List of works - Jure Piškur

"This is not an apple"-yeast mutualism in codling moth

scientific article

A few amino acid substitutions can convert deoxyribonucleoside kinase specificity from pyrimidines to purines

scientific article published on April 2002

A gene duplication led to specialized gamma-aminobutyrate and beta-alanine aminotransferase in yeast

scientific article published on 12 March 2007

A multisubstrate deoxyribonucleoside kinase from plants.

scientific article

A recruited protease is involved in catabolism of pyrimidines

scientific article

A second pathway to degrade pyrimidine nucleic acid precursors in eukaryotes.

scientific article

Aerobic glucose metabolism of Saccharomyces kluyveri: growth, metabolite production, and quantification of metabolic fluxes

scientific article published in January 2002

Ascospores of large-spored species are genuine meiotic products of these yeasts ⬇️

scientific article published on March 1, 2003

Bacterial deoxyribonucleoside kinases are poor suicide genes in mammalian cells.

scientific article

Complex evolution of the DAL5 transporter family

scientific article

Complex nature of the genome in a wine spoilage yeast, Dekkera bruxellensis

scientific article published on 28 August 2009

Crystal structures of yeast beta-alanine synthase complexes reveal the mode of substrate binding and large scale domain closure movements

scientific article

Crystallization and X-ray diffraction analysis of dihydropyrimidinase from Saccharomyces kluyveri.

scientific article published on 12 March 2005

Crystallization and preliminary X-ray analysis of beta-alanine synthase from the yeast Saccharomyces kluyveri

scientific article published on 27 June 2003

Crystallization and preliminary X-ray data analysis of beta-alanine synthase from Drosophila melanogaster.

scientific article

Deoxyribonucleoside kinases activate nucleoside antibiotics in severely pathogenic bacteria

scientific article published on 25 May 2007

Deoxyribonucleoside kinases belonging to the thymidine kinase 2 (TK2)-like group vary significantly in substrate specificity, kinetics and feed-back regulation

scientific article published on January 2002

Deoxyribonucleoside kinases: two enzyme families catalyze the same reaction

scientific article published in May 2005

Dihydropyrimidine amidohydrolases and dihydroorotases share the same origin and several enzymatic properties

scientific article

Drosophila melanogaster deoxyribonucleoside kinase activates gemcitabine

scientific article

Elucidation of the sex-pheromone biosynthesis producing 5,7-dodecadienes in Dendrolimus punctatus (Lepidoptera: Lasiocampidae) reveals Delta 11- and Delta 9-desaturases with unusual catalytic properties

scientific article published on 18 April 2010

Formation of new chromosomes as a virulence mechanism in yeast Candida glabrata

scholarly article

Genome survey sequencing of the wine spoilage yeast Dekkera (Brettanomyces) bruxellensis

scientific article published on 2 February 2007

High complexity and degree of genetic variation in Brettanomyces bruxellensis population

scientific article published on 17 April 2020

How did Saccharomyces evolve to become a good brewer?

scientific article

Improvement of thermotolerance in Lachancea thermotolerans using a bacterial selection pressure

scientific article published on 28 November 2018

In vivo analysis of Drosophila deoxyribonucleoside kinase function in cell cycle, cell survival and anti-cancer drugs resistance.

scientific article published in April 2006

Mitochondrial genome from the facultative anaerobe and petite-positive yeast Dekkera bruxellensis contains the NADH dehydrogenase subunit genes

scientific article published on 10 May 2010

Mosquito has a single multisubstrate deoxyribonucleoside kinase characterized by unique substrate specificity

scientific article

Nucleoside analogues are activated by bacterial deoxyribonucleoside kinases in a species-specific manner

scientific article

Parallel evolution of the make-accumulate-consume strategy in Saccharomyces and Dekkera yeasts.

scientific article published on January 2011

Plant dihydroorotate dehydrogenase differs significantly in substrate specificity and inhibition from the animal enzymes

scientific article published in October 2002

Plant thymidine kinase 1: a novel efficient suicide gene for malignant glioma therapy

scientific article

Purification, crystallization and X-ray diffraction analysis of dihydropyrimidinase from Dictyostelium discoideum

scientific article published on 16 December 2005

RNAi as a Tool to Study Virulence in the Pathogenic Yeast Candida glabrata

scientific article published on 24 July 2019

Reconstitution of an efficient thymidine salvage pathway in Saccharomyces cerevisiae

scientific article

Saccharomyces kluyveri as a model organism to study pyrimidine degradation

scientific article published on 19 September 2008

Steady-state and transient-state analyses of aerobic fermentation in Saccharomyces kluyveri.

scientific article published in May 2002

Structural Basis for Feedback Inhibition of the Deoxyribonucleoside Salvage Pathway: Studies of the Drosophila Deoxyribonucleoside Kinase ⬇️

scientific article (publication date: 20 May 2003)

Structural basis for the changed substrate specificity of Drosophila melanogaster deoxyribonucleoside kinase mutant N64D.

scientific article published on July 2005

Structural studies of thymidine kinases from Bacillus anthracis and Bacillus cereus provide insights into quaternary structure and conformational changes upon substrate binding

scientific article

The crystal structure of Streptococcus pyogenes uridine phosphorylase reveals a distinct subfamily of nucleoside phosphorylases ⬇️

scientific article published on July 8, 2011

The crystal structure of beta-alanine synthase from Drosophila melanogaster reveals a homooctameric helical turn-like assembly

scientific article

The crystal structures of dihydropyrimidinases reaffirm the close relationship between cyclic amidohydrolases and explain their substrate specificity.

scientific article published on 3 March 2006

The oxygen level determines the fermentation pattern in Kluyveromyces lactis.

scientific article published on 6 May 2009

Transfer of genetic material between pathogenic and food-borne yeasts

scientific article

Two different dihydroorotate dehydrogenases from yeast Saccharomyces kluyveri

scientific article

Yeast "make-accumulate-consume" life strategy evolved as a multi-step process that predates the whole genome duplication

scientific article

Yeast genome sequencing: the power of comparative genomics

scientific article published in July 2004

Yeast β-Alanine Synthase Shares a Structural Scaffold and Origin with Dizinc-dependent Exopeptidases ⬇️

scientific article published on October 8, 2003

List of works by Jure Piškur

"This is not an apple"-yeast mutualism in codling moth

A few amino acid substitutions can convert deoxyribonucleoside kinase specificity from pyrimidines to purines

A gene duplication led to specialized gamma-aminobutyrate and beta-alanine aminotransferase in yeast

A multisubstrate deoxyribonucleoside kinase from plants.

A recruited protease is involved in catabolism of pyrimidines

A second pathway to degrade pyrimidine nucleic acid precursors in eukaryotes.

Aerobic glucose metabolism of Saccharomyces kluyveri: growth, metabolite production, and quantification of metabolic fluxes

Ascospores of large-spored species are genuine meiotic products of these yeasts ⬇️

Bacterial deoxyribonucleoside kinases are poor suicide genes in mammalian cells.

Complex evolution of the DAL5 transporter family

Complex nature of the genome in a wine spoilage yeast, Dekkera bruxellensis

Crystal structures of yeast beta-alanine synthase complexes reveal the mode of substrate binding and large scale domain closure movements

Crystallization and X-ray diffraction analysis of dihydropyrimidinase from Saccharomyces kluyveri.

Crystallization and preliminary X-ray analysis of beta-alanine synthase from the yeast Saccharomyces kluyveri

Crystallization and preliminary X-ray data analysis of beta-alanine synthase from Drosophila melanogaster.

Deoxyribonucleoside kinases activate nucleoside antibiotics in severely pathogenic bacteria

Deoxyribonucleoside kinases belonging to the thymidine kinase 2 (TK2)-like group vary significantly in substrate specificity, kinetics and feed-back regulation

Deoxyribonucleoside kinases: two enzyme families catalyze the same reaction

Dihydropyrimidine amidohydrolases and dihydroorotases share the same origin and several enzymatic properties

Drosophila melanogaster deoxyribonucleoside kinase activates gemcitabine

Elucidation of the sex-pheromone biosynthesis producing 5,7-dodecadienes in Dendrolimus punctatus (Lepidoptera: Lasiocampidae) reveals Delta 11- and Delta 9-desaturases with unusual catalytic properties

Formation of new chromosomes as a virulence mechanism in yeast Candida glabrata

Genome survey sequencing of the wine spoilage yeast Dekkera (Brettanomyces) bruxellensis

High complexity and degree of genetic variation in Brettanomyces bruxellensis population

How did Saccharomyces evolve to become a good brewer?

Improvement of thermotolerance in Lachancea thermotolerans using a bacterial selection pressure

In vivo analysis of Drosophila deoxyribonucleoside kinase function in cell cycle, cell survival and anti-cancer drugs resistance.

Mitochondrial genome from the facultative anaerobe and petite-positive yeast Dekkera bruxellensis contains the NADH dehydrogenase subunit genes

Mosquito has a single multisubstrate deoxyribonucleoside kinase characterized by unique substrate specificity

Nucleoside analogues are activated by bacterial deoxyribonucleoside kinases in a species-specific manner

Parallel evolution of the make-accumulate-consume strategy in Saccharomyces and Dekkera yeasts.

Plant dihydroorotate dehydrogenase differs significantly in substrate specificity and inhibition from the animal enzymes

Plant thymidine kinase 1: a novel efficient suicide gene for malignant glioma therapy

Purification, crystallization and X-ray diffraction analysis of dihydropyrimidinase from Dictyostelium discoideum

RNAi as a Tool to Study Virulence in the Pathogenic Yeast Candida glabrata

Reconstitution of an efficient thymidine salvage pathway in Saccharomyces cerevisiae

Saccharomyces kluyveri as a model organism to study pyrimidine degradation

Steady-state and transient-state analyses of aerobic fermentation in Saccharomyces kluyveri.

Structural Basis for Feedback Inhibition of the Deoxyribonucleoside Salvage Pathway: Studies of the Drosophila Deoxyribonucleoside Kinase ⬇️

Structural basis for the changed substrate specificity of Drosophila melanogaster deoxyribonucleoside kinase mutant N64D.

Structural studies of thymidine kinases from Bacillus anthracis and Bacillus cereus provide insights into quaternary structure and conformational changes upon substrate binding

The crystal structure of Streptococcus pyogenes uridine phosphorylase reveals a distinct subfamily of nucleoside phosphorylases ⬇️

The crystal structure of beta-alanine synthase from Drosophila melanogaster reveals a homooctameric helical turn-like assembly

The crystal structures of dihydropyrimidinases reaffirm the close relationship between cyclic amidohydrolases and explain their substrate specificity.

The oxygen level determines the fermentation pattern in Kluyveromyces lactis.

Transfer of genetic material between pathogenic and food-borne yeasts

Two different dihydroorotate dehydrogenases from yeast Saccharomyces kluyveri

Yeast "make-accumulate-consume" life strategy evolved as a multi-step process that predates the whole genome duplication

Yeast genome sequencing: the power of comparative genomics

Yeast β-Alanine Synthase Shares a Structural Scaffold and Origin with Dizinc-dependent Exopeptidases ⬇️