Our latest publication “Carbamoyl fluorides as serine hydrolase inhibitors: a case study on FphI from Staphylococcus aureus.” is now online at 10.1016/j.bioorg.2026.109834 Exactly two years from cold email contact to joint publication between Otago and University of Ljubljana First Email Wednesday, April 3, 2024 & published: Available online 3 April 2026 The group at Ljubljana […]

Our PNAS article, “Unique structural and ligand binding properties of the Staphylococcus aureus serine hydrolase FphE”, has published and is now available at: www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2532683123 with DOI number 10.1073/pnas.2532683123. Between 2022 and 2024 we crystallised and examined hundreds of protein crystals of the protein FphE from Staphylococcus aureus. Now the results are finally published, revealing a […]

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