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Igor Polikarpov is affiliated with the Universidade de São Paulo in Brazil. Their research spans multiple disciplines within the broader fields of biochemistry, genetics, molecular biology, and engineering, with a focus on subfields such as biomedical engineering, molecular biology, biotechnology, plant science, and biomaterials.

The scientific contributions by Polikarpov include significant work on biofuel production and bioconversion, enzyme production and characterization, advanced cellulose research studies, catalysis for biomass conversion, microbial metabolic engineering and bioproduction, microbial metabolites in food biotechnology, and enzyme catalysis and immobilization.

Notable recent publications authored or coauthored by Polikarpov include:

  • An overview on progress, advances, and future outlook for biohydrogen production technology (2022), International Journal of Hydrogen Energy
  • Xyloglucan processing machinery in Xanthomonas pathogens and its role in the transcriptional activation of virulence factors (2021), Nature Communications
  • Cellulose nanofibers production using a set of recombinant enzymes (2020), Carbohydrate Polymers
  • Recent advances in the enzymatic production and applications of xylooligosaccharides (2021), World Journal of Microbiology and Biotechnology
  • Enzymatic production of xylooligosaccharides from corn cobs: Assessment of two different pretreatment strategies (2022), Carbohydrate Polymers

Polikarpov frequently publishes in venues such as Carbohydrate Polymers, World Journal of Microbiology and Biotechnology, Industrial Crops and Products, Cellulose, and SSRN Electronic Journal.

Their frequent collaborators include Vanessa O.A. Pellegrini, Vanessa de Oliveira Arnoldi Pellegrini, Caio Cesar de Mello Capetti, Andrei Nicoli Gebieluca Dabul, and Fernando Segato.

Best Publications

  • Bovine β-lactoglobulin at 1.8 Å resolution — still an enigmatic lipocalin

    Sharon Brownlow;João H. Morais Cabral;Ron Cooper;Darren R. Flower

  • Average protein density is a molecular-weight-dependent function.

    Hannes Fischer;Igor Polikarpov;Aldo F. Craievich

  • Chemical and morphological characterization of sugarcane bagasse submitted to a delignification process for enhanced enzymatic digestibility.

    Camila Alves Rezende;Marisa Aparecida de Lima;Priscila Maziero;Eduardo Ribeiro deAzevedo

  • Determination of the molecular weight of proteins in solution from a single small-angle X-ray scattering measurement on a relative scale

    H. Fischer;M. de Oliveira Neto;H. B. Napolitano;I. Polikarpov

  • Medium chain fatty acids are selective peroxisome proliferator activated receptor (PPAR) γ activators and pan-PPAR partial agonists

    Marcelo Vizoná Liberato;Alessandro Silva Nascimento;Steven D. Ayers;Jean Z. Lin

  • Crystal structure of the extracellular region of human tissue factor

    K. Harlos;D. M. A. Martin;D. P. O'Brien;E. Y. Jones

  • Enzymatic hydrolysis of pretreated sugar cane bagasse using Penicillium funiculosum and Trichoderma harzianum cellulases

    Roberto Nobuyuki Maeda;Viviane Isabel Serpa;Vanessa Alves Lima Rocha;Renata Aparecida Alves Mesquita

  • Multi-scale structural and chemical analysis of sugarcane bagasse in the process of sequential acid-base pretreatment and ethanol production by Scheffersomyces shehatae and Saccharomyces cerevisiae

    Anuj K Chandel;Felipe Af Antunes;Virgilio Anjos;Maria Jv Bell

  • Crystal Structure of Exo-inulinase from Aspergillus awamori: The Enzyme Fold and Structural Determinants of Substrate Recognition

    R.A.P. Nagem;A.L. Rojas;A.M. Golubev;O.S. Korneeva

  • Effects of pretreatment on morphology, chemical composition and enzymatic digestibility of eucalyptus bark: a potentially valuable source of fermentable sugars for biofuel production – part 1

    Marisa A. Lima;Gabriela B. Lavorente;Hana K. P. da Silva;Juliano Bragatto

  • β-Lactoglobulin: Structural Studies, Biological Clues

    Lindsay Sawyer;Sharon Brownlow;Igor Polikarpov;Su-Ying Wu

  • Structural Rearrangements in the Thyroid Hormone Receptor Hinge Domain and Their Putative Role in the Receptor Function

    Alessandro S. Nascimento;Sandra Martha Gomes Dias;Fábio M. Nunes;Ricardo Aparício

  • The two types of 3-dehydroquinase have distinct structures but catalyze the same overall reaction.

    David G. Gourley;David G. Gourley;Annette K. Shrive;Annette K. Shrive;Igor Polikarpov;Tino Krell;Tino Krell

  • Efficient sugar production from sugarcane bagasse by microwave assisted acid and alkali pretreatment

    Zongyuan Zhu;Camila Alves Rezende;Rachael Simister;Simon J. McQueen-Mason

  • SAXSMoW 2.0: Online calculator of the molecular weight of proteins in dilute solution from experimental SAXS data measured on a relative scale.

    Vassili Piiadov;Evandro Ares de Araújo;Mario Oliveira Neto;Aldo Felix Craievich

  • Crystal Structure of Recombinant Human Interleukin-22

    Ronaldo Alves Pinto Nagem;Didier Colau;Laure Dumoutier;Jean Christophe Renauld

  • Structural diversity of carbohydrate esterases

    Aline M. Nakamura;Alessandro S. Nascimento;Igor Polikarpov

  • The high resolution crystal structure of yeast hexokinase PII with the correct primary sequence provides new insights into its mechanism of action.

    Paula R. Kuser;Sandra Krauchenco;Octávio A. C. Antunes;Igor Polikarpov

  • Crystal structures of bovine beta-lactoglobulin in the orthorhombic space group C222(1). Structural differences between genetic variants A and B and features of the Tanford transition.

    Kesley M. G. Oliveira;Vera L. Valente-Mesquita;Michelle M. Botelho;Lindsay Sawyer

  • Substrate binding is required for assembly of the active conformation of the catalytic site in Ntn amidotransferases: evidence from the 1.8 å crystal structure of the glutaminase domain of glucosamine 6-phosphate synthase

    Michail N Isupov;Galya Obmolova;Susanna Butterworth;Marie-Ange Badet-Denisot

  • Purification, characterization, gene cloning and preliminary X-ray data of the exo-inulinase from Aspergillus awamori.

    Michael Arand;Alexander M. Golubev;J. R. Brandao Neto;Igor Polikarpov

Frequent Co-Authors

Munir S. Skaf
Munir S. Skaf State University of Campinas
Aldo F. Craievich
Aldo F. Craievich Universidade de São Paulo
Jean-Christophe Renauld
Jean-Christophe Renauld Université Catholique de Louvain
Laure Dumoutier
Laure Dumoutier Université Catholique de Louvain
Sergio Marangoni
Sergio Marangoni State University of Campinas
Simon J. McQueen-Mason
Simon J. McQueen-Mason University of York
John D. Baxter
John D. Baxter University of California, San Francisco
Neil C. Bruce
Neil C. Bruce University of York
Sergio T. Ferreira
Sergio T. Ferreira Federal University of Rio de Janeiro
Paulo Arruda
Paulo Arruda State University of Campinas

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