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Martina Johnson Pokorná

Charles University in Prague; Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic
Verified email at natur.cuni.cz
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Phylogeny of sex-determining mechanisms in squamate reptiles: are sex chromosomes an evolutionary trap?

M Pokorna, L KRATOCHVÍL - Zoological Journal of the Linnean …, 2009 - academic.oup.com
Squamate reptiles possess two general modes of sex determination: (1) genotypic sex
determination (GSD), where the sex of an individual is determined by sex chromosomes, ie by sex…

Structural basis for the interaction between human milk oligosaccharides and the bacterial lectin PA-IIL of Pseudomonas aeruginosa

S Perret, C Sabin, C Dumon, M Pokorná… - Biochemical …, 2005 - portlandpress.com
One of the mechanisms contributing to the protection by breast-feeding of the newborn
against enteric diseases is related to the ability of human milk oligosaccharides to prevent the …

Structural basis of the preferential binding for globo-series glycosphingolipids displayed by Pseudomonas aeruginosa lectin I

…, E Hollville, C Tetaud, J Wiels, M Pokorná… - Journal of molecular …, 2008 - Elsevier
The opportunistic pathogen Pseudomonas aeruginosa contains several carbohydrate-binding
proteins, among which is the P. aeruginosa lectin I (PA-IL), which displays affinity for α-…

CASA, the Common Astronomy Software Applications for radio astronomy

…, T Nakazato, J Ott, D Petry, M Pokorny… - Publications of the …, 2022 - iopscience.iop.org
CASA, the Common Astronomy Software Applications, is the primary data processing software
for the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) and the Karl G. Jansky Very …

High affinity fucose binding of Pseudomonas aeruginosa lectin PA‐IIL: 1.0 Ĺ resolution crystal structure of the complex combined with thermodynamics and …

…, C Sabin, L Šnajdrová, M Pokorná… - Proteins: Structure …, 2005 - Wiley Online Library
PA‐IIL is a fucose‐binding lectin from Pseudomonas aeruginosa that is closely related to
the virulence factors of the bacterium. Previous structural studies have revealed a new …

[HTML][HTML] Binding of different monosaccharides by lectin PA-IIL from Pseudomonas aeruginosa: thermodynamics data correlated with X-ray structures

C Sabin, EP Mitchell, M Pokorná, C Gautier, JP Utille… - FEBS letters, 2006 - Elsevier
The lectin from Pseudomonas aeruginosa (PA-IIL) is involved in host recognition and biofilm
formation. Lectin not only displays an unusually high affinity for fucose but also binds to l-…

Expanding the classical paradigm: what we have learnt from vertebrates about sex chromosome evolution

…, N Valenzuela, MJ Pokorná - … of the Royal …, 2021 - royalsocietypublishing.org
Until recently, the field of sex chromosome evolution has been dominated by the canonical
unidirectional scenario, first developed by Muller in 1918. This model postulates that sex …

[HTML][HTML] Engineering of PA-IIL lectin from Pseudomonas aeruginosa – Unravelling the role of the specificity loop for sugar preference

J Adam, M Pokorná, C Sabin, EP Mitchell… - BMC structural …, 2007 - Springer
Background Lectins are proteins of non-immune origin capable of binding saccharide
structures with high specificity and affinity. Considering the high encoding capacity of …

[HTML][HTML] Microsatellite distribution on sex chromosomes at different stages of heteromorphism and heterochromatinization in two lizard species (Squamata …

M Pokorná, L Kratochvíl, E Kejnovský - BMC genetics, 2011 - Springer
Background The accumulation of repetitive sequences such as microsatellites during the
differentiation of sex chromosomes has not been studied in most squamate reptiles (lizards, …

What was the ancestral sex‐determining mechanism in amniote vertebrates?

MJ Pokorná, L Kratochvíl - Biological Reviews, 2016 - Wiley Online Library
Amniote vertebrates, the group consisting of mammals and reptiles including birds, possess
various mechanisms of sex determination. Under environmental sex determination ( ESD ), …