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 abundance of protein and nucleotide repeats. In the past year, a shift in focus has taken place--from the significance of repeats to protein structure and function, mostly at the protein domain level, to the implication of generally much shorter repeated fragments in genetic diseases and protein malfunctioning.
journal_name
Curr Opin Struct Bioljournal_title
Current opinion in structural biologyauthors
Heringa Jdoi
10.1016/s0959-440x(98)80068-7subject
Has Abstractpub_date
1998-06-01 00:00:00pages
338-45issue
3eissn
0959-440Xissn
1879-033Xpii
S0959-440X(98)80068-7journal_volume
8pub_type
杂志文章,评审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
pub_type: 杂志文章,评审
doi:10.1016/S0959-440X(99)80036-0
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abstract::O-GlcNAcylation is an enzymatic post-translational modification occurring in hundreds of protein substrates. This modification occurs through the addition of the monosaccharide N-acetylglucosamine to serine and threonine residues on intracellular proteins in the cytosol, nucleus, and mitochondria. As a highly dynamic ...
journal_title:Current opinion in structural biology
pub_type: 杂志文章,评审
doi:10.1016/j.sbi.2020.12.005
更新日期:2021-01-09 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::Polyketide synthases (PKSs) form a large family of multifunctional proteins involved in the biosynthesis of diverse classes of natural products. Architecturally at least three different types of PKSs have been discovered in the microbial world and recent years have revealed tremendous versatility of PKSs, both in term...
journal_title:Current opinion in structural biology
pub_type: 杂志文章,评审
doi:10.1016/j.sbi.2007.08.021
更新日期:2007-12-01 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
pub_type: 杂志文章,评审
doi:10.1016/j.sbi.2013.04.008
更新日期:2013-08-01 00:00:00
abstract::In the prokaryotic CRISPR-Cas adaptive immune systems, a CRISPR RNA (crRNA) assembles with multiple or single Cas proteins to form crRNA ribonucleoprotein (crRNP) effector complexes, responsible for the destruction of invading genetic elements. Although the mechanisms of target recognition and cleavage by the crRNP ef...
journal_title:Current opinion in structural biology
pub_type: 杂志文章,评审
doi:10.1016/j.sbi.2016.11.013
更新日期:2017-04-01 00:00:00
abstract::The most important advances in the field of genome annotation over the past two years involve the use of cDNA sequences, protein structures and gene expression data to predict genes. These types of information not only improve gene identification, but they also give insights into variation in gene structure and functi...
journal_title:Current opinion in structural biology
pub_type: 杂志文章,评审
doi:10.1016/s0959-440x(00)00213-x
更新日期:2001-06-01 00:00:00
abstract::The Jumonji-C (JmjC) subfamily of 2-oxoglutarate (2OG)-dependent oxygenases are of biomedical interest because of their roles in the regulation of gene expression and protein biosynthesis. Human JmjC 2OG oxygenases catalyze oxidative modifications to give either chemically stable alcohol products, or in the case of Nɛ...
journal_title:Current opinion in structural biology
pub_type: 杂志文章,评审
doi:10.1016/j.sbi.2016.05.013
更新日期:2016-12-01 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::Fucose is a common terminal modification on protein and lipid glycans. Fucose can also be directly linked to protein via an O-linkage to Serine or Threonine residues located within consensus sequences contained in Epidermal Growth Factor-like (EGF) repeats and Thrombospondin Type 1 Repeats (TSRs). In this context, fuc...
journal_title:Current opinion in structural biology
pub_type: 杂志文章,评审
doi:10.1016/j.sbi.2018.12.005
更新日期:2019-06-01 00:00:00
abstract::ATP-dependent initiation factors help process replication origins and coordinate replisome assembly to control the onset of DNA synthesis. Although the specific properties and regulatory mechanisms of initiator proteins can vary greatly between different organisms, certain nucleotide-binding elements and assembly patt...
journal_title:Current opinion in structural biology
pub_type: 杂志文章,评审
doi:10.1016/j.sbi.2012.11.012
更新日期:2013-02-01 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::Magic-angle spinning solid-state NMR experiments are well suited to investigating the structures and mechanisms of important proteins that are inaccessible to X-ray crystallography and solution NMR spectroscopy, including membrane proteins and disease-related protein aggregates. Good progress has been made in the deve...
journal_title:Current opinion in structural biology
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1016/s0959-440x(02)00374-3
更新日期:2002-10-01 00:00:00
abstract::The structure of the visual pigment rhodopsin in the dark state was first investigated by electron microscopy (EM). More recently, rhodopsin has been crystallised in two different space groups--a tetragonal P4(1) crystal form and a trigonal P3(1) packing arrangement. The structures of the pigment, determined by X-ray ...
journal_title:Current opinion in structural biology
pub_type: 杂志文章,评审
doi:10.1016/j.sbi.2005.07.010
更新日期:2005-08-01 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::This review focuses on pharmacophore approaches in researching protein interfaces that bind protein ligands. Pharmacophore descriptions of binding interfaces that employ molecular dynamics simulation can account for effects of solvation and conformational flexibility. In addition, these calculations provide an approxi...
journal_title:Current opinion in structural biology
pub_type: 杂志文章,评审
doi:10.1016/j.sbi.2020.12.016
更新日期:2021-01-21 00:00:00
abstract::Histones are highly positively charged proteins that wrap our genome. Their surface properties also make them prone to nonspecific interactions and aggregation. A class of proteins known as histone chaperones is dedicated to safeguard histones by aiding their proper incorporation into nucleosomes. Histone chaperones f...
journal_title:Current opinion in structural biology
pub_type: 杂志文章,评审
doi:10.1016/j.sbi.2011.10.003
更新日期:2011-12-01 00:00:00
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::Large ribozymes fold on a 'glacial' timescale compared to the folding of their protein counterparts. The sluggish folding exhibited by large RNAs results from the formation of kinetically trapped, misfolded intermediates, which are nonessential features of the folding mechanism. Newly developed mutant ribozymes that a...
journal_title:Current opinion in structural biology
pub_type: 杂志文章,评审
doi:10.1016/S0959-440X(99)80045-1
更新日期:1999-06-01 00:00:00
abstract::There are now numerous examples of proteins that are unstructured or only partially structured under physiological conditions and yet are nevertheless functional. Such proteins are especially prevalent in eukaryotes. In many cases, intrinsically disordered proteins adopt folded structures upon binding to their biologi...
journal_title:Current opinion in structural biology
pub_type: 杂志文章,评审
doi:10.1016/s0959-440x(02)00289-0
更新日期:2002-02-01 00:00:00
abstract::The X-ray structures of two prokaryotic pentameric ligand-gated ion channels have recently provided detailed insight into this important family of neurotransmitter receptors. These prokaryotic homologs share the overall architecture of their eukaryotic counterparts with conservation in functionally important residues....
journal_title:Current opinion in structural biology
pub_type: 杂志文章,评审
doi:10.1016/j.sbi.2009.07.006
更新日期:2009-08-01 00:00:00
abstract::The modulation of enzyme function is a key regulatory feature of biological systems. The ability to engineer synthetic enzymes that can be controlled by any arbitrary signal would enable a wide array of sensing applications and therapeutics and provide us with powerful tools for the basic study of biology. Here severa...
journal_title:Current opinion in structural biology
pub_type: 杂志文章,评审
doi:10.1016/j.sbi.2009.04.007
更新日期:2009-08-01 00:00:00
abstract::This review emphasizes the effects of naturally occurring mutations on structural features and physico-chemical properties of proteins. The basic protein characteristics considered are stability, dynamics, and the binding of proteins and methods for assessing effects of mutations on these macromolecular characteristic...
journal_title:Current opinion in structural biology
pub_type: 杂志文章,评审
doi:10.1016/j.sbi.2015.01.003
更新日期:2015-06-01 00:00:00
abstract::For various reasons, it seems sensible to redesign or design proteins from the inside out. Past approaches in this field have involved iterations of mutagenesis and characterisation to 'evolve' designs. Increasingly, combinatorial approaches are being taken to select 'fit' sequences from libraries of variant proteins....
journal_title:Current opinion in structural biology
pub_type: 杂志文章,评审
doi:10.1016/s0959-440x(00)00234-7
更新日期:2001-08-01 00:00:00
abstract::Eukaryotes possess a variety of translational control mechanisms which function in the surveillance of mRNAs, discriminating between normal and aberrant translation elongation and termination, triggering mRNA decay. The three major evolutionarily conserved eukaryotic pathways are No-Go, Non-Stop and Nonsense-Mediated ...
journal_title:Current opinion in structural biology
pub_type: 杂志文章,评审
doi:10.1016/j.sbi.2020.06.011
更新日期:2020-12-01 00:00:00
abstract::Salt-dependent electrostatic effects are a major factor in determining the stability, structure, reactivity, and binding behavior of nucleic acids. Increasingly detailed theoretical methods, especially those based on Monte Carlo and Poisson-Boltzmann methodologies, combined with powerful computational algorithms are b...
journal_title:Current opinion in structural biology
pub_type: 杂志文章,评审
doi:10.1016/0959-440x(95)80093-x
更新日期:1995-06-01 00:00:00
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::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::Covalently circularized nanodiscs (cNDs) represent a significant advance in the durability and applicability of nanodisc technology. The new cNDs demonstrate higher size homogeneity and improved stability compared with that of non-circularized forms. Moreover, cNDs can be prepared at various defined sizes up to 80-nm ...
journal_title:Current opinion in structural biology
pub_type: 杂志文章,评审
doi:10.1016/j.sbi.2018.03.014
更新日期:2018-08-01 00:00:00
abstract::The polyadenosine (poly(A)) tail found on the 3'-end of almost all eukaryotic mRNAs is important for mRNA stability and regulation of translation. mRNA 3'-end processing occurs co-transcriptionally and involves more than 20 proteins to specifically recognize the polyadenylation site, cleave the pre-mRNA, add a poly(A)...
journal_title:Current opinion in structural biology
pub_type: 杂志文章,评审
doi:10.1016/j.sbi.2019.08.001
更新日期:2019-12-01 00:00:00