Professor Alexander Yakunin

Professor In Enzyme Discovery and Application

Contact info

 

Professor Alexander Yakunin (Iakounine)

 

Office: Thoday Building, room S25

Email: a.iakounine@bangor.ac.uk

Tel: 01248 388399

 

Research focus: enzyme discovery, enzymology, enzyme applications

  1. Published

    One-pot chemo-enzymatic synthesis and one-step recovery of length-variable long-chain polyphosphates from microalgal biomass

    Lin, Y-H., Nishikawa, S., Jia, T. Z., Yeh, F-I., Khusnutdinova, A., Yakunin, A., Fujishima, K. & Wang, P-H., 27 Oct 2023, In: Green Chemistry. 23

    Research output: Contribution to journalArticlepeer-review

  2. Published

    Structure and activity of the cold-active and anion-activated carboxyl esterase OLEI01171 from the oil-degrading marine bacterium Oleispira antarctica

    Lemak, S., Tchigvintsev, A., Petit, P., Flick, R., Singer, A. U., Brown, G., Evdokimova, E., Egorova, O., Gonzalez, C. F., Chernikova, T. N., Yakimov, M. M., Kube, M., Reinhardt, R., Golyshin, P. N., Savchenko, A. & Yakunin, A. F., 15 Jul 2012, In: Biochemical Journal. 445, 2, p. 193-203

    Research output: Contribution to journalArticlepeer-review

  3. Published

    Structural and biochemical insights into CRISPR RNA processing by the Cas5c ribonuclease SMU1763 from Streptococcus mutans

    Lemak, S., Serbanescu, M. A., Khusnutdinova, A. N., Ruszkowski, M., Beloglazova, N., Xu, X., Brown, G., Cui, H., Tan, K., Joachimiak, A., Cvitkovitch, D. G., Savchenko, A. & Yakunin, A., Nov 2021, In: Journal of Biological Chemistry. 297, 5, 101251.

    Research output: Contribution to journalArticlepeer-review

  4. The CRISPR-associated Cas4 protein Pcal_0546 from Pyrobaculum calidifontis contains a [2Fe-2S] cluster: crystal structure and nuclease activity

    Lemak, S., Nocek, B., Beloglazova, N., Skarina, T., Flick, R., Brown, G., Joachimiak, A., Savchenko, A. & Yakunin, A. F., 29 Sept 2014, In: Nucleic Acids Research. 42, 17, p. 11144-11155

    Research output: Contribution to journalArticlepeer-review

  5. Published

    Structural insights into hydrolytic defluorination of difluoroacetate by microbial fluoroacetate dehalogenases

    Khusnutdinova, A. N., Batyrova, K., Brown, G., Fedorchuck, T., Chai, Y. S., Skarina, T., Flick, R., Petit, A-P., Savchenko, A., Stogios, P. & Yakunin, A., Oct 2023, In: Febs Journal. 290, 20, p. 4966-4983 18 p.

    Research output: Contribution to journalArticlepeer-review

  6. Published

    Prenylated FMN: biosynthesis, purification, and Fdc1 activation

    Khusnutdinova, A. N., Xiao, J., Wang, P-H., Batyrova, K., Flick, R., Edwards, E. & Yakunin, A., 2019, New Approaches for Flavin Catalysis. Palfey, B. A. (ed.). Elsevier, Vol. 620. p. 469-488 (Methods in Enzymology).

    Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceedingChapterpeer-review

  7. Published

    CRISPR-induced DNA reorganization for multiplexed nucleic acid detection

    Karlikow, M., Amalfitano, E., Yang, X., Doucet, J., Chapman, A., Sadat-Moussavi, P., Homme, P., Sutyrina, P., Chang, W., Lemak, S., Yakunin, A., Dolezal, A. G., Kelley, S., Foster, L., Harpur, B. & Pardee, K., 17 Mar 2023, In: Nature Communications. 14, 1, 1505.

    Research output: Contribution to journalArticlepeer-review

  8. Alkene hydrogenation activity of enoate reductases for an environmentally benign biosynthesis of adipic acid

    Joo, J. C., Khusnutdinova, A. N., Flick, R., Kim, T., Bornscheuer, U. T., Yakunin, A. F. & Mahadevan, R., 1 Feb 2017, In: Chemical Science. 8, 2, p. 1406-1413

    Research output: Contribution to journalArticlepeer-review

  9. A family of metal-dependent phosphatases implicated in metabolite damage-control

    Huang, L., Khusnutdinova, A., Nocek, B., Brown, G., Xu, X., Cui, H., Petit, P., Flick, R., Zallot, R., Balmant, K., Ziemak, M. J., Shanklin, J., de Crecy-Lagard, V., Fiehn, O., Gregory, J. F. . III., Joachimiak, A., Savchenko, A., Yakunin, A. F. & Hanson, A. D., Aug 2016, In: Nature Chemical Biology. 12, 8, p. 621-627

    Research output: Contribution to journalArticlepeer-review

  10. Published

    Screening and Characterization of Novel Polyesterases from Environmental Metagenomes with High Hydrolytic Activity against Synthetic Polyesters

    Hajighasemi, M., Tchigvintsev, A., Nocek, B., Flick, R., Popovic, A., Hai, T., Khusnutdinova, A. N., Brown, G., Xu, X., Cui, H., Anstett, J., Chernikova, T., Bruls, T., Le Paslier, D., Yakimov, M. M., Joachimiak, A., Golyshina, O., Savchenko, A., Golyshin, P., Edwards, E. A. & Yakunin, A. F., 6 Nov 2018, In: Environmental Science and Technology. 52, 21, p. 12388-12401

    Research output: Contribution to journalArticlepeer-review