History (Dijkstra group)

A comprehensive overview of staff members and research projects until September 2017 can be found on this website.
Until September 2017, the Groningen Protein Crystallography group was headed by (emeritus) prof. Bauke Dijkstra, with Dr. Andy-Mark Thunnissen and Dr. Jaap Broos as scientific staff members, and Dr. Henriëtte Rozeboom and Dr. Ing. Tjaard Pijning as supporting staff members. The publication list of Em Professor Dijkstra can be found here.

Over the years, over 300 protein structures (> 100 unique) were determined in the group. A comprehensive overview of the research projects until September 2017 can be found on this website.

Latest dissertations (2004-2017):

Structural studies of bacterial steroid-hydroxylating cytochrome P450 monooxygenases. Ilona Jóźwik, June 23, 2017.

Structure and Activity Studies of Tyrosinases and Related Proteins. Xuelei Lai, February 24, 2017.

Insights into the catalytic mechanisms of a 3-ketosteroid delta-1-dehydrogenase and a beta-xylosidase obtained from X-ray structures. Ali Rohman, December 6, 2016.

Evaluation of pi-pi interactions in proteins using Trp analogs. Jinfeng Shao, November 14, 2016.

Structural studies into ketosteroid dehydrogenases and S-selective ω-transaminases .Niels van Oosterwijk, June 13, 2016.

Structural and functional characterization of a lytic transglycosylase and two ω-transaminases. Eswar Reddem, December 22, 2015.

Divergent or just different. Structural studies on six different enzymes. Henriëtte Rozeboom, November 14, 2014.

Efficient biosynthetic incorporation of tryptophan analogues , and spectroscopic characterization of tryptophan-analogue labelled LysM proteins. Dejan Petrović, February 7, 2014.

Structural investigations into amino group transfer by two bacterial β -aminotransferases and an aminomutase from plant. Gjalt Wybenga, January 10, 2014.

Just add sugar... Structural studies on glucancucrase and fructansucrase enzymes from Lactobacilli. Tjaard Pijning, January 10, 2014.

Exploring the molecular functions of major murein and pseudomurein cell wall binding domains. Ganesh Visweswaran, October 12, 2012.

Structure and mechanism of two bacterial enzymes: MltE from Escherichia coli and AspB from Bacillus sp YM55-1. Guntur Fibriansah, July 9, 2012.

On the mechanism of promiscuous ligand-binding by multidrug resistance regulator LmrR and structural investigations of lytic transglycosylase MltF. Pramod Kumar Madoori, May 25, 2012.

Crystal structure of Agaricus bosporus tyrosinase. Wangsa Tirta Ismaya, June 24, 2011.

Structural characterization of the transmembrane domain of the mannitol permease from Escherichia coli using fluorescence and phosphorescence spectroscopy. Milena Opačić, February 11, 2011.

Ntn-hydrolases unveiled - Structural investigations into isopenicillin N acyltransferase and the quorum-quenching acylase PvdQ. Marcel Bokhove, September 24, 2010.

Structural investigations of three different proteins by X-ray crystallography and NMR. Avinash Kale, April 16, 2010.

Structural and functional investigations of Lactobacillus reuteri glucansucrase, with crystallographic studies on an α-amylase and a prolyl endoprotease from Aspergillus niger. Andreja Vujičić-Žagar, October 19, 2007.

Structural studies on a secretion chaperone from Shigella flexneri and crystallographic explorations with a thermostable aldolase. Andre van Eerde, June 22, 2007.

Crystal structure and mechanism of the lytic transglycosylase MltA from Escherichia coli. Karin van Straaten, 2006.

The inner workings of α-amino acid ester hydrolases ...And crystallization experiments with an integral membrane transporter. Thomas Barends, April 16, 2004.