Results 41 to 50 of about 247,874 (255)

Identification of the prebiotic translation apparatus within the contemporary ribosome [PDF]

, 2009
A structural element that could have existed independently in the prebiotic era was identified at the active site of the contemporary ribosome. It is suggested to have functioned as a proto-ribosome catalyzing peptide bond formation and non-coded ...
Chen Davidovich, Ada Yonath, Ilana Agmon, Anat Bashan   +3 more
core  

Direct measurement of the mechanical work during translocation by the ribosome

eLife, 2014
A detailed understanding of tRNA/mRNA translocation requires measurement of the forces generated by the ribosome during this movement. Such measurements have so far remained elusive and, thus, little is known about the relation between force and ...
Tingting Liu, Ariel Kaplan, Lisa Alexander, Shannon Yan, Jin-Der Wen, Laura Lancaster, Charles E Wickersham, Kurt Fredrick, Harry Noller, Ignacio Tinoco Jr, Carlos J Bustamante   +10 more
doaj   +1 more source

The coordinated management of ribosome and translation during injury and regeneration

Frontiers in Cell and Developmental Biology, 2023
Diverse acute and chronic injuries induce damage responses in the gastrointestinal (GI) system, and numerous cell types in the gastrointestinal tract demonstrate remarkable resilience, adaptability, and regenerative capacity in response to stress ...
Thanh Nguyen, Jason C. Mills, Jason C. Mills, Jason C. Mills, Charles J. Cho   +4 more
doaj   +1 more source

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

Fibrillarin-mediated ribosomal RNA maturation is a novel therapeutic vulnerability in triple-negative breast cancer

Breast Cancer Research
Background Triple-negative breast cancer (TNBC) remains one of the most challenging breast cancer subtypes to treat due to the lack of effective therapeutic options.
Camille Jouines, Piero Lo Monaco, Angéline Gaucherot, Julie Radermecker, Caroline Isaac, Fleur Bourdelais, Marie-Ambre Monet, Marion Meyer, Mounira Chalabi-Dchar, Flora Nguyen Van Long, Laury Baillon, Carine Froment, Julien Marcoux, Christophe Vanbelle, Tanguy Fenouil, Sébastien Durand, Stéphane Giraud, Jean-Jacques Diaz, Virginie Marcel, Frédéric Catez   +19 more
doaj   +1 more source

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

The Bowen–Conradi syndrome protein Nep1 (Emg1) has a dual role in eukaryotic ribosome biogenesis, as an essential assembly factor and in the methylation of Psi1191 in yeast 18S rRNA [PDF]

, 2010
The Nep1 (Emg1) SPOUT-class methyltransferase is an essential ribosome assembly factor and the human Bowen–Conradi syndrome (BCS) is caused by a specific Nep1D86G mutation. We recently showed in vitro that Methanocaldococcus jannaschii Nep1 is a sequence-
Valeska Schilling, Jan Philip Wurm, Britta Meyer, Michael Karas, Kötter, Peter, Bahr, Ute, Schilling, Valeska, Buchhaupt, Markus, Wöhnert, Jens, Ute Bahr, Karl-Dieter Entian, Matthias S. Leisegang, Karas, Michael (Prof. Dr.), Martin Held, Heckel, Alexander, Leisegang, Matthias S., Peter Kötter, Markus T. Bohnsack, Entian, Karl-Dieter, Markus Buchhaupt, Bohnsack, Markus, Held, Martin, Alexander Heckel, Meyer, Britta, Leisegang, Matthias, Jens Wöhnert, Karas, Michael, Wurm, Jan Philip   +27 more
core   +1 more source

Ribosome profiling enhances understanding of mycobacterial translation [PDF]

, 2022
A recent addition to the -omics toolkit, ribosome profiling, enables researchers to gain insight into the process and regulation of translation by mapping fragments of mRNA protected from nuclease digestion by ribosome binding. In this review, we discuss
Sawyer, E.B., Cortes, T., Sawyer, Elizabeth B., Cortes, Teresa, Teresa Cortes, Elizabeth B. Sawyer   +5 more
core   +1 more source

A context‐dependent modulatory role for eIF6 in acquired resistance to vemurafenib in melanoma

FEBS Letters, EarlyView.
Acquired resistance to vemurafenib upregulates the translation factor eIF6 in melanoma cells. Silencing eIF6 in resistant cells reduces proliferation and partially restores drug sensitivity, whereas its overexpression increases sensitivity across melanoma lines regardless of BRAF status, via modulation of mTOR, S6K, and MAPK signaling.
George Kyriakopoulos, Antonia Petropoulou, Alexandra Anastogianni, Angelina Bania, Vassilis Stamatakis, Argyris Alexiou, Chi‐Ping Day, Glenn Merlino, Katerina Grafanaki, Constantinos Stathopoulos   +9 more
wiley   +1 more source

Smaller is better: nanobodies meet NMR

FEBS Letters, EarlyView.
Nanobodies are single‐domain antigen‐binding fragments derived from camelid heavy chain antibodies. Their small size, high stability, and exceptional specificity make nanobodies uniquely useful probes for NMR studies of protein dynamics, transient conformational states, and protein–protein interactions.
Oleg Y. Dmitriev
wiley   +1 more source