Technologies to probe functions and mechanisms of long noncoding RNAs.

abstract：:Changing environmental conditions and lessening fresh water supplies have sparked intense interest in understanding and manipulating abscisic acid (ABA) signaling, which controls adaptive responses to drought and other abiotic stressors. We recently discovered a selective ABA agonist, pyrabactin, and used it to discov...

journal_title：Nature structural & molecular biology

authors： Peterson FC,Burgie ES,Park SY,Jensen DR,Weiner JJ,Bingman CA,Chang CE,Cutler SR,Phillips GN Jr,Volkman BF

更新日期：2010-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Nuclear volume and the number of nuclear pore complexes (NPCs) on the nucleus almost double during interphase in dividing cells. How these events are coordinated with the cell cycle is poorly understood, particularly in mammalian cells. We report here, based on newly developed techniques for visualizing NPC formation,...

journal_title：Nature structural & molecular biology

authors： Maeshima K,Iino H,Hihara S,Funakoshi T,Watanabe A,Nishimura M,Nakatomi R,Yahata K,Imamoto F,Hashikawa T,Yokota H,Imamoto N

更新日期：2010-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The long noncoding RNA Xist is expressed from only the paternal X chromosome in mouse preimplantation female embryos and mediates transcriptional silencing of that chromosome. In females, absence of Xist leads to postimplantation lethality. Here, through single-cell RNA sequencing of early preimplantation mouse embryo...

journal_title：Nature structural & molecular biology

authors： Borensztein M,Syx L,Ancelin K,Diabangouaya P,Picard C,Liu T,Liang JB,Vassilev I,Galupa R,Servant N,Barillot E,Surani A,Chen CJ,Heard E

更新日期：2017-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Newly synthesized polypeptides undergo various cotranslational maturation steps, including N-terminal enzymatic processing, chaperone-assisted folding and membrane targeting, but the spatial and temporal coordination of these steps is unclear. We show that Escherichia coli methionine aminopeptidase (MAP) associates wi...

journal_title：Nature structural & molecular biology

authors： Sandikci A,Gloge F,Martinez M,Mayer MP,Wade R,Bukau B,Kramer G

更新日期：2013-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Methylation of histones is central to chromatin regulation, and thus previously unknown mechanisms regulating genome function can be revealed through the discovery of new histone methyl marks. Here we identify Set5 as the first histone H4 methyltransferase, which monomethylates the critical H4 lysine residues 5, 8 and...

journal_title：Nature structural & molecular biology

authors： Green EM,Mas G,Young NL,Garcia BA,Gozani O

更新日期：2012-02-19 00:00:00

abstract：:In nutrient-starved bacteria, RelA and SpoT proteins have key roles in reducing cell growth and overcoming stresses. Here we identify functional SpoT orthologs in metazoa (named Mesh1, encoded by HDDC3 in human and Q9VAM9 in Drosophila melanogaster) and reveal their structures and functions. Like the bacterial enzyme,...

journal_title：Nature structural & molecular biology

authors： Sun D,Lee G,Lee JH,Kim HY,Rhee HW,Park SY,Kim KJ,Kim Y,Kim BY,Hong JI,Park C,Choy HE,Kim JH,Jeon YH,Chung J

更新日期：2010-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Here we report the crystal structures of I.C and I.A wobble base pairs in the context of the ribosomal decoding center, clearly showing that the I.A base pair is of an I(anti).A(anti) conformation, as predicted by Crick. Additionally, the structures enable the observation of changes in the anticodon to allow purine-pu...

journal_title：Nature structural & molecular biology

authors： Murphy FV 4th,Ramakrishnan V

更新日期：2004-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Although both homologous recombination (HR) and nonhomologous end joining can repair DNA double-strand breaks (DSBs), the mechanisms by which one of these pathways is chosen over the other remain unclear. Here we show that transcriptionally active chromatin is preferentially repaired by HR. Using chromatin immunopreci...

journal_title：Nature structural & molecular biology

authors： Aymard F,Bugler B,Schmidt CK,Guillou E,Caron P,Briois S,Iacovoni JS,Daburon V,Miller KM,Jackson SP,Legube G

更新日期：2014-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The highly contagious measles virus infects millions of individuals worldwide, causing serious disease in children of developing countries. Infection is initiated by attachment of the measles virus hemagglutinin (MV-H), a glycoprotein anchored to the virus envelope, to the host cell receptors CD46 or signaling lymphoc...

journal_title：Nature structural & molecular biology

authors： Santiago C,Celma ML,Stehle T,Casasnovas JM

更新日期：2010-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To our knowledge, no structural study to date has characterized, in an intact receptor, the coupling of conformational change in extracellular domains through a single-pass transmembrane domain to conformational change in cytoplasmic domains. Here we examine such coupling, and its unexpected complexity, using nearly f...

journal_title：Nature structural & molecular biology

authors： Mi LZ,Lu C,Li Z,Nishida N,Walz T,Springer TA

更新日期：2011-08-07 00:00:00

abstract：:The function of human XPA protein, a key subunit of the nucleotide excision repair pathway, has been examined with site-directed substitutions in its putative DNA-binding cleft. After screening for repair activity in a host-cell reactivation assay, we analyzed mutants by comparing their affinities for different substr...

journal_title：Nature structural & molecular biology

authors： Camenisch U,Dip R,Schumacher SB,Schuler B,Naegeli H

更新日期：2006-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The N-end rule pathway is a regulated proteolytic system that targets proteins containing destabilizing N-terminal residues (N-degrons) for ubiquitination and proteasomal degradation in eukaryotes. The N-degrons of type 1 substrates contain an N-terminal basic residue that is recognized by the UBR box domain of the E3...

journal_title：Nature structural & molecular biology

authors： Choi WS,Jeong BC,Joo YJ,Lee MR,Kim J,Eck MJ,Song HK

更新日期：2010-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:HIV-1 capsid plays multiple key roles in viral replication, and inhibition of capsid assembly is an attractive target for therapeutic intervention. Here, we report the atomic-resolution structure of capsid protein (CA) tubes, determined by magic-angle spinning NMR and data-guided molecular dynamics simulations. Functi...

journal_title：Nature structural & molecular biology

authors： Lu M,Russell RW,Bryer AJ,Quinn CM,Hou G,Zhang H,Schwieters CD,Perilla JR,Gronenborn AM,Polenova T

更新日期：2020-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:During protein synthesis, mRNA and tRNAs are iteratively translocated by the ribosome. Precisely what molecular event is rate limiting for translocation is not known. Here we show that disruption of the interactions between the A-site codon and the ribosome accelerates translocation, suggesting that the release of the...

journal_title：Nature structural & molecular biology

authors： Khade PK,Joseph S

更新日期：2011-10-23 00:00:00

abstract：:In this article, the Ponceau staining presented in Fig. 1b (right, bottom) does not follow best practices for figure preparation since itinadvertently included duplications from the Ponceau staining presented in Supplementary Fig. 1b (for which the same preparation ofnucleosomes from HeLa cells had been used). A new F...

journal_title：Nature structural & molecular biology

authors： Daujat S,Weiss T,Mohn F,Lange UC,Ziegler-Birling C,Zeissler U,Lappe M,Schübeler D,Torres-Padilla ME,Schneider R

更新日期：2018-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To determine which genomic features promote homologous recombination, we created a genome-wide map of gene targeting sites. We used an adeno-associated virus vector to target identical loci introduced as transcriptionally active retroviral vectors. A comparison of ~2,000 targeted and untargeted sites showed that targe...

journal_title：Nature structural & molecular biology

authors： Deyle DR,Hansen RS,Cornea AM,Li LB,Burt AA,Alexander IE,Sandstrom RS,Stamatoyannopoulos JA,Wei CL,Russell DW

更新日期：2014-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The tumor suppressor p53 has been proposed to bind target promoters upon genotoxic stress. However, recent evidence shows that p53 occupies some target promoters without such stress, suggesting that a negative regulator might render p53 transcriptionally inactive on these promoters. Here we show that calcineurin bindi...

journal_title：Nature structural & molecular biology

authors： Jang H,Choi SY,Cho EJ,Youn HD

更新日期：2009-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The cocrystal structure of the PP7 bacteriophage coat protein in complex with its translational operator identifies a distinct mode of sequence-specific RNA recognition when compared to the well-characterized MS2 coat protein-RNA complex. The structure reveals the molecular basis of the PP7 coat protein's ability to s...

journal_title：Nature structural & molecular biology

authors： Chao JA,Patskovsky Y,Almo SC,Singer RH

更新日期：2008-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In eukaryotic cells, many introns are constitutively, rather than alternatively, spliced and therefore do not contribute to isoform diversification. It has remained unclear what functional roles such constitutive splicing provides. To explore this issue, we asked how splicing affects the efficiency with which individu...

journal_title：Nature structural & molecular biology

authors： Ding F,Elowitz MB

更新日期：2019-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Intracellular membrane fusion proceeds via distinct stages of membrane docking, hemifusion and fusion pore opening and depends on interacting families of Rab, SNARE and SM proteins. Trans-SNARE complexes dock the membranes in close apposition. Efficient fusion requires further SNARE-associated proteins. They might inc...

journal_title：Nature structural & molecular biology

authors： Pieren M,Schmidt A,Mayer A

更新日期：2010-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Many classes of small RNA (sRNA) involved in RNA silencing are generated by double-stranded RNA (dsRNA) processing. Although principles of sRNA biogenesis have emerged, newly identified classes of sRNAs have features that suggest additional biogenesis mechanisms. Tetrahymena thermophila expresses one such class, compr...

journal_title：Nature structural & molecular biology

authors： Lee SR,Collins K

更新日期：2007-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The DNA-damage response (DDR) ensures genome stability and proper inheritance of genetic information, both of which are essential to survival. It is presently unclear to what extent other signaling pathways modulate DDR function. Here we show that Notch receptor binds and inactivates ATM kinase and that this mechanism...

journal_title：Nature structural & molecular biology

authors： Vermezovic J,Adamowicz M,Santarpia L,Rustighi A,Forcato M,Lucano C,Massimiliano L,Costanzo V,Bicciato S,Del Sal G,d'Adda di Fagagna F

更新日期：2015-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Kinases are involved in disease development and modulation of their activity can be therapeutically beneficial. Drug-resistant mutant kinases are valuable tools in drug discovery efforts, but the prediction of mutants across the kinome is challenging. Here, we generate deep mutational scanning data to identify mutant ...

journal_title：Nature structural & molecular biology

authors： Persky NS,Hernandez D,Do Carmo M,Brenan L,Cohen O,Kitajima S,Nayar U,Walker A,Pantel S,Lee Y,Cordova J,Sathappa M,Zhu C,Hayes TK,Ram P,Pancholi P,Mikkelsen TS,Barbie DA,Yang X,Haq R,Piccioni F,Root DE,Johannes

更新日期：2020-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In eukaryotes, the essential dimeric molecular chaperone Hsp90 is required for the activation and maturation of specific substrates such as steroid hormone receptors, tyrosine kinases and transcription factors. Hsp90 is involved in the establishment of cancer and has become an attractive target for drug design. Here w...

journal_title：Nature structural & molecular biology

authors： Hagn F,Lagleder S,Retzlaff M,Rohrberg J,Demmer O,Richter K,Buchner J,Kessler H

更新日期：2011-09-04 00:00:00

abstract：:In bacteria, incorporation of selenocysteine, the 21(st) amino acid, into proteins requires elongation factor SelB, which has the unusual property of binding to both transfer RNA (tRNA) and mRNA. SelB binds to an mRNA hairpin formed by the selenocysteine insertion sequence (SECIS) with extremely high specificity, the ...

journal_title：Nature structural & molecular biology

authors： Yoshizawa S,Rasubala L,Ose T,Kohda D,Fourmy D,Maenaka K

更新日期：2005-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The ≥ 10³⁰ bacteriophages on Earth relentlessly drive adaptive coevolution, forcing the generation of protective mechanisms in their bacterial hosts. One such bacterial phage-resistance system, ToxIN, consists of a protein toxin (ToxN) that is inhibited in vivo by a specific RNA antitoxin (ToxI); however, the mechanis...

journal_title：Nature structural & molecular biology

authors： Blower TR,Pei XY,Short FL,Fineran PC,Humphreys DP,Luisi BF,Salmond GP

更新日期：2011-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Core Qβ replicase comprises the Qβ virus-encoded RNA-dependent RNA polymerase (β-subunit) and the host Escherichia coli translational elongation factors EF-Tu and EF-Ts. The functions of the host proteins in the viral replicase are not clear. Structural analyses of RNA polymerization by core Qβ replicase reveal that a...

journal_title：Nature structural & molecular biology

authors： Takeshita D,Tomita K

更新日期：2012-01-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Although t-loops protect telomeres, they are at risk of cleavage by Holliday junction (HJ) resolvases if branch migration converts the three-way t-loop junction into four-way HJs. T-loop cleavage is repressed by the TRF2 basic domain, which binds three- and four-way junctions and protects HJs in vitro. By replacing th...

journal_title：Nature structural & molecular biology

authors： Schmutz I,Timashev L,Xie W,Patel DJ,de Lange T

更新日期：2017-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Obesity and type II diabetes are closely linked metabolic syndromes that afflict >100 million people worldwide. Although protein tyrosine phosphatase 1B (PTP1B) has emerged as a promising target for the treatment of both syndromes, the discovery of pharmaceutically acceptable inhibitors that bind at the active site re...

journal_title：Nature structural & molecular biology

authors： Wiesmann C,Barr KJ,Kung J,Zhu J,Erlanson DA,Shen W,Fahr BJ,Zhong M,Taylor L,Randal M,McDowell RS,Hansen SK

更新日期：2004-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Type I interferons (IFNs) are multifunctional cytokines that regulate immune responses and cellular functions but also can have detrimental effects on human health. A tight regulatory network therefore controls IFN signaling, which in turn may interfere with medical interventions. The JAK-STAT signaling pathway transm...

journal_title：Nature structural & molecular biology

authors： Arimoto KI,Löchte S,Stoner SA,Burkart C,Zhang Y,Miyauchi S,Wilmes S,Fan JB,Heinisch JJ,Li Z,Yan M,Pellegrini S,Colland F,Piehler J,Zhang DE

更新日期：2017-03-01 00:00:00