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Gerhard Schenk is affiliated with the University of Queensland in Australia. Their research spans primarily the field of Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology, with a significant focus on Molecular Biology, Materials Chemistry, Biomedical Engineering, Plant Science, and Pharmacology as subfields.

Their work covers several key topics, including:

  • Microbial Metabolic Engineering and Bioproduction
  • Enzyme Catalysis and Immobilization
  • Antibiotic Resistance in Bacteria
  • Enzyme Structure and Function
  • Biofuel production and bioconversion
  • Plant biochemistry and biosynthesis
  • Microbial Natural Products and Biosynthesis

Among the recent published papers are:

  • Structures of fungal and plant acetohydroxyacid synthases, 2020, Nature
  • Structural basis of resistance to herbicides that target acetohydroxyacid synthase, 2022, Nature Communications
  • Structural elements that modulate the substrate specificity of plant purple acid phosphatases: Avenues for improved phosphorus acquisition in crops, 2020, Plant Science
  • Engineering indel and substitution variants of diverse and ancient enzymes using Graphical Representation of Ancestral Sequence Predictions (GRASP), 2022, PLoS Computational Biology
  • Enhancing the catalytic activity of a GH5 processive endoglucanase from Bacillus subtilis BS-5 by site-directed mutagenesis, 2020, International Journal of Biological Macromolecules

Frequent co-authors in Gerhard Schenk's research include:

  • Luke W. Guddat
  • Marcelo Monteiro Pedroso
  • Ross P. McGeary
  • Liam A. Wilson
  • Thierry Lonhienne

The scientist has published extensively in several venues, with multiple publications in:

  • Chemistry - A European Journal
  • ACS Catalysis
  • Journal of Inorganic Biochemistry
  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • ChemSusChem

Best Publications

  • The catalytic mechanisms of binuclear metallohydrolases.

    Natasa Mitic;Sarah J. Smith;Ademir Neves;Luke W. Guddat

  • Properties and functions of the thiamin diphosphate dependent enzyme transketolase

    Gerhard Schenk;Ronald G. Duggleby;Peter F. Nixon

  • Structure, function, and regulation of tartrate-resistant acid phosphatase.

    G.W. Oddie;Gerhard Schenk;N.Z. Angel;N. Walsh

  • Purple acid phosphatase: a journey into the function and mechanism of a colorful enzyme

    Gerhard Schenk;Gerhard Schenk;Nataša Mitić;Graeme R. Hanson;Peter Comba

  • Binuclear metal centers in plant purple acid phosphatases: Fe-Mn in sweet potato and Fe-Zn in soybean.

    Gerhard Schenk;Yubin Ge;Lyle E. Carrington;Ceridwen J. Wynne

  • Identification of mammalian-like purple acid phosphatases in a wide range of plants

    G Schenk;L W Guddat;Y Ge;L E Carrington

  • Engineering highly functional thermostable proteins using ancestral sequence reconstruction

    Yosephin Gumulya;Yosephin Gumulya;Jong-Min Baek;Shun-Jie Wun;Raine E. S. Thomson

  • Phosphate forms an unusual tripodal complex with the Fe–Mn center of sweet potato purple acid phosphatase

    Gerhard Schenk;Lawrence R. Gahan;Lyle E. Carrington;Natas ÿa Mitic

  • Binuclear metallohydrolases: Complex mechanistic strategies for a simple chemical reaction

    Gerhard Schenk;Gerhard Schenk;Nataša Mitić;Lawrence R. Gahan;David L. Ollis

  • An unprecedented Fe(III)(mu-OH)Zn(II) complex that mimics the structural and functional properties of purple acid phosphatases.

    Ademir Neves;Mauricio Lanznaster;Adailton J. Bortoluzzi;Rosely A. Peralta

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

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

  • Comparison between the geometric and electronic structures and reactivities of [FeNO]7 and [FeO2]8 complexes: a density functional theory study.

    Gerhard Schenk;Monita Y. M. Pau;Edward I. Solomon

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

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

  • A Purple Acid Phosphatase from Sweet Potato Contains an Antiferromagnetically Coupled Binuclear Fe-Mn Center

    Gerhard Schenk;Claire L Boutchard;Lyle E Carrington;Christopher J Noble

  • Dinuclear Zinc(II) Complexes with Hydrogen Bond Donors as Structural and Functional Phosphatase Models

    Simone Bosch;Simone Bosch;Peter Comba;Lawrence R. Gahan;Gerhard Schenk

  • Crystal structures of a purple acid phosphatase, representing different steps of this enzyme's catalytic cycle.

    Gerhard Schenk;Tristan W Elliott;Eleanor Leung;Lyle E Carrington

  • Phosphate Ester Hydrolysis: Metal Complexes As Purple Acid Phosphatase and Phosphotriesterase Analogues

    Lawrence R. Gahan;Sarah J. Smith;Ademir Neves;Gerhard Schenk

  • The organophosphate-degrading enzyme from Agrobacterium radiobacter displays mechanistic flexibility for catalysis.

    Fernanda Ely;Kieran S. Hadler;Lawrence R. Gahan;Luke W. Guddat

  • Iron, copper, and manganese complexes with in vitro superoxide dismutase and/or catalase activities that keep Saccharomyces cerevisiae cells alive under severe oxidative stress.

    Thales P. Ribeiro;Christiane Fernandes;Karen V. Melo;Sarah S. Ferreira

  • Purple acid phosphatases from bacteria: similarities to mammalian and plant enzymes.

    Gerhard Schenk;Michael L.J. Korsinczky;David A. Hume;Susan Hamilton

  • Metal-Ion Mutagenesis: Conversion of a Purple Acid Phosphatase from Sweet Potato to a Neutral Phosphatase with the Formation of an Unprecedented Catalytically Competent MnIIMnII Active Site

    Natasa Mitić;Christopher J Noble;Lawrence R Gahan;Graeme R Hanson

Frequent Co-Authors

Lawrence R. Gahan
Lawrence R. Gahan University of Queensland
Luke W. Guddat
Luke W. Guddat University of Queensland
David L. Ollis
David L. Ollis Australian National University
Graeme R. Hanson
Graeme R. Hanson University of Queensland
Ademir Neves
Ademir Neves Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina
Peter Comba
Peter Comba Heidelberg University
Adailton J. Bortoluzzi
Adailton J. Bortoluzzi Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina
Colin J. Jackson
Colin J. Jackson Australian National University
David A. Hume
David A. Hume University of Queensland
Edward I. Solomon
Edward I. Solomon Stanford University

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