Enzymes from extremophiles.

abstract：:Recent advances in membrane protein crystallography have greatly increased structural information of channels permeating metal ions. Structural bioinformatics techniques and molecular dynamics calculations are providing structural models of ion channels for which the three-dimensional structure is not known. Most of t...

journal_title：Current opinion in chemical biology

authors： Giorgetti A,Carloni P

更新日期：2003-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Two recent advances have enabled the development of clinically useful, injectable, sustained-release protein formulations. The first is a nonaqueous, cryogenic atomization process that encapsulates the protein into microspheres composed of a biodegradable polymer from which the protein is released slowly. The second c...

journal_title：Current opinion in chemical biology

authors： Putney SD

更新日期：1998-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Quantitative microscopy is needed to understand reactions or phenomena carried out by biological molecules such as enzymes, receptors, and membrane-localized proteins. Counting the biomolecules of interest in single organelles or cellular compartments is critical in these approaches. In this brief perspective, we focu...

journal_title：Current opinion in chemical biology

authors： Jung SR,Fujimoto BS,Chiu DT

更新日期：2017-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Synthetic biologists typically construct new pathways within existing cells. While useful, this approach in many ways ignores the undefined but necessary components of life. A growing number of laboratories have begun to try to remove some of the mysteries of cellular life by building life-like systems from non-living...

journal_title：Current opinion in chemical biology

authors： Forlin M,Lentini R,Mansy SS

更新日期：2012-12-01 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：: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：:Recent advances in the development of the phosphorescent Ir(III) complexes have made it possible to implement the phosphorescence modality in bioimaging applications. A variety of phosphorescent Ir(III) complexes have been synthesized and assessed in the context of in vitro and in vivo imaging, especially in subcellul...

journal_title：Current opinion in chemical biology

authors： You Y

更新日期：2013-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The application of molecular cloning has revealed the phenomenal diversity and complexity of the phosphodiesterase isoenzyme family. Thus, more than 30 human phosphodiesterases are now known; all are apparently necessary for the seemingly simple task of hydrolysing the 3'-ester bond of either cyclic adenosine monophos...

journal_title：Current opinion in chemical biology

authors： Perry MJ,Higgs GA

更新日期：1998-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Elastin-like polypeptides (ELPs) are artificial polypeptides, derived from Val-Pro-Gly-Xaa-Gly (VPGXG) pentapeptide repeats found in human tropoelastin, that reversibly coacervate above a critical temperature. Genetically encodable ELPs are monodisperse, stimuli responsive, and biocompatible, properties that make them...

journal_title：Current opinion in chemical biology

authors： Chilkoti A,Christensen T,MacKay JA

更新日期：2006-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:NMR, already some 50 years old, has long been an invaluable analytical method in industry for verification of chemical synthesis and compound characterisation. The range of molecular information accessible through NMR, however, offers a far larger horizon of applications. Of these, ligand screening by NMR has emerged ...

journal_title：Current opinion in chemical biology

authors： Diercks T,Coles M,Kessler H

更新日期：2001-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Peptides that recognize specific cell types promise to be valuable tools both in research and clinical applications. Cell-specific peptides can be useful as drug delivery vehicles, diagnostic agents, affinity reagents for cell purification, gene therapy delivery agents, and research tools to probe the nature of a cell...

journal_title：Current opinion in chemical biology

authors： Brown KC

更新日期：2000-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:New catalysts and reaction conditions have been developed for the dynamic kinetic resolution or deracemisation of racemic mixtures of chiral compounds. Specific functional groups that lend themselves particularly well to this approach include chiral secondary alcohols, alpha-amino acids, amines and carboxylic acids. A...

journal_title：Current opinion in chemical biology

authors： Turner NJ

更新日期：2004-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Covalent attachment of glycosylphosphatidylinositols (GPIs) to the protein C-terminus is one of the most common posttranslational modifications in eukaryotic cells. In addition to anchoring surface proteins to the cell membrane, GPIs also have many other important biological functions, determined by their unique struc...

journal_title：Current opinion in chemical biology

authors： Yu S,Guo Z,Johnson C,Gu G,Wu Q

更新日期：2013-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The design of dimeric coiled-coils has ultimately led to novel applications, such as self-replicating peptide systems, whereas the structural features of the less common trimeric coiled-coil continue to be elucidated. Novel topologies have been discovered in designed proteins, as exemplified by the right-handed tetram...

journal_title：Current opinion in chemical biology

authors： Micklatcher C,Chmielewski J

更新日期：1999-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The manufacture and use of protein microarrays with correctly folded and functional content presents significant challenges. Despite this, the feasibility and utility of such undertakings are now clear, and exciting progress has recently been demonstrated in the areas of content generation, printing strategies and pro...

journal_title：Current opinion in chemical biology

authors： Predki PF

更新日期：2004-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Phosphorus cycling in the biosphere has traditionally been thought to involve almost exclusively transformations of the element in its pentavalent oxidation state. Recent evidence, however, suggests that a significant fraction of environmental phosphorus may exist in a more reduced form. Most abundant of these reduced...

journal_title：Current opinion in chemical biology

authors： Chin JP,McGrath JW,Quinn JP

更新日期：2016-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:There is growing interest in the design of synthetic molecules that mimic the structures and functions of epitopes found on the surface of peptides and proteins. Epitope mimetics can provide valuable tools to probe complex biological processes, as well as interesting leads for drug and vaccine discovery. One applicati...

journal_title：Current opinion in chemical biology

authors： Robinson JA

更新日期：2011-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The broad utility of protein bioconjugates has created a need for new and diverse strategies for site-selective protein modification. In particular, chemical reactions that target alternative amino acid side chains or unnatural functional groups are emerging as a valuable complement to more commonly used lysine- and c...

journal_title：Current opinion in chemical biology

authors： Antos JM,Francis MB

更新日期：2006-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Immunoassays are indispensable for research and clinical analysis, and following the emergence of the omics paradigm, multiplexing of immunoassays is more needed than ever. Cross-reactivity (CR) in multiplexed immunoassays has been unexpectedly difficult to mitigate, preventing scaling up of multiplexing, limiting ass...

journal_title：Current opinion in chemical biology

authors： Juncker D,Bergeron S,Laforte V,Li H

更新日期：2014-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In recent years, ogliopeptides have enjoyed ever increasing interest in two areas: first, approaches to biomimetic enzyme-like activity; and second, as metal-free catalysts for enantioselective transformations of synthetic interest. The discovery and optimization of peptides for these purposes has often used the metho...

journal_title：Current opinion in chemical biology

authors： Berkessel A

更新日期：2003-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Nitrification is the aerobic process of the nitrogen cycle that converts ammonia to nitrate and is facilitated by ammonia-oxidizing and nitrite-oxidizing microorganisms. Ammonia-oxidizers are unique chemolithotrophs that evolved specialized networks of electron carriers to generate proton motive force using ammonia as...

journal_title：Current opinion in chemical biology

authors： Stein LY

更新日期：2019-04-01 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：:Single nucleotide polymorphism (SNP) genotyping has become a key technology for genetic studies. In recent years, matrix-assisted laser desorption/ionization (MALDI) time-of-flight mass spectrometry has emerged as a very powerful method for SNP genotyping. Here, we discuss our experience in implementing a high-through...

journal_title：Current opinion in chemical biology

authors： Lechner D,Lathrop GM,Gut IG

更新日期：2002-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The range and diversity of solid-phase synthetic methodology continues to develop very rapidly, allowing the generation of previously inaccessible compound libraries. The design of such libraries requires consideration of linkage strategies, newly developed solid-phase reactions and emerging solution-phase processes. ...

journal_title：Current opinion in chemical biology

authors： Oliver SF,Abell C

更新日期：1999-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In recent years pharmaceutical companies have utilized structure-based drug design and combinatorial library design techniques to speed up their drug discovery efforts. Both approaches are routinely used in the lead discovery and lead optimization stages of the drug discovery process. Fragment-based drug design, a new...

journal_title：Current opinion in chemical biology

authors： Zhou JZ

更新日期：2008-06-01 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：:Herein we review contemporary synthetic and protein design strategies to stabilize the alpha-helical motif in short peptides and miniature proteins. Advances in organometallic catalyst design, specifically for the olefin metathesis reaction, enable the use of hydrocarbon bridges to either crosslink side chains of spec...

journal_title：Current opinion in chemical biology

authors： Henchey LK,Jochim AL,Arora PS

更新日期：2008-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Nitrogenase catalyzes the important reactions of N2-reduction, CO-reduction and CO2-reduction at its active cofactor site. Designated the M-cluster, this complex metallocofactor is assembled through the generation of a characteristic 8Fe-core before the insertion of Mo and homocitrate that completes the stoichiometry ...

journal_title：Current opinion in chemical biology

authors： Hu Y,Ribbe MW

更新日期：2016-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Given the correlation between many human diseases and mis-regulated transcription, there is a growing need for molecules that can inhibit or mimic key interactions between transcriptional activators and their binding partners. Because transcriptional activators typically participate in many different protein-protein b...

journal_title：Current opinion in chemical biology

authors： Majmudar CY,Mapp AK

更新日期：2005-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Inhibition of the steroid 5alpha-reductases shows promise in the treatment of a number of androgen-dependent disorders, such as benign prostatic hyperplasia, male pattern baldness, and acne. The design of potent and isozyme-selective inhibitors has provided biologists and clinicians with important tools for elucidatin...

journal_title：Current opinion in chemical biology

authors： Harris GS,Kozarich JW

更新日期：1997-08-01 00:00:00