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Tony Collins
Researcher at University of Minho
Publications - 61
Citations - 5468
Tony Collins is an academic researcher from University of Minho. The author has contributed to research in topics: Xylanase & Pseudoalteromonas haloplanktis. The author has an hindex of 24, co-authored 59 publications receiving 4951 citations. Previous affiliations of Tony Collins include University of Liège.
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Xylanases, xylanase families and extremophilic xylanases
TL;DR: The adaptation strategies of the extremophilic xylanases isolated to date and the potential industrial applications of these enzymes will also be presented.
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Psychrophilic microorganisms: challenges for life
TL;DR: The ability of psychrophiles to survive and proliferate at low temperatures implies that they have overcome key barriers inherent to permanently cold environments, and the current knowledge of these adaptations as gained from extensive biochemical and biophysical studies and also from genomics and proteomics is discussed.
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Cold-adapted enzymes: from fundamentals to biotechnology.
Charles Gerday,M. Aittaleb,Mostafa Bentahir,Jean-Pierre Chessa,Paule Claverie,Tony Collins,Salvino D'Amico,Joëlle Dumont,Geneviève Garsoux,Daphné Georlette,Anne Hoyoux,Thierry G. A. Lonhienne,Marie-Alice Meuwis,Georges Feller +13 more
TL;DR: Using X-ray crystallography,Psychrophilic enzymes produced by cold-adapted microorganisms display a high catalytic efficiency and are most often, if not always, associated with high thermosensitivity.
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Some like it cold: biocatalysis at low temperatures.
Daphné Georlette,Vinciane Blaise,Tony Collins,Salvino D'Amico,Emmanuelle Gratia,Anne Hoyoux,Jean-Claude Marx,Guillaume Sonan,Georges Feller,Charles Gerday +9 more
TL;DR: The emerging picture suggests that psychrophilic enzymes are characterized by an improved flexibility of the structural components involved in the catalytic cycle, whereas other protein regions, if not implicated in catalysis, may be even more rigid than their mesophilic counterparts.
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Molecular basis of cold adaptation.
Salvino D'Amico,Paule Claverie,Tony Collins,Daphné Georlette,Emmanuelle Gratia,Anne Hoyoux,Marie-Alice Meuwis,Georges Feller,Charles Gerday +8 more
TL;DR: The adaptation strategies of psychrophilic organisms and their enzymes are beginning to be understood thanks to recent advances in the elucidation of the molecular characteristics of cold-adapted enzymes derived from X-ray crystallography, protein engineering and biophysical methods.