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Team
The core team comprises people that have excellent qualification and
expertise in protein expression and characterisation, and labelling
of biomolecules. Management team is supported by external consultants
with expertise in business development, financial affairs and proprietary
issues.
Selected publications
Protein expression and
purification
Janssen, J.J.M., Bovee-Geurts, P.H.M., Merkx, M. and DeGrip, W.J.
(1995) Histidine-tagging both allows convenient single-step purification
of bovine rhodopsin and exerts ionic-strength dependent effects
on its photochemistry. J. Biol. Chem. 270, 11222-11229.
DeGrip, W.J., VanOostrum, J. and Bovee-Geurts, P.H.M. (1998) Selective
detergent-extraction from mixed detergent/lipid/protein micelles,
using cyclodextrin inclusion compounds: A novel generic approach
for the preparation of proteoliposomes. Biochem. J. 330, 667-674.
Bosman, G.J.C.G.M., Van Oostrum, J., Breikers, G., Bovee-Geurts,
P.H.M., Klaassen, C.H.W., DeGrip, W.J. (2003) Functional expression
of His-tagged rhodopsin in Sf9 insect cells. in Methods in Molecular
Biology; Membrane Protein Protocols, Ed. Selinsky, B.S. p. 73-88
Stable isotope labelling
of biomolecules
Egorova, T.A., Eremin, S.V., Mitsner, B.I., Zvonkova, E.N., Shvets,
V.I. (1995) Isolation of individual amino acids from various microbiological
sources using reversed-phase high performance liquid chromatography.
Journal of Chromatography, Biomedical Application 665, 53-62.
Egorova-Zachernyuk, T.A., Shvets V.I., Versluis K., Heerma, W.,
Creemers, A.F.L., Nieuwenhuis, S.A.M., Lugtenburg, J., Raap, J.
(1996) Preparation of site-specifically labelled zervamicins, the
antibiotic peptaibols produced by Emericellopsis salmosynnemata.
Journal of Peptide Science. 2, 1-10.
Protein structure
Egorova-Zachernyuk, T.A., Hollander, J., Frazer N., Gast, P., Cogdell,
R., Hoff, A.J., De Groot, H.J.M., and Baldus, M. (2001) Backbone
correlations in a fully labelled membrane protein complex at ultra
high magnetic fields. J. Biomol. NMR, 19, 243-253
Ligand - protein interaction
Egorova-Zachernyuk T.A., (1997) NMR Characterization of Protein-Pheophytin
Interactions in Rhodobacter sphaeroides R-26 Photosynthetic Reaction
Centers, from multispin pheophytin enrichment and 2-D MAS NMR dipolar
correlation spectroscopy. Biochemistry 36, 7513-7519.
Egorova-Zachernyuk T.A., Remy A., Shkuropatov A.Ya., Gast P., Hoff
A.J., Gerwert K., de Groot H.J.M. (1999) Efficient conditions for
the photoaccumulation of HA - in the photosynthetic reaction centers
of Rhodobacter sphaeroides R-26 with uniformly labelled bacteriopheophytin
monitored by fourier transform infrared difference spectroscopy.
Vibrational spectroscopy, 19, 347-352.
Creemers, A.F.L., Klaassen, C.H.W., Bovee-Geurts, P.H.M., Kelle,
R., Kragl, U., Raap, J., DeGrip, W.J., Lugtenburg, J. and DeGroot,
H.J.M. (1999) 15N Solid state NMR evidence for a compex Schiff base
counterion in the visual G-protein coupled receptor rhodopsin. Biochemistry
-USA 38, 7195-7199.
Creemers A.F.L., Kiihne S., Bovee-Geurts P.H.M., de Grip W.J.,
Lugtenburg, J., and de Groot H.J.M. (2002). 1H and 13C MAS NMR evidence
for pronounced ligand-protein interactions involving the ionone
ring of the retinylidene chromophore in rhodopsin. Proc. Nat. Acad.
Sci. 99, 9101-9106
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