The sema domain.

abstract：:The recently determined structure of octameric mitochondrial creatine kinase has provided new insights into the functioning of this enzyme and its role in channelling energy from the mitochondria to the cytoplasm. Creatine kinase, a member of the family of guanidino kinases, is structurally similar to glutamine synthe...

journal_title：Current opinion in structural biology

authors： Kabsch W,Fritz-Wolf K

更新日期：1997-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Optogenetic dimerizers are modular domains that can be utilized in a variety of versatile ways to modulate cellular biochemistry. Because of their modularity, many applications using these tools can be easily transferred to new targets without extensive engineering. While a number of photodimerizer systems are current...

journal_title：Current opinion in structural biology

authors： Spiltoir JI,Tucker CL

更新日期：2019-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:RNA motifs are directed and ordered stacked arrays of non-Watson-Crick base pairs forming distinctive foldings of the phosphodiester backbones of the interacting RNA strands. They correspond to the 'loops' - hairpin, internal and junction - that intersperse the Watson-Crick two-dimensional helices as seen in two-dimen...

journal_title：Current opinion in structural biology

authors： Leontis NB,Westhof E

更新日期：2003-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Dynamin is an important component of membrane recycling at the plasma membrane and, potentially, within the cell. The role of dynamin in clathrin-mediated endocytosis has been based on numerous endocytosis assays, as well as on the discovery and gross characterization of the assembled spiral structure of dynamin. Rece...

journal_title：Current opinion in structural biology

authors： Hinshaw JE

更新日期：1999-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The surfaces of all microbes are 'sugar coated' with molecules such as lipopolysaccharides in Gram-negative bacteria, capsular polysaccharides in bacteria, lipoarabinomannans in mycobacteria and lipophosphoglycan in Leishmania. The basic structures of these glycoconjugates are known and, in the case of pathogens, they...

journal_title：Current opinion in structural biology

authors： Mengeling BJ,Turco SJ

更新日期：1998-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The 5' m7GpppN cap plays an essential role in the life cycle of eukaryotic mRNA and is required for efficient pre-mRNA splicing, export, stability and translation. Nascent pre-mRNA is capped through a series of three enzymatic steps that result in a 5' N7-methyl guanosine linked by an inverted 5'-5' triphosphate bridg...

journal_title：Current opinion in structural biology

authors： Gu M,Lima CD

更新日期：2005-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The eukaryotic genome is hierarchically packaged into chromatin in the nucleus. The organization and dynamics of 30-nm chromatin fibers, which is typically regarded as the secondary structure of chromatin, play a crucial role in regulating DNA accessibility for gene expression. Here we reviewed some recent progresses ...

journal_title：Current opinion in structural biology

authors： Zhu P,Li G

更新日期：2016-02-01 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：: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：:High-throughput interaction discovery initiatives have revealed the existence of hundreds of multiprotein complexes whose functions are regulated through thousands of protein-protein interactions (PPIs). However, the structural details of these interactions, often necessary to understand their function, are only avail...

journal_title：Current opinion in structural biology

authors： Stein A,Mosca R,Aloy P

更新日期：2011-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Recent developments in implicit solvent models may be compared in terms of accuracy and computational efficiency. Based on improvements in the accuracy of generalized Born methods and the speed of Poisson-Boltzmann solvers, it appears that the two techniques are converging to a point at which both will be suitable for...

journal_title：Current opinion in structural biology

authors： Baker NA

更新日期：2005-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Electrostatics plays a major role in the stabilization and function of biomolecules; as such, it remains a major focus of theoretical and computational studies of macromolecules. Electrostatic interactions are long range, and strongly dependent on the solvent and ions surrounding the biomolecule under study. During th...

journal_title：Current opinion in structural biology

authors： Koehl P

更新日期：2006-04-01 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：:Electron cryo-microscopy (cryoEM) is used to determine structures of biological molecules, including multi-protein complexes. Maps at better than 3.0Å resolution are relatively straightforward to interpret since atomic models of proteins and nucleic acids can be built directly. Still, these resolutions are often diffi...

journal_title：Current opinion in structural biology

authors： Casañal A,Shakeel S,Passmore LA

更新日期：2019-10-01 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：:The encounter complex of two proteins is a dynamic intermediate state that guides proteins to their binding site, thus enhancing the rate of complex formation. It is particularly useful for complexes that must balance a biological requirement for high turnover with the need for specific binding, such as electron trans...

journal_title：Current opinion in structural biology

authors： Schilder J,Ubbink M

更新日期：2013-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Protein aggregation constitutes a constant threat for the living cell as is demonstrated by the several pathologies in which the mechanisms to prevent it fail. It is therefore a question of increasing importance to understand in detail the defence strategies. Here we discuss how molecular interactions can represent a ...

journal_title：Current opinion in structural biology

authors： Pastore A,Temussi PA

更新日期：2012-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Prediction and modeling of RNA structures has become an indispensable tool of biological research disciplines. Currently, reliable predictions require massive input of experimental data. Structure-forming elements are conventional base pairs, as well as a rapidly increasing repertoire of novel structural motifs. New d...

journal_title：Current opinion in structural biology

authors： Schuster P,Stadler PF,Renner A

更新日期：1997-04-01 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：:The exponential growth in the amount of genomic data published in recent years has led to increased efforts in analysing genomes for the presence of repeated sequences, which has in turn fostered the development of novel repeat recognition methods. This has resulted in a deepened understanding of the importance and ab...

journal_title：Current opinion in structural biology

authors： Heringa J

更新日期：1998-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:RNA structure underpins many essential functions in biology. New chemical reagents and techniques for probing RNA structure in living cells have emerged in recent years. High-throughput, genome-wide techniques such as Structure-seq2 and DMS-MaPseq exploit nucleobase modification by dimethylsulfate (DMS) to obtain comp...

journal_title：Current opinion in structural biology

authors： Mitchell D 3rd,Assmann SM,Bevilacqua PC

更新日期：2019-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Protein engineering strategies for increasing stability can be improved by replacing random mutagenesis and high-throughput screening by approaches that include bioinformatics and computational design. Mutations can be focused on regions in the structure that are most flexible and involved in the early steps of therma...

journal_title：Current opinion in structural biology

authors： Wijma HJ,Floor RJ,Janssen DB

更新日期：2013-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Messenger RNAs often contain structures in their 5'-untranslated region that serve to regulate or promote expression of their gene product. Recent structural studies have revealed that riboswitches, which bind a variety of small molecule metabolites, including purine bases, S-adenosylmethionine, amino acids and cofact...

journal_title：Current opinion in structural biology

authors： Batey RT

更新日期：2006-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Recent studies from several laboratories have provided evidence that cell surface complex carbohydrates play key roles in the regulation of developmentally relevant signal transduction events. The demonstration that Fringe, a known modifier of Notch function, is a fucose-specific N-acetylglucosaminyltransferase provid...

journal_title：Current opinion in structural biology

authors： Haltiwanger RS

更新日期：2002-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Specific interactions between proteins and their molecular partners drive most biological processes, so understanding how these interactions evolve is an important question for biochemists and evolutionary biologists alike. It is often thought that ancestral proteins were systematically more promiscuous than modern pr...

journal_title：Current opinion in structural biology

authors： Siddiq MA,Hochberg GK,Thornton JW

更新日期：2017-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Computational methods play an important role at all stages of the process of determining protein-protein interactions. They are used to predict potential interactions, to validate the results of high-throughput interaction screens and to analyze the protein networks inferred from interaction databases. ...

journal_title：Current opinion in structural biology

authors： Salwinski L,Eisenberg D

更新日期：2003-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Recently, major advances have been made toward increasing our understanding of small ribozyme structure and function. The first general acid-base catalytic mechanism for a ribozyme has been defined. Shifted nucleotide pK(a) values have been found to be surprisingly frequent structural elements. Finally, the dynamic na...

journal_title：Current opinion in structural biology

authors： Butcher SE

更新日期：2001-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Pyrrolopyrimidine containing natural products are widely distributed in Nature. The biosynthesis of the 7-deazapurine moiety that is common to all pyrrolopyrimidines entails multiple steps, one of which is a complex radical-mediated ring contraction reaction catalyzed by CDG synthase. Herein we review the biosynthetic...

journal_title：Current opinion in structural biology

authors： Bandarian V,Drennan CL

更新日期：2015-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The recent and growing evidence that the efficacy of a drug can be correlated to target binding kinetics has seeded the development of a multitude of novel methods aimed at computing rate constants for receptor-ligand binding processes, as well as gaining an understanding of the binding and unbinding pathways and the ...

journal_title：Current opinion in structural biology

authors： Bruce NJ,Ganotra GK,Kokh DB,Sadiq SK,Wade RC

更新日期：2018-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The major component of bacterial cell wall is peptidoglycan (PG), a complex polymer formed by long glycan chains cross-linked by peptide stems. PG is in constant equilibrium requiring well-orchestrated coordination between synthesis and degradation. The resulting cell-wall fragments can be recycled, act as messengers ...

journal_title：Current opinion in structural biology

authors： Alcorlo M,Martínez-Caballero S,Molina R,Hermoso JA

更新日期：2017-06-01 00:00:00