PUBLICATIONS

2023

• Christou NE, Apostolopoulou V, Melo DVM, Ruppert M, Fadini A, Henkel A, Sprenger J, Oberthuer D, Günther S, Pateras A, Rahmani Mashhour A, Yefanov OM, Galchenkova M, Reinke PYA, Kremling V, Scheer TES, Lange ER, Middendorf P, Schubert R, De Zitter E, Lumbao-Conradson K, Herrmann J, Rahighi S, Kunavar A, Beale EV, Beale JH, Cirelli C, Johnson PJM, Dworkowski F, Ozerov D, Bertrand Q, Wranik M, Bacellar C, Bajt S, Wakatsuki S, Sellberg JA, Huse N, Turk D, Chapman HN, Lane TJ. (2023) Time-resolved crystallography captures light-driven DNA repair. Science. 382(6674):1015-1020. doi. PMID: 38033070
• Pražnikar J. (2023) Using graphlet degree vectors to predict atomic displacement parameters in protein structures. Acta Crystallogr D Struct Biol. 79(Pt 12):1109-1119. doi.
• Tušar L, Loboda J, Impens F, Sosnowski P, Van Quickelberghe E, Vidmar R, Demol H, Sedeyn K, Saelens X, Vizovišek M, Mihelič M, Fonović M, Horvat J, Kosec G, Turk B, Gevaert K, Turk D. (2023) Proteomic data and structure analysis combined reveal interplay of structural rigidity and flexibility on selectivity of cysteine cathepsins. Commun Biol. 6(1):450. doi PMID: 37095140 Free PMC article.
• Reinke PYA, de Souza EE, Günther S, Falke S, Lieske J, Ewert W, Loboda J, Herrmann A, Rahmani Mashhour A, Karničar K, Usenik A, Lindič N, Sekirnik A, Botosso VF, Santelli GMM, Kapronezai J, de Araújo MV, Silva-Pereira TT, Filho AFS, Tavares MS, Flórez-Álvarez L, de Oliveira DBL, Durigon EL, Giaretta PR, Heinemann MB, Hauser M, Seychell B, Böhler H, Rut W, Drag M, Beck T, Cox R, Chapman HN, Betzel C, Brehm W, Hinrichs W, Ebert G, Latham SL, Guimarães AMS, Turk D, Wrenger C, Meents A. (2023) Calpeptin is a potent cathepsin inhibitor and drug candidate for SARS-CoV-2 infections. Comm. Biol. 18 6(1):1058. doi PMID: 37853179 Free PMC article.

2022

• Srinivasan V, Brognaro H, Prabhu PR, de Souza EE, Günther S, Reinke PYA, Lane TJ, Ginn H, Han H, Ewert W, Sprenger J, Koua FHM, Falke S, Werner N, Andaleeb H, Ullah N, Franca BA, Wang M, Barra ALC, Perbandt M, Schwinzer M, Schmidt C, Brings L, Lorenzen K, Schubert R, Machado RRG, Candido ED, Oliveira DBL, Durigon EL, Niebling S, Garcia AS, Yefanov O, Lieske J, Gelisio L, Domaracky M, Middendorf P, Groessler M, Trost F, Galchenkova M, Mashhour AR, Saouane S, Hakanpää J, Wolf M, Alai MG, Turk D, Pearson AR, Chapman HN, Hinrichs W, Wrenger C, Meents A, Betzel C. (2022) Antiviral activity of natural phenolic compounds in complex at an allosteric site of SARS-CoV-2 papain-like protease. Commun Biol. 5(1):805. doi. PMID: 35953531
• Pražnikar J, Attygalle NT. (2022) Quantitative analysis of visual codewords of a protein distance matrix. PLoS One. 17(2):e0263566. doi. PMID: 35120181 Free PMC article.

2021

• Dušan Turk, Gregor Gunčar (2021) Thyroxine hormones visualized by the cryo-EM structure of bovine thyroglobulin. Acta Crystallogr D Struct Biol. 77, 1346-1347. doi
• Pražnikar J. (2021) Scaling laws of graphs of 3D protein structures. J Bioinform Comput Biol. 19(3):2050050. doi. PMID: 33468031
• Sebastian Günther, Patrick Y. A. Reinke, Yaiza Fernández-García, Julia Lieske, Thomas J. Lane, Helen M. Ginn, Faisal H. M. Koua, Christiane Ehrt, Wiebke Ewert, Dominik Oberthuer, Oleksandr Yefanov, Susanne Meier, Kristina Lorenzen, Boris Krichel, Janine-Denise Kopicki, Luca Gelisio, Wolfgang Brehm, Ilona Dunkel, Brandon Seychell, Henry Gieseler, Brenna Norton-Baker, Beatriz Escudero-Pérez, Martin Domaracky, Sofiane Saouane, Alexandra Tolstikova, Thomas A. White, Anna Hänle, Michael Groessler, Holger Fleckenstein, Fabian Trost, Marina Galchenkova, Yaroslav Gevorkov, Chufeng Li, Salah Awel, Ariana Peck, Miriam Barthelmess, Frank Schluenzen, Paulraj Lourdu Xavier, Nadine Werner, Hina Andaleeb, Najeeb Ullah, Sven Falke, Vasundara Srinivasan, Bruno Alves França, Martin Schwinzer, Hévila Brognaro, Cromarte Rogers, Diogo Melo, Joanna J. Zaitseva-Doyle, Juraj Knoska, Gisel E. Peña-Murillo, Aida Rahmani Mashhour, Vincent Hennicke, Pontus Fischer, Johanna Hakanpää, Jan Meyer, Philip Gribbon, Bernhard Ellinger, Maria Kuzikov, Markus Wolf, Andrea R. Beccari, Gleb Bourenkov, David von Stetten, Guillaume Pompidor, Isabel Bento, Saravanan Panneerselvam, Ivars Karpics, Thomas R. Schneider, Maria Marta Garcia-Alai, Stephan Niebling, Christian Günther, Christina Schmidt, Robin Schubert, Huijong Han, Juliane Boger, Diana C. F. Monteiro, Linlin Zhang, Xinyuanyuan Sun, Jonathan Pletzer-Zelgert, Jan Wollenhaupt, Christian G. Feiler, Manfred S. Weiss, Eike-Christian Schulz, Pedram Mehrabi, Katarina Karničar, Aleksandra Usenik, Jure Loboda, Henning Tidow, Ashwin Chari, Rolf Hilgenfeld, Charlotte Uetrecht, Russell Cox, Andrea Zaliani, Tobias Beck, Matthias Rarey, Stephan Günther, Dusan Turk, Winfried Hinrichs, Henry N. Chapman, Arwen R. Pearson, Christian Betzel, Alke Meents (2021) X-ray screening identifies active site and allosteric inhibitors of SARS-CoV-2 main protease. Science, Apr. 2. 2021. doi and link
• Iztok Dolenc, Ivica Štefe, Dušan Turk, Ajda Taler-Verčič, Boris Turk, Vito Turk, Veronika Stoka (2021) Human cathepsin X/Z is a biologically active homodimer. Biochim Biophys Acta Proteins Proteom, 1869(2), 140567. doi
• Tušar Livija, Usenik Aleksandra, Turk Boris, Turk Dušan (2021) Mechanisms Applied by Protein Inhibitors to Inhibit Cysteine Proteases Int. J. Mol. Sci. 22, 1422-0067. doi

2020

• Natasa Lindic, Jure Loboda, Aleksandra Usenik, Robert Vidmar, & Dušan Turk (2020) The Structure of Clostridioides difficile SecA2 ATPase Exposes Regions Responsible for Differential Target Recognition of the SecA1 and SecA2-Dependent Systems. Int. J. Mol. Sci. 21, 6153. doi and link
• Sara Pintar, Jure Borišek, Aleksandra Usenik, Andrej Perdih & Dušan Turk (2020) Domain sliding of two Staphylococcus aureus N-acetylglucosaminidases enables their substrate-binding prior to its catalysis. Commun Biol 3, 178. doi and link
• Miha Bahun, Marko Šnajder, Dušan Turk, Nataša Poklar Ulrih (2020) Insights into the Maturation of Pernisine, a Subtilisin-Like Protease from the Hyperthermophilic Archaeon Aeropyrum pernix. Appl Environ Microbiol86(17):e00971-20. doi
• Francesca Coscia, Ajda Taler-Verčič, Veronica T. Chang, Ludwig Sinn, Francis J. O’Reilly, Thierry Izoré, Miha Renko, Imre Berger, Juri Rappsilber, Dušan Turk & Jan Löwe (2020) The structure of human thyroglobulin. Nature, Feb. 5. doi: 10.1038/s41586-020-1995-4. link and www view only

2019

• Marcin Poreba, Katarzyna Groborz, Matej Vizovisek, Marco Maruggi, Dusan Turk, Boris Turk, Garth Powis, Marcin Drag, Guy S. Salvesen (2019) Fluorescent probes towards selective cathepsin B detection and visualization in cancer cells and patient samples Chem Sci. 10(36): 8461–8477. link
• Elma Mons, Ineke D. C. Jansen, Jure Loboda, Bjorn R. van Doodewaerd, Jill Hermans, Martijn Verdoes, Constant A. A. van Boeckel, Peter A. van Veelen, Boris Turk, Dusan Turk, Huib Ovaa. (2019) The Alkyne Moiety as a Latent Electrophile in Irreversible Covalent Small Molecule Inhibitors of Cathepsin K. J Am Chem Soc. 141(8): 3507–3514. link
• Jure Pražnikar, Miloš Tomić & Dušan Turk (2019) Validation and quality assessment of macromolecular structures using complex network analysis Scientific Reports 9, 1678 | link

2018

• BORIŠEK, Jure, PINTAR, Sara, OGRIZEK, Mitja, TURK, Dušan, PERDIH, Andrej, NOVIČ, Marjana. (2018) A water-assisted catalytic mechanism in glycoside hydrolases demonstrated on the Staphylococcus aureus autolysin E. ACS catalysis, ISSN 2155-5435, 8, 5, 4334-4345. link
• Marcin Poreba, Wioletta Rut, Matej Vizovisek, Katarzyna Groborz, Paulina Kasperkiewicz, Darren Finlay, Kristiina Vuori, Dusan Turk, Boris Turk, Guy S. Salvesenb and Marcin Drag (2018) Selective imaging of cathepsin L in breast cancer by fluorescent activity-based probes. Chemical science, 9, 8, 2113-2129. link
• BORIŠEK, Jure, PINTAR, Sara, OGRIZEK, Mitja, GOLIČ GRDADOLNIK, Simona, HODNIK, Vesna, TURK, Dušan, PERDIH, Andrej, NOVIČ, Marjana. (2018) Discovery of (phenylureido)piperidinyl benzamides as prospective inhibitors of bacterial autolysin E from Staphylococcus aureus. Journal of enzyme inhibition and medicinal chemistry, 33, 1, 1239-1247. link

2017

• Dušan Turk (2017) Boxes of model building and visualization. Protein Crystallography: 491-548. In: Wlodawer A., Dauter Z., Jaskolski M. (eds) Protein Crystallography. Methods in Molecular Biology, vol 1607. Humana Press, New York, NY link
• Lovro Kramer, Miha Renko, Janja Završnik, Dušan Turk, Markus A. Seeger, Olga Vasiljeva, Markus G. Grütter, Vito Turk, Boris Turk (2017) Non-invasive in vivo imaging of tumour-associated cathepsin B by a highly selective inhibitory DARPin. Theranostics. ; 7(11): 2806–2821. link
• TALER-VERCIC, Ajda, HASANBAŠIĆ, Samra, BERBIĆ, Selma, STOKA, Veronika, TURK, Dušan, ŽEROVNIK, Eva. (2017) Proline residues as switches in conformational changes leading to amyloid fibril formation. International journal of molecular sciences, ISSN 1661-6596, 18, 3, 549-1-549-17, link.
• MIHELIČ, Marko, VLAHOVIČEK-KAHLINA, Kristina, RENKO, Miha, MESNAGE, Stephan, DOBERŠEK, Andreja, TALER-VERČIČ, Ajda, JAKAS, Andreja, TURK, Dušan. (2017) The mechanism behind the selection of two different cleavage sites in NAG-NAM polymers. IUCrJ, ISSN 2052-2525, 4, 2, 185-198, link.
• Marcin Poreba, Aleksandra Szalek, Wioletta Rut, Paulina Kasperkiewicz, Izabela Rutkowska-Wlodarczyk, Scott J. Snipas, Yoshifumi Itoh, Dusan Turk, Boris Turk, Christopher M. Overall, Leszek Kaczmarek, Guy S. Salvesen and Marcin Drag. (2017) Highly sensitive and adaptable fluorescence-quenched pair discloses the substrate specificity profiles in diverse protease families. Scientific reports, ISSN 2045-2322, 7, 43135-1-43135-13, link.
• USENIK, Aleksandra, RENKO, Miha, MIHELIČ, Marko, LINDIČ, Nataša, BORIŠEK, Jure, PERDIH, Andrej, PRETNAR, Gregor, MÜLLER, Uwe, TURK, Dušan. (2017) The CWB2 cell wall-anchoring module is revealed by the crystal structures of the Clostridiumdifficile cell wall proteins Cwp8 and Cwp6. Structure, ISSN 0969-2126. [Print ed.], [in press] 8 link.

2016

• Marcin Poreba, Rigmor Solberg, Wioletta Rut, Ngoc Nguyen Lunde, Paulina Kasperkiewicz, Scott J. Snipas, Marko Mihelic, Dusan Turk, Boris Turk, Guy S. Salvesen, (2016) Counter selection substrate library strategy for developing specific protease substrates and probes. Chemistry & Biology, ISSN 1074-5521. [Print ed.], 2016, vol. 23, issue 8, p. 1023-1035, link.
• SOSNOWSKI, Piotr, TURK, Dušan. (2016) Caught in the act : the crystal structure of cleaved cathepsin L bound to the active site of Cathepsin L. FEBS letters, ISSN 0014-5793. [Print ed.], 2016, vol. 590, no. 8, p. 1253-1261, link.
• Casey LW, Lavrencic P, Bentham AR, Cesari S, Ericsson DJ, Croll T, Turk D, Anderson PA, Mark AE, Dodds PN, Mobli M, Kobe B, Williams SJ. (2016) The CC domain structure from the wheat stem rust resistance protein Sr33 challenges paradigms for dimerization in plant NLR proteins.(2016) Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, ISSN 0027-8424, 113, 45, 12856-12861, link.
• TIBAUT, Tjaša, BORIŠEK, Jure, NOVIČ, Marjana, TURK, Dušan. (2016) Comparison of in silico tools for binding site prediction applied for structure-based design of autolysin inhibitors. SAR and QSAR in environmental research, ISSN 1062-936X, 27, 7, 573-587, link.

2015

• AFONINE,Pavel, MORIARTY, Nigel W., MUSTYAKIMOV, Marat, SOBOLEV, Oleg V., TERWILLIGER, Thomas Charles, TURK, Dušan, URZHUMTSEV, Alexandre, ADAMS, Paul D. FEM : feature-enhanced map. Acta crystallographica. Section D, Biological crystallography, ISSN 0907-4449, 2015, vol. 71, part 3, p. 646-666, link.
• BORIŠEK, Jure, VIZOVIŠEK, Matej, SOSNOWSKI, Piotr, TURK, Boris, TURK, Dušan, MOHAR, Barbara, NOVIČ, Marjana. Development of N-(functionalized benzoyl)-homocycloleucyl-glycinonitriles as potent cathepsin K inhibitors. Journal of medicinal chemistry, ISSN 0022-2623, Sep. 2015, vol. 58, iss. 17, p. 6928-6937, link.
• ŠNAJDER, Marko, MIHELIČ, Marko, TURK, Dušan, POKLAR ULRIH, Nataša. Codon optimisation is key for pernisine expression in Escherichia coli. PloS one, ISSN 1932-6203, 2015, vol. 10, no. 4, p. 1/16-16/16, e0123288, link.

2014

• PRAŽNIKAR, Jure, TURK, Dušan. (2014) Free kick instead of cross-validation in maximum-likelihood refinement of macromolecular crystal structures. Acta crystallographica. D, Biological crystallography, ISSN 1399-0047, 70, 12, 3124-3134, link.

• RENKO, Miha, TALER-VERČIČ, Ajda, MIHELIČ, Marko, ŽEROVNIK, Eva, TURK, Dušan. (2014) Partial rotational lattice order-disorder in stefin B crystals. Acta crystallographica. Section D, Biological crystallography, ISSN 0907-4449, 70, 4, 1015-1025. link.
• POREBA, Marcin, MIHELIČ, Marko, KRAI, Priscilla, RAJKOVIĆ, Jelena, KREZEL, Artur, PAWELCZAK, Malgorzata, KLEMBA, Michael, TURK, Dušan, TURK, Boris, LATAJKA, Rafal, DRAG, Marcin. (2014) Unnatural amino acids increase activity and specificity of synthetic substrates for human and malarial cathepsin C.Amino acids, ISSN 0939-4451, 46, 4, 931-943, link.
• AVANZO CAGLIČ, Petra, RENKO, Miha, TURK, Dušan, KOS, Janko, SABOTIČ, Jerica. Fungal [beta]-trefoil trypsin inhibitors cnispin and cospin demonstrate the plasticity of the [beta]-trefoil fold. Biochimica et biophysica acta, Proteins and proteomics, ISSN 1570-9639. [Print ed.], 1844, 10, 1749-1756, link.
• ŽURGA, Simon, POHLEVEN, Jure, RENKO, Miha, BLEULER-MARTINEZ, Silvia, SOSNOWSKI, Piotr, TURK, Dušan, KÜNZLER, Markus, KOS, Janko, SABOTIČ, Jerica. A novel [beta]-trefoil lectin from the parasol mushroom (Macrolepiota procera) is nematotoxic. FEBS journal, ISSN 1742-464X, 2014, vol. 281, issue 15, p. 3489-3506, link.

2013

• TURK, Dušan. MAIN software for density averaging, model building, structure refinement and validation. Acta crystallographica. Section D, Biological crystallography, ISSN 0907-4449, 2013, 69, 8, 1342-1357, link.
• TURK, Boris, TURK, Dušan, DOLENC, Iztok, TURK, Vito. (2013) Dipeptidyl-peptidase. I. V: RAWLINGS, Neil D. (ur.), SALVESEN, Guy S. (ur.). Handbook of proteolytic enzymes. 3rd ed. Boston; London: Academic Press, 1969-1974.

2012

• Brvar M, Perdih A, Renko M, Anderluh G, Turk D, Solmajer T. (2012) Structure-based discovery of substituted 4,5'-bithiazoles as novel DNA gyrase inhibitors. J Med Chem. 2012 Jul 26;55(14):6413-26. Epub 2012 Jul 5.
• Majera D, Kristan KČ, Neefjes J, Turk D, Mihelič M. (2012) Expression, purification and assembly of soluble multimeric MHC class II-invariant chain complexes. FEBS Lett. 2012 May 7;586(9):1318-24. Epub 2012 Mar 27.
• Pohleven J, Renko M, Magister Š, Smith DF, Künzler M, Štrukelj B, Turk D, Kos J, Sabotič J. (2012) Bivalent carbohydrate binding is required for biological activity of Clitocybe nebularis lectin (CNL), the N,N'-diacetyllactosediamine (GalNAcβ1-4GlcNAc, LacdiNAc)-specific lectin from basidiomycete C. nebularis. J Biol Chem. 2012 Mar 23;287(13):10602-12. Epub 2012 Feb 1.
• Sabotič J, Bleuler-Martinez S, Renko M, Avanzo Caglič P, Kallert S, Štrukelj B, Turk D, Aebi M, Kos J, Künzler M. Structural basis of trypsin inhibition and entomotoxicity of cospin, serine protease inhibitor involved in defense of Coprinopsis cinerea fruiting bodies. J Biol Chem. 2012 Feb 3;287(6):3898-907. Epub 2011 Dec 13.
• Turk V, Stoka V, Vasiljeva O, Renko M, Sun T, Turk B, Turk D. Cysteine cathepsins: from structure, function and regulation to new frontiers. Biochim Biophys Acta. 2012 Jan;1824(1):68-88. doi: 10.1016/j.bbapap.2011.10.002.

2011

• Mirković B, Renko M, Turk S, Sosič I, Jevnikar Z, Obermajer N, Turk D, Gobec S, Kos J. (2011) Novel mechanism of cathepsin B inhibition by antibiotic nitroxoline and related compounds. ChemMedChem. 2011 Aug 1;6(8):1351-6. doi: 10.1002/cmdc.201100098. Epub
• Jelinska C, Davis PJ, Kenig M, Zerovnik E, Kokalj SJ, Gunčar G, Turk D, Turk V, Clarke DT, Waltho JP, Staniforth RA. (2011) Modulation of contact order effects in the two-state folding of stefins A and B. Biophys J. 2011 May 4;100(9):2268-74.
• Žerovnik E, Stoka V, Mirtič A, Gunčar G, Grdadolnik J, Staniforth RA, Turk D, Turk V. (2011) Mechanisms of amyloid fibril formation--focus on domain-swapping. FEBS J. 2011 Jul;278(13):2263-82. doi: 10.1111/j.1742-4658.2011.08149.x. Epub 2011 May 31. Review.

2010

• Renko M, Požgan U, Majera D, Turk D. (2010) Stefin A displaces the occluding loop of cathepsin B only by as much as required to bind to the active site cleft. FEBS J. 2010 Oct;277(20):4338-45. doi: 10.1111/j.1742-4658.2010.07824.x. Epub 2010 Sep 22.
• Zerovnik E, Staniforth RA, Turk D. Amyloid fibril formation by human stefins: Structure, mechanism & putative functions. Biochimie. 2010 Nov;92(11):1597-607. Epub 2010 May 26. Review.
• Renko M, Sabotic J, Mihelic M, Brzin J, Kos J, Turk D. Versatile loops in mycocypins inhibit three protease families. J Biol Chem. 2010 Jan 1;285(1):308-16. Epub 2009 Oct 21.

2009

• Jordans S, Jenko-Kokalj S, Kühl NM, Tedelind S, Sendt W, Brömme D, Turk D, Brix K. Monitoring compartment-specific substrate cleavage by cathepsins B, K, L, and S at physiological pH and redox conditions. BMC Biochem. 2009 Sep 22;10:23.
• Pražnikar J, Afonine PV, Guncar G, Adams PD, Turk D. Averaged kick maps: less noise, more signal... and probably less bias. Acta Crystallogr D Biol Crystallogr. 2009 Sep;65(Pt 9):921-31. Epub 2009 Aug 6.
• Smajlović A, Berbić S, Schiene-Fischer C, Tusek-Znidaric M, Taler A, Jenko-Kokalj S, Turk D, Zerovnik E. Essential role of Pro 74 in stefin B amyloid-fibril formation: dual action of cyclophilin A on the process. FEBS Lett. 2009 Apr 2;583(7):1114-20. Epub 2009 Mar 3.
• Rozman Pungercar, J, Caglic, D, Sajid, M, Dolinar, M, Vasiljeva, O, Požgan, U, Turk, D, Bogyo, M, Turk, V, Turk, B. (2009) Autocatalytic processing of procathepsin B is triggered by proenzyme activity. FEBS journal, 276 (3), 660-668.
• Skerget, K, Vilfan, A, Pompe Novak, M, Turk, V, Waltho, J.P., Turk, D, Zerovnik, E. (2009) The mechanism of amyloid-fibril formation by stefin B : temperature and protein concentration dependence of the rates. Proteins. 74, (2), 425-436.

2008

• Andrejasic, M, Praznikar, J, Turk, D. (2008) PURY : a database of geometric restraints of hetero compounds for refinement in complexes with macromolecular structures. Acta crystallogr., D, Biol. crystallogr., 64 (11), 1093-1109.
• Mihelic, M, Dobersek, A, Guncar, G., Turk, D. (2008) Inhibitory fragment from the p41 form of invariant chain can regulate activity of cysteine cathepsins in antigen presentation J. Biol. Chem. 283, (21), 14453-14460.
• Turk, V, Stoka, V, Turk, D. (2008) Cystatins: biochemical and structural properties, and medical relevance. Front. biosci. 13, (13) 5406-5420.
• Ceru S, Kokalj SJ, Rabzelj S, Skarabot M, Gutierrez-Aguirre I, Kopitar-Jerala N, Anderluh G, Turk D, Turk V, Zerovnik E. Size and morphology of toxic oligomers of amyloidogenic proteins: a case study of human stefin B. Amyloid. 2008 Sep;15(3):147-59.

2007

• Stefanic Z., Vujaklija D., Andrisic L., Mikleusevic G., Andrejasic M., Turk D. Luic M. (2007) Preliminary crystallographic study of Streptomyces coelicolor single-stranded DNA-binding protein. Croat. Chem. Acta 80(1), 35-39.
• Jenko Kokalj S, Guncar G, Stern I, Morgan G, Rabzelj S, Kenig M, Staniforth RA, Waltho JP, Zerovnik E, Turk D. (2007) Essential role of proline isomerization in stefin B tetramer formation. J Mol Biol. 366(5), 1569-79. Epub 2006 Dec 16.
• VASILJEVA, Olga, REINHECKEL, Thomas, PETERS, Christoph, TURK, Dusan, TURK, Vito, TURK, Boris. (2007) Emerging roles of cysteine cathepsins in disease and their potential as drug targets. Curr. pharm. des., 13 (3), 385-401.
• Turk, D. (2007) Density modification in MAIN. Evolving methods for macromolecular crystallography : proceedings of the NATO Advanced Study Institute on Evolving Methods for Macromolecular Crystallography, 19-28 May 2005, Erice, Italy, (Read, R., Sussman, j. eds.) NATO science series, series II., Mathematics, physics and chemistry, 254. Springer Verlag, 111-122.
• Terwilliger, T.C. Grosse-Kunstleve, R., Afonine, P.V., Adams, P.D., Moriarty, N.W., Zwart, P. Read, R.J. Turk, D., Hung, Li-Wei (2007) Multiple iterative rebuilding of macromolecular models yields an estimate of precision and a lower limit of uncertainty. Biol. Cryst. (Acta Cryst.) D63, 597-610.
• PLANTAN, Ivan, SELIC, Lovro, MESAR, Tomaz, STEFANIC, Petra, OBLAK, Marko, PREZELJ, Andrej, HESSE, Lars, ANDREJASIC, Miha, VILAR, Mateja, TURK, Dusan, KOCIJAN, Andrej, PREVEC, Tadeja, VILFAN, Gregor, KOCJAN, Darko, COPAR, Anton, URLEB, Uros, SOLMAJER, Tomaz. 4-substituted trinems as broad spectrum [beta]-lactamase inhibitors. J. med. chem., 2007, vol. 50, no. 17, str. 4113-4121.
• Mihelic, M. Turk, D. (2007) Two decades of thyroglobulin type-1 domain research. Biol. Chem., vol. 388, 8.
• Ploscaru, M., Jenko, S., Uplaznik, M., Vengust, D., Turk, D., Mrzel, A., Mihailović, D. (2007) Mo[sub]6S[sub](9-x)I[sub]x nanowire recognitive molecular-scale connectivity. Nano lett. 7 (6), 1445-1448.

2006

• MIHELIC, Marko, TEUSCHER, Cory, TURK, Vito, TURK, Dusan. (2006) Mouse stefins A1 adn A2 (Stfa1 and Stfa2) differentiate between papain-like endo- and exopeptisases. FEBS lett.. 580, 4195-4199.
• KENIG, Manca, JENKO, Sasa, TUSEK-ZNIDARIC, Magda, POMPE NOVAK, Marusa, GUNCAR, Gregor, TURK, Dusan, WALTHO, Jonathan P., STANIFORTH, Rosemary A., AVBELJ, Franc, ZEROVNIK, Eva. (2006) Folding and amyloid-fibril formation for a series of human stefins' chimeras: any correlation?. Proteins. 62, 4, 918-927.
• GALESA, Katja, BRZIN, Joze, SABOTIC, Jerica, TURK, Dusan. Crystallization and preliminary X-ray crystallographic analysis of the cysteine protease inhibitor clitocypin. (2006) Acta crystallographica. Section F, Structural biology and crystallization communications, 62, 10-12.

2005

• PUZER, Luciano, COTRIN, Simone S., CEZARI, Maria H. S., HITARA, Izaura Y., JULIANO, Maria A., KLEMENCIC, Ivica, TURK, Dusan, TURK, Boris, JULIANO, Luiz, CARMONA, Adriana K. (2006) Recombinant human cathepsin X is carboxymonopeptidase only : a comparison with cathepsins B and L. Biol Chem. 386, 1191-1195.
• TURK, Boris, TURK, Dusan, SALVESEN, Guy S. (2006) Regulation cysteine protease activity : essential role of protease inhibitors as guardians and regulators. Medicinal chemistry reviews. 2, 283-197.
• JENKO KOKALJ, Sasa, STOKA, Veronika, KENIG, Manca, GUNCAR, Gregor, TURK, Dusan and ZEROVNIK, Eva. (2006) A central role for protein aggregation in neurodegenerative disease; Mechanistic and structural studies of human stefins, Acta. Chim. Slov. 52, 27-33.
• GREGORC, Uros, DOBERSEK, Andreja, SALVESEN, Guy S., TURK, Vito, TURK, Boris, KOPITAR-JERALA, Natasa. A novel caspase-7 specific monoclonal antibody. Immunol. lett.. [Print ed.], 2005, vol. 98, str. 167-169.

2004

• GALESA K., THOMAS R.M., KIDRIC M., PAIN R.H.; Clitocypin, a new cysteine proteinase inhibitor, is monomeric: impact on the mechanism of folding; Biochem. Biophys. Res. Commun., 2004, 324, 576-8.
• JENKO, Sasa, SKARABOT, M., KENIG, Manca, GUNCAR, Gregor, MUSEVIC, I., TURK, Dusan & ZEROVNIK, Eva: Different propensity to form amyloid-fibrils by two homologous proteins - human stefins A and B : searching for an explanation. Proteins, 2004, 55, 417-425.
• STERN, Igor, SCHASCHKE, Norbert, MORODER, Luis, TURK, Dusan. Crystal structure of NS-134 in complex with bovine cathepsin B: a two-headed epoxysuccinyl inhibitor extends along the entire active-site cleft. Biochem. j., 2004, vol. 381, str. 511-517.
• Hewitt, C., McCormick, D., Linden, G., Turk, D., Stern, I., Wallace, I., Zhang, L., Howard, R., Bullon, P., Wong, M., Widmer, R., Gaffar, A., Khaled, Awawdeh, L., Briggs, J., Yaghmai, R., Jabs, E.W., Hoeger, P., Bleck, O., Rüdiger, S., Petersilka, G.r, Battino, M., Brett, P., Hattab, F., AL-HAMED, M., Southern, L., Sloan, P., Toomes, C., Dixon, M., James, J., Read, A.P. and Thakker, N. (2004) The role of cathepsin C in Papillon-Lefevre syndrome, prepubertal periodontitis, and aggressive periodontitis. Human. Mutat. 23, 222-228.
• Gruden, K., Kuipers, A.G.J., Guncar, G., Slapar, N., Strukelj, B., Jongsma, M.A. (2004) Molecular basis of Colorado potato beetle adaptation to potato plant defence at the level of digestive cysteine proteinases. Insect biochem. mol. biol., vol 34, 365-375.
• Kristan, K., Podlesek, Z., Hojnik, V., Gutierrez-Aguirre, I., Guncar, G., Turk, D., Gonzales-Manas, M., lakey, J.H., Macek, P., Anderluh, G. (2004) Pore formation by equinatoxin, a eukaryotic pore-forming toxin, requires a flexible N-terminal region and a stable beta-sandwich. J. Biol. Chem., no 279, vol 45, 46509-46517.

2003

• TURK, Dusan, GUNCAR, Gregor. Lysosomal cysteine proteases (cathepsins) : promising drug targets. Acta crystallogr., D, Biol. crystallogr., 2003, 59, str. 203-213.
• ROZMAN PUNGERCAR, Jerica, KOPITAR-JERALA, Natasa, BOGYO, M., TURK, Dusan, VASILJEVA, Olga, KLEMENCIC, Ivica, VANDENABEELE, P., BROMME, D., PUIZDAR, Vida, FONOVIC, Marko, TRSTENJAK-PREBANDA, Mojca, DOLENC, Iztok, TURK, Vito, TURK, Boris. Inhibition of papain-like cysteine proteases and legumain by caspase-specific inhibitors : when reaction mechanism is more important than specificity. Cell Death Differ, 2003, 10, str. 881-888.
• JENKO, Sasa, DOLENC, Iztok, GUNCAR, Gregor, DOBERSEK, Andreja, PODOBNIK, Marjetka, TURK, Dusan. Crystal structure of stefin A in complex with cathepsin H: N-terminal residues of inhibitors can adapt to the active sites of endo- and exopeptidases. J. mol. biol., 2003, 326, 875-885.

2002

• TURK, Boris, TURK, Dusan, SALVESEN, Guy S. Regulation cysteine protease activity : essential role of protease inhibitors as guardians and regulators. Curr. pharm. des., 2002, 8, 1623-1637.
• HONG, Qi, GUTIERREZ-AGUIRRES, Ion, BARLIC, Ariana, MALOVRH, Petra, KRISTAN, Katarina, PODLESEK, Zdravko, MACEK, Peter, TURK, Dusan, GONZALES-MANAS, Juan M., LAKEY, Jeremy H., ANDERLUH, Gregor. Two-step membrane binding by equinatoxin II, a pore-forming toxin from the seaanemone, involves and exposed aromatic cluster and a flexible helix. J Biol Chem, 2002, letn. 277, st. 44, 41916-41924.
• JENKO, Sasa. Uporaba sinhrotronske svetlobe pri studiju strukture proteinov = Synchrotron radiation in macromolecular crystallography. Vakuumist, 2002, letn. 22, st. 1, 10-15.

2001

• TURK, Vito, TURK, Boris, TURK, Dusan. (2001) Lysosomal cysteine proteases : facts and opportunities. EMBO j. 20, 4629-4633.
• TURK, Dusan, JANJIC, Vojko, STERN, Igor, PODOBNIK, Marjetka, LAMBA, Doriano, DAHL, Soren Weis, LAURITZEN, Connie, PEDERSEN, John, TURK, Vito, TURK, Boris. (2001) Structure of human dipeptidyl peptidase I (cathepsin C) : exclusion domain added to an endopeptidase framework creates the machine for activation of granular serine proteases. EMBO j. 20, 6570-6582.
• ATHANASIADIS, Alekos, ANDERLUH, Gregor, MACEK, Peter, TURK, Dusan. (2001) Crystal structure of the soluble form of equinatoxin II, a pore-forming toxin from the sea anemone Actinia equina. Structure (Lond.). [Print ed.] 9, 341-346.
• Turk, D. Towards automatic macromolecular crystal structure determination. (eds TURK, D. and Johnson, L.). Methods in macromolecular crystallography : [proceedings of the NATO Advanced Study Institutes on Methods in Macromolecular Crystallography and Chemical Prospectives in Crystallography of Molecular Biology, 25 May-4 June 2000, Erice, Italy], (NATO science series, Series I, Life and behavioural sciences, Vol. 325). Amsterdam [etc.]: IOS Press: Ohmsha, 2001, 148-155.

2000

• KATUNUMA, N., MATSUI, A., INUBUSHI, T., MURATA, E., KAKEGAWA, H., OHBA, Y., TURK, Dusan, TURK, Vito, TADA, Y., ASAO, T. (2000) Structure-based development of pyridoxal propionate derivatives as specific inhibitors of cathepsin K in Vitro and in Vivo. Biochem. biophys. res. commun. vol. 267, 850-854
• TURK, Boris, TURK, Dusan, TURK, Vito. (2000) Lysosomal cysteine proteases : more that scavengers. Biochim. biophys. acta, Prot. struct. mol. enzymol.. [Print ed.], 2000, 1477, 98-111.
• KLEMENCIC, Ivica, CARMONA, Adriana K., CEZARI, Maria Helena S., JULIANO, Maria A., JULIANO, Luiz, GUNCAR, Gregor, TURK, Dusan, KRIZAJ, Igor, TURK, Vito, TURK, Boris. (2000) Biochemical characterization of human cathepsin X revealed that the enzyme is an exopeptidase, acting as carboxymonopeptidase or carboxydipeptidase. Eur. j. biochem. 267, 5404-5412.
• GUNCAR, Gregor, KLEMENCIC, Ivica, TURK, Boris, TURK, Vito, KARAOGLANOVIC-CARMONA, Adriana, JILIANO, Luiz, TURK, Dusan. (2000) Crystal structure of cathepsin X : a flip-flop of the ring of His23 allows carboxy-monopeptidase and carboxy-dipeptidase acticity of the protease. Structure (Lond.). [Print ed.] 8, 305-313.
• RENATUS, Martin, ZHOU, Qiao, STENNICKE, Henning R., SNIPAS, SCott J., TURK, Dusan, BANKSTON, Laurie A., LIDDINGTON, Robert C., SALVESEN, Guy S. (2000) Crystal structure of the apoptotic suppresor CrmA in its cleaved form. Structure (Lond.). [Print ed.] 8, 789-797.

1999

• TSUGE, Hideaki, NISHIMURA, Tomohiro, TADA, Yukio, ASAO, Tetsuji, TURK, Dusan, TURK, Vito, KATUNUMA, Nobuhiko. (1999) Inhibition mechanism of cathepsin L-specific inhibitors based on the crsytal structure of papain-CLIK148 complex. Biochem. biophys. res. commun. 266, 411-416.
• GUNCAR, Gregor, PUNGERCIC, Galina, KLEMENCIC, Ivica, TURK, Vito, TURK, Dusan. (1999) Crystal structure of MHC class II-associated p41 Ii fragment bound to cathepsin L reveals the structural basis for differentiation between cathapsins L and S. EMBO j. 18, 793-803.
• KATUNUMA, N., MURATA, E., KAKEGAWA, H., MATSUI, A., TSUZUKI, H., TSUGE, H., TURK, Dusan, TURK, Vito, FUKUSHIMA, M., TADA, Y., ASAO, T. (1999) Structure based development of novel specific inhibitors for cathepsin L and cathepsin S in vitro and in vivo. FEBS lett.. [Print ed.], 458, 6-10.
• TURK, Dusan, GUNCAR, Gregor, TURK, Vito. (1999) The p41 fragment story. IUBMB life 48, 7-12.

1998

• TURK, Dusan, GUNCAR, Gregor, PODOBNIK, Marjetka, TURK, Boris. Revised definition of substrate binding sites of papain-like cysteine proteases. Biol Chem, 1998, 379, 137-147.
• FERNANDEZ-CATALAN, Carlos, BODE, Wolfram, HUBER, Robert, TURK, Dusan, CALVETE, Juan J., LICHTE, Andrea, TSCHESCHE, Harald, MASKOS, Klaus. Crystal structure of the complex formed by the membrame type 1-matrix metalloproteinase with the tissue inhibitor of metalloproteinases-2, the soluble progelatinase A receptor. EMBO j., 1998, 17, 5238-5248.
• GUNCAR, Gregor, PODOBNIK, Marjetka, PUNGERCAR, Joze, STRUKELJ, Borut, TURK, Vito, TURK, Dusan. Crystal structure of porcine cathepsin H determined at 2.1 A resolution: location of the mini-chain C-terminal carboxyl group defines cathepsin H aminopeptidase function. Structure (Lond.). [Print ed.], 1998, 6, no. 1, 51-61, barvne ilustracije.

1997

• TURK, Boris, TURK, Vito, TURK, Dusan. (1997) Structural and functional aspects of papain-like cysteine proteinases and their protein inhibitors. Biol. chem. Hoppe-Seyler 378, 141-150.
• SCHASCHKE, N., ASSFALG-MACHLEIDT, I., MACHLEIDT, W., TURK, Dusan, MORODER, D. E-64 analogs as inhibitors of cathepsin B. On the role of the absolute configuration of the epoxysuccinyl group. Bioorg. med. chem.. [Print ed.], 1997, 5, suppl. , 1789-1797.
• PODOBNIK, Marjetka, KUHELJ, Robert, TURK, Vito, TURK, Dusan. Crystal structure of the wild-type human procathepsin B at 2.5 A resolution reveals the native active site of a papain-like cysteine protease zymogen. J. mol. biol., 1997, 271, 774-788.

1996

• TURK, Dusan, PODOBNIK, Marjetka, KUHELJ, Robert, DOLINAR, Marko, TURK, Vito. Crystal structures of human procathepsin B at 3.2 and 3.3 A resolution reveal an interaction motif between a papain-like cysteine protease and its propeptide. FEBS lett.. [Print ed.], 1996, 384, 211-214.

1995

• TURK, Dusan, PODOBNIK, Marjetka, POPOVIC, Tatjana, KATUNUMA, N., BODE, W., HUBER, Robert, TURK, Vito. (1995) Crystal structure of cathepsin B inhibited with CA030 at 2.0-A resolution : a basis for the design of specific epoxysuccinyl inhibitors. Biochemistry (Easton) 34, st. 14, 4791-4797.
• TURK, Boris, BIETH, Joseph G., BJORK, Ingemar, DOLENC, Iztok, TURK, Dusan, CIMERMAN, Nina, KOS, Janko, LEONARDI, Adrijana, STOKA, Veronika, TURK, Vito. (1995) Regulation of the activity of lysosomal cysteine proteinases by pH-induced inactivation and/or endogenous protein inhibitors, cystatins. Biol. Chem. Hoppe-Seyler, 376, 225-230.