Publications

A. Theses:

A.O. Tastan, "How lazy are the tRNAs on the ribosome? New insights for the alpha–epsilon model," Ph.D. Thesis, Biochemistry Dept., the Free University, Berlin, Germany, May 2003.

A.O. Tastan, "The Molecular Basis of Alpha-Thalassemia in Turkey: Establishment and Application of PCR-Based Methods," M.Sc. Thesis, Dept. of Molecular Biology and Genetics, Bosphorous University, Istanbul, Turkey, Feb. 1996.

B. Book Chapter:

A. Özlem Tastan Bishop, Ulrich Stelzl, Markus Pech and Knud H. Nierhaus, “Characterization of RNA-protein Interactions by Phosphorothioate Footprinting and Its Applications to the Ribosome,” Chapter 9 in: RNA-Protein Interaction Protocols, Methods in Molecular Biology, Vol. 488, 129-151, 2008.

C. Journal Papers:

Yssel, A., Reva O., Tastan Bishop, Ö. “Comparative Structural Bioinformatics Analysis of Bacillus amyloliquefaciens Chemotaxis Proteins within Bacillus subtilis Group” Applied Microbiology and Biotechnology 92(5):997-1008, 2011.
Tastan Bishop, Ö. and Kroon, M. “Study of protein complexes via homology modeling, applied to cysteine proteases and their protein inhibitors” Journal of Molecular Modeling (online March 2011, DOI: 10.1007/s00894-011-0990-y)
Mautsa, N., Prinsloo, E., Tastan Bishop, Ö. and Blatch, G.L. “Characterization of the PINIT domain of PIAS3: In vitro interaction with STAT3” Journal of Molecular Recognition 24: 795-803, 2011.
Vorster BJ, Tastan Bishop Ö, Schlüter U, Coetzer N and Michaud D. “New insights towards phytocystatin – papain interactions”, Annals of Applied Biology 96: 403 – 408, 2010.
Tastan Bishop, A.Ö., De Beer, T.A.P. and Joubert, F. “Protein homology modeling and its use in South Africa”, South African Journal of Science, 104 (1 & 2): 2-6, 2008.
A. Özlem Ta?tan Bishop and Trevor Sewell “A new approach to possible substrate binding mechanisms for nitrile hydratase”, Biochemical and Biophysical Research Communications, 343: 319-325, 2006.
Srinivas Mullapudi, Lee Pullan, Ozlem T. Bishop, Hassan Khalil, James K. Stoops, Roland Beckmann, Peter M. Kloetzel, Elke Kruger and Pawel A. Penczek “Rearrangement of the 16S Precursor Subunits Is Essential for the Formation of the Active 20S Proteasome”, Biophysical Journal, 87: 1-8, 2004.
Markus A. Schäfer*, A. Özlem Tastan*, Sebastian Patzke, Gregor Blaha, Christian M. T. Spahn, Daniel N. Wilson, and Knud H. Nierhaus, “Codon-Anticodon Interaction at the P Site Is a Prerequisite for tRNA Interaction with the Small Ribosomal Subunit“, Journal of Biological Chemistry, 277: 19095-19105, 2002. (* Equally contributed first authorship)
A.O. Tastan, D. Canatan, A.N. Basak, “A Search For The a-Thal-2 Determinants –a^3.7 and –a^4.2 in the Newborns from Antalya District of Turkey: Cord Blood Study Using the PCR Method”, Balkan Journal of Medical Genetics, 2(1), pp. 23-25, 1999.
David J. Picketts, Ayse O. Tastan, Douglas R. Higgs, and Richard J. Gibbons, “Comparison of the human and murine ATRX gene identifies highly conserved, functionally important domains”, Mammalian Genome, 9, pp. 400-403, 1998.

D. Conference Paper:.

A. Özlem Ta?tan Bishop, Gordon Wells, Fourie Joubert, Carsten Wrenger, Rolf D. Walter and Abraham I. Louw “Progress towards Determining the Structure of Plasmodium falciparum Pyridoxal Kinase”, Proceedings of First Southern African Bioinformatics Workshop, 2007, 41-44.

E. Recent Conference Abstracts:

Hatherley, R.A., Pesce E. R., Tastan Bishop, Ö. and Blatch, G. L. “Comparative Analysis of two Malarial Heat Shock Proteins, PfHsp70-1 and PfHsp70-x” ISCB Africa ASBCB Conference on Bioinformatics, Cape Town, South Africa, 9-11 March 2011.
Mathu, A., Kaye, P., Lobb, K., Tastan Bishop, Ö. “The influence of mutations on the molecular architecture of the sub-type C HIV-1 protease receptor site” ISCB Africa ASBCB Conference on Bioinformatics, Cape Town, South Africa, 9-11 March 2011.
Tastan Bishop, Ö. and Kroon, M. “A Homology Based Study of the Complexes of Cysteine Proteases and Their Protein Inhibitors” ISCB Africa ASBCB Conference on Bioinformatics, Cape Town, South Africa, 9-11 March 2011.
Yssel A., Reva, O., Tastan Bishop, Ö. “The spatial evolution of the bacterial chemotaxis pathway” SAICSIT WITS conference 2009, 11-12 October 2009. (http://www.bioinf.wits.ac.za/sabioinf2009/biopapers.html)
Mokoena, F., Vorster, J., Tastan Bishop, Ö. “Malarial drug targets: cysteine proteases as hemoglobinases” SAICSIT WITS conference 2009, 11-12 October 2009. (http://www.bioinf.wits.ac.za/sabioinf2009/biopapers.html)
Kroon, M., Joubert, F., and Tastan Bishop, Ö. “Large Scale Sequence and Structural Analysis of Papain-like Cysteine Proteases” SAICSIT WITS conference 2009, 11-12 October 2009. (http://www.bioinf.wits.ac.za/sabioinf2009/biopapers.html)
Tastan Bishop, A.Ö. and Kroon, M. “Identification and Analysis of Common Features of Cysteine Proteases of Malaria Parasites for the Development of Novel Parasitic Protease Inhibitors” 17th Annual International Conference on Intelligent Systems for Molecular Biology & 8th European Conference on Computational Biology (ISMB-ECCB), Stockholm, Sweden. June 2009.
Vorster BJ, Tastan Bishop Ö, Schlüter U, Michaud D. “Understanding phytocystatin structure / function relationships through homology modeling”, 17th Annual International Conference on Intelligent Systems for Molecular Biology & 8th European Conference on Computational Biology (ISMB-ECCB), Stockholm, Sweden. June 2009.
Vorster, B.J., Tastan Bishop, Ö., Schlüter, U., Coetzer, N. and Michaud, D. “New insights towards phytocystatin – papain interactions. Agriculture: Africa’s “engine for growth” – Plant science & biotechnology hold the key. Rothamstead Research, Harpenden, UK. October 2009
B.J. Vorster, Ö. Tastan Bishop, U. Schlüter, K. Kunert, D. Michaud, Understanding plants cystatin structure/function relationships through homology modelingSouth African Journal of Botany, Volume 75, Issue 2, April 2009, Page 426
U. Schlüter, B.J. Vorster, Ö. Tastan Bishop, K.J. Kunert, D. Michaud,Phytocystatins: A comparative analysis of cysteine protease inhibitors in plants South African Journal of Botany, Volume 75, Issue 2, April 2009, Page 419