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Professor Rudolf Allemann
Teams and roles for Rudolf Allemann
Pro Vice-Chancellor, International
Vice Chancellor's Office
Overview
Professor Rudolf Allemann is Pro Vice-Chancellor, International. He is responsible for:
- the University's international activities and partnerships, student recruitment and admissions
- the overall management and leadership of the College of Physical Sciences and Engineering including setting the overall strategy and direction of the College
- promoting the academic values, including research and education, of the College with overall responsibility for academic performance of the College
- control, allocation and accounting for the financial, human, physical and other resources of the College.
Publication
2026
- Srivastava, P. L. , Miller, D. J. and Allemann, R. K. 2026. Designed water capture in terpene synthase catalysis. ChemBioChem 27 (5) e70265. (10.1002/cbic.70265)
2025
- Johnson, L. A. and Allemann, R. K. 2025. Engineering terpene synthases and their substrates for the biocatalytic production of terpene natural products and analogues. Chemical Communications 61 (12), pp.2468-2483. (10.1039/D4CC05785F)
2024
- González Requena, V. et al. 2024. Single point mutation abolishes water capture in germacradien‐4‐ol synthase. ChemBioChem 25 (23) e202400290. (10.1002/cbic.202400290)
- Srivastava, P. L. et al. 2024. Simulation-guided engineering enables a functional switch in selinadiene synthase toward hydroxylation. ACS Catalysis 14 (14), pp.11034–11043. (10.1021/acscatal.4c02032)
- Srivastava, P. L. et al. 2024. Production of non-natural terpenoids through chemoenzymatic synthesis using substrate analogs. In: Rudolf, J. ed. Methods in Enzymology. Elsevier. , pp.207-230. (10.1016/bs.mie.2024.03.015)
- Johnson, L. A. , Mart, R. J. and Allemann, R. K. 2024. A photoresponsive homing endonuclease for programmed DNA cleavage. ACS Synthetic Biology 13 (1), pp.195-205. (10.1021/acssynbio.3c00425)
2023
- Srivastava, P. et al. 2023. Active site loop engineering abolishes water capture in hydroxylating sesquiterpene synthases. ACS Catalysis 13 (21), pp.14199-14204. (10.1021/acscatal.3c03920)
2022
- Allemann, R. K. et al. 2022. Spatio-temporal control of cell death by selective delivery of photo-activatable proteins. ChemBioChem 23 (12) e202200115. (10.1002/cbic.202200115)
2021
- Adesina, A. S. , Luk, L. Y. P. and Allemann, R. K. 2021. Cryo‐kinetics reveal dynamic effects on the chemistry of human dihydrofolate reductase. ChemBioChem 22 (14), pp.2410-2414. (10.1002/cbic.202100017)
- Pospiech, M. et al., 2021. Bisphosphonate inhibitors of squalene synthase protect cells against cholesterol-dependent cytolysins. FASEB Journal 35 (6) e21640. (10.1096/fj.202100164R)
- Srivastava, P. L. et al. 2021. Redesigning the molecular choreography to prevent hydroxylation in Germacradien-11-ol synthase catalysis. ACS Catalysis 11 (3), pp.1033–1041. (10.1021/acscatal.0c04647)
2020
- Huynh, F. et al. 2020. Accelerating biphasic biocatalysis through new process windows. Angewandte Chemie International Edition 59 (38), pp.16490-16495. (10.1002/anie.202005183)
- Elsherbini, M. et al. 2020. Selective hydroboration - oxidation of terminal alkenes under flow conditions. Chemistry - A European Journal 26 (50), pp.11423-11425. (10.1002/chem.202001650)
- Adesina, A. S. et al. 2020. Electric field measurements reveal the pivotal role of Cofactor-Substrate interaction in dihydrofolate reductase catalysis. ACS Catalysis 10 (14), pp.7907-7914. (10.1021/acscatal.0c01856)
- Johnson, L. A. et al. 2020. Modular chemoenzymatic synthesis of terpenes and their analogues. Angewandte Chemie International Edition 59 (22), pp.8486-8490. (10.1002/anie.202001744)
- Valikhani, D. et al. 2020. Immobilised enzymes for sesquiterpene synthesis in batch and flow systems. ChemCatChem 12 (8), pp.2194-22197. (10.1002/cctc.201902135)
- Day, A. H. et al. 2020. Targeted cell imaging properties of a deep red luminescent iridium(III) complex conjugated with a c-Myc signal peptide. Chemical Science 11 (6), pp.1599-1606. (10.1039/C9SC05568A)
- Cresser-Brown, J. et al. 2020. An unexpected co-crystal structure of the calpain PEF(S) domain with Hfq reveals a potential chaperone function of Hfq. Acta Crystallographica Section F: Structural Biology Communications 76 (2), pp.81-85. (10.1107/S2053230X20001181)
2019
- Allemann, R. K. et al. 2019. Heavy enzymes and the rational redesign of protein catalysts. ChemBioChem 20 (22), pp.2807-2812. (10.1002/cbic.201900134)
- Angelastro, A. et al. 2019. Loss of hyperconjugative effects drives hydride transfer during dihydrofolate reductase catalysis. ACS Catalysis 9 (11), pp.10343-10349. (10.1021/acscatal.9b02839)
- Elsherbini, M. , Allemann, R. K. and Wirth, T. 2019. 'Dark' singlet oxygen made easy. Chemistry - A European Journal 25 (54), pp.12486-12490. (10.1002/chem.201903505)
- Demiray, M. , Miller, D. J. and Allemann, R. K. 2019. Harnessing enzyme plasticity for the synthesis of oxygenated sesquiterpenoids. Beilstein Journal of Organic Chemistry 15 , pp.2184-2190. (10.3762/bjoc.15.215)
- Kalvaitis, M. E. et al. 2019. A noncanonical chromophore reveals structural rearrangements of the light-oxygen-voltage domain upon photoactivation. Biochemistry 58 (22), pp.2608-2616. (10.1021/acs.biochem.9b00255)
- Scott, A. F. et al. 2019. Crystal structure and biophysical analysis of furfural detoxifying aldehyde reductase from clostridium beijerinkii. Applied and Environmental Microbiology (10.1128/AEM.00978-19)
- Ruiz-Pernía, J. J. et al., 2019. Why are some enzymes dimers? flexibility and catalysis in Thermotoga maritima dihydrofolate reductase. ACS Catalysis 9 , pp.5902-5911. (10.1021/acscatal.9b01250)
- Patel, S. G. et al. 2019. Cell-penetrating peptide sequence and modification dependent uptake and subcellular distribution of green florescent protein in different cell lines. Scientific Reports 9 (1), pp.-. 6298. (10.1038/s41598-019-42456-8)
- Loizzi, M. , Miller, D. J. and Allemann, R. K. 2019. Silent catalytic promiscuity in the high-fidelity terpene cyclase δ-cadinene synthase. Organic & Biomolecular Chemistry 17 (5), pp.1206-1214. (10.1039/C8OB02821D)
2018
- Kalash, L. et al., 2018. Structure-based design of allosteric calpain-1 inhibitors populating a novel bioactivity space. European Journal of Medicinal Chemistry 157 , pp.1264-1275. (10.1016/j.ejmech.2018.08.049)
- Huynh, F. et al. 2018. Sesquiterpene synthase-catalysed formation of a new medium-sized cyclic terpenoid ether from farnesyl diphosphate analogues. Chembiochem 19 (17), pp.1834-1838. (10.1002/cbic.201800218)
- Hallett, A. J. et al., 2018. Exploring the cellular uptake and localisation of phosphorescent rhenium fac-tricarbonyl metallosurfactants as a function of lipophilicity. Dalton Transactions 47 (40), pp.14241-14253. (10.1039/C8DT00669E)
- Behiry, E. M. et al. 2018. Isotope substitution of promiscuous alcohol dehydrogenase reveals the origin of substrate preference in the transition state. Angewandte Chemie International Edition 57 (12), pp.3128-3131. (10.1002/anie.201712826)
- Loizzi, M. et al. 2018. Nucleophilic water capture or proton loss: single amino acid switch converts δ-Cadinene synthase into germacradien-4-ol synthase. Chembiochem 19 (1), pp.100-105. (10.1002/cbic.201700531)
2017
- Angelastro, A. et al. 2017. Chemoenzymatic assembly of isotopically labeled folates. Journal of the American Chemical Society 139 (37), pp.13047-13054. (10.1021/jacs.7b06358)
- Scott, A. F. , Luk, L. Y. P. and Allemann, R. K. 2017. Chemical ligation and isotope labeling to locate dynamic effects. In: Imperiali, B. ed. Methods in Enzymology. Vol. 596, Elsevier. , pp.23-41. (10.1016/bs.mie.2017.06.040)
- Hughes, R. L. et al. 2017. A rapid analysis of variations in conformational behavior during dihydrofolate reductase catalysis. Biochemistry 56 (15), pp.2126-2133. (10.1021/acs.biochem.7b00045)
- Loveridge, E. J. et al. 2017. Reduction of folate by dihydrofolate reductase from thermotoga maritima. Biochemistry 56 (13), pp.1879-1886. (10.1021/acs.biochem.6b01268)
- Tang, X. et al. 2017. Concise synthesis of artemisinin from a farnesyl diphosphate analogue. Bioorganic & Medicinal Chemistry 26 (7), pp.1314-1319. (10.1016/j.bmc.2017.03.068)
- Demiray, M. et al. 2017. An efficient chemoenzymatic synthesis of dihydroartemisinic aldehyde. Angewandte Chemie International Edition 56 (15), pp.4347-4350. (10.1002/anie.201609557)
- Demiray, M. et al. 2017. Effiziente chemoenzymatische Synthese von dhydroartemisinaldehyd. Angewandte Chemie 129 (15), pp.4411-4415. (10.1002/ange.201609557)
- Angelastro, A. et al. 2017. A versatile disulfide-driven recycling system for NADP+ with high cofactor turnover number. ACS Catalysis 7 (2), pp.1025-1029. (10.1021/acscatal.6b03061)
- Tang, X. , Allemann, R. K. and Wirth, T. 2017. Optimising terpene synthesis with flow biocatalysis. European Journal of Organic Chemistry 2017 (2), pp.414-418. (10.1002/ejoc.201601388)
2016
- Faraldos, J. et al. 2016. Enzymatic synthesis of natural (+)-aristolochene from a non-natural substrate. Chemical Communications 52 (97), pp.14027-14030. (10.1039/C6CC08164A)
- Mart, R. and Allemann, R. 2016. Azobenzene photocontrol of peptides and proteins. Chemical Communications 52 (83), pp.12262-12277. (10.1039/C6CC04004G)
- Gonzalez, V. et al. 2016. The amino-terminal segment in the β-domain of δ-cadinene synthase is essential for catalysis. Organic & Biomolecular Chemistry 14 (31), pp.7451-7454. (10.1039/C6OB01398H)
- Ruiz-Pernía, J. J. et al., 2016. Minimization of dynamic effects in the evolution of dihydrofolate reductase. Chemical Science 7 (5), pp.3248-3255. (10.1039/C5SC04209G)
- Chen, M. et al., 2016. Probing the Role of Active Site Water in the Sesquiterpene Cyclization Reaction Catalyzed by Aristolochene Synthase. Biochemistry 55 (20), pp.2864-2874. (10.1021/acs.biochem.6b00343)
- Mart, R. , Meah, D. and Allemann, R. K. 2016. Photocontrolled exposure of pro-apoptotic peptide sequences in LOV proteins modulate Bcl-2 family interactions. Chembiochem 17 (8), pp.698-701. (10.1002/cbic.201500469)
- Grundy, D. J. et al., 2016. Mechanism of germacradien-4-ol synthase controlled water capture. Biochemistry 55 (14), pp.2112-2121. (10.1021/acs.biochem.6b00115)
- Loveridge, E. J. and Allemann, R. K. 2016. Pinpointing dynamic coupling in enzymes for efficient drug design. Future Science OA 2 (1)(10.4155/fsoa.2015.0017)
2015
- Adams, S. et al., 2015. Conformationally restricted calpain inhibitors. Chemical Science 6 (12), pp.6865-6871. (10.1039/c5sc01158b)
- Luk, L. Y. P. et al. 2015. Chemical ligation and isotope labeling to locate dynamic effects during catalysis by dihydrofolate reductase. Angewandte Chemie International Edition 54 (31), pp.9016-9020. (10.1002/anie.201503968)
- Touchet, S. et al., 2015. Novel olfactory ligands via terpene synthases. Chemical Communications 51 (35), pp.7550-7553. (10.1039/C5CC01814E)
- Luk, L. Y. P. , Loveridge, E. J. and Allemann, R. K. 2015. Protein motions and dynamic effects in enzyme catalysis. Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics 17 , pp.30817-30827. (10.1039/C5CP00794A)
- Allemann, R. K. , Loveridge, E. and Luk, L. Y. P. 2015. Protein motions, dynamic effects and thermal stability in dihydrofolate reductase from the hyperthermophile thermotoga maritima. In: Olivares-Quiroz, L. , Guzmán-López, O. and Jardón-Valadez, H. E. eds. Physical Biology of Proteins and Peptides: Theory, Experiment, and Simulation. Springer International Publishing. , pp.99-113. (10.1007/978-3-319-21687-4_6)
2014
- Luk, L. Y. P. et al. 2014. Protein isotope effects in dihydrofolate reductase from Geobacillus stearothermophilus show entropic-enthalpic com-pensatory effects on the rate constant. Journal of the American Chemical Society 136 (49), pp.17317-17323. (10.1021/ja5102536)
- Gonzalez, V. et al., 2014. Evolutionary and mechanistic insights from the reconstruction of α-humulene synthases from a modern (+)-Germacrene A synthase. Journal of the American Chemical Society 136 (41), pp.14505-14512. (10.1021/ja5066366)
- Behiry, E. M. et al. 2014. Loop Interactions during Catalysis by Dihydrofolate Reductase from Moritella profunda. Biochemistry 53 (29), pp.4769-4774. (10.1021/bi500508z)
- Behiry, E. M. et al. 2014. Role of the occluded conformation in bacterial dihydrofolate reductases. Biochemistry 53 (29), pp.4761-4768. (10.1021/bi500507v)
- Luk, L. Y. P. , Loveridge, E. J. and Allemann, R. K. 2014. Different dynamical effects in mesophilic and hyperthermophilic dihydrofolate reductases. Journal of the American Chemical Society 136 (19), pp.6862-6865. (10.1021/ja502673h)
- Guo, J. N. et al. 2014. Thermal adaptation of dihydrofolate reductase from the moderate thermophile geobacillus stearothermophilus. Biochemistry 53 (17), pp.2855-2863. (10.1021/bi500238q)
- Adams, S. E. et al. 2014. The structural basis of differential inhibition of human calpain by indole and phenyl α--mercaptoacrylic acids. Journal of Structural Biology 187 (3), pp.236-241. (10.1016/j.jsb.2014.07.004)
2013
- Ruiz-Pernia, J. J. et al., 2013. Increased dynamic effects in a catalytically compromised variant of Escherichia coli dihydrofolate reductase. Journal of the American Chemical Society 135 (49), pp.18689-18696. (10.1021/ja410519h)
- Luk, L. Y. P. et al. 2013. Unraveling the role of protein dynamics in dihydrofolate reductase catalysis. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 110 (41), pp.16344-16349. (10.1073/pnas.1312437110)
- Cascón, O. et al. 2013. Efficient terpene synthase catalysis by extraction in flow. ChemPlusChem 78 (11), pp.1334-1337. (10.1002/cplu.201300303)
- Chen, M. et al., 2013. Mechanistic insights from the binding of substrate and carbocation intermediate analogues to aristolochene synthase. Biochemistry 52 (32), pp.5441-5453. (10.1021/bi400691v)
- Guo, J. et al., 2013. Effect of dimerization on dihydrofolate reductase catalysis. Biochemistry 52 (22), pp.3881-3887. (10.1021/bi4005073)
- Li, J. et al., 2013. Rational engineering of plasticity residues of sesquiterpene synthases from Artemisia annua: Product specificity and catalytic efficiency. Biochemical Journal 451 (3), pp.417-426. (10.1042/BJ20130041)
- Loveridge, E. J. et al. 2013. Aliphatic 1H, 13C and 15N chemical shift assignments of dihydrofolate reductase from the psychropiezophile Moritella profunda in complex with NADP+ and folate. Biomolecular NMR Assignments 7 (1), pp.61-64. (10.1007/s12104-012-9378-x)
- Mart, R. J. et al. 2013. BH3 helix-derived biophotonic nanoswitches regulate cytochrome c release in permeabilised cells. Molecular BioSystems 9 (11), pp.2597-2603. (10.1039/c3mb70246d)
- Miller, D. J. et al. 2013. Calpain-1 inhibitors for selective treatment of rheumatoid arthritis: what is the future?. Future Medicinal Chemistry 5 (17), pp.2057-2074. (10.4155/fmc.13.172)
- Pickett, J. A. , Allemann, R. K. and Birkett, M. A. 2013. The semiochemistry of aphids. Natural Product Reports 30 (10), pp.1277-1283. (10.1039/c3np70036d)
- van der Kamp, M. W. et al., 2013. Conformational change and ligand binding in the aristolochene synthase catalytic cycle. Biochemistry 52 (45), pp.8094-8105. (10.1021/bi400898k)
- Wysoczanski, P. et al. 2013. 1H, 13C and 15N chemical shift assignments of unliganded Bcl-xL and its complex with a photoresponsive Bak-derived peptide. Biomolecular NMR Assignments 7 (2), pp.187-191. (10.1007/s12104-012-9407-9)
2012
- Adams, S. E. et al. 2012. Potent inhibition of Ca2+-dependent activation of calpain-1 by novel mercaptoacrylates. MedChemComm 3 (5), pp.566-570. (10.1039/c2md00280a)
- Aros Orellana, D. F. et al. 2012. Volatile emissions of scented Alstroemeria genotypes are dominated by terpenes, and a myrcene synthase gene is highly expressed in scented Alstroemeria flowers. Journal of Experimental Botany 63 (7), pp.2739-2752. (10.1093/jxb/err456)
- Cascón, O. et al. 2012. Chemoenzymatic preparation of germacrene analogues. Chemical Communications 48 (78), pp.9702-9704. (10.1039/c2cc35542f)
- Faraldos, J. A. , Gonzalez, V. and Allemann, R. K. 2012. The role of aristolochene synthase in diphosphate activation. Chemical Communications- Royal Society of Chemistry 48 (26), pp.3230-3232. (10.1039/c2cc17588f)
- Faraldos, J. A. et al. 2012. Probing the mechanism of 1,4-conjugate elimination reactions catalyzed by terpene synthases. Journal of the American Chemical Society 134 (51), pp.20844-20848. (10.1021/ja311022s)
- Faraldos, J. A. et al. 2012. A 1,6-ring closure mechanism for (+)-δ-cadinene synthase?. Journal of the American Chemical Society 134 (13), pp.5900-5908. (10.1021/ja211820p)
- Loveridge, E. J. et al. 2012. Evidence that a 'dynamic knockout' in Escherichia coli dihydrofolate reductase does not affect the chemical step of catalysis. Nature Chemistry 4 (4), pp.292-297. (10.1038/nchem.1296)
- Mart, R. J. et al. 2012. Design of photocontrolled RNA-binding peptidomimetics. ChemBioChem 13 (4), pp.515-519. (10.1002/cbic.201100800)
- Miller, D. J. and Allemann, R. K. 2012. Sesquiterpene synthases: Passive catalysts or active players?. Natural Product Reports 29 (1), pp.60-71. (10.1039/c1np00060h)
- Wysoczanski, P. et al. 2012. NMR solution structure of a photoswitchable apoptosis activating Bak peptide bound to Bcl-xL. Journal of the American Chemical Society 134 (18), pp.7644-7647. (10.1021/ja302390a)
- Yoosuf-Aly, Z. et al. 2012. Chemoenzymatic synthesis of the alarm pheromone (+)-verbenone from geranyl diphosphate. Chemical Communications 48 , pp.7040-7042. (10.1039/c2cc32883f)
2011
- Fricke, T. et al. 2011. Chemical synthesis of cell-permeable apoptotic peptides from in vivo produced proteins. Bioconjugate Chemistry 22 (9), pp.1763-1767. (10.1021/bc200338u)
- Faraldos, J. A. and Allemann, R. K. 2011. Inhibition of (+)-Aristolochene Synthase with Iminium Salts Resembling Eudesmane Cation. Organic Letters 13 (5), pp.1202-1205. (10.1021/ol2000843)
- Faraldos, J. A. et al. 2011. Probing eudesmane cation−π interactions in catalysis by aristolochene synthase with non-canonical amino acids. Journal of the American Chemical Society 133 (35), pp.13906-13909. (10.1021/ja205927u)
- Faraldos, J. A. et al. 2011. Templating effects in aristolochene synthase catalysis: elimination versus cyclisation. Organic & Biomolecular Chemistry 9 (20), pp.6920-6923. (10.1039/c1ob06184d)
- Loveridge, E. J. and Allemann, R. K. 2011. Effect of pH on Hydride Transfer by Escherichia coli Dihydrofolate Reductase. ChemBioChem 12 (8), pp.1258-1262. (10.1002/cbic.201000794)
- Loveridge, E. J. et al. 2011. Reduced Susceptibility of Moritella profunda Dihydrofolate Reductase to Trimethoprim is Not Due to Glutamate 28. The Protein Journal 30 (8), pp.546-548. (10.1007/s10930-011-9361-x)
- Loveridge, E. J. et al. 2011. The role of large-scale motions in catalysis by dihydrofolate reductase. Journal of the American Chemical Society 133 (50), pp.20561-20570. (10.1021/ja208844j)
2010
- Edwards, W. R. et al. 2010. Regulation of β-Lactamase activity by remote binding of Heme: functional coupling of unrelated proteins through domain insertion. Biochemistry 49 (31), pp.6541-6549. (10.1021/bi100793y)
- Tey, L. et al. 2010. Highly site-selective stability increases by glycosylation of dihydrofolate reductase. FEBS Journal 277 (9), pp.2171-2179. (10.1111/j.1742-4658.2010.07634.x)
- Evans, R. M. et al. 2010. Catalysis by Dihydrofolate Reductase from the Psychropiezophile Moritella profunda. ChemBioChem 11 (14), pp.2010-2017. (10.1002/cbic.201000341)
- Faraldos, J. A. , Kariuki, B. and Allemann, R. K. 2010. Intermediacy of Eudesmane Cation during Catalysis by Aristolochene Synthase. Journal of Organic Chemistry 75 (4), pp.1119-1125. (10.1021/jo902397v)
- Fricke, T. et al. 2010. Click chemistry for the generation of cell permeable apoptotic peptides. Drug Discovery Today 15 (23-24), pp.1088-1088. (10.1016/j.drudis.2010.09.375)
- Loveridge, E. J. and Allemann, R. K. 2010. The Temperature Dependence of the Kinetic Isotope Effects of Dihydrofolate Reductase from Thermotoga maritima Is Influenced by Intersubunit Interactions. Biochemistry 49 (25), pp.5390-5396. (10.1021/bi100761x)
- Loveridge, E. J. , Tey, L. and Allemann, R. K. 2010. Solvent effects on catalysis by Escherichia coli dihydrofolate reductase. Journal of the American Chemical Society 132 (3), pp.1137-1143. (10.1021/ja909353c)
2009
- Allemann, R. K. and Scrutton, N. S. eds. 2009. Quantum tunnelling in enzyme-catalysed reactions. RSC biomolecular sciences Vol. 18Cambridge: RSC Publishing. (10.1039/9781847559975)
- Allemann, R. K. 2009. Cystine-based Scaffolds for Functional Miniature Proteins. In: Moroder, L. and Buchner, J. eds. Oxidative Folding of Peptides and Proteins. London: RSC Publishing. , pp.381-395. (10.1039/9781847559265-00381)
- Allemann, R. K. , Evans, R. M. and Loveridge, E. J. 2009. Probing coupled motions in enzymatic hydrogen tunnelling reactions. Biochemical Society Transactions 37 , pp.349-353. (10.1042/BST0370349)
- Allemann, R. K. et al. 2009. Synthetic Efficiency in Enzyme Mechanisms Involving Carbocations: Aristolochene Synthase [Addition/Correction]. Journal of the American Chemical Society 131 (27), pp.9600. (10.1021/ja904281h)
- Carpenter, B. K. 2009. The transition-state theory description of enzyme catalysis for classically activated reactions. In: Allemann, R. K. and Scrutton, N. S. eds. Quantum tunnelling in enzyme-catalysed reactions. London: RSC Publishing. , pp.1-17. (10.1039/9781847559975-00001)
- Gennadios, H. A. et al., 2009. Crystal structure of (+)-δ-cadinene synthase from Gossypium arboreum and evolutionary divergence of metal binding motifs for catalysis. Biochemistry 48 (26), pp.6175-6183. (10.1021/bi900483b)
- Hay, S. et al., 2009. Are the Catalytic Properties of Enzymes from Piezophilic Organisms Pressure Adapted?. ChemBioChem 10 (14), pp.2348-2353. (10.1002/cbic.200900367)
- Loveridge, E. J. and Allemann, R. K. 2009. Direct methods for the analysis of quantum-mechanical tunnelling: dihydrofolate reductase. In: Allemann, R. K. and Scrutton, N. S. eds. Quantum Tunnelling in Enzyme-Catalysed Reactions. London: RSC Publishing. , pp.179-198. (10.1039/9781847559975-00179)
- Loveridge, E. J. et al. 2009. Different reaction mechanisms for mesophilic and thermophilic dihydrofolate reductases. Journal of the American Chemical Society 131 (20), pp.6926-6927. (10.1021/ja901441k)
- Loveridge, E. J. , Maglia, G. and Allemann, R. K. 2009. The Role of Arginine 28 in Catalysis by Dihydrofolate Reductase from the HyperthermophileThermotoga maritima. ChemBioChem 10 (16), pp.2624-2627. (10.1002/cbic.200900465)
- Loveridge, E. J. et al. 2009. Effect of Dimerization on the Stability and Catalytic Activity of Dihydrofolate Reductase from the Hyperthermophile Thermotoga maritima. Biochemistry 48 (25), pp.5922-5933. (10.1021/bi900411a)
- Miller, D. J. et al. 2009. 6- and 14-Fluoro farnesyl diphosphate: mechanistic probes for the reaction catalysed by aristolochene synthase. Organic & Biomolecular Chemistry 7 (5), pp.962-975. (10.1039/b817194g)
2008
- Allemann, R. K. 2008. Chemical wizardry? The generation of diversity in terpenoid biosynthesis. Pure and Applied Chemistry 80 (8), pp.1791-1798. (10.1351/pac200880081791)
- Edwards, W. R. et al., 2008. Linking the functions of unrelated proteins using a novel directed evolution domain insertion method. Nucleic Acids Research 36 (13)(10.1093/nar/gkn363)
- Fütterer, K. et al., 2008. Differential specific radiation damage in the CuII-bound and PdII-bound forms of an α-helical foldamer: A case study of crystallographic phasing by RIP and SAD. Acta Crystallographica Section D: Biological Crystallography 64 (3), pp.264-272. (10.1107/S0907444907065948)
- Hay, S. et al., 2008. Secondary kinetic isotope effects as probes of environmentally-coupled enzymatic hydrogen tunneling reactions. ChemPhysChem 9 (11), pp.1536-1539. (10.1002/cphc.200800291)
- Kneissl, S. et al. 2008. Photocontrollable peptide-based switches target the anti-apoptotic protein Bcl-xL. ChemBioChem 9 (18), pp.3046-3054. (10.1002/cbic.200800502)
- Loveridge, E. J. , Evans, R. M. and Allemann, R. K. 2008. Solvent Effects on Environmentally Coupled Hydrogen Tunnelling During Catalysis by Dihydrofolate Reductase from Thermotoga maritima. Chemistry-a European Journal 14 (34), pp.10782-10788. (10.1002/chem.200801804)
- Miller, D. J. et al. 2008. Stereochemistry of eudesmane cation formation during catalysis by aristolochene synthase from Penicillium roqueforti. Organic & Biomolecular Chemistry 6 (13), pp.2346-2354. (10.1039/b804198a)
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2007
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2006
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2005
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2004
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2003
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2002
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2001
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1999
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1996
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- Edwards, W. R. et al., 2008. Linking the functions of unrelated proteins using a novel directed evolution domain insertion method. Nucleic Acids Research 36 (13)(10.1093/nar/gkn363)
- Fütterer, K. et al., 2008. Differential specific radiation damage in the CuII-bound and PdII-bound forms of an α-helical foldamer: A case study of crystallographic phasing by RIP and SAD. Acta Crystallographica Section D: Biological Crystallography 64 (3), pp.264-272. (10.1107/S0907444907065948)
- Hay, S. et al., 2008. Secondary kinetic isotope effects as probes of environmentally-coupled enzymatic hydrogen tunneling reactions. ChemPhysChem 9 (11), pp.1536-1539. (10.1002/cphc.200800291)
- Kneissl, S. et al. 2008. Photocontrollable peptide-based switches target the anti-apoptotic protein Bcl-xL. ChemBioChem 9 (18), pp.3046-3054. (10.1002/cbic.200800502)
- Loveridge, E. J. , Evans, R. M. and Allemann, R. K. 2008. Solvent Effects on Environmentally Coupled Hydrogen Tunnelling During Catalysis by Dihydrofolate Reductase from Thermotoga maritima. Chemistry-a European Journal 14 (34), pp.10782-10788. (10.1002/chem.200801804)
- Miller, D. J. et al. 2008. Stereochemistry of eudesmane cation formation during catalysis by aristolochene synthase from Penicillium roqueforti. Organic & Biomolecular Chemistry 6 (13), pp.2346-2354. (10.1039/b804198a)
- Miller, D. J. , Yu, F. and Allemann, R. K. 2008. FLUO 14-Study of sesquiterpene cyclization reactions using fluorinated farnesyl diphosphate analogs. Abstracts of Papers of the American Chemical Society 236
- Shishova, E. Y. et al., 2008. X-ray crystallographic studies of substrate binding to aristolochene synthase suggest a metal ion binding sequence for catalysis. Journal of Biological Chemistry 283 (22), pp.15431-15439. (10.1074/jbc.M800659200)
- Allemann, R. K. et al. 2007. Synthetic Efficiency in Enzyme Mechanisms Involving Carbocations: Aristolochene Synthase. Journal of the American Chemical Society 129 (43), pp.13008-13013. (10.1021/ja0722067)
- Miller, D. J. and Allemann, R. K. 2007. myo-Inositol Monophosphatase: A Challenging Target for Mood Stabilising Drugs. Mini-Reviews in Chemistry 7 (2), pp.107-113. (10.2174/138955707779802624)
- Miller, D. J. , Yu, F. and Allemann, R. K. 2007. Aristolochene synthase-catalyzed cyclization of 2-fluorofarnesyl-diphosphate to 2-fluorogermacrene A. Chembiochem 8 (15), pp.1819-1825. (10.1002/cbic.200700219)
- Miller, D. J. et al. 2007. Competitive inhibition of aristolochene synthase by phenyl-substituted farnesyl diphosphates: evidence of active site plasticity. Organic & Biomolecular Chemistry 5 (20), pp.3287-3298. (10.1039/b713301b)
- Pang, J. and Allemann, R. K. 2007. Molecular dynamics simulation of thermal unfolding of Thermatoga maritima DHFR. Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics 9 (6), pp.711-718. (10.1039/b611210b)
- Yu, F. , Miller, D. J. and Allemann, R. K. 2007. Probing the reaction mechanism of aristolochene synthase with 12,13-difluorofarnesyl diphosphate. Chemical Communications- Royal Society of Chemistry (40), pp.4155-4157. (10.1039/b709562g)
- Allemann, R. K. et al. 2006. Protein motions during catalysis by dihydrofolate reductases. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London Series B - Biological Sciences 361 (1472), pp.1317-1321. (10.1098/rstb.2006.1865)
- Forcat, S. and Allemann, R. K. 2006. Stabilisation of transition states prior to and following eudesmane cation in aristolochene synthase. Organic & Biomolecular Chemistry 4 (13), pp.2563-2567. (10.1039/b604147g)
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- Swanwick, R. S. , Shrimpton, P. J. and Allemann, R. K. 2004. Pivotal role of Gly 121 in dihydrofolate reductase from Escherichia coli: the altered structure of a mutant enzyme may form the basis of its diminished datalytic performance. Biochemistry 43 (14), pp.4119-4127. (10.1021/bi036164k)
- Bashir-Uddin Surfraz, M. , Akhtar, M. and Allemann, R. K. 2004. Bis-benzyl protected 6-amino cyclitols are poisonous to Pd/C catalysed hydrogenolysis of benzyl ethers. Tetrahedron Letters 45 (6), pp.1223-1226. (10.1016/j.tetlet.2003.11.130)
- Forcat, S. and Allemann, R. K. 2004. Dual role for phenylalanine 178 during catalysis by aristolochene synthase. Chemical Communications (18), pp.2094-2095. (10.1039/b407932a)
- Miller, D. J. et al. 2004. Removal of the phosphate group in mechanism-based inhibitors of inositol monophosphatase leads to unusual inhibitory activity. Organic & Biomolecular Chemistry 2 (5), pp.671-688. (10.1039/b312808c)
- Nicoll, A. J. and Allemann, R. K. 2004. Miniature proteomics: designing alpha-helical miniature proteins. Recent Research Developments in Chemistry 2 , pp.227-243.
- Nicoll, A. J. and Allemann, R. K. 2004. Nucleophilic and general acid catalysis at physiological pH by a designed miniature esterase. Organic & Biomolecular Chemistry 2 (15), pp.2175-2180. (10.1039/b404730c)
- Turner, E. C. et al., 2004. Controlling the DNA Binding Specificity of bHLH Proteins through Intramolecular Interactions. Chemistry & Biology 11 (1), pp.69-77. (10.1016/j.chembiol.2003.12.015)
- Weston, C. J. et al., 2004. A Stable Miniature Protein with Oxaloacetate Decarboxylase Activity. ChemBioChem 5 (8), pp.1075-1080. (10.1002/cbic.200300805)
- Allemann, R. K. and Maglia, G. 2003. Evidence for Environmentally Coupled Hydrogen Tunneling during Dihydrofolate Reductase Catalysis. Journal of the American Chemical Society 125 (44), pp.13372-13373. (10.1021/ja035692g)
- Bashir-Uddin Surfraz, M. et al., 2003. Product-like inhibitors of inositol monophosphatase. Tetrahedron Letters 44 (41), pp.7677-7679. (10.1016/S0040-4039(03)01878-1)
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- Maglia, G. , Javed, M. and Allemann, R. K. 2003. Hydride transfer during catalysis by dihydrofolate reductase from Thermotoga maritima. Biochemical Journal 374 (2), pp.529-535. (10.1042/BJ20030412)
- Shrimpton, P. , Mullaney, A. and Allemann, R. K. 2003. Functional role for Tyr 31 in the catalytic cycle of chicken dihydrofolate reductase. Proteins: Structure, Function and Bioinformatics 51 (2), pp.216-223. (10.1002/prot.10370)
- Calvert, M. J. , Ashton, P. R. and Allemann, R. K. 2002. Germacrene A Is a Product of the Aristolochene Synthase-Mediated Conversion of Farnesylpyrophosphate to Aristolochene. Journal of the American Chemical Society 124 (39), pp.11636-11641. (10.1021/ja020762p)
- Calvert, M. J. , Taylor, S. E. and Allemann, R. K. 2002. Tyrosine 92 of aristolochene synthase directs cyclisation of farnesyl pyrophosphate. Chemical Communications (20), pp.2384-2385. (10.1039/b206517g)
- Shrimpton, P. and Allemann, R. K. 2002. Role of water in the catalytic cycle of E. coli dihydrofolate reductase. Protein Science 11 (6), pp.1442-1451. (10.1110/ps.5060102)
- Taylor, S. E. , Rutherford, T. J. and Allemann, R. K. 2002. Design of a folded, conformationally stable oxaloacetate decarboxylase. Journal of the Chemical Society, Perkin Transactions 2 2 (4), pp.751-755. (10.1039/b200057c)
- Taylor, S. E. , Rutherford, T. J. and Allemann, R. K. 2001. Design, synthesis and characterisation of a peptide with oxaloacetate decarboxylase activity. Biorganic and Medicinal Chemistry Letters 11 (19), pp.2631-2635. (10.1016/S0960-894X(01)00519-4)
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- Meierhans, D. and Allemann, R. K. 1998. The N-terminal methionine is a major determinant of the DNA binding specificity of MEF-2C. Journal of Biological Chemistry 273 (40), pp.26052-26060. (10.1074/jbc.273.40.26052)
- Sieber, M. and Allemann, R. K. 1998. Arginine (348) is a major determinant of the DNA binding specificity of transcription factor E12. Biological Chemistry 379 (6), pp.731-735.
- Sieber, M. and Allemann, R. K. 1998. Single chain dimers of MASH-1 bind DNA with enhanced affinity. Nucleic Acids Research 26 (6), pp.1408-1413. (10.1093/nar/26.6.1408)
- Allemann, R. K. and Egli, M. 1997. DNA recognition and bending. Chemistry & Biology 4 (9), pp.643-650. (10.1016/S1074-5521(97)90218-0)
- Künne, A. G. E. and Allemann, R. K. 1997. Covalently linking BHLH subunits of MASH-1 increases specificity of DNA Binding. Biochemistry 36 (5), pp.1085-1091. (10.1021/bi962185l)
- Meierhans, D. and Allemann, R. K. 1997. High level expression in soluble form, one step purification, and characterization of the DNA binding domain of MEF-2C. Protein Expression and Purification 11 (3), pp.297-303. (10.1006/prep.1997.0795)
- Meierhans, D. , Sieber, M. and Allemann, R. K. 1997. High affinity binding of MEF-2C correlates with DNA bending. Nucleic Acids Research 25 (22), pp.4537-4544. (10.1093/nar/25.22.4537)
- Künne, A. , Meierhans, D. and Allemann, R. K. 1996. Basic helix-loop-helix protein MyoD displays modest DNA binding specificity. FEBS Letters 391 (1-2), pp.79-83. (10.1016/0014-5793(96)00707-7)
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Book sections
- Srivastava, P. L. et al. 2024. Production of non-natural terpenoids through chemoenzymatic synthesis using substrate analogs. In: Rudolf, J. ed. Methods in Enzymology. Elsevier. , pp.207-230. (10.1016/bs.mie.2024.03.015)
- Scott, A. F. , Luk, L. Y. P. and Allemann, R. K. 2017. Chemical ligation and isotope labeling to locate dynamic effects. In: Imperiali, B. ed. Methods in Enzymology. Vol. 596, Elsevier. , pp.23-41. (10.1016/bs.mie.2017.06.040)
- Allemann, R. K. , Loveridge, E. and Luk, L. Y. P. 2015. Protein motions, dynamic effects and thermal stability in dihydrofolate reductase from the hyperthermophile thermotoga maritima. In: Olivares-Quiroz, L. , Guzmán-López, O. and Jardón-Valadez, H. E. eds. Physical Biology of Proteins and Peptides: Theory, Experiment, and Simulation. Springer International Publishing. , pp.99-113. (10.1007/978-3-319-21687-4_6)
- Allemann, R. K. 2009. Cystine-based Scaffolds for Functional Miniature Proteins. In: Moroder, L. and Buchner, J. eds. Oxidative Folding of Peptides and Proteins. London: RSC Publishing. , pp.381-395. (10.1039/9781847559265-00381)
- Carpenter, B. K. 2009. The transition-state theory description of enzyme catalysis for classically activated reactions. In: Allemann, R. K. and Scrutton, N. S. eds. Quantum tunnelling in enzyme-catalysed reactions. London: RSC Publishing. , pp.1-17. (10.1039/9781847559975-00001)
- Loveridge, E. J. and Allemann, R. K. 2009. Direct methods for the analysis of quantum-mechanical tunnelling: dihydrofolate reductase. In: Allemann, R. K. and Scrutton, N. S. eds. Quantum Tunnelling in Enzyme-Catalysed Reactions. London: RSC Publishing. , pp.179-198. (10.1039/9781847559975-00179)
- Kohler, U. and Allemann, R. K. 2002. Transcription factors. In: Creighton, T. E. ed. Encyclopedia of Molecular Biology. Oxford: Wiley(10.1002/047120918X.emb1569)
- Allemann, R. K. 1999. DNA-protein binding specificity. In: Creighton, T. E. ed. Encyclopedia of Molecular Biology. Vol. 2, New York: Wiley. , pp.743-745.
- Allemann, R. K. 1999. DNA-protein interaction thermodynamics. In: Creighton, T. E. ed. Encyclopedia of Molecular Biology. Vol. 2, New York: Wiley. , pp.745-755.
- Allemann, R. K. 1999. MADS-Box proteins. In: Creighton, T. E. ed. Encyclopedia of Molecular Biology. Vol. 3, New York: Wiley. , pp.1430-1431.
- Allemann, R. K. 1999. Transcription factors. In: Creighton, T. E. ed. Encyclopedia of Molecular Biology. Vol. 4, New York: Wiley. , pp.2586-2593.
- Johnson, K. , Allemann, R. K. and Benner, S. A. 1990. Designed enzymes. In: Bleasdale, C. and Golding, B. T. eds. Molecular Mechanisms in Bioorganic Processes. London: Royal Society of Chemistry. , pp.166-187.
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Books
- Allemann, R. K. and Scrutton, N. S. eds. 2009. Quantum tunnelling in enzyme-catalysed reactions. RSC biomolecular sciences Vol. 18Cambridge: RSC Publishing. (10.1039/9781847559975)
Research
The Allemann laboratory studies the relationship between the structure and function of enzymes and develops and applies chemical tools to probe biological processes in vitro and in live cells. Our work relies on an interdisciplinary approach at the interface of chemistry, physical organic chemistry, biophysics, synthetic biology, biochemistry, molecular and cellular biology and medicinal chemistry and involves a wide range of techniques. Based on an understanding of enzymatic catalysis and mechanism we develop tools that mimic Nature's reagents. The main research themes are:
Physical and chemical basis of enzyme catalysis
The high chemical selectivity and specificity as well as the enormous rate accelerations relative to the uncatalysed reactions are studied in a multi-disciplinary approach.
Synthetic biology
Synthetic biology capitalises on the advances in genomics and proteomics and the new insights into the molecular mechanisms of action brought about by fundamental chemical and physical studies. Our projects aim to redesign existing, natural biological systems for useful purposes and to design de novo new biological components, devices and systems. They include the design and application of miniature enzymes, the photonic control of biomacromolecular structure to regulate cellular events and approaches for an expansion of the pool of secondary metabolites.
Medicinal chemistry
Small molecule chemistry together with mechanistic studies of enzymes for the development of selective inhibitors for a variety of autoimmune diseases such as osteoarthritis.
Organic chemistry
Diversity Oriented Synthesis; synthesis of novel 'terpenoids', carbohydrate derivatives and biophotonic nanoswitches.
Tissue engineering and repair expertise
Physical and chemical basis of enzyme catalysis, synthetic biology, organic synthesis, biophysics, biophotonic nanoswitches.
Teaching
CH2317 Chemical Biology III: Biosynthetic Approach to Natural Products
Biography
- Dipl. Chem. ETH (B.Sc.), Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule (ETH), Zürich (1985), PhD Harvard University / ETH Zürich (1986-89).
- Royal Society and Swiss National Science Foundation Postdoctoral Research Fellow, MRC-National Institute for Medical Research, Mill Hill (1989-1990)
- Staff Scientist MRC-National Institute for Medical Research, Mill Hill (1990-1992)
- Research group leader, Department of Chemistry, ETH-Zürich and Lecturer (Lehrbeauftragter) in Biological Chemistry (1992-1998)
- Habilitation, Department of Chemistry, ETH Zürich (1999)
- Senior Lecturer in Chemistry, University of Birmingham (1999-2001)
- Professor of Chemical Biology, University of Birmingham (2001-2004)
- Distinguished Research Professor and Head of Chemical Biology, Cardiff School of Chemistry (2005-2013)
- Head of the School of Chemistry, Cardiff University (2013-2017)
- Pro Vice-Chancellor and Head of the College of Physical Sciences and Engineering (2017-2020)
- Pro Vice-Chancellor, International and Student Recruitment and Head of the College of Physical Sciences and Engineering (2020-to-date)
Honours and awards
Habilitation in Chemical Biology from ETH-Zurich.
Professional memberships
- Member of the Cardiff Institute of Tissue Engineering and Repair.
- Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry.
- Fellow of the Learned Society of Wales.
- Visiting Professor at Manchester University.
