Jan Pieter Abrahams, Prof. Dr.
- Position:
- Professor of Biophysical Structural Chemistry
- Telephone number
- +31 (0)71 527 4213
- Fax number
- +31 (0)71 527 4357
- E-mail address
- abrahams@chem.leidenuniv.nl
- Faculty/Unit
- Faculty of Science, Leiden Institute of Chemistry, Biophysical Structural Chemistry
- Office address
- Gorlaeus Laboratories
Einsteinweg 55
2333 CC Leiden
roomnumber 0.0.13
- 2012
Single-Walled Carbon Nanotubes as Scaffolds to Concentrate DNA for the Study of DNA-Protein Interactions,
Chemphyschem : a European journal of chemical physics and physical chemistry.
Protein Crystal Growth,
Modern Aspects of Bulk Crystal and Thin Film Preparation: InTech.
- 2011
EDIFF: a program for automated unit-cell determination and indexing of electron diffraction data,
Journal of Applied Crystallography, vol. 44, pp. 1132-1136.
Low energy electron microscopy imaging using Medipix2 detector,
Nuclear Instruments & Methods in Physics Research Section a-Accelerators Spectrometers Detectors and Associated Equipment, vol. 633, pp. S239-S242.
Evaluation of Medipix2 detector for recording electron diffraction data in low dose conditions,
Journal of Instrumentation, vol. 6.
Image Processing and Lattice Determination for Three-Dimensional Nanocrystals,
Microscopy and Microanalysis, vol. 17, no. 6, pp. 879-885.
A Straightforward and Robust Method for Introducing Human Hair as a Nucleant into High Throughput Crystallization Trials,
Crystal Growth & Design, vol. 11, no. 4, pp. 1170-1176.
Recent advances in the CRANK software suite for experimental phasing,
Acta Crystallographica Section D-Biological Crystallography, vol. 67, pp. 331-337.
- 2010
A Graphene Oxide center dot Streptavidin Complex for Biorecognition - Towards Affinity Purification,
Advanced Functional Materials, vol. 20, no. 17, pp. 2857-2865.
A novel approximation method of CTF amplitude correction for 3D single particle reconstruction,
Ultramicroscopy, vol. 110, no. 4, pp. 350-358.
Stable Single Walled Carbon Nanotube•Streptavidin Complex for Bio–Recognition,
The Journal of Physical Chemistry .
The Strong Phase Object Approximation May Allow Extending Crystallographic Phases of Dynamical Electron Diffraction Patterns of 3D Protein Nano-Crystals,
Zeitschrift für Kristallographie, vol. 225, issue 2-3: Oldenbourg Wissenschaftsverlag , pp. 67-76.
- 2009
Mammalian Navigators are Microtubule Plus-End Tracking Proteins that can Reorganize the Cytoskeleton to Induce Neurite-Like Extensions,
Cell Motility and the Cytoskeleton, vol. 66, no. 10, pp. 824-838.
Involvement of a carboxylated lysine in UV damage endonuclease,
Protein Science, vol. 18, no. 3, pp. 549-558.
Unit-cell determination from randomly oriented electron-diffraction patterns,
Acta Crystallographica Section D-Biological Crystallography, vol. 65, issue 7, pp. 625-632.
The Max-Inf2/Lorentz Center workshop on New algorithms in macromolecular crystallography and electron microscopy,
Acta Crystallographica Section D-Biological Crystallography, vol. 65, pp. 623-624.
Medipix 2 detector applied to low energy electron microscopy,
Ultramicroscopy, vol. 110, no. 1, pp. 33-35.
Characterization of a diagnostic Fab fragment binding trimeric Lewis X,
Proteins-Structure Function and Bioinformatics, vol. 76, no. 2, pp. 439-447.
An Intelligent Peak Search Program for Digital Electron Diffraction Images of 3D Nano-Crystals,
Image and Signal Processing, 2009. CISP '09. 2nd International Congress on17-19 Oct. 2009, vol. 17-19 Oct., pp. 1-5.
Recycling of Aborted Ribosomal 50S Subunit-Nascent Chain-tRNA Complexes by the Heat Shock Protein Hsp15,
Journal of Molecular Biology, vol. 386, no. 5, pp. 1357-1367.
- 2008
Microtubule plus-end conformations and dynamics in the periphery of interphase mouse fibroblasts,
Molecular Biology of the Cell, vol. 19, no. 7, pp. 3138-3146.
Cloning, expression, purification, crystallization and preliminary X-ray diffraction analysis of chlorite dismutase: a detoxifying enzyme producing molecular oxygen,
Acta Crystallographica Section F-Structural Biology and Crystallization Communications, vol. 64, pp. 730-732.
- 2007
Crystal structure of the DNA repair enzyme ultraviolet damage endonuclease,
Structure, vol. 15, no. 10, pp. 1316-1324.
Heterogeneous nucleation of three-dimensional protein nanocrystals,
Acta Crystallographica Section D-Biological Crystallography, vol. 63, pp. 564-570.
Jan Pieter Abrahams teaches or supervises the following courses:
- Moleculaire biologie (MST1161)
- Analysis of the 3D structure of proteins by diffraction and imaging methods
Jan Pieter currently supervises the following students:


