Prof. Dr. Laszlo Poppe

Profile

Academic positionFull Professor
Research fieldsOrganic Molecular Chemistry,Biochemistry,Biological Process Engineering
Keywordsselective synthesis, biocatalysis, enzyme mechanisms, protein modelling, biotechnology

Current contact address

CountryHungary
CityBudapest
InstitutionBudapest University of Technology and Economics
InstituteDepartment of Organic Chemistry and Technology
Homepagehttp://www.och.bme.hu

Host during sponsorship

Prof. Dr. Janos ReteyInstitut für Organische Chemie, Universität Karlsruhe (TH), Karlsruhe
Start of initial sponsorship01/10/1991

Programme(s)

1990Humboldt Research Fellowship Programme

Publications (partial selection)

2006Sarolta Pilbák; Anna Tomin; János Rétey; László Poppe: The essential Tyr-containing loop conformation and the role of the C-terminal multihelix region in eukaryotic phenylalanine ammonia-lyases. In: FEBS J., 2006, 1004-1019
2005László Poppe; János Rétey: Friedel-Crafts like attack facilitates the enzymic ammonia elimination from histidine and phenylalanine. In: Angew. Chem., Int. Ed. Engl., 2005, 3668-3688
2003Sandra Viergutz; László Poppe; Anna Tomin; János Rétey: Mechanistic Investigation of Phenylalanine Ammonia-lyase using N-Methylated Phenylalanines. In: Helv. Chim. Acta, 2003, 3601-3612
2003László Poppe; János Rétey: Properties and synthetic applications of ammonia-lyases. In: Curr. Org. Chem., 2003, 1297-1315
2002Dagmar Röther; László Poppe; Gaby Morlock; Sandra Viergutz; János Rétey: An active site homology model of phenylalanine ammonia-lyase from Petroselinum crispum. In: Eur. J. Biochem., 2002, 3065-3075
2001Dagmar Röther; László Poppe; Sandra Viergutz; Birgit Langer; János Rétey: Characterisation of the active site of histidine ammonia-lyase from Pseudomonas putida. In: Eur. J. Biochem., 2001, 6011-6019
2001László Poppe: Methylidene-imidazolone (MIO): a novel electrophile for substrate activation. In: Curr. Opin. Chem. Biol., 2001, 512-524
2000Andreas Gloge; Jerzy Zon; Ágnes Kővári; László Poppe; János Rétey: Phenylalanine Ammonia-Lyase: The Use of Its Broad Substrate Specificity for Mechanistic Investigations and Biocatalysis. Synthesis of L-Arylalanines. In: Chem. Eur. J., 2000, 3386-3390