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Overview

Colin J. Jackson is affiliated with the Australian National University in Australia. Their research output primarily focuses on biochemistry, genetics, and molecular biology, with significant contributions spanning related subfields such as molecular biology, genetics, infectious diseases, organic chemistry, and materials chemistry.

The main topics covered in their work include RNA and protein synthesis mechanisms, protein structure and dynamics, enzyme structure and function, chemical synthesis and analysis, genomics and phylogenetic studies, biochemical and molecular research, and amino acid enzymes and metabolism.

Frequent publication venues for Colin J. Jackson include bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory) with 42 publications, Biochemistry with 10 publications, Nature Communications and Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research), each with 5 publications, and Acta Crystallographica Section A Foundations and Advances also with 5 publications.

Co-authors who have regularly collaborated with them include Matthew A. Spence, Joe A. Kaczmarski, Rebecca L. Frkic, Adam M. Damry, and Mahakaran Sandhu.

Recent papers authored by or involving Colin J. Jackson include:

  • LTP Induction Boosts Glutamate Spillover by Driving Withdrawal of Perisynaptic Astroglia, 2020, Neuron
  • Ancestral sequence reconstruction for protein engineers, 2021, Current Opinion in Structural Biology
  • Surface Functionalization and Texturing of Optical Metasurfaces for Sensing Applications, 2022, Chemical Reviews
  • Predicting nitroimidazole antibiotic resistance mutations in Mycobacterium tuberculosis with protein engineering, 2020, PLoS Pathogens
  • Structures of a non-ribosomal peptide synthetase condensation domain suggest the basis of substrate selectivity, 2021, Nature Communications

Best Publications

  • Biochemistry of Microbial Degradation of Hexachlorocyclohexane and Prospects for Bioremediation

    Rup Lal;Gunjan Pandey;Pooja Sharma;Kirti Kumari

  • The role of protein dynamics in the evolution of new enzyme function

    Eleanor Campbell;Miriam Kaltenbach;Galen J Correy;Paul D Carr

  • Diminishing returns and tradeoffs constrain the laboratory optimization of an enzyme

    Nobuhiko Tokuriki;Colin J. Jackson;Livnat Afriat-Jurnou;Kirsten T. Wyganowski

  • LTP Induction Boosts Glutamate Spillover by Driving Withdrawal of Perisynaptic Astroglia.

    Christian Henneberger;Christian Henneberger;Christian Henneberger;Lucie Bard;Aude Panatier;Aude Panatier;Aude Panatier;James P. Reynolds

  • Evolutionary optimization of computationally designed enzymes: Kemp eliminases of the KE07 series.

    Olga Khersonsky;Daniela Röthlisberger;Orly Dym;Shira Albeck

  • Identification and characterization of two families of F420H2-dependent reductases from Mycobacteria that catalyse aflatoxin degradation

    Matthew C. Taylor;Colin J. Jackson;David B. Tattersall;Nigel French

  • Physiology, Biochemistry, and Applications of F420- and Fo-Dependent Redox Reactions

    Christopher Andrew Greening;F. Hafna Ahmed;A. Elaaf Mohamed;Brendon M. Lee

  • Sensing and signaling of oxidative stress in chloroplasts by inactivation of the SAL1 phosphoadenosine phosphatase

    Kai Xun Chan;Peter D. Mabbitt;Su Yin Phua;Jonathan W. Mueller

  • The enzymatic basis for pesticide bioremediation

    Colin Scott;Gunjan Pandey;Carol J Hartley;Colin Jackson

  • Reconstructing a missing link in the evolution of a recently diverged phosphotriesterase by active-site loop remodeling.

    Livnat Afriat-Jurnou;Colin J. Jackson;Dan S. Tawfik

  • The cytochrome P450 complement (CYPome) of Streptomyces coelicolor A3(2).

    David C. Lamb;Tove Skaug;Hong Lin Song;Colin J. Jackson

  • Structure and function of an insect α-carboxylesterase (αEsterase7) associated with insecticide resistance

    Colin J. Jackson;Jian-Wei Liu;Paul D. Carr;Faisal Younus

  • Ancestral sequence reconstruction for protein engineers.

    Matthew A. Spence;Joe A. Kaczmarski;Jake W. Saunders;Colin J. Jackson

  • Conformational sampling, catalysis, and evolution of the bacterial phosphotriesterase

    Colin J Jackson;Jee Foo;Nobuhiko Tokuriki;L Afriat

  • Higher-order epistasis shapes the fitness landscape of a xenobiotic-degrading enzyme.

    Gloria Yang;Dave W Anderson;Dave W Anderson;Florian Baier;Elias Dohmen

  • Improving a Natural Enzyme Activity through Incorporation of Unnatural Amino Acids

    Isaac N Ugwumba;Kiyoshi Ozawa;Zhi-Qiang Xu;Fernanda Ely

  • Protein engineering with unnatural amino acids.

    William H Zhang;Gottfried Otting;Colin J Jackson

  • Laboratory evolution of protein conformational dynamics.

    Eleanor C Campbell;Galen J Correy;Peter D Mabbitt;Ashley M Buckle

  • In Crystallo Capture of a Michaelis Complex and Product-binding Modes of a Bacterial Phosphotriesterase

    Colin J. Jackson;Jee-Loon Foo;Hye-Kyung Kim;Paul D. Carr

  • The structure of an enzyme-product complex reveals the critical role of a terminal hydroxide nucleophile in the bacterial phosphotriesterase mechanism

    Colin Jackson;Hye-Kyung Kim;Paul D. Carr;Jian-Wei Liu

  • A novel sterol 14alpha-demethylase/ferredoxin fusion protein (MCCYP51FX) from Methylococcus capsulatus represents a new class of the cytochrome P450 superfamily.

    Colin J. Jackson;David C. Lamb;Timothy H. Marczylo;Andrew G.S. Warrilow

  • Evolution of cyclohexadienyl dehydratase from an ancestral solute-binding protein.

    Ben Clifton;Joe Alexander Kaczmarski;Paul D Carr;Monica L Gerth;Monica L Gerth

  • The structure and function of a novel glycerophosphodiesterase from Enterobacter aerogenes

    Colin J. Jackson;Paul D. Carr;Jian-Wei Liu;Stephen J. Watt

  • Use of engineered enzymes to identify organophosphate and pyrethroid-related toxicity in toxicity identification evaluations.

    Donald P. Weston;Colin J. Jackson

  • Ancestral Protein Reconstruction Yields Insights into Adaptive Evolution of Binding Specificity in Solute-Binding Proteins

    Ben E. Clifton;Colin J. Jackson

Frequent Co-Authors

John G. Oakeshott
John G. Oakeshott Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation
Christian Henneberger
Christian Henneberger University of Bonn
David L. Ollis
David L. Ollis Australian National University
Robyn J. Russell
Robyn J. Russell Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation
Ashley M. Buckle
Ashley M. Buckle Monash University
Gottfried Otting
Gottfried Otting Australian National University
Gregory M. Cook
Gregory M. Cook Queensland University of Technology
Gerhard Schenk
Gerhard Schenk University of Queensland
Christopher C. Goodnow
Christopher C. Goodnow Garvan Institute of Medical Research
Michelle L. Coote
Michelle L. Coote Flinders University

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