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Our Evolving Understanding of the Mechanism of Quinolones

Antibiotics, 2018
The maintenance of DNA supercoiling is essential for the proper regulation of a plethora of biological processes. As a consequence of this mode of regulation, ahead of the replication fork, DNA replication machinery is prone to introducing supercoiled ...
Arnaud Gutierrez, Jonathan M. Stokes, Ivan Matic   +2 more
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DNA topoisomerase inhibitors: biflavonoids from Ouratea species

Brazilian Journal of Medical and Biological Research, 2002
Topoisomerase inhibitors are agents with anticancer activity. 7"-O-Methyl-agathisflavone (I) and amentoflavone (II) are biflavonoids and were isolated from the Brazilian plants Ouratea hexasperma and O. semiserrata, respectively.
N.F. Grynberg, M.G. Carvalho, J.R. Velandia, M.C. Oliveira, I.C. Moreira, R. Braz- Filho, A. Echevarria   +6 more
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The Difficult Case of Crystallization and Structure Solution for the ParC55 Breakage-Reunion Domain of Topoisomerase IV from Streptococcus pneumoniae. [PDF]

, 2008
BACKGROUND: Streptococcus pneumoniae is the major cause of community-acquired pneumonia and is also associated with bronchitis, meningitis, otitis and sinusitis.
Laponogov, I, Pan, Xiao-Su, L Mark Fisher, Veselkov, DA, Sanderson, MR, Xiao-Su Pan, Sohi, MK, Mark R Sanderson, Fisher, L. Mark, Sanderson, Mark R., Laponogov, Ivan, Fisher, LM, Dennis A Veselkov, Pan, XS, Maninder K Sohi, Veselkov, Dennis A., Ivan Laponogov, Sohi, Maninder K.   +17 more
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Structural basis for allosteric regulation of Human Topoisomerase IIα

Nature Communications, 2021
Type 2 DNA topoisomerases (Top2) regulates DNA topology during DNA replication, transcription, and chromosome segregation. Here the authors describe a complete structure of the catalytic core of the human Topo IIα bound to DNA and etoposide, providing ...
Arnaud Vanden Broeck, Christophe Lotz, Robert Drillien, Léa Haas, Claire Bedez, Valérie Lamour   +5 more
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Topoisomerase IIα represses transcription by enforcing promoter-proximal pausing

Cell Reports, 2021
Summary: Accumulation of topological stress in the form of DNA supercoiling is inherent to the advance of RNA polymerase II (Pol II) and needs to be resolved by DNA topoisomerases to sustain productive transcriptional elongation.
Andrés Herrero-Ruiz, Pedro Manuel Martínez-García, José Terrón-Bautista, Gonzalo Millán-Zambrano, Jenna Ariel Lieberman, Silvia Jimeno-González, Felipe Cortés-Ledesma   +6 more
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Fluorescently labeled circular DNA molecules for DNA topology and topoisomerases [PDF]

, 2016
DNA topology plays essential roles in several fundamental biological processes, such as DNA replication, recombination, and transcription. Typically agarose gel electrophoresis is employed to study DNA topology.
Miksovska, Jaroslava, Leng, Fenfei, Gonzalez, Walter, Chambers, Jeremy W., Gu, Maxwell, Berrido, Andrea   +5 more
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Variation of Structure and Cellular Functions of Type IA Topoisomerases across the Tree of Life

Cells
Topoisomerases regulate the topological state of cellular genomes to prevent impediments to vital cellular processes, including replication and transcription from suboptimal supercoiling of double-stranded DNA, and to untangle topological barriers ...
Kemin Tan, Yuk-Ching Tse-Dinh
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Caracterização das DNA topoisomerases II de Trypanosoma rangeli [PDF]

, 2012
Tese (doutorado) - Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina, Centro de Ciências Biológicas, Programa de Pós-Graduação em Biotecnologia, Florianópolis, 2010DNA topoisomerases são enzimas que participam de diversos processos celulares tais como: replicação ...
Stoco, Patrícia Hermes
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Engineering peptides into antibodies—opportunities and strategies for therapeutic innovation

FEBS Letters, EarlyView.
Peptides and antibodies occupy complementary therapeutic niches. Peptides recognize difficult targets in a compact format, while antibodies add specificity, long half‐life, and effector functions. This review examines strategies that merge both modalities—peptide grafting into loops, terminal and Fc fusions, and bioconjugation—highlighting how ...
Jinling Wang, Ruslana Romaniuk, Hristo L. Svilenov   +2 more
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Structures of topoisomerase V in complex with DNA reveal unusual DNA-binding mode and novel relaxation mechanism

eLife, 2022
Topoisomerase V is a unique topoisomerase that combines DNA repair and topoisomerase activities. The enzyme has an unusual arrangement, with a small topoisomerase domain followed by 12 tandem (HhH)2 domains, which include 3 AP lyase repair domains.
Amy Osterman, Alfonso Mondragón
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