Dr Susan Firbank
Telephone: +44 (0) 191 222 7369 Personal Website: http://sbl.ncl.ac.uk Address: Institute for Cell and Molecular Biosciences
El Ghazouani A, Basle A, Firbank SJ, Knapp CW, Gray J, Graham DW, Dennison C. Copper-Binding Properties and Structures of Methanobactins from Methylosinus trichosporium OB3b .
Inorganic Chemistry 2011, 50 (4), 1378-1391.
Killelea T, Ghosh S, Tan SS, Heslop P, Firbank SJ, Kool ET, Connolly BA. Probing the Interaction of Archaeal DNA Polymerases with Deaminated Bases Using X-ray Crystallography and Non-Hydrogen Bonding Isosteric Base Analogues .
Biochemistry 2010, 49 (27), 5772-5781.
Sonnenburg ED, Zheng HJ, Joglekar P, Higginbottom SK, Firbank SJ, Bolam DN, Sonnenburg JL. Specificity of Polysaccharide Use in Intestinal Bacteroides Species Determines Diet-Induced Microbiota Alterations .
Cell 2010, 141 (7), 1241-1252.
Waldron KJ, Firbank SJ, Dainty SJ, Perez-Rama M, Tottey S, Robinson NJ. Structure and Metal Loading of a Soluble Periplasm Cuproprotein .
Journal of Biological Chemistry 2010, 285 (42), 32504-32511.
Badarau A, Firbank SJ, McCarthy AA, Banfield MJ, Dennison C. Visualizing the Metal-Binding Versatility of Copper Trafficking Sites .
Biochemistry 2010, 49 (36), 7798-7810.
Firbank S, Wardle J, Heslop P, Lewis RJ, Connolly BR. Uracil recognition in archaeal DNA polymerases captured by X-ray crystallography .
Journal of Molecular Biology 2008, 381 (3), 529-539.
Tottey S, Waldron KJ, Firbank SJ, Reale B, Bessant C, Sato K, Cheek TR, Gray J, Banfield MJ, Dennison C, Robinson NJ. Protein-folding location can regulate manganese-binding versus copper- or zinc-binding .
Nature 2008, 455 (7216), 1138-1142.
Montanier C, van Bueren AL, Dumon C, Flint JE, Correia MA, Prates JA, Firbank SJ, Lewis RJ, Grondin GG, Ghinet MG, Gloster TM, Herve C, Knox JP, Talbot BG, Turkenburg JP, Kerovuo J, Brzezinski R, Fontes CMGA, Davies GJ, Boraston AB, Gilbert HJ. Evidence that family 35 carbohydrate binding modules display conserved specificity but divergent function .
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 2009, 106 (9), 3065-3070.
Marles-Wright J, Grant T, Delumeau O, Van Duinen G, Firbank S, Lewis P, Murray J, Newman J, Quin M, Race P, Rohou A, Tichelaar W, Van Heel M, Lewis RJ. Molecular architecture of the "stressosome," a signal integration and transduction hub .
Science 2008, 322 (5898), 92-96.
Badarau A, Firbank SJ, Waldron KJ, Yanagisawa S, Robinson NJ, Banfield MJ, Dennison C. FutA2 is a ferric binding protein from Synechocystis PCC 6803 .
Journal of Biological Chemistry 2008, 283 (18), 12520-12527.
Yanagisawa S, Crowley PB, Firbank SJ, Lawler AT, Hunter DM, McFarlane W, Li C, Kohzuma T, Banfield MJ, Dennison C. pi-interaction tuning of the active site properties of metalloproteins .
Journal of the American Chemical Society 2008, 130 (46), 15420-15428.
Merz T, Wetzel SK, Firbank S, Pluckthun A, Grutter MG, Mittl PR. Stabilizing ionic interactions in a full-consensus ankyrin repeat protein .
Journal of Molecular Biology 2008, 376 (1), 232-240.
Crowley PB, Matias PM, Mi H, Firbank SJ, Banfield MJ, Dennison C. Regulation of protein function: Crystal packing interfaces and conformational dimerization .
Biochemistry 2008, 47 (25), 6583-6589.
Rogers MS, Tyler EM, Akyumani N, Kurtis CR, Spooner RK, Deacon SE, Tamber S, Firbank SJ, Mahmoud K, Knowles PF, Phillips SE, McPherson MJ, Dooley DM. The stacking tryptophan of galactose oxidase: a second-coordination sphere residue that has profound effects on tyrosyl radical behavior and enzyme catalysis .
Biochemistry 2007, 46 (15), 4606-4618.
Deriu D, Gassmann M, Firbank S, Ristig D, Lampert C, Mosbacher J, Froestl W, Kaupmann K, Bettler B, Grutter MG. Determination of the minimal functional ligand-binding domain of the GABAB1b receptor .
Biochemical journal 2005, 386 (3), 423-431.
Firbank S, Rogers M, Guerrero RH, Dooley DM, Halcrow MA, Phillips SE, Knowles PF, McPherson MJ. Cofactor processing in galactose oxidase .
Biochemical Society Symposia 2004, 71 , 15-25.
Deacon SE, Mahmoud K, Spooner RK, Firbank SJ, Knowles PF, Phillips SE, McPherson MJ. Enhanced fructose oxidase activity in a galactose oxidase variant .
ChemBioChem 2004, 5 (7), 972-979.
Firbank SJ, Rogers M, Hurtado-Guerrero R, Dooley DM, Halcrow MA, Phillips SE, Knowles PF, McPherson MJ. Cofactor processing in galactose oxidase .
Biochemical Society Transactions 2003, 31 (Pt 3), 506-9.
Johnson MS, Lutz EM, Firbank S, Holland PJ, Mitchell R. Functional interactions between native Gs-coupled 5-HT receptors in HEK-293 cells and the heterologously expressed serotonin transporter .
Cellular Signalling 2003, 15 (8), 803-811.
Firbank SJ, Rogers MS, Wilmot CM, Dooley DM, Halcrow MA, Knowles PF, McPherson MJ, Phillips SE. Crystal structure of the precursor of galactose oxidase: an unusual self-processing enzyme .
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 2001, 98 (23), 12932-7.
Lowe EC, Baslé A, Czjzek M, Firbank SJ, Bolam DN. A scissor blade-like closing mechanism implicated in transmembrane signaling in a Bacteroides hybrid two-component system .
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 2012, 109 (19), 7298-7303.
El Ghazouani A, Basle A, Gray J, Graham DW, Firbank SJ, Dennison C. Variations in methanobactin structure influences copper utilization by methane-oxidizing bacteria .
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 2012, 109 (22), 8400-8404.
