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Photosynthesis under far‐red light—evolutionary adaptations and bioengineering of light‐harvesting complexes

FEBS Letters, EarlyView.
Phototrophs evolved light‐harvesting systems adapted for efficient photon capture in habitats enriched in far‐red radiation. A subset of eukaryotic pigment‐binding proteins can absorb far‐red photons via low‐energy chlorophyll states known as red forms.
Antonello Amelii, Edoardo Andrea Cutolo, Daniele Montepietra, Claudia Battarra, Roberto Caferri, Stefano Capaldi, Zeno Guardini, Luca Dall'Osto, Roberto Bassi   +8 more
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Cofactor Tail Length Modulates Catalysis of Bacterial F420-Dependent Oxidoreductases

Frontiers in Microbiology, 2017
F420 is a microbial cofactor that mediates a wide range of physiologically important and industrially relevant redox reactions, including in methanogenesis and tetracycline biosynthesis.
Blair Ney, Blair Ney, Carlo R. Carere, Richard Sparling, Richard Sparling, Thanavit Jirapanjawat, Matthew B. Stott, Colin J. Jackson, John G. Oakeshott, Andrew C. Warden, Chris Greening, Chris Greening   +11 more
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Glutamate transporter control of ambient glutamate levels

Neurochemistry International, 2014
Accurate knowledge of the ambient extracellular glutamate concentration in brain is required for understanding its potential impacts on tonic and phasic receptor signaling. Estimates of ambient glutamate based on microdialysis measurements are generally in the range of ∼2-10μM, approximately 100-fold higher than estimates based on electrophysiological ...
Sun, Weinan, Shchepakin, Denis, Kalachev, Leonid V., Kavanaugh, Michael P.   +3 more
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Structural insights into lacto‐N‐biose I recognition by a family 32 carbohydrate‐binding module from Bifidobacterium bifidum

FEBS Letters, EarlyView.
Bifidobacterium bifidum establishes symbiosis with infants by metabolizing lacto‐N‐biose I (LNB) from human milk oligosaccharides (HMOs). The extracellular multidomain enzyme LnbB drives this process, releasing LNB via its catalytic glycoside hydrolase family 20 (GH20) lacto‐N‐biosidase domain.
Xinzhe Zhang, Naoki Sunagawa, Toma Kashima, Kiyohiko Igarashi, Akimasa Miyanaga, Shinya Fushinobu   +5 more
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Biochemical characterization of mutants in the active site residues of the β-galactosidase enzyme of Bacillus circulans ATCC 31382

FEBS Open Bio, 2014
The Bacillus circulans ATCC 31382 β-galactosidase (BgaD) is a retaining-type glycosidase of glycoside hydrolase family 2 (GH2). Its commercial enzyme preparation, Biolacta N5, is used for commercial-scale production of galacto-oligosaccharides (GOS). The
Jelle B. Bultema, Bas J.H. Kuipers, Lubbert Dijkhuizen   +2 more
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Disordered but rhythmic—the role of intrinsic protein disorder in eukaryotic circadian timing

FEBS Letters, EarlyView.
Unstructured domains known as intrinsically disordered regions (IDRs) are present in nearly every part of the eukaryotic core circadian oscillator. IDRs enable many diverse inter‐ and intramolecular interactions that support clock function. IDR conformations are highly tunable by post‐translational modifications and environmental conditions, which ...
Emery T. Usher, Jacqueline F. Pelham
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Long-term NMDAR antagonism correlates reduced astrocytic glutamate uptake with anxiety-like phenotype

Frontiers in Cellular Neuroscience, 2015
The role of glutamate N-methyl-D-Aspartate receptor (NMDAR) hypofunction has been extensively studied in schizophrenia; however, less is known about its role in anxiety disorders.
Eduardo R Zimmer, Vitor R Torrez, Eduardo eKalinine, Eduardo eKalinine, Marina C Augustin, Kamila C Zenki, Roberto Farina Almeida, Gisele eHansel, Alexandre P Muller, Diogo O Souza, Rodrigo eMachado-Vieira, Rodrigo eMachado-Vieira, Luis V Portela   +12 more
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Mutational and structural analyses of Caldanaerobius polysaccharolyticus Man5B reveal novel active site residues for family 5 glycoside hydrolases. [PDF]

PLoS ONE, 2013
CpMan5B is a glycoside hydrolase (GH) family 5 enzyme exhibiting both β-1,4-mannosidic and β-1,4-glucosidic cleavage activities. To provide insight into the amino acid residues that contribute to catalysis and substrate specificity, we solved the ...
Takuji Oyama, George E Schmitz, Dylan Dodd, Yejun Han, Alanna Burnett, Naoko Nagasawa, Roderick I Mackie, Haruki Nakamura, Kosuke Morikawa, Isaac Cann   +9 more
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Protein pyrophosphorylation by inositol pyrophosphates — detection, function, and regulation

FEBS Letters, EarlyView.
Protein pyrophosphorylation is an unusual signaling mechanism that was discovered two decades ago. It can be driven by inositol pyrophosphate messengers and influences various cellular processes. Herein, we summarize the research progress and challenges of this field, covering pathways found to be regulated by this posttranslational modification as ...
Sarah Lampe, Tanmay Kumar Mohanty, Rashna Bhandari, Dorothea Fiedler   +3 more
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Protein kinase C (PKC) phosphorylates the system N glutamine transporter SN1 (slc38a3) and regulates its membrane trafficking and degradation

Frontiers in Endocrinology, 2013
The system N transporter SN1 (also known as SNAT3) is enriched on perisynaptic astroglial cell membranes. SN1 mediates electroneutral and bidirectional glutamine transport, and regulates the intracellular as well as the extracellular concentrations of ...
Lise Sofie H. Nissen-Meyer, Farrukh Abbas Chaudhry   +1 more
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