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Scopus Author ID: 57202606026

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Biochemistry, enzymology, microbiology, genetics, structural biology

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Mechanism of phage sensing and restriction by toxin-antitoxin-chaperone systems.

Cell host & microbe
2024-05-30 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1016/j.chom.2024.05.003
PMID: 38821063
Contributors: Mets T; Kurata T; Ernits K; Johansson MJO; Craig SZ; Evora GM; Buttress JA; Odai R; Wallant KC; Nakamoto JA et al.
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Karin Ernits

Fructan Enzymes in Microbes and Plants: Structure, Function, and Product Formation

The Book of Fructans
2023 | Book chapter
DOI: 10.1016/b978-0-323-85410-8.00018-1
Part of ISBN: 9780323854108
Contributors: Tiina Alamäe; Karin Ernits; Lázaro Hernández; Triinu Visnapuu; Wim Van den Ende
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Karin Ernits via Crossref Metadata Search

Boosted production of antibodies which neutralized different SARS-CoV-2 variants in a COVID-19 convalescent following mRNA vaccination - a case study.

International journal of infectious diseases : IJID : official publication of the International Society for Infectious Diseases
2023-10 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1016/j.ijid.2023.10.011
PMID: 37852599
Contributors: Ravlo E; Ianevski A; Starheim E; Wang W; Ji P; Lysvand H; Smura T; Kivi G; Voolaid ML; Plaan K et al.
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Karin Ernits via Europe PubMed Central

The structure of DarB in complex with Rel NTD reveals nonribosomal activation of Rel stringent factors

Science Advances
2023-01-20 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1126/sciadv.ade4077
Contributors: Andres Ainelo; Julien Caballero-Montes; Ondřej Bulvas; Karin Ernits; Kyo Coppieters ‘t Wallant; Hiraku Takada; Sophie Z. Craig; Gabriel Mazzucchelli; Safia Zedek; Iva Pichová et al.
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Structure of SpoT reveals evolutionary tuning of catalysis via conformational constraint

Nature Chemical Biology
2022-12-05 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1038/s41589-022-01198-x
Part of ISSN: 1552-4450
Part of ISSN: 1552-4469
Contributors: Hedvig Tamman; Karin Ernits; Mohammad Roghanian; Andres Ainelo; Christina Julius; Anthony PERRIER; Ariel Talavera Perez; Hanna Ainelo; Rémy Dugauquier; Safia Zedek et al.
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Karin Ernits

A hyperpromiscuous antitoxin protein domain for the neutralization of diverse toxin domains.

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America
2022-02 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.2102212119
PMID: 35121656
Contributors: Kurata T; Saha CK; Buttress JA; Mets T; Brodiazhenko T; Turnbull KJ; Awoyomi OF; Oliveira SRA; Jimmy S; Ernits K et al.
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Structural Insight into a Yeast Maltase—The BaAG2 from Blastobotrys adeninivorans with Transglycosylating Activity

Journal of Fungi
2021-09-29 | Journal article
DOI: 10.3390/jof7100816
Contributors: Karin Ernits; Christian Kjeldsen; Karina Persson; Eliis Grigor; Tiina Alamäe; Triinu Visnapuu
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Porphyromonas gingivalis fimbrial protein Mfa5 contains a von Willebrand factor domain and an intramolecular isopeptide

communications biology
2021-01-25 | Journal article
Part of DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/s42003-020-01621-w
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Karin Ernits

Characterization of a Maltase from an Early-Diverged Non-Conventional Yeast Blastobotrys adeninivorans.

International journal of molecular sciences
2019-12-31 | Journal article
DOI: 10.3390/ijms21010297
PMID: 31906253
PMC: PMC6981392
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Karin Ernits
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First crystal structure of an endo-levanase - the BT1760 from a human gut commensal Bacteroides thetaiotaomicron.

Scientific reports
2019-06-11 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1038/s41598-019-44785-0
PMID: 31186460
PMC: PMC6560043
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Karin Ernits
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Composition and metabolism of fecal microbiota from normal and overweight children are differentially affected by melibiose, raffinose and raffinose-derived fructans.

Anaerobe
2018-06 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1016/j.anaerobe.2018.06.009
PMID: 29935270
Contributors: Adamberg K; Adamberg S; Ernits K; Larionova A; Voor T; Jaagura M; Visnapuu T; Alamäe T
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Karin Ernits via Europe PubMed Central

A Highly Active Endo-Levanase BT1760 of a Dominant Mammalian Gut Commensal Bacteroides thetaiotaomicron Cleaves Not Only Various Bacterial Levans, but Also Levan of Timothy Grass.

2017 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0169989
PMID: 28103254
Contributors: Mardo K; Visnapuu T; Vija H; Aasamets A; Viigand K; Alamäe T
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Karin Ernits via Europe PubMed Central

Thermostability Measurement of an α-Glucosidase Using a Classical Activity-based Assay and a Novel Thermofluor Method.

Bio-protocol
2017-06 | Journal article
DOI: 10.21769/bioprotoc.2349
PMID: 34541099
PMC: PMC8410288
Contributors: Ernits K; Viigand K; Visnapuu T; Põšnograjeva K; Alamäe T
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Karin Ernits via Europe PubMed Central

Maltase protein of Ogataea (Hansenula) polymorpha is a counterpart to the resurrected ancestor protein ancMALS of yeast maltases and isomaltases.

2016-08 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1002/yea.3157
PMID: 26919272
PMC: PMC5074314
Contributors: Viigand K; Visnapuu T; Mardo K; Aasamets A; Alamäe T
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Karin Ernits via Europe PubMed Central

Levansucrases of a Pseudomonas syringae pathovar as catalysts for the synthesis of potentially prebiotic oligo- and polysaccharides.

2015-12 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1016/j.nbt.2015.01.009
PMID: 25644638
Contributors: Visnapuu T; Mardo K; Alamäe T
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Karin Ernits via Europe PubMed Central

Esterase LpEst1 from Lactobacillus plantarum: a novel and atypical member of the αβ hydrolase superfamily of enzymes.

2014 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0092257
PMID: 24663330
PMC: PMC3963902
Contributors: Alvarez Y; Esteban-Torres M; Cortés-Cabrera A; Gago F; Acebrón I; Benavente R; Mardo K; de Las Rivas B; Muñoz R; Mancheño JM
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Karin Ernits via Europe PubMed Central

High-throughput assay of levansucrase variants in search of feasible catalysts for the synthesis of fructooligosaccharides and levan.

2014 | Journal article
DOI: 10.3390/molecules19068434
PMID: 24955639
Contributors: Mardo K; Visnapuu T; Gromkova M; Aasamets A; Viigand K; Vija H; Alamäe T
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Karin Ernits via Europe PubMed Central

Mutational analysis of conserved regions harboring catalytic triad residues of the levansucrase protein encoded by the lsc-3 gene (lsc3) of Pseudomonas syringae pv. tomato DC3000.

2014 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1002/bab.1129
PMID: 23725335
Contributors: Mardo K; Visnapuu T; Vija H; Elmi T; Alamäe T
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Karin Ernits via Europe PubMed Central

Levansucrases of <i>Pseudomonas</i> bacteria: novel approaches for protein expression, assay of enzymes, fructooligosaccharides and heterooligofructans

Carbohydrate Chemistry
2012 | Book chapter
DOI: 10.1039/9781849734769-00176
Part of ISSN: 1465-1963
Contributors: Tiina Alamäe; Triinu Visnapuu; Karin Mardo; Andres Mäe; Alina D. Zamfir
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Levansucrases from Pseudomonas syringae pv. tomato and P. chlororaphis subsp. aurantiaca: substrate specificity, polymerizing properties and usage of different acceptors for fructosylation.

2011-09 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1016/j.jbiotec.2011.07.026
PMID: 21820018
Contributors: Visnapuu T; Mardo K; Mosoarca C; Zamfir AD; Vigants A; Alamäe T
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Karin Ernits via Europe PubMed Central

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