Helical peptide and protein design.

abstract：:Recent uses of phage-displayed combinatorial peptide and cDNA libraries have proven invaluable in mapping protein-protein interactions, protein-drug interactions, and the generation of 'molecular therapeutics'. This article reviews some of the findings of the past year and points out some of the pros and cons of phage...

journal_title：Current opinion in chemical biology

authors： Rodi DJ,Makowski L,Kay BK

更新日期：2002-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The catalytic pathways of soluble methane monooxygenase (sMMO) and cytochrome P450CAM, iron-containing enzymes, are described and compared. Recent extensive density functional ab initio electronic structure calculations have revealed many similarities in a number of the key catalytic steps, as well as some important d...

journal_title：Current opinion in chemical biology

authors： Guallar V,Gherman BF,Lippard SJ,Friesner RA

更新日期：2002-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Peptide arrays have attracted wide interest as tools for discovering biochemical interactions. Because many protein binding and enzyme activities are directed towards peptides, the preparation of arrays having hundreds to thousands of immobilized peptides offers an unprecedented opportunity for identifying interaction...

journal_title：Current opinion in chemical biology

authors： Min DH,Mrksich M

更新日期：2004-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The notorious difficulty of elucidating structures of membrane transporters by crystallography has long prevented our understanding of active transport mechanism coupled with ion/proton transport. The determination of the first crystal structure of the drug/H+ antiporter AcrB was a breakthrough for structure-based und...

journal_title：Current opinion in chemical biology

authors： Tamura N,Konishi S,Yamaguchi A

更新日期：2003-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Great progress has been made in expanding the repertoire of genetically encoded fluorescent sensors for monitoring intracellular transition metals (TMs). This powerful toolkit permits dynamic and non-invasive detection of TMs with high spatial-temporal resolution, which enables us to better understand the roles of TM ...

journal_title：Current opinion in chemical biology

authors： Hao Z,Zhu R,Chen PR

更新日期：2018-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Study of protein adsorption to solid surfaces continues to be substantial because of its role in cellular responses to biomaterials, interest in molecular aspects such as conformation and orientation, new methods for making protein repellent surfaces, and new application areas such as nanoparticles and microfluidics. ...

journal_title：Current opinion in chemical biology

authors： Szott LM,Horbett TA

更新日期：2011-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The cytochrome bc(1) complex is a key mitochondrial enzyme that catalyses transfer of electrons maintaining the membrane potential of mitochondria. Currently, atovaquone is the only drug in clinical use targeting the Plasmodium falciparum bc(1) complex. The rapid emergence of resistance to atovaquone resulted in a cos...

journal_title：Current opinion in chemical biology

authors： Barton V,Fisher N,Biagini GA,Ward SA,O'Neill PM

更新日期：2010-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Natural products containing a gamma-butyrolactone ring are abundant in nature; however, few general synthetic approaches to their stereoselective synthesis with broad structural variety are known. In this article, recent developments towards mono- and polycyclic gamma-butyrolactone natural products and analogs are dis...

journal_title：Current opinion in chemical biology

authors： Seitz M,Reiser O

更新日期：2005-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The micro-environment in which stem cells reside regulates their fate, and synthetic materials have recently been designed to emulate these regulatory processes for various medical applications. Ligands inspired by the natural extracellular matrix, cell-cell contacts, and growth factors have been incorporated into syn...

journal_title：Current opinion in chemical biology

authors： Saha K,Pollock JF,Schaffer DV,Healy KE

更新日期：2007-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Chromatin organization spans a wide range of structural complexity. Substructures at the 10-200nm scale are poorly characterized, especially in living cells, due to the limitations of electron microscopy and standard optical microscopy. Recently developed super-resolution fluorescence microscopy methods represent an e...

journal_title：Current opinion in chemical biology

authors： Flors C,Earnshaw WC

更新日期：2011-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Chemical imaging plays an increasingly important role in studying heterogeneous biological systems. It combines molecular spectroscopy with high-resolution spatial information to create quantitative images of molecular distributions. Here I summarize recent progress in technical developments and biological application...

journal_title：Current opinion in chemical biology

authors： Fu D

更新日期：2017-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The function of nucleic acids has been an endless source of discovery and invention that has drastically enhanced our appreciation of DNA and RNA as multifaceted polymers. It is now widely known that nucleic acids can act as enzymes (deoxyribozymes and ribozymes) and as receptors (aptamers), and that these functional ...

journal_title：Current opinion in chemical biology

authors： Navani NK,Li Y

更新日期：2006-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Medicinal chemistry principles are being increasingly applied to the design of smaller, high purity, information-rich libraries. Recent computational advances in statistical methodology, the design of libraries to reduce ADMET problems, targeting protein families and revisiting natural products as sources of inspirati...

journal_title：Current opinion in chemical biology

authors： Rose S,Stevens A

更新日期：2003-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Oligosaccharyl transferase is part of the macromolecular machinery that processes nascent proteins in the endoplasmic reticulum. The enzyme is highly conserved, catalyzes the initial step in the biosynthesis of N-linked glycoproteins and acts as a 'gatekeeper' for the secretory pathway. As more proteins associated wit...

journal_title：Current opinion in chemical biology

authors： Dempski RE Jr,Imperiali B

更新日期：2002-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The ability of cobalamin to coordinate different upper axial ligands gives rise to a diversity of reactivity. Traditionally, adenosylcobalamin is associated with radical-based rearrangements, and methylcobalamin with methyl cation transfers. Recently, however, a new role for adenosylcobalamin has been discovered as a ...

journal_title：Current opinion in chemical biology

authors： Bridwell-Rabb J,Drennan CL

更新日期：2017-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:RNA plays an essential cellular role in nearly every aspect of the transmission and expression of genetic information, including regulatory roles that have significance for cellular development. Access to RNA bearing synthetic modifications has allowed biological chemists to probe deep into the inner workings of cellu...

journal_title：Current opinion in chemical biology

authors： Das SR,Fong R,Piccirilli JA

更新日期：2005-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Systematic studies of the organization of biochemical networks that make up the living cell can be defined by studying the organization and dynamics of protein interaction networks (PINs). Here, we describe recent conceptual and experimental advances that can achieve this aim and how chemical perturbations of interact...

journal_title：Current opinion in chemical biology

authors： Campbell-Valois FX,Michnick S

更新日期：2005-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Mass spectrometry has become a choice method for broad-spectrum metabolite analysis in both fundamental and applied research. This can range from comprehensive analysis achieved through time-consuming chromatography to the rapid analysis of a few target metabolites without chromatography. In this review article, we hi...

journal_title：Current opinion in chemical biology

authors： de Raad M,Fischer CR,Northen TR

更新日期：2016-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Metallodrugs are extensively used to treat and diagnose distinct disease types. The unique physical-chemical properties of metal ions offer tantalizing opportunities to tailor effective scaffolds for selectively targeting specific biomolecules. Modern experimental techniques have collected a large body of structural d...

journal_title：Current opinion in chemical biology

authors： Janoš P,Spinello A,Magistrato A

更新日期：2020-08-08 00:00:00

abstract：:In the past five to ten years, it has become increasingly apparent that the function of Fe-S clusters is not limited to electron transfer, a function implicit in their discovery. We now know that the vulnerability of these structures to oxidative destruction is used by nature in sensing O2, iron, and possibly also nit...

journal_title：Current opinion in chemical biology

authors： Beinert H,Kiley PJ

更新日期：1999-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Although biotin and lipoic acid are two universally conserved cofactors essential for intermediary metabolism, their synthetic pathways have become known only in recent years. Both pathways have unusual features. Biotin synthesis in Escherichia coli requires a methylation that is later removed whereas lipoic acid is a...

journal_title：Current opinion in chemical biology

authors： Cronan JE

更新日期：2018-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The rapid growth of bio-sequence information has resulted in an increasing demand for reliable methods that group proteins. A few databases with curated alignments of protein families have demonstrated that expert-driven repositories can keep up with the data deluge in the genome era. These original resources implicit...

journal_title：Current opinion in chemical biology

authors： Liu J,Rost B

更新日期：2003-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The number of new chemical entities has remained rather constant (averaging 37 per year) in the past decade, despite the multiple-fold increase in the number of compounds that are being made and tested. Chemical space requires novel methods that can handle the increasing number of potentially accessible molecules. Nei...

journal_title：Current opinion in chemical biology

authors： Oprea TI

更新日期：2002-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The fermentation of synthesis gas (including carbon monoxide, carbon dioxide, and hydrogen) with anaerobic acetogens is an established biotechnological process that has recently been transferred to a commercial scale. The natural product spectrum of acetogens is natively restricted to acetate, ethanol, and 2,3-butaned...

journal_title：Current opinion in chemical biology

authors： Molitor B,Marcellin E,Angenent LT

更新日期：2017-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Synthetic biology offers a bottom-up engineering approach that intends to understand complex systems via design-build-test cycles. Embryonic development comprises complex processes that originate at the level of gene regulatory networks in a cell and emerge into collective cellular behaviors with multicellular forms a...

journal_title：Current opinion in chemical biology

authors： Ebrahimkhani MR,Ebisuya M

更新日期：2019-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Structural genomics (SG) has significantly increased the number of novel protein structures of targets with medical relevance. In the protein kinase area, SG has contributed >50% of all novel kinases structures during the past three years and determined more than 30 novel catalytic domain structures. Many of the relea...

journal_title：Current opinion in chemical biology

authors： Marsden BD,Knapp S

更新日期：2008-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Complex glycans participate in many essential life processes. Studies of glycan-mediated biological events have traditionally employed structurally defined fragments of the more elaborate natural molecules. However, it is now clear that this approach may sometimes be insufficient and this realization has prompted a de...

journal_title：Current opinion in chemical biology

authors： Lowary TL

更新日期：2013-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Four-electron reduction of dioxygen to water and splitting of water to dioxygen are extremely important processes in the context of attaining clean renewable energy sources. High-valent metal-oxo cores are proposed as reactive intermediates in these vital processes, although they have only been isolated in extremely r...

journal_title：Current opinion in chemical biology

authors： Ray K,Heims F,Schwalbe M,Nam W

更新日期：2015-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In many species, double-stranded RNA can specifically and effectively silence genes. This newly discovered biological phenomenon, called RNA interference (RNAi), has practical implications for functional genomics. As shown by two recent reports, RNAi provides a rapid method to test the function of genes in the nematod...

journal_title：Current opinion in chemical biology

authors： Barstead R

更新日期：2001-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Methanogenesis from trimethylamine, dimethylamine or monomethylamine is initiated by a series of corrinoid-dependent methyltransferases. The non-homologous genes encoding the full-length methyltransferases each possess an in-frame UAG (amber) codon that does not terminate translation. The amber codon is decoded by a d...

journal_title：Current opinion in chemical biology

authors： Krzycki JA

更新日期：2004-10-01 00:00:00