The tumour necrosis factor receptor family: life or death choices.

abstract：:A network of dynamic protein interactions with their protein partners, substrates, and ligands is known to be crucial for biological function. Revealing molecular and structural-based mechanisms at atomic resolution and in real-time is fundamental for achieving a basic understanding of cellular processes. These techni...

journal_title：Current opinion in structural biology

authors： Grossman M,Sela-Passwell N,Sagi I

更新日期：2011-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Channelrhodopsins have become an integral part of modern neuroscience approaches due to their ability to control neuronal activity in targeted cell populations. The recent determination of several channelrhodopsin X-ray structures now enables us to study their function with unprecedented molecular precision. We will d...

journal_title：Current opinion in structural biology

authors： Rappleye M,Berndt A

更新日期：2019-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Asymmetric cell division (ACD) is a strategy for achieving cell diversity. Research carried out over the last two decades has shown that in some cell types that divide asymmetrically, mother and daughter centrosomes are noticeably different from one another in structure, behaviour, and fate, and that robust ACD depend...

journal_title：Current opinion in structural biology

authors： Gonzalez C

更新日期：2020-12-03 00:00:00

abstract：:Protein design efforts are beginning to yield molecules with many of the properties of natural proteins. Such experiments are informed by and contribute to our understanding of the sequence determinants of protein folding and stability. The most important design elements seem to be the proper placement of hydrophobic ...

journal_title：Current opinion in structural biology

authors： Cordes MH,Davidson AR,Sauer RT

更新日期：1996-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Carbohydrate microarray technologies are new developments at the frontiers of glycomics. Results of 'proof of concept' experiments with carbohydrate-binding proteins of the immune system - antibodies, selectins, a cytokine and a chemokine - and several plant lectins indicate that microarrays of carbohydrates (glycocon...

journal_title：Current opinion in structural biology

authors： Feizi T,Fazio F,Chai W,Wong CH

更新日期：2003-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Generally, non-catalytic carbohydrate binding module (CBM) specificity has been shown to parallel the catalytic activity of the carbohydrate active enzyme (CAZyme) module it is appended to. With the rapid expansion in metagenomic sequence space for the potential discovery of new CBMs in addition to the recent emergenc...

journal_title：Current opinion in structural biology

authors： Abbott DW,van Bueren AL

更新日期：2014-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:As a result of the recent enormous technological progress, experimental structure determination has become an integral part of the development of drugs against disease-related target proteins. The post-translational modification of proteins is an important regulatory process in living organisms; one such example is ly...

journal_title：Current opinion in structural biology

authors： Mittl PR,Grütter MG

更新日期：2006-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The application of biocatalysis for the synthesis of glycans and glycoconjugates is a well-established and successful strategy, both for small and large scale synthesis. Compared to chemical synthesis, is has the advantage of high selectivity, but biocatalysis had been largely limited to natural glycans both in terms ...

journal_title：Current opinion in structural biology

authors： Pallister E,Gray CJ,Flitsch SL

更新日期：2020-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Covalent modifications of histone proteins regulate a wide variety of cellular processes. Methylation of histone H3K79 and H3K4 is associated with active transcription and is catalyzed by Dot1L and Set1, respectively. Both Dot1L and Set1 are activated by prior ubiquitination of histone H2B on K120 in a process termed ...

journal_title：Current opinion in structural biology

authors： Worden EJ,Wolberger C

更新日期：2019-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Lipidic mesophases have been used to produce diffraction-quality crystals of several membrane proteins. The mechanism by which the method works is a mystery. The thrust is to continue to use it whilst deciphering the underlying mechanism and solving the second 'phase problem' in membrane protein crystallography. The m...

journal_title：Current opinion in structural biology

authors： Caffrey M

更新日期：2000-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:TolC and its many homologues comprise an alpha-helical transperiplasmic tunnel embedded in the bacterial outer membrane by a contiguous beta-barrel channel, providing a large exit duct for diverse substrates. The 'channel-tunnel' is closed at its periplasmic entrance, but can be opened by an 'iris-like' mechanism when...

journal_title：Current opinion in structural biology

authors： Koronakis V,Andersen C,Hughes C

更新日期：2001-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The torque-generating, direction-reversing switch proteins of the bacterial flagellar rotary motor form a cytoplasmic extension of the bacterial flagellar basal body. 10 A maps, obtained by electron cryomicroscopy, of the bacterial filament reveal an unusual alpha domain which forms the protein-subunit export channel....

journal_title：Current opinion in structural biology

authors： DeRosier DJ

更新日期：1995-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Improved rational drug design methods are needed to lower the cost and increase the success rate of drug discovery and development. Alchemical binding free energy calculations, one potential tool for rational design, have progressed rapidly over the past decade, but still fall short of providing robust tools for pharm...

journal_title：Current opinion in structural biology

authors： Chodera JD,Mobley DL,Shirts MR,Dixon RW,Branson K,Pande VS

更新日期：2011-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Conformational dynamics is a hallmark of diverse non-coding RNA functions. During these functional processes, RNA molecules almost ubiquitously undergo conformational transitions that are tuned to meet distinct structural and kinetic requirements for proper function. A complete mechanistic understanding of RNA functio...

journal_title：Current opinion in structural biology

authors： Zhao B,Zhang Q

更新日期：2015-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Magic-angle spinning solid-state NMR experiments are well suited to investigating the structures and mechanisms of important proteins that are inaccessible to X-ray crystallography and solution NMR spectroscopy, including membrane proteins and disease-related protein aggregates. Good progress has been made in the deve...

journal_title：Current opinion in structural biology

authors： Thompson LK

更新日期：2002-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:There are now many successful examples of the design of new ligands based on knowledge of target protein structures. In most cases those ligands are unsuitable as drugs because of problems of toxicity, stability or bioavailability. The past twelve months have also seen the description of the structures of many protein...

journal_title：Current opinion in structural biology

authors： Colman PM

更新日期：1994-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Proteins are chief actors in life that perform a myriad of exquisite functions. This diversity has been enabled through the evolution and diversification of protein folds. Analysis of sequences and structures strongly suggest that numerous protein pieces have been reused as building blocks and propagated to many moder...

journal_title：Current opinion in structural biology

authors： Romero-Romero S,Kordes S,Michel F,Höcker B

更新日期：2021-01-13 00:00:00

abstract：:Over recent years, nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) spectroscopy has developed into a powerful mechanistic tool for the investigation of G protein-coupled receptors (GPCRs). NMR provides insights which underpin the dynamic nature of these important receptors and reveals experimental evidence for a complex conformation...

journal_title：Current opinion in structural biology

authors： Bostock MJ,Solt AS,Nietlispach D

更新日期：2019-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Helical filaments were the first structures to be reconstructed in three dimensions from electron microscopic images, and continue to be extensively studied due to the large number of such helical polymers found in biology. In principle, a single image of a helical polymer provides all of the different projections nee...

journal_title：Current opinion in structural biology

authors： Egelman EH

更新日期：2007-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Recent developments in experimental and computational aspects of NMR spectroscopy have had a significant impact on the accuracy and speed of macromolecular structure determination in solution, particularly with regard to systems of high complexity (such as protein complexes). These include experiments designed to prov...

journal_title：Current opinion in structural biology

authors： Clore GM,Schwieters CD

更新日期：2002-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:For various reasons, it seems sensible to redesign or design proteins from the inside out. Past approaches in this field have involved iterations of mutagenesis and characterisation to 'evolve' designs. Increasingly, combinatorial approaches are being taken to select 'fit' sequences from libraries of variant proteins....

journal_title：Current opinion in structural biology

authors： Woolfson DN

更新日期：2001-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:PUF proteins are RNA-binding proteins named for founding members PUMILIO and fem-3 binding factor (FBF). Together these proteins represent the range of known RNA recognition properties. PUMILIO is a prototypical PUF protein whose RNA sequence specificity is simple, elegant, and predictable. FBF displays differences in...

journal_title：Current opinion in structural biology

authors： Lu G,Dolgner SJ,Hall TM

更新日期：2009-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Complementary developments in comparative genomics, protein structure determination and in-depth comparison of protein sequences and structures have provided a better understanding of the prevailing trends in the emergence and diversification of protein domains. The investigation of deep relationships among different ...

journal_title：Current opinion in structural biology

authors： Aravind L,Mazumder R,Vasudevan S,Koonin EV

更新日期：2002-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Telomerase is an RNP that synthesizes the 3' ends of linear chromosomes and is an important regulator of telomere length. It contains a single long non-coding telomerase RNA (TER), telomerase reverse transcriptase (TERT), and other proteins that vary among organisms. Recent progress in structural biology of telomerase...

journal_title：Current opinion in structural biology

authors： Wang Y,Feigon J

更新日期：2017-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:For many protein families, such as serine proteinases or serine proteinase inhibitors, the family assignment predicts reactivity only in general terms. Both detailed specificity and quantitative reactivity are lacking. We believe that, for many such protein families, algorithms can be devised by defining the subset of...

journal_title：Current opinion in structural biology

authors： Laskowski M Jr,Qasim MA,Yi Z

更新日期：2003-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Intermediate filaments are built from one to several members of a multigene family encoding fibrous proteins that share a highly conserved hierarchic assembly plan for the formation of multistranded filaments from distinctly structured extended coiled coils. Despite the rather low primary sequence identity, intermedia...

journal_title：Current opinion in structural biology

authors： Herrmann H,Aebi U

更新日期：1998-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The polycomb repressive complex 2 (PRC2) is a conserved multiprotein, repressive chromatin complex essential for development and maintenance of eukaryotic cellular identity. PRC2 comprises a trimeric core of SUZ12, EED and EZH1/2, which together with RBBP4/7 is sufficient to catalyse mono-methylation, di-methylation a...

journal_title：Current opinion in structural biology

authors： Glancy E,Ciferri C,Bracken AP

更新日期：2020-11-21 00:00:00

abstract：:Recent advances in algorithmic techniques and statistics of sequence alignment have helped to make near-optimal alignments an important tool in the delineation of biologically valid alignments. Near-optimal alignments serve to judge the reliability of portions of a sequence alignment. The statistical assessment of sub...

journal_title：Current opinion in structural biology

authors： Vingron M

更新日期：1996-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Structures of two restriction endonucleases, BamHI and PvuII, were reported in the past year. This doubles the number of restriction endonuclease structures now known from two to four, and enables a comparative analysis of their structures and modes of DNA recognition. Despite a lack of sequence homology between the e...

journal_title：Current opinion in structural biology

authors： Aggarwal AK

更新日期：1995-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A large body of work has gone into understanding the effect of mutations on protein structure and function. Conventional treatments have involved quantifying the change in stability, activity and relaxation rates of the mutants with respect to the wild-type protein. However, it is now becoming increasingly apparent th...

journal_title：Current opinion in structural biology

authors： Naganathan AN

更新日期：2019-02-01 00:00:00