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Birthe B. Kragelund

Birthe B. Kragelund

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Biology and Biochemistry

D-Index
58
Citations
10720
World Ranking
13318
National Ranking
143

Overview

Birthe B. Kragelund is affiliated with the University of Copenhagen in Denmark. Their research contributions primarily lie within the broad field of Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology, with a focus on Molecular Biology as a dominant subfield. Their work also extends to Materials Chemistry, Oncology, Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience, and Immunology.

Their scholarly output covers a range of topics related to protein science and cellular mechanisms. Key research themes include:

  • Protein Structure and Dynamics
  • Enzyme Structure and Function
  • RNA and Protein Synthesis Mechanisms
  • RNA Research and Splicing
  • Ubiquitin and Proteasome Pathways
  • RNA Modifications and Cancer
  • Glycosylation and Glycoproteins Research

Kragelund's recent published papers, reflecting diverse areas of molecular biology and biochemistry, include:

  • The molecular basis for cellular function of intrinsically disordered protein regions, 2023, Nature Reviews Molecular Cell Biology
  • Interactions by Disorder - A Matter of Context, 2020, Frontiers in Molecular Biosciences
  • Polyelectrolyte interactions enable rapid association and dissociation in high-affinity disordered protein complexes, 2020, Nature Communications
  • Refinement of α-Synuclein Ensembles Against SAXS Data: Comparison of Force Fields and Methods, 2021, Frontiers in Molecular Biosciences
  • How phosphorylation impacts intrinsically disordered proteins and their function, 2022, Essays in Biochemistry

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Kragelund include:

  • Andreas Prestel
  • Karen Skriver
  • Kresten Lindorff-Larsen
  • Katrine Bugge
  • Lasse Staby

Kragelund's work has been published extensively in venues such as:

  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Biophysical Journal
  • Nature Communications
  • Protein Science
  • Frontiers in Molecular Biosciences

Best Publications

  • Extreme disorder in an ultrahigh-affinity protein complex

    Alessandro Borgia;Madeleine B. Borgia;Katrine Østergaard Bugge;Vera M. Kissling

  • Probing the Nature of Noncovalent Interactions by Mass Spectrometry. A Study of Protein−CoA Ligand Binding and Assembly

    Carol V. Robinson;Evonne W. Chung;Birthe B. Kragelund;Jens Knudsen

  • Functional aspects of protein flexibility

    Kaare Teilum;Johan G. Olsen;Birthe B. Kragelund

  • Protein folding: defining a "standard" set of experimental conditions and a preliminary kinetic data set of two-state proteins.

    Karen L. Maxwell;David Wildes;Arash Zarrine-Afsar;Miguel A. De Los Rios

  • Temperature-dependent structural changes in intrinsically disordered proteins: Formation of α‒helices or loss of polyproline II?

    Magnus Kjaergaard;Ann-Beth Nørholm;Ruth Hendus-Altenburger;Stine F Pedersen

  • Protein stability, flexibility and function.

    Kaare Teilum;Johan G. Olsen;Birthe B. Kragelund

  • Folding of a four-helix bundle: studies of acyl-coenzyme A binding protein.

    Birthe B. Kragelund;Carol V. Robinson;Jens Knudsen;Christopher M. Dobson

  • The formation of a native-like structure containing eight conserved hydrophobic residues is rate limiting in two-state protein folding of ACBP

    Birthe B. Kragelund;Peter Osmark;Thomas B. Neergaard;Jacob Schiødt

  • Thermodynamics of Ligand Binding to Acyl-Coenzyme A Binding Protein Studied by Titration Calorimetry†

    Nils Joakim Færgeman;Bent W. Sigurskjold;Birthe B. Kragelund;Kim V. Andersen

  • Three-dimensional Structure of the Complex between Acyl-Coenzyme A Binding Protein and Palmitoyl-Coenzyme A

    Birthe B. Kragelund;Kim Vilbour Andersen;Jens Chr. Madsen;Jens Knudsen

  • Barley lipid-transfer protein complexed with palmitoyl CoA: the structure reveals a hydrophobic binding site that can expand to fit both large and small lipid-like ligands

    Mathilde H Lerche;Birthe B Kragelund;Lene M Bech;Flemming M Poulsen

  • Interactions by Disorder - A Matter of Context.

    Katrine Bugge;Inna Brakti;Catarina B Fernandes;Jesper E Dreier

  • Acyl-coenzyme A binding protein (ACBP).

    Birthe B. Kragelund;Jens Knudsen;Flemming M. Poulsen

  • Solution structure of human prolactin

    Kaare Teilum;Jeffrey C. Hoch;Vincent Goffin;Sandrina Kinet

  • Eukaryotic transcription factors: paradigms of protein intrinsic disorder

    Lasse Staby;Charlotte O'Shea;Martin Willemoës;Frederik Theisen

  • An Efficient Method for Estimating the Hydrodynamic Radius of Disordered Protein Conformations

    Mads Nygaard;Birthe B. Kragelund;Elena Papaleo;Kresten Lindorff-Larsen

  • Fast and One-step Folding of Closely and Distantly Related Homologous Proteins of a Four-helix Bundle Family

    Birthe B. Kragelund;Peter Højrup;Mette Skou Jensen;Charlotte Karlskov Schjerling

  • R2R3 MYB Transcription Factors - Functions outside the DNA-Binding Domain.

    Peter S. Millard;Birthe B. Kragelund;Meike Burow

  • Early kinetic intermediate in the folding of acyl-CoA binding protein detected by fluorescence labeling and ultrarapid mixing.

    Kaare Teilum;Kosuke Maki;Birthe B. Kragelund;Flemming M. Poulsen

  • Structure and biochemical function of a prototypical Arabidopsis U-box domain

    Pernille Andersen;Birthe Brandt Kragelund;Addie Nina Olsen;Flemming Hofmann Larsen

Frequent Co-Authors

Stine F. Pedersen
Stine F. Pedersen University of Copenhagen
Jens Knudsen
Jens Knudsen University of Southern Denmark
Vincent Goffin
Vincent Goffin Université Paris Cité
Kresten Lindorff-Larsen
Kresten Lindorff-Larsen University of Copenhagen
Kresten Lindorff-Larsen
Kresten Lindorff-Larsen University of Copenhagen
Patrick England
Patrick England Institut Pasteur
Michael Ploug
Michael Ploug University of Copenhagen
Benjamin Schuler
Benjamin Schuler University of Zurich
Nils J. Færgeman
Nils J. Færgeman University of Southern Denmark
Carol V. Robinson
Carol V. Robinson University of Oxford

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