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  • 1
    Publication Date: 2012-04-28
    Description: In metazoans, cells depend on extracellular growth factors for energy homeostasis. We found that glycogen synthase kinase-3 (GSK3), when deinhibited by default in cells deprived of growth factors, activates acetyltransferase TIP60 through phosphorylating TIP60-Ser(86), which directly acetylates and stimulates the protein kinase ULK1, which is required for autophagy. Cells engineered to express TIP60(S86A) that cannot be phosphorylated by GSK3 could not undergo serum deprivation-induced autophagy. An acetylation-defective mutant of ULK1 failed to rescue autophagy in ULK1(-/-) mouse embryonic fibroblasts. Cells used signaling from GSK3 to TIP60 and ULK1 to regulate autophagy when deprived of serum but not glucose. These findings uncover an activating pathway that integrates protein phosphorylation and acetylation to connect growth factor deprivation to autophagy.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Notes: 〈/span〉Lin, Shu-Yong -- Li, Terytty Yang -- Liu, Qing -- Zhang, Cixiong -- Li, Xiaotong -- Chen, Yan -- Zhang, Shi-Meng -- Lian, Guili -- Liu, Qi -- Ruan, Ka -- Wang, Zhen -- Zhang, Chen-Song -- Chien, Kun-Yi -- Wu, Jiawei -- Li, Qinxi -- Han, Jiahuai -- Lin, Sheng-Cai -- New York, N.Y. -- Science. 2012 Apr 27;336(6080):477-81. doi: 10.1126/science.1217032.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Author address: 〈/span〉State Key Laboratory of Cellular Stress Biology, School of Life Sciences, Xiamen University, Fujian, China.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Record origin:〈/span〉 〈a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22539723" target="_blank"〉PubMed〈/a〉
    Keywords: Animals ; *Autophagy ; Cell Line ; Cell Line, Tumor ; Culture Media ; Culture Media, Serum-Free ; Glucose/metabolism ; Glycogen Synthase Kinase 3/genetics/*metabolism ; HEK293 Cells ; Histone Acetyltransferases/genetics/*metabolism ; Humans ; Intercellular Signaling Peptides and Proteins/metabolism ; Intracellular Signaling Peptides and Proteins/genetics/*metabolism ; Mice ; Phosphorylation ; Protein-Serine-Threonine Kinases/genetics/*metabolism ; Rats ; *Signal Transduction ; Trans-Activators/genetics/metabolism
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  • 2
    Publication Date: 2013-05-07
    Description: The proteasomal ATPase ring, comprising Rpt1-Rpt6, associates with the heptameric alpha-ring of the proteasome core particle (CP) in the mature proteasome, with the Rpt carboxy-terminal tails inserting into pockets of the alpha-ring. Rpt ring assembly is mediated by four chaperones, each binding a distinct Rpt subunit. Here we report that the base subassembly of the Saccharomyces cerevisiae proteasome, which includes the Rpt ring, forms a high-affinity complex with the CP. This complex is subject to active dissociation by the chaperones Hsm3, Nas6 and Rpn14. Chaperone-mediated dissociation was abrogated by a non-hydrolysable ATP analogue, indicating that chaperone action is coupled to nucleotide hydrolysis by the Rpt ring. Unexpectedly, synthetic Rpt tail peptides bound alpha-pockets with poor specificity, except for Rpt6, which uniquely bound the alpha2/alpha3-pocket. Although the Rpt6 tail is not visualized within an alpha-pocket in mature proteasomes, it inserts into the alpha2/alpha3-pocket in the base-CP complex and is important for complex formation. Thus, the Rpt-CP interface is reconfigured when the lid complex joins the nascent proteasome to form the mature holoenzyme.〈br /〉〈br /〉〈a href="https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3687086/" target="_blank"〉〈img src="https://static.pubmed.gov/portal/portal3rc.fcgi/4089621/img/3977009" border="0"〉〈/a〉   〈a href="https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3687086/" target="_blank"〉This paper as free author manuscript - peer-reviewed and accepted for publication〈/a〉〈br /〉〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Notes: 〈/span〉Park, Soyeon -- Li, Xueming -- Kim, Ho Min -- Singh, Chingakham Ranjit -- Tian, Geng -- Hoyt, Martin A -- Lovell, Scott -- Battaile, Kevin P -- Zolkiewski, Michal -- Coffino, Philip -- Roelofs, Jeroen -- Cheng, Yifan -- Finley, Daniel -- 1S10RR026814-01/RR/NCRR NIH HHS/ -- 5P20RR017708/RR/NCRR NIH HHS/ -- 8 P20 GM103420/GM/NIGMS NIH HHS/ -- P20 GM103418/GM/NIGMS NIH HHS/ -- P20 RR016475/RR/NCRR NIH HHS/ -- P20 RR017708/RR/NCRR NIH HHS/ -- R01 GM082893/GM/NIGMS NIH HHS/ -- R01GM045335/GM/NIGMS NIH HHS/ -- R01GM082893/GM/NIGMS NIH HHS/ -- R37GM043601/GM/NIGMS NIH HHS/ -- S10 RR026814/RR/NCRR NIH HHS/ -- England -- Nature. 2013 May 23;497(7450):512-6. doi: 10.1038/nature12123. Epub 2013 May 5.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Author address: 〈/span〉Department of Cell Biology, Harvard Medical School, 240 Longwood Avenue, Boston, Massachusetts 02115, USA.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Record origin:〈/span〉 〈a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23644457" target="_blank"〉PubMed〈/a〉
    Keywords: Adenosine Triphosphatases/chemistry/genetics/metabolism ; Adenosine Triphosphate/metabolism ; Binding Sites ; Carrier Proteins/metabolism ; Cryoelectron Microscopy ; Holoenzymes/chemistry/metabolism ; Models, Molecular ; Molecular Chaperones/*metabolism ; Proteasome Endopeptidase Complex/*chemistry/genetics/*metabolism ; Protein Conformation ; Recombinant Fusion Proteins/chemistry/genetics/metabolism ; Saccharomyces cerevisiae/enzymology/genetics/growth & development/*metabolism ; Saccharomyces cerevisiae Proteins/chemistry/genetics/*metabolism
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    Publication Date: 2012-12-21
    Description: Presenilin and signal peptide peptidase (SPP) are intramembrane aspartyl proteases that regulate important biological functions in eukaryotes. Mechanistic understanding of presenilin and SPP has been hampered by lack of relevant structural information. Here we report the crystal structure of a presenilin/SPP homologue (PSH) from the archaeon Methanoculleus marisnigri JR1. The protease, comprising nine transmembrane segments (TMs), adopts a previously unreported protein fold. The amino-terminal domain, consisting of TM1-6, forms a horseshoe-shaped structure, surrounding TM7-9 of the carboxy-terminal domain. The two catalytic aspartate residues are located on the cytoplasmic side of TM6 and TM7, spatially close to each other and approximately 8 A into the lipid membrane surface. Water molecules gain constant access to the catalytic aspartates through a large cavity between the amino- and carboxy-terminal domains. Structural analysis reveals insights into the presenilin/SPP family of intramembrane proteases.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Notes: 〈/span〉Li, Xiaochun -- Dang, Shangyu -- Yan, Chuangye -- Gong, Xinqi -- Wang, Jiawei -- Shi, Yigong -- England -- Nature. 2013 Jan 3;493(7430):56-61. doi: 10.1038/nature11801. Epub 2012 Dec 19.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Author address: 〈/span〉Ministry of Education Key Laboratory of Protein Science, Center for Structural Biology, School of Life Sciences, Tsinghua University, Beijing 100084, China.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Record origin:〈/span〉 〈a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23254940" target="_blank"〉PubMed〈/a〉
    Keywords: Amino Acid Sequence ; Aspartic Acid Endopeptidases/*chemistry ; Catalytic Domain ; Crystallography, X-Ray ; Humans ; Methanomicrobiaceae/*enzymology ; Models, Molecular ; Molecular Sequence Data ; Presenilin-1/chemistry ; Presenilins/*chemistry ; Protein Multimerization ; Protein Structure, Quaternary ; Structural Homology, Protein
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    Publication Date: 2011-07-15
    Description: Malignant transformation, driven by gain-of-function mutations in oncogenes and loss-of-function mutations in tumour suppressor genes, results in cell deregulation that is frequently associated with enhanced cellular stress (for example, oxidative, replicative, metabolic and proteotoxic stress, and DNA damage). Adaptation to this stress phenotype is required for cancer cells to survive, and consequently cancer cells may become dependent upon non-oncogenes that do not ordinarily perform such a vital function in normal cells. Thus, targeting these non-oncogene dependencies in the context of a transformed genotype may result in a synthetic lethal interaction and the selective death of cancer cells. Here we used a cell-based small-molecule screening and quantitative proteomics approach that resulted in the unbiased identification of a small molecule that selectively kills cancer cells but not normal cells. Piperlongumine increases the level of reactive oxygen species (ROS) and apoptotic cell death in both cancer cells and normal cells engineered to have a cancer genotype, irrespective of p53 status, but it has little effect on either rapidly or slowly dividing primary normal cells. Significant antitumour effects are observed in piperlongumine-treated mouse xenograft tumour models, with no apparent toxicity in normal mice. Moreover, piperlongumine potently inhibits the growth of spontaneously formed malignant breast tumours and their associated metastases in mice. Our results demonstrate the ability of a small molecule to induce apoptosis selectively in cells that have a cancer genotype, by targeting a non-oncogene co-dependency acquired through the expression of the cancer genotype in response to transformation-induced oxidative stress.〈br /〉〈br /〉〈a href="https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3316487/" target="_blank"〉〈img src="https://static.pubmed.gov/portal/portal3rc.fcgi/4089621/img/3977009" border="0"〉〈/a〉   〈a href="https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3316487/" target="_blank"〉This paper as free author manuscript - peer-reviewed and accepted for publication〈/a〉〈br /〉〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Notes: 〈/span〉Raj, Lakshmi -- Ide, Takao -- Gurkar, Aditi U -- Foley, Michael -- Schenone, Monica -- Li, Xiaoyu -- Tolliday, Nicola J -- Golub, Todd R -- Carr, Steven A -- Shamji, Alykhan F -- Stern, Andrew M -- Mandinova, Anna -- Schreiber, Stuart L -- Lee, Sam W -- 5 RC2 CA148399-02/CA/NCI NIH HHS/ -- CA080058/CA/NCI NIH HHS/ -- CA085681/CA/NCI NIH HHS/ -- CA127247/CA/NCI NIH HHS/ -- CA142805/CA/NCI NIH HHS/ -- P01 CA080058/CA/NCI NIH HHS/ -- P01 CA080058-02/CA/NCI NIH HHS/ -- P30 DK043351/DK/NIDDK NIH HHS/ -- R01 CA085681/CA/NCI NIH HHS/ -- R01 CA085681-06/CA/NCI NIH HHS/ -- R01 CA142805/CA/NCI NIH HHS/ -- R01 CA142805-01/CA/NCI NIH HHS/ -- RL1CA133834/CA/NCI NIH HHS/ -- RL1GM084437/GM/NIGMS NIH HHS/ -- RL1HG004671/HG/NHGRI NIH HHS/ -- UL1RR024924/RR/NCRR NIH HHS/ -- Howard Hughes Medical Institute/ -- England -- Nature. 2011 Jul 13;475(7355):231-4. doi: 10.1038/nature10167.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Author address: 〈/span〉Cutaneous Biology Research Center, Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Building 149 13th Street, Charlestown, Massachusetts 02129, USA.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Record origin:〈/span〉 〈a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21753854" target="_blank"〉PubMed〈/a〉
    Keywords: Animals ; Apoptosis/*drug effects ; Breast Neoplasms/*drug therapy/genetics/metabolism/*pathology ; Cell Line ; Cell Line, Tumor ; Cell Transformation, Neoplastic ; Comet Assay ; DNA Damage/drug effects ; Dioxolanes/adverse effects/chemistry/*pharmacology ; Genotype ; Mice ; Neoplasm Metastasis/drug therapy/pathology ; Oxidative Stress/*drug effects ; Reactive Oxygen Species/*metabolism ; Small Molecule Libraries/chemistry ; Xenograft Model Antitumor Assays
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    Publication Date: 2012-10-02
    Description: Haploids and double haploids are important resources for studying recessive traits and have large impacts on crop breeding, but natural haploids are rare in animals. Mammalian haploids are restricted to germline cells and are occasionally found in tumours with massive chromosome loss. Recent success in establishing haploid embryonic stem (ES) cells in medaka fish and mice raised the possibility of using engineered mammalian haploid cells in genetic studies. However, the availability and functional characterization of mammalian haploid ES cells are still limited. Here we show that mouse androgenetic haploid ES (ahES) cell lines can be established by transferring sperm into an enucleated oocyte. The ahES cells maintain haploidy and stable growth over 30 passages, express pluripotent markers, possess the ability to differentiate into all three germ layers in vitro and in vivo, and contribute to germlines of chimaeras when injected into blastocysts. Although epigenetically distinct from sperm cells, the ahES cells can produce viable and fertile progenies after intracytoplasmic injection into mature oocytes. The oocyte-injection procedure can also produce viable transgenic mice from genetically engineered ahES cells. Our findings show the developmental pluripotency of androgenentic haploids and provide a new tool to quickly produce genetic models for recessive traits. They may also shed new light on assisted reproduction.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Notes: 〈/span〉Li, Wei -- Shuai, Ling -- Wan, Haifeng -- Dong, Mingzhu -- Wang, Meng -- Sang, Lisi -- Feng, Chunjing -- Luo, Guan-Zheng -- Li, Tianda -- Li, Xin -- Wang, Libin -- Zheng, Qin-Yuan -- Sheng, Chao -- Wu, Hua-Jun -- Liu, Zhonghua -- Liu, Lei -- Wang, Liu -- Wang, Xiu-Jie -- Zhao, Xiao-Yang -- Zhou, Qi -- England -- Nature. 2012 Oct 18;490(7420):407-11. doi: 10.1038/nature11435. Epub 2012 Sep 30.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Author address: 〈/span〉State Key Laboratory of Reproductive Biology, Institute of Zoology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100101, China.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Record origin:〈/span〉 〈a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23023130" target="_blank"〉PubMed〈/a〉
    Keywords: Androgens/*metabolism ; Animals ; Biomarkers/metabolism ; Blastocyst/cytology ; Cell Line ; Cell Nucleus ; Chimera/embryology/genetics ; Embryonic Stem Cells/cytology/*physiology ; Epigenesis, Genetic ; Female ; *Haploidy ; Male ; Mice ; Mice, Transgenic/embryology/genetics/*growth & development ; Models, Animal ; Models, Genetic ; Oocytes/cytology/growth & development/metabolism ; Pluripotent Stem Cells/cytology/physiology ; Sperm Injections, Intracytoplasmic ; Spermatozoa/metabolism/transplantation
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  • 6
    Publication Date: 2013-07-05
    Description: Human infection associated with a novel reassortant avian influenza H7N9 virus has recently been identified in China. A total of 132 confirmed cases and 39 deaths have been reported. Most patients presented with severe pneumonia and acute respiratory distress syndrome. Although the first epidemic has subsided, the presence of a natural reservoir and the disease severity highlight the need to evaluate its risk on human public health and to understand the possible pathogenesis mechanism. Here we show that the emerging H7N9 avian influenza virus poses a potentially high risk to humans. We discover that the H7N9 virus can bind to both avian-type (alpha2,3-linked sialic acid) and human-type (alpha2,6-linked sialic acid) receptors. It can invade epithelial cells in the human lower respiratory tract and type II pneumonocytes in alveoli, and replicated efficiently in ex vivo lung and trachea explant culture and several mammalian cell lines. In acute serum samples of H7N9-infected patients, increased levels of the chemokines and cytokines IP-10, MIG, MIP-1beta, MCP-1, IL-6, IL-8 and IFN-alpha were detected. We note that the human population is naive to the H7N9 virus, and current seasonal vaccination could not provide protection.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Notes: 〈/span〉Zhou, Jianfang -- Wang, Dayan -- Gao, Rongbao -- Zhao, Baihui -- Song, Jingdong -- Qi, Xian -- Zhang, Yanjun -- Shi, Yonglin -- Yang, Lei -- Zhu, Wenfei -- Bai, Tian -- Qin, Kun -- Lan, Yu -- Zou, Shumei -- Guo, Junfeng -- Dong, Jie -- Dong, Libo -- Zhang, Ye -- Wei, Hejiang -- Li, Xiaodan -- Lu, Jian -- Liu, Liqi -- Zhao, Xiang -- Li, Xiyan -- Huang, Weijuan -- Wen, Leying -- Bo, Hong -- Xin, Li -- Chen, Yongkun -- Xu, Cuilin -- Pei, Yuquan -- Yang, Yue -- Zhang, Xiaodong -- Wang, Shiwen -- Feng, Zijian -- Han, Jun -- Yang, Weizhong -- Gao, George F -- Wu, Guizhen -- Li, Dexin -- Wang, Yu -- Shu, Yuelong -- England -- Nature. 2013 Jul 25;499(7459):500-3. doi: 10.1038/nature12379. Epub 2013 Jul 3.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Author address: 〈/span〉National Institute for Viral Disease Control and Prevention, China CDC, Key Laboratory for Medical Virology, National Health and Family Planning Commission, Beijing 102206, China.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Record origin:〈/span〉 〈a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23823727" target="_blank"〉PubMed〈/a〉
    Keywords: Animals ; Antibodies, Viral/immunology ; Birds/virology ; Bronchi/cytology/metabolism/virology ; Cell Line ; Chemokines/blood ; China ; Cross Reactions/immunology ; Epithelial Cells/virology ; Host Specificity ; Humans ; In Vitro Techniques ; Influenza A Virus, H5N1 Subtype/immunology/physiology ; Influenza A virus/immunology/pathogenicity/*physiology ; Influenza Vaccines/immunology ; Influenza in Birds/transmission/*virology ; Influenza, Human/blood/immunology/virology ; Lung/virology ; N-Acetylneuraminic Acid/analogs & derivatives/chemistry/metabolism ; Organ Specificity ; Pulmonary Alveoli/cytology/metabolism/virology ; Receptors, Virus/chemistry/*metabolism ; Trachea/virology ; Virus Replication ; Zoonoses/transmission/virology
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    Publication Date: 2011-08-06
    Description: The prevalent DNA modification in higher organisms is the methylation of cytosine to 5-methylcytosine (5mC), which is partially converted to 5-hydroxymethylcytosine (5hmC) by the Tet (ten eleven translocation) family of dioxygenases. Despite their importance in epigenetic regulation, it is unclear how these cytosine modifications are reversed. Here, we demonstrate that 5mC and 5hmC in DNA are oxidized to 5-carboxylcytosine (5caC) by Tet dioxygenases in vitro and in cultured cells. 5caC is specifically recognized and excised by thymine-DNA glycosylase (TDG). Depletion of TDG in mouse embyronic stem cells leads to accumulation of 5caC to a readily detectable level. These data suggest that oxidation of 5mC by Tet proteins followed by TDG-mediated base excision of 5caC constitutes a pathway for active DNA demethylation.〈br /〉〈br /〉〈a href="https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3462231/" target="_blank"〉〈img src="https://static.pubmed.gov/portal/portal3rc.fcgi/4089621/img/3977009" border="0"〉〈/a〉   〈a href="https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3462231/" target="_blank"〉This paper as free author manuscript - peer-reviewed and accepted for publication〈/a〉〈br /〉〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Notes: 〈/span〉He, Yu-Fei -- Li, Bin-Zhong -- Li, Zheng -- Liu, Peng -- Wang, Yang -- Tang, Qingyu -- Ding, Jianping -- Jia, Yingying -- Chen, Zhangcheng -- Li, Lin -- Sun, Yan -- Li, Xiuxue -- Dai, Qing -- Song, Chun-Xiao -- Zhang, Kangling -- He, Chuan -- Xu, Guo-Liang -- 1S10RR027643-01/RR/NCRR NIH HHS/ -- GM071440/GM/NIGMS NIH HHS/ -- R01 GM071440/GM/NIGMS NIH HHS/ -- S10 RR027643/RR/NCRR NIH HHS/ -- New York, N.Y. -- Science. 2011 Sep 2;333(6047):1303-7. doi: 10.1126/science.1210944. Epub 2011 Aug 4.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Author address: 〈/span〉Group of DNA Metabolism, State Key Laboratory of Molecular Biology, Institute of Biochemistry and Cell Biology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shanghai 200031, China.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Record origin:〈/span〉 〈a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21817016" target="_blank"〉PubMed〈/a〉
    Keywords: 5-Methylcytosine/metabolism ; Animals ; Cell Line ; Cytosine/*analogs & derivatives/metabolism ; DNA/*metabolism ; DNA Methylation ; DNA-Binding Proteins/genetics/*metabolism ; Embryonic Stem Cells ; HEK293 Cells ; Humans ; Induced Pluripotent Stem Cells/metabolism ; Mice ; Oxidation-Reduction ; Proto-Oncogene Proteins/genetics/*metabolism ; RNA, Small Interfering ; Thymine DNA Glycosylase/genetics/*metabolism ; Transfection
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    Publication Date: 2014-10-21
    Description: Hepatitis A virus (HAV) remains enigmatic, despite 1.4 million cases worldwide annually. It differs radically from other picornaviruses, existing in an enveloped form and being unusually stable, both genetically and physically, but has proved difficult to study. Here we report high-resolution X-ray structures for the mature virus and the empty particle. The structures of the two particles are indistinguishable, apart from some disorder on the inside of the empty particle. The full virus contains the small viral protein VP4, whereas the empty particle harbours only the uncleaved precursor, VP0. The smooth particle surface is devoid of depressions that might correspond to receptor-binding sites. Peptide scanning data extend the previously reported VP3 antigenic site, while structure-based predictions suggest further epitopes. HAV contains no pocket factor and can withstand remarkably high temperature and low pH, and empty particles are even more robust than full particles. The virus probably uncoats via a novel mechanism, being assembled differently to other picornaviruses. It utilizes a VP2 'domain swap' characteristic of insect picorna-like viruses, and structure-based phylogenetic analysis places HAV between typical picornaviruses and the insect viruses. The enigmatic properties of HAV may reflect its position as a link between 'modern' picornaviruses and the more 'primitive' precursor insect viruses; for instance, HAV retains the ability to move from cell-to-cell by transcytosis.〈br /〉〈br /〉〈a href="https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4773894/" target="_blank"〉〈img src="https://static.pubmed.gov/portal/portal3rc.fcgi/4089621/img/3977009" border="0"〉〈/a〉   〈a href="https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4773894/" target="_blank"〉This paper as free author manuscript - peer-reviewed and accepted for publication〈/a〉〈br /〉〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Notes: 〈/span〉Wang, Xiangxi -- Ren, Jingshan -- Gao, Qiang -- Hu, Zhongyu -- Sun, Yao -- Li, Xuemei -- Rowlands, David J -- Yin, Weidong -- Wang, Junzhi -- Stuart, David I -- Rao, Zihe -- Fry, Elizabeth E -- 075491/Z/04/Wellcome Trust/United Kingdom -- G1000099/Medical Research Council/United Kingdom -- England -- Nature. 2015 Jan 1;517(7532):85-8. doi: 10.1038/nature13806. Epub 2014 Oct 19.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Author address: 〈/span〉National Laboratory of Macromolecules, Institute of Biophysics, Chinese Academy of Science, Beijing 100101, China. ; Division of Structural Biology, University of Oxford, The Henry Wellcome Building for Genomic Medicine, Headington, Oxford OX3 7BN, UK. ; 1] National Laboratory of Macromolecules, Institute of Biophysics, Chinese Academy of Science, Beijing 100101, China [2] Sinovac Biotech Co., Ltd, Beijing 100085, China. ; National Institutes for Food and Drug Control, No. 2, TiantanXili, Beijing 100050, China. ; Institute of Molecular and Cellular Biology and Astbury Centre for Structural Molecular Biology, Faculty of Biological Sciences, University of Leeds, Leeds LS2 9JT, UK. ; Sinovac Biotech Co., Ltd, Beijing 100085, China. ; 1] Division of Structural Biology, University of Oxford, The Henry Wellcome Building for Genomic Medicine, Headington, Oxford OX3 7BN, UK [2] Diamond Light Sources, Harwell Science and Innovation Campus, Didcot OX11 0DE, UK. ; 1] National Laboratory of Macromolecules, Institute of Biophysics, Chinese Academy of Science, Beijing 100101, China [2] Laboratory of Structural Biology, School of Medicine, Tsinghua University, Beijing 100084, China [3] State Key Laboratory of Medicinal Chemical Biology, Nankai University, Tianjin 300071, China.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Record origin:〈/span〉 〈a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25327248" target="_blank"〉PubMed〈/a〉
    Keywords: Animals ; Capsid/chemistry ; Capsid Proteins/chemistry ; Crystallography, X-Ray ; *Evolution, Molecular ; Hepatitis A virus/*chemistry ; Hot Temperature ; Humans ; Hydrogen-Ion Concentration ; Insects/virology ; Models, Molecular ; Phylogeny ; Picornaviridae/*chemistry ; Transcytosis ; Virion/chemistry ; Virus Internalization
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    Publication Date: 2014-12-18
    Description: The ryanodine receptors (RyRs) are high-conductance intracellular Ca(2+) channels that play a pivotal role in the excitation-contraction coupling of skeletal and cardiac muscles. RyRs are the largest known ion channels, with a homotetrameric organization and approximately 5,000 residues in each protomer. Here we report the structure of the rabbit RyR1 in complex with its modulator FKBP12 at an overall resolution of 3.8 A, determined by single-particle electron cryomicroscopy. Three previously uncharacterized domains, named central, handle and helical domains, display the armadillo repeat fold. These domains, together with the amino-terminal domain, constitute a network of superhelical scaffold for binding and propagation of conformational changes. The channel domain exhibits the voltage-gated ion channel superfamily fold with distinct features. A negative-charge-enriched hairpin loop connecting S5 and the pore helix is positioned above the entrance to the selectivity-filter vestibule. The four elongated S6 segments form a right-handed helical bundle that closes the pore at the cytoplasmic border of the membrane. Allosteric regulation of the pore by the cytoplasmic domains is mediated through extensive interactions between the central domains and the channel domain. These structural features explain high ion conductance by RyRs and the long-range allosteric regulation of channel activities.〈br /〉〈br /〉〈a href="https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4338550/" target="_blank"〉〈img src="https://static.pubmed.gov/portal/portal3rc.fcgi/4089621/img/3977009" border="0"〉〈/a〉   〈a href="https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4338550/" target="_blank"〉This paper as free author manuscript - peer-reviewed and accepted for publication〈/a〉〈br /〉〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Notes: 〈/span〉Yan, Zhen -- Bai, Xiao-chen -- Yan, Chuangye -- Wu, Jianping -- Li, Zhangqiang -- Xie, Tian -- Peng, Wei -- Yin, Chang-cheng -- Li, Xueming -- Scheres, Sjors H W -- Shi, Yigong -- Yan, Nieng -- MC_UP_A025_1013/Medical Research Council/United Kingdom -- England -- Nature. 2015 Jan 1;517(7532):50-5. doi: 10.1038/nature14063. Epub 2014 Dec 15.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Author address: 〈/span〉1] State Key Laboratory of Bio-membrane and Membrane Biotechnology, School of Life Sciences and School of Medicine, Tsinghua University, Beijing 100084, China [2] Ministry of Education Key Laboratory of Protein Science, School of Life Sciences and School of Medicine, Tsinghua University, Beijing 100084, China [3] Center for Structural Biology, Tsinghua-Peking Joint Center for Life Sciences, School of Life Sciences and School of Medicine, Tsinghua University, Beijing 100084, China. ; MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology, Cambridge Biomedical Campus, Cambridge CB2 0QH, UK. ; 1] Ministry of Education Key Laboratory of Protein Science, School of Life Sciences and School of Medicine, Tsinghua University, Beijing 100084, China [2] Center for Structural Biology, Tsinghua-Peking Joint Center for Life Sciences, School of Life Sciences and School of Medicine, Tsinghua University, Beijing 100084, China. ; 1] State Key Laboratory of Bio-membrane and Membrane Biotechnology, School of Life Sciences and School of Medicine, Tsinghua University, Beijing 100084, China [2] Center for Structural Biology, Tsinghua-Peking Joint Center for Life Sciences, School of Life Sciences and School of Medicine, Tsinghua University, Beijing 100084, China. ; Department of Biophysics, the Health Science Center &Center for Protein Science, Peking University, Beijing 100191, China. ; Center for Structural Biology, Tsinghua-Peking Joint Center for Life Sciences, School of Life Sciences and School of Medicine, Tsinghua University, Beijing 100084, China.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Record origin:〈/span〉 〈a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25517095" target="_blank"〉PubMed〈/a〉
    Keywords: Algorithms ; Allosteric Regulation ; Animals ; Cryoelectron Microscopy ; Ion Channel Gating ; Models, Molecular ; Molecular Weight ; Protein Multimerization ; Protein Structure, Tertiary ; Rabbits ; Ryanodine Receptor Calcium Release Channel/*chemistry/metabolism/*ultrastructure ; Sarcoplasmic Reticulum/chemistry ; Tacrolimus Binding Protein 1A/chemistry/metabolism/ultrastructure ; Zinc Fingers
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  • 10
    Publication Date: 2014-10-14
    Description: Sterols are essential biological molecules in the majority of life forms. Sterol reductases including Delta(14)-sterol reductase (C14SR, also known as TM7SF2), 7-dehydrocholesterol reductase (DHCR7) and 24-dehydrocholesterol reductase (DHCR24) reduce specific carbon-carbon double bonds of the sterol moiety using a reducing cofactor during sterol biosynthesis. Lamin B receptor (LBR), an integral inner nuclear membrane protein, also contains a functional C14SR domain. Here we report the crystal structure of a Delta(14)-sterol reductase (MaSR1) from the methanotrophic bacterium Methylomicrobium alcaliphilum 20Z (a homologue of human C14SR, LBR and DHCR7) with the cofactor NADPH. The enzyme contains ten transmembrane segments (TM1-10). Its catalytic domain comprises the carboxy-terminal half (containing TM6-10) and envelops two interconnected pockets, one of which faces the cytoplasm and houses NADPH, while the other one is accessible from the lipid bilayer. Comparison with a soluble steroid 5beta-reductase structure suggests that the reducing end of NADPH meets the sterol substrate at the juncture of the two pockets. A sterol reductase activity assay proves that MaSR1 can reduce the double bond of a cholesterol biosynthetic intermediate, demonstrating functional conservation to human C14SR. Therefore, our structure as a prototype of integral membrane sterol reductases provides molecular insight into mutations in DHCR7 and LBR for inborn human diseases.〈br /〉〈br /〉〈a href="https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4285568/" target="_blank"〉〈img src="https://static.pubmed.gov/portal/portal3rc.fcgi/4089621/img/3977009" border="0"〉〈/a〉   〈a href="https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4285568/" target="_blank"〉This paper as free author manuscript - peer-reviewed and accepted for publication〈/a〉〈br /〉〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Notes: 〈/span〉Li, Xiaochun -- Roberti, Rita -- Blobel, Gunter -- P41 GM111244/GM/NIGMS NIH HHS/ -- Howard Hughes Medical Institute/ -- England -- Nature. 2015 Jan 1;517(7532):104-7. doi: 10.1038/nature13797. Epub 2014 Oct 12.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Author address: 〈/span〉Laboratory of Cell Biology, Howard Hughes Medical Institute, The Rockefeller University, New York, New York 10065, USA. ; Department of Experimental Medicine, University of Perugia, Perugia 06132, Italy.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Record origin:〈/span〉 〈a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25307054" target="_blank"〉PubMed〈/a〉
    Keywords: Binding Sites ; Catalytic Domain ; Cell Membrane/*metabolism ; Cholesterol/biosynthesis ; Crystallography, X-Ray ; Humans ; Membrane Proteins/chemistry/metabolism ; Methylococcaceae/*enzymology ; Models, Molecular ; NADP/chemistry/metabolism ; Oxidoreductases/*chemistry/*metabolism ; Oxidoreductases Acting on CH-CH Group Donors/chemistry/genetics/metabolism ; Receptors, Cytoplasmic and Nuclear/chemistry/genetics ; Sterols/metabolism
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