Computational and Structural Biotechnology Journal, 2020 Transport of ligands between bulk solvent and the buried active sites is a critical event in the catalytic cycle of many enzymes. The rational design of transport pathways is far from trivial due to the lack of knowledge about the effect of mutations on ...
Piia Kokkonen +8 more
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Phylogenetic and functional analysis of the Cation Diffusion Facilitator (CDF) family: improved signature and prediction of substrate specificity [PDF]
, 2007 BACKGROUND The Cation Diffusion Facilitator (CDF) family is a ubiquitous family of heavy metal transporters. Much interest in this family has focused on implications for human health and bioremediation.
Blaudez, D. +4 more
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Probabilistic approach to predicting substrate specificity of methyltransferases.
PLoS Computational Biology, 2014 We present a general probabilistic framework for predicting the substrate specificity of enzymes. We designed this approach to be easily applicable to different organisms and enzymes.
Teresa Szczepińska +7 more
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Crystal structure and substrate specificity of Drosophila 3,4-dihydroxyphenylalanine decarboxylase. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2010 3,4-Dihydroxyphenylalanine decarboxylase (DDC), also known as aromatic L-amino acid decarboxylase, catalyzes the decarboxylation of a number of aromatic L-amino acids.
Qian Han +4 more
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Substrate Specificity of Peptide Adsorption: A Model Study
, 2007 Applying the contact density chain-growth algorithm to lattice heteropolymers, we identify the conformational transitions of a nongrafted hydrophobic-polar heteropolymer with 103 residues in the vicinity of a polar, a hydrophobic, and a uniformly ...
L. Toma +2 more
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Inflammatory caspase substrate specificities
mBioABSTRACT Caspases are a family of cysteine proteases that act as molecular scissors to cleave substrates and regulate biological processes such as programmed cell death and inflammation. Extensive efforts have been made to identify caspase substrates and to determine factors that dictate substrate specificity ...
Patrick M. Exconde +4 more
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Substrate specificity and the effect of calcium on Trypanosomabrucei metacaspase 2 [PDF]
, 2013 Metacaspases are cysteine peptidases found only in yeast, plants and lower eukaryotes, including the protozoa. To investigate the extended substrate specificity and effects of Ca<sup>2+</sup> on the activation of these enzymes, detailed ...
Juliano, L. +7 more
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The cell surface receptor Tartan is a potential in vivo substrate for the receptor tyrosine phosphatase Ptp52F [PDF]
, 2009 Receptor-linked protein-tyrosine phosphatases (RPTPs) are essential regulators of axon guidance and synaptogenesis in Drosophila, but the signaling pathways in which they function are poorly defined.
Bugga, Lakshmi +2 more
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Structural basis for substrate specificity of mammalian neuraminidases.
PLoS ONE, 2014 The removal of sialic acid (Sia) residues from glycoconjugates in vertebrates is mediated by a family of neuraminidases (sialidases) consisting of Neu1, Neu2, Neu3 and Neu4 enzymes.
Victoria Smutova +7 more
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Switching the substrate specificity of lysoplasmalogen‐specific phospholipase D
FEBS Open Bio, 2021 Lysoplasmalogen‐specific phospholipase D (LyPls‐PLD) catalyzes reactions in a manner similar to those catalyzed by glycerophosphodiester phosphodiesterase (GDPD) and other well‐known PLDs.
Takayuki Oyama +2 more
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