List of works - Colin Berry

A Protein in the palm of your hand through augmented reality.

scientific article

A calreticulin-like molecule from the human hookworm Necator americanus interacts with C1q and the cytoplasmic signalling domains of some integrins.

scientific article

A family of aspartic proteases and a novel, dynamic and cell-cycle-dependent protease localization in the secretory pathway of Toxoplasma gondii.

scientific article published on 5 June 2007

A new Cry toxin with a unique two-component dependency from Bacillus sphaericus

scientific article

Activity and inhibition of plasmepsin IV, a new aspartic proteinase from the malaria parasite, Plasmodium falciparum

scientific article published in February 2002

Activity of a Brazilian strain of Bacillus thuringiensis israelensis against the cotton Boll Weevil Anthonomus grandis Boheman (Coleoptera: Tenebrionidae).

scientific article published in February 2012

Adaptation of the behaviour of an aspartic proteinase inhibitor by relocation of a lysine residue by one helical turn

scientific article published on 01 August 2006

An analysis of the genes encoding the 51.4- and 41.9-kDa toxins of Bacillus sphaericus 2297 by deletion mutagenesis: the construction of fusion proteins

scientific article published in November 1990

Analogues of thiolactomycin as potential anti-malarial and anti-trypanosomal agents

scientific article published in February 2004

Analogues of thiolactomycin as potential antimalarial agents

scientific article published on September 2005

Antimalarial effects of HIV proteinase inhibitors: common compounds but structurally distinct enzymes

scientific article published in August 2005

Arabidopsis thaliana and Pisum sativum models demonstrate that root colonization is an intrinsic trait of Burkholderia cepacia complex bacteria.

scientific article published on 10 December 2013

Aspartic proteases of Plasmodium falciparum and other parasitic protozoa as drug targets.

scientific article

Bacillus sphaericus binary toxin elicits host cell autophagy as a response to intoxication

scientific article (publication date: 2011)

Bacillus thuringiensis toxins: an overview of their biocidal activity.

scientific article

Characterization of a cryptic plasmid from Bacillus sphaericus strain LP1-G.

scientific article published on 10 January 2007

Complete genome sequence of the mosquitocidal bacterium Bacillus sphaericus C3-41 and comparison with those of closely related Bacillus species

scientific article published on 22 February 2008

Complete sequence and organization of pBtoxis, the toxin-coding plasmid of Bacillus thuringiensis subsp. israelensis

scientific article published on October 2002

Cryo-EM structures of an insecticidal Bt toxin reveal its mechanism of action on the membrane

scientific article

Cyt1Ca from Bacillus thuringiensis subsp. israelensis: production in Escherichia coli and comparison of its biological activities with those of other Cyt-like proteins.

scientific article published in September 2006

Cytopathological effects of Bacillus sphaericus Cry48Aa/Cry49Aa toxin on binary toxin-susceptible and -resistant Culex quinquefasciatus larvae.

scientific article published on 5 June 2009

Discovery of a Novel HCV Helicase Inhibitor by a De Novo Drug Design Approach

scientific article published in 2008

Discovery of a novel HCV helicase inhibitor by a de novo drug design approach

scientific article

Draft Genome Sequence of Bacillus cereus CITVM-11.1, a Strain Exhibiting Interesting Antifungal Activities.

scientific article published on 25 April 2018

Draft Genome Sequence of Photorhabdus luminescens Strain DSPV002N Isolated from Santa Fe, Argentina.

scientific article published on 28 July 2016

Draft Genome Sequence of the Entomopathogenic Bacterium Bacillus pumilus 15.1, a Strain Highly Toxic to the Mediterranean Fruit Fly Ceratitis capitata.

scientific article published on 24 September 2015

Draft genome sequences of two Bacillus thuringiensis strains and characterization of a putative 41.9-kDa insecticidal toxin.

scientific article published on 30 April 2014

Generation of an affinity matrix useful in the purification of natural inhibitors of plasmepsin II, an antimalarial-drug target

scientific article published in February 2009

Genome Sequence Analysis of Native Xenorhabdus Strains Isolated from Entomopathogenic Nematodes in Argentina

scientific article published in 2024

Genomics: Relative pathogenic values

scientific article published in May 2003

HIV proteinase inhibitors target the Ddi1-like protein of Leishmania parasites

scientific article published on 25 January 2011

High level expression and characterisation of Plasmepsin II, an aspartic proteinase from Plasmodium falciparum.

scientific article

Hookworm aspartic protease, Na-APR-2, cleaves human hemoglobin and serum proteins in a host-specific fashion

scientific article published on 24 January 2003

Identification of Cry48Aa/Cry49Aa toxin ligands in the midgut of Culex quinquefasciatus larvae

scientific article published on 2 August 2017

Identification of plasmepsin inhibitors as selective anti-malarial agents using ligand based drug design.

scientific article

Identification, cloning and sequence analysis of the Bacillus sphaericus 1593 41.9 kD larvicidal toxin gene.

scientific article published on September 1987

In vitro studies on the mechanism of action of two compounds with antiplasmodial activity: ellagic acid and 3,4,5-trimethoxyphenyl(6'-O-aalloyl)-beta-D-glucopyranoside. ⬇️

scientific article published in February 2003

Indiscriminate ingestion of entomopathogenic nematodes and their symbiotic bacteria by Aedes aegypti larvae: a novel strategy to control the vector of Chikungunya, dengue and yellow fever

scientific article published in 2021

Inside protein structures: Teaching in three dimensions

scientific article published in November 2010

Key features determining the specificity of aspartic proteinase inhibition by the helix-forming IA3 polypeptide.

scientific article

Metrics-based assessments of research: incentives for 'institutional plagiarism'?

scientific article published on 28 February 2012

Molecular and insecticidal characterization of a novel Cry-related protein from Bacillus thuringiensis toxic against Myzus persicae

scientific article

Mtx toxins from Lysinibacillus sphaericus enhance mosquitocidal cry-toxin activity and suppress cry-resistance in Culex quinquefasciatus.

scientific article published on 19 October 2013

N-terminal extension of the yeast IA3 aspartic proteinase inhibitor relaxes the strict intrinsic selectivity

scientific article

Nucleotide sequence of two toxin genes from Bacillus sphaericus IAB59: sequence comparisons between five highly toxinogenic strains.

scientific article

Permeabilization of model lipid membranes by Bacillus sphaericus mosquitocidal binary toxin and its individual components

scientific article published on November 2001

Persistent intracellular pathogens

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Potencies of human immunodeficiency virus protease inhibitors in vitro against Plasmodium falciparum and in vivo against murine malaria

scientific article

Predicting functional residues of the Solanum lycopersicum aspartic protease inhibitor (SLAPI) by combining sequence and structural analysis with molecular docking

scientific article published on 20 November 2011

Proteolytic stability of insecticidal toxins expressed in recombinant bacilli

scientific article

Quantitative structure activity relationship of IA3-like peptides as aspartic proteinase inhibitors

scientific article

Selection and characterization of the Bacillus thuringiensis strains toxic to Spodoptera eridania (Cramer), Spodoptera cosmioides (Walker) and Spodoptera frugiperda (Smith) (Lepidoptera: Noctuidae)

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Sequence, expression and modeled structure of an aspartic proteinase from the human malaria parasite Plasmodium falciparum

scientific article (publication date: April 1994)

Staphylococcus aureus DNA ligase: characterization of its kinetics of catalysis and development of a high-throughput screening compatible chemiluminescent hybridization protection assay.

scientific article

Structural and biophysical characterization of Bacillus thuringiensis insecticidal proteins Cry34Ab1 and Cry35Ab1.

scientific article

Structural classification of insecticidal proteins - Towards an in silico characterisation of novel toxins

scientific article published on 29 July 2016

Structure, diversity, and evolution of protein toxins from spore-forming entomopathogenic bacteria.

scientific article published on January 2003

Structures of a bi-functional Kunitz-type STI family inhibitor of serine and aspartic proteases: Could the aspartic protease inhibition have evolved from a canonical serine protease-binding loop?

scientific article

The Cry48Aa-Cry49Aa binary toxin from Bacillus sphaericus exhibits highly restricted target specificity

scientific article

The Vip3Ag4 Insecticidal Protoxin from Bacillus thuringiensis Adopts A Tetrameric Configuration That Is Maintained on Proteolysis

scientific article published on 14 May 2017

The activity and inhibition of the food vacuole plasmepsin from the rodent malaria parasite Plasmodium chabaudi

scientific article published on 5 December 2005

The aspartic proteinase from the rodent parasite Plasmodium berghei as a potential model for plasmepsins from the human malaria parasite, Plasmodium falciparum.

scientific article published on December 1999

The disulphide bond arrangement in the major pepsin inhibitor PI-3 of Ascaris suum

scientific article published on 01 June 2000

The parasporal crystals of Bacillus pumilus strain 15.1: a potential virulence factor?

scientific article

The pesticidal Cry6Aa toxin from Bacillus thuringiensis is structurally similar to HlyE-family alpha pore-forming toxins

scientific article

The retroviral proteinase active site and the N-terminus of Ddi1 are required for repression of protein secretion

scientific article

The structure/function of new insecticidal proteins and regulatory challenges for commercialization.

scientific article published in January 2017

The use of structural modelling to infer structure and function in biocontrol agents.

scientific article

Transcriptional analysis of the toxin-coding plasmid pBtoxis from Bacillus thuringiensis subsp. israelensis

scientific article

Translocation and insecticidal activity of Bacillus thuringiensis living inside of plants.

scientific article published on 16 April 2009

Understanding the structure and function of Bacillus thuringiensis toxins.

scientific article published on 5 November 2015

Using phage display technology to obtain Crybodies active against non-target insects

scientific article published on 2 November 2017

Variants of the Bacillus sphaericus binary toxins: implications for differential toxicity of strains

scientific article published in March 1998

dUTPase as a platform for antimalarial drug design: structural basis for the selectivity of a class of nucleoside inhibitors.

scientific article published in February 2005

List of works by Colin Berry

A Protein in the palm of your hand through augmented reality.

A calreticulin-like molecule from the human hookworm Necator americanus interacts with C1q and the cytoplasmic signalling domains of some integrins.

A family of aspartic proteases and a novel, dynamic and cell-cycle-dependent protease localization in the secretory pathway of Toxoplasma gondii.

A new Cry toxin with a unique two-component dependency from Bacillus sphaericus

Activity and inhibition of plasmepsin IV, a new aspartic proteinase from the malaria parasite, Plasmodium falciparum

Activity of a Brazilian strain of Bacillus thuringiensis israelensis against the cotton Boll Weevil Anthonomus grandis Boheman (Coleoptera: Tenebrionidae).

Adaptation of the behaviour of an aspartic proteinase inhibitor by relocation of a lysine residue by one helical turn

An analysis of the genes encoding the 51.4- and 41.9-kDa toxins of Bacillus sphaericus 2297 by deletion mutagenesis: the construction of fusion proteins

Analogues of thiolactomycin as potential anti-malarial and anti-trypanosomal agents

Analogues of thiolactomycin as potential antimalarial agents

Antimalarial effects of HIV proteinase inhibitors: common compounds but structurally distinct enzymes

Arabidopsis thaliana and Pisum sativum models demonstrate that root colonization is an intrinsic trait of Burkholderia cepacia complex bacteria.

Aspartic proteases of Plasmodium falciparum and other parasitic protozoa as drug targets.

Bacillus sphaericus binary toxin elicits host cell autophagy as a response to intoxication

Bacillus thuringiensis toxins: an overview of their biocidal activity.

Characterization of a cryptic plasmid from Bacillus sphaericus strain LP1-G.

Complete genome sequence of the mosquitocidal bacterium Bacillus sphaericus C3-41 and comparison with those of closely related Bacillus species

Complete sequence and organization of pBtoxis, the toxin-coding plasmid of Bacillus thuringiensis subsp. israelensis

Cryo-EM structures of an insecticidal Bt toxin reveal its mechanism of action on the membrane

Cyt1Ca from Bacillus thuringiensis subsp. israelensis: production in Escherichia coli and comparison of its biological activities with those of other Cyt-like proteins.

Cytopathological effects of Bacillus sphaericus Cry48Aa/Cry49Aa toxin on binary toxin-susceptible and -resistant Culex quinquefasciatus larvae.

Discovery of a Novel HCV Helicase Inhibitor by a De Novo Drug Design Approach

Discovery of a novel HCV helicase inhibitor by a de novo drug design approach

Draft Genome Sequence of Bacillus cereus CITVM-11.1, a Strain Exhibiting Interesting Antifungal Activities.

Draft Genome Sequence of Photorhabdus luminescens Strain DSPV002N Isolated from Santa Fe, Argentina.

Draft Genome Sequence of the Entomopathogenic Bacterium Bacillus pumilus 15.1, a Strain Highly Toxic to the Mediterranean Fruit Fly Ceratitis capitata.

Draft genome sequences of two Bacillus thuringiensis strains and characterization of a putative 41.9-kDa insecticidal toxin.

Generation of an affinity matrix useful in the purification of natural inhibitors of plasmepsin II, an antimalarial-drug target

Genome Sequence Analysis of Native Xenorhabdus Strains Isolated from Entomopathogenic Nematodes in Argentina

Genomics: Relative pathogenic values

HIV proteinase inhibitors target the Ddi1-like protein of Leishmania parasites

High level expression and characterisation of Plasmepsin II, an aspartic proteinase from Plasmodium falciparum.

Hookworm aspartic protease, Na-APR-2, cleaves human hemoglobin and serum proteins in a host-specific fashion

Identification of Cry48Aa/Cry49Aa toxin ligands in the midgut of Culex quinquefasciatus larvae

Identification of plasmepsin inhibitors as selective anti-malarial agents using ligand based drug design.

Identification, cloning and sequence analysis of the Bacillus sphaericus 1593 41.9 kD larvicidal toxin gene.

In vitro studies on the mechanism of action of two compounds with antiplasmodial activity: ellagic acid and 3,4,5-trimethoxyphenyl(6'-O-aalloyl)-beta-D-glucopyranoside. ⬇️

Indiscriminate ingestion of entomopathogenic nematodes and their symbiotic bacteria by Aedes aegypti larvae: a novel strategy to control the vector of Chikungunya, dengue and yellow fever

Inside protein structures: Teaching in three dimensions

Key features determining the specificity of aspartic proteinase inhibition by the helix-forming IA3 polypeptide.

Metrics-based assessments of research: incentives for 'institutional plagiarism'?

Molecular and insecticidal characterization of a novel Cry-related protein from Bacillus thuringiensis toxic against Myzus persicae

Mtx toxins from Lysinibacillus sphaericus enhance mosquitocidal cry-toxin activity and suppress cry-resistance in Culex quinquefasciatus.

N-terminal extension of the yeast IA3 aspartic proteinase inhibitor relaxes the strict intrinsic selectivity

Nucleotide sequence of two toxin genes from Bacillus sphaericus IAB59: sequence comparisons between five highly toxinogenic strains.

Permeabilization of model lipid membranes by Bacillus sphaericus mosquitocidal binary toxin and its individual components

Persistent intracellular pathogens

Potencies of human immunodeficiency virus protease inhibitors in vitro against Plasmodium falciparum and in vivo against murine malaria

Predicting functional residues of the Solanum lycopersicum aspartic protease inhibitor (SLAPI) by combining sequence and structural analysis with molecular docking

Proteolytic stability of insecticidal toxins expressed in recombinant bacilli

Quantitative structure activity relationship of IA3-like peptides as aspartic proteinase inhibitors

Selection and characterization of the Bacillus thuringiensis strains toxic to Spodoptera eridania (Cramer), Spodoptera cosmioides (Walker) and Spodoptera frugiperda (Smith) (Lepidoptera: Noctuidae)

Sequence, expression and modeled structure of an aspartic proteinase from the human malaria parasite Plasmodium falciparum

Staphylococcus aureus DNA ligase: characterization of its kinetics of catalysis and development of a high-throughput screening compatible chemiluminescent hybridization protection assay.

Structural and biophysical characterization of Bacillus thuringiensis insecticidal proteins Cry34Ab1 and Cry35Ab1.

Structural classification of insecticidal proteins - Towards an in silico characterisation of novel toxins

Structure, diversity, and evolution of protein toxins from spore-forming entomopathogenic bacteria.

Structures of a bi-functional Kunitz-type STI family inhibitor of serine and aspartic proteases: Could the aspartic protease inhibition have evolved from a canonical serine protease-binding loop?

The Cry48Aa-Cry49Aa binary toxin from Bacillus sphaericus exhibits highly restricted target specificity

The Vip3Ag4 Insecticidal Protoxin from Bacillus thuringiensis Adopts A Tetrameric Configuration That Is Maintained on Proteolysis

The activity and inhibition of the food vacuole plasmepsin from the rodent malaria parasite Plasmodium chabaudi

The aspartic proteinase from the rodent parasite Plasmodium berghei as a potential model for plasmepsins from the human malaria parasite, Plasmodium falciparum.

The disulphide bond arrangement in the major pepsin inhibitor PI-3 of Ascaris suum

The parasporal crystals of Bacillus pumilus strain 15.1: a potential virulence factor?

The pesticidal Cry6Aa toxin from Bacillus thuringiensis is structurally similar to HlyE-family alpha pore-forming toxins

The retroviral proteinase active site and the N-terminus of Ddi1 are required for repression of protein secretion

The structure/function of new insecticidal proteins and regulatory challenges for commercialization.

The use of structural modelling to infer structure and function in biocontrol agents.

Transcriptional analysis of the toxin-coding plasmid pBtoxis from Bacillus thuringiensis subsp. israelensis

Translocation and insecticidal activity of Bacillus thuringiensis living inside of plants.

Understanding the structure and function of Bacillus thuringiensis toxins.

Using phage display technology to obtain Crybodies active against non-target insects

Variants of the Bacillus sphaericus binary toxins: implications for differential toxicity of strains

dUTPase as a platform for antimalarial drug design: structural basis for the selectivity of a class of nucleoside inhibitors.