• Co-author of 42 publications with the Minor Lab [show]
    • 3,051 citations in Web of Science
    • 4,342 citations in Google Scholar
  • Co-author of 155 structures with the Minor Lab [show]
  • Relative Citation Ratio (RCR): 72.60
  • Training Period: 1999-01, MSc <br/> 2001-12, Research Assistant <br/> 2012-2023, Research Scientist
  • Prior Institution: Warsaw University, Poland
  • Prior Degree: BSc (1999)
  • Project Title: X-ray Studies of the Structure of Soybean 15-Lipoxygenase Mutants.

Publications with the Minor Lab

  1. Gucwa M, Lenkiewicz J, Zheng H, Cymborowski M, Cooper DR, Murzyn K, Minor W (2023)
    CMM-An enhanced platform for interactive validation of metal binding sites.
    Protein Sci 32(1): e4525. [DOI:10.1002/pro.4525] [Pub Med ID: 36464767] [Pub Med Central ID: PMC9794025]
    WoS Times Cited: 29 ; Google Scholar Times Cited: 44
  2. Minor W, Cymborowski M, Borek D, Cooper DR, Chruszcz M, Otwinowski Z (2021)
    Optimal structure determination from sub-optimal diffraction data.
    Protein Sci 31(1): 259-268. [DOI:10.1002/pro.4235] [Pub Med ID: 34783106] [Pub Med Central ID: PMC8740829]
    WoS Times Cited: 7 ; Google Scholar Times Cited: 9
  3. Grabowski M, Macnar JM, Cymborowski M, Cooper DR, Shabalin IG, Gilski M, Brzezinski D, Kowiel M, Dauter Z, Rupp B, Wlodawer A, Jaskolski M, Minor W (2021)
    Rapid response to emerging biomedical challenges and threats.
    IUCrJ 8(Pt 3): 395-407. [DOI:10.1107/S2052252521003018] [Pub Med ID: 33953926] [Pub Med Central ID: PMC8086160]
    WoS Times Cited: 6 ; Google Scholar Times Cited: 8
  4. Grabowski M, Cooper DR, Brzezinski D, Macnar JM, Shabalin IG, Cymborowski M, Otwinowski Z, Minor W (2021)
    Synchrotron Radiation as a Tool for Macromolecular X-Ray Crystallography: a XXI Century Perspective.
    Nucl Instrum Methods Phys Res B 489(): 30-40. [DOI:10.1016/j.nimb.2020.12.016] [Pub Med ID: 33603257] [Pub Med Central ID: PMC7886262]
    WoS Times Cited: 7 ; Google Scholar Times Cited: 16
  5. Brzezinski D, Kowiel M, Cooper DR, Cymborowski M, Grabowski M, Wlodawer A, Dauter Z, Shabalin IG, Gilski M, Rupp B, Jaskolski M, Minor W (2020)
    Covid-19.bioreproducibility.org: A web resource for SARS-CoV-2-related structural models.
    Protein Sci 30(1): 115-124. [DOI:10.1002/pro.3959] [Pub Med ID: 32981130] [Pub Med Central ID: PMC7537053]
    WoS Times Cited: 16 ; Google Scholar Times Cited: 19
  6. Cooper DR, Grabowski M, Zimmerman MD, Porebski PJ, Shabalin IG, Woinska M, Domagalski MJ, Zheng H, Sroka P, Cymborowski M, Czub MP, Niedzialkowska E, Venkataramany BS, Osinski T, Fratczak Z, Bajor J, Gonera J, MacLean E, Wojciechowska K, Konina K, Wajerowicz W, Chruszcz M, Minor W (2020)
    State-of-the-Art Data Management: Improving the Reproducibility, Consistency, and Traceability of Structural Biology and in Vitro Biochemical Experiments.
    Methods Mol Biol 2199(): 209-236. [DOI:10.1007/978-1-0716-0892-0_13] [Pub Med ID: 33125653] [Pub Med Central ID: PMC8019398]
    WoS Times Cited: 4 ; Google Scholar Times Cited: 8
  7. Grabowski M, Cymborowski M, Porebski PJ, Osinski T, Shabalin IG, Minor W, Cooper DR (2019)
    The Integrated Resource for Reproducibility in Macromolecular Crystallography: Experiences of the first four years.
    Struct Dyn 6(6): 064301. [DOI:10.1063/1.5128672] [Pub Med ID: 31768399] [Pub Med Central ID: PMC6874509]
    WoS Times Cited: 24 ; Google Scholar Times Cited: 27
  8. Grabowski M, Langner KM, Cymborowski M, Porebski PJ, Sroka P, Zheng H, Cooper DR, Zimmerman MD, Elsliger MA, Burley SK, Minor W (2016)
    A public database of macromolecular diffraction experiments.
    Acta Crystallogr D Struct Biol 72(Pt 11): 1181-1193. [DOI:10.1107/S2059798316014716] [Pub Med ID: 27841751] [Pub Med Central ID: PMC5108346]
    WoS Times Cited: 96 ; Google Scholar Times Cited: 93
  9. Gasiorowska O, Handing KB, Majorek KA, Porebski PJ, Shabalin IG, Zasadzinska E, Cymborowski M, Minor W, Niedzialkowska E (2016)
    Protein purification and crystallization artifacts: The tale usually not told.
    Protein Sci 25(3): 720-33. [DOI:10.1002/pro.2861] [Pub Med ID: 26660914] [Pub Med Central ID: PMC4815408]
    WoS Times Cited: 39 ; Google Scholar Times Cited: 66
  10. Porebski PJ, Cymborowski M, Minor W, Pasenkiewicz-Gierula M (2016)
    Fitmunk: improving protein structures by accurate, automatic modeling of side-chain conformations.
    Acta Crystallogr D Struct Biol 72(Pt 2): 266-80. [DOI:10.1107/S2059798315024730] [Pub Med ID: 26894674] [Pub Med Central ID: PMC4756610]
    WoS Times Cited: 26 ; Google Scholar Times Cited: 27
  11. Savchenko A, Domagalski MJ, Tkaczuk KL, Chruszcz M, Cymborowski M, Grabowski M, Minor W, Onopriyenko O, Skarina T (2013)
    Structure of isochorismate synthase DhbC from Bacillus anthracis.
    Acta Crystallogr. Sect. F Struct. Biol. Cryst. Commun. 69(Pt 9): 956-61. [DOI:10.1107/S1744309113021246] [Pub Med ID: 23989140] [Pub Med Central ID: PMC3758140]
    WoS Times Cited: 2 ; Google Scholar Times Cited: 8
  12. Otwinowski Z, Minor W, Borek D, Cymborowski M (2012)
    Denzo and Scalepack (2nd ed).
    International Tables For Crystallography, Volume F F(): 282-295. [DOI:10.1107/97809553602060000833]
    Google Scholar Times Cited: 127
  13. Knapik AA, Petkowski JJ, Cymborowski MT, Cooper DR, Chruszcz M, Minor W, Krajewska WM, Otwinowski Z (2012)
    Structure of Escherichia coli RutC, a member of the YjgF family and putative aminoacrylate peracid reductase of the rut operon.
    Acta Crystallogr. Sect. F Struct. Biol. Cryst. Commun. 68(Pt 11): 1294-9. [DOI:10.1107/S1744309112041796] [Pub Med ID: 23143235] [Pub Med Central ID: PMC3515367]
    WoS Times Cited: 15 ; Google Scholar Times Cited: 21
  14. Shumilin IA, Cymborowski M, Chertihin O, Jha KN, Herr JC, Joachimiak A, Minor W, Lesley SA (2012)
    Identification of unknown protein function using metabolite cocktail screening.
    Structure 20(10): 1715-25. [DOI:10.1016/j.str.2012.07.016] [Pub Med ID: 22940582] [Pub Med Central ID: PMC3472112]
    WoS Times Cited: 40 ; Google Scholar Times Cited: 52
  15. Knapik AA, Petkowski JJ, Cymborowski MT, Cooper DR, Majorek KA, Chruszcz M, Minor W, Otwinowski Z, Krajewska WM (2012)
    A multi-faceted analysis of RutD reveals a novel family of α/β hydrolases.
    Proteins 80(10): 2359-68. [DOI:10.1002/prot.24122] [Pub Med ID: 22641504] [Pub Med Central ID: PMC3459670]
    WoS Times Cited: 8 ; Google Scholar Times Cited: 10
  16. Hou J, Wojciechowska K, Zheng H, Chruszcz M, Cooper DR, Cymborowski M, Luo H, Minor W, Savchenko A, Gordon E, Skarina T (2012)
    Structure of a short-chain dehydrogenase/reductase from Bacillus anthracis.
    Acta Crystallogr. Sect. F Struct. Biol. Cryst. Commun. 68(Pt 6): 632-7. [DOI:10.1107/S1744309112017939] [Pub Med ID: 22684058] [Pub Med Central ID: PMC3370898]
    WoS Times Cited: 5 ; Google Scholar Times Cited: 7
  17. Porebski PJ, Klimecka M, Chruszcz M, Cymborowski M, Minor W, Savchenko A, Murzyn K, Edwards A, Nicholls RA, Murshudov GN, Cuff ME, Xu X (2012)
    Structural characterization of Helicobacter pylori dethiobiotin synthetase reveals differences between family members.
    FEBS J 279(6): 1093-105. [DOI:10.1111/j.1742-4658.2012.08506.x] [Pub Med ID: 22284390] [Pub Med Central ID: PMC3392494]
    WoS Times Cited: 12 ; Google Scholar Times Cited: 19
  18. Savchenko A, Filippova EV, Chruszcz M, Cymborowski M, Minor W, Edwards A, Gu J (2011)
    Crystal structure of a putative transcriptional regulator SCO0520 from Streptomyces coelicolor A3(2) reveals an unusual dimer among TetR family proteins.
    J. Struct. Funct. Genomics 12(3): 149-57. [DOI:10.1007/s10969-011-9112-4] [Pub Med ID: 21625866] [Pub Med Central ID: PMC4413006]
    Google Scholar Times Cited: 7
  19. Klimecka MM, Chruszcz M, Font J, Shumilin I, Onopryienko O, Porebski PJ, Cymborowski M, Zimmerman MD, Glomski IJ, Minor W, Savchenko A, Hasseman J, Edwards A, Lebioda L, Skarina T (2011)
    Structural analysis of a putative aminoglycoside N-acetyltransferase from Bacillus anthracis.
    J. Mol. Biol. 410(3): 411-23. [DOI:10.1016/j.jmb.2011.04.076] [Pub Med ID: 21601576] [Pub Med Central ID: PMC3131501]
    WoS Times Cited: 12 ; Google Scholar Times Cited: 18
  20. Cymborowski M, Klimecka M, Chruszcz M, Zimmerman MD, Shumilin IA, Anderson W, Minor W, Lazarski K, Otwinowski Z, Borek D, Joachimiak A (2010)
    To automate or not to automate: this is the question.
    J. Struct. Funct. Genomics 11(3): 211-21. [DOI:10.1007/s10969-010-9092-9] [Pub Med ID: 20526815] [Pub Med Central ID: PMC2921494]
    Google Scholar Times Cited: 27
  21. Cymborowski M, Minor W, Otwinowski Z, Machius M, Borek D (2010)
    Diffraction data analysis in the presence of radiation damage.
    Acta Crystallogr D Biol Crystallogr. 66(Pt 4): 426-36. [DOI:10.1107/S0907444909040177] [Pub Med ID: 20382996] [Pub Med Central ID: PMC2852307]
    WoS Times Cited: 55 ; Google Scholar Times Cited: 90
    F1000 Recommended Publication
  22. Cymborowski M, Minor W, Coggill P, Volkart L, Otwinowski Z, Chang C, Joachimiak A, Finn RD, Bateman A (2009)
    The structure of pyogenecin immunity protein, a novel bacteriocin-like immunity protein from Streptococcus pyogenes.
    BMC Struct. Biol. 9(): 75. [DOI:10.1186/1472-6807-9-75] [Pub Med ID: 20017931] [Pub Med Central ID: PMC2806384]
    WoS Times Cited: 6 ; Google Scholar Times Cited: 15
  23. Savchenko A, Wang S, Kirillova O, Chruszcz M, Gront D, Zimmerman MD, Cymborowski MT, Shumilin IA, Gorodichtchenskaia E, Edwards AM, Minor W, Skarina T (2009)
    The crystal structure of the AF2331 protein from Archaeoglobus fulgidus DSM 4304 forms an unusual interdigitated dimer with a new type of alpha + beta fold.
    Protein Sci 18(11): 2410-9. [DOI:10.1002/pro.251] [Pub Med ID: 19768810] [Pub Med Central ID: PMC2788295]
    WoS Times Cited: 3 ; Google Scholar Times Cited: 5
  24. Savchenko A, Chruszcz M, Zimmerman MD, Wang S, Koclega KD, Zheng H, Cymborowski M, Minor W, Edwards A, Evdokimova E, Kudritska M (2008)
    Function-biased choice of additives for optimization of protein crystallization - the case of the putative thioesterase PA5185 from Pseudomonas aeruginosa PAO1.
    Cryst Growth Des 8(11): 4054-4061. [DOI:10.1021/cg800430f] [Pub Med ID: 19898606] [Pub Med Central ID: PMC2700756]
    WoS Times Cited: 2 ; Google Scholar Times Cited: 5
  25. Cymborowski M, Chruszcz M, Dauter Z, Minor W (2007)
    3-Iodo-L-tyrosine hemihydrate.
    Acta Crystallogr Sect E Struct Rep Online 63(): O1557-O1559. [DOI:10.1107/S1600536807009129]
    WoS Times Cited: 1 ; Google Scholar Times Cited: 2
  26. Zheng H, Gawlicka-Chruszcz A, Cymborowski M, Minor W (2007)
    trans-1-Hydroxycyclopentan-2-aminium chloride.
    Acta Crystallogr Sect E Struct Rep Online 63(): O2697-O2698. [DOI:10.1107/S1600536807018958]
    WoS Times Cited: 0 ; Google Scholar Times Cited: 0
  27. Savchenko A, Dong A, Edwards AM, Chang C, Chruszcz M, Cuff M, Cymborowski M, Di Leo R, Egorova O, Filippova E, Guthrie J, Ignatchenko A, Joachimiak A, Klostermann N, Korniyenko Y, Minor W, Que Q, Tan K, Yakunin A, Yee A, Yim V, Zhang R, Zheng H, Akutsu M, Arrowsmith C, Avvakumov GV, Bochkarev A, Dahlgren LG, Dhe-Paganon S, Dimov S, Dombrovski L, Finerty P, Flodin S, Flores A, Gräslund S, Hammerström M, Herman MD, Hong BS, Hui R, Johansson I, Liu Y, Nilsson M, Nedyalkova L, Nordlund P, Nyman T, Min J, Ouyang H, Park HW, Qi C, Kim Y, Skarina T, Gu J, Evdokimova E, Xu X, Rabeh W, Shen L, Shen Y, Sukumard D, Tempel W, Tong Y, Tresagues L, Vedadi M, Walker JR, Weigelt J, Welin M, Wu H, Xiao T, Zeng H, Zhu H (2007)
    In situ proteolysis for protein crystallization and structure determination.
    Nat. Methods 4(12): 1019-21. [DOI:10.1038/nmeth1118] [Pub Med ID: 17982461] [Pub Med Central ID: PMC3366506]
    WoS Times Cited: 163 ; Google Scholar Times Cited: 294
    F1000 Recommended Publication
  28. Koclega KD, Chruszcz M, Zimmerman MD, Cymborowski M, Minor W, Evdokimova E (2007)
    Crystal structure of a transcriptional regulator TM1030 from Thermotoga maritima solved by an unusual MAD experiment.
    J Struct Biol 159(3): 424-32. [DOI:10.1016/j.jsb.2007.04.012] [Pub Med ID: 17588774] [Pub Med Central ID: PMC2093942]
    WoS Times Cited: 5 ; Google Scholar Times Cited: 14
  29. Petkowski JJ, Chruszcz M, Zimmerman MD, Zheng H, Cymborowski MT, Koclega KD, Minor W, Savchenko A, Edwards A, Onopriyenko O, Skarina T (2007)
    Crystal structures of TM0549 and NE1324--two orthologs of E. coli AHAS isozyme III small regulatory subunit.
    Protein Sci 16(7): 1360-7. [DOI:10.1110/ps.072793807] [Pub Med ID: 17586771] [Pub Med Central ID: PMC2206681]
    WoS Times Cited: 17 ; Google Scholar Times Cited: 24
  30. Zheng H, Chruszcz M, Cymborowski M, Minor W, Savchenko A, Wang Y, Malhotra A, Zuo Y, Skarina T (2007)
    Crystal structure of RNase T, an exoribonuclease involved in tRNA maturation and end turnover.
    Structure 15(4): 417-28. [DOI:10.1016/j.str.2007.02.004] [Pub Med ID: 17437714] [Pub Med Central ID: PMC1907377]
    WoS Times Cited: 36 ; Google Scholar Times Cited: 66
  31. Kirillova O, Chruszcz M, Shumilin IA, Gorodichtchenskaia E, Cymborowski M, Minor W, Savchenko A, Edwards A, Skarina T (2007)
    An extremely SAD case: structure of a putative redox-enzyme maturation protein from Archaeoglobus fulgidus at 3.4 A resolution.
    Acta Crystallogr D Biol Crystallogr. 63(Pt 3): 348-54. [DOI:10.1107/S0907444906055065] [Pub Med ID: 17327672]
    WoS Times Cited: 25 ; Google Scholar Times Cited: 37
  32. Koclega KD, Chruszcz M, Gawlicka-Chruszcz A, Cymborowski M, Minor W (2007)
    3-(1-Pyridinio)propanesulfonate and 3-(benzyldimethylammonio)propanesulfonate monohydrate.
    Acta Crystallogr C 63(Pt 2): o114-6. [DOI:10.1107/S0108270106054692] [Pub Med ID: 17284802]
    WoS Times Cited: 3 ; Google Scholar Times Cited: 3
  33. Cymborowski M, Minor W, Ginell SL, Otwinowski Z, Borek D (2007)
    The many faces of radiation-induced changes.
    J Synchrotron Radiat 14(Pt 1): 24-33. [DOI:10.1107/S0909049506046589] [Pub Med ID: 17211069]
    WoS Times Cited: 47 ; Google Scholar Times Cited: 69
  34. Doyle CR, Zimmerman MD, Chruszcz M, Cymborowski M, Gawlicka-Chruszcz A, Minor W (2006)
    Crystal structure of 6-(4-difluoromethoxy-3-methoxyphenyl)-3(2H)-pyridazinone,C12H10F2N2O3.
    Zeitschrift fur Kristallographie 221(): 359-360. [DOI:10.1524/ncrs.2006.0109]
    WoS Times Cited: 0 ; Google Scholar Times Cited: 0
  35. Gawlicka-Chruszcz A, Zheng H, Hyacinth M, Cymborowski M, Sabat M, Minor W (2006)
    Crystal structure of 2,6-dichlorobenzaldehyde,C7H4Cl2O.
    Zeitschrift fur Kristallographie 221(): 545-546. [DOI:10.1524/ncrs.2006.0192]
    WoS Times Cited: 2 ; Google Scholar Times Cited: 2
  36. Zimmerman MD, Chruszcz M, Cymborowski M, Zheng HP, Minor W (2006)
    Disodium 4-nitrophenylphosphate hexahydrate.
    Acta Crystallogr Sect E Struct Rep Online 62(): M884-M886. [DOI:10.1107/S160053680600941X]
    WoS Times Cited: 1 ; Google Scholar Times Cited: 1
  37. Minor W, Cymborowski M, Chruszcz M, Otwinowski Z (2006)
    HKL-3000: the integration of data reduction and structure solution--from diffraction images to an initial model in minutes.
    Acta Crystallogr D Biol Crystallogr. 62(Pt 8): 859-66. [DOI:10.1107/S0907444906019949] [Pub Med ID: 16855301]
    WoS Times Cited: 1,768 ; Google Scholar Times Cited: 2,170
  38. Chruszcz M, Zheng HP, Cymborowski M, Gawlicka-Chruszcz A, Minor W (2005)
    3-(Morpholinium-1-yl)propanesulfonate.
    Acta Crystallogr Sect E Struct Rep Online 61(): O3190-O3191. [DOI:10.1107/S1600536805027728]
    WoS Times Cited: 5 ; Google Scholar Times Cited: 5
  39. Flanagan JF, Mi LZ, Chruszcz M, Cymborowski M, Clines KL, Minor W, Rastinejad F, Khorasanizadeh S, Kim Y (2005)
    Double chromodomains cooperate to recognize the methylated histone H3 tail.
    Nature 438(7071): 1181-5. [DOI:10.1038/nature04290] [Pub Med ID: 16372014]
    WoS Times Cited: 418 ; Google Scholar Times Cited: 706
    F1000 Recommended Publication
  40. Chruszcz M, Cymborowski M, Gawlicka-Chruszcz A, Minor W, Yasukawa S, Ferrara JD (2004)
    L-Methioninium chloride and L-selenomethioninium chloride at 103 K.
    Acta Crystallogr C 60(Pt 12): o868-71. [DOI:10.1107/S0108270104025223] [Pub Med ID: 15579969]
    WoS Times Cited: 3 ; Google Scholar Times Cited: 6
  41. Minor W, Cymborowski M, Otwinowski Z (2002)
    Automatic system for crystallographic data collection and analysis.
    Acta Physica Polonica A 101(5)(): 613-619.
    WoS Times Cited: 25 ; Google Scholar Times Cited: 36
  42. Tomchick DR, Cymborowski M, Minor W, Holman TR, Phan P (2001)
    Structural and functional characterization of second-coordination sphere mutants of soybean lipoxygenase-1.
    Biochemistry 40(25): 7509-17. [DOI:10.1021/bi002893d] [Pub Med ID: 11412104]
    WoS Times Cited: 118 ; Google Scholar Times Cited: 179