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Translophagy—A potential link between autophagy impairment and translational errors

FEBS Letters, EarlyView.
Neurodegenerative diseases are characterised by the accumulation of abnormal proteins and protein aggregates, but their origin often remains unknown. We propose that selective autophagy removes damaged protein‐making machinery, preventing errors during protein synthesis.
Mykola V. Korolchuk, Gailing Ma, Robin Antrobus, Diego Manni, Marco Trevisan‐Herraz, Mustafa Khwaja, Max Brown, Gavin D. Richardson, Masaaki Komatsu, Daniel Erskine, Viktor I. Korolchuk, Tetsushi Kataura   +11 more
wiley   +1 more source

Structural and biochemical analysis of a B12 superbinder

FEBS Letters, EarlyView.
BtuG proteins are vitamin B12 scavengers in Bacteroides thetaiotaomicron, a dominant human gut bacterium. We present crystal structures of three BtuG homologs bound to cobalamin and its precursor cobinamide, revealing picomolar binding affinities, among the highest known for any natural protein.
Jose M. Martinez Felices, Jacob J. Whittaker, Dirk J. Slotboom, Albert Guskov   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Novel Mutations in K13 Propeller Gene of Artemisinin-Resistant Plasmodium falciparum

Emerging Infectious Diseases, 2015
We looked for mutations in the Plasmodium falciparum K13 propeller gene of an artemisinin-resistant parasite on islands in Lake Victoria, Kenya, where transmission in 2012–2013 was high. The 4 new types of nonsynonymous, and 5 of synonymous, mutations we
Rie Isozumi, Haruki Uemura, Isao Kimata, Yoshio Ichinose, John Logedi, Ahmeddin H. Omar, Akira Kaneko   +6 more
doaj   +1 more source

Evidence for a pathogenic role of different mutations at codon 188 of PRNP [PDF]

, 2008
Clinical and pathological changes in familial Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (CJD) cases may be similar or indistinguishable from sporadic CJD. Therefore determination of novel mutations in PRNP remains of major importance.
Eva-Maria Grasbon-Frodl, Hans A Kretzschmar, Roeber, Sigrun, Arzberger, Thomas, Sigrun Roeber, Weber Petra, Krebs, Bjarne, Schröter, Andreas, Petra Weber, Illig, T., Zerr, I., Schröter, A., Arzberger, T., Illig Thomas, Windl, Otto, Bjarne Krebs, Wei Xiang, Hans A. Kretzschmar, Schroeter, Andreas, Kretzschmar, H.A., Inga Zerr, Grasbon-Frodl, Eva-Maria, Weber, Petra, Windl, O., Zerr, Inga, Schröter Andreas, Kretzschmar, Hans A., Xiang, W., Xiang Wei, Illig, Thomas, Zerr Inga, Thomas Illig, Vollmert, C., Grasbon-Frodl Eva-Maria, Kretzschmar Hans A., Caren Vollmert, Weber, P., Krebs Bjarne, Grasbon-Frodl, E.M., Krebs, B., Vollmert Caren, Vollmert, Caren, Roeber Sigrun, Xiang, Wei, Arzberger Thomas, Roeber, S., Windl Otto, Andreas Schröter, Otto Windl, Thomas Arzberger   +49 more
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From junk to function — How weak selection in eukaryotes builds new parts and drives genomic complexity

FEBS Letters, EarlyView.
How do genomes gain new functional parts? In eukaryotes, which tend to evolve under weak selection, much of the genome is junk. Palazzo and Qiu borrow the logic of Markov chains to show how non‐functional DNA becomes functional through the appearance of intermediate states, which arise due to epistasis, buffering, and biochemical messiness, allowing ...
Alexander F. Palazzo, Yi Qiu
wiley   +1 more source

Evolution strategies with q-Gaussian mutation for dynamic optimization problems [PDF]

, 2010
This article is posted here with permmission from IEEE - Copyright @ 2010 IEEEEvolution strategies with q-Gaussian mutation, which allows the self-adaptation of the mutation distribution shape, is proposed for dynamic optimization problems in this paper.
Yang, S, Tinos, Renato, Tinos, R, null Shengxiang Yang, Renato Tino, Yang, Shengxiang   +5 more
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The Shewanella oneidensis Fic enzyme SoFic targets the switch‐I region of EF‐Tu for AMPylation

FEBS Letters, EarlyView.
Fic enzymes mediate diverse post‐translational modifications across all domains of life, including AMPylation. Prokaryotic EF‐Tu can be AMPylated and deAMPylated by the conserved Fic enzyme SoFic. Structural and biochemical approaches were used to characterize the effect of AMPylation on EF‐Tu, SoFic's enzymatic activities, and the enzyme‐target ...
Svenja Runge, Vivian Pogenberg, Alexander Baumgart, Bente Siebels, Hartmut Schlüter, Michael Hecht‐Bucher, Aymelt Itzen   +6 more
wiley   +1 more source

L‐aspartate oxidase provides new insights into fumarate reduction in anaerobic darkness in Synechocystis sp. PCC6803

FEBS Letters, EarlyView.
Synechocystis strains deficient in succinate dehydrogenase (SDH) secrete more succinate than the WT under dark anaerobic conditions, supporting that SDH then primarily acts as SDH, not as a fumarate reductase. L‐aspartate oxidase (Laspo) from Synechocystis is functional under anaerobic conditions, reducing fumarate to succinate.
Kateryna Kukil, Jeffrey A. Hawkes, Cecilia Blikstad, Pia Lindberg   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Point mutations of Dicer2 conferred Fusarium asiaticum resistance to RNAi-related biopesticide

Journal of Integrative Agriculture
The use of RNA interference (RNAi) technology to control pests is explored by researchers globally. Even though RNA is a new class of pest control compound unlike conventional chemical pesticides, the evolution of pest resistance needs to be considered ...
Kaixin Gu, Ran Wei, Yidan Sun, Xiaoxin Duan, Jing Gao, Jianxin Wang, Yiping Hou, Mingguo Zhou, Xiushi Song   +8 more
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Configuration of templates used for evaluating the sensitivity of SIBA for point mutation(s).

, 2014
Eight additional templates harboring different numbers of point mutation(s) 1–4 were synthesized. The point mutation(s) were either located in regions homologous to the IO DNA or the IO 2′-O-methyl RNA region (SB-IO).
Mark J. Hoser (665067), Hannu K. Mansukoski (665068), Kevin E. Eboigbodin (665069), Scott W. Morrical (423051)   +3 more
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