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List of works by Kam-Bo Wong

A Rigidifying Salt-Bridge Favors the Activity of Thermophilic Enzyme at High Temperatures at the Expense of Low-Temperature Activity

scientific article published on March 15, 2011

A high-yield one-step purification method using copper-chelating chromatography for recombinant proteins fused with maltose-binding protein.

scientific article

A single amino acid substitution in a chitinase of the legume Medicago truncatula is sufficient to gain Nod-factor hydrolase activity.

scientific article published on July 2016

APOE genotype-function relationship: evidence of -491 A/T promoter polymorphism modifying transcription control but not type 2 diabetes risk

scientific article

ATP binding by the P-loop NTPase OsYchF1 (an unconventional G protein) contributes to biotic but not abiotic stress responses

scientific article published on 24 February 2016

AtPAP2 modulates the import of the small subunit of Rubisco into chloroplasts.

scientific article published on 4 October 2016

Barstar has a highly dynamic hydrophobic core: evidence from molecular dynamics simulations and nuclear magnetic resonance relaxation data.

scientific article

Characterization of novel orange fluorescent protein cloned from cnidarian tube anemone Cerianthus sp.

scientific article

Characterization of residual structure in the thermally denatured state of barnase by simulation and experiment: Description of the folding pathway

scientific article published on December 9, 1997

Cold denaturation of barstar: 1H, 15N and 13C NMR assignment and characterisation of residual structure

scientific article published on 01 June 1996

Collapsin response mediator protein-1 (CRMP1) acts as an invasion and metastasis suppressor of prostate cancer via its suppression of epithelial-mesenchymal transition and remodeling of actin cytoskeleton organization.

scientific article published on 20 June 2016

Coptisine-induced inhibition of Helicobacter pylori: elucidation of specific mechanisms by probing urease active site and its maturation process

scientific article published on 01 December 2018

Crystal Structure of Ribosome-Inactivating Protein Ricin A Chain in Complex with the C-Terminal Peptide of the Ribosomal Stalk Protein P2.

scientific article published on 13 October 2016

Crystal structure of a hyperthermophilic archaeal acylphosphatase from Pyrococcus horikoshii--structural insights into enzymatic catalysis, thermostability, and dimerization.

scientific article published in March 2005

Crystal structure of ribosomal protein L30e from the extreme thermophile Thermococcus celer: thermal stability and RNA binding

scientific article (publication date: 18 March 2003)

Crystallization and preliminary crystallographic analysis of a novel orange fluorescent protein from the Cnidaria tube anemone Cerianthus sp.

scientific article published on 23 January 2004

Crystallization and preliminary crystallographic analysis of an acylphosphatase from the hyperthermophilic archaeon Pyrococcus horikoshii.

scientific article

Crystallization and preliminary crystallographic analysis of human common-type acylphosphatase.

scientific article published on 23 December 2005

Crystallization and preliminary crystallographic analysis of the central domain of Drosophila Dribble, a protein that is essential for ribosome biogenesis.

scientific article published on 29 April 2010

Crystallization and preliminary crystallographic studies of a ribosomal protein L30e from the hyperthermophilic archaeon Thermococcus celer

scientific article published on 25 May 2001

Delivering a toxic metal to the active site of urease

scholarly article

Design, synthesis and crystallographic analysis of nitrile-based broad-spectrum peptidomimetic inhibitors for coronavirus 3C-like proteases

scientific article

Effects of charge-to-alanine substitutions on the stability of ribosomal protein L30e from Thermococcus celer.

scientific article

Electrostatic Contribution of Surface Charge Residues to the Stability of a Thermophilic Protein: Benchmarking Experimental and Predicted pKa Values

scientific article published on January 18, 2012

Electrostatic interactions contribute to reduced heat capacity change of unfolding in a thermophilic ribosomal protein l30e.

scientific article published in April 2005

Engineering of a mini-trichosanthin that has lower antigenicity by deleting its C-terminal amino acid residues

scientific article published on 01 April 2000

FdC1 and Leaf-Type Ferredoxins Channel Electrons From Photosystem I to Different Downstream Electron Acceptors.

scientific article published on 4 April 2018

Fusion core structure of the severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus (SARS-CoV): in search of potent SARS-CoV entry inhibitors

scientific article published in August 2008

Hot-spot mutants of p53 core domain evince characteristic local structural changes.

scientific article published on July 1999

How vacuolar sorting receptor proteins interact with their cargo proteins: crystal structures of apo and cargo-bound forms of the protease-associated domain from an Arabidopsis vacuolar sorting receptor.

scientific article published on 30 September 2014

Interaction between hydrogenase maturation factors HypA and HypB is required for [NiFe]-hydrogenase maturation

scientific article

Maize Ribosome-Inactivating Protein Uses Lys158–Lys161 to Interact with Ribosomal Protein P2 and the Strength of Interaction Is Correlated to the Biological Activities

scientific article published on December 12, 2012

Metallo-GTPase HypB from Helicobacter pylori and its interaction with nickel chaperone protein HypA

scientific article published on 18 December 2011

Molecular cloning and functional study of rat estrogen receptor-related receptor gamma in rat prostatic cells

scientific article published on 01 November 2006

Orphan nuclear receptor TLX functions as a potent suppressor of oncogene-induced senescence in prostate cancer via its transcriptional co-regulation of the CDKN1A (p21(WAF1) (/) (CIP1) ) and SIRT1 genes.

scientific article published on 2 February 2015

Profiling of substrate specificities of 3C-like proteases from group 1, 2a, 2b, and 3 coronaviruses

scientific article

Profiling of substrate specificity of SARS-CoV 3CL

scientific article

Recent advances in plant endomembrane research and new microscopical techniques

scientific article published in 2023

Site-directed Mutagenesis Shows the Significance of Interactions with Phospholipids and the G-protein OsYchF1 for the Physiological Functions of the Rice GTPase-activating Protein 1 (OsGAP1).

scientific article published on 18 August 2015

Solution structure and thermal stability of ribosomal protein L30e from hyperthermophilic archaeon Thermococcus celer

scientific article

Solution structure of human P1*P2 heterodimer provides insights into the role of eukaryotic stalk in recruiting the ribosome-inactivating protein trichosanthin to the ribosome

scientific article

Solution structure of the dimerization domain of the eukaryotic stalk P1/P2 complex reveals the structural organization of eukaryotic stalk complex

scientific article

Stabilizing Salt-Bridge Enhances Protein Thermostability by Reducing the Heat Capacity Change of Unfolding

scientific article

Strong, non-local interactions: the Hong Kong bond

scientific article published on 14 October 2010

Structural and Functional Investigation and Pharmacological Mechanism of Trichosanthin, a Type 1 Ribosome-Inactivating Protein

scientific article published on 20 August 2018

Structural and Mutagenesis Studies Evince the Role of the Extended Protuberant Domain of Ribosomal Protein uL10 in Protein Translation

scientific article published on 22 August 2019

Structural basis for the interaction of [E160A-E189A]-trichosanthin with adenine

scientific article (publication date: April 2003)

Structural insights into how GTP-dependent conformational changes in a metallochaperone UreG facilitate urease maturation

scientific article published on 4 December 2017

Structure of an essential GTPase, YsxC, from Thermotoga maritima

scientific article

Structure/function relationship study of Gln156, Glu160 and Glu189 in the active site of trichosanthin.

scientific article

Structures and Ribosomal Interaction of Ribosome-Inactivating Proteins

scientific article

Substrate binding and catalysis in trichosanthin occur in different sites as revealed by the complex structures of several E85 mutants

scientific article

The C-terminal end of P proteins mediates ribosome inactivation by trichosanthin but does not affect the pokeweed antiviral protein activity

scientific article published on 20 February 2008

The crystal structure of seabream antiquitin reveals the structural basis of its substrate specificity

scientific article

The effect of disulfide bond on the conformational stability and catalytic activity of beta-propeller phytase

scientific article published on 01 January 2007

The nodulation factor hydrolase of Medicago truncatula: characterization of an enzyme specifically cleaving rhizobial nodulation signals

scientific article

The recombinant maize ribosome-inactivating protein transiently reduces viral load in SHIV89.6 infected Chinese Rhesus Macaques

scientific article

The structural basis of Trp192 and the C-terminal region in trichosanthin for activity and conformational stability.

scientific article

Trypanosoma cruzi: high ribosomal resistance to trichosanthin inactivation

scientific article published on 14 September 2007

Unique COPII component AtSar1a/AtSec23a pair is required for the distinct function of protein ER export in Arabidopsis thaliana

scientific article

Using Homology Modeling to Understand the Structural Basis of Specific Interaction of a Plant-Specific AtSar1a-AtSec23a Pair Involved in Protein ER Export

scientific article published in January 2017