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Colin Robinson is affiliated with the University of Kent in the United Kingdom. Their research is primarily situated within the field of Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology, with a focus on the subfields of Molecular Biology, Immunology, Genetics, Ecology, and Endocrinology.

Their notable recent research papers include the following:

  • Refolding of lid subdomain of SARS-CoV-2 nsp14 upon nsp10 interaction releases exonuclease activity, 2022, published in Structure
  • A Chemical Probe for the Methyl Transferase PRMT5 with a Novel Binding Mode, 2020, published in ACS Medicinal Chemistry Letters
  • Transgenic Microalgae Expressing Double-Stranded RNA as Potential Feed Supplements for Controlling White Spot Syndrome in Shrimp Aquaculture, 2023, published in Microorganisms
  • Novel constructs and 1-step chromatography protocols for the production of Porcine Circovirus 2d (PCV2d) and Circovirus 3 (PCV3) subunit vaccine candidates, 2021, published in Food and Bioproducts Processing
  • Highly efficient export of a disulfide-bonded protein to the periplasm and medium by the Tat pathway using CyDisCo in Escherichia coli, 2023, published in MicrobiologyOpen

Frequent publication venues for their work include:

  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Research Square (Research Square)
  • Structure
  • ACS Medicinal Chemistry Letters
  • Microorganisms

Their research encompasses several topics including:

  • RNA and protein synthesis mechanisms
  • Bacterial Genetics and Biotechnology
  • Aquaculture disease management and microbiota
  • Bacteriophages and microbial interactions
  • RNA modifications and cancer
  • RNA Interference and Gene Delivery
  • CRISPR and Genetic Engineering

Colin Robinson has collaborated frequently with a group of coauthors, including Amber R. Peswani, Sean O'Byrne, Fraser Cunningham, Irene Georgiou, and Conner Webb. These partnerships have contributed to a range of research outputs in their shared areas of interest.

Best Publications

  • Overlapping functions of components of a bacterial Sec-independent protein export pathway.

    Frank Sargent;Frank Sargent;Erik G. Bogsch;Nicola R. Stanley;Nicola R. Stanley;Margaret Wexler;Margaret Wexler

  • AN ESSENTIAL COMPONENT OF A NOVEL BACTERIAL PROTEIN EXPORT SYSTEM WITH HOMOLOGUES IN PLASTIDS AND MITOCHONDRIA

    Erik G. Bogsch;Frank Sargent;Frank Sargent;Nicola R. Stanley;Nicola R. Stanley;Ben C. Berks

  • Transport of proteins into chloroplasts

    Colin Robinson;R. John Ellis

  • Export of active green fluorescent protein to the periplasm by the twin-arginine translocase (Tat) pathway in Escherichia coli.

    Joanna D. Thomas;Richard A. Daniel;Jeff Errington;Colin Robinson

  • A critical role for the Var2 FtsH homologue of Arabidopsis thaliana in the photosystem II repair cycle in vivo

    Shaun Bailey;Elinor Thompson;Peter J. Nixon;Peter Horton

  • TatB and TatC Form a Functional and Structural Unit of the Twin-arginine Translocase from Escherichia coli

    Albert Bolhuis;Joanne E. Mathers;Joanna D. Thomas;Claire M.L. Barrett

  • A new type of signal peptide: central role of a twin-arginine motif in transfer signals for the delta pH-dependent thylakoidal protein translocase.

    A.M. Chaddock;A. Mant;I. Karnauchov;S. Brink

  • TatD Is a Cytoplasmic Protein with DNase Activity NO REQUIREMENT FOR TatD FAMILY PROTEINS IN Sec-INDEPENDENT PROTEIN EXPORT

    Margaret Wexler;Frank Sargent;Frank Sargent;Rachael L. Jack;Rachael L. Jack;Nicola R. Stanley;Nicola R. Stanley

  • Structure, function and regulation of plant photosystem I.

    Poul Erik Jensen;Roberto Bassi;Egbert J. Boekema;Jan P. Dekker

  • Diffusion of Green Fluorescent Protein in Three Cell Environments in Escherichia Coli

    Conrad W. Mullineaux;Anja Nenninger;Nicola Ray;Colin Robinson

  • FtsH is involved in the early stages of repair of photosystem II in Synechocystis sp PCC 6803

    Paulo Silva;Elinor Thompson;Shaun Bailey;Olaf Kruse

  • A proton gradient is required for the transport of two lumenal oxygen-evolving proteins across the thylakoid membrane.

    R M Mould;C Robinson

  • Protein targeting by the twin-arginine translocation pathway.

    Colin Robinson;Albert Bolhuis

  • Mechanisms of Protein Import and Routing in Chloroplasts

    Paul Jarvis;Colin Robinson

  • Tat-dependent protein targeting in prokaryotes and chloroplasts.

    Colin Robinson;Albert Bolhuis

  • The Sec-independent Twin-arginine Translocation System Can Transport Both Tightly Folded and Malfolded Proteins across the Thylakoid Membrane

    Peter J. Hynds;David Robinson;Colin Robinson

  • Pathway specificity for a ΔpH‐dependent precursor thylakoid lumen protein is governed by a 'sec‐avoidance’ motif in the transfer peptide and a 'sec‐incompatible’ mature protein

    Erik Bogsch;Susanne Brink;Colin Robinson

  • Protein translocation into and across the bacterial plasma membrane and the plant thylakoid membrane.

    Ross E Dalbey;Colin Robinson

  • The ancestral symbiont sensor kinase CSK links photosynthesis with gene expression in chloroplasts.

    Sujith Puthiyaveetil;T. Anthony Kavanagh;Peter Cain;James A. Sullivan

  • A thylakoid processing protease is required for complete maturation of the lumen protein plastocyanin

    Johan Hageman;Colin Robinson;Sjef Smeekens;Peter Weisbeek

Frequent Co-Authors

Conrad W. Mullineaux
Conrad W. Mullineaux Queen Mary University of London
Reinhold G. Herrmann
Reinhold G. Herrmann Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München
Tracy Palmer
Tracy Palmer Newcastle University
Wolfgang P. Schröder
Wolfgang P. Schröder Umeå University
Jan Maarten van Dijl
Jan Maarten van Dijl University Medical Center Groningen
Frank Sargent
Frank Sargent Newcastle University
Poul Erik Jensen
Poul Erik Jensen University of Copenhagen
Ben C. Berks
Ben C. Berks University of Oxford
Peter J. Nixon
Peter J. Nixon Imperial College London
Robert B. Freedman
Robert B. Freedman University of Warwick

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