Ŝtefan Janeĉek

5.5k total citations · 1 hit paper
94 papers, 4.4k citations indexed

About

Ŝtefan Janeĉek is a scholar working on Biotechnology, Molecular Biology and Plant Science. According to data from OpenAlex, Ŝtefan Janeĉek has authored 94 papers receiving a total of 4.4k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 85 papers in Biotechnology, 48 papers in Molecular Biology and 43 papers in Plant Science. Recurrent topics in Ŝtefan Janeĉek's work include Enzyme Production and Characterization (85 papers), Phytase and its Applications (38 papers) and Microbial Metabolites in Food Biotechnology (25 papers). Ŝtefan Janeĉek is often cited by papers focused on Enzyme Production and Characterization (85 papers), Phytase and its Applications (38 papers) and Microbial Metabolites in Food Biotechnology (25 papers). Ŝtefan Janeĉek collaborates with scholars based in Slovakia, Denmark and France. Ŝtefan Janeĉek's co-authors include Birte Svensson, E. Ann MacGregor, Oskar Markovič, Bernard Haye, Abdel Belarbi, Bernard Henrissat, Jozef Ševčı́k, Štefan Baláž, Maher Abou Hachem and Anders Viksø‐Nielsen and has published in prestigious journals such as Journal of Biological Chemistry, Bioinformatics and Scientific Reports.

In The Last Decade

Ŝtefan Janeĉek

93 papers receiving 4.2k citations

Hit Papers

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  1. Relationship of sequence and structure to specificity in the α-amylase family of enzymes
    2001 554 citations E. Ann MacGregor, Ŝtefan Janeĉek et al. Biochimica et Biophysica Acta (BBA) - Protein Structure and Molecular Enzymology profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

Peers by citation overlap · career bar shows stage (early→late) cites · hero ref

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Ŝtefan Janeĉek Slovakia 35 3.3k 2.1k 2.0k 1.4k 886 94 4.4k
E. Ann MacGregor Canada 21 2.1k 0.6× 1.1k 0.5× 1.1k 0.6× 1.0k 0.7× 585 0.7× 30 2.6k
Huiying Luo China 38 2.1k 0.6× 2.2k 1.0× 2.0k 1.0× 604 0.4× 2.0k 2.3× 173 4.5k
Hans Leemhuis Netherlands 30 2.4k 0.7× 1.3k 0.6× 942 0.5× 1.9k 1.3× 746 0.8× 53 3.4k
Peilong Yang China 36 1.9k 0.6× 1.9k 0.9× 1.4k 0.7× 619 0.4× 1.7k 1.9× 164 3.8k
Yingguo Bai China 37 2.1k 0.6× 2.0k 1.0× 1.3k 0.6× 580 0.4× 2.0k 2.2× 147 3.8k
J. Preiss United States 37 1.3k 0.4× 1.9k 0.9× 1.9k 1.0× 1.5k 1.1× 495 0.6× 77 4.2k
Alberto Á. Iglesias Argentina 33 681 0.2× 2.5k 1.2× 1.4k 0.7× 594 0.4× 184 0.2× 169 4.0k
Katsuya Gomi Japan 50 1.9k 0.6× 4.6k 2.2× 1.6k 0.8× 267 0.2× 1.3k 1.5× 168 6.7k
Marc Claeyssens Belgium 49 4.1k 1.2× 3.8k 1.8× 1.7k 0.9× 1.1k 0.8× 4.9k 5.5× 140 7.1k
Peter Tomme Canada 30 1.9k 0.6× 1.9k 0.9× 1.2k 0.6× 430 0.3× 2.4k 2.8× 41 3.8k

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All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Janeĉek, Ŝtefan, et al.. (2024). The family GH126 – its relatedness to and differentiation from GH8 and GH48 including the intermediary sequences. Food Bioscience. 62. 105064–105064. 1 indexed citations
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Photenhauer, Amanda, Tiantian Chen, Z. Wawrzak, et al.. (2024). The Ruminococcus bromii amylosome protein Sas6 binds single and double helical α-glucan structures in starch. Nature Structural & Molecular Biology. 31(2). 255–265. 9 indexed citations
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Wang, Yu, et al.. (2023). Impact of Starch Binding Domain Fusion on Activities and Starch Product Structure of 4-α-Glucanotransferase. Molecules. 28(3). 1320–1320. 8 indexed citations
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Janeĉek, Ŝtefan, et al.. (2020). Fungal α-amylases from three GH13 subfamilies: their sequence-structural features and evolutionary relationships. International Journal of Biological Macromolecules. 159. 763–772. 16 indexed citations
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Janeĉek, Ŝtefan, et al.. (2014). Protein engineering of selected residues from conserved sequence regions of a novel Anoxybacillus α-amylase. Scientific Reports. 4(1). 5850–5850. 29 indexed citations
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Jung, Tae‐Yang, Dan Li, Jong‐Tae Park, et al.. (2012). Association of Novel Domain in Active Site of Archaic Hyperthermophilic Maltogenic Amylase from Staphylothermus marinus. Journal of Biological Chemistry. 287(11). 7979–7989. 29 indexed citations
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Janeĉek, Ŝtefan, et al.. (2012). Sequence fingerprints of enzyme specificities from the glycoside hydrolase family GH57. Extremophiles. 16(3). 497–506. 52 indexed citations
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Hostinová, Eva, Ŝtefan Janeĉek, & Juraj Gašperı́k. (2010). Gene Sequence, Bioinformatics and Enzymatic Characterization of α-Amylase from Saccharomycopsis fibuligera KZ. The Protein Journal. 29(5). 355–364. 30 indexed citations
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Janeĉek, Ŝtefan, et al.. (2006). The evolution of putative starch‐binding domains. FEBS Letters. 580(27). 6349–6356. 66 indexed citations
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Janeĉek, Ŝtefan, et al.. (2004). Evolutionary relatedness between glycolytic enzymes most frequently occurring in genomes. Folia Microbiologica. 49(3). 247–258. 8 indexed citations
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O’Donohue, Michael, et al.. (2004). Bioinformatics of the glycoside hydrolase family 57 and identification of catalytic residues in amylopullulanase from Thermococcus hydrothermalis. European Journal of Biochemistry. 271(14). 2863–2872. 77 indexed citations
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Janeĉek, Ŝtefan, et al.. (2002). Oligo-1,6-glucosidase and neopullulanase enzyme subfamilies from the α-amylase family defined by the fifth conserved sequence region. Cellular and Molecular Life Sciences. 59(11). 1945–1959. 87 indexed citations
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Markovič, Oskar & Ŝtefan Janeĉek. (2001). Pectin degrading glycoside hydrolases of family 28: sequence-structural features, specificities and evolution. Protein Engineering Design and Selection. 14(9). 615–631. 135 indexed citations
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MacGregor, E. Ann, Ŝtefan Janeĉek, & Birte Svensson. (2001). Relationship of sequence and structure to specificity in the α-amylase family of enzymes. Biochimica et Biophysica Acta (BBA) - Protein Structure and Molecular Enzymology. 1546(1). 1–20. 554 indexed citations breakdown →
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Janeĉek, Ŝtefan. (2000). New Horizons of Carbohydrate Bioengineering. Proteins without Enzymatic Function with Sequence Relatedness to the .ALPHA.-Amylase Family.. Trends in Glycoscience and Glycotechnology. 12(68). 363–371. 3 indexed citations
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Janeĉek, Ŝtefan, et al.. (2000). Amylolytic enzymes: their specificities, origins and properties.. 55(6). 605–615. 21 indexed citations
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Janeĉek, Ŝtefan & Jozef Ševčı́k. (1999). The evolution of starch‐binding domain. FEBS Letters. 456(1). 119–125. 94 indexed citations
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Janeĉek, Ŝtefan. (1997). α-amylase family: Molecular biology and evolution. Progress in Biophysics and Molecular Biology. 67(1). 67–97. 194 indexed citations
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Janeĉek, Ŝtefan, Birte Svensson, & Bernard Henrissat. (1997). Domain Evolution in the α-Amylase Family. Journal of Molecular Evolution. 45(3). 322–331. 152 indexed citations
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Janeĉek, Ŝtefan. (1994). Sequence Similarities and Evolutionary Relationships of Microbial, Plant and Animal α‐amylases. European Journal of Biochemistry. 224(2). 519–524. 98 indexed citations

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