The Bacillus subtilis signaling protein SpoIVB defines a new family of serine peptidases [PDF]
, 2002 The protein SpoIVB plays a key role in signaling in the sigma (K) checkpoint of Bacillus subtilis. This regulatory mechanism coordinates late gene expression during development in this organism and we have recently shown SpoIVB to be a serine peptidase ...
Brannigan, J A, Cutting, S M, Hoa, N T
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IUBMB Life, 2009 AbstractOver one third of all known proteolytic enzymes are serine proteases. Among these, the trypsins underwent the most predominant genetic expansion yielding the enzymes responsible for digestion, blood coagulation, fibrinolysis, development, fertilization, apoptosis, and immunity.
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Asparagine promotes cancer cell proliferation through use as an amino acid exchange factor. [PDF]
, 2016 Cellular amino acid uptake is critical for mTOR complex 1 (mTORC1) activation and cell proliferation. However, the regulation of amino acid uptake is not well-understood.
Braas, Daniel +4 more
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Iterative focused screening with biological fingerprints identifies selective Asc-1 inhibitors distinct from traditional high throughput screening [PDF]
, 2017 N-methyl-d-aspartate receptors (NMDARs) mediate glutamatergic signaling that is critical to cognitive processes in the central nervous system, and NMDAR hypofunction is thought to contribute to cognitive impairment observed in both schizophrenia and ...
Amoss, Adam +18 more
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Protease inhibitors targeting coronavirus and filovirus entry. [PDF]
, 2015 In order to gain entry into cells, diverse viruses, including Ebola virus, SARS-coronavirus and the emerging MERS-coronavirus, depend on activation of their envelope glycoproteins by host cell proteases.
Agudelo, Juliet +10 more
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Frontiers in Nutrition, 2023 Phosphatidylethanolamine is the major inner-membrane lipid in the plasma and mitochondrial membranes. It is synthesized in the endoplasmic reticulum from ethanolamine and diacylglycerol (DAG) by the CDP-ethanolamine pathway and from phosphatidylserine by
Michaela St Germain +2 more
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Controlled rotation mechanism of DNA strand exchange by the Hin serine recombinase. [PDF]
, 2016 DNA strand exchange by serine recombinases has been proposed to occur by a large-scale rotation of halves of the recombinase tetramer. Here we provide the first direct physical evidence for the subunit rotation mechanism for the Hin serine invertase ...
Johnson, Reid C +4 more
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Dynamics at the serine loop underlie differential affinity of cryptochromes for CLOCK:BMAL1 to control circadian timing. [PDF]
, 2020 Mammalian circadian rhythms are generated by a transcription-based feedback loop in which CLOCK:BMAL1 drives transcription of its repressors (PER1/2, CRY1/2), which ultimately interact with CLOCK:BMAL1 to close the feedback loop with ~24 hr periodicity ...
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Free radical destruction of hydroxyl-containing amino acids
Журнал Белорусского государственного университета: Химия, 2019 А new way of the free radical ROS- and HOCl-induced destruction of serine, threonine, and their peptide derivatives due to the nitrogen-centered radicals formation and their subsequent decomposition with the side chain elimination has been established ...
Anastasia A. Sladkova +3 more
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cGMP-dependent protein kinase regulates Rap1 signaling in platelets : poster presentation [PDF]
, 2007 cGMP- and cAMP-dependent protein kinases (cGK and cAK) mediate the inhibitory effects of endothelium-derived messenger molecules nitric oxide and prostacyclin on platelets.
Danielewski, Oliver +5 more
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