Vitaly Balobanov

Vitalii A. Balobanov, born 27/02/1984
Graduated from the Udmurt State University (Russia), Master of Science in Biochemistry (2006) 
Ph.D. in Biophysics (2010)
Since 2004, member of the Laboratory of Protein Physics
Citation index by the Google Scholar: 180, Hirsch index: 7.
Area of expertise: protein physics; protein design and engineering; thermodynamics and kinetics of transitions in proteins and amyloids; phase transitions in biology; molecular biology.

Selected Papers
Ryabova N, Fakhranurova L, Balobanov V, Marchenkov V, Glukhov A, Ilyina N, Kochetov A, Suvorina M, Surin A, Katina N. Carbonic anhydrase amyloid fibrils composed of laterally associated protofilaments show reduced cytotoxicity. Biochem Biophys Res Commun. 2022 Feb 19;593:46-51. doi: 10.1016/j.bbrc.2022.01.040. 
Katina N, Mikhaylina A, Ilina N, Eliseeva I, Balobanov V. Near-Wall Aggregation of Amyloidogenic Aβ 1-40 Peptide: Direct Observation by the FRET. Molecules. 2021 Dec 15;26(24):7590. doi: 10.3390/molecules26247590.
Marchenkov V, Ryabova N, Balobanov V, Glukhov A, Ilyina N, Katina N. Under Conditions of Amyloid Formation Bovine Carbonic Anhydrase B Undergoes Fragmentation by Acid Hydrolysis. Biomolecules. 2021 Oct 30;11(11):1608. doi: 10.3390/biom11111608. 
Majorina MA, Balobanov VA, Uversky VN, Melnik BS. Loops linking secondary structure elements affect the stability of the molten globule intermediate state of apomyoglobin. FEBS Lett. 2020 Oct;594(20):3293-3304. doi: 10.1002/1873-3468.13905. 
Lekontseva N, Mikhailina A, Fando M, Kravchenko O, Balobanov V, Tishchenko S, Nikulin A. Crystal structures and RNA-binding properties of Lsm proteins from archaea Sulfolobus acidocaldarius and Methanococcus vannielii: Similarity and difference of the U-binding mode. Biochimie. 2020 Aug;175:1-12. doi: 10.1016/j.biochi.2020.05.001. 
Fakhranurova L, Balobanov V, Ryabova N, Glukhov A, Ilyina N, Markelova N, Marchenkov V, Katina N. The presence of cross-β-structure as a key determinant of carbonic anhydrase amyloid fibrils cytotoxicity. Biochem Biophys Res Commun. 2020 Apr 2;524(2):453-458. doi: 10.1016/j.bbrc.2020.01.113. 
Grishin SY, Dzhus UF, Selivanova OM, Balobanov VA, Surin AK, Galzitskaya OV. Comparative Analysis of Aggregation of Thermus thermophilus Ribosomal Protein bS1 and Its Stable Fragment. Biochemistry (Mosc). 2020 Mar;85(3):344-354. doi: 10.1134/S0006297920030104. 
Balobanov V, Chertkova R, Egorova A, Dolgikh D, Bychkova V, Kirpichnikov M. The Kinetics of Amyloid Fibril Formation by de Novo Protein Albebetin and Its Mutant Variants. Biomolecules. 2020 Feb 5;10(2):241. doi: 10.3390/biom10020241. 
Balobanov V, Lekontseva N, Mikhaylina A, Nikulin A. Use of Fluorescent Nucleotides to Map RNA-Binding Sites on Protein Surface. Methods Mol Biol. 2020;2113:251-262. doi: 10.1007/978-1-0716-0278-2_17. 
Usachev KS, Fatkhullin BF, Klochkova EA, Miftakhov AK, Golubev AA, Bikmullin AG, Nurullina LI, Garaeva NS, Islamov DR, Gabdulkhakov AG, Lekontseva NV, Tishchenko SV, Balobanov VA, Khusainov IS, Yusupov MM, Validov SZ. Dimerization of long hibernation promoting factor from Staphylococcus aureus: Structural analysis and biochemical characterization. J Struct Biol. 2020 Jan 1;209(1):107408. doi: 10.1016/j.jsb.2019.107408. 
Bychkova VE, Semisotnov GV, Balobanov VA, Finkelstein AV. The Molten Globule Concept: 45 Years Later. Biochemistry (Mosc). 2018 Jan;83(Suppl 1):S33-S47. doi: 10.1134/S0006297918140043. 
Balobanov VA, Katina NS, Finkelstein AV, Bychkova VE. Intermediate States of Apomyoglobin: Are They Parts of the Same Area of Conformations Diagram? Biochemistry (Mosc). 2017 May;82(5):625-631. doi: 10.1134/S0006297917050108.