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List of works by Michael J O'Donohue

A 1H NMR study of the specificity of α-l-arabinofuranosidases on natural and unnatural substrates

scientific article published on 10 July 2014

A Versatile and Colorful Screening Tool for the Identification of Arabinofuranose-Acting Enzymes

scientific article published on 06 August 2012

A high-throughput screening system for the evaluation of biomass-hydrolyzing glycoside hydrolases.

scientific article published on 25 June 2010

A novel elicitin necrotic site revealed by alpha-cinnamomin sequence and site-directed mutagenesis

scientific article published on 01 March 1999

A versatile assay for the accurate, time-resolved determination of cellular viability

scientific article published in March 2003

An original chemoenzymatic route for the synthesis of beta-D-galactofuranosides using an alpha-L-arabinofuranosidase.

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Analysis of large 16S rRNA Illumina data sets: Impact of singleton read filtering on microbial community description.

scientific article published on 11 July 2017

Biocatalytic conversion of wheat bran hydrolysate using an immobilized GH43 beta-xylosidase

scientific article published on 31 July 2008

CAZyChip: dynamic assessment of exploration of glycoside hydrolases in microbial ecosystems

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Caldimonas hydrothermale sp. nov., a novel thermophilic bacterium isolated from Roman hot bath in south Tunisia

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Characterization and mutagenesis of two novel iron-sulphur cluster pentonate dehydratases

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Characterization of Deinococcus sahariens sp. nov., a radiation-resistant bacterium isolated from a Saharan hot spring

scientific article published on October 20, 2011

Chemical synthesis, expression and mutagenesis of a gene encoding beta-cryptogein, an elicitin produced by Phytophthora cryptogea.

scientific article published in February 1995

Comparison of the heterologous expression of Trichoderma reesei endoglucanase II and cellobiohydrolase II in the yeasts Pichia pastoris and Yarrowia lipolytica

scientific article published on 01 June 2013

Conferring cellulose-degrading ability to Yarrowia lipolytica to facilitate a consolidated bioprocessing approach.

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Development of cellobiose-degrading ability in Yarrowia lipolytica strain by overexpression of endogenous genes

scientific article published on 4 August 2015

Ecofriendly lignocellulose pretreatment to enhance the carboxylate production of a rumen-derived microbial consortium.

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Effect of lignin content on a GH11 endoxylanase acting on glucuronoarabinoxylan-lignin nanocomposites

scientific article published on 19 March 2012

Efficient anaerobic transformation of raw wheat straw by a robust cow rumen-derived microbial consortium

scientific article published on 28 July 2015

Endogeic earthworms shape bacterial functional communities and affect organic matter mineralization in a tropical soil

scientific article published on 14 July 2011

Engineering better biomass-degrading ability into a GH11 xylanase using a directed evolution strategy.

scientific article published on 13 January 2012

Engineering increased thermostability in the thermostable GH-11 xylanase from Thermobacillus xylanilyticus.

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Engineering transglycosidase activity into a GH51 α-l-arabinofuranosidase

scientific article published on 27 April 2013

Enhancing the chemoenzymatic synthesis of arabinosylated xylo-oligosaccharides by GH51 α-L-arabinofuranosidase.

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Evidence by site-directed mutagenesis that arginine 203 of thermolysin and arginine 717 of neprilysin (neutral endopeptidase) play equivalent critical roles in substrate hydrolysis and inhibitor binding

scientific article published on 01 November 1997

Expression in Escherichia coli and characterization of beta-xylosidases GH39 and GH-43 from Bacillus halodurans C-125.

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First Structural Insights into  -L-Arabinofuranosidases from the Two GH62 Glycoside Hydrolase Subfamilies

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Functional roles of H98 and W99 and β2α2 loop dynamics in the α-l-arabinofuranosidase from Thermobacillus xylanilyticus.

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Genetic and biochemical characterization of a highly thermostable alpha-L-arabinofuranosidase from Thermobacillus xylanilyticus.

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Glycosynthesis in a waterworld: new insight into the molecular basis of transglycosylation in retaining glycoside hydrolases

scientific article published on April 2015

Impact and efficiency of GH10 and GH11 thermostable endoxylanases on wheat bran and alkali-extractable arabinoxylans

scientific article published in October 2004

Impact of an N-terminal extension on the stability and activity of the GH11 xylanase from Thermobacillus xylanilyticus

scientific article published on 15 January 2014

In vitro model assemblies to study the impact of lignin-carbohydrate interactions on the enzymatic conversion of xylan

scientific article published in September 2009

Investigating the function of an arabinan utilization locus isolated from a termite gut community

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Investigation of the functional relevance of the catalytically important Glu(28) in family 51 arabinosidases

scientific article published in October 2003

Investigation of the specificity of an alpha-L-arabinofuranosidase using C-2 and C-5 modified alpha-L-arabinofuranosides

scientific article published on 09 June 2007

Mining for hemicellulases in the fungus-growing termite Pseudacanthotermes militaris using functional metagenomics

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Mutation of a pH-modulating residue in a GH51 α-l-arabinofuranosidase leads to a severe reduction of the secondary hydrolysis of transfuranosylation products.

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New chromogenic substrates for feruloyl esterases

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New insights into the role of the thumb-like loop in GH-11 xylanases

scientific article published on 11 January 2007

Overexpression in Pichia pastoris and crystallization of an elicitor protein secreted by the phytopathogenic fungus, Phytophthora cryptogea

scientific article published on 01 September 1996

Paenibacillus marinum sp. nov., a thermophilic xylanolytic bacterium isolated from a marine hot spring in Tunisia.

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Probing the Functions of Carbohydrate Binding Modules in the CBEL Protein from the Oomycete Phytophthora parasitica.

scientific article published on 21 September 2015

Probing the catalytically essential residues of the alpha-L-arabinofuranosidase from Thermobacillus xylanilyticus.

scientific article published in January 2002

Probing the cell wall heterogeneity of micro-dissected wheat caryopsis using both active and inactive forms of a GH11 xylanase

scientific article published on 17 June 2005

Redefining XynA from Penicillium funiculosum IMI 378536 as a GH7 cellobiohydrolase.

scientific article published on 10 July 2012

Synthesis of pentose-containing disaccharides using a thermostable alpha-L-arabinofuranosidase.

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The GH51 α-l-arabinofuranosidase from Paenibacillus sp. THS1 is multifunctional, hydrolyzing main-chain and side-chain glycosidic bonds in heteroxylans

scientific article published on 8 July 2016

The structure of the complex between a branched pentasaccharide and Thermobacillus xylanilyticus GH-51 arabinofuranosidase reveals xylan-binding determinants and induced fit

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Thioimidoyl furanosides as first inhibitors of the alpha-L-arabinofuranosidase AbfD3

scientific article published on 17 October 2006

Thumb-loops up for catalysis: a structure/function investigation of a functional loop movement in a GH11 xylanase.

scientific article published on July 2012

White biotechnology: State of the art strategies for the development of biocatalysts for biorefining.

scientific article published on 21 August 2015