List of works - Peter Maček

A Cytolethal Distending Toxin Variant from Aggregatibacter actinomycetemcomitans with an Aberrant CdtB That Lacks the Conserved Catalytic Histidine 160.

scientific article

A common motif in proparts of Cnidarian toxins and nematocyst collagens and its putative role

scientific article published in February 2000

A new cytolytic protein from the sea anemone Urticina crassicornis that binds to cholesterol- and sphingomyelin-rich membranes

scientific article

A new phospholipase A2 isolated from the sea anemone Urticina crassicornis - its primary structure and phylogenetic classification.

scientific article published in June 2010

A novel mechanism of pore formation: membrane penetration by the N-terminal amphipathic region of equinatoxin

scientific article published on 2 April 2003

A toxin-based probe reveals cytoplasmic exposure of Golgi sphingomyelin

scientific article published on 12 May 2010

AFM imaging of surface adsorbed polymeric 3-alkylpyridinium salts from the marine sponge Reniera sarai

scientific article published on 01 December 1999

Acid- and base-induced conformational transitions of equinatoxin II.

scientific article published in April 2001

Aegerolysins: Lipid-binding proteins with versatile functions

scientific article

Anticholinesterase activity of the fluorescent zoanthid pigment, parazoanthoxanthin A.

scientific article

Antiparasite activity of sea-anemone cytolysins onGiardia duodenalis and specific targeting withanti-Giardia antibodies

scientific article published on 01 March 1999

Avidin-FITC topological studies with three cysteine mutants of equinatoxin II, a sea anemone pore-forming protein

scientific article published on 01 January 1998

Biochemical and cytotoxic properties of conjugates of transferrin with equinatoxin II, a cytolysin from a sea anemone

scientific article published in March 1995

Ceramide phosphoethanolamine, an enigmatic cellular membrane sphingolipid

scientific article published on 05 May 2019

Chemical modification of equinatoxin II, a lethal and cytolytic toxin from the sea anemone Actinia equina L.

scientific article published on January 1989

Cysteine-scanning mutagenesis of an eukaryotic pore-forming toxin from sea anemone: topology in lipid membranes

scientific article published in July 1999

Cytolytic peptide and protein toxins from sea anemones (Anthozoa: Actiniaria).

scientific article

Cytotoxicity of equinatoxin II from the sea anemone Actinia equina involves ion channel formation and an increase in intracellular calcium activity

scientific article published on 01 December 1990

Dissecting the Actinoporin Pore-Forming Mechanism ⬇️

scientific article published on November 1, 2003

EPR and FTIR studies reveal the importance of highly ordered sterol-enriched membrane domains for ostreolysin activity

Effect of pH on the pore forming activity and conformational stability of ostreolysin, a lipid raft-binding protein from the edible mushroom Pleurotus ostreatus.

scientific article

Effect of the ostreolysin A/pleurotolysin B pore-forming complex on intracellular Ca2+ activity in the vascular smooth muscle cell line A10.

scientific article published on 27 August 2015

Equinatoxins, pore-forming proteins from the sea anemone Actinia equina, belong to a multigene family

scientific article published in October 1999

Ethanol- and acetonitrile-induced inhibition of water diffusional permeability across bovine red blood cell membrane.

scientific article published on May 1995

Fluorescence studies of the effect of pH, guanidine hydrochloride and urea on equinatoxin II conformation

scientific article published on 01 April 1996

Fungal MACPF-like proteins and aegerolysins: bi-component pore-forming proteins?

scientific article

Fungal aegerolysin-like proteins: distribution, activities, and applications

scientific article

Highly Selective Anti-Cancer Activity of Cholesterol-Interacting Agents Methyl-β-Cyclodextrin and Ostreolysin A/Pleurotolysin B Protein Complex on Urothelial Cancer Cells

scientific article

Inhibition of acetylcholinesterase by a pseudozoanthoxanthin-like compound isolated from the zoanthid Parazoanthus axinellae (O. Schmidt).

scientific article published in February 1995

Interaction of 3-alkylpyridinium polymers from the sea sponge Reniera sarai with insect acetylcholinesterase.

scientific article published in April 1999

Interaction of human stefin B in the prefibrillar oligomeric form with membranes. Correlation with cellular toxicity

scientific article published in June 2005

Interaction of ostreolysin, a cytolytic protein from the edible mushroom Pleurotus ostreatus, with lipid membranes and modulation by lysophospholipids

scientific article published on 01 March 2003

Interaction of the eukaryotic pore-forming cytolysin equinatoxin II with model membranes: 19F NMR studies

scientific article published on 18 January 2005

Interaction of the pore-forming protein equinatoxin II with model lipid membranes: A calorimetric and spectroscopic study

scientific article published on 01 November 1999

Intrinsic tryptophan fluorescence of equinatoxin II, a pore-forming polypeptide from the sea anemone Actinia equina L, monitors its interaction with lipid membranes

scientific article published in November 1995

Isolation and characterization of three lethal and hemolytic toxins from the sea anemone Actinia equina L

scientific article published on 01 January 1988

Isolation and partial characterization of three lethal and hemolytic toxins from the sea anemone Actinia cari

scientific article published on 01 January 1982

Kinetically Stable Triglyceride-Based Nanodroplets and Their Interactions with Lipid-Specific Proteins

scientific article published on 19 July 2018

Kinetics of cholesterol extraction from lipid membranes by methyl-beta-cyclodextrin--a surface plasmon resonance approach

scientific article published on 4 October 2007

Kinetics of hemolysis induced by equinatoxin, a cytolytic toxin from the sea anemone Actinia equina. Effect of some ions and pH

scientific article published on 01 January 1981

Liquid-ordered phase formation in cholesterol/sphingomyelin bilayers: all-atom molecular dynamics simulations

scientific article published in December 2009

Lysine 77 is a Key Residue in Aggregation of Equinatoxin II, a Pore-forming Toxin from Sea Anemone Actinia equina

scientific article published in January 2000

Lysophospholipids prevent binding of a cytolytic protein ostreolysin to cholesterol-enriched membrane domains

scientific article published on 18 March 2008

Membrane cholesterol and sphingomyelin, and ostreolysin A are obligatory for pore-formation by a MACPF/CDC-like pore-forming protein, pleurotolysin B.

scientific article

Membrane damage by an α-helical pore-forming protein, Equinatoxin II, proceeds through a succession of ordered steps

scientific article

Membrane insertion of the N-terminal alpha-helix of equinatoxin II, a sea anemone cytolytic toxin.

scientific article

Molecular Determinants of Sphingomyelin Specificity of a Eukaryotic Pore-forming Toxin

scientific article published in Journal of Biological Chemistry

N-terminal truncation mutagenesis of equinatoxin II, a pore-forming protein from the sea anemone Actinia equina.

scientific article published on July 1997

Ostreolysin affects rat aorta ring tension and endothelial cell viability in vitro.

scientific article

Ostreolysin enhances fruiting initiation in the oyster mushroom (Pleurotus ostreatus).

scientific article published on 19 September 2007

Ostreolysin induces sustained contraction of porcine coronary arteries and endothelial dysfunction in middle- and large-sized vessels.

scientific article

Ostreolysin, a pore-forming protein from the oyster mushroom, interacts specifically with membrane cholesterol-rich lipid domains.

scientific article published in September 2004

Ostreopexin: a hemopexin fold protein from the oyster mushroom, Pleurotus ostreatus

scientific article published on 06 April 2013

Peeking into a secret world of pore-forming toxins: membrane binding processes studied by surface plasmon resonance.

scientific article published on September 2003

Permeability characteristics of cell-membrane pores induced by ostreolysin A/pleurotolysin B, binary pore-forming proteins from the oyster mushroom

scientific article published on 5 November 2013

Pitfalls in Size Characterization of Soft Particles by Dynamic Light Scattering Online Coupled to Asymmetrical Flow Field-Flow Fractionation.

scientific article published on 4 October 2017

Pleurotus and Agrocybe hemolysins, new proteins hypothetically involved in fungal fruiting.

scientific article

Pore formation by actinoporins, cytolysins from sea anemones

scientific article published on 06 September 2015

Pore formation by equinatoxin II, a eukaryotic protein toxin, occurs by induction of nonlamellar lipid structures

scientific article published on 27 August 2003

Pore formation by equinatoxin, a eukaryotic pore-forming toxin, requires a flexible N-terminal region and a stable beta-sandwich

scientific article

Pore formation by the sea anemone cytolysin equinatoxin II in red blood cells and model lipid membranes

scientific article published on 01 January 1993

Pore-forming protein complexes from Pleurotus mushrooms kill western corn rootworm and Colorado potato beetle through targeting membrane ceramide phosphoethanolamine

scientific article published on 25 March 2019

Primary and secondary structure of a pore-forming toxin from the sea anemone, Actinia equina L., and its association with lipid vesicles

scientific article

Properties of nonfused liposomes immobilized on an L1 Biacore chip and their permeabilization by a eukaryotic pore-forming toxin

scientific article published in September 2005

Pseudozoanthoxantin-like compound from Parazoanthus axinellae Adriaticus inhibits acetylcholinesterase

scientific article published on 01 January 1996

Relationship between the cytolysins tenebrosin-C from Actinia tenebrosa and equinatoxin II from Actinia equina

scientific article published on 01 January 1992

Salt-Induced Oligomerization of Partially Folded Intermediates of Equinatoxin II†

scientific article published in July 2004

Size fractionation and size characterization of nanoemulsions of lipid droplets and large unilamellar lipid vesicles by asymmetric-flow field-flow fractionation/multi-angle light scattering and dynamic light scattering

scientific article published on 23 September 2015

Steroid structural requirements for interaction of ostreolysin, a lipid-raft binding cytolysin, with lipid monolayers and bilayers

scientific article published on 07 June 2006

Sterol and pH Interdependence in the Binding, Oligomerization, and Pore Formation of Listeriolysin O†

scientific article published on 15 March 2007

Structure-function studies of tryptophan mutants of equinatoxin II, a sea anemone pore-forming protein

scientific article published on February 2000

Suppression of red cell diffusional water permeability by lipophilic solutes.

scientific article

Synthesis and bioactivity of linear oligomers related to polymeric alkylpyridinium metabolites from the Mediterranean sponge Reniera sarai.

scientific article published in April 2004

Targeted lipid analysis of haemolytic mycelial extracts of Aspergillus niger.

scientific article published on 30 June 2014

The Pseudomonas aeruginosa RhlR-controlled aegerolysin RahU is a low-affinity rhamnolipid-binding protein

scientific journal article

The cytotoxic and cytolytic activity of equinatoxin II from the sea anemone Actinia equina.

scientific article published on November 1990

The equinatoxin N-terminus is transferred across planar lipid membranes and helps to stabilize the transmembrane pore

scientific article published on 01 January 2007

The humoral and cellular immune response to a lipid attenuated pore-forming toxin from the sea anemone Actinia equina L

scientific article published on 01 January 1994

The role of lysine, histidine and carboxyl residues in biological activity of equinatoxin II, a pore forming polypeptide from the sea anemone Actinia equina L.

scientific article published in February 1992

The role of tryptophan in structural and functional properties of equinatoxin II

scientific article published on 01 February 1992

Toxic and lethal effects of ostreolysin, a cytolytic protein from edible oyster mushroom (Pleurotus ostreatus), in rodents

scientific article published on 14 June 2006

Tracking cholesterol/sphingomyelin-rich membrane domains with the ostreolysin A-mCherry protein

scientific article

pH and temperature-induced molten globule-like denatured states of equinatoxin II: a study by UV-melting, DSC, far- and near-UV CD spectroscopy, and ANS fluorescence

scientific article published on 01 November 1997

List of works by Peter Maček

A Cytolethal Distending Toxin Variant from Aggregatibacter actinomycetemcomitans with an Aberrant CdtB That Lacks the Conserved Catalytic Histidine 160.

A common motif in proparts of Cnidarian toxins and nematocyst collagens and its putative role

A new cytolytic protein from the sea anemone Urticina crassicornis that binds to cholesterol- and sphingomyelin-rich membranes

A new phospholipase A2 isolated from the sea anemone Urticina crassicornis - its primary structure and phylogenetic classification.

A novel mechanism of pore formation: membrane penetration by the N-terminal amphipathic region of equinatoxin

A toxin-based probe reveals cytoplasmic exposure of Golgi sphingomyelin

AFM imaging of surface adsorbed polymeric 3-alkylpyridinium salts from the marine sponge Reniera sarai

Acid- and base-induced conformational transitions of equinatoxin II.

Aegerolysins: Lipid-binding proteins with versatile functions

Anticholinesterase activity of the fluorescent zoanthid pigment, parazoanthoxanthin A.

Antiparasite activity of sea-anemone cytolysins onGiardia duodenalis and specific targeting withanti-Giardia antibodies

Avidin-FITC topological studies with three cysteine mutants of equinatoxin II, a sea anemone pore-forming protein

Biochemical and cytotoxic properties of conjugates of transferrin with equinatoxin II, a cytolysin from a sea anemone

Ceramide phosphoethanolamine, an enigmatic cellular membrane sphingolipid

Chemical modification of equinatoxin II, a lethal and cytolytic toxin from the sea anemone Actinia equina L.

Cysteine-scanning mutagenesis of an eukaryotic pore-forming toxin from sea anemone: topology in lipid membranes

Cytolytic peptide and protein toxins from sea anemones (Anthozoa: Actiniaria).

Cytotoxicity of equinatoxin II from the sea anemone Actinia equina involves ion channel formation and an increase in intracellular calcium activity

Dissecting the Actinoporin Pore-Forming Mechanism ⬇️

EPR and FTIR studies reveal the importance of highly ordered sterol-enriched membrane domains for ostreolysin activity

Effect of pH on the pore forming activity and conformational stability of ostreolysin, a lipid raft-binding protein from the edible mushroom Pleurotus ostreatus.

Effect of the ostreolysin A/pleurotolysin B pore-forming complex on intracellular Ca2+ activity in the vascular smooth muscle cell line A10.

Equinatoxins, pore-forming proteins from the sea anemone Actinia equina, belong to a multigene family

Ethanol- and acetonitrile-induced inhibition of water diffusional permeability across bovine red blood cell membrane.

Fluorescence studies of the effect of pH, guanidine hydrochloride and urea on equinatoxin II conformation

Fungal MACPF-like proteins and aegerolysins: bi-component pore-forming proteins?

Fungal aegerolysin-like proteins: distribution, activities, and applications

Highly Selective Anti-Cancer Activity of Cholesterol-Interacting Agents Methyl-β-Cyclodextrin and Ostreolysin A/Pleurotolysin B Protein Complex on Urothelial Cancer Cells

Inhibition of acetylcholinesterase by a pseudozoanthoxanthin-like compound isolated from the zoanthid Parazoanthus axinellae (O. Schmidt).

Interaction of 3-alkylpyridinium polymers from the sea sponge Reniera sarai with insect acetylcholinesterase.

Interaction of human stefin B in the prefibrillar oligomeric form with membranes. Correlation with cellular toxicity

Interaction of ostreolysin, a cytolytic protein from the edible mushroom Pleurotus ostreatus, with lipid membranes and modulation by lysophospholipids

Interaction of the eukaryotic pore-forming cytolysin equinatoxin II with model membranes: 19F NMR studies

Interaction of the pore-forming protein equinatoxin II with model lipid membranes: A calorimetric and spectroscopic study

Intrinsic tryptophan fluorescence of equinatoxin II, a pore-forming polypeptide from the sea anemone Actinia equina L, monitors its interaction with lipid membranes

Isolation and characterization of three lethal and hemolytic toxins from the sea anemone Actinia equina L

Isolation and partial characterization of three lethal and hemolytic toxins from the sea anemone Actinia cari

Kinetically Stable Triglyceride-Based Nanodroplets and Their Interactions with Lipid-Specific Proteins

Kinetics of cholesterol extraction from lipid membranes by methyl-beta-cyclodextrin--a surface plasmon resonance approach

Kinetics of hemolysis induced by equinatoxin, a cytolytic toxin from the sea anemone Actinia equina. Effect of some ions and pH

Liquid-ordered phase formation in cholesterol/sphingomyelin bilayers: all-atom molecular dynamics simulations

Lysine 77 is a Key Residue in Aggregation of Equinatoxin II, a Pore-forming Toxin from Sea Anemone Actinia equina

Lysophospholipids prevent binding of a cytolytic protein ostreolysin to cholesterol-enriched membrane domains

Membrane cholesterol and sphingomyelin, and ostreolysin A are obligatory for pore-formation by a MACPF/CDC-like pore-forming protein, pleurotolysin B.

Membrane damage by an α-helical pore-forming protein, Equinatoxin II, proceeds through a succession of ordered steps

Membrane insertion of the N-terminal alpha-helix of equinatoxin II, a sea anemone cytolytic toxin.

Molecular Determinants of Sphingomyelin Specificity of a Eukaryotic Pore-forming Toxin

N-terminal truncation mutagenesis of equinatoxin II, a pore-forming protein from the sea anemone Actinia equina.

Ostreolysin affects rat aorta ring tension and endothelial cell viability in vitro.

Ostreolysin enhances fruiting initiation in the oyster mushroom (Pleurotus ostreatus).

Ostreolysin induces sustained contraction of porcine coronary arteries and endothelial dysfunction in middle- and large-sized vessels.

Ostreolysin, a pore-forming protein from the oyster mushroom, interacts specifically with membrane cholesterol-rich lipid domains.

Ostreopexin: a hemopexin fold protein from the oyster mushroom, Pleurotus ostreatus

Peeking into a secret world of pore-forming toxins: membrane binding processes studied by surface plasmon resonance.

Permeability characteristics of cell-membrane pores induced by ostreolysin A/pleurotolysin B, binary pore-forming proteins from the oyster mushroom

Pitfalls in Size Characterization of Soft Particles by Dynamic Light Scattering Online Coupled to Asymmetrical Flow Field-Flow Fractionation.

Pleurotus and Agrocybe hemolysins, new proteins hypothetically involved in fungal fruiting.

Pore formation by actinoporins, cytolysins from sea anemones

Pore formation by equinatoxin II, a eukaryotic protein toxin, occurs by induction of nonlamellar lipid structures

Pore formation by equinatoxin, a eukaryotic pore-forming toxin, requires a flexible N-terminal region and a stable beta-sandwich

Pore formation by the sea anemone cytolysin equinatoxin II in red blood cells and model lipid membranes

Pore-forming protein complexes from Pleurotus mushrooms kill western corn rootworm and Colorado potato beetle through targeting membrane ceramide phosphoethanolamine

Primary and secondary structure of a pore-forming toxin from the sea anemone, Actinia equina L., and its association with lipid vesicles

Properties of nonfused liposomes immobilized on an L1 Biacore chip and their permeabilization by a eukaryotic pore-forming toxin

Pseudozoanthoxantin-like compound from Parazoanthus axinellae Adriaticus inhibits acetylcholinesterase

Relationship between the cytolysins tenebrosin-C from Actinia tenebrosa and equinatoxin II from Actinia equina

Salt-Induced Oligomerization of Partially Folded Intermediates of Equinatoxin II†

Size fractionation and size characterization of nanoemulsions of lipid droplets and large unilamellar lipid vesicles by asymmetric-flow field-flow fractionation/multi-angle light scattering and dynamic light scattering

Steroid structural requirements for interaction of ostreolysin, a lipid-raft binding cytolysin, with lipid monolayers and bilayers

Sterol and pH Interdependence in the Binding, Oligomerization, and Pore Formation of Listeriolysin O†

Structure-function studies of tryptophan mutants of equinatoxin II, a sea anemone pore-forming protein

Suppression of red cell diffusional water permeability by lipophilic solutes.

Synthesis and bioactivity of linear oligomers related to polymeric alkylpyridinium metabolites from the Mediterranean sponge Reniera sarai.

Targeted lipid analysis of haemolytic mycelial extracts of Aspergillus niger.

The Pseudomonas aeruginosa RhlR-controlled aegerolysin RahU is a low-affinity rhamnolipid-binding protein

The cytotoxic and cytolytic activity of equinatoxin II from the sea anemone Actinia equina.

The equinatoxin N-terminus is transferred across planar lipid membranes and helps to stabilize the transmembrane pore

The humoral and cellular immune response to a lipid attenuated pore-forming toxin from the sea anemone Actinia equina L

The role of lysine, histidine and carboxyl residues in biological activity of equinatoxin II, a pore forming polypeptide from the sea anemone Actinia equina L.