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 pathways in vivo.
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Curr Opin Struct Bioljournal_title
Current opinion in structural biologyauthors
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10.1016/0959-440x(95)80012-psubject
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1995-02-01 00:00:00pages
79-84issue
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0959-440Xissn
1879-033Xpii
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杂志文章,评审abstract::The past years have seen tremendous progress towards understanding how arrestins recognize phosphorylated G protein-coupled receptors (GPCRs). Two arrestin crystal structures, one of a pre-activated splice variant and one bound to a GPCR phosphopeptide, provided insights into the conformational changes upon phosphate ...
journal_title:Current opinion in structural biology
pub_type: 杂志文章,评审
doi:10.1016/j.sbi.2014.07.006
更新日期:2014-12-01 00:00:00
abstract::Self-compartmentalizing proteases, such as the proteasome and several prokaryotic energy-dependent proteases, are designed to act in the crowded environment of the cell. Proteins destined for degradation are recognized and unfolded by regulatory subcomplexes that invariably contain ATPase modules, before being translo...
journal_title:Current opinion in structural biology
pub_type: 杂志文章,评审
doi:10.1016/s0959-440x(00)00075-0
更新日期:2000-04-01 00:00:00
abstract::Condensation of DNA in the nucleosome takes advantage of its double-helical architecture. The DNA deforms at sites where the base pairs face the histone octamer. The largest so-called kink-and-slide deformations occur in the vicinity of arginines that penetrate the minor groove. Nucleosome structures formed from the 6...
journal_title:Current opinion in structural biology
pub_type: 杂志文章,评审
doi:10.1016/j.sbi.2011.03.006
更新日期:2011-06-01 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
pub_type: 杂志文章,评审
doi:10.1016/s0959-440x(00)00207-4
更新日期:2001-06-01 00:00:00
abstract::Maintenance of telomeres by the enzyme telomerase is essential for genomic stability and cell viability in ciliates, vertebrates and yeast. The minimal components of telomerase required for catalytic activity are the telomerase reverse transcriptase (TERT) protein and the template-containing telomerase RNA (TER). Rece...
journal_title:Current opinion in structural biology
pub_type: 杂志文章,评审
doi:10.1016/j.sbi.2006.05.005
更新日期:2006-06-01 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
pub_type: 杂志文章,评审
doi:10.1016/j.sbi.2005.01.009
更新日期:2005-02-01 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::The accelerated elucidation of three-dimensional structures of protein complexes, both natural and designed, is providing new examples of large supramolecular assemblies with intriguing shapes. Those with high symmetry - based on the geometries of the Platonic solids - are particularly notable as their innately closed...
journal_title:Current opinion in structural biology
pub_type: 杂志文章,评审
doi:10.1016/j.sbi.2019.03.008
更新日期:2019-04-01 00:00:00
abstract::Understanding the structural rules that govern specific, high-affinity binding characteristic of aptamer-protein interactions is important in view of the increasing use of aptamers across many applications. From the modest number of 16 aptamer-protein structures currently available, trends are emerging. The flexible p...
journal_title:Current opinion in structural biology
pub_type: 杂志文章,评审
doi:10.1016/j.sbi.2016.01.009
更新日期:2016-02-01 00:00:00
abstract::Malaria remains the world's most prevalent human parasitic disease. Because of the rapid spread of drug resistance in parasites, there is an urgent need to identify diverse new drug targets. One group of proteases that are emerging as targets for novel antimalarials are the metalloaminopeptidases. These enzymes cataly...
journal_title:Current opinion in structural biology
pub_type: 杂志文章,评审
doi:10.1016/j.sbi.2013.07.015
更新日期:2013-12-01 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
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1016/j.sbi.2008.12.009
更新日期:2009-02-01 00:00:00
abstract::There has been fantastic progress in solving GPCR crystal structures. However, the ability of X-ray crystallography to guide the drug discovery process for GPCR targets is limited by the availability of accurate tools to explore receptor-ligand interactions. Visual inspection and molecular mechanics approaches cannot ...
journal_title:Current opinion in structural biology
pub_type: 杂志文章,评审
doi:10.1016/j.sbi.2019.03.021
更新日期:2019-04-01 00:00:00
abstract::The wide occurrence of sialic acids (Sia) in various chemical forms linked as monomers or polymers in an outstanding position in a multitude of complex carbohydrates of animals and microorganisms renders them as most versatile function modulators in cell biology and pathology. A survey is presented of recent advances ...
journal_title:Current opinion in structural biology
pub_type: 杂志文章,评审
doi:10.1016/j.sbi.2009.06.003
更新日期:2009-10-01 00:00:00
abstract::New studies have shown that folding of beta-sheet proteins can occur with and without intermediates, with fast to slow refolding rates and late to very late transition states. These experiments demonstrate that, despite early speculation to the contrary, beta-sheet protein folding does not appear to be fundamentally d...
journal_title:Current opinion in structural biology
pub_type: 杂志文章,评审
doi:10.1016/s0959-440x(98)80014-6
更新日期:1998-02-01 00:00:00
abstract::Over the past two decades, mass spectrometry (MS) has emerged as a bone fide approach for structural biology. MS can inform on all levels of protein organization, and enables quantitative assessments of their intrinsic dynamics. The key advantages of MS are that it is a sensitive, high-resolution separation technique ...
journal_title:Current opinion in structural biology
pub_type: 杂志文章,评审
doi:10.1016/j.sbi.2011.08.002
更新日期:2011-10-01 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::Arf GTPases are major regulators of membrane traffic and organelle structure in eukaryotes where they recruit many different effectors, including components of vesicular coats, proteins that tether membranes, sort lipids or have diverse other functions in vesicular traffic, and bacterial proteins that divert Arf funct...
journal_title:Current opinion in structural biology
pub_type: 杂志文章,评审
doi:10.1016/j.sbi.2014.09.007
更新日期:2014-12-01 00:00:00
abstract::The 'Fold Approach' involves a detailed analysis of the folding of several topologically, structurally and/or evolutionarily related proteins. Such studies can reveal determinants of the folding mechanism beyond the gross topology, and can dissect the residues required for folding from those required for stability or ...
journal_title:Current opinion in structural biology
pub_type: 杂志文章,评审
doi:10.1016/j.sbi.2012.11.009
更新日期:2013-02-01 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
pub_type: 杂志文章,评审
doi:10.1016/j.sbi.2017.10.001
更新日期:2018-04-01 00:00:00
abstract::Connecting dynamics to structural data from diverse experimental sources, molecular dynamics simulations permit the exploration of biological phenomena in unparalleled detail. Advances in simulations are moving the atomic resolution descriptions of biological systems into the million-to-billion atom regime, in which n...
journal_title:Current opinion in structural biology
pub_type: 杂志文章,评审
doi:10.1016/j.sbi.2015.03.007
更新日期:2015-04-01 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
pub_type: 杂志文章,评审
doi:10.1016/j.sbi.2018.09.004
更新日期:2019-02-01 00:00:00
abstract::Although intermediates have long been recognised as fascinating species that form during the folding of large proteins, the role that intermediates play in the folding of small, single-domain proteins has been widely debated. Recent discoveries using new, sensitive methods of detection and studies combining simulation...
journal_title:Current opinion in structural biology
pub_type: 杂志文章,评审
doi:10.1016/j.sbi.2007.01.003
更新日期:2007-02-01 00:00:00
abstract::Recent collection of high-resolution crystal structures of the 70S ribosome with mRNA and tRNA substrates enhances our knowledge of protein synthesis principles. A novel network of interactions between the ribosome in the elongation state and mRNA downstream from the A codon suggests that mRNA is stabilized and aligne...
journal_title:Current opinion in structural biology
pub_type: 杂志文章,评审
doi:10.1016/j.sbi.2010.03.002
更新日期:2010-06-01 00:00:00
abstract::ATP- and NAD(+)-dependent DNA ligases, ATP-dependent RNA ligases and GTP-dependent mRNA capping enzymes comprise a superfamily of proteins that catalyze nucleotidyl transfer to polynucleotide 5' ends via covalent enzyme-(lysyl-N)-NMP intermediates. The superfamily is defined by five peptide motifs that line the nucleo...
journal_title:Current opinion in structural biology
pub_type: 杂志文章,评审
doi:10.1016/j.sbi.2004.10.006
更新日期:2004-12-01 00:00:00
abstract::Integrative structural modeling uses multiple types of input information and proceeds in four stages: (i) gathering information, (ii) designing model representation and converting information into a scoring function, (iii) sampling good-scoring models, and (iv) analyzing models and information. In the first stage, unc...
journal_title:Current opinion in structural biology
pub_type: 杂志文章,评审
doi:10.1016/j.sbi.2014.08.001
更新日期:2014-10-01 00:00:00
abstract::Computer simulation methods are increasingly being used to study possible conformations and dynamics of structural motifs in RNA. Recent results of molecular dynamics simulations and continum solvent studies of RNA structures and RNA-ligand complexes show promising agreement with experimental data. Combined with the o...
journal_title:Current opinion in structural biology
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1016/s0959-440x(00)00089-0
更新日期:2000-06-01 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
pub_type: 杂志文章,评审
doi:10.1016/j.sbi.2019.03.030
更新日期:2019-08-01 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
pub_type: 杂志文章,评审
doi:10.1016/j.sbi.2017.01.001
更新日期:2017-06-01 00:00:00
abstract::Caspases are a family of aspartate-specific cysteine proteases that regulate cellular homeostasis through the mediation of apoptosis and inflammation. Despite keen interest in caspases as therapeutic targets for cancer, inflammatory, and neurodegenerative diseases, no active-site directed small molecule has yet succee...
journal_title:Current opinion in structural biology
pub_type: 杂志文章,评审
doi:10.1016/j.sbi.2013.10.002
更新日期:2013-12-01 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