Education
2008
DSc Biology
Hungarian Academy of Sciences
1997
PhD Biochemistry
Eötvös Loránd University (ELTE)
1987
MSc Chemistry
Eötvös Loránd University (ELTE)
awards and scholarships
2006. EMBO HHMI Start-up Grantee
2006. Howard Hughes Medical Institute International Research Scholar
2004. Marie Curie Fellow (IntraEuropean Scholarship)
1995. HUNGARY HITEL BANK "Pro Science" Doctoral scholarship
Publications
Huszár, Krisztina ; Welker, Zsombor ; Györgypál, Zoltán ; Tóth, Eszter ; Ligeti, Zoltán ; Kulcsár, Péter István ; Dancsó, János ; Tálas, András ; Krausz, Sarah Laura ; Varga, Éva ; Ervin Welker
Position-dependent sequence motif preferences of SpCas9 are largely determined by scaffold-complementary spacer motifs
NUCLEIC ACIDS RESEARCH 51 : 11 pp. 5847-5863. , 17 p. (2023)
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Kulcsár, Péter István ; Tálas, András ; Ligeti, Zoltán ; Tóth, Eszter ; Rakvács, Zsófia ; Bartos, Zsuzsanna ; Krausz, Sarah Laura ; Welker, Agnes ; Végi, Vanessa Laura ; Huszár, Krisztina ; Ervin Welker
A cleavage rule for selection of increased-fidelity SpCas9 variants with high efficiency and no detectable off-targets
NATURE COMMUNICATIONS 14 : 1 Paper: 5746 , 20 p. (2023)
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Kulcsár, Péter István ; Tálas, András ; Ligeti, Zoltán ; Krausz, Sarah Laura ; Welker, Ervin
SuperFi-Cas9 exhibits remarkable fidelity but severely reduced activity yet works effectively with ABE8e
NATURE COMMUNICATIONS 13 : 1 Paper: 6858 , 11 p. (2022)
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Simon, Dorottya Anna ; Tálas, András ; Kulcsár, Péter István ; Biczók, Zsuzsanna ; Krausz, Sarah Laura ; Várady, György ; Welker, Ervin
PEAR, a flexible fluorescent reporter for the identification and enrichment of successfully primed edited cells
ELIFE 11 Paper: e69504, 19 p. (2022)
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Dondapati, Divya Teja ; Cingaram, Pradeep Reddy ; Ayaydin, Ferhan ; Nyeste, Antal ; Kanyo, Andor ; Welker, Ervin ; Fodor, Elfrieda
Membrane Domain Localization and Interaction of the Prion-Family Proteins, Prion and Shadoo with Calnexin
MEMBRANES (BASEL) 11 : 12 Paper: 978 , 31 p. (2021)
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Sangeetham, Sangeetham Babu ; Engelke, Anna Dorothee ; Fodor, Elfrieda ; Krausz, Sarah Laura ; Tatzelt, Jörg; Welker, Ervin
The G127V variant of the prion protein interferes with dimer formation in vitro but not in cellulo
SCIENTIFIC REPORTS 11 : 1 Paper: 3116 , 13 p. (2021)
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Tálas, András ; Simon, Dorottya Anna ; Kulcsár, Péter István ; Varga, Éva ; Krausz, Sarah Laura ; Welker, Ervin
BEAR reveals that increased fidelity variants can successfully reduce the mismatch tolerance of adenine but not cytosine base editors
NATURE COMMUNICATIONS 12 : 1 Paper: 6353 , 14 p. (2021)
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Tálas, András ; Huszár, Krisztina ; Kulcsár, Péter István ; Varga, Julia K ; Varga, Éva ; Tóth, Eszter ; Welker, Zsombor; Erdős, Gergely ; Pach, Péter Ferenc Welker, Ágnes ; Györgypál, Zoltán ; Tusnády, Gábor ; Welker, Ervin
A method for characterizing Cas9 variants via a one-million target sequence library of self-targeting sgRNAs
NUCLEIC ACIDS RESEARCH 49 : 6 Paper: e31 , 12 p. (2021)
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Kulcsár, Péter István ; Tálas, András ; Tóth, Eszter ; Nyeste, Antal ; Ligeti, Zoltán ; Welker, Zsombor ; Welker, Ervin
Blackjack mutations improve the on-target activities of increased fidelity variants of SpCas9 with 5′G-extended sgRNAs
NATURE COMMUNICATIONS 11 : 1 Paper: 1223 , 14 p. (2020)
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Tóth, Eszter ; Varga, Éva ; Kulcsár, Péter István ; Kocsis-Jutka, Virág ; Krausz, Sarah Laura ; Nyeste, Antal ; Welker, Zsombor ; Huszár, Krisztina ; Ligeti, Zoltán ; Tálas, András ; Welker, Ervin
Improved LbCas12a variants with altered PAM specificities further broaden the genome targeting range of Cas12a nucleases
NUCLEIC ACIDS RESEARCH 48 : 7 pp. 3722-3733. , 12 p. (2020)
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Sangeetham, Sudheer Babu ; Huszár, Krisztina ; Bencsura, Petra ; Nyeste, Antal ; Hunyadi-Gulyas, Éva ; Fodor, Elfrieda ; Welker, Ervin
Interrogating the Dimerization Interface of the Prion Protein Via Site-Specific Mutations to p-Benzoyl-L-Phenylalanine
JOURNAL OF MOLECULAR BIOLOGY 430 : 17 pp. 2784-2801. , 18 p. (2018)
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Tóth, Eszter ; Czene, Bernadette C ; Kulcsár, Péter István ; Krausz, Sarah Laura ; Tálas, András ; Nyeste, Antal ; Varga, Éva ; Huszár, Krisztina ; Weinhardt, Nóra ; Ligeti, Zoltán ; Borsy, Adrienn Éva ; Fodor, Elfrieda ; Welker, Ervin
Mb- and FnCpf1 nucleases are active in mammalian cells: activities and PAM preferences of four wild-type Cpf1 nucleases and of their altered PAM specificity variants
NUCLEIC ACIDS RESEARCH 46 : 19 pp. 10272-10285. , 14 p. (2018)
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Kulcsár, Péter István ; Tálas, András ; Huszár, Krisztina ; Ligeti, Zoltán ; Toth, Eszter ; Weinhardt, Nóra ; Fodor, Elfrieda ; Welker, Ervin
Crossing enhanced and high fidelity SpCas9 nucleases to optimize specificity and cleavage
GENOME BIOLOGY 18 Paper: 190 , 17 p. (2017)
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Tálas, András ; Kulcsár, Péter István ; Weinhardt, Nóra ; Borsy, Adrienn ; Tóth, Eszter ; Szebényi, Kornélia ; Krausz, Sarah Laura ; Huszár, Krisztina ; Vida, István ; Sturm, Ádám ; Gordos, Bianka ; Hoffmann, Orsolya Ivett ; Bencsura, Petra ; Nyeste, Antal ; Ligeti, Zoltán ; Fodor, Elfrieda ; Welker, Ervin
A convenient method to pre-screen candidate guide RNAs for CRISPR/Cas9 gene editing by NHEJ-mediated integration of a 'self-cleaving' GFP-expression plasmid
DNA RESEARCH 24 : 6 pp. 609-621. , 13 p. (2017)
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Nyeste, Antal ; Stincardini, Claudia ; Bencsura, Petra ; Cerovic, Milica ; Biasini, Emiliano ; Welker, Ervin
The prion protein family member Shadoo induces spontaneous ionic currents in cultured cells.
SCIENTIFIC REPORTS 6 Paper: 36441 , 12 p. (2016)
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Nyeste, Antal ; Bencsura, Petra ; Vida, István ; Hegyi, Zoltán ; Homolya, László ; Fodor, Elfrieda ; Welker, Ervin
Expression of the prion protein family member Shadoo causes drug hypersensitivity that is diminished by the coexpression of the wild type prion protein
JOURNAL OF BIOLOGICAL CHEMISTRY 291 : 9 pp. 4473-4486. , 14 p. (2016)
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Tóth, Eszter; Weinhardt, Nóra ; Bencsura, Petra ; Huszár, Krisztina ; Kulcsár, Péter István ; Tálas, András ; Fodor, Elfrieda ; Welker, Ervin
Cpf1 nucleases demonstrate robust activity to induce DNA modification by exploiting homology directed repair pathways in mammalian cells
BIOLOGY DIRECT 11 Paper: 46 , 14 p. (2016)
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Cingaram, Pradeep Kumar Reddy ; Nyeste, Antal ; Dondapati, Divya Teja ; Fodor, Elfrieda ; Welker, Ervin
Prion Protein Does Not Confer Resistance to Hippocampus-Derived Zpl Cells against the Toxic Effects of Cu2+, Mn2+, Zn2+ and Co2+ Not Supporting a General Protective Role for PrP in Transition Metal Induced Toxicity
PLOS ONE 10 : 10 Paper: e0139219 , 20 p. (2015)
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Tóth, Eszter ; Huszár, Krisztina ; Bencsura, Petra ; Kulcsár, Péter István ; Vodicska, Barbara ; Nyeste, Antal ; Welker, Zsombor ; Tóth, Szilvia ; Welker, Ervin
Restriction enzyme body doubles and PCR cloning: on the general use of type IIs restriction enzymes for cloning.
PLOS ONE 9 : 3 Paper: e90896 , 12 p. (2014)
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Orsolits, Barbara ; Borsy, Adrienn ; Madarász, Emilia ; Mészáros, Zsófia ; Kőhidi, Tímea ; Markó, Károly ; Jelitai, Marta ; Welker, Ervin ; Környei, Zsuzsanna
Retinoid Machinery in Distinct Neural Stem Cell Populations with Different Retinoid Responsiveness
STEM CELLS AND DEVELOPMENT 22 : 20 pp. 2777-2793. , 17 p. (2013)
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Schäfer, Balázs ; Orbán, Erika ; Borics, Attila ; Huszár, Krisztina ; Nyeste, Antal ; Welker, Ervin; Tömböly, Csaba
Preparation of semisynthetic lipoproteins with fluorescent cholesterol anchor and their introduction to the cell membrane with minimal disruption of the membrane.
BIOCONJUGATE CHEMISTRY 24 : 10 pp. 1684-1697. , 14 p. (2013)
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Tóth, Eszter ; Kulcsár, Péter István ; Fodor, Elfrieda ; Ayaydin, Ferhan ; Kalmár, Lajos ; Borsy, Adrienn Éva; Laszlo, Lajos ; Welker, Ervin
The highly conserved, N-terminal (RXXX)8 motif of mouse Shadoo mediates nuclear accumulation.
BIOCHIMICA ET BIOPHYSICA ACTA-MOLECULAR CELL RESEARCH 1833 : 5 pp. 1199-1211. , 13 p. (2013)
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An, SS; Lim, KT ; Oh, HJ; Lee, B.S.; Zukic, E ; Ju, YR ; Yokoyama, T ; Kim, SY ; Welker, Ervin
BIOCHEMICAL AND BIOPHYSICAL RESEARCH COMMUNICATIONS 392 : 4 pp. 505-509. , 5 p. (2010)
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Narayan, M ; Welker, Ervin ; Zhai, H ; Han, X ; Xu, G ; McLafferty, FW ; Scheraga, HA
Detecting native folds in mixtures of proteins that contain disulfide bonds
NATURE BIOTECHNOLOGY 26 pp. 427-429. , 3 p. (2008)
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Welker, Ervin ; Hathaway, L ; Narayan, M ; Pradeep, L ; Shin, HC ; Scheraga, HA
Oxidative folding and N-terminal cyclization of Onconase
BIOCHEMISTRY 46 : 18 pp. 5485-5493. , 9 p.m. (2007)
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Xu, GQ; Narayan, M ; Kurinov, I ; Ripoll, DR ; Welker, Ervin ; Khalili, M ; Ealick, SE ; Scheraga, HA
A localized specific interaction alters the unfolding pathways of structural homologues
JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY 128 pp. 1204-1213. , 10 p.m. (2006)
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Zabrouskov, V ; Han, XM ; Welker, Ervin ; Zhai, HL ; Lin, C ; van Wijk, KJ ; Scheraga, HA ; McLafferty, FW
Stepwise deamidation of ribonuclease A at five sites determined by top down mass spectrometry
BIOCHEMISTRY 45 pp. 987-992. , 6 p.m. (2006)
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Mahesh Narayan ; Guoqiang Xu ; Daniel R Ripoll ; Huili Zhai ; Kathrin Breuker ; Celestine Wanjalla ; Howard J Leung ; Amiel Navon ; Ervin Welker ; Fred W McLafferty; Harold A Scheraga
Dissimilarity in the reductive unfolding pathways of two ribonuclease homologues
JOURNAL OF MOLECULAR BIOLOGY 338 pp. 795-809. , 15 p. (2004)
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Welker, Ervin ; Maki, K ; Shastry, McR ; Juminaga, D ; Bhat, R ; Scheraga, HA ; Roder, H
PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA 101 pp. 17681-17686. , 6 p.m. (2004)
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Welker, Ervin ; Hathaway, L ; Scheraga, HA
JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY 126 pp. 3720-3721. , 2 p. (2004)
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Xu, GQ; Narayan, M ; Welker, Ervin ; Scheraga, HA
BIOCHEMISTRY 43 pp. 3246-3254. , 9 p.m. (2004)
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Cerovsky, V ; Welker, Ervin ; Scheraga, HA
JOURNAL OF PEPTIDE RESEARCH 61 pp. 140-151. , 12 p. (2003)
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Narayan, M ; Welker, Ervin ; Scheraga, HA
JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY 125 pp. 2036-2037. , 2 p. (2003)
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Narayan, M ; Welker, Ervin ; Scheraga, HA
Characterizing the unstructured intermediates in oxidative folding
BIOCHEMISTRY 42 pp. 6947-6955. , 9 p.m. (2003)
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Narayan, M ; Welker, Ervin ; Wanjalla, C ; Xu, GQ; Scheraga, HA
BIOCHEMISTRY 42 pp. 10783-10789. , 7 p.m. (2003)
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Xu, GQ; Narayan, M ; Welker, Ervin ; Scheraga, HA
BIOCHEMICAL AND BIOPHYSICAL RESEARCH COMMUNICATIONS 311 pp. 514-517. , 4 p. (2003)
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English, BP ; Welker, Ervin ; Narayan, M ; Scheraga, HA
JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY 124 pp. 4995-4999. , 5 p. (2002)
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Wedemeyer, WJ ; Xu, XB ; Welker, Ervin ; Scheraga, HA
BIOCHEMISTRY 41 pp. 1483-1491. , 9 p.m. (2002)
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Wedemeyer, WJ ; Welker, Ervin ; Scheraga, HA
Proline cis-trans isomerization and protein folding
BIOCHEMISTRY 41 pp. 14637-14644. , 8 p. (2002)
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Welker, Ervin ; Raymond, LD ; Scheraga, HA ; Caughey, B
Intramolecular versus intermolecular disulfide bonds in prion proteins
JOURNAL OF BIOLOGICAL CHEMISTRY 277 pp. 33477-33481. , 5 p. (2002)
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Cao, A ; Welker, Ervin ; Scheraga, HA
Effect of mutation of proline 93 on redox unfolding/folding of bovine pancreatic ribonuclease A
BIOCHEMISTRY 40 : 29 pp. 8536-8541. , 6 p.m. (2001)
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Narayan, M ; Welker, Ervin ; Scheraga, HA
JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY 123 pp. 2909-2910. , 2 p. (2001)
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Saito, K ; Welker, Ervin ; Scheraga, HA
BIOCHEMISTRY 40 pp. 15002-15008. , 7 p.m. (2001)
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Scheraga, HA ; Wedemeyer, WJ ; Welker, Ervin
Bovine pancreatic ribonuclease A: Oxidative and conformational folding studies
METHODS IN ENZYMOLOGY 341 pp. 189-221. , 33 p. (2001)
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Welker, Ervin ; Narayan, M ; Wedemeyer, WJ ; Scheraga, HA
Structural determinants of oxidative folding in proteins
PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA 98 pp. 2312-2316. , 5 p. (2001)
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Welker, Ervin ; Wedemeyer, WJ ; Scheraga, HA
A role for intermolecular disulfide bonds in prion diseases?
PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA 98 pp. 4334-4336. , 3 p. (2001)
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Welker, Ervin ; Wedemeyer, WJ ; Narayan, M ; Scheraga, HA
Coupling of conformational folding and disulfide-bond reactions in oxidative folding of proteins
BIOCHEMISTRY 40 : 31 pp. 9059-9064. , 6 p.m. (2001)
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Narayan, M ; Welker, Ervin ; Wedemeyer, WJ ; Scheraga, HA
ACCOUNTS OF CHEMICAL RESEARCH 33 pp. 805-812. , 8 p.m. (2000)
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Smith, AJ ; van Helvoort, A ; Van, Meer G ; Szabó, K ; Welker, Ervin ; Szakacs, G ; Varadi, A ; Sarkadi, B ; Borst, P
JOURNAL OF BIOLOGICAL CHEMISTRY 275 : 31 pp. 23530-23539. , 10 p.m. (2000)
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Wedemeyer, WJ ; Welker, Ervin ; Narayan, M ; Scheraga, HA
Disulfide bonds and protein folding
BIOCHEMISTRY 39 pp. 4207-4216. , 10 p.m. (2000)
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Welker, Ervin ; Váradi, András
Vectors with hidden cloning sites
BIOCHEMICAL AND BIOPHYSICAL RESEARCH COMMUNICATIONS 271 : 2 pp. 534-536. , 3 p. (2000)
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An, Ssa ; Lester, CC ; Peng, JL ; Li, YJ ; Rothwarf, DM ; Welker, Ervin ; Thannhauser, TW ; Zhang, LS; Tam, JP ; Scheraga, HA
JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY 121 pp. 11558-11566. , 9 p.m. (1999)
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Welker, Ervin ; Narayan, M ; Volles, MJ ; Scheraga, HA
Two new structured intermediates in the oxidative folding of RNase A
FEBS LETTERS 460 pp. 477-479. , 3 p. (1999)
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Welker, Ervin ; Scheraga, HA
BIOCHEMICAL AND BIOPHYSICAL RESEARCH COMMUNICATIONS 254 pp. 147-151. , 5 p. (1999)
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Bakos, E ; Evers, R.; Szakács, G ; Tusnády, GE ; Welker, Ervin ; Szabó, K ; de Haas, M ; van Deemter, L ; Borst, P ; Varadi, A et al.
Functional multidrug resistance protein (MRP1) lacking the N-terminal transmembrane domain
JOURNAL OF BIOLOGICAL CHEMISTRY 273 : 48 pp. 32167-32175. , 9 p.m. (1998)
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Szabó, K ; Welker, Ervin ; Bakos, É ; Müller, M ; Roninson, I ; Varadi, A ; Sarkadi, B
JOURNAL OF BIOLOGICAL CHEMISTRY 273 : 17 pp. 10132-10138. , 7 p.m. (1998)
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Bakos, E ; Klein, I; Welker, Ervin ; Szabó, K ; Müller, M ; Sarkadi, B ; Varadi, A
BIOCHEMICAL JOURNAL 323 pp. 777-783. , 7 p.m. (1997)
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Szabó, K ; Bakos, E ; Welker, Ervin ; Müller, M ; Goodfellow, HR; Higgins, CF ; Varadi, A ; Sarkadi, B
JOURNAL OF BIOLOGICAL CHEMISTRY 272 pp. 23165-23171. , 7 p.m. (1997)
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Bakos, E ; Hegedűs, T ; Holló, Z ; Welker, Ervin ; Tusnády, GE ; Zaman, GJ ; Flens, MJ ; Varadi, A ; Sarkadi, B
Membrane topology and glycosylation of the human multidrug resistance-associated protein
JOURNAL OF BIOLOGICAL CHEMISTRY 271 : 21 pp. 12322-12326. , 5 p. (1996)
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Müller, M ; Bakos, E ; Welker, Ervin ; Varadi, A ; Germann, UA ; Gottesman, MM ; Morse, BS ; Roninson, IB ; Sarkadi, B
Altered drug-stimulated ATPase activity in mutants of the human multidrug resistance protein
JOURNAL OF BIOLOGICAL CHEMISTRY 271 : 4 pp. 1877-1883. , 7 p.m. (1996)
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Welker, Ervin ; Szabó, K ; Holló, Z ; Müller, M ; Sarkadi, B ; Varadi, A
BIOCHEMICAL AND BIOPHYSICAL RESEARCH COMMUNICATIONS 216 pp. 602-609. , 8 p.m. (1995)
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