Abstract:
:Gaussia luciferase (GLuc) is a small luciferase (18.2 kDa; 168 residues) and is thus attracting much attention as a reporter protein, but the lack of structural information is hampering further application. Here, we report the first solution structure of a fully active, recombinant GLuc determined by heteronuclear multidimensional NMR. We obtained a natively folded GLuc by bacterial expression and efficient refolding using a Solubility Enhancement Petide (SEP) tag. Almost perfect assignments of GLuc's 1H, 13C and 15N backbone signals were obtained. GLuc structure was determined using CYANA, which automatically identified over 2500 NOEs of which > 570 were long-range. GLuc is an all-alpha-helix protein made of nine helices. The region spanning residues 10-18, 36-81, 96-145 and containing eight out of the nine helices was determined with a Cα-atom RMSD of 1.39 Å ± 0.39 Å. The structure of GLuc is novel and unique. Two homologous sequential repeats form two anti-parallel bundles made by 4 helices and tied together by three disulfide bonds. The N-terminal helix 1 is grabbed by these 4 helices. Further, we found a hydrophobic cavity where several residues responsible for bioluminescence were identified in previous mutational studies, and we thus hypothesize that this is a catalytic cavity, where the hydrophobic coelenterazine binds and the bioluminescence reaction takes place.
journal_name
Sci Repjournal_title
Scientific reportsauthors
Wu N,Kobayashi N,Tsuda K,Unzai S,Saotome T,Kuroda Y,Yamazaki Tdoi
10.1038/s41598-020-76486-4subject
Has Abstractpub_date
2020-11-18 00:00:00pages
20069issue
1issn
2045-2322pii
10.1038/s41598-020-76486-4journal_volume
10pub_type
杂志文章abstract::For augmentation or reconstruction of urinary bladder after cystectomy, bladder urothelium derived from human induced pluripotent stem cells (hiPSCs) has recently received focus. However, previous studies have only shown the emergence of cells expressing some urothelial markers among derivatives of hiPSCs, and no repo...
journal_title:Scientific reports
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1038/s41598-019-46848-8
更新日期:2019-07-19 00:00:00
abstract::Extensive computational modeling and simulations have been carried out, in the present study, to uncover the fundamental reaction pathway for butyrylcholinesterase (BChE)-catalyzed hydrolysis of ghrelin, demonstrating that the acylation process of BChE-catalyzed hydrolysis of ghrelin follows an unprecedented single-st...
journal_title:Scientific reports
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1038/srep22322
更新日期:2016-02-29 00:00:00
abstract::Asymmetric transmission (AT) devices are fundamental elements for optical computing and information processing. We here propose an AT device consisting of a pair of coupled complementary subwavelength gratings. Different from previous works, asymmetric dielectric environment is employed for unidirectional excitation o...
journal_title:Scientific reports
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1038/s41598-019-53586-4
更新日期:2019-11-19 00:00:00
abstract::Hydrothermal reduction is a promising approach for graphene oxide (GO) reduction since it is environmentally friendly, simple, and cost effective. We present a detailed study of structural changes occurring in graphene oxide during the reduction process. The correlations between the interlayer spacing, chemical states...
journal_title:Scientific reports
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1038/s41598-018-25194-1
更新日期:2018-05-01 00:00:00
abstract::Motion sensitivity impairment in Alzheimer's disease (AD) is often characterized as elevated coherence threshold. An alternative way to measure motion sensitivity is the direction threshold, i.e., the minimal angle of motion direction that can be discriminated. So far, it is less clear whether and how the direction th...
journal_title:Scientific reports
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1038/s41598-019-48942-3
更新日期:2019-09-10 00:00:00
abstract::The chicken egg resists most environmental microbes suggesting that it potentially contains efficient antimicrobial molecules. Considering that some heparin-binding proteins in mammals are antibacterial, we investigated the presence and the antimicrobial activity of heparin-binding proteins from chicken egg white. Mas...
journal_title:Scientific reports
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1038/srep27974
更新日期:2016-06-13 00:00:00
abstract::Mesenchymal stem cells (MSCs) are multi-potent cells that are self-renewable and possess the potential to differentiate into multiple lineages. Several studies demonstrated that MSCs could regulate a Th17/Treg balance and could be a potential therapeutic target for Rheumatoid Arthritis (RA). A20 is highly expressed in...
journal_title:Scientific reports
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1038/s41598-017-18693-0
更新日期:2018-01-11 00:00:00
abstract::Current-induced spin-orbit torques (SOTs) in structurally asymmetric multilayers have been used to efficiently manipulate magnetization. In a structure with vertical symmetry breaking, a damping-like SOT can deterministically switch a perpendicular magnet, provided an in-plane magnetic field is applied. Recently, it h...
journal_title:Scientific reports
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1038/srep23956
更新日期:2016-04-06 00:00:00
abstract::Rheumatoid Arthritis (RA) is a chronic inflammatory disorder where incidence and severity of myocardial infarction are increased. Data on the incidence and outcome of stroke are conflicting. Thus, we investigated outcome after Ischemia/Reperfusion (I/R) brain injury in a mouse model of RA and assessed for the role of ...
journal_title:Scientific reports
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1038/s41598-019-38670-z
更新日期:2019-02-18 00:00:00
abstract::In actively deforming regions, crustal deformation is accommodated by earthquakes and through a variety of transient aseismic phenomena. Here, we study the 2010-2014 Pollino (Southern Italy) swarm sequence (main shock M W 5.1) located within the Pollino seismic gap, by analysing the surface deformation derived from Gl...
journal_title:Scientific reports
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1038/s41598-017-00649-z
更新日期:2017-04-12 00:00:00
abstract::Clostridium difficile is a gastrointestinal pathogen but how the bacterium colonises this niche is still little understood. Sortase enzymes covalently attach specific bacterial proteins to the peptidoglycan cell wall and are often involved in colonisation by pathogens. Here we show C. difficile proteins CD2537 and CD3...
journal_title:Scientific reports
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1038/s41598-017-08322-1
更新日期:2017-08-23 00:00:00
abstract::Why humans cooperate in large groups and with non-kin remains a puzzle for researchers across the natural and social sciences. Investigating whether cooperation is sexually selected could contribute to an understanding of the evolution of human cooperation. Competition for access to mates could indeed select for coope...
journal_title:Scientific reports
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1038/srep29819
更新日期:2016-07-14 00:00:00
abstract::Cardiovascular diseases are directly linked to smoking habits, which has both physiological and anatomical effects on the systemic and retinal circulations, and these changes can be detected with fundus photographs. Here, we aimed to 1- design a Convolutional Neural Network (CNN), using retinal photographs, to differe...
journal_title:Scientific reports
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1038/s41598-019-43670-0
更新日期:2019-05-09 00:00:00
abstract::Wetting phenomena in multi-phase systems govern the shape of the contact line which separates the different phases. For liquids in contact with solid surfaces wetting is typically described in terms of contact angle. While in macroscopic systems the contact angle can be determined experimentally, on the molecular scal...
journal_title:Scientific reports
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1038/srep26111
更新日期:2016-05-17 00:00:00
abstract::The salamander chytrid fungus (Batrachochytrium salamandrivorans [Bsal]) is causing massive mortality of salamanders in Europe. The potential for spread via international trade into North America and the high diversity of salamanders has catalyzed concern about Bsal in the U.S. Surveillance programs for invading patho...
journal_title:Scientific reports
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1038/s41598-020-69486-x
更新日期:2020-08-03 00:00:00
abstract::To evaluate and improve datasets of anthropogenic land cover change used in local and global climate models, great efforts were made to reconstruct historical land use, including the LandCover 6k project which dedicated to reconstructing human land use over the past 10,000 years. In this study, we utilized historical ...
journal_title:Scientific reports
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1038/s41598-018-31807-6
更新日期:2018-09-10 00:00:00
abstract::Antimicrobial peptides, produced by innate immune system of hosts in response to invading pathogens, are capable of fighting against a spectrum of bacteria, viruses, fungi, parasites and cancer cells. Here, a recombinant silkworm AMP Bmattacin2 from heterologous expression is studied, indicating a broad spectrum of an...
journal_title:Scientific reports
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1038/srep31149
更新日期:2016-08-09 00:00:00
abstract::An amendment to this paper has been published and can be accessed via a link at the top of the paper. ...
journal_title:Scientific reports
pub_type: 已发布勘误
doi:10.1038/s41598-020-57850-w
更新日期:2020-01-21 00:00:00
abstract::The detection and assessment of leakage in retinal fluorescein angiogram images is important for the management of a wide range of retinal diseases. We have developed a framework that can automatically detect three types of leakage (large focal, punctate focal, and vessel segment leakage) and validated it on images fr...
journal_title:Scientific reports
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1038/srep10425
更新日期:2015-06-01 00:00:00
abstract::Misfolding and aggregation of prion protein (PrP) causes neurodegenerative diseases like Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (CJD) and scrapie. Besides the consensus that spontaneous conversion of normal cellular PrPC into misfolded and aggregating PrPSc is the central event in prion disease, an alternative hypothesis suggests ...
journal_title:Scientific reports
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1038/s41598-019-39213-2
更新日期:2019-02-21 00:00:00
abstract::We report on the synthesis and electrical properties of nine new alkylated silane self-assembled monolayers (SAMs) - (EtO)3Si(CH2)nN = CHPhX where n = 3 or 11 and X = 4-CF3, 3,5-CF3, 3-F-4-CF3, 4-F, or 2,3,4,5,6-F, and explore their rectification behavior in relation to their molecular structure. The electrical proper...
journal_title:Scientific reports
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1038/srep38092
更新日期:2016-11-29 00:00:00
abstract::A correction to this article has been published and is linked from the HTML and PDF versions of this paper. The error has not been fixed in the paper. ...
journal_title:Scientific reports
pub_type: 已发布勘误
doi:10.1038/s41598-018-33869-y
更新日期:2018-10-29 00:00:00
abstract::Plasma dipeptidyl-peptidase-4 activity (DPP4a) is inversely associated with left ventricular function in patients with heart failure (HF) or diabetes. However, the association between DPP4a and left ventricular function in ST-segment elevation myocardial infarction (STEMI) patients has not been reported. We studied th...
journal_title:Scientific reports
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1038/s41598-017-06514-3
更新日期:2017-07-21 00:00:00
abstract::The current economics of the fish protein industry demand rapid, accurate and expressive prediction algorithms at every step of protein production especially with the challenge of global climate change. This help to predict and analyze functional and nutritional quality then consequently control food allergies in hype...
journal_title:Scientific reports
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1038/s41598-017-10890-1
更新日期:2017-09-07 00:00:00
abstract::A new synchrotron-based technique for elemental imaging that combines radiography and fluorescence spectroscopy has been developed and applied to study the spatial distribution of Ag, Zr and Mo in an Al alloy during heating and melting to 700, and then re-soldification. For the first time, multi-element distributions ...
journal_title:Scientific reports
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1038/srep15988
更新日期:2015-11-02 00:00:00
abstract::A novel III-Nitride digital alloy (DA) with ultra-broadband optical gain is proposed. Numerical analysis shows a 50-period InN/GaN DA yields minibands that are densely quantized by numerous confined states. Interband transitions between the conduction and valence minibands create ultra-broadband optical gain spectra w...
journal_title:Scientific reports
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1038/s41598-018-21434-6
更新日期:2018-02-15 00:00:00
abstract::Cardiac contractility is enhanced by phosphorylation of myosin light chain 2 (MLC2) by cardiac-specific MLC kinase (cMLCK), located at the neck region of myosin heavy chain. In normal mouse and human hearts, the level of phosphorylation is maintained relatively constant, at around 30-40% of total MLC2, likely by well-...
journal_title:Scientific reports
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1038/s41598-019-48884-w
更新日期:2019-08-29 00:00:00
abstract::The ongoing global intensification of wheat production will likely be accompanied by a rising pressure of Fusarium diseases. While utmost attention was given to Fusarium head blight (FHB) belowground plant infections of the pathogen have largely been ignored. The current knowledge about the impact of soil borne Fusari...
journal_title:Scientific reports
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1038/s41598-018-31544-w
更新日期:2018-09-03 00:00:00
abstract::Applications of ferroelectric materials in modern microelectronics will be greatly encouraged if the thermal incompatibility between inorganic ferroelectrics and semiconductor devices is overcome. Here, solution-processable layers of the most commercial ferroelectric compound--morphotrophic phase boundary lead zircona...
journal_title:Scientific reports
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1038/srep20143
更新日期:2016-02-03 00:00:00
abstract::ANO1 is a calcium-activated chloride channel that is frequently overexpressed in head and neck squamous cell carcinoma (HNSCC) and other cancers. While ANO1 expression negatively correlates with survival in several cancers, its epigenetic regulation is poorly understood. We analyzed HNSCC samples from TCGA and a separ...
journal_title:Scientific reports
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1038/s41598-017-15634-9
更新日期:2017-11-09 00:00:00