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Computational Investigations on Polymerase Actions in Gene Transcription and Replication Combining Physical Modeling and Atomistic Simulations [PDF]

Chin. Phys. B Vol. 25, No. 1 (2016) 018706, 2015
Polymerases are protein enzymes that move along nucleic acid chains and catalyze template-based polymerization reactions during gene transcription and replication. The polymerases also substantially improve transcription or replication fidelity through the non-equilibrium enzymatic cycles.
arxiv   +1 more source

Biochemical characterization of the fidelity of poliovirus RNA-dependent RNA polymerase

Virology Journal, 2007
Background Putative high mutation rates of RNA viruses are believed to mediate undesirable phenomena, such as emergence of drug resistance. However, very little is known about biochemical fidelity rates for viral RNA-dependent RNA polymerases.
Vaccaro Joseph A, Freistadt Marion S, Eberle Karen E   +2 more
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Targeting Emerging RNA Viruses by Engineered Human Superantibody to Hepatitis C Virus RNA-Dependent RNA Polymerase

Frontiers in Microbiology, 2022
RNA-dependent RNA polymerase (RdRp) is a unique and highly conserved enzyme across all members of the RNA virus superfamilies. Besides, humans do not have a homolog of this protein.
Kittirat Glab-ampai, Kanasap Kaewchim, Kanasap Kaewchim, Techit Thavorasak, Techit Thavorasak, Thanatsaran Saenlom, Watayagorn Thepsawat, Kodchakorn Mahasongkram, Kanyarat Thueng-In, Nitat Sookrung, Nitat Sookrung, Wanpen Chaicumpa, Monrat Chulanetra   +12 more
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The bacterial enhancer-dependent RNA polymerase [PDF]

Biochemical Journal, 2016
Transcription initiation is highly regulated in bacterial cells, allowing adaptive gene regulation in response to environment cues. One class of promoter specificity factor called sigma54 enables such adaptive gene expression through its ability to lock the RNA polymerase down into a state unable to melt out promoter DNA for transcription initiation ...
Vidya C. Darbari, Vidya C. Darbari, Nan Zhang, Nan Zhang, Martin Buck, Robert Glyde, Xiaodong Zhang   +6 more
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Mechanical Properties of Transcription [PDF]

Phys. Rev. Lett. 118, 268101 (2017), 2016
Recently the physical characterization of a number of biological processes has proven indispensable for a full understanding of natural phenomena. One such example is the mechanical properties of transcription, which have been shown to have significant effects in gene expression.
arxiv   +1 more source

NeoRdRp2 with improved seed data, annotations, and scoring

Frontiers in Virology
RNA-dependent RNA polymerase (RdRp) is a marker gene for RNA viruses; thus, it is widely used to identify RNA viruses from metatranscriptome data. However, because of the high diversity of RdRp domains, it remains difficult to identify RNA viruses using ...
Shoichi Sakaguchi, Takashi Nakano, So Nakagawa, So Nakagawa, So Nakagawa   +4 more
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Functional Importance of the Hydrophobic Residue 362 in Influenza A PB1 Subunit

Viruses, 2023
PB1, acting as the catalytic subunit of the influenza polymerase, has numerous sequentially and structurally conserved regions. It has been observed that the slight modification of residues in PB1 would greatly affect the polymerase activity and even ...
Johnson Jor-Shing Chan, Yun-Sang Tang, Chun-Yeung Lo, Pang-Chui Shaw   +3 more
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RNA Polymerase Activity Catalyzed by a Potyvirus-Encoded RNA-Dependent RNA Polymerase

Virology, 1996
We have expressed the putative RNA-dependent RNA polymerase encoded by the potyvirus tobacco vein mottling virus (TVMV) in Escherichia coli as a glutathione S-transferase fusion protein. As prepared, the fusion protein possessed the poly(U) polymerase activity that is a hallmark of other picornavirus-encoded polymerases.
Arthur G. Hunt, Yiling Hong
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Transcription-translation machinery -- an autocatalytic network coupling all cellular cycles and generating a plethora of growth laws [PDF]

arXiv, 2021
Recently discovered simple quantitative relations, known as bacterial growth laws, hint on the existence of simple underlying principles at the heart of bacterial growth. In this work, we provide a unifying picture on how these known relations, as well as new relations that we derive, stems from a universal autocatalytic network common to all bacteria,
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Taurine promotes glucagon‐like peptide‐1 secretion in enteroendocrine L cells

FEBS Letters, EarlyView.
Taurine, a sulfur‐containing amino acid, is likely taken up by enteroendocrine L cells via the taurine transporter. This process increases the levels of cytosolic ATP. The increase in intracellular Ca2+ concentrations and glucagon‐like peptide‐1 secretion through membrane depolarization is caused by the closure of ATP‐sensitive potassium channels ...
Yuri Osuga, Kazuki Harada, Takuya Yamauchi, Tetsuya Kitaguchi, Masami Yokota Hirai, Mitsuharu Matsumoto, Takashi Tsuboi   +6 more
wiley   +1 more source