? Trends Genet 22: 183-186.

Legent, K., Mas, M., Dutriaux, A., Bertrandy, S., Flagiello, D., Delanoue, R., Piskur, J. And Silber, J. (2006) In vivo analysis of Drosophila deoxyribonucleoside kinase function in cell cycle, cell survival and anti-cancer drugs resistance. Cell Cycle 5: 740-749.

Sandrini, M.P.B., Clausen, A.R., Munch-Petersen, B. and Piskur, J. (2006) Thymidine kinase diversity in bacteria. Nucleosides, Nucleotides and Nucleic Acids 25: 1153-1158.

Clausen, A.R., Matakos, A., Sandrini, M.P.B., and Piskur, J. (2006) Thymidine kinases in archaea. Nucleosides, Nucleotides and Nucleic Acids 25: 1159-1163.

Andersen, G., Merico, A., Björnberg, O., Andersen, B., Schnackerz, K.D., Dobritzsch, D., Piskur, J., and Compagno, C. (2006) Catabolism of pyrimidines in yeast: a tool to understand degradation of anti-cancer drugs. Nucleosides, Nucleotides and Nucleic Acids 25: 991-996.

Lohkamp, B., Andersen, B., Piskur, J. and Dobritzsch, D (2006) Purification, crystallization and X-ray diffraction analysis of dyhydropyrimidinase from Dictyostelium discoideum. Acta Cryst. F 62: 36-38.

Lohkamp, B., Andersen, B., Piskur, J., and Dobritzsch, D. (2006) The crystal structure of dihydropyrimiidnases reaffirm the close relationship between cyclic amidohydrolases and explain their substrate specificity. J. Biol. Chem. 281-13762-13776.

Zameitat, E., Gojkovic, Z., Knecht, W., Piskur, J. and Löffler, . (2006) Biochemical characterization of recombinant dihydroorotate dehydrogenase from the opportunistic pathogenic yeast Candida albicans. FEBS J. 273: 3183-3191.

Mentel, M., Spirek, M, Joerck-Ramberg, D. and Piskur J. (2006) Transfer of genetic material between pathogenic and foodborne yeasts. Appl. Environ. Microbiol. 72:5122-5125.

Sunnehagen, P., and Piskur, J., Editors (2006) Comparative genomics using fungi as models. Topics in Current Genetics, Vol. 15, Springer, Berlin.

Kurtzman, C.P. and Piskur, J. (2006) Taxonomy and phylogenetic diversity among the yeasts. Topics in Current genetics (Comparative genomics using fungi as models, Sunnerhagen, P. and Piskur, J., Eds.) 15: 29 – 46, Springer, Berlin.

Munch-Petersen, B. and Piskur, J. (2006) Deoxynucleoside kinases and their potential role in deoxynucleoside cytotoxicity. In Deoxynucleoside analogs in cancer therapy (Peters, G.J., Ed.). Humana Press, Totowa, New Jersey.


2007                                                                                                                        
Merico, A., Sulo, P., Piskur, J. and Compagno, C. (2007) Fermentative life style in the Saccharomyces complex yeasts. FEBS J 274: 976-989.

Evander, M., Johansson, L., Lilliehorn, T., Piskur, J., Lindvall, M., Johansson, S., Almqvist, M., Laurell, T. and Nilsson, J. (2007) Noninvasive acoustic cell trapping in a microfluidic perfusion system for online bioassays. Anal. Chem. 79: 2984-2991. 

Woolfit, M., Rozpedowska, E., Piskur, J. and Wolfe, K.H. (2007) Genome survey sequencing of the wine spoilage yeast Dekkera (Brettanomyces) bruxellensis. Eukaryote Cell 6: 721-733.

Kosinska, U., Carnrot, C., Sandrini, M.P.B., Clausen, A.R., Wang, L., Piskur, J., Eriksson, S. and Eklund H. (2007) Structural studies of thymidine kinases from Bacillus anthracis and Bacillus cereus provide insights into quaternary structure and conformational changes upon substrate binding. FEBS J 274: 727-737.

Andersen, G, Andersen, B., Dobritzsch, D., Schnackerz, K.D. and Piškur, J. (2007) A gene duplication led to specialized gamma-aminobutyrate and beta-alanine aminotransferase in yeast. FEBS J 274: 1804-1817.

Sandrini, M.P.B., Söderbom, F., Mikkelsen, N.E., Eklund, H. And Piskur J. (2007) Dictyostelium discoideum salvages purine deoxyribonucleosides by highly specific bacteria-like deoxyribonulceoside kinases J. Mol. Biol. 369: 653-664.

Sandrini, M.P.B., Shannon, O., Clausen, A.R., Björck, L. and Piskur, J. (2007) Deoxyribonucleoside kinases activate nucleoside-based antibiotics in clinically important staphylococci and streptococci. Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy 51: 2726-2732.

Piskur, J., Schnackerz, K.D., Andersen, G. and Björnberg, O. (2007) Comparative genomics helps to elucidate novel biochemical pathways. Trends Genet 23: 369-372.

Sandrini, M.P.B., Clausen, A.R., On, S.L.W., Aarestrup, M., Munch-Petersen, B. and Piskur, J. (2007) Nucleoside analogs are activated by bacterial deoxyribonucleoside kinases and can serve as species specific antibiotics. Journal of Antimicrobial Chemotherapy 60: 510-520.

Knecht, W., Rozpedowska, E., Le Breton, C., Willer, M., Gojkovic, Z., Sandrini, M.P.B., Joergensen, T., Hasholt, L. Munch-Petersen, B. and Piskur, J. (2007) Drosophila deoxyribonucleoside kinase mutants with enhanced ability to phosphorylate purine analogs. Gene Therapy 14: 1278-1286.

Fekete, V., Cierna, M., Polakova, S., Piskur, J. and Sulo, P. (2007) Transition of the ability to generate petites in the Saccharomyces/Kluyveromyces complex. FEMS Yeast 7: 1237-1247.

Lundgren, S., Andersen, B., Piskur, J. and Dobritzsch, D. (2007)Crystallization and preliminary X-ray data analysis of beta-alanine synthase from Drosophila melanogaster. Acta Crystalogr Sect F Struct Biol Cryst Commun 63: 874-877.

Lundgren, S., Andersen, B., Piskur, J. and Dobritzsch D. (2007)Crystal structures of yeast beta-alanine synthase complexes reaveal the mode of substrate binding and large scale domain closure movements. J Biol Chem 282: 36037-36047.

2008                                                                                                                        
Lundgren, S., Lohkamp, B., Andersen, B., Piskur, J. and Dobritzsch D. (2008) The crystal structure of beta-alanine synthase from Drosophila melanogaster reveals a homooctameric helical turn-like assembly. J Mol Biol 377:1544-1559. 

Andersen, B., Lundgren, S., Dobritzsch, D. and Piskur, J. (2008) A recruited protease is involved in catabolism of nucleic acid precursors. J Mol Biol 379: 243-520.

Andersen, G., Björnberg, O., Polakova, S. Pynyaha, Y. Rasmussen, A., Moeller K., Hofer, A., Merico, A., Compagno, C., Gojkovic, Z. and Piskur J. (2008) A novel pathway for degradation of nucleic acid precursors. J Mol Biol 380: 656-666.

Hellborg, L., Woolfit, M. Arthursson-Hellborg, M. and Piskur, J. (2008) Complex evolution of the DAL5 transporter family. BMC Genomics 9: 164.

Beck, H., Dobritzsch, D. and Piskur, J. (2008) Saccharomyces kluyveri as a model organism to study pyrimidine degradation. FEMS Yeast Res (in press)

Clausen, A.R., Girandon, L., Knecht, W., Survery, S., Andreasson, E., Munch-Petersen, B. and Piskur, J. (2008) A multisubstrate deoxyribonucleoside kinase from plants. Nucleic Acids Symp Ser (Oxford) 52: 489-490.

Schnackerz, K.D., Andersen, G., Dobritzsch, D. And Piskur, J. (2008) Degradation of pyrimidines in Saccharomyces kluyveri: transamination of beta-alanine. Nucleosides Nucleotides Nucleic Acids 27: 794-799.

Hellborg, L. and Piskur, J. (2008) Complex and dynamic nature of the genome in native isolates of a wine-spoilage yeast Dekkera bruxellensis. (submitted)

Knecht, W., Mikkelsen, N.E., Clausen, A.R., Willer, M. Eklund, H., Gojkovic, Z. and Piskur J. (2008) Drosophila melanogaster deoxyribonucleoside kinase successfully activates anti-cancer drug gemcitabine. (submitted)

Liljas, A., Liljas, L., Kjeldgaard, M., Lindblom, G., Nissen, P., and Piskur, J. (2008) Structural Biology, a text-book. World Scientific, Singapore (in press).

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