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Phosphatidylinositol 4‐kinase as a target of pathogens—friend or foe?
FEBS Letters, EarlyView.This graphical summary illustrates the roles of phosphatidylinositol 4‐kinases (PI4Ks). PI4Ks regulate key cellular processes and can be hijacked by pathogens, such as viruses, bacteria and parasites, to support their intracellular replication. Their dual role as essential host enzymes and pathogen cofactors makes them promising drug targets.
Ana C. Mendes +3 more
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Differential Cellular Sensing of Fusion from within and Fusion from without during Virus Infection
Viruses, 2023 The physical entry of virus particles into cells triggers an innate immune response that is dependent on both calcium and nucleic acid sensors, with particles containing RNA or DNA genomes detected by RNA or DNA sensors, respectively.
David N. Hare +8 more
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Attractive instability of oppositely charged membranes induced by charge density fluctuations
, 2004 We predict the conditions under which two oppositely charged membranes show a dynamic, attractive instability. Two layers with unequal charges of opposite sign can repel or be stable when in close proximity.
A. J. Lin +10 more
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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 +5 more
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Physical Aspects of Viral Membrane Fusion
The Scientific World Journal, 2009 Enveloped viruses commonly employ membrane fusion during cell penetration in order to deliver their genetic material across the cell boundary. Large conformational changes in the proteins embedded in the viral membrane play a fundamental role in the ...
Laura Wessels, Keith Weninger
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Viruses, 2022 The membrane surface of enveloped viruses contains dedicated proteins enabling the fusion of the viral with the host cell membrane. Working with these proteins is almost always challenging because they are membrane-embedded and naturally metastable ...
Henriette Ebel +2 more
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The Caenorhabditis elegans DPF‐3 and human DPP4 have tripeptidyl peptidase activity
FEBS Letters, EarlyView.The dipeptidyl peptidase IV (DPPIV) family comprises serine proteases classically defined by their ability to remove dipeptides from the N‐termini of substrates, a feature that gave the family its name. Here, we report the discovery of a previously unrecognized tripeptidyl peptidase activity in DPPIV family members from two different species.
Aditya Trivedi, Rajani Kanth Gudipati
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IFITM proteins restrict viral membrane hemifusion.
PLoS Pathogens, 2013 The interferon-inducible transmembrane (IFITM) protein family represents a new class of cellular restriction factors that block early stages of viral replication; the underlying mechanism is currently not known.
Kun Li +12 more
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Biochimica et Biophysica Acta (BBA) - Molecular Cell Research, 2003 Mitochondrial fusion has been observed in a great variety of organisms from yeast to man. It serves to mix and unify the mitochondrial compartment and plays roles in cellular aging, cell development, energy dissipation and mitochondrial DNA inheritance. Large GTPases in the mitochondrial outer membrane, termed Fzo or mitofusins, have been identified as
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Mechanics of membrane fusion [PDF]
Nature Structural & Molecular Biology, 2008 Diverse membrane fusion reactions in biology involve close contact between two lipid bilayers, followed by the local distortion of the individual bilayers and reformation into a single, merged membrane. We consider the structures and energies of the fusion intermediates identified in experimental and theoretical work on protein-free lipid bilayers.
Chernomordik, Leonid V +1 more
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