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  • Authors : LaFrance, Benjamin (2021)

  • Bacterial nanocompartments, also known as encapsulins, are an emerging class of protein-based ‘organelles’ found in bacteria and archaea. Encapsulins are virus-like icosahedral particles comprising a ~25-50 nm shell surrounding a specific cargo enzyme. Compartmentalization is thought to create a unique chemical environment to facilitate catalysis and isolate toxic intermediates. Many questions regarding nanocompartment structure-function remain unanswered, including how...

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  • Authors : Noort, Marco van den (2021)

  • Our understanding of what determines ligand affinity of proteins is poor, even with highresolution structures available. Both the non-covalent ligand-protein interactions and the relative free energies of available conformations contribute to the affinity of a protein for a ligand. Distant, non-binding site residues can influence the ligand affinity by altering the free energy difference between a ligand-free and ligand-bound conformation. Our hypothesis isthat...

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  • Authors : Birke, Ramona (2021)

  • Sulfonated rhodamines that endow xanthene dyes with cellular impermeability are presented. We fuse charged sulfonates to red and far-red dyes to obtain Sulfo549 and Sulfo646, respectively, and further link these to SNAP- and Halo-tag substrates for protein self-labelling. Cellular impermeability is validated in live cell imaging experiments in transfected HEK cells and neurons derived from induced pluripotent stem cells (iPSCs). Lastly, we show that&...

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  • Authors : Bageshwar, Umesh K. (2021)

  • The twin-arginine translocation (Tat) pathway transports folded proteins across energetic membranes. Numerous Tat substrates contain co-factors that are inserted before transport with the assistance of redox enzyme maturation proteins (REMPs), which bind to the signal peptide of precursor proteins. How signal peptides are transferred from a REMP to a binding site on the Tat receptor complex remains unknown. Since the signal peptide mediates both ...

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  • Authors : Fürsch, Julius (2021)

  • Small heat-shock proteins (sHSP) are important members of the cellular stress response in all species. Their best described function is the binding of early unfolding states and the resulting prevention of protein aggregation. Most sHSPs exist as oligomers but vary in size and subunit organization. Many sHSPs exist as a polydisperse composition of oligomers which undergoes changes in subunit composition, folding status and rel...

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  • Authors : Almasy, Katherine M. (2021)

  • Human coronaviruses have become an increasing threat to global health; three highly pathogenic strains have emerged since the early 2000s, including most recently SARS-CoV-2, the cause of COVID-19. A better understanding of the molecular mechanisms of coronavirus pathogenesis is needed, including how these highly virulent strains differ from those that cause milder, common-cold like disease. While significant progress has been made in understanding how SARS-CoV-2 ...

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  • Authors : Dhenin, Jonathan (2021)

  • Top-down proteomics (TDP) is a powerful technology allowing the char acterization of proteins at the proteoform level using high-resolution tan dem mass spectrometry (MS/MS). Proteoforms correspond to the different forms of a protein arising from all combinatorial sources of variation from a single gene (including combinations of genetic variation, alternative splicing, and post-translational modifications)(Smith and Kelleher, 2018). The complete...

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  • Authors : Ten, Tensho (2021)

  • Mint3 is known to enhance aerobic ATP production, known as the Warburg effect, by binding to FIH-1. Since this effect is considered to be beneficial for cancer cells, the interaction is a promising target for cancer therapy. However, previous research has suggested that the interacting region of Mint3 with FIH-1 is intrinsically disordered, which makes investigation of this interaction challenging. Therefore, we adopted a physicochemical approach that co...

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  • Authors : Kotani, Norihiro (2023)

  • Coronavirus disease (COVID-19) represents a real threat to the global population, and understanding the biological features of the causative virus, i.e., severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2), is imperative for mitigating this threat. Analyses of proteins such as primary receptors and co-receptors (co-factors), which are involved in the entry of SARSCoV- 2 into host cells, will provide important clues to help control the virus. Here,&#...