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List of works by James A Irving

A Molecular Switch Governs the Interaction between the Human Complement Protease C1s and Its Substrate, Complement C4

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A major cathepsin B protease from the liver fluke Fasciola hepatica has atypical active site features and a potential role in the digestive tract of newly excysted juvenile parasites

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A serpin in the cellulosome of the anaerobic fungus Piromyces sp. strain E2.

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A single-chain variable fragment intrabody prevents intracellular polymerization of Z α1-antitrypsin while allowing its antiproteinase activity

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Aeropin from the extremophile Pyrobaculum aerophilum bypasses the serpin misfolding trap

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Altered native stability is the dominant basis for susceptibility of α1-antitrypsin mutants to polymerization

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An antibody raised against a pathogenic serpin variant induces mutant-like behaviour in the wild-type protein

scientific article published on May 2015

An integrative approach combining ion mobility mass spectrometry, X-ray crystallography, and nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy to study the conformational dynamics of α1 -antitrypsin upon ligand binding

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Characterisation of a type II functionally-deficient variant of alpha-1-antitrypsin discovered in the general population

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Characterisation of serpin polymers in vitro and in vivo.

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Characterising the association of latency with α(1)-antitrypsin polymerisation using a novel monoclonal antibody

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Cloning and expression of the major secreted cathepsin B-like protein from juvenile Fasciola hepatica and analysis of immunogenicity following liver fluke infection.

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Computational analysis of evolution and conservation in a protein superfamily

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Conformational change in the chromatin remodelling protein MENT

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Conversion of the death inhibitor ARC to a killer activates pancreatic β cell death in diabetes

scientific article published on 04 March 2021

DNA accelerates the inhibition of human cathepsin V by serpins

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Deficiency Mutations of Alpha-1 Antitrypsin. Effects on Folding, Function, and Polymerization

scientific article published on 19 June 2015

Evidence that serpin architecture intrinsically supports papain-like cysteine protease inhibition: engineering alpha(1)-antitrypsin to inhibit cathepsin proteases

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Functional insights from the distribution and role of homopeptide repeat-containing proteins

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High-resolution ex vivo NMR spectroscopy of human Z α<sub>1</sub>-antitrypsin

scientific article published on 11 December 2020

Human Ovalbumin Serpin Evolution: Phylogenic Analysis, Gene Organization, and Identification of New PI8-Related Genes Suggest That Two Interchromosomal and Several Intrachromosomal Duplications Generated the Gene Clusters at 18q21–q23 and 6p25

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Human clade B serpins (ov-serpins) belong to a cohort of evolutionarily dispersed intracellular proteinase inhibitor clades that protect cells from promiscuous proteolysis.

scientific article published on February 2004

Hurpin is a selective inhibitor of lysosomal cathepsin L and protects keratinocytes from ultraviolet-induced apoptosis

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Inhibitory activity of a heterochromatin-associated serpin (MENT) against papain-like cysteine proteinases affects chromatin structure and blocks cell proliferation

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Interactions between N-linked glycosylation and polymerisation of neuroserpin within the endoplasmic reticulum

scientific article published on 14 September 2015

MUSTANG-MR structural sieving server: applications in protein structural analysis and crystallography

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Peptide mimotopes selected with HIV-1-blocking monoclonal antibodies against CCR5 represent motifs specific for HIV-1 entry

scientific article published on 3 July 2007

Phosphoproteins in stress-induced disease

scientific article published on January 2012

Phylogeny of the serpin superfamily: implications of patterns of amino acid conservation for structure and function.

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Probing the folding pathway of a consensus serpin using single tryptophan mutants

scientific article published in February 2018

Protein structural alignments and functional genomics

scientific article published on 01 February 2001

Reactive centre loop mutants of α-1-antitrypsin reveal position-specific effects on intermediate formation along the polymerization pathway

scientific article published on 25 June 2013

Requirement of multiple phage displayed peptide libraries for optimal mapping of a conformational antibody epitope on CCR5.

scientific article published in February 2005

Role of the alpha-helix 163-170 in factor Xa catalytic activity

scientific article published on 28 August 2007

Sequence, organization, chromosomal localization, and alternative splicing of the human serine protease inhibitor gene hurpin (PI13) which is upregulated in psoriasis

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Serpins in prokaryotes

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Serpins in the Caenorhabditis elegans genome

scientific article published on 01 July 1999

Serpins: finely balanced conformational traps

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Structural mechanisms of inactivation in scabies mite serine protease paralogues

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Structure of granzyme C reveals an unusual mechanism of protease autoinhibition

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Suppression of Aβ toxicity by puromycin-sensitive aminopeptidase is independent of its proteolytic activity

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Targeting serpins in high-throughput and structure-based drug design

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The N terminus of the serpin, tengpin, functions to trap the metastable native state

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The evolution of enzyme specificity in Fasciola spp.

scientific article published in July 2003

The high resolution crystal structure of a native thermostable serpin reveals the complex mechanism underpinning the stressed to relaxed transition

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The high resolution crystal structure of the human tumor suppressor maspin reveals a novel conformational switch in the G-helix

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The molecular species responsible for α1 -antitrypsin deficiency are suppressed by a small molecule chaperone

scientific article published on 15 October 2020

The murine orthologue of human antichymotrypsin: a structural paradigm for clade A3 serpins

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The pathological Trento variant of alpha-1-antitrypsin (E75V) shows nonclassical behaviour during polymerization

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The serpin SQN-5 is a dual mechanistic-class inhibitor of serine and cysteine proteinases

scientific article published in March 2002

The serpinopathies studying serpin polymerization in vivo

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The serpins are an expanding superfamily of structurally similar but functionally diverse proteins. Evolution, mechanism of inhibition, novel functions, and a revised nomenclature

scientific article (publication date: 7 September 2001)

The structural basis for Z α1-antitrypsin polymerization in the liver

scientific article published on 21 October 2020

Unravelling the twists and turns of the serpinopathies.

scientific article published on 20 June 2011

X-ray crystal structure of MENT: evidence for functional loop-sheet polymers in chromatin condensation

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