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Cystatins as calpain inhibitors: Engineered chicken cystatin- and stefin B-kininogen domain 2 hybrids support a cystatin-like mode of interaction with the catalytic subunit of μ-calpain [PDF]

, 2001
Within the cystatin superfamily, only kininogen domain 2 (KD2) is able to inhibit μ- and m-calpain. In an attempt to elucidate the structural requirements of cystatins for calpain inhibition, we constructed recombinant hybrids of human stefin B (an ...
Gross, Stefan, Machleidt, Werner, Assfalg-Machleidt, Irmgard, Pfeiler, Dietmar, Gabrijelcic-Geiger, Dusica, Gollmitzer, Nicole, García Diaz, Beatriz, Auerswald, Ennes A., Stubbs, Milton T., Fritz, Hans   +9 more
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Evolutionarily divergent DUF4465 domains have a common vitamin B12‐binding function

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We show that DUF4465 family proteins, widespread across bacteria from gut microbiomes, hydrothermal vents, and soil, share a common vitamin B12‐binding function. These augmented β‐jellyroll proteins bind vitamin B12 via extended loops. Our findings establish sequence‐diverse DUF4465 proteins as a widespread class of B12‐binding proteins, highlighting ...
Charlea Clarke, Michal Banasik, Rokas Juodeikis, Martin J. Warren, Richard W. Pickersgill   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Mass spectrometry based identification of AMP‐O‐Tris generated by Thermococcus onnurineus Cas10

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Isolated Thermococcus onnurineus Cas10 generates the noncanonical ATP‐derived product AMP‐O‐Tris while in Tris‐containing buffer as identified via mass spectrometry, revealing relaxed nucleophile selectivity under isolated conditions. These findings suggest that multiprotein Csm complex assembly restricts Cas10 reactivity toward canonical cyclic ...
Su‐Jin Lee, Ga Seul Lee, JinHan Kim, Kwang‐Hyun Park, Seong‐Ryung Go, Jeong Hee Moon, Eui‐Jeon Woo   +6 more
wiley   +1 more source

Cyclic azapeptide CD36 ligand attenuates cardiac injury and reduces long‐chain fatty acid accumulation after myocardial ischemia–reperfusion in mice

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In a murine model of myocardial ischemia and reperfusion (MI/R), the CD36 azapeptide ligand MPE‐298 reduces cardiac injury and transiently lowers left ventricular long‐chain fatty acids (LCFAs) accumulation 3 h after reperfusion, accompanied by a decrease of oxidative stress and inflammation‐associated genes' expression in the heart and adipose tissue.
Jade Gauvin, Naghme Radmannia, David N. Huynh, Liliane Ménard, Caroline Daneault, Maïté Veilleux, Ahsanullah Ahsanullah, André C. Carpentier, William D. Lubell, Matthieu Ruiz, Huy Ong, Sylvie Marleau, Simon‐Pierre Gravel   +12 more
wiley   +1 more source

MACiE (Mechanism, Annotation and Classification in Enzymes) : novel tools for searching catalytic mechanisms

, 2007
This work is funded by the UK EPSRC and BBSRC (grant BB/C51320X/1)MACiE (Mechanism, Annotation and Classification in Enzymes) is a database of enzyme reaction mechanisms, and is publicly available as a web-based data resource.
Gemma L. Holliday, Peter Murray-rust, Torrance, James W., O'Boyle, Noel M., Thornton, Janet M., Janet M. Thornton, Almonacid, Daniel E., John B. O. Mitchell, Bartlett, Gail J., Holliday, Gemma L., Daniel E. Almonacid, Murray-Rust, Peter, Mitchell, John Blayney Owen, Gail J. Bartlett, Noel M. O’boyle, James W. Torrance   +15 more
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The crystal structure of the Borrelia burgdorferi nicotinamidase BBE22 resolves a long‐standing annotation error

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The crystal structure of Borrelia burgdorferi nicotinamidase (PncA/BBE22) reveals the correct full‐length protein initiated from a non‐canonical AUU start codon. The structure validates previous biochemical findings and resolves a long‐standing annotation error, demonstrating that the truncated database sequence is structurally incompatible with the ...
Kalvis Brangulis
wiley   +1 more source

Guiding AlphaFold to predict how Munc13‐1 opens Syntaxin‐1

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The syntaxin‐1 Habc‐domain (orange), linker (pink) and SNARE motif (yellow) form a closed conformation that binds to Munc18‐1 (violet) and is opened by the Munc13‐1 MUN domain (cyan) to form the SNARE complex that triggers neurotransmitter release.
Madhurima Chattopadhyay, Junjie Xu, Josep Rizo   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Structural basis for dual roles of Aar2p in U5 snRNP assembly

, 2013
Yeast U5 small nuclear ribonucleoprotein particle (snRNP) is assembled via a cytoplasmic precursor that contains the U5-specific Prp8 protein but lacks the U5-specific Brr2 helicase.
Jovin, S.M., Beggs, J., Wahl, M., Cristao, V., Heroven, A., Cristão, V.F., Beggs, J.D., Santos, K., Santos, K.F., Holton, N., Weber, G., Mozaffari-Jovin, S., Heroven, A.C., Wahl, M.C., Lührmann, R.   +14 more
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Small RNA pathways in mammalian oocytes

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Three distinct small RNA pathways operate in mammalian oocytes: RNAi interference (RNAi), the microRNA (miRNA) pathway, and the PIWI‐associated RNA (piRNA) pathway. These pathways use small RNAs to guide sequence‐specific repression and contribute to oocyte biology by targeting genes and mobile elements or appear insignificant since different ...
Petr Svoboda, Josef Pasulka
wiley   +1 more source

Interplay of 'induced fit' and preorganization in the ligand induced folding of the aptamer domain of the guanine binding riboswitch

, 2006
Riboswitches are highly structured elements in the 50-untranslated regions (50-UTRs) of messenger RNA that control gene expression by specifically binding to small metabolite molecules. They consist of an aptamer domain responsible for ligand binding and
Wöhnert, Jens, Nasiri, Hamid Reza, Fürtig, Boris, Buck, Janina, Schwalbe, Harald (Prof. Dr.), Noeske, Jonas   +5 more
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