Department of Health Informatics

Selected Recent Publications of Dr. Alexander E Kister

· Chen CY, Salles G, Seldin MF, Kister AE, Reinherz EL, Shipp MA. (1992) Murine common acute lymphoblastic leukemia antigen (CD10 neutral endopeptidase 24.11). Molecular characterization, chromosomal localization, and modeling of the active site. J Immunollogy 148(9):2817-25

· Arulanandam ARN, Withka JM, Wyss DF, Wagner G, Kister A, Pallai P, Recny MA, Reinherz EL. The CD58 (LFA-3) binding site is a localized and highly charged surface area on the AGFCC'C" face of the human CD2 adhesion domain. Proc Natl Acad Sci USA. 1993; 90:11683-11687

· Arulanandam ARN, Kister A, McGregor MJ, Wyss DF, Wagner F, Reinherz EL.(1994) Interaction between CD2 and CD58 involved the major b sheet surface of each of their respective adhesion domains. J Exp Med.; 180:1861-1871.

· Gelfand, I.M. & Kister, A.E., (1995). “Analysis of the relation between the sequence and secondary and three dimensional structures of immunoglobulin molecules” Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA 92, 10884-10888

· Gelfand, I.M., Kister, A.E. & Leschiner, D. (1996). “The invariant system of co-ordinates of antibody molecules: prediction of the standard Ca framework of VL and VH domains” Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA 93, 3675-3678

· Gelfand, I.M. & Kister, A.E., (1997). “A very limited number of keywords (main patterns) describes all sequences of the human variable heavy (VH) and  (V) domains” Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA 94, 12562-12567

· Galitsky, B., Gelfand, I. M. & Kister, A.E. (1998) “Predicting amino acids sequences of antibody human VH chains from its first several residues” Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA 95, 5193-98.

· Chothia, C., Gelfand, I.M. & Kister, A.E. (1998) “Structure determinants in the sequences of immunoglobulin variable domain” J. Molec. Biol. 278, 457-479

· Gelfand, I., Kister, A., Kulikovwski, C. & Stoyanov, O. (1998). “Algorithmic determination of Immunoglubulin Core positions in the VL and VH domains” J. Comput. Biol. 5, 467-477

· Gelfand, I., Kister, A., Kulikovwski, C. & Stoyanov, O. (1998). “Geometric invariant core for the VL and VH domains of immunoglobulin molecules” Prot. Eng.11, 1015-1025

· Galitsky, B., Gelfand, I. M. & Kister, A.E. (1999) “Class-defining characteristics in the mouse heavy chains of variable domains” Prot. Eng. 12, 101-107

· Stoyanov, O., Kister, A.E., Gelfand, I.M. & Kulikovwski, C. & Chothia, C., (2000) “Geometrical Invariant core for the CL and CH1 domains of immunoglobulin Molecules” J. Comput.Biol. 7, 673-684

· Kister, A.E, Roytberg, M.A., Chothia, C., Vasiliev, Y.M. & Gelfand, I.M. (2001) "The Sequence Determinants of Cadherin Molecules" Prot. Sci.10, 1801-1810.

· Reva, B., Kister, A., Topiol, S. and Gelfand, I. (2002) “Determining the roles of different main fragments in recognition of Immunoglobulin fold.” Protein Eng 15: 13-19

· Kister, A. Finkelstein, A and Gelfand, I (2002) “Common sequence and structural features in sandwich-like proteins Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA 99, 14137-14141

·· Potapov, V., Sobolev,V., Edelman,M., Kister,A and Gelfand,I. (2004) “Protein-Protein Recognition: Juxtaposition on Domain and Interface Cores in Immunoglobulins and Other Sandwich-like Proteins” J. Molec. Biol. 342, 665-679

· Fokas, A.S., Gelfand,I.M. and Kister, A.E. (2004) Prediction of the structural motifs of sandwich proteins Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci 101, 16780-16783

· Fokas, A.S., Papatheodorou, T.S., Kister, A.E and Gelfand,I.M. (2005) A geometric construction determines all permissible strand arrangement of sandwich proteins Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci 102, 15851-15853

· Kister, A.E., Fokas, A.S., Papatheodorou, T.S. and Gelfand,I.M. (2006) Strict rules determine arrangements of strands in sandwich proteins. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci 103, 4107-4110

Paper in an Encyclopedia

Chothia, C., Gelfand, I.M. & Kister, A.E. (1999) “Immunoglobulin Fold” Encyclopedia of Life Sciences Macmillan Reference Ltd

Book Chapters

Kister A, Muchnik I, Bouzida D, Reinherz EL, Smith T. Efficient pattern comparative method for selecting functionally important motifs in protein sequences: Application to zinc enzymes. “Biosystems”, Pevzner P, Gelfand M, eds Elsevier, 1993; 30:233-240

Chothia, C., Lesk, A.M., Gelfand, I.M. & Kister, A.E. (1999) "Why structure changes more slowly than sequence in protein evolution" in the book "Simplicity and Complexity in Proteins and Nucleic acids" Ed. Frauenfelder, H., Deisenhofer, J. and Wolynes, P.G. Dantem University Press pp. 281-295.

Kister, A and Gelfand, I (2004) “…some residues are more equal than others. Application to the protein classification and structure prediction” in the book “Folding and Self-assembly of Biological Macromolecule” World Scientific Publishing Company pp 255 – 266

Kister,A. The Main Structural Regularities of the Sandwich Proteins (2005) in the book Algorithms in Bioinformatics. Proceedings: Lecture Notes in Computer Science. R. Casadio and G. Myers (Eds.):, pp. 414–422,

A.E. Kister, M.V. Kleyzit, T.I. Gelfand and I.M. Gelfand (2006) Combinatory and topology of the β-sandwich and β-barrel proteins in the book “Topology in Molecular Biology DNA and Proteins; Series: Biological and Medical Physics, Biomedical Engineering. Monastyrsky, Michael I. (Ed.) Springer pp 142-153