Melanie Higgins, Ph.D. - Publications

Affiliations: 
2012 University of Victoria, Victoria, British Columbia, Canada 
Area:
Microbiology Biology, Molecular Biology

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2021 Higgins MA, Tegl G, MacDonald SS, Arnal G, Brumer H, Withers SG, Ryan KS. N-Glycan Degradation Pathways in Gut- and Soil-Dwelling Actinobacteria Share Common Core Genes. Acs Chemical Biology. PMID 33764747 DOI: 10.1021/acschembio.0c00995  0.352
2017 Higgins MA, Hamilton AM, Boraston AB. Structural characterization of the PTS IIA and IIB proteins associated with pneumococcal fucose utilization. Proteins. PMID 28168775 DOI: 10.1002/Prot.25264  0.511
2015 Robb M, Robb CS, Higgins MA, Hobbs JK, Paton JC, Boraston AB. A second β-hexosaminidase encoded in the Streptococcus pneumoniae genome provides an expanded biochemical ability to degrade host glycans. The Journal of Biological Chemistry. PMID 26491009 DOI: 10.1074/Jbc.M115.688630  0.555
2015 Kwan DH, Constantinescu I, Chapanian R, Higgins MA, Kötzler MP, Samain E, Boraston AB, Kizhakkedathu JN, Withers SG. Toward Efficient Enzymes for the Generation of Universal Blood through Structure-Guided Directed Evolution. Journal of the American Chemical Society. 137: 5695-705. PMID 25870881 DOI: 10.1021/Ja5116088  0.515
2014 Singh AK, Pluvinage B, Higgins MA, Dalia AB, Woodiga SA, Flynn M, Lloyd AR, Weiser JN, Stubbs KA, Boraston AB, King SJ. Unravelling the multiple functions of the architecturally intricate Streptococcus pneumoniae β-galactosidase, BgaA. Plos Pathogens. 10: e1004364. PMID 25210925 DOI: 10.1371/Journal.Ppat.1004364  0.599
2014 Higgins MA, Suits MD, Marsters C, Boraston AB. Structural and functional analysis of fucose-processing enzymes from Streptococcus pneumoniae. Journal of Molecular Biology. 426: 1469-82. PMID 24333485 DOI: 10.1016/J.Jmb.2013.12.006  0.58
2011 Higgins MA, Boraston AB. Structure of the fucose mutarotase from Streptococcus pneumoniae in complex with L-fucose. Acta Crystallographica. Section F, Structural Biology and Crystallization Communications. 67: 1524-30. PMID 22139157 DOI: 10.1107/S1744309111046343  0.546
2011 Pluvinage B, Higgins MA, Abbott DW, Robb C, Dalia AB, Deng L, Weiser JN, Parsons TB, Fairbanks AJ, Vocadlo DJ, Boraston AB. Inhibition of the pneumococcal virulence factor StrH and molecular insights into N-glycan recognition and hydrolysis. Structure (London, England : 1993). 19: 1603-14. PMID 22078560 DOI: 10.1016/J.Str.2011.08.011  0.582
2011 Higgins MA, Ficko-Blean E, Meloncelli PJ, Lowary TL, Boraston AB. The overall architecture and receptor binding of pneumococcal carbohydrate-antigen-hydrolyzing enzymes. Journal of Molecular Biology. 411: 1017-36. PMID 21767550 DOI: 10.1016/J.Jmb.2011.06.035  0.601
2011 Lammerts van Bueren A, Ficko-Blean E, Pluvinage B, Hehemann JH, Higgins MA, Deng L, Ogunniyi AD, Stroeher UH, El Warry N, Burke RD, Czjzek M, Paton JC, Vocadlo DJ, Boraston AB. The conformation and function of a multimodular glycogen-degrading pneumococcal virulence factor. Structure (London, England : 1993). 19: 640-51. PMID 21565699 DOI: 10.1016/J.Str.2011.03.001  0.61
2010 Abbott DW, Higgins MA, Hyrnuik S, Pluvinage B, Lammerts van Bueren A, Boraston AB. The molecular basis of glycogen breakdown and transport in Streptococcus pneumoniae. Molecular Microbiology. 77: 183-99. PMID 20497336 DOI: 10.1111/J.1365-2958.2010.07199.X  0.596
2009 Higgins MA, Whitworth GE, El Warry N, Randriantsoa M, Samain E, Burke RD, Vocadlo DJ, Boraston AB. Differential recognition and hydrolysis of host carbohydrate antigens by Streptococcus pneumoniae family 98 glycoside hydrolases. The Journal of Biological Chemistry. 284: 26161-73. PMID 19608744 DOI: 10.1074/Jbc.M109.024067  0.593
2009 Higgins MA, Abbott DW, Boulanger MJ, Boraston AB. Blood group antigen recognition by a solute-binding protein from a serotype 3 strain of Streptococcus pneumoniae. Journal of Molecular Biology. 388: 299-309. PMID 19285508 DOI: 10.1016/J.Jmb.2009.03.012  0.593
2007 van Bueren AL, Higgins M, Wang D, Burke RD, Boraston AB. Identification and structural basis of binding to host lung glycogen by streptococcal virulence factors. Nature Structural & Molecular Biology. 14: 76-84. PMID 17187076 DOI: 10.1038/Nsmb1187  0.613
2006 Logan SM, Chen W, Aubry A, Gidney MA, Lacelle S, St Michael F, Kuolee R, Higgins M, Neufeld S, Cox AD. Production of a D-glycero-D-manno-heptosyltransferase mutant of Mannheimia haemolytica displaying a veterinary pathogen specific conserved LPS structure; development and functionality of antibodies to this LPS structure. Veterinary Microbiology. 116: 175-86. PMID 16750602 DOI: 10.1016/J.Vetmic.2006.04.024  0.348
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