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Jan Kok is affiliated with the University of Groningen in the Netherlands. Their research spans biochemistry, genetics, and molecular biology, with a strong focus on molecular biology as reflected by the majority of their work. They have contributed to research fields including food science, nutrition and dietetics, genetics, and ecology.

The scientist's research covers a variety of topics within microbiology and molecular biology, such as probiotics and fermented foods, genomics and phylogenetic studies, RNA and protein synthesis mechanisms, microbial metabolic engineering and bioproduction, bacteriophages and microbial interactions, CRISPR and genetic engineering, and microbial metabolites in food biotechnology.

Jan Kok has published extensively in scientific journals, with frequent contributions appearing in:

  • Applied and Environmental Microbiology
  • Microbiology Resource Announcements
  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Nucleic Acids Research
  • Food Research International

Some of their recent papers include:

  • FUNAGE-Pro: comprehensive web server for gene set enrichment analysis of prokaryotes, 2022, Nucleic Acids Research
  • Human milk oligosaccharides and non-digestible carbohydrates reduce pathogen adhesion to intestinal epithelial cells by decoy effects or by attenuating bacterial virulence, 2021, Food Research International
  • Coenzyme A precursors flow from mother to zygote and from microbiome to host, 2022, Molecular Cell
  • Lysis of a Lactococcus lactis Dipeptidase Mutant and Rescue by Mutation in the Pleiotropic Regulator CodY, 2020, Applied and Environmental Microbiology
  • Another Breaker of the Wall: the Biological Function of the Usp45 Protein of Lactococcus lactis, 2020, Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Jan Kok's list of frequent co-authors includes researchers with whom they have collaborated multiple times, such as:

  • Oscar P. Kuipers
  • Anne de Jong
  • Chenxi Huang
  • Jhonatan A. Hernandez-Valdes
  • Barbara Marcelli

Best Publications

  • The Relationship among Tyrosine Decarboxylase and Agmatine Deiminase Pathways in Enterococcus faecalis

    Marta Perez;Victor Ladero;Beatriz del Rio;Begona Redruello

  • BAGEL4: a user-friendly web server to thoroughly mine RiPPs and bacteriocins

    Auke J van Heel;Anne de Jong;Chunxu Song;Jakob H Viel

  • Stress Physiology of Lactic Acid Bacteria

    Konstantinos Papadimitriou;Ángel Alegría;Peter A Bron;Maria de Angelis

  • LysM, a widely distributed protein motif for binding to (peptido)glycans

    Girbe Buist;Anton Steen;Jan Kok;Oscar P. Kuipers

  • BAGEL3: Automated identification of genes encoding bacteriocins and (non-)bactericidal posttranslationally modified peptides.

    Auke J. van Heel;Anne de Jong;Manuel Montalbán-López;Jan Kok

  • Complete Genome Sequence of the Prototype Lactic Acid Bacterium Lactococcus lactis subsp. cremoris MG1363

    Udo Wegmann;Mary O'Connell-Motherway;Aldert Zomer;Girbe Buist

  • Construction of Plasmid Cloning Vectors for Lactic Streptococci Which Also Replicate in Bacillus subtilis and Escherichia coli

    J. Kok;J. M. B. M. Van Der Vossen;G. Venema

  • A system to generate chromosomal mutations in Lactococcus lactis which allows fast analysis of targeted genes.

    Jean Law;Girbe Buist;Alfred Haandrikman;Jan Kok

  • A general system for generating unlabelled gene replacements in bacterial chromosomes

    K. Leenhouts;Girbe Buist;A. Bolhuis;A. ten Berge

  • Multidrug resistance mediated by a bacterial homolog of the human multidrug transporter MDR1

    Hendrik W. van Veen;Koen Venema;Henk Bolhuis;Irina Oussenko

  • Construction of a Lactococcal Expression Vector: Expression of Hen Egg White Lysozyme in Lactococcus lactis subsp. lactis

    M. Van De Guchte;J. M. B. M. Van Der Vossen;J. Kok;G. Venema

  • Pediocin PA-1, a wide-spectrum bacteriocin from lactic acid bacteria

    Juan M Rodríguez;María I Martínez;Jan Kok

  • Bile salt hydrolase of Bifidobacterium longum : Biochemical and genetic characterization

    Hiroshi Tanaka;Honoo Hashiba;Jan Kok;Igor Mierau

  • A chloride-inducible acid resistance mechanism in Lactococcus lactis and its regulation

    Jan Willem Sanders;Kees Leenhouts;Jan Burghoorn;Jan Roel Brands

  • Molecular cloning and nucleotide sequence of the gene encoding the major peptidoglycan hydrolase of Lactococcus lactis, a muramidase needed for cell separation.

    Girbe Buist;Jan Kok;Kees J. Leenhouts;Magdalena Dabrowska

  • Discovering lactic acid bacteria by genomics

    Todd Klaenhammer;Eric Altermann;Fabrizio Arigoni;Alexander Bolotin

  • BAGEL: a web-based bacteriocin genome mining tool

    Anne de Jong;Sacha A. F. T. van Hijum;Jetta J. E. Bijlsma;Jan Kok

  • Cell Wall Attachment of a Widely Distributed Peptidoglycan Binding Domain Is Hindered by Cell Wall Constituents

    Anton Steen;Girbe Buist;Kees J. Leenhouts;Mohamed El Khattabi

  • Bet-hedging during bacterial diauxic shift

    Ana Solopova;Jordi van Gestel;Franz J. Weissing;Herwig Bachmann

  • The proteolytic system of lactic acid bacteria

    J. Kok;W. M. De Vos

  • AcmA of Lactococcus lactis is an N-acetylglucosaminidase with an optimal number of LysM domains for proper functioning

    Anton Steen;Girbe Buist;Gavin J. Horsburgh;Gerard Venema

  • Construction of a Lactococcal Expression Vector : Expression of Hen Egg White Lysozyme in Lactococcus lactis subsp. lactis

    Maarten van de Guchte;Jos M.B.M. van der Vossen;Jan Kok;Gerard Venema

Frequent Co-Authors

Oscar P. Kuipers
Oscar P. Kuipers University of Groningen
Gerhardus Venema
Gerhardus Venema University of Groningen
Girbe Buist
Girbe Buist University Medical Center Groningen
Sacha A. F. T. van Hijum
Sacha A. F. T. van Hijum KPMG (Netherlands)
Bert Poolman
Bert Poolman University of Groningen
Wil N. Konings
Wil N. Konings University of Groningen
Douwe van Sinderen
Douwe van Sinderen University College Cork
Bas Teusink
Bas Teusink Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
Sierd Bron
Sierd Bron University of Groningen
Wn Konings
Wn Konings University of Groningen

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