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1H NMR investigation of the electronic and molecular structure of the four-iron cluster ferredoxin from the hyperthermophile Pyrococcus furiosus. Identification of Asp 14 as a cluster ligand in each of the four redox states.

scientific article published on September 1995

2-keto acid oxidoreductases from Pyrococcus furiosus and Thermococcus litoralis

scientific article (publication date: 2001)

A 1.5 Å resolution X-ray structure of the catalytic module ofCaldicellulosiruptor besciifamily 3 pectate lyase

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A New Class of Tungsten-Containing Oxidoreductase in Caldicellulosiruptor, a Genus of Plant Biomass-Degrading Thermophilic Bacteria.

scientific article published on 14 August 2015

A cryo-crystallographic time course for peroxide reduction by rubrerythrin from Pyrococcus furiosus

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A gallium-substituted cubane-type cluster in Pyrococcus furiosus ferredoxin

scientific article published on 01 August 2001

A hybrid synthetic pathway for butanol production by a hyperthermophilic microbe.

scientific article published on 20 November 2014

A mutant ('lab strain') of the hyperthermophilic archaeon Pyrococcus furiosus, lacking flagella, has unusual growth physiology

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A neutron crystallographic analysis of a rubredoxin mutant at 1.6 A resolution.

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A pure S = 3/2 [Fe4S4]+ cluster in the A33Y variant of Pyrococcus furiosus ferredoxin

scientific article published on 01 July 1999

A simple energy-conserving system: Proton reduction coupled to proton translocation

scientific article (publication date: 5 June 2003)

A solution NMR molecular model for the aspartate-ligated, cubane cluster containing ferredoxin from the hyperthermophilic archeaon Pyrococcus furiosus.

scientific article published in October 2002

A temperature-controlled, anaerobic cell for direct electrochemical studies

scientific article published on 01 November 1992

Acetyl-CoA synthetases I and II from Pyrococcus furiosus

scientific article published on 01 January 2001

Aggregation propensities of superoxide dismutase G93 hotspot mutants mirror ALS clinical phenotypes

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Alcohol dehydrogenases from Thermococcus litoralis and Thermococcus strain ES-1.

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Aldehyde oxidoreductases from Pyrococcus furiosus.

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An extremely thermostable aromatic aminotransferase from the hyperthermophilic archaeon Pyrococcus furiosus.

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Anaerobic microbes: oxygen detoxification without superoxide dismutase.

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Biochemical and molecular characterization of the [NiFe] hydrogenase from the hyperthermophilic archaeon, Thermococcus litoralis.

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Biological activity of synthetic molybdenum-iron-sulphur, iron-sulphur and iron-selenium analogues of ferredoxin-type centres

scientific article published on 01 January 1980

Biological activity of synthetic tetranuclear iron-sulphur analogues of the active sites of ferredoxins

scientific article published on December 21, 1977

Biological conversion of carbon dioxide and hydrogen into liquid fuels and industrial chemicals.

scientific article published on 16 March 2013

Bottlenecks and roadblocks in high-throughput XAS for structural genomics.

scientific article published on 23 December 2004

Characterization of Native and Recombinant Forms of an Unusual Cobalt-Dependent Proline Dipeptidase (Prolidase) from the Hyperthermophilic Archaeon Pyrococcus furiosus

scientific article published on September 1, 1998

Characterization of a novel zinc-containing, lysine-specific aminopeptidase from the hyperthermophilic archaeon Pyrococcus furiosus

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Characterization of an aminoacylase from the hyperthermophilic archaeon Pyrococcus furiosus

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Characterization of an extremely thermostable glutamate dehydrogenase: a key enzyme in the primary metabolism of the hyperthermophilic archaebacterium, Pyrococcus furiosus

scientific article published on 01 April 1992

Characterization of aromatic aminotransferases from the hyperthermophilic archaeon Thermococcus litoralis.

scientific article published in March 1994

Characterization of hydrogenase II from the hyperthermophilic archaeon Pyrococcus furiosus and assessment of its role in sulfur reduction.

scientific article published on April 2000

Characterization of membrane-bound sulfane reductase: A missing link in the evolution of modern day respiratory complexes

scientific article published on 04 September 2018

Characterization of pyridine nucleotide coenzymes in the hyperthermophilic archaeon Pyrococcus furiosus.

scientific article published in December 2001

Characterization of ten heterotetrameric NDP-dependent acyl-CoA synthetases of the hyperthermophilic archaeon Pyrococcus furiosus

scientific article published on 11 February 2014

Classification of 'Anaerocellum thermophilum' strain DSM 6725 as Caldicellulosiruptor bescii sp. nov.

scientific article published on 2 October 2009

Cold shock of a hyperthermophilic archaeon: Pyrococcus furiosus exhibits multiple responses to a suboptimal growth temperature with a key role for membrane-bound glycoproteins.

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Comparing the electronic properties of the low-spin cyano-ferric [Fe(N4)(Cys)] active sites of superoxide reductase and p450cam using ENDOR spectroscopy and DFT calculations.

scientific article published in December 2006

Comparison of small- and large-scale expression of selected Pyrococcus furiosus genes as an aid to high-throughput protein production.

scientific article published in January 2005

Conversion of 4-hydroxybutyrate to acetyl coenzyme A and its anapleurosis in the Metallosphaera sedula 3-hydroxypropionate/4-hydroxybutyrate carbon fixation pathway

scientific article published on 14 February 2014

Correlating the transcriptome, proteome, and metabolome in the environmental adaptation of a hyperthermophile.

scientific article published on 2 February 2008

Cryoelectron microscopy structure and mechanism of the membrane-associated electron-bifurcating flavoprotein Fix/EtfABCX

scientific article published on 01 January 2021

Crystallization of the glutamate dehydrogenase from the hyperthermophilic archaeon Thermococcus litoralis

scientific article published on 01 November 1996

DNA microarray analysis of the hyperthermophilic archaeon Pyrococcus furiosus: evidence for anNew type of sulfur-reducing enzyme complex

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Defining components of the chromosomal origin of replication of the hyperthermophilic archaeon Pyrococcus furiosus needed for construction of a stable replicating shuttle vector.

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Defining genes in the genome of the hyperthermophilic archaeon Pyrococcus furiosus: implications for all microbial genomes

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Degradation of high loads of crystalline cellulose and of unpretreated plant biomass by the thermophilic bacterium Caldicellulosiruptor bescii.

scientific article published on 19 November 2013

Deletion Strains Reveal Metabolic Roles for Key Elemental Sulfur-Responsive Proteins in Pyrococcus furiosus

scientific article published on September 30, 2011

Deletion of acetyl-CoA synthetases I and II increases production of 3-hydroxypropionate by the metabolically-engineered hyperthermophile Pyrococcus furiosus.

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Dispersion Interactions Govern the Strong Thermal Stability of a Protein

scientific article published on 01 January 2007

Dynamics of the [4Fe-4S] cluster in Pyrococcus furiosus D14C ferredoxin via nuclear resonance vibrational and resonance Raman spectroscopies, force field simulations, and density functional theory calculations.

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Effect of Iron-Sulfur Cluster Environment in Modulating the Thermodynamic Properties and Biological Function of Ferredoxin from Pyrococcus furiosus

scientific article published on May 19, 1998

Effect of serinate ligation at each of the iron sites of the [Fe4S4] cluster of Pyrococcus furiosus ferredoxin on the redox, spectroscopic, and biological properties

scientific article published on 01 August 1999

Effects of mutations in aspartate 14 on the spectroscopic properties of the [Fe3S4]+,0 clusters in Pyrococcus furiosus ferredoxin

scientific article published on 01 August 1999

Efficient degradation of lignocellulosic plant biomass, without pretreatment, by the thermophilic anaerobe "Anaerocellum thermophilum" DSM 6725

scientific article published on 22 May 2009

Electricity generation by Pyrococcus furiosus in microbial fuel cells operated at 90°C.

scientific article published on 20 February 2017

Electronic, Magnetic, and Redox Properties of [MFe3S4] Clusters (M = Cd, Cu, Cr) in Pyrococcus furiosus Ferredoxin

scientific article published on 01 December 1997

Engineering Hyperthermophilic Archaeon Pyrococcus furiosus to Overproduce Its Cytoplasmic [NiFe]-Hydrogenase

scientific article (publication date: 27 January 2012)

Engineering a Hyperthermophilic Archaeon for Temperature-Dependent Product Formation

scientific article published on April 17, 2012

Engineering hydrogen gas production from formate in a hyperthermophile by heterologous production of an 18-subunit membrane-bound complex

scientific article (publication date: 31 January 2014)

Engineering the cellulolytic extreme thermophile Caldicellulosiruptor bescii to reduce carboxylic acids to alcohols using plant biomass as the energy source

scientific article published on 11 August 2020

Engineering the respiratory membrane-bound hydrogenase of the hyperthermophilic archaeon Pyrococcus furiosus and characterization of the catalytically active cytoplasmic subcomplex.

scientific article published on 3 December 2014

Epimerase (Msed_0639) and mutase (Msed_0638 and Msed_2055) convert (S)-methylmalonyl-coenzyme A (CoA) to succinyl-CoA in the Metallosphaera sedula 3-hydroxypropionate/4-hydroxybutyrate cycle.

scientific article published on 29 June 2012

Extremely thermophilic energy metabolisms: biotechnological prospects.

scientific article published on 16 March 2017

Extremozymes: expanding the limits of biocatalysis

scientific article published on 01 July 1995

Fe-only hydrogenase from Thermotoga maritima

scientific article published on 01 January 2001

Ferredoxin from Pyrococcus furiosus

scientific article published on 01 January 2001

Finding and using hyperthermophilic enzymes.

scientific article published in August 1998

Genome-wide identification of targets for the archaeal heat shock regulator phr by cell-free transcription of genomic DNA.

scientific article published on 18 December 2009

Heterologous expression and maturation of an NADP-dependent [NiFe]-hydrogenase: a key enzyme in biofuel production

scientific article (publication date: 6 May 2010)

Heterologous expression and properties of the gamma-subunit of the Fe-only hydrogenase from Thermotoga maritima

scientific article published on 01 June 2001

High yield purification of a tagged cytoplasmic [NiFe]-hydrogenase and a catalytically-active nickel-free intermediate form

scientific article published on 21 November 2014

High-Yield Production of Dihydrogen from Xylose by Using a Synthetic Enzyme Cascade in a Cell-Free System

scientific article (publication date: 19 March 2013)

High-fidelity amplification using a thermostable DNA polymerase isolated from Pyrococcus furiosus

scientific article published on December 1, 1991

High-throughput production of Pyrococcus furiosus proteins: considerations for metalloproteins.

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High-yield hydrogen production from biomass by in vitro metabolic engineering: Mixed sugars coutilization and kinetic modeling

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High-yield hydrogen production from starch and water by a synthetic enzymatic pathway

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Homologous expression of a subcomplex of Pyrococcus furiosus hydrogenase that interacts with pyruvate ferredoxin oxidoreductase

scientific article (publication date: 2011)

Hydrogenases I and II from Pyrococcus furiosus

scientific article published on 01 January 2001

Hydrogenases of the model hyperthermophiles.

scientific article published on March 2008

Hydrogenesis in hyperthermophilic microorganisms: implications for biofuels.

scientific article published on 28 June 2008

Identification of membrane proteins in the hyperthermophilic archaeon pyrococcus furiosus using proteomics and prediction programs

scientific article published on January 2001

Identification of protein-bound dinitrosyl iron complexes by nuclear resonance vibrational spectroscopy

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Impact of substrate glycoside linkage and elemental sulfur on bioenergetics of and hydrogen production by the hyperthermophilic archaeon Pyrococcus furiosus

scientific article (publication date: November 2007)

In vitro hydrogen production by glucose dehydrogenase and hydrogenase.

scientific article published in July 1996

In vitro metabolic engineering of hydrogen production at theoretical yield from sucrose

scientific article published on 13 May 2014

Intact Functional Fourteen-subunit Respiratory Membrane-bound [NiFe]-Hydrogenase Complex of the Hyperthermophilic Archaeon Pyrococcus furiosus

scientific article (publication date: 23 May 2014)

International conference on extremophiles 2014.

scientific article published in September 2014

Investigation of the Unusual Electronic Structure of Pyrococcus furiosus 4Fe Ferredoxin by EPR Spectroscopy of Protein Reduced at Ambient and Cryogenic Temperatures

scientific article published on 01 July 1999

Iron- and Aluminum-Induced Depletion of Molybdenum in Acidic Environments Impedes the Nitrogen Cycle

scientific article published on 21 November 2018

Isolation of the membrane-bound hydrogenase from Rhodospirillum rubrum

scientific article published on July 25, 1977

Kinetic Role of Electrostatic Interactions in the Unfolding of Hyperthermophilic and Mesophilic Rubredoxins

scientific article published on March 10, 1998

Life in extreme environments: hydrothermal vents

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Mannosylglycerate and di-myo-inositol phosphate have interchangeable roles during adaptation of Pyrococcus furiosus to heat stress.

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Mechanism of oxygen detoxification by the surprisingly oxygen-tolerant hyperthermophilic archaeon, Pyrococcus furiosus

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Mechanistic insights into energy conservation by flavin-based electron bifurcation

scientific article published on 10 April 2017

Metabolic and evolutionary relationships among Pyrococcus Species: genetic exchange within a hydrothermal vent environment.

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Metabolically engineered Caldicellulosiruptor bescii as a platform for producing acetone and hydrogen from lignocellulose

scientific article published on 08 August 2020

Metabolism in hyperthermophilic microorganisms.

scientific article published on January 1994

Metallochaperones regulate intracellular copper levels

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Metallomics of two microorganisms relevant to heavy metal bioremediation reveal fundamental differences in metal assimilation and utilization

scientific article published on 01 May 2014

Microbe-metal interactions in marine hydrothermal environments.

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Molecular characterization of the genes encoding the tungsten-containing aldehyde ferredoxin oxidoreductase from Pyrococcus furiosus and formaldehyde ferredoxin oxidoreductase from Thermococcus litoralis

scientific article published on August 1, 1995

Molecular characterization of the recombinant iron-containing alcohol dehydrogenase from the hyperthermophilic Archaeon, Thermococcus strain ES1.

scientific article published on 25 December 2008

Molecular model of the solution structure for the paramagnetic four-iron ferredoxin from the hyperthermophilic archaeon Thermococcus litoralis.

scientific article published in September 1996

Mutational Analyses of the Enzymes Involved in the Metabolism of Hydrogen by the Hyperthermophilic Archaeon Pyrococcus furiosus.

scientific article published on May 2012

Natural competence in the hyperthermophilic archaeon Pyrococcus furiosus facilitates genetic manipulation: construction of markerless deletions of genes encoding the two cytoplasmic hydrogenases

scientific article (publication date: April 2011)

Nickel L-Edge Soft X-ray Spectroscopy of Nickel−Iron Hydrogenases and Model CompoundsEvidence for High-Spin Nickel(II) in the Active Enzyme

scholarly article by Hongxin Wang et al published November 2000 in Journal of the American Chemical Society

Nuclear resonance vibrational spectroscopy (NRVS) of rubredoxin and MoFe protein crystals

scientific article published on December 2013

Observation of Fe-H/D modes by nuclear resonant vibrational spectroscopy.

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Observation of terahertz vibrations in Pyrococcus furiosus rubredoxin via impulsive coherent vibrational spectroscopy and nuclear resonance vibrational spectroscopy--interpretation by molecular mechanics.

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Observation of the Fe-CN and Fe-CO vibrations in the active site of [NiFe] hydrogenase by nuclear resonance vibrational spectroscopy

scientific article published on 8 November 2012

Open questions: genomics and how far we haven't come.

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Organometallic iron: the key to biological hydrogen metabolism.

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PF0610, a novel winged helix-turn-helix variant possessing a rubredoxin-like Zn ribbon motif from the hyperthermophilic archaeon, Pyrococcus furiosus

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Participation of the disulfide bridge in the redox cycle of the ferredoxin from the hyperthermophile Pyrococcus furiosus: 1H nuclear magnetic resonance time resolution of the four redox states at ambient temperature.

scientific article published in July 1995

Phosphoenolpyruvate synthetase from the hyperthermophilic archaeon Pyrococcus furiosus

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Physical characterization of a totally synthetic rubredoxin

scientific article published on 01 January 1997

Production and Application of a Soluble Hydrogenase from Pyrococcus furiosus

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Properties of the solubilized membrane-bound hydrogenase from the photosynthetic bacterium Rhodospirillum rubrum

scientific article published on July 1, 1979

Protein production and crystallization at SECSG -- an overview

scientific article published on 01 January 2005

Proton NMR investigation of the oxidized three-iron clusters in the ferredoxins from the hyperthermophilic archae Pyrococcus furiosus and Thermococcus litoralis.

scientific article published in December 1992

Proton-coupled electron transfer dynamics in the catalytic mechanism of a [NiFe]-hydrogenase

scientific article published on 30 March 2015

Purification and characterization of a membrane-bound hydrogenase from the hyperthermophilic archaeon Pyrococcus furiosus.

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Purification and characterization of pyruvate ferredoxin oxidoreductase from the hyperthermophilic archaeon Pyrococcus furiosus

scientific article published on 01 January 1993

Purification of the membrane-bound hydrogenase of Escherichia coli

scientific article published on October 1, 1979

Pyrococcus furiosus: large-scale cultivation and enzyme purification.

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Pyruvate ferredoxin oxidoreductase from the hyperthermophilic archaeon, Pyrococcus furiosus , functions as a CoA-dependent pyruvate decarboxylase

scientific article published on September 2, 1997

Quantitative measurement of small through-hydrogen-bond and 'through-space' 1H-113Cd and 1H-199Hg J couplings in metal-substituted rubredoxin from Pyrococcus furiosus

scientific article published on 01 September 1992

Rapid classification of protein structure models using unassigned backbone RDCs and probability density profile analysis (PDPA).

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Recombinogenic properties of Pyrococcus furiosus strain COM1 enable rapid selection of targeted mutants.

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Regulation of iron metabolism by Pyrococcus furiosus.

scientific article published on 15 March 2013

Response of Rubredoxin from Pyrococcus furiosus to Environmental Changes: Implications for the Origin of Hyperthermostability

scientific article published on August 8, 1995

Response to Comment on "Revealing nature's cellulase diversity: the digestion mechanism of Caldicellulosiruptor bescii CelA"

scientific article published on 01 May 2014

Revealing nature's cellulase diversity: the digestion mechanism of Caldicellulosiruptor bescii CelA

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Reverse gyrase is essential for microbial growth at 95 °C.

scientific article published on 22 March 2017

Role of 4-Hydroxybutyrate-CoA Synthetase in the CO2 Fixation Cycle in Thermoacidophilic Archaea

scientific article published on December 20, 2012

Rubredoxin from Pyrococcus furiosus

scientific article published on 01 January 2001

Rubrerythrin from the hyperthermophilic archaeon Pyrococcus furiosus is a rubredoxin-dependent, iron-containing peroxidase

scientific article published on December 2004

Single gene insertion drives bioalcohol production by a thermophilic archaeon

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Site-directed mutations of the 4Fe-ferredoxin from the hyperthermophilic archaeon Pyrococcus furiosus: role of the cluster-coordinating aspartate in physiological electron transfer reactions

scientific article published on 01 September 1997

Solubilization and Partial Purification of the Membrane-Bound Hydrogenase of Escherichia coli

scientific article published on January 1, 1978

Spectroscopic studies of Pyrococcus furiosus superoxide reductase: implications for active-site structures and the catalytic mechanism.

scientific article published in February 2002

Stability and dynamics in a hyperthermophilic protein with melting temperature close to 200 degrees C.

scientific article published on October 1997

Structure and electron transfer pathways of an electron-bifurcating NiFe-hydrogenase

scientific article published on 25 February 2022

Structure of the respiratory MBS complex reveals iron-sulfur cluster catalyzed sulfane sulfur reduction in ancient life

scientific article published on 23 November 2020

Superoxide reductase: fact or fiction?

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SurR is a master regulator of the primary electron flow pathways in the order Thermococcales.

scientific article published on 15 March 2017

SurR regulates hydrogen production in Pyrococcus furiosus by a sulfur-dependent redox switch.

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SurR: a transcriptional activator and repressor controlling hydrogen and elemental sulphur metabolism in Pyrococcus furiosus

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Temperature-dependent acetoin production by Pyrococcus furiosus is catalyzed by a biosynthetic acetolactate synthase and its deletion improves ethanol production

scientific article published on 22 December 2015

The DNA polymerase gene from the hyperthermophilic marine archaebacterium,pyrococcus furiosus, shows sequence homology with α-like DNA polymerases

scientific article published on December 25, 1991

The Southeast Collaboratory for Structural Genomics: a high-throughput gene to structure factory.

scientific article published in March 2003

The catalytic mechanism of electron-bifurcating electron transfer flavoproteins (ETFs) involves an intermediary complex with NAD<sup/>

scientific article published on 19 December 2018

The delta-subunit of pyruvate ferredoxin oxidoreductase from Pyrococcus furiosus is a redox-active, iron-sulfur protein: evidence for an ancestral relationship with 8Fe-type ferredoxins

scientific article published on 01 September 1998

The elemental sulfur-responsive protein (SipA) from the hyperthermophilic archaeon Pyrococcus furiosus is regulated by sulfide in an iron-dependent manner.

scientific article published on 27 August 2010

The first agmatine/cadaverine aminopropyl transferase: biochemical and structural characterization of an enzyme involved in polyamine biosynthesis in the hyperthermophilic archaeon Pyrococcus furiosus.

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The hyperthermophilic bacterium, Thermotoga maritima, contains an unusually complex iron-hydrogenase: amino acid sequence analyses versus biochemical characterization.

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The hyperthermophilic glycolytic enzyme enolase in the archaeon, Pyrococcus furiosus: comparison with mesophilic enolases.

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The impact of extremophiles on structural genomics (and vice versa).

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The iron-hydrogenase of Thermotoga maritima utilizes ferredoxin and NADH synergistically: a new perspective on anaerobic hydrogen production

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The modular respiratory complexes involved in hydrogen and sulfur metabolism by heterotrophic hyperthermophilic archaea and their evolutionary implications

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The structure and mechanism of iron-hydrogenases.

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The thermophilic biomass-degrading bacterium Caldicellulosiruptor bescii utilizes two enzymes to oxidize glyceraldehyde 3-phosphate during glycolysis

scientific article published on 16 May 2019

The unique features of glycolytic pathways in Archaea.

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Thermophilic lignocellulose deconstruction

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Thermostability and thermoactivity of enzymes from hyperthermophilic Archaea.

scientific article published on July 1994

Transcriptional and biochemical analysis of starch metabolism in the hyperthermophilic archaeon Pyrococcus furiosus.

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Tuning Catalytic Bias of Hydrogen Gas Producing Hydrogenases

scientific article published on 10 January 2020

Unfolding mechanism of rubredoxin from Pyrococcus furiosus.

scientific article published in March 1998

Unification of [FeFe]-hydrogenases into three structural and functional groups.

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Whole-genome DNA microarray analysis of a hyperthermophile and an archaeon: Pyrococcus furiosus grown on carbohydrates or peptides.

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[FeFe]- and [NiFe]-hydrogenase diversity, mechanism, and maturation.

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Enzymes and proteins from organisms that grow near and above 100 degrees C.

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