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 simulating certain types of biomolecular systems over sizable time and length scales.
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Curr Opin Struct Bioljournal_title
Current opinion in structural biologyauthors
Baker NAdoi
10.1016/j.sbi.2005.02.001subject
Has Abstractpub_date
2005-04-01 00:00:00pages
137-43issue
2eissn
0959-440Xissn
1879-033Xpii
S0959-440X(05)00044-8journal_volume
15pub_type
杂志文章,评审abstract::Rapid advances in the cloning and expression of glycosyltransferase genes, especially from bacteria, could open the way to overcoming difficulties in the mass production of oligosaccharides. The large-scale production of oligosaccharides using either glycosyltransferases isolated from engineered microorganisms or whol...
journal_title:Current opinion in structural biology
pub_type: 杂志文章,评审
doi:10.1016/s0959-440x(00)00127-5
更新日期:2000-10-01 00:00:00
abstract::Structural modeling of a cell is an evolving strategic direction in computational structural biology. It takes advantage of new powerful modeling techniques, deeper understanding of fundamental principles of molecular structure and assembly, and rapid growth of the amount of structural data generated by experimental t...
journal_title:Current opinion in structural biology
pub_type: 杂志文章,评审
doi:10.1016/j.sbi.2019.03.012
更新日期:2019-04-01 00:00:00
abstract::Membrane protein structural biology is enjoying a steady acceleration in the rate of success. Nevertheless, numerous membrane protein targets are resistant to the traditional approach of directly crystallizing detergent solubilized and purified protein and the 'niche market' of lipidic phase crystallization is emergin...
journal_title:Current opinion in structural biology
pub_type: 杂志文章,评审
doi:10.1016/j.sbi.2009.05.006
更新日期:2009-08-01 00:00:00
abstract::Transmembrane proton gradients, known as Proton Motive Force (PMF), serve important physiological functions. In addition to driving ATP synthesis, PMF is harnessed by a large variety of secondary transporters to achieve 'uphill' translocation of specific substrates across the membrane. Proton-coupled secondary transpo...
journal_title:Current opinion in structural biology
pub_type: 杂志文章,评审
doi:10.1016/j.sbi.2013.04.011
更新日期:2013-08-01 00:00:00
abstract::Kinetochores are large macromolecular assemblies that link chromosomes to spindle microtubules (MTs) during mitosis. Here we review recent advances in the study of core MT-binding kinetochore complexes using electron microcopy methods in vitro and nanometer-accuracy fluorescence microscopy in vivo. We synthesize these...
journal_title:Current opinion in structural biology
pub_type: 杂志文章,评审
doi:10.1016/j.sbi.2011.07.009
更新日期:2011-10-01 00:00:00
abstract::Significant progress has been made over the past several years on structural studies of the eukaryotic translation initiation factors that facilitate the assembly of a translation-competent ribosome at the initiation codon of an mRNA. These structural studies have revealed the repeated use of a set of common structura...
journal_title:Current opinion in structural biology
pub_type: 杂志文章,评审
doi:10.1016/s0959-440x(03)00009-5
更新日期:2003-02-01 00:00:00
abstract::Phage display is the longest-standing platform among molecular display technologies. Recent developments have extended its utility to proteins that were previously recalcitrant to phage display. The technique has played a dominant role in forming the field of synthetic binding protein engineering, where novel interfac...
journal_title:Current opinion in structural biology
pub_type: 杂志文章,评审
doi:10.1016/j.sbi.2007.08.007
更新日期:2007-08-01 00:00:00
abstract::Recent advances in ab initio direct methods have enabled the solution of crystal structures of small proteins from native X-ray data alone, that is, without the use of fragments of known structure or the need to prepare heavy-atom or selenomethionine derivatives, provided that the data are available to atomic resoluti...
journal_title:Current opinion in structural biology
pub_type: 杂志文章,评审
doi:10.1016/s0959-440x(99)00020-2
更新日期:1999-10-01 00:00:00
abstract::The past year has seen some major advances in the area of carbohydrate synthesis using chemical methods. Progress in all areas of synthetic methodology, including new protecting groups and coupling methods, has been reported. A number of complex carbohydrate structures have been prepared using known, as well as new, m...
journal_title:Current opinion in structural biology
pub_type: 杂志文章,评审
doi:10.1016/s0959-440x(00)00252-9
更新日期:2001-10-01 00:00:00
abstract::CCA-adding enzymes (tRNA nucleotidyltransferases) are responsible for the maturation or repair of the functional 3' end of tRNAs. These enzymes are remarkable because they polymerize the essential nucleotides CCA onto the 3' terminus of tRNA precursors without using a nucleic acid template. Recent crystal structures, ...
journal_title:Current opinion in structural biology
pub_type: 杂志文章,评审
doi:10.1016/j.sbi.2005.12.001
更新日期:2006-02-01 00:00:00
abstract::Magic-angle-spinning (MAS) solid-state NMR spectroscopy is a versatile technique to elucidate functionally important protein-ligand interactions in lipid membranes. Here, we review recent solid-state NMR studies of membrane protein interactions with cholesterol, lipids, transported substrates, and peptide ligands. The...
journal_title:Current opinion in structural biology
pub_type: 杂志文章,评审
doi:10.1016/j.sbi.2019.02.002
更新日期:2019-08-01 00:00:00
abstract::Transition states in protein folding are being analyzed experimentally and by computer simulation to reveal the sequence of events in the folding and unfolding of proteins at high resolution. Results of this analysis have enabled the reconstruction of folding pathways in vitro and open the prospect of analyzing pathwa...
journal_title:Current opinion in structural biology
pub_type: 杂志文章,评审
doi:10.1016/0959-440x(95)80012-p
更新日期:1995-02-01 00:00:00
abstract::Hydrogen-deuterium exchange (HDX) mass spectrometry (MS) can provide information about proteins that can be challenging to obtain by other means. Structure/function relationships, binding interactions, and the effects of modification have all been measured with HDX MS for a diverse and growing array of signaling prote...
journal_title:Current opinion in structural biology
pub_type: 杂志文章,评审
doi:10.1016/j.sbi.2016.08.003
更新日期:2016-12-01 00:00:00
abstract::Recent advances in neutron and X-ray sources and instrumentation, new and improved scattering techniques, and molecular biology techniques, which have permitted facile preparation of samples, have each led to new opportunities in using small-angle scattering to study the conformations and interactions of biological ma...
journal_title:Current opinion in structural biology
pub_type: 杂志文章,评审
doi:10.1016/s0959-440x(97)80081-4
更新日期:1997-10-01 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
pub_type: 杂志文章,评审
doi:10.1016/j.sbi.2019.06.009
更新日期:2019-10-01 00:00:00
abstract::Mechanisms for making and breaking the heme b cofactor (heme) are more diverse than previously expected. Biosynthetic pathways have diverged at least twice along taxonomic lines, reflecting differences in membrane organization and O2 utilization among major groups of organisms. At least three families of heme degradas...
journal_title:Current opinion in structural biology
pub_type: 杂志文章,评审
doi:10.1016/j.sbi.2019.01.006
更新日期:2019-12-01 00:00:00
abstract::Polysaccharide monooxygenases, or PMOs (also known as lytic PMOs or LPMOs), are a group of enzymes discovered in recent years to catalyze the oxidative degradation of carbohydrate polymers. The PMO catalytic domain has a β-sandwich fold that bears a strong resemblance to both immunoglobulin (Ig) and fibronectin type I...
journal_title:Current opinion in structural biology
pub_type: 杂志文章,评审
doi:10.1016/j.sbi.2015.10.002
更新日期:2015-12-01 00:00:00
abstract::All domains of life make carbohydrate polymers and by anchoring them to lipid molecules they can decorate the outside of the cell. Polysaccharides are linked to proteins by glycosylation, a process found in both bacteria and in higher organisms. Bacteria do have other distinct uses for carbohydrate polymers; in gram-n...
journal_title:Current opinion in structural biology
pub_type: 杂志文章,评审
doi:10.1016/j.sbi.2016.07.016
更新日期:2016-10-01 00:00:00
abstract::Glycosylation is a common post-translational protein modification, in which glycans are built onto proteins through the sequential addition of monosaccharide units, in reactions catalysed by glycosyltransferases. Glycosylation influences the physicochemical and biological properties of proteins, with subsequent effect...
journal_title:Current opinion in structural biology
pub_type: 杂志文章,评审
doi:10.1016/j.sbi.2016.08.007
更新日期:2016-10-01 00:00:00
abstract::Connecting three dimensional structure and affinity is analogous to seeking the 'Archimedean point', a vantage point from where any observer can quantitatively perceive the subject of inquiry. Here we review current knowledge and challenges that lie ahead of us in the quest for this Archimedean point. We argue that cu...
journal_title:Current opinion in structural biology
pub_type: 杂志文章,评审
doi:10.1016/j.sbi.2013.07.001
更新日期:2013-12-01 00:00:00
abstract::In vitro selection experiments are now routinely used to identify functional nucleic acid residues and structures, and have become a tool for studying molecular recognition, molecular biology, and molecular evolution. Technical innovations that have been made during the past year include the use of modified monomers t...
journal_title:Current opinion in structural biology
pub_type: 杂志文章,评审
doi:10.1016/s0959-440x(96)80045-5
更新日期:1996-06-01 00:00:00
abstract::In all contemporary organisms, the active site of the ribosome--the peptidyl transferase center--catalyzes two distinct reactions, peptide bond formation between peptidyl-tRNA and aminoacyl-tRNA as well as the hydrolysis of peptidyl-tRNA with the help of a release factor. However, when provided with appropriate substr...
journal_title:Current opinion in structural biology
pub_type: 杂志文章,评审
doi:10.1016/j.sbi.2013.04.012
更新日期:2013-08-01 00:00:00
abstract::Recent years have seen a rapid increase in structural information on proteins implicated in bacterial pathogenesis. The different modes by which bacteria establish contact with their host tissues are exemplified by the structures of bacterial adhesins in complex with their cognate host receptor. A more detailed struct...
journal_title:Current opinion in structural biology
pub_type: 杂志文章,评审
doi:10.1016/j.sbi.2004.03.004
更新日期:2004-04-01 00:00:00
abstract::2D-IR spectroscopy has matured to a powerful technique to study the structure and dynamics of peptides, but its extension to larger proteins is still in its infancy, the major limitations being sensitivity and selectivity. Site-selective information requires measuring single vibrational probes at sub-millimolar concen...
journal_title:Current opinion in structural biology
pub_type: 杂志文章,评审
doi:10.1016/j.sbi.2015.03.012
更新日期:2015-10-01 00:00:00
abstract::ATP synthases are rotary enzymes found in bacteria, chloroplasts, and mitochondria. These complexes produce the majority of cellular ATP in aerobic cells using energy from the transmembrane proton motive force established by the electron transport chain. In mitochondria, dimeric ATP synthase is essential for formation...
journal_title:Current opinion in structural biology
pub_type: 杂志文章,评审
doi:10.1016/j.sbi.2018.08.005
更新日期:2018-10-01 00:00:00
abstract::Due to the contribution of drug-target binding kinetics to drug efficacy, there is a high level of interest in developing methods to predict drug-target binding kinetic parameters. During the review period, a wide range of enhanced sampling molecular dynamics simulation-based methods has been developed for computing d...
journal_title:Current opinion in structural biology
pub_type: 杂志文章,评审
doi:10.1016/j.sbi.2020.06.022
更新日期:2020-10-01 00:00:00
abstract::Newly solved chaperone structures include the thermosome, a group II chaperonin, and a small heat-shock protein. Novel ideas on chaperone mechanism are presented in the forced unfolding hypothesis of GroEL action. Structures of chaperone-pilin complexes reveal the mechanism of chaperone interaction in bacterial pilus ...
journal_title:Current opinion in structural biology
pub_type: 杂志文章,评审
doi:10.1016/s0959-440x(00)00074-9
更新日期:2000-04-01 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
pub_type: 杂志文章,评审
doi:10.1016/j.sbi.2020.10.023
更新日期:2020-12-03 00:00:00
abstract::Continuing investigations into protein-protein interactions have revealed their key role in regulating a wide range of cellular processes. Although efforts to modulate these interactions are more challenging and much less mature than work on conventional drug discovery pathways, significant progress has been made on s...
journal_title:Current opinion in structural biology
pub_type: 杂志文章,评审
doi:10.1016/j.sbi.2005.01.005
更新日期:2005-02-01 00:00:00
abstract::Protein design is still a challenging undertaking, often requiring multiple attempts or iterations for success. Typically, the source of failure is unclear, and scoring metrics appear similar between successful and failed cases. Nevertheless, the use of sequence statistics, modularity and symmetry from natural protein...
journal_title:Current opinion in structural biology
pub_type: 杂志文章,评审
doi:10.1016/j.sbi.2016.05.007
更新日期:2016-06-01 00:00:00