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Overview

Wim J. Quax is affiliated with the University of Groningen in the Netherlands and has an extensive research portfolio primarily focused on biochemistry, genetics, and molecular biology. Their work spans several subfields, including molecular biology, pharmacology, oncology, immunology, and molecular medicine.

Their research topics cover a range of subjects, notably:

  • Plant biochemistry and biosynthesis
  • Microbial natural products and biosynthesis
  • Macrophage migration inhibitory factor
  • Microbial metabolic engineering and bioproduction
  • Cell death mechanisms and regulation
  • Peptidase inhibition and analysis
  • Bacterial biofilms and quorum sensing

Frequent coauthors in their projects include:

  • Rita Setroikromo
  • Ronald van Merkerk
  • Frank J. Dekker
  • Deng Chen
  • Shanshan Song

They have published regularly in several scientific journals, with the most recurrent venues being:

  • Journal of Agricultural and Food Chemistry
  • Journal of Medicinal Chemistry
  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • New Biotechnology
  • Journal of Applied Microbiology

Selected recent papers include:

  • Current State and Future Directions of Genetics and Genomics of Endophytic Fungi for Bioprospecting Efforts (2021), Frontiers in Bioengineering and Biotechnology
  • Proteolysis Targeting Chimera (PROTAC) for Macrophage Migration Inhibitory Factor (MIF) Has Anti-Proliferative Activity in Lung Cancer Cells (2021), Angewandte Chemie International Edition
  • Production of Squalene in Bacillus subtilis by Squalene Synthase Screening and Metabolic Engineering (2020), Journal of Agricultural and Food Chemistry
  • Engineering of Multiple Modules to Improve Amorphadiene Production in Bacillus subtilis Using CRISPR-Cas9 (2021), Journal of Agricultural and Food Chemistry
  • Betacyanins, major components in Opuntia red-purple fruits, protect against acetaminophen-induced acute liver failure (2020), Food Research International

Best Publications

  • The Multiple Signaling Systems Regulating Virulence in Pseudomonas aeruginosa

    Pol Nadal Jimenez;Pol Nadal Jimenez;Gudrun Koch;Gudrun Koch;Jessica A. Thompson;Karina B. Xavier

  • Proteomics of Protein Secretion by Bacillus subtilis: Separating the “Secrets” of the Secretome

    H Tjalsma;H. Antelmann;Jan Jongbloed;Peter Braun

  • Bacillus subtilis as cell factory for pharmaceutical proteins: a biotechnological approach to optimize the host organism.

    Lidia Westers;Helga Westers;Wim J. Quax

  • Quorum Quenching by an N-Acyl-Homoserine Lactone Acylase from Pseudomonas aeruginosa PAO1

    Charles F. Sio;Linda G. Otten;Robbert H. Cool;Stephen P. Diggle

  • Seasonal variation of artemisinin and its biosynthetic precursors in plants of Artemisia annua of different geographical origin: Proof for the existence of chemotypes

    Thorvald Wallaart;Niesko Pras;A.C Beekman;Wim Quax

  • Genome Engineering Reveals Large Dispensable Regions in Bacillus subtilis

    Helga Westers;Ronald Dorenbos;Jan Maarten van Dijl;Jorrit Kabel

  • The structure of the vimentin gene.

    Wim Quax;Wilma Vree Egberts;Wiljan Hendriks;Yvonne Quax-Jeuken

  • Designed tumor necrosis factor-related apoptosis-inducing ligand variants initiating apoptosis exclusively via the DR5 receptor

    Almer M. van der Sloot;Vicente Tur;Eva Szegezdi;Margaret M. Mullally

  • Functional analysis of the secretory precursor processing machinery of Bacillus subtilis: identification of a eubacterial homolog of archaeal and eukaryotic signal peptidases

    Harold Tjalsma;Albert Bolhuis;Maarten L. van Roosmalen;Thomas Wiegert

  • Engineering Escherichia coli for methanol conversion

    Jonas E N Müller;Fabian Meyer;Boris Litsanov;Patrick Kiefer

  • Directed evolution: selecting today's biocatalysts

    Linda G. Otten;Wim J. Quax

  • Isolation and Identification of Dihydroartemisinic Acid from Artemisia annua and Its Possible Role in the Biosynthesis of Artemisinin

    Thorvald Wallaart;W van Uden;H.G M Lubberink;Herman Woerdenbag

  • Production of Active Bacillus licheniformis Alpha-Amylase in Tobacco and its Application in Starch Liquefaction

    J Pen;L Molendijk;Wim J. Quax;Pc Sijmons

  • SecDF of Bacillus subtilis, a Molecular Siamese Twin Required for the Efficient Secretion of Proteins

    Albert Bolhuis;Cees P. Broekhuizen;Alexei Sorokin;Maarten L. van Roosmalen

  • Complete structure of the alpha B-crystallin gene: conservation of the exon-intron distribution in the two nonlinked alpha-crystallin genes

    Y Quax-Jeuken;W Quax;G van Rens;P M Khan

  • Selective contribution of the twin-arginine translocation pathway to protein secretion in Bacillus subtilis.

    Jan D.H. Jongbloed;Haike Antelmann;Michael Hecker;Reindert Nijland

  • Combinatorial biosynthesis of medicinal plant secondary metabolites

    Mattijs K. Julsing;Albert Koulman;Herman J. Woerdenbag;Wim J. Quax

  • Functional analysis of genes involved in the biosynthesis of isoprene in Bacillus subtilis.

    Mattijs K. Julsing;Michael Rijpkema;Herman J. Woerdenbag;Wim J. Quax

  • Primary and secondary structure of hamster vimentin predicted from the nucleotide sequence

    Yvonne E. F. M. Quax-Jeuken;Wim J. Quax;Hans Bloemendal

  • THE GENES-CODING FOR THE CYTOSKELETAL PROTEINS ACTIN AND VIMENTIN IN WARM-BLOODED VERTEBRATES

    H J Dodemont;P Soriano;W J Quax;F Ramaekers

Frequent Co-Authors

Oliver Kayser
Oliver Kayser TU Dortmund University
Jan Maarten van Dijl
Jan Maarten van Dijl University Medical Center Groningen
Afshin Samali
Afshin Samali University of Galway
Sierd Bron
Sierd Bron University of Groningen
Albert Koulman
Albert Koulman University of Cambridge
Haike Antelmann
Haike Antelmann Freie Universität Berlin
Hans Bloemendal
Hans Bloemendal Radboud University
Haiko J. Bloemendal
Haiko J. Bloemendal Radboud University
Bauke W. Dijkstra
Bauke W. Dijkstra University of Groningen
Luis Serrano
Luis Serrano Centre for Genomic Regulation

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