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Publications

  • Günce Göc, Sathish K. N. Yadav, George Orriss, Ufuk Borucu, Imre Berger, Christiane Schaffitzel, Burak V. Kabasakal, Cryo-EM Structure of the FtsH Periplasmic Domain Reveals Functional Dynamics (2026), ACS Chem. Biol. 2026, 21, 4, 844–851, https://doi.org/10.1021/acschembio.5c01025;

  • Georgia Balchin, Burak V Kabasakal, Alessandro Strofaldi, Sophie Hall, Charlotte Fletcher, Dora Buzas, Joshua C Bufton, Sathish KN Yadav, Dakang Shen, Frederic Garzoni, H Adrian Bunzel, Jennifer J McManus, Christiane Schaffitzel, Imre Berger, Engineering the ADDomer Nanoparticle Vaccine Scaffold for Improved Assembly and Enhanced Stability (2026). ACS Synth. Biol., https://doi.org/10.1021/acssynbio.5c00757;

  • Caliseki, M., Borucu, U., Yadav, S. K. N., Schaffitzel, C. & Kabasakal, B. V., Off-target structural insights: ArnA and AcrB in bacterial membrane-protein cryo-EM analysis. (2025) Acta Cryst. D81, 545-557, https://doi.org/10.1107/S2059798325007089;

  • Günce Göç, Nasim Allahyari, Mehmet Çalıseki, Burak V. Kabasakal, Efficient Detergent Removal Using a Polydivinylbenzene Adsorbent in Membrane Protein Solubilization (2025), Bioprocess and Biosystems Engineering, 48 (11), 1873-1881, https://doi.org/10.1007/s00449-025-03218-1;

  • Mehmet Caliseki, Christiane Schaffitzel, Burak Veli Kabasakal, The versatile role of YidC in membrane protein biosynthesis and quality control (2025), Biochimica et Biophysica Acta (BBA) - Molecular Cell Research, Volume 1872, Issue 5, 119956, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.bbamcr.2025.119956;

  • B.V. Kabasakal, S. Ozcan (2025) Tissue, serum, and saliva sampling for proteomic analysis, Reference Module in Chemistry, Molecular Sciences and Chemical Engineering, Elsevier, ISBN 9780124095472, doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/B978-0-443-15978-7.00082-5.;

  • Burak V Kabasakal, Ciaran R McFarlane, Charles AR Cotton, Anna Schmidt, Andrea Kung, Lucas Lieber, James W Murray, The crystal structure of the Shetha Protein II (FeSII) from Azotobacter vinelandii suggests a domain swap, Acta Cryst. D, (2024), Volume 80, Part 8, 599-604, https://doi.org/10.1107/S2059798324005928;

  • B.V. Kabasakal, CAR Cotton, JW Murray, Dynamic lid domain of Chloroflexus aurantiacus Malonyl-CoA Reductase controls the reaction, Biochimie, (2024), 219, 12-20, doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.biochi.2023.11.003;

  • Deniaud, A., Kabasakal, B.V., Bufton, J.C., Schaffitzel, C. (2024). Sample Preparation for Electron Cryo-Microscopy of Macromolecular Machines. In: Vega, M.C., Fernández, F.J. (eds) Advanced Technologies for Protein Complex Production and Characterization. Advances in Experimental Medicine and Biology, vol 3234. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-52193-5_12;

  • H Akkulak, HK Ince, G Göç, C Lebrilla, BV Kabasakal, S Ozcan, Structural proteomics of a bacterial mega membrane protein complex: FtsH-HflK-HflC, International Journal of Biological Macromolecules, (2024), 269, 131923, doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijbiomac.2024.131923;

  • Gul M, ... Kabasakal BV, Kati A, DeMirci H, Rapid and High Resolution Ambient Temperature Structure Determination at Turkish Light Source, Scientific Reports (2023), 13 (1), 8123, doi: https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-023-33989-0p;

  • Atalay N, ... Kabasakal BV, Kati A, DeMirci H, Cryogenic X-ray crystallographic studies of biomacromolecules at Turkish Light Source: Turkish DeLight, Turkish Journal of Biology 47 (1), 1-13, (2023), doi: https://doi.org/10.1101/2022.09.03.506456;

  • Kabasakal BV, Cloning, Overexpression and Characterization of the FeSI Protein from Azotobacter vinelandii CA6, Afyon Kocatepe Üniversitesi Fen Ve Mühendislik Bilimleri Dergisi, (2022), 22 (3), 470-476, doi: https://doi.org/10.35414/akufemubid.1124731;

  • Kabasakal BV, Cotton, CAR and Murray, JW. Crystal structure of the [2Fe-2S] protein I (Shethna protein I) from Azotobacter vinelandii Acta Cryst (2021) F77 407-411. https://doi.org/10.1107/S2053230X210099362021;

  • Kabasakal BV, Jiang Q, Schaffitzel C. Production of Multi-subunit Membrane Protein Complexes. In: Poterszman A. (eds) Multiprotein Complexes. Methods in Molecular Biology (2021) vol 2247. Humana, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-0716-1126-5_1;

  • Varghese F, Kabasakal BV, Cotton CAR, Schumacher J, Rutherford AW, Fantuzzi A, Murray JW. A low-potential terminal oxidase associated with the iron-only nitrogenase from the nitrogen fixing bacterium Azotobacter vinelandii, Journal of Biological Chemistry (2019) 294 (24):9367-9376;

  • McFarlane CR, Shah NR, Kabasakal BV, Echeverria B, Cotton CAR, Bubeck D, Murray JW. Structural basis of light-induced redox regulation in the Calvin-Benson cycle in cyanobacteria. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. (2019) 116(42): 20984-90.;

  • Mus F, Eilers, BJ, Alleman, AB, Kabasakal BV, Wells JN, Murray JW, Nocek BP, DuBois JL & Peters JW. Structural Basis for the Mechanism of ATP-Dependent Acetone Carboxylation. Sci Rep (2017) 7: 7234.;

  • Macdonald JT, Kabasakal BV, Godding D, Kraatz S, Henderson L, Barber J, Freemont PS, Murray JW. Synthetic beta-solenoid proteins with the fragment-free computational design of a beta-hairpin extension. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. (2016) 113(37):10346-51.;

  • Cotton CAR, Kabasakal BV, Miah N, Murray JW. Structure of the dual-function fructose1,6/sedoheptulose 1,7-bisphosphatase from Thermosynechococcus elongatus bound with sedoheptulose-7-phosphate. Acta Cryst (2015) F71: 1341.;

  • Kabasakal BV, Gae DG, Li J, Lagarias JC, Koehl P, and Fisher AJ. His74 conservation in the bilin reductase PcyA family reflects an important role in protein-substrate structure and dynamics. Archives of Biochemistry and Biophysics (2013) 537: 233-242.;

  • Kabasakal BV and Caglar A. Improvement of immobilized lipase-catalyzed methanolysis of tributyrin using methyl acetate. Energy&Fuels (2010) 24: 1269-1273;

  • Senyuva H, Aksahin I, Ozcan S, Kabasakal BV. Rapid, simple and accurate liquid chromatography diode array detection validated method for the determination of dipyrone in solid and liquid dosage forms, Analytica Chimica Acta (2005) 547: 73-77

    Conference Presentations

  • Günce Göc, Christiane Schaffitzel, Burak V. Kabasakal, Cryo-EM Insights into Periplasmic Domain Dynamics and HflKC-Mediated Control of FtsH, CCP-EM Spring Symposium 2026, 24-26 April 2026, University of Nottingham, Nottingham, UK. 

  • Burak V. Kabasakal, Stability and oligomeric state analysis of NifW from Azotobacter vinelandii using SAXS, Towards a BioSAXS Beamline at SESAME, 3-7 February 2026, DESY, Hamburg, Germany 

  • Kuzucu, H.N., Türköz, B.K., Kabasakal B.V. “Structural Analysis of A. vinelandii NifW Using CD Spectroscopy and SAXS” Tupa International Proteomics Congress / 7th Turkish National Proteomics Congress, 18-19 September 2025, Istanbul Technical University, İstanbul, Türkiye. 

  • Burak V. Kabasakal, Structural studies of membrane protein complexes involved in quality control, Tupa International Proteomics Congress / 7th Turkish National Proteomics Congress, 18-19 September 2025, Istanbul Technical University, İstanbul, Türkiye 

  • Gunce Goc, Nasim Allahyari, Mehmet Caliseki, Burak V. Kabasakal, Cost-Effective Detergent Removal for Membrane Proteins Using PAD600 Purolite, Mediterranean Life Sciences Union Annual Meeting (MedLIFE-24), 8-10 December 2024, Istanbul, Turkiye 

  • Burak V. Kabasakal, Structural insights into nitrogenase complexes against oxygen damage, 5th National Crystallographic Meeting, 17-19 May 2024, Samsun, Turkiye 

  • Tuğberk Deniz Karakaş, Süreyya Özcan Kabasakal, Mecit H. Öztop, Burak V. Kabasakal, Characterization of Sugar Beet Leaf Proteins as an Alternative Food Protein, 37th International EFFoST Conference, 6-8 November 2023, Valencia, Spain 

  • Hatice Akkulak, Nasim Allahyari, Gizem Biter, Mehmet Çalıseki, Günce Göç, H. Kerim İnce Tuğberk Deniz Karakaş, Burak V. Kabasakal, Integrative Structural Biology Research at BvK LaB, HUMBOLDT KOLLEG 2023 April 12-14, 2023, Ankara University, Ankara 

  • Hatice Akkulak, H. Kerim İnce, Burak V. Kabasakal, Süreyya Özcan, Comparison of XL-MS Software to Identify Protein Interactions, 15. The International Symposium on Health Informatics and Bioinformatics (HIBIT) Conference, 20-22 October 2022, Mersin, Turkiye 

  • Nasim Allahyari, Süreyya Özcan, Burak V. Kabasakal, Insights into protein quality control: YccA and its interaction with FtsH, ACS (American Chemical Society) Fall 2022 Meeting, 21-25 August 2022, Chicago, IL, USA 

  • Ece Göktayoğlu, H. Mecit Öztop, Burak V. Kabasakal, Süreyya Özcan, Green Proteome: Waste into Wealth, ACS (American Chemical Society) Fall 2022 Meeting, 21-25 August 2022, Chicago, IL, USA 

  • Sureyya Ozcan, Hatice Akkulak, Gunce Goc, Mehmet Caliseki, Kerim Ince, Christiane Schaffitzel, Burak V. Kabasakal, Structural insights into protein quality control using cross-linking mass spectrometry, ACS Spring 2022 Meeting, 20-25 March 2022, San Diego, CA, USA 

  • Febin Varghese, Burak V. Kabasakal, Charles Cotton, Jörg Schumacher, A. Rutherford, Andrea Fantuzzi, James Murray, A Low-Potential Terminal Oxidase Associated with the Iron-Only Nitrogenase from the Nitrogen-Fixing Bacterium Azotobacter vinelandii, The FASEB Journal, Special Issue: Experimental Biology 2021 Meeting, May 2021, Volume 35, Issue S1 

  • Günce Göç, Sema Aygar, Nasim Allahyari, Zeynep Çolak, Mehmet Çalıseki, Christiane Schaffitzel, Burak V. Kabasakal, Structural Biology of the FtsH-HflKC Complex involved in Protein Quality Control, Turkish Journal of Biochemistry, Special Issue: 32nd National Biochemistry Congress, 27-30 Ekim 2021, Volume 46, Issue 2, Page 45 

  • Sema Aygar, Günce Göç, Nasim Allahyari, Zeynep Çolak, Mehmet Çalıseki, Christiane Schaffitzel, Burak V. Kabasakal, Structural Studies of FtsH and FtsH Complexes involved in Quality Control, Turkish Journal of Biochemistry, Special Issue: 32nd National Biochemistry Congress, 27-30 Ekim 2021, Volume 46, Issue 2, Page 45 

  • Febin Varghese, Burak V. Kabasakal, James W. Murray, Structural basis of nitrogenase conformational protection from oxygen in Azotobacter vinelandii, presented at 20th International Congress on Nitrogen Fixation, Granada, Spain, 3-7 September 2017 

  • Febin Varghese, Andrea Fantuzzi, Burak V. Kabasakal, Jörg Schumacher, James W Murray, Azotobacter vinelandii cytochrome b’: a novel flavocytochrome involved in the oxygen protection of the iron-only nitrogenase, presented at 20th International Congress on Nitrogen Fixation, Granada, Spain, 3-7 September 2017. 

  • Burak V. Kabasakal, Ciaran Mcfarlane, Charles Cotton, Lucas Lieber, James W. Murray, Understanding the Structural basis of Nitrogenase Resistance to Oxygen, presented at Enhancing photosynthesis in crop plants: targets for improvement meeting, The Royal Society, October 2016. 

  • Ciaran Mcfarlane, Burak V. Kabasakal, Charles Cotton, James W. Murray, Structural basis of Calvin Cycle Regulation, presented at Enhancing photosynthesis in crop plants: targets for improvement meeting, The Royal Society, October 2016. 

  • Burak V. Kabasakal, Charles Cotton, Lucas Lieber, James W. Murray, Structures of FeSI and FeSII proteins (Shethna proteins I and II) from Azotobacter vinelandii, Materials Structure in Chemistry, Biology, Physics and Technology, 2016, Vol. 23, No. 2, presented at International Conference on the Crystallization of Biological Macromolecules (ICCBM’16), Prague, July 2016. also presented at Center for Structural Biology Open Day 2016, Imperial College London, and Graduate School Research Symposium 2016, Imperial College London 

  • Burak V. Kabasakal, Charles Cotton, James W. Murray, Structural insights into malonyl-CoA reductase of 3-hydroxypropionate cycle, Acta Crystallographica A, 2015, 71, 202, presented at 29th European Crystallographic Meeting, Rovinj, Croatia, August 2015, also presented at Center for Structural Biology Open Day 2015, Imperial College London 

  • Senyuva H., Aksahin I., Özcan S., Kabasakal B.V., Rapid, simple and accurate liquid chromatography diode array detection validated method for the determination of dipyrone in solid and liquid dosage forms, 4th International Aegean Analytical Chemistry Days, Kusadasi, Aydin, Turkey, 2004. 

  • Kabasakal B.V., Ozcan S., Senyuva H.Z., Determination of Some Nicotinoid Type Insecticides Analysis in Hazelnut and Hazelnut Products by HPLC/DAD, AUBIBAM- V. National Chromatography Symposium, Eskisehir, Turkey, 2004.

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