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 macromolecules in solution as a function of their properties. For example, new instrumentation on synchrotron sources has facilitated time-resolved studies that yield insights into protein folding. More powerful neutron sources, combined with molecular biology tools that isotopically label samples, have facilitated studies of biomolecular interactions, including those involving active enzymes.
journal_name
Curr Opin Struct Bioljournal_title
Current opinion in structural biologyauthors
Trewhella Jdoi
10.1016/s0959-440x(97)80081-4subject
Has Abstractpub_date
1997-10-01 00:00:00pages
702-8issue
5eissn
0959-440Xissn
1879-033Xpii
S0959-440X(97)80081-4journal_volume
7pub_type
杂志文章,评审abstract::A novel ligand-binding domain, named the 'ACT domain', was recently identified by a PSI-BLAST search. The archetypical ACT domain is the C-terminal regulatory domain of 3-phosphoglycerate dehydrogenase (3PGDH), which folds with a ferredoxin-like betaalphabetabetaalphabeta topology. A pair of ACT domains form an eight-...
journal_title:Current opinion in structural biology
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1016/s0959-440x(01)00272-x
更新日期:2001-12-01 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-RNA interactions play essential roles in gene regulation and RNA metabolism. While high-resolution structures have revealed principles of RNA recognition by individual RNA binding domains (RBDs), the presence of multiple RBDs in many eukaryotic proteins suggests additional modes of RNA recognition by combinati...
journal_title:Current opinion in structural biology
pub_type: 杂志文章,评审
doi:10.1016/j.sbi.2012.03.013
更新日期:2012-06-01 00:00:00
abstract::The last two years have seen major advances in understanding the structural basis of bacterial cell envelope glycoconjugate biosynthesis, including capsules, lipopolysaccharide, teichoic acid, cellulose, and peptidoglycan. The recent crystal and cryo-electron microscopy structures of proteins involved in the initial g...
journal_title:Current opinion in structural biology
pub_type: 杂志文章,评审
doi:10.1016/j.sbi.2020.11.013
更新日期:2021-01-08 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::Bacterial transcription initiation is controlled by sigma factors, the RNA polymerase (RNAP) subunits responsive for promoter specificity. While the primary sigma factor ensures the bulk of transcription during growth, a major strategy used by bacteria to regulate gene expression consists of modifying the RNAP promote...
journal_title:Current opinion in structural biology
pub_type: 杂志文章,评审
doi:10.1016/j.sbi.2015.01.006
更新日期:2015-02-01 00:00:00
abstract::Intrinsically disordered proteins (IDPs) are increasingly realized to play diverse biological roles, ranging from molecular signaling to the formation of membraneless organelles. Their high degree of disorder makes them more challenging to study using the techniques of conventional structural biology, because any obse...
journal_title:Current opinion in structural biology
pub_type: 杂志文章,评审
doi:10.1016/j.sbi.2017.01.006
更新日期:2017-02-01 00:00:00
abstract::The bacterial cholesterol dependent cytolysins (CDCs) and membrane attack complex/perforin-like proteins (MACPF) represent two major branches of a large, exceptionally diverged superfamily. Most characterized CDC/MACPF proteins form large pores that function in immunity, venoms, and pathogenesis. Extensive structural,...
journal_title:Current opinion in structural biology
pub_type: 杂志文章,评审
doi:10.1016/j.sbi.2012.04.008
更新日期:2012-06-01 00:00:00
abstract::Structures of three different pleckstrin homology domains have been determined within the past year. They have a common core consisting of a seven-stranded and strongly bent beta-sheet and a C-terminal alpha-helix that packs against the beta-sheet. Phosphatidylinositol 4,5-bisphosphate and related compounds specifical...
journal_title:Current opinion in structural biology
pub_type: 杂志文章,评审
doi:10.1016/0959-440x(95)80104-9
更新日期:1995-06-01 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
pub_type: 杂志文章,评审
doi:10.1016/0959-440x(95)80004-k
更新日期:1995-02-01 00:00:00
abstract::The ISWI family of ATP-dependent chromatin remodelers regulates transcription of coding and noncoding RNA by mobilizing nucleosomes and controlling the length of linker DNA separating nucleosomes (spacing). Nucleosome movement is tightly coupled to the DNA translocation activity of the helicase domain in the catalytic...
journal_title:Current opinion in structural biology
pub_type: 杂志文章,评审
doi:10.1016/j.sbi.2014.01.010
更新日期:2014-02-01 00:00:00
abstract::Molecular dynamics simulation studies of protein-nucleic acid complexes are more complicated than studies of either component alone-the force field has to be properly balanced, the systems tend to become very large, and a careful treatment of solvent and of electrostatic interactions is necessary. Recent investigation...
journal_title:Current opinion in structural biology
pub_type: 杂志文章,评审
doi:10.1016/j.sbi.2007.12.012
更新日期:2008-04-01 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::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::Terpenoid cyclases catalyze remarkably complex cyclization cascades that are initiated by the formation of a highly reactive carbocation in a polyisoprene substrate. Recent crystal structures of terpenoid cyclases show how these enzymes provide a template for binding and stabilizing the flexible substrate in the preci...
journal_title:Current opinion in structural biology
pub_type: 杂志文章,评审
doi:10.1016/s0959-440x(98)80088-2
更新日期:1998-12-01 00:00:00
abstract::The sema domain was first defined from sequence by Kolodkin and colleagues in the early 1990s, and constitutes the distinctive structural and functional element of semaphorins, their plexin receptors and the receptor tyrosine kinases MET and RON, three protein families with major roles in development, tissue regenerat...
journal_title:Current opinion in structural biology
pub_type: 杂志文章,评审
doi:10.1016/j.sbi.2004.10.010
更新日期:2004-12-01 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::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
pub_type: 杂志文章,评审
doi:10.1016/j.sbi.2006.03.001
更新日期:2006-04-01 00:00:00
abstract::Channel-forming bacterial toxins undergo a series of remarkable changes in solubility, oligomerization state, structure and dynamics during the processes of membrane binding, assembly, membrane insertion and channel formation. Recent high-resolution crystal structures of channel-forming toxins, in both water-soluble a...
journal_title:Current opinion in structural biology
pub_type: 杂志文章,评审
doi:10.1016/s0959-440x(97)80123-6
更新日期:1997-08-01 00:00:00
abstract::Synapses are cell adhesion structures specialized for signal transmission between neurons. At the synapse, presynaptic and postsynaptic terminals of neurons are functionally connected but spatially separated and form a cleft. Membrane receptor-like cell adhesion molecules and secreted proteins in the synaptic cleft (s...
journal_title:Current opinion in structural biology
pub_type: 杂志文章,评审
doi:10.1016/j.sbi.2019.01.001
更新日期:2019-02-01 00:00:00
abstract::Can a stereochemical recognition code explain sequence-specific protein-nucleic acid interactions? Whereas a code that is generally applicable to DNA-binding proteins of all known structural families is unattainable, the indications are that a code can describe at least some of the interactions of classical zinc finge...
journal_title:Current opinion in structural biology
pub_type: 杂志文章,评审
doi:10.1016/s0959-440x(97)80015-2
更新日期:1997-02-01 00:00:00
abstract::The first high-resolution structure of a P-type ATPase, that of the Ca(2+)-ATPase of skeletal muscle sarcoplasmic reticulum, was published in 2000. This structure has provided many clues to how the Ca(2+)-ATPase might work, but no complete answers. The Ca(2+)-ATPase structure reveals no clear pathway from the cytoplas...
journal_title:Current opinion in structural biology
pub_type: 杂志文章,评审
doi:10.1016/s0959-440x(02)00360-3
更新日期:2002-08-01 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::Diverse glycans on proteins impact cell and organism physiology, along with drug activity. Since many protein-based biotherapeutics are glycosylated and these glycans have biological activity, there is a desire to engineer glycosylation for recombinant protein-based biotherapeutics. Engineered glycosylation can impact...
journal_title:Current opinion in structural biology
pub_type: 杂志文章,评审
doi:10.1016/j.sbi.2016.08.008
更新日期:2016-10-01 00:00:00
abstract::The biological functions of protein molecules are intimately dependent on their conformational dynamics. This aspect is particularly evident for disordered proteins, which constitute perhaps one-third of the human proteome. Therefore, structural ensembles often offer more useful representations of proteins than indivi...
journal_title:Current opinion in structural biology
pub_type: 杂志文章,评审
doi:10.1016/j.sbi.2016.12.004
更新日期:2017-02-01 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::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::Advances in the crystallization of biological macromolecules have come not only from the application of biochemical, molecular biological and immunological principles and techniques, but also from continued efforts to understand the crystallization process. Developments in crystallization methodologies, protocols, and...
journal_title:Current opinion in structural biology
pub_type: 杂志文章,评审
doi:10.1016/s0959-440x(96)80024-8
更新日期:1996-10-01 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::The observed distribution of protein structures can give us important clues about the underlying evolutionary process, imposing important constraints on possible models. The availability of results from an increasing number of genome projects has made the development of these models an active area of research. Models ...
journal_title:Current opinion in structural biology
pub_type: 杂志文章,评审
doi:10.1016/j.sbi.2008.01.006
更新日期:2008-04-01 00:00:00