John F. Honek - Publications

Affiliations: 
Chemistry University of Waterloo, Waterloo, ON, Canada 
Area:
interactions of small molecules (such as substrates and drugs) with enzymes as well as the mechanisms by which enzymes catalyze reactions
Website:
http://uwaterloo.ca/chemistry/people-profiles/john-honek

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2019 Suttisansanee U, Honek JF. Preliminary Characterization of a Ni2+-Activated and Mycothiol-Dependent Glyoxalase I Enzyme from Streptomyces coelicolor Inorganics. 7: 99. DOI: 10.3390/INORGANICS7080099  0.357
2017 Suttisansanee U, Honek JF. Hydroxamate Inhibitor Profiling of Both Zn2+- and Ni2+-Activated Glyoxalase I Metalloenzymes Having Diverse Quaternary Structures Letters in Drug Design & Discovery. 14. DOI: 10.2174/1570180814666161128115808  0.346
2016 Lu M, Lu QB, Honek JF. Squarate-based carbocyclic nucleosides: Syntheses, computational analyses and anticancer/antiviral evaluation. Bioorganic & Medicinal Chemistry Letters. PMID 27913181 DOI: 10.1016/J.Bmcl.2016.11.058  0.317
2016 Vaughan MD, Su Z, Daub E, Honek JF. Intriguing cellular processing of a fluorinated amino acid during protein biosynthesis in Escherichia coli. Organic & Biomolecular Chemistry. 14: 8942-8946. PMID 27722405 DOI: 10.1039/C6Ob01690A  0.332
2016 Urquhart TM, Daub E, Honek JF. Bioorthogonal Modification of the Major Sheath Protein of Bacteriophage M13: Extending the Versatility of Bionanomaterial Scaffolds. Bioconjugate Chemistry. PMID 27626459 DOI: 10.1021/Acs.Bioconjchem.6B00460  0.324
2015 Myers CL, Kuiper EG, Grant PC, Hernandez J, Conn GL, Honek JF. Functional roles in S-adenosyl-l-methionine binding and catalysis for active site residues of the thiostrepton resistance methyltransferase. Febs Letters. PMID 26450779 DOI: 10.1016/J.Febslet.2015.09.028  0.408
2015 Suttisansanee U, Ran Y, Mullings KY, Sukdeo N, Honek JF. Modulating glyoxalase I metal selectivity by deletional mutagenesis: underlying structural factors contributing to nickel activation profiles. Metallomics : Integrated Biometal Science. 7: 605-12. PMID 25557363 DOI: 10.1039/C4Mt00299G  0.408
2015 Bythell-Douglas R, Suttisansanee U, Flematti GR, Challenor M, Lee M, Panjikar S, Honek JF, Bond CS. The crystal structure of a homodimeric Pseudomonas glyoxalase I enzyme reveals asymmetric metallation commensurate with half-of-sites activity. Chemistry (Weinheim An Der Bergstrasse, Germany). 21: 541-4. PMID 25411134 DOI: 10.1002/Chem.201405402  0.452
2015 Honek JF. Biological chemistry of the carbon-sulfur bond Canadian Journal of Chemistry. 93: 1051-1060. DOI: 10.1139/Cjc-2015-0270  0.334
2014 Honek JF. Bacterial glyoxalase I enzymes: structural and biochemical investigations. Biochemical Society Transactions. 42: 479-84. PMID 24646264 DOI: 10.1042/Bst20130285  0.456
2014 Myers CL, Harris J, Yeung JC, Honek JF. Molecular interactions between thiostrepton and the TipAS protein from Streptomyces lividans. Chembiochem : a European Journal of Chemical Biology. 15: 681-7. PMID 24616128 DOI: 10.1002/Cbic.201300724  0.328
2013 Honek JF. Bionanotechnology and bionanomaterials: John Honek explains the good things that can come in very small packages. Bmc Biochemistry. 14: 29. PMID 24188093 DOI: 10.1186/1471-2091-14-29  0.323
2012 Mullings KY, Sukdeo N, Suttisansanee U, Ran Y, Honek JF. Ni2+-activated glyoxalase I from Escherichia coli: substrate specificity, kinetic isotope effects and evolution within the βαβββ superfamily. Journal of Inorganic Biochemistry. 108: 133-40. PMID 22173092 DOI: 10.1016/J.Jinorgbio.2011.11.008  0.472
2011 Suttisansanee U, Lau K, Lagishetty S, Rao KN, Swaminathan S, Sauder JM, Burley SK, Honek JF. Structural variation in bacterial glyoxalase I enzymes: investigation of the metalloenzyme glyoxalase I from Clostridium acetobutylicum. The Journal of Biological Chemistry. 286: 38367-74. PMID 21914803 DOI: 10.1074/Jbc.M111.251603  0.479
2011 Moya IA, Westrop GD, Coombs GH, Honek JF. Mechanistic studies on the enzymatic processing of fluorinated methionine analogues by Trichomonas vaginalis methionine γ-lyase. The Biochemical Journal. 438: 513-21. PMID 21658005 DOI: 10.1042/Bj20101986  0.421
2011 Suttisansanee U, Honek JF. Bacterial glyoxalase enzymes. Seminars in Cell & Developmental Biology. 22: 285-92. PMID 21310258 DOI: 10.1016/J.Semcdb.2011.02.004  0.466
2011 Bythell-Douglas R, Suttisansanee U, Honek J, Bond C. Structural investigation ofPseudomonas aeruginosaglyoxalase I enzymes Acta Crystallographica Section a Foundations of Crystallography. 67: C780-C780. DOI: 10.1107/S0108767311080263  0.336
2009 Dunstan MS, Hang PC, Zelinskaya NV, Honek JF, Conn GL. Structure of the thiostrepton resistance methyltransferase.S-adenosyl-L-methionine complex and its interaction with ribosomal RNA. The Journal of Biological Chemistry. 284: 17013-20. PMID 19369248 DOI: 10.1074/Jbc.M901618200  0.349
2008 Su Z, Sukdeo N, Honek JF. 15N-1H HSQC NMR evidence for distinct specificity of two active sites in Escherichia coli glyoxalase I. Biochemistry. 47: 13232-41. PMID 19053281 DOI: 10.1021/Bi8013278  0.426
2008 Sukdeo N, Honek JF. Microbial glyoxalase enzymes: metalloenzymes controlling cellular levels of methylglyoxal. Drug Metabolism and Drug Interactions. 23: 29-50. PMID 18533363 DOI: 10.1515/Dmdi.2008.23.1-2.29  0.45
2007 Sukdeo N, Honek JF. Pseudomonas aeruginosa contains multiple glyoxalase I-encoding genes from both metal activation classes. Biochimica Et Biophysica Acta. 1774: 756-63. PMID 17513180 DOI: 10.1016/J.Bbapap.2007.04.005  0.436
2007 O'Young J, Sukdeo N, Honek JF. Escherichia coli glyoxalase II is a binuclear zinc-dependent metalloenzyme. Archives of Biochemistry and Biophysics. 459: 20-6. PMID 17196158 DOI: 10.1016/J.Abb.2006.11.024  0.406
2007 Su Z, Mui K, Daub E, Leung T, Honek J. Single-walled carbon nanotube binding peptides: Probing tryptophan's importance by unnatural amino acid substitution Journal of Physical Chemistry B. 111: 14411-14417. DOI: 10.1021/Jp0740301  0.307
2007 Sukdeo N, Daub E, Honek JF. Biochemistry of the Nickel-Dependent Glyoxalase I Enzymes Nickel and Its Surprising Impact in Nature. 2: 445-471. DOI: 10.1002/9780470028131.ch11  0.351
2006 Garner DK, Vaughan MD, Hwang HJ, Savelieff MG, Berry SM, Honek JF, Lu Y. Reduction potential tuning of the blue copper center in Pseudomonas aeruginosa azurin by the axial methionine as probed by unnatural amino acids. Journal of the American Chemical Society. 128: 15608-17. PMID 17147368 DOI: 10.1021/Ja062732I  0.332
2006 Su Z, Leung T, Honek JF. Conformational selectivity of peptides for single-walled carbon nanotubes. The Journal of Physical Chemistry. B. 110: 23623-7. PMID 17125317 DOI: 10.1021/Jp065837G  0.302
2006 Hand CE, Auzanneau FI, Honek JF. Conformational analyses of mycothiol, a critical intracellular glycothiol in Mycobacteria. Carbohydrate Research. 341: 1164-73. PMID 16630596 DOI: 10.1016/J.Carres.2006.03.020  0.375
2005 Vaughan MD, Sampson PB, Daub E, Honek JF. Investigation of bioisosteric effects on the interaction of substrates/ inhibitors with the methionyl-tRNA synthetase from Escherichia coli. Medicinal Chemistry (ShāRiqah (United Arab Emirates)). 1: 227-37. PMID 16787318 DOI: 10.2174/1573406053765477  0.768
2005 Walasek P, Honek JF. Nonnatural amino acid incorporation into the methionine 214 position of the metzincin Pseudomonas aeruginosa alkaline protease. Bmc Biochemistry. 6: 21. PMID 16221305 DOI: 10.1186/1471-2091-6-21  0.456
2005 Hand CE, Honek JF. Biological chemistry of naturally occurring thiols of microbial and marine origin. Journal of Natural Products. 68: 293-308. PMID 15730267 DOI: 10.1021/Np049685X  0.372
2005 Hand CE, Taylor NJ, Honek JF. Ab initio studies of the properties of intracellular thiols ergothioneine and ovothiol. Bioorganic & Medicinal Chemistry Letters. 15: 1357-60. PMID 15713386 DOI: 10.1016/J.Bmcl.2005.01.014  0.302
2004 Sukdeo N, Clugston SL, Daub E, Honek JF. Distinct classes of glyoxalase I: metal specificity of the Yersinia pestis, Pseudomonas aeruginosa and Neisseria meningitidis enzymes. The Biochemical Journal. 384: 111-7. PMID 15270717 DOI: 10.1042/Bj20041006  0.787
2004 Clugston SL, Yajima R, Honek JF. Investigation of metal binding and activation of Escherichia coli glyoxalase I: kinetic, thermodynamic and mutagenesis studies. The Biochemical Journal. 377: 309-16. PMID 14556652 DOI: 10.1042/Bj20030271  0.759
2003 Jacques SL, Mirza IA, Ejim L, Koteva K, Hughes DW, Green K, Kinach R, Honek JF, Lai HK, Berghuis AM, Wright GD. Enzyme-assisted suicide: molecular basis for the antifungal activity of 5-hydroxy-4-oxonorvaline by potent inhibition of homoserine dehydrogenase. Chemistry & Biology. 10: 989-95. PMID 14583265 DOI: 10.1016/J.Chembiol.2003.09.015  0.7
2003 Salopek-Sondi B, Vaughan MD, Skeels MC, Honek JF, Luck LA. (19)F NMR studies of the leucine-isoleucine-valine binding protein: evidence that a closed conformation exists in solution. Journal of Biomolecular Structure & Dynamics. 21: 235-46. PMID 12956607 DOI: 10.1080/07391102.2003.10506919  0.315
2003 Crepin T, Schmitt E, Mechulam Y, Sampson PB, Vaughan MD, Honek JF, Blanquet S. Use of analogues of methionine and methionyl adenylate to sample conformational changes during catalysis in Escherichia coli methionyl-tRNA synthetase. Journal of Molecular Biology. 332: 59-72. PMID 12946347 DOI: 10.1016/S0022-2836(03)00917-3  0.752
2003 Steere JA, Honek JF. Synthesis and biological activity of novel S-adenosyl-L-homocysteine hydrolase inhibitors. Bioorganic & Medicinal Chemistry. 11: 3229-36. PMID 12837532 DOI: 10.1016/S0968-0896(03)00301-8  0.403
2002 Vaughan MD, Sampson PB, Honek JF. Methionine in and out of proteins: targets for drug design. Current Medicinal Chemistry. 9: 385-409. PMID 11860363 DOI: 10.2174/0929867023371102  0.754
2002 Steere JA, Sampson PB, Honek JF. Synthesis of an alpha-aminophosphonate nucleoside as an inhibitor of S-adenosyl-L-homocysteine hydrolase. Bioorganic & Medicinal Chemistry Letters. 12: 457-60. PMID 11814819 DOI: 10.1016/S0960-894X(01)00789-2  0.697
2001 Duewel HS, Daub E, Robinson V, Honek JF. Elucidation of solvent exposure, side-chain reactivity, and steric demands of the trifluoromethionine residue in a recombinant protein. Biochemistry. 40: 13167-76. PMID 11683625 DOI: 10.1021/Bi011381B  0.312
2001 Jacques SL, Nieman C, Bareich D, Broadhead G, Kinach R, Honek JF, Wright GD. Characterization of yeast homoserine dehydrogenase, an antifungal target: the invariant histidine 309 is important for enzyme integrity. Biochimica Et Biophysica Acta. 1544: 28-41. PMID 11341914 DOI: 10.1016/S0167-4838(00)00203-X  0.776
2001 Leung AK, Duewel HS, Honek JF, Berghuis AM. Crystal structure of the lytic transglycosylase from bacteriophage lambda in complex with hexa-N-acetylchitohexaose. Biochemistry. 40: 5665-73. PMID 11341831 DOI: 10.1021/Bi0028035  0.448
2001 Davidson G, Clugston SL, Honek JF, Maroney MJ. An XAS investigation of product and inhibitor complexes of Ni-containing GlxI from Escherichia coli: mechanistic implications. Biochemistry. 40: 4569-82. PMID 11294624 DOI: 10.1021/Bi0018537  0.765
2000 Stokvis E, Clugston SL, Honek JF, Heck AJ. Characterization of glyoxalase I (E. coli)-inhibitor interactions by electrospray time-of-flight mass spectrometry and enzyme kinetic analysis. Journal of Protein Chemistry. 19: 389-97. PMID 11212839 DOI: 10.1023/A:1026439531005  0.778
2000 Davidson G, Clugston SL, Honek JF, Maroney MJ. XAS investigation of the nickel active site structure in Escherichia coli glyoxalase I. Inorganic Chemistry. 39: 2962-3. PMID 11196887 DOI: 10.1021/Ic0001208  0.779
2000 He MM, Clugston SL, Honek JF, Matthews BW. Determination of the structure of Escherichia coli glyoxalase I suggests a structural basis for differential metal activation. Biochemistry. 39: 8719-27. PMID 10913283 DOI: 10.1021/Bi000856G  0.787
2000 Lowther WT, Brot N, Weissbach H, Honek JF, Matthews BW. Thiol-disulfide exchange is involved in the catalytic mechanism of peptide methionine sulfoxide reductase. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America. 97: 6463-8. PMID 10841552 DOI: 10.1073/Pnas.97.12.6463  0.416
2000 Clugston SL, Honek JF. Identification of sequences encoding the detoxification metalloisomerase glyoxalase I in microbial genomes from several pathogenic organisms. Journal of Molecular Evolution. 50: 491-5. PMID 10824093 DOI: 10.1007/S002390010052  0.779
2000 Stokvis E, Clugston SL, Honek JF, Heck AJR. Characterization of glyoxalase I (E. coli) - Inhibitor interactions by electrospray time-of-flight mass spectrometry and enzyme kinetic analysis Protein Journal. 19: 389-397.  0.748
1999 Lowther WT, Zhang Y, Sampson PB, Honek JF, Matthews BW. Insights into the mechanism of Escherichia coli methionine aminopeptidase from the structural analysis of reaction products and phosphorus-based transition-state analogues. Biochemistry. 38: 14810-9. PMID 10555963 DOI: 10.1021/Bi991711G  0.728
1999 Sampson PB, Honek JF. Oxidative deprotection of diphenylmethylamines Organic Letters. 1: 1395-1397. DOI: 10.1021/Ol990956I  0.679
1998 Ly HD, Clugston SL, Sampson PB, Honek JF. Syntheses and kinetic evaluation of hydroxamate-based peptide inhibitors of glyoxalase I. Bioorganic & Medicinal Chemistry Letters. 8: 705-10. PMID 9871526 DOI: 10.1016/S0960-894X(98)00116-4  0.782
1998 Clugston SL, Daub E, Honek JF. Identification of glyoxalase I sequences in Brassica oleracea and Sporobolus stapfianus: evidence for gene duplication events. Journal of Molecular Evolution. 47: 230-4. PMID 9694672 DOI: 10.1007/Pl00006380  0.739
1998 Clugston SL, Barnard JF, Kinach R, Miedema D, Ruman R, Daub E, Honek JF. Overproduction and characterization of a dimeric non-zinc glyoxalase I from Escherichia coli: evidence for optimal activation by nickel ions. Biochemistry. 37: 8754-63. PMID 9628737 DOI: 10.1021/Bi972791W  0.791
1998 Duewel HS, Honek JF. CNBr/formic acid reactions of methionine- and trifluoromethionine-containing lambda lysozyme: probing chemical and positional reactivity and formylation side reactions by mass spectrometry. Journal of Protein Chemistry. 17: 337-50. PMID 9619587 DOI: 10.1023/A:1022555232364  0.382
1997 Duewel H, Daub E, Robinson V, Honek JF. Incorporation of trifluoromethionine into a phage lysozyme: implications and a new marker for use in protein 19F NMR. Biochemistry. 36: 3404-16. PMID 9116020 DOI: 10.1021/Bi9617973  0.415
1997 Clugston SL, Daub E, Kinach R, Miedema D, Barnard JF, Honek JF. Isolation and sequencing of a gene coding for glyoxalase I activity from Salmonella typhimurium and comparison with other glyoxalase I sequences. Gene. 186: 103-11. PMID 9047352 DOI: 10.1016/S0378-1119(96)00691-9  0.748
1997 Houston ME, Harvath L, Honek JF. Synthesis of and chemotactic responses elicited by fMet-Leu-Phe analogs containing difluoro- and trifluoromethionine Bioorganic and Medicinal Chemistry Letters. 7: 3007-3012. DOI: 10.1016/S0960-894X(97)10134-2  0.301
1995 Diaz-Diaz M, Ward OP, Honek J, Lajoie G. Enzymes from Pseudomonas sp. strain NCIB 11097 participating in biotransformation of acetaldehyde and glycine to threonine isomers Canadian Journal of Microbiology. 41: 438-443. PMID 8590421 DOI: 10.1139/M95-059  0.355
1995 Duewel HS, Daub E, Honek JF. Investigations of the interactions of saccharides with the lysozyme from bacteriophage lambda. Biochimica Et Biophysica Acta. 1247: 149-58. PMID 7873585 DOI: 10.1016/0167-4838(94)00207-W  0.453
1995 Chan PC, Roon RJ, Koerner JF, Taylor NJ, Honek JF. A 3-amino-4-hydroxy-3-cyclobutene-1,2-dione-containing glutamate analogue exhibiting high affinity to excitatory amino acid receptors. Journal of Medicinal Chemistry. 38: 4433-8. PMID 7473569 DOI: 10.1021/Jm00022A007  0.308
1994 Barnard JF, Vander Jagt DL, Honek JF. Small molecule probes of glyoxalase I and glyoxalase II. Biochimica Et Biophysica Acta. 1208: 127-35. PMID 8086426 DOI: 10.1016/0167-4838(94)90169-4  0.388
1993 Barnard JF, Vander Jagt DL, Honek JF. In vitro testing of a glyoxalase I inhibitor. Biochemical Society Transactions. 21: 157S. PMID 8359410 DOI: 10.1042/Bst021157S  0.421
1992 Wright GD, Honek JF. Synthesis and evaluation of photoaffinity probes directed at lanosterol 14α-demethylase (P-45014DM) Bioorganic and Medicinal Chemistry Letters. 2: 383-386. DOI: 10.1016/S0960-894X(00)80151-1  0.59
1991 Wright GD, Honek JF. Induction and substrate specificity of the lanosterol 14 alpha-demethylase from Saccharomyces cerevisiae Y222. Journal of Bacteriology. 173: 1035-40. PMID 1846852 DOI: 10.1128/Jb.173.3.1035-1040.1991  0.624
1991 Houston ME, Vander Jagt DL, Honek JF. Synthesis and biological activity of fluorinated intermediates of the methionine salvage pathway Bioorganic and Medicinal Chemistry Letters. 1: 623-628. DOI: 10.1016/S0960-894X(01)81165-3  0.325
1990 Salleh HM, Honek JF. Time-dependent inhibition of porcine kidney trehalase by aminosugars. Febs Letters. 262: 359-62. PMID 2335220 DOI: 10.1016/0014-5793(90)80229-C  0.372
1990 Wright GD, Parent T, Honek JF. Non-sterol structural probes of the lanosterol 14 alpha-demethylase from Saccharomyces cerevisiae. Biochimica Et Biophysica Acta. 1040: 95-101. PMID 2198946 DOI: 10.1016/0167-4838(90)90151-5  0.652
1989 Barnard JF, Honek JF. Investigation on glyoxalase I inhibitors. Biochemical and Biophysical Research Communications. 165: 118-24. PMID 2686643 DOI: 10.1016/0006-291X(89)91042-5  0.359
1989 Wright GD, Honek JF. Effects of iron binding agents on Saccharomyces cerevisiae growth and cytochrome P450 content. Canadian Journal of Microbiology. 35: 945-50. PMID 2531030 DOI: 10.1139/M89-156  0.596
1989 Goh CJ, Szczepan EW, Wright G, Menhart N, Honek JF, Viswanatha T. Investigation of lysine: N-hydroxylation in the biosynthesis of the siderophore aerobactin Bioorganic Chemistry. 17: 13-27. DOI: 10.1016/0045-2068(89)90003-5  0.667
1987 Wackett LP, Honek JF, Begley TP, Wallace V, Orme-Johnson WH, Walsh CT. Substrate analogues as mechanistic probes of methyl-S-coenzyme M reductase. Biochemistry. 26: 6012-8. PMID 3120769 DOI: 10.1021/Bi00393A010  0.691
1986 Schauer NL, Ferry JG, Honek JF, Orme-Johnson WH, Walsh C. Mechanistic studies of the coenzyme F420 reducing formate dehydrogenase from Methanobacterium formicicum. Biochemistry. 25: 7163-8. PMID 3801411 DOI: 10.1021/Bi00370A059  0.579
1986 Hausinger RP, Honek JF, Walsh C. Separation of flavins and flavin analogs by high-performance liquid chromatography. Methods in Enzymology. 122: 199-209. PMID 3702688 DOI: 10.1016/0076-6879(86)22171-0  0.513
1984 Honek JF, Mancini ML, Belleau B. 3-Acetyl-2,5-dihydrothiophene-1,1-dioxide as a stable precursor of 2-acetyl-1,3-butadiene Synthetic Communications. 14: 483-492. DOI: 10.1080/00397918408059569  0.502
1983 Honek JF, Mancini ML, Belleau B. O-chlorosulfenylbenzoyl chloride: A useful reagent in the synthesis of thioxanthones Synthetic Communications. 13: 977-983. DOI: 10.1080/00397918308082715  0.515
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