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The multiple roles of the NlpC_P60 peptidase family in mycobacteria – an underexplored target for antimicrobial drug discovery

FEBS Letters, EarlyView.
The NlpC_P60 superfamily of peptidases is recognised by its key role in bacterial cell wall homeostasis. Recently, studies have also described the involvement of NlpC_P60‐like enzymes in bacterial competitive mechanisms and pathogenesis across several lineages.
Catharina dos Santos Silva, Marcio Vinicius Bertacine Dias   +1 more
wiley   +1 more source

Allostery of atypical modulators at oligomeric G protein-coupled receptors

Scientific Reports, 2021
Many G protein-coupled receptors (GPCRs) are therapeutic targets, with most drugs acting at the orthosteric site. Some GPCRs also possess allosteric sites, which have become a focus of drug discovery.
Rabindra V. Shivnaraine, Brendan Kelly, Gwendolynne Elmslie, Xi-Ping Huang, Yue John Dong, Margaret Seidenberg, James W. Wells, John Ellis   +7 more
doaj   +1 more source

Signal processing in the TGF-beta superfamily ligand-receptor network [PDF]

PLoS Comput Biol. 2006 Jan;2(1):e3. Epub 2006 Jan 27., 2005
The TGF-beta pathway plays a central role in tissue homeostasis and morphogenesis. It transduces a variety of extracellular signals into intracellular transcriptional responses that control a plethora of cellular processes, including cell growth, apoptosis, and differentiation.
arxiv   +1 more source

Yeast Ste2 receptors as tools for study of mammalian protein kinases and adaptors involved in receptor trafficking [PDF]

, 2006
BACKGROUND: Mammalian receptors that couple to effectors via heterotrimeric G proteins (e.g., beta (2)-adrenergic receptors) and receptors with intrinsic tyrosine kinase activity (e.g., insulin and IGF-I receptors) constitute the proximal points of two ...
Malbon, Craig C, Shumay, Elena, Wang, Hsien-yu, Yin, Dezhong   +3 more
core   +2 more sources

Making tau amyloid models in vitro: a crucial and underestimated challenge

FEBS Letters, EarlyView.
This review highlights the challenges of producing in vitro amyloid assemblies of the tau protein. We review how accurately the existing protocols mimic tau deposits found in the brain of patients affected with tauopathies. We discuss the important properties that should be considered when forming amyloids and the benchmarks that should be used to ...
Julien Broc, Clara Piersson, Yann Fichou
wiley   +1 more source

A universal lower bound on the free energy cost of molecular measurements [PDF]

Phys. Rev. E 95, 062410 (2017), 2016
The living cell uses a variety of molecular receptors to read and process chemical signals that vary in space and time. We model the dynamics of such molecular level measurements as Markov processes in steady state, with a coupling between the receptor and the signal. We prove exactly that, when the the signal dynamics is not perturbed by the receptors,
arxiv   +1 more source

Frizzled Proteins are bona fide G Protein-Coupled Receptors [PDF]

, 2009
Receptors of the Frizzled family initiate Wnt ligand-dependent signaling controlling multiple steps in organism development and highly conserved in evolution. Misactivation of the Wnt/Frizzled signaling is cancerogenic.
Silke Buestorf, Vladimir L. Katanaev
core   +1 more source

Mas-related G-protein–coupled receptors inhibit pathological pain in mice [PDF]

, 2010
An important objective of pain research is to identify novel drug targets for the treatment of pathological persistent pain states, such as inflammatory and neuropathic pain.
Altier, Baron, Basbaum, Cai, Calignano, Callaghan, Caterina, Chen, Chen, Coderre, Costigan, Costigan, D. J. Anderson, De Felipe, Delmas, Dong, Gerevich, Guan, Guan, Herrero, Honan, Ikeda, Julius, Knabl, Kusudo, Lembo, Li, Li, Liu, Liu, Lu, MacDermott, MacPherson, Malmberg, Melzack, Melzack, Miraucourt, Ndong, Neumann, Q. Liu, Rau, Rodriguez Parkitna, S. N. Raja, Scholz, Seal, Woolf, X. Dong, Y. Guan, Z. Tang, Zeng   +49 more
core   +2 more sources

Unraveling Mycobacterium tuberculosis acid resistance and pH homeostasis mechanisms

FEBS Letters, EarlyView.
Mycobacterium tuberculosis exhibits a remarkable resilience to acid stress. In this Review, we discuss some of the molecular mechanisms and metabolic pathways used by the tubercle bacilli to adapt and resist host‐mediated acid stress. Mycobacterium tuberculosis (Mtb) is a successful pathogen that has developed a variety of strategies to survive and ...
Janïs Laudouze, Stéphane Canaan, Alexandre Gouzy, Pierre Santucci   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Stabilization of G protein-coupled receptors by point mutations

Frontiers in Pharmacology, 2015
G protein-coupled receptors (GPCRs) are flexible integral membrane proteins involved in transmembrane signaling. Their involvement in many physiological processes makes them interesting targets for drug development.
Franziska eHeydenreich, Franziska eHeydenreich, Ziva eVuckovic, Ziva eVuckovic, Milos eMatkovic, Milos eMatkovic, Dmitry eVeprintsev, Dmitry eVeprintsev   +7 more
doaj   +1 more source