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  • 1
    Publication Date: 2012-04-21
    Description: Prion conversion from a soluble protein to an aggregated state may be involved in the cellular adaptation of yeast to the environment. However, it remains unclear whether and how cells actively use prion conversion to acquire a fitness advantage in response to environmental stress. We identified Mod5, a yeast transfer RNA isopentenyltransferase lacking glutamine/asparagine-rich domains, as a yeast prion protein and found that its prion conversion in yeast regulated the sterol biosynthetic pathway for acquired cellular resistance against antifungal agents. Furthermore, selective pressure by antifungal drugs on yeast facilitated the de novo appearance of Mod5 prion states for cell survival. Thus, phenotypic changes caused by active prion conversion under environmental selection may contribute to cellular adaptation in living organisms.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Notes: 〈/span〉Suzuki, Genjiro -- Shimazu, Naoyuki -- Tanaka, Motomasa -- New York, N.Y. -- Science. 2012 Apr 20;336(6079):355-9. doi: 10.1126/science.1219491.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Author address: 〈/span〉Laboratory for Protein Conformation Diseases, RIKEN Brain Science Institute, 2-1 Hirosawa, Wako, Saitama 351-0198, Japan.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Record origin:〈/span〉 〈a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22517861" target="_blank"〉PubMed〈/a〉
    Keywords: Alkyl and Aryl Transferases/*chemistry/genetics/*metabolism ; Antifungal Agents/*pharmacology ; Biosynthetic Pathways ; Crosses, Genetic ; Drug Resistance, Fungal ; Ergosterol/biosynthesis ; Fluorouracil/pharmacology ; Microbial Viability ; Prions/*chemistry/genetics/metabolism ; Protein Conformation ; Protein Structure, Tertiary ; RNA, Fungal/metabolism ; RNA, Transfer/metabolism ; Recombinant Fusion Proteins/chemistry/metabolism ; Saccharomyces cerevisiae/chemistry/*drug effects/genetics/*physiology ; Saccharomyces cerevisiae Proteins/*chemistry/genetics/*metabolism ; Selection, Genetic ; Solubility ; *Stress, Physiological
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    Publication Date: 2012-03-24
    Description: Development of fertilization-competent oocytes depends on integrated processes controlling meiosis, cytoplasmic development, and maintenance of genomic integrity. We show that meiosis arrest female 1 (MARF1) is required for these processes in mammalian oocytes. Mutations of Marf1 cause female infertility characterized by up-regulation of a cohort of transcripts, increased retrotransposon expression, defective cytoplasmic maturation, and meiotic arrest. Up-regulation of protein phosphatase 2 catalytic subunit (PPP2CB) is key to the meiotic arrest phenotype. Moreover, Iap and Line1 retrotransposon messenger RNAs are also up-regulated, and, concomitantly, DNA double-strand breaks are elevated in mutant oocytes. Therefore MARF1, by suppressing levels of specific transcripts, is an essential regulator of important oogenic processes leading to female fertility and the development of healthy offspring.〈br /〉〈br /〉〈a href="https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3612990/" 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/PMC3612990/" target="_blank"〉This paper as free author manuscript - peer-reviewed and accepted for publication〈/a〉〈br /〉〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Notes: 〈/span〉Su, You-Qiang -- Sugiura, Koji -- Sun, Fengyun -- Pendola, Janice K -- Cox, Gregory A -- Handel, Mary Ann -- Schimenti, John C -- Eppig, John J -- CA34196/CA/NCI NIH HHS/ -- HD42137/HD/NICHD NIH HHS/ -- P01 HD042137/HD/NICHD NIH HHS/ -- P30 CA034196/CA/NCI NIH HHS/ -- New York, N.Y. -- Science. 2012 Mar 23;335(6075):1496-9. doi: 10.1126/science.1214680.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Author address: 〈/span〉The Jackson Laboratory, Bar Harbor, ME 04609, USA.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Record origin:〈/span〉 〈a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22442484" target="_blank"〉PubMed〈/a〉
    Keywords: Amino Acid Sequence ; Animals ; Base Sequence ; Cell Cycle Proteins/chemistry/genetics/*metabolism ; DNA Breaks, Double-Stranded ; Embryonic Development ; Female ; *Fertility ; Meiosis ; Mice ; Molecular Sequence Data ; Mutation ; Oocytes/*physiology ; *Oogenesis ; Phenotype ; Protein Phosphatase 2/genetics/metabolism ; Protein Structure, Tertiary ; RNA, Messenger/genetics/metabolism ; Retroelements ; Transcription, Genetic ; Transcriptome ; Up-Regulation
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    Publication Date: 2012-09-22
    Description: Cytoplasmic dynein is a microtubule-based motor required for intracellular transport and cell division. Its movement involves coupling cycles of track binding and release with cycles of force-generating nucleotide hydrolysis. How this is accomplished given the ~25 nanometers separating dynein's track- and nucleotide-binding sites is not understood. Here, we present a subnanometer-resolution structure of dynein's microtubule-binding domain bound to microtubules by cryo-electron microscopy that was used to generate a pseudo-atomic model of the complex with molecular dynamics. We identified large rearrangements triggered by track binding and specific interactions, confirmed by mutagenesis and single-molecule motility assays, which tune dynein's affinity for microtubules. Our results provide a molecular model for how dynein's binding to microtubules is communicated to the rest of the motor.〈br /〉〈br /〉〈a href="https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3919166/" 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/PMC3919166/" target="_blank"〉This paper as free author manuscript - peer-reviewed and accepted for publication〈/a〉〈br /〉〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Notes: 〈/span〉Redwine, William B -- Hernandez-Lopez, Rogelio -- Zou, Sirui -- Huang, Julie -- Reck-Peterson, Samara L -- Leschziner, Andres E -- 1 DP2 OD004268-1/OD/NIH HHS/ -- DP2 OD004268/OD/NIH HHS/ -- New York, N.Y. -- Science. 2012 Sep 21;337(6101):1532-6.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Author address: 〈/span〉Department of Molecular and Cellular Biology, Harvard University, 52 Oxford Street, Cambridge, MA 02138, USA.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Record origin:〈/span〉 〈a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22997337" target="_blank"〉PubMed〈/a〉
    Keywords: Adenosine Triphosphate/metabolism ; Binding Sites ; Cryoelectron Microscopy ; Cytoplasmic Dyneins/*chemistry/metabolism ; Hydrogen Bonding ; Microtubules/*metabolism ; Models, Molecular ; Molecular Dynamics Simulation ; Mutagenesis ; Protein Binding ; Protein Structure, Secondary ; Protein Structure, Tertiary ; Saccharomyces cerevisiae Proteins/chemistry/genetics/metabolism
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    Publication Date: 2012-05-15
    Description: Poly(ADP-ribose) polymerase-1 (PARP-1) (ADP, adenosine diphosphate) has a modular domain architecture that couples DNA damage detection to poly(ADP-ribosyl)ation activity through a poorly understood mechanism. Here, we report the crystal structure of a DNA double-strand break in complex with human PARP-1 domains essential for activation (Zn1, Zn3, WGR-CAT). PARP-1 engages DNA as a monomer, and the interaction with DNA damage organizes PARP-1 domains into a collapsed conformation that can explain the strong preference for automodification. The Zn1, Zn3, and WGR domains collectively bind to DNA, forming a network of interdomain contacts that links the DNA damage interface to the catalytic domain (CAT). The DNA damage-induced conformation of PARP-1 results in structural distortions that destabilize the CAT. Our results suggest that an increase in CAT protein dynamics underlies the DNA-dependent activation mechanism of PARP-1.〈br /〉〈br /〉〈a href="https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3532513/" 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/PMC3532513/" target="_blank"〉This paper as free author manuscript - peer-reviewed and accepted for publication〈/a〉〈br /〉〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Notes: 〈/span〉Langelier, Marie-France -- Planck, Jamie L -- Roy, Swati -- Pascal, John M -- P30 EB009998/EB/NIBIB NIH HHS/ -- P30CA56036/CA/NCI NIH HHS/ -- R01 GM087282/GM/NIGMS NIH HHS/ -- R01087282/PHS HHS/ -- New York, N.Y. -- Science. 2012 May 11;336(6082):728-32. doi: 10.1126/science.1216338.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Author address: 〈/span〉Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, The Kimmel Cancer Center, Thomas Jefferson University, Philadelphia, PA 19107, USA.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Record origin:〈/span〉 〈a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22582261" target="_blank"〉PubMed〈/a〉
    Keywords: Catalytic Domain ; Crystallography, X-Ray ; DNA/*chemistry/*metabolism ; *DNA Breaks, Double-Stranded ; Enzyme Stability ; Humans ; Hydrophobic and Hydrophilic Interactions ; Models, Molecular ; Nucleic Acid Conformation ; Poly Adenosine Diphosphate Ribose/*metabolism ; Poly(ADP-ribose) Polymerases/*chemistry/*metabolism ; Protein Binding ; Protein Conformation ; Protein Structure, Tertiary
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    Publication Date: 2012-11-28
    Description: The plasma membrane protein Orai forms the pore of the calcium release-activated calcium (CRAC) channel and generates sustained cytosolic calcium signals when triggered by depletion of calcium from the endoplasmic reticulum. The crystal structure of Orai from Drosophila melanogaster, determined at 3.35 angstrom resolution, reveals that the calcium channel is composed of a hexameric assembly of Orai subunits arranged around a central ion pore. The pore traverses the membrane and extends into the cytosol. A ring of glutamate residues on its extracellular side forms the selectivity filter. A basic region near the intracellular side can bind anions that may stabilize the closed state. The architecture of the channel differs markedly from other ion channels and gives insight into the principles of selective calcium permeation and gating.〈br /〉〈br /〉〈a href="https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3695727/" 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/PMC3695727/" target="_blank"〉This paper as free author manuscript - peer-reviewed and accepted for publication〈/a〉〈br /〉〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Notes: 〈/span〉Hou, Xiaowei -- Pedi, Leanne -- Diver, Melinda M -- Long, Stephen B -- GM094273/GM/NIGMS NIH HHS/ -- P30 CA008748/CA/NCI NIH HHS/ -- R01 GM094273/GM/NIGMS NIH HHS/ -- New York, N.Y. -- Science. 2012 Dec 7;338(6112):1308-13. doi: 10.1126/science.1228757. Epub 2012 Nov 22.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Author address: 〈/span〉Structural Biology Program, Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, 1275 York Avenue, New York, NY 10065, USA.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Record origin:〈/span〉 〈a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23180775" target="_blank"〉PubMed〈/a〉
    Keywords: Animals ; Binding Sites ; Calcium/*chemistry ; Calcium Channels/*chemistry ; Crystallography, X-Ray ; Drosophila Proteins/agonists/*chemistry ; Glutamic Acid/chemistry ; Membrane Proteins/agonists/*chemistry ; Porosity ; Protein Binding ; Protein Structure, Secondary ; Protein Structure, Tertiary
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    Publication Date: 2012-06-02
    Description: The circadian clock in mammals is driven by an autoregulatory transcriptional feedback mechanism that takes approximately 24 hours to complete. A key component of this mechanism is a heterodimeric transcriptional activator consisting of two basic helix-loop-helix PER-ARNT-SIM (bHLH-PAS) domain protein subunits, CLOCK and BMAL1. Here, we report the crystal structure of a complex containing the mouse CLOCK:BMAL1 bHLH-PAS domains at 2.3 A resolution. The structure reveals an unusual asymmetric heterodimer with the three domains in each of the two subunits--bHLH, PAS-A, and PAS-B--tightly intertwined and involved in dimerization interactions, resulting in three distinct protein interfaces. Mutations that perturb the observed heterodimer interfaces affect the stability and activity of the CLOCK:BMAL1 complex as well as the periodicity of the circadian oscillator. The structure of the CLOCK:BMAL1 complex is a starting point for understanding at an atomic level the mechanism driving the mammalian circadian clock.〈br /〉〈br /〉〈a href="https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3694778/" 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/PMC3694778/" target="_blank"〉This paper as free author manuscript - peer-reviewed and accepted for publication〈/a〉〈br /〉〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Notes: 〈/span〉Huang, Nian -- Chelliah, Yogarany -- Shan, Yongli -- Taylor, Clinton A -- Yoo, Seung-Hee -- Partch, Carrie -- Green, Carla B -- Zhang, Hong -- Takahashi, Joseph S -- R01 GM081875/GM/NIGMS NIH HHS/ -- R01 GM090247/GM/NIGMS NIH HHS/ -- Howard Hughes Medical Institute/ -- New York, N.Y. -- Science. 2012 Jul 13;337(6091):189-94. doi: 10.1126/science.1222804. Epub 2012 May 31.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Author address: 〈/span〉Department of Biochemistry, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, TX 75390, USA.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Record origin:〈/span〉 〈a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22653727" target="_blank"〉PubMed〈/a〉
    Keywords: ARNTL Transcription Factors/*chemistry/genetics/metabolism ; Amino Acid Sequence ; Animals ; CLOCK Proteins/*chemistry/genetics/metabolism ; Cells, Cultured ; *Circadian Rhythm ; Crystallography, X-Ray ; DNA/metabolism ; HEK293 Cells ; Helix-Loop-Helix Motifs ; Humans ; Mice ; Models, Molecular ; Molecular Sequence Data ; Mutant Proteins/chemistry/metabolism ; Protein Binding ; Protein Interaction Domains and Motifs ; Protein Multimerization ; Protein Structure, Quaternary ; Protein Structure, Secondary ; Protein Structure, Tertiary ; Protein Subunits/chemistry/metabolism ; Static Electricity ; *Transcriptional Activation
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    Publication Date: 2012-01-17
    Description: Exocytosis is essential to the lytic cycle of apicomplexan parasites and required for the pathogenesis of toxoplasmosis and malaria. DOC2 proteins recruit the membrane fusion machinery required for exocytosis in a Ca(2+)-dependent fashion. Here, the phenotype of a Toxoplasma gondii conditional mutant impaired in host cell invasion and egress was pinpointed to a defect in secretion of the micronemes, an apicomplexan-specific organelle that contains adhesion proteins. Whole-genome sequencing identified the etiological point mutation in TgDOC2.1. A conditional allele of the orthologous gene engineered into Plasmodium falciparum was also defective in microneme secretion. However, the major effect was on invasion, suggesting that microneme secretion is dispensable for Plasmodium egress.〈br /〉〈br /〉〈a href="https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3354045/" 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/PMC3354045/" target="_blank"〉This paper as free author manuscript - peer-reviewed and accepted for publication〈/a〉〈br /〉〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Notes: 〈/span〉Farrell, Andrew -- Thirugnanam, Sivasakthivel -- Lorestani, Alexander -- Dvorin, Jeffrey D -- Eidell, Keith P -- Ferguson, David J P -- Anderson-White, Brooke R -- Duraisingh, Manoj T -- Marth, Gabor T -- Gubbels, Marc-Jan -- AI057919/AI/NIAID NIH HHS/ -- AI081220/AI/NIAID NIH HHS/ -- AI087874/AI/NIAID NIH HHS/ -- AI088314/AI/NIAID NIH HHS/ -- HG004719/HG/NHGRI NIH HHS/ -- K08 AI087874/AI/NIAID NIH HHS/ -- K08 AI087874-02/AI/NIAID NIH HHS/ -- R01 AI057919/AI/NIAID NIH HHS/ -- R01 HG004719/HG/NHGRI NIH HHS/ -- R21 AI081220/AI/NIAID NIH HHS/ -- R21 AI088314/AI/NIAID NIH HHS/ -- Wellcome Trust/United Kingdom -- New York, N.Y. -- Science. 2012 Jan 13;335(6065):218-21. doi: 10.1126/science.1210829.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Author address: 〈/span〉Department of Biology, Boston College, Chestnut Hill, MA 02467, USA.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Record origin:〈/span〉 〈a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22246776" target="_blank"〉PubMed〈/a〉
    Keywords: Amino Acid Sequence ; Calcium/*metabolism ; Calcium-Binding Proteins/chemistry/genetics/*metabolism ; Cell Line ; *Exocytosis ; Genes, Protozoan ; Genetic Complementation Test ; Genome, Protozoan ; Humans ; Models, Molecular ; Molecular Sequence Data ; Movement ; Mutagenesis ; Organelles/*metabolism ; Plasmodium falciparum/genetics/growth & development/physiology ; Point Mutation ; Protein Structure, Tertiary ; Protozoan Proteins/chemistry/genetics/*metabolism ; Recombinant Fusion Proteins/metabolism ; Toxoplasma/genetics/growth & development/*physiology/ultrastructure
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    Publication Date: 2012-08-21
    Description: Stu2p/XMAP215/Dis1 family proteins are evolutionarily conserved regulatory factors that use alphabeta-tubulin-interacting tumor overexpressed gene (TOG) domains to catalyze fast microtubule growth. Catalysis requires that these polymerases discriminate between unpolymerized and polymerized forms of alphabeta-tubulin, but the mechanism by which they do so has remained unclear. Here, we report the structure of the TOG1 domain from Stu2p bound to yeast alphabeta-tubulin. TOG1 binds alphabeta-tubulin in a way that excludes equivalent binding of a second TOG domain. Furthermore, TOG1 preferentially binds a curved conformation of alphabeta-tubulin that cannot be incorporated into microtubules, contacting alpha- and beta-tubulin surfaces that do not participate in microtubule assembly. Conformation-selective interactions with alphabeta-tubulin explain how TOG-containing polymerases discriminate between unpolymerized and polymerized forms of alphabeta-tubulin and how they selectively recognize the growing end of the microtubule.〈br /〉〈br /〉〈a href="https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3734851/" 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/PMC3734851/" target="_blank"〉This paper as free author manuscript - peer-reviewed and accepted for publication〈/a〉〈br /〉〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Notes: 〈/span〉Ayaz, Pelin -- Ye, Xuecheng -- Huddleston, Patrick -- Brautigam, Chad A -- Rice, Luke M -- GM-098543/GM/NIGMS NIH HHS/ -- R01 GM098543/GM/NIGMS NIH HHS/ -- New York, N.Y. -- Science. 2012 Aug 17;337(6096):857-60. doi: 10.1126/science.1221698.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Author address: 〈/span〉Department of Biophysics, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, 5323 Harry Hines Blvd, Dallas, TX 75390, USA.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Record origin:〈/span〉 〈a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22904013" target="_blank"〉PubMed〈/a〉
    Keywords: Crystallography, X-Ray ; Gene Expression Regulation, Neoplastic ; Genes, Neoplasm ; Microtubule-Associated Proteins/*chemistry/genetics ; Microtubules/*enzymology ; Polymerization ; Protein Conformation ; Protein Structure, Tertiary ; Saccharomyces cerevisiae Proteins/*chemistry/genetics ; Tubulin/*chemistry
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    Publication Date: 2012-09-22
    Description: 〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Notes: 〈/span〉Babu, M Madan -- Kriwacki, Richard W -- Pappu, Rohit V -- MC_U105185859/Medical Research Council/United Kingdom -- Medical Research Council/United Kingdom -- New York, N.Y. -- Science. 2012 Sep 21;337(6101):1460-1.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Author address: 〈/span〉MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology, Hills Road, Cambridge CB2 0QH, UK. madanm@mrc-lmb.cam.ac.uk〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Record origin:〈/span〉 〈a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22997313" target="_blank"〉PubMed〈/a〉
    Keywords: Amino Acid Motifs ; Computer Simulation ; Evolution, Molecular ; Mutation ; Protein Binding ; Protein Folding ; Protein Interaction Domains and Motifs ; Protein Structure, Tertiary ; Proteins/*chemistry/genetics/*metabolism
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    Publication Date: 2012-05-26
    Description: Crystal structure analyses for biological macromolecules without known structural relatives entail solving the crystallographic phase problem. Typical de novo phase evaluations depend on incorporating heavier atoms than those found natively; most commonly, multi- or single-wavelength anomalous diffraction (MAD or SAD) experiments exploit selenomethionyl proteins. Here, we realize routine structure determination using intrinsic anomalous scattering from native macromolecules. We devised robust procedures for enhancing the signal-to-noise ratio in the slight anomalous scattering from generic native structures by combining data measured from multiple crystals at lower-than-usual x-ray energy. Using this multicrystal SAD method (5 to 13 equivalent crystals), we determined structures at modest resolution (2.8 to 2.3 angstroms) for native proteins varying in size (127 to 1148 unique residues) and number of sulfur sites (3 to 28). With no requirement for heavy-atom incorporation, such experiments provide an attractive alternative to selenomethionyl SAD experiments.〈br /〉〈br /〉〈a href="https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3769101/" 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/PMC3769101/" target="_blank"〉This paper as free author manuscript - peer-reviewed and accepted for publication〈/a〉〈br /〉〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Notes: 〈/span〉Liu, Qun -- Dahmane, Tassadite -- Zhang, Zhen -- Assur, Zahra -- Brasch, Julia -- Shapiro, Lawrence -- Mancia, Filippo -- Hendrickson, Wayne A -- GM034102/GM/NIGMS NIH HHS/ -- GM062270/GM/NIGMS NIH HHS/ -- GM095315/GM/NIGMS NIH HHS/ -- R01 GM034102/GM/NIGMS NIH HHS/ -- R01 GM062270/GM/NIGMS NIH HHS/ -- U54 GM075026/GM/NIGMS NIH HHS/ -- U54 GM095315/GM/NIGMS NIH HHS/ -- New York, N.Y. -- Science. 2012 May 25;336(6084):1033-7. doi: 10.1126/science.1218753.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Author address: 〈/span〉New York Structural Biology Center, National Synchrotron Light Source (NSLS) X4, Brookhaven National Laboratory, Upton, NY 11973, USA.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Record origin:〈/span〉 〈a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22628655" target="_blank"〉PubMed〈/a〉
    Keywords: Bacterial Proteins/chemistry ; Crystallography, X-Ray/*methods ; Data Interpretation, Statistical ; GPI-Linked Proteins/chemistry ; Models, Molecular ; Nerve Tissue Proteins/chemistry ; *Protein Conformation ; Protein Kinases/chemistry ; Protein Structure, Tertiary ; Proteins/*chemistry ; Selenomethionine/chemistry ; Signal-To-Noise Ratio ; Sulfur/chemistry ; X-Ray Diffraction
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    Publication Date: 2012-06-02
    Description: Pattern recognition receptors confer plant resistance to pathogen infection by recognizing the conserved pathogen-associated molecular patterns. The cell surface receptor chitin elicitor receptor kinase 1 of Arabidopsis (AtCERK1) directly binds chitin through its lysine motif (LysM)-containing ectodomain (AtCERK1-ECD) to activate immune responses. The crystal structure that we solved of an AtCERK1-ECD complexed with a chitin pentamer reveals that their interaction is primarily mediated by a LysM and three chitin residues. By acting as a bivalent ligand, a chitin octamer induces AtCERK1-ECD dimerization that is inhibited by shorter chitin oligomers. A mutation attenuating chitin-induced AtCERK1-ECD dimerization or formation of nonproductive AtCERK1 dimer by overexpression of AtCERK1-ECD compromises AtCERK1-mediated signaling in plant cells. Together, our data support the notion that chitin-induced AtCERK1 dimerization is critical for its activation.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Notes: 〈/span〉Liu, Tingting -- Liu, Zixu -- Song, Chuanjun -- Hu, Yunfei -- Han, Zhifu -- She, Ji -- Fan, Fangfang -- Wang, Jiawei -- Jin, Changwen -- Chang, Junbiao -- Zhou, Jian-Min -- Chai, Jijie -- New York, N.Y. -- Science. 2012 Jun 1;336(6085):1160-4. doi: 10.1126/science.1218867.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Author address: 〈/span〉Graduate Program in Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences and Peking Union Medical College, Beijing 100730, China.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Record origin:〈/span〉 〈a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22654057" target="_blank"〉PubMed〈/a〉
    Keywords: Acetylglucosamine/chemistry/metabolism ; Amino Acid Motifs ; Amino Acid Sequence ; Arabidopsis/immunology/*metabolism ; Arabidopsis Proteins/*chemistry/genetics/*metabolism ; Binding Sites ; Chitin/chemistry/*metabolism ; Crystallography, X-Ray ; Hydrogen Bonding ; Ligands ; Models, Molecular ; Molecular Sequence Data ; Mutant Proteins/chemistry/metabolism ; Phosphorylation ; Plants, Genetically Modified ; Protein Multimerization ; Protein Structure, Tertiary ; Protein-Serine-Threonine Kinases/*chemistry/genetics/*metabolism ; Receptors, Pattern Recognition/*chemistry/genetics/*metabolism ; Signal Transduction
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  • 12
    Publication Date: 2012-04-14
    Description: The mechanism of ion channel voltage gating-how channels open and close in response to voltage changes-has been debated since Hodgkin and Huxley's seminal discovery that the crux of nerve conduction is ion flow across cellular membranes. Using all-atom molecular dynamics simulations, we show how a voltage-gated potassium channel (KV) switches between activated and deactivated states. On deactivation, pore hydrophobic collapse rapidly halts ion flow. Subsequent voltage-sensing domain (VSD) relaxation, including inward, 15-angstrom S4-helix motion, completes the transition. On activation, outward S4 motion tightens the VSD-pore linker, perturbing linker-S6-helix packing. Fluctuations allow water, then potassium ions, to reenter the pore; linker-S6 repacking stabilizes the open pore. We propose a mechanistic model for the sodium/potassium/calcium voltage-gated ion channel superfamily that reconciles apparently conflicting experimental data.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Notes: 〈/span〉Jensen, Morten O -- Jogini, Vishwanath -- Borhani, David W -- Leffler, Abba E -- Dror, Ron O -- Shaw, David E -- New York, N.Y. -- Science. 2012 Apr 13;336(6078):229-33. doi: 10.1126/science.1216533.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Author address: 〈/span〉D E Shaw Research, New York, NY 10036, USA. morten.jensen@DEShawResearch.com〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Record origin:〈/span〉 〈a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22499946" target="_blank"〉PubMed〈/a〉
    Keywords: Animals ; Hydrophobic and Hydrophilic Interactions ; *Ion Channel Gating ; Kv1.2 Potassium Channel/*chemistry/*metabolism ; Membrane Potentials ; Models, Biological ; Models, Molecular ; Molecular Dynamics Simulation ; Protein Conformation ; Protein Structure, Secondary ; Protein Structure, Tertiary ; Rats ; Recombinant Fusion Proteins/chemistry/metabolism ; Shab Potassium Channels/*chemistry/*metabolism
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    Publication Date: 2012-03-01
    Description: The transition path is the tiny fraction of an equilibrium molecular trajectory when a transition occurs as the free-energy barrier between two states is crossed. It is a single-molecule property that contains all the mechanistic information on how a process occurs. As a step toward observing transition paths in protein folding, we determined the average transition-path time for a fast- and a slow-folding protein from a photon-by-photon analysis of fluorescence trajectories in single-molecule Forster resonance energy transfer experiments. Whereas the folding rate coefficients differ by a factor of 10,000, the transition-path times differ by a factor of less than 5, which shows that a fast- and a slow-folding protein take almost the same time to fold when folding actually happens. A very simple model based on energy landscape theory can explain this result.〈br /〉〈br /〉〈a href="https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3878298/" 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/PMC3878298/" target="_blank"〉This paper as free author manuscript - peer-reviewed and accepted for publication〈/a〉〈br /〉〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Notes: 〈/span〉Chung, Hoi Sung -- McHale, Kevin -- Louis, John M -- Eaton, William A -- Z99 DK999999/Intramural NIH HHS/ -- New York, N.Y. -- Science. 2012 Feb 24;335(6071):981-4. doi: 10.1126/science.1215768.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Author address: 〈/span〉Laboratory of Chemical Physics, National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases, National Institutes of Health (NIH), Bethesda, MD 20892-0520, USA. chunghoi@niddk.nih.gov〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Record origin:〈/span〉 〈a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22363011" target="_blank"〉PubMed〈/a〉
    Keywords: Amino Acid Sequence ; Bacterial Proteins/*chemistry ; Carrier Proteins/*chemistry ; Fluorescence Resonance Energy Transfer ; Kinetics ; Likelihood Functions ; Models, Molecular ; Molecular Sequence Data ; Photons ; Protein Conformation ; *Protein Folding ; Protein Interaction Domains and Motifs ; Protein Structure, Tertiary ; Thermodynamics
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    Publication Date: 2012-06-02
    Description: C99 is the transmembrane carboxyl-terminal domain of the amyloid precursor protein that is cleaved by gamma-secretase to release the amyloid-beta polypeptides, which are associated with Alzheimer's disease. Nuclear magnetic resonance and electron paramagnetic resonance spectroscopy show that the extracellular amino terminus of C99 includes a surface-embedded "N-helix" followed by a short "N-loop" connecting to the transmembrane domain (TMD). The TMD is a flexibly curved alpha helix, making it well suited for processive cleavage by gamma-secretase. Titration of C99 reveals a binding site for cholesterol, providing mechanistic insight into how cholesterol promotes amyloidogenesis. Membrane-buried GXXXG motifs (G, Gly; X, any amino acid), which have an established role in oligomerization, were also shown to play a key role in cholesterol binding. The structure and cholesterol binding properties of C99 may aid in the design of Alzheimer's therapeutics.〈br /〉〈br /〉〈a href="https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3528355/" 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/PMC3528355/" target="_blank"〉This paper as free author manuscript - peer-reviewed and accepted for publication〈/a〉〈br /〉〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Notes: 〈/span〉Barrett, Paul J -- Song, Yuanli -- Van Horn, Wade D -- Hustedt, Eric J -- Schafer, Johanna M -- Hadziselimovic, Arina -- Beel, Andrew J -- Sanders, Charles R -- F31 NS077681/NS/NINDS NIH HHS/ -- P01 GM080513/GM/NIGMS NIH HHS/ -- T32 GM008320/GM/NIGMS NIH HHS/ -- T32 GM08320/GM/NIGMS NIH HHS/ -- New York, N.Y. -- Science. 2012 Jun 1;336(6085):1168-71. doi: 10.1126/science.1219988.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Author address: 〈/span〉Department of Biochemistry, Center for Structural Biology and Institute of Chemical Biology, Vanderbilt University School of Medicine, Nashville, TN 37232 USA.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Record origin:〈/span〉 〈a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22654059" target="_blank"〉PubMed〈/a〉
    Keywords: Amino Acid Motifs ; Amino Acid Sequence ; Amyloid beta-Protein Precursor/*chemistry/genetics/*metabolism ; Binding Sites ; Cholesterol/*metabolism ; Electron Spin Resonance Spectroscopy ; Humans ; Micelles ; Molecular Sequence Data ; Mutation ; Nuclear Magnetic Resonance, Biomolecular ; Peptide Fragments/*chemistry/genetics/*metabolism ; Protein Binding ; Protein Structure, Secondary ; Protein Structure, Tertiary
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    Publication Date: 2012-03-17
    Description: In bacteria, the hybrid transfer-messenger RNA (tmRNA) rescues ribosomes stalled on defective messenger RNAs (mRNAs). However, certain gram-negative bacteria have evolved proteins that are capable of rescuing stalled ribosomes in a tmRNA-independent manner. Here, we report a 3.2 angstrom-resolution crystal structure of the rescue factor YaeJ bound to the Thermus thermophilus 70S ribosome in complex with the initiator tRNA(i)(fMet) and a short mRNA. The structure reveals that the C-terminal tail of YaeJ functions as a sensor to discriminate between stalled and actively translating ribosomes by binding in the mRNA entry channel downstream of the A site between the head and shoulder of the 30S subunit. This allows the N-terminal globular domain to sample different conformations, so that its conserved GGQ motif is optimally positioned to catalyze the hydrolysis of peptidyl-tRNA. This structure gives insights into the mechanism of YaeJ function and provides a basis for understanding how it rescues stalled ribosomes.〈br /〉〈br /〉〈a href="https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3377438/" 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/PMC3377438/" target="_blank"〉This paper as free author manuscript - peer-reviewed and accepted for publication〈/a〉〈br /〉〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Notes: 〈/span〉Gagnon, Matthieu G -- Seetharaman, Sai V -- Bulkley, David -- Steitz, Thomas A -- GM022778/GM/NIGMS NIH HHS/ -- P01 GM022778/GM/NIGMS NIH HHS/ -- P30 EB009998/EB/NIBIB NIH HHS/ -- Howard Hughes Medical Institute/ -- New York, N.Y. -- Science. 2012 Mar 16;335(6074):1370-2. doi: 10.1126/science.1217443.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Author address: 〈/span〉Department of Molecular Biophysics and Biochemistry, Yale University, New Haven, CT 06520-8114, USA.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Record origin:〈/span〉 〈a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22422986" target="_blank"〉PubMed〈/a〉
    Keywords: Amino Acid Sequence ; Carboxylic Ester Hydrolases/*chemistry/*metabolism ; Crystallography, X-Ray ; Escherichia coli/*chemistry ; Escherichia coli Proteins/*chemistry/*metabolism ; Models, Molecular ; Molecular Sequence Data ; Nucleic Acid Conformation ; Protein Biosynthesis ; Protein Structure, Tertiary ; RNA, Bacterial/chemistry/metabolism ; RNA, Messenger/chemistry/metabolism ; RNA, Ribosomal/chemistry/metabolism ; RNA, Transfer, Amino Acyl/chemistry/metabolism ; RNA, Transfer, Met/chemistry/metabolism ; Ribosome Subunits, Large, Bacterial/chemistry/metabolism ; Ribosome Subunits, Small, Bacterial/chemistry/metabolism ; Ribosomes/*chemistry/metabolism ; Thermus thermophilus/*chemistry/metabolism/ultrastructure
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    Publication Date: 2012-05-26
    Description: Acyl acid amido synthetases of the GH3 family act as critical prereceptor modulators of plant hormone action; however, the molecular basis for their hormone selectivity is unclear. Here, we report the crystal structures of benzoate-specific Arabidopsis thaliana AtGH3.12/PBS3 and jasmonic acid-specific AtGH3.11/JAR1. These structures, combined with biochemical analysis, define features for the conjugation of amino acids to diverse acyl acid substrates and highlight the importance of conformational changes in the carboxyl-terminal domain for catalysis. We also identify residues forming the acyl acid binding site across the GH3 family and residues critical for amino acid recognition. Our results demonstrate how a highly adaptable three-dimensional scaffold is used for the evolution of promiscuous activity across an enzyme family for modulation of plant signaling molecules.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Notes: 〈/span〉Westfall, Corey S -- Zubieta, Chloe -- Herrmann, Jonathan -- Kapp, Ulrike -- Nanao, Max H -- Jez, Joseph M -- Howard Hughes Medical Institute/ -- New York, N.Y. -- Science. 2012 Jun 29;336(6089):1708-11. doi: 10.1126/science.1221863. Epub 2012 May 24.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Author address: 〈/span〉Department of Biology, Washington University, St. Louis, MO 63130, USA.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Record origin:〈/span〉 〈a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22628555" target="_blank"〉PubMed〈/a〉
    Keywords: Amino Acid Sequence ; Amino Acids/chemistry/metabolism ; Arabidopsis ; Arabidopsis Proteins/*chemistry/metabolism ; Benzoates/chemistry ; Binding Sites ; Crystallography, X-Ray ; Cyclopentanes/chemistry ; Indoleacetic Acids/chemistry/metabolism ; Models, Molecular ; Molecular Sequence Data ; Nucleotidyltransferases/*chemistry/metabolism ; Oxylipins/chemistry ; Plant Growth Regulators/chemistry/metabolism ; Protein Structure, Tertiary ; Structure-Activity Relationship ; Substrate Specificity
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    Publication Date: 2012-12-01
    Description: Placental development and genomic imprinting coevolved with parental conflict over resource distribution to mammalian offspring. The imprinted genes IGF2 and IGF2R code for the growth promoter insulin-like growth factor 2 (IGF2) and its inhibitor, mannose 6-phosphate (M6P)/IGF2 receptor (IGF2R), respectively. M6P/IGF2R of birds and fish do not recognize IGF2. In monotremes, which lack imprinting, IGF2 specifically bound M6P/IGF2R via a hydrophobic CD loop. We show that the DNA coding the CD loop in monotremes functions as an exon splice enhancer (ESE) and that structural evolution of binding site loops (AB, HI, FG) improved therian IGF2 affinity. We propose that ESE evolution led to the fortuitous acquisition of IGF2 binding by M6P/IGF2R that drew IGF2R into parental conflict; subsequent imprinting may then have accelerated affinity maturation.〈br /〉〈br /〉〈a href="https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4658703/" 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/PMC4658703/" target="_blank"〉This paper as free author manuscript - peer-reviewed and accepted for publication〈/a〉〈br /〉〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Notes: 〈/span〉Williams, Christopher -- Hoppe, Hans-Jurgen -- Rezgui, Dellel -- Strickland, Madeleine -- Forbes, Briony E -- Grutzner, Frank -- Frago, Susana -- Ellis, Rosamund Z -- Wattana-Amorn, Pakorn -- Prince, Stuart N -- Zaccheo, Oliver J -- Nolan, Catherine M -- Mungall, Andrew J -- Jones, E Yvonne -- Crump, Matthew P -- Hassan, A Bassim -- 082352/Wellcome Trust/United Kingdom -- 090532/Wellcome Trust/United Kingdom -- 9891/Cancer Research UK/United Kingdom -- A13295/Cancer Research UK/United Kingdom -- A9891/Cancer Research UK/United Kingdom -- C375/Cancer Research UK/United Kingdom -- C429/Cancer Research UK/United Kingdom -- Wellcome Trust/United Kingdom -- New York, N.Y. -- Science. 2012 Nov 30;338(6111):1209-13. doi: 10.1126/science.1228633.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Author address: 〈/span〉Department of Organic and Biological Chemistry, School of Chemistry, University of Bristol, Bristol BS8 1TS, UK.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Record origin:〈/span〉 〈a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23197533" target="_blank"〉PubMed〈/a〉
    Keywords: *Alternative Splicing ; Amino Acid Sequence ; Animals ; Binding Sites/genetics ; Conserved Sequence ; Enhancer Elements, Genetic/*genetics ; *Evolution, Molecular ; *Exons ; Genomic Imprinting ; Humans ; Insulin-Like Growth Factor II/*chemistry/classification/genetics ; Molecular Sequence Data ; Phylogeny ; Protein Structure, Tertiary ; Receptor, IGF Type 2/*chemistry/classification/genetics ; Species Specificity
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    Publication Date: 2012-03-17
    Description: Neurotransmitters are released through nascent fusion pores, which ordinarily dilate after bilayer fusion, preventing consistent biochemical studies. We used lipid bilayer nanodiscs as fusion partners; their rigid protein framework prevents dilation and reveals properties of the fusion pore induced by SNARE (soluble N-ethylmaleimide-sensitive factor attachment protein receptor). We found that although only one SNARE per nanodisc is required for maximum rates of bilayer fusion, efficient release of content on the physiologically relevant time scale of synaptic transmission apparently requires three or more SNARE complexes (SNAREpins) and the native transmembrane domain of vesicle-associated membrane protein 2 (VAMP2). We suggest that several SNAREpins simultaneously zippering their SNARE transmembrane helices within the freshly fused bilayers provide a radial force that prevents the nascent pore from resealing during synchronous neurotransmitter release.〈br /〉〈br /〉〈a href="https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3736847/" 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/PMC3736847/" target="_blank"〉This paper as free author manuscript - peer-reviewed and accepted for publication〈/a〉〈br /〉〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Notes: 〈/span〉Shi, Lei -- Shen, Qing-Tao -- Kiel, Alexander -- Wang, Jing -- Wang, Hong-Wei -- Melia, Thomas J -- Rothman, James E -- Pincet, Frederic -- R01 DK027044/DK/NIDDK NIH HHS/ -- R37 DK027044/DK/NIDDK NIH HHS/ -- New York, N.Y. -- Science. 2012 Mar 16;335(6074):1355-9. doi: 10.1126/science.1214984.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Author address: 〈/span〉Department of Cell Biology, School of Medicine, Yale University, New Haven, CT 06520, USA.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Record origin:〈/span〉 〈a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22422984" target="_blank"〉PubMed〈/a〉
    Keywords: Animals ; Calcium/metabolism ; Diffusion ; *Lipid Bilayers ; Liposomes ; *Membrane Fusion ; Membrane Proteins/chemistry/metabolism ; Mice ; Neurotransmitter Agents/metabolism ; Protein Structure, Tertiary ; Proteolipids/chemistry ; Rats ; Recombinant Fusion Proteins/chemistry/metabolism ; SNARE Proteins/*chemistry/*metabolism ; Synaptic Transmission ; Synaptic Vesicles/*chemistry/metabolism ; Synaptosomal-Associated Protein 25/chemistry/metabolism ; Syntaxin 1/chemistry/metabolism ; Vesicle-Associated Membrane Protein 2/*chemistry/*metabolism
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    Publication Date: 2012-02-04
    Description: Resistance of nematodes to anthelmintics such as avermectins has emerged as a major global health and agricultural problem, but genes conferring natural resistance to avermectins are unknown. We show that a naturally occurring four-amino-acid deletion in the ligand-binding domain of GLC-1, the alpha-subunit of a glutamate-gated chloride channel, confers resistance to avermectins in the model nematode Caenorhabditis elegans. We also find that the same variant confers resistance to the avermectin-producing bacterium Streptomyces avermitilis. Population-genetic analyses identified two highly divergent haplotypes at the glc-1 locus that have been maintained at intermediate frequencies by long-term balancing selection. These results implicate variation in glutamate-gated chloride channels in avermectin resistance and provide a mechanism by which such resistance can be maintained.〈br /〉〈br /〉〈a href="https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3273849/" 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/PMC3273849/" target="_blank"〉This paper as free author manuscript - peer-reviewed and accepted for publication〈/a〉〈br /〉〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Notes: 〈/span〉Ghosh, Rajarshi -- Andersen, Erik C -- Shapiro, Joshua A -- Gerke, Justin P -- Kruglyak, Leonid -- P50-GM071508/GM/NIGMS NIH HHS/ -- R01 HG004321/HG/NHGRI NIH HHS/ -- R01 HG004321-03/HG/NHGRI NIH HHS/ -- R01-HG004321/HG/NHGRI NIH HHS/ -- R37- MH59520/MH/NIMH NIH HHS/ -- Howard Hughes Medical Institute/ -- New York, N.Y. -- Science. 2012 Feb 3;335(6068):574-8. doi: 10.1126/science.1214318.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Author address: 〈/span〉Lewis-Sigler Institute for Integrative Genomics, Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, and Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ 08544, USA.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Record origin:〈/span〉 〈a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22301316" target="_blank"〉PubMed〈/a〉
    Keywords: Amino Acid Sequence ; Animals ; Animals, Genetically Modified ; Antinematodal Agents/*pharmacology ; Caenorhabditis elegans/*drug effects/*genetics/physiology ; Caenorhabditis elegans Proteins/chemistry/*genetics/metabolism ; Chloride Channels/chemistry/*genetics/metabolism ; Crosses, Genetic ; Drug Resistance/genetics ; Genes, Helminth ; Genome-Wide Association Study ; Ivermectin/*analogs & derivatives/*pharmacology ; Ligands ; Molecular Sequence Data ; Mutation ; Polymorphism, Single Nucleotide ; Protein Structure, Tertiary ; Quantitative Trait Loci ; Selection, Genetic ; Streptomyces/physiology
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    Publication Date: 2012-07-28
    Description: The brain tumor glioblastoma multiforme (GBM) is among the most lethal forms of human cancer. Here, we report that a small subset of GBMs (3.1%; 3 of 97 tumors examined) harbors oncogenic chromosomal translocations that fuse in-frame the tyrosine kinase coding domains of fibroblast growth factor receptor (FGFR) genes (FGFR1 or FGFR3) to the transforming acidic coiled-coil (TACC) coding domains of TACC1 or TACC3, respectively. The FGFR-TACC fusion protein displays oncogenic activity when introduced into astrocytes or stereotactically transduced in the mouse brain. The fusion protein, which localizes to mitotic spindle poles, has constitutive kinase activity and induces mitotic and chromosomal segregation defects and triggers aneuploidy. Inhibition of FGFR kinase corrects the aneuploidy, and oral administration of an FGFR inhibitor prolongs survival of mice harboring intracranial FGFR3-TACC3-initiated glioma. FGFR-TACC fusions could potentially identify a subset of GBM patients who would benefit from targeted FGFR kinase inhibition.〈br /〉〈br /〉〈a href="https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3677224/" 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/PMC3677224/" target="_blank"〉This paper as free author manuscript - peer-reviewed and accepted for publication〈/a〉〈br /〉〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Notes: 〈/span〉Singh, Devendra -- Chan, Joseph Minhow -- Zoppoli, Pietro -- Niola, Francesco -- Sullivan, Ryan -- Castano, Angelica -- Liu, Eric Minwei -- Reichel, Jonathan -- Porrati, Paola -- Pellegatta, Serena -- Qiu, Kunlong -- Gao, Zhibo -- Ceccarelli, Michele -- Riccardi, Riccardo -- Brat, Daniel J -- Guha, Abhijit -- Aldape, Ken -- Golfinos, John G -- Zagzag, David -- Mikkelsen, Tom -- Finocchiaro, Gaetano -- Lasorella, Anna -- Rabadan, Raul -- Iavarone, Antonio -- 1R01LM010140-01/LM/NLM NIH HHS/ -- R01 CA085628/CA/NCI NIH HHS/ -- R01 CA101644/CA/NCI NIH HHS/ -- R01 CA127643/CA/NCI NIH HHS/ -- R01 CA131126/CA/NCI NIH HHS/ -- R01 LM010140/LM/NLM NIH HHS/ -- R01 NS061776/NS/NINDS NIH HHS/ -- R01CA085628/CA/NCI NIH HHS/ -- R01CA101644/CA/NCI NIH HHS/ -- R01CA127643/CA/NCI NIH HHS/ -- R01CA131126/CA/NCI NIH HHS/ -- R01NS061776/NS/NINDS NIH HHS/ -- U54 CA121852/CA/NCI NIH HHS/ -- U54 CA121852-05/CA/NCI NIH HHS/ -- New York, N.Y. -- Science. 2012 Sep 7;337(6099):1231-5. doi: 10.1126/science.1220834. Epub 2012 Jul 26.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Author address: 〈/span〉Institute for Cancer Genetics, Columbia University Medical Center, New York, NY, USA.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Record origin:〈/span〉 〈a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22837387" target="_blank"〉PubMed〈/a〉
    Keywords: Aneuploidy ; Animals ; Antineoplastic Agents/pharmacology ; Benzamides/pharmacology ; Brain Neoplasms/genetics/metabolism ; *Cell Transformation, Neoplastic ; Chromosomal Instability ; Enzyme Inhibitors/pharmacology ; Fetal Proteins/chemistry/*genetics/metabolism ; Glioblastoma/*genetics/metabolism ; Humans ; Mice ; Microtubule-Associated Proteins/chemistry/*genetics/metabolism ; Mitosis ; Neoplasm Transplantation ; Nuclear Proteins/chemistry/*genetics/metabolism ; Oncogene Fusion ; Oncogene Proteins, Fusion/chemistry/genetics/*metabolism ; Piperazines/pharmacology ; Protein Structure, Tertiary ; Pyrazoles/pharmacology ; Pyrimidines/pharmacology ; Receptor, Fibroblast Growth Factor, Type 1/antagonists & ; inhibitors/chemistry/*genetics/metabolism ; Receptor, Fibroblast Growth Factor, Type 3/antagonists & ; inhibitors/chemistry/*genetics/metabolism ; Spindle Apparatus/metabolism ; Translocation, Genetic ; Xenograft Model Antitumor Assays
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    Publication Date: 2012-02-04
    Description: Eukaryotic secretory proteins exit the endoplasmic reticulum (ER) via transport vesicles generated by the essential coat protein complex II (COPII) proteins. The outer coat complex, Sec13-Sec31, forms a scaffold that is thought to enforce curvature. By exploiting yeast bypass-of-sec-thirteen (bst) mutants, where Sec13p is dispensable, we probed the relationship between a compromised COPII coat and the cellular context in which it could still function. Genetic and biochemical analyses suggested that Sec13p was required to generate vesicles from membranes that contained asymmetrically distributed cargoes that were likely to confer opposing curvature. Thus, Sec13p may rigidify the COPII cage and increase its membrane-bending capacity; this function could be bypassed when a bst mutation renders the membrane more deformable.〈br /〉〈br /〉〈a href="https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3306526/" 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/PMC3306526/" target="_blank"〉This paper as free author manuscript - peer-reviewed and accepted for publication〈/a〉〈br /〉〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Notes: 〈/span〉Copic, Alenka -- Latham, Catherine F -- Horlbeck, Max A -- D'Arcangelo, Jennifer G -- Miller, Elizabeth A -- GM078186/GM/NIGMS NIH HHS/ -- GM085089/GM/NIGMS NIH HHS/ -- R01 GM078186/GM/NIGMS NIH HHS/ -- R01 GM078186-05/GM/NIGMS NIH HHS/ -- R01 GM085089/GM/NIGMS NIH HHS/ -- R01 GM085089-04/GM/NIGMS NIH HHS/ -- New York, N.Y. -- Science. 2012 Mar 16;335(6074):1359-62. doi: 10.1126/science.1215909. Epub 2012 Feb 2.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Author address: 〈/span〉Department of Biological Sciences, Columbia University, New York, NY 10027, USA.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Record origin:〈/span〉 〈a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22300850" target="_blank"〉PubMed〈/a〉
    Keywords: Amino Acid Motifs ; COP-Coated Vesicles/*chemistry/metabolism/ultrastructure ; Endoplasmic Reticulum/*metabolism ; Genes, Fungal ; Models, Biological ; Models, Molecular ; Mutant Proteins/chemistry/metabolism ; Mutation ; Nuclear Pore Complex Proteins/chemistry/genetics/*metabolism ; Protein Interaction Domains and Motifs ; Protein Structure, Tertiary ; Protein Transport ; Saccharomyces cerevisiae/genetics/*metabolism/ultrastructure ; Saccharomyces cerevisiae Proteins/chemistry/genetics/*metabolism ; Vesicular Transport Proteins/chemistry/metabolism
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    Publication Date: 2012-12-15
    Description: Epigenetic regulators represent a promising new class of therapeutic targets for cancer. Enhancer of zeste homolog 2 (EZH2), a subunit of Polycomb repressive complex 2 (PRC2), silences gene expression via its histone methyltransferase activity. We found that the oncogenic function of EZH2 in cells of castration-resistant prostate cancer is independent of its role as a transcriptional repressor. Instead, it involves the ability of EZH2 to act as a coactivator for critical transcription factors including the androgen receptor. This functional switch is dependent on phosphorylation of EZH2 and requires an intact methyltransferase domain. Hence, targeting the non-PRC2 function of EZH2 may have therapeutic efficacy for treating metastatic, hormone-refractory prostate cancer.〈br /〉〈br /〉〈a href="https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3625962/" 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/PMC3625962/" target="_blank"〉This paper as free author manuscript - peer-reviewed and accepted for publication〈/a〉〈br /〉〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Notes: 〈/span〉Xu, Kexin -- Wu, Zhenhua Jeremy -- Groner, Anna C -- He, Housheng Hansen -- Cai, Changmeng -- Lis, Rosina T -- Wu, Xiaoqiu -- Stack, Edward C -- Loda, Massimo -- Liu, Tao -- Xu, Han -- Cato, Laura -- Thornton, James E -- Gregory, Richard I -- Morrissey, Colm -- Vessella, Robert L -- Montironi, Rodolfo -- Magi-Galluzzi, Cristina -- Kantoff, Philip W -- Balk, Steven P -- Liu, X Shirley -- Brown, Myles -- CA090381/CA/NCI NIH HHS/ -- CA097186/CA/NCI NIH HHS/ -- CA111803/CA/NCI NIH HHS/ -- CA131945/CA/NCI NIH HHS/ -- CA166507/CA/NCI NIH HHS/ -- CA85859/CA/NCI NIH HHS/ -- CA89021/CA/NCI NIH HHS/ -- CA90381/CA/NCI NIH HHS/ -- GM99409/GM/NIGMS NIH HHS/ -- K99 CA166507/CA/NCI NIH HHS/ -- P50 CA090381/CA/NCI NIH HHS/ -- R01 GM099409/GM/NIGMS NIH HHS/ -- New York, N.Y. -- Science. 2012 Dec 14;338(6113):1465-9. doi: 10.1126/science.1227604.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Author address: 〈/span〉Center for Functional Cancer Epigenetics, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Boston, MA 02215, USA.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Record origin:〈/span〉 〈a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23239736" target="_blank"〉PubMed〈/a〉
    Keywords: Animals ; Castration ; Cell Line, Tumor ; Cohort Studies ; Gene Expression Regulation, Neoplastic ; Gene Silencing ; Humans ; Jumonji Domain-Containing Histone Demethylases/metabolism ; Male ; Methyltransferases/chemistry/genetics/metabolism ; Mice ; Mice, Inbred ICR ; Mice, SCID ; Oncogene Proteins/genetics/*metabolism ; Polycomb Repressive Complex 2/genetics/*metabolism ; Prostatic Neoplasms/genetics/*metabolism/mortality ; Protein Structure, Tertiary ; Receptors, Androgen/metabolism ; Xenograft Model Antitumor Assays
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    Publication Date: 2012-02-11
    Description: DNMT1, the major maintenance DNA methyltransferase in animals, helps to regulate gene expression, genome imprinting, and X-chromosome inactivation. We report on the crystal structure of a productive covalent mouse DNMT1(731-1602)-DNA complex containing a central hemimethylated CpG site. The methyl group of methylcytosine is positioned within a shallow hydrophobic concave surface, whereas the cytosine on the target strand is looped out and covalently anchored within the catalytic pocket. The DNA is distorted at the hemimethylated CpG step, with side chains from catalytic and recognition loops inserting through both grooves to fill an intercalation-type cavity associated with a dual base flip-out on partner strands. Structural and biochemical data establish how a combination of active and autoinhibitory mechanisms ensures the high fidelity of DNMT1-mediated maintenance DNA methylation.〈br /〉〈br /〉〈a href="https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4693633/" 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/PMC4693633/" target="_blank"〉This paper as free author manuscript - peer-reviewed and accepted for publication〈/a〉〈br /〉〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Notes: 〈/span〉Song, Jikui -- Teplova, Marianna -- Ishibe-Murakami, Satoko -- Patel, Dinshaw J -- P30 CA008748/CA/NCI NIH HHS/ -- New York, N.Y. -- Science. 2012 Feb 10;335(6069):709-12. doi: 10.1126/science.1214453.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Author address: 〈/span〉Structural Biology Program, Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, New York, NY 10065, USA.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Record origin:〈/span〉 〈a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22323818" target="_blank"〉PubMed〈/a〉
    Keywords: 5-Methylcytosine/chemistry/metabolism ; Animals ; Base Pairing ; Catalytic Domain ; Crystallography, X-Ray ; DNA/chemistry/*metabolism ; DNA (Cytosine-5-)-Methyltransferase/*chemistry/genetics/*metabolism ; *DNA Methylation ; Dinucleoside Phosphates/chemistry ; Hydrophobic and Hydrophilic Interactions ; Mice ; Models, Molecular ; Protein Conformation ; Protein Structure, Secondary ; Protein Structure, Tertiary ; Substrate Specificity
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    Publication Date: 2012-02-11
    Description: In its physiological state, cyclic adenosine monophosphate (cAMP)-dependent protein kinase (PKA) is a tetramer that contains a regulatory (R) subunit dimer and two catalytic (C) subunits. We describe here the 2.3 angstrom structure of full-length tetrameric RIIbeta(2):C(2) holoenzyme. This structure showing a dimer of dimers provides a mechanistic understanding of allosteric activation by cAMP. The heterodimers are anchored together by an interface created by the beta4-beta5 loop in the RIIbeta subunit, which docks onto the carboxyl-terminal tail of the adjacent C subunit, thereby forcing the C subunit into a fully closed conformation in the absence of nucleotide. Diffusion of magnesium adenosine triphosphate (ATP) into these crystals trapped not ATP, but the reaction products, adenosine diphosphate and the phosphorylated RIIbeta subunit. This complex has implications for the dissociation-reassociation cycling of PKA. The quaternary structure of the RIIbeta tetramer differs appreciably from our model of the RIalpha tetramer, confirming the small-angle x-ray scattering prediction that the structures of each PKA tetramer are different.〈br /〉〈br /〉〈a href="https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3985767/" 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/PMC3985767/" target="_blank"〉This paper as free author manuscript - peer-reviewed and accepted for publication〈/a〉〈br /〉〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Notes: 〈/span〉Zhang, Ping -- Smith-Nguyen, Eric V -- Keshwani, Malik M -- Deal, Michael S -- Kornev, Alexandr P -- Taylor, Susan S -- GM34921/GM/NIGMS NIH HHS/ -- R01 GM034921/GM/NIGMS NIH HHS/ -- Howard Hughes Medical Institute/ -- New York, N.Y. -- Science. 2012 Feb 10;335(6069):712-6. doi: 10.1126/science.1213979.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Author address: 〈/span〉Howard Hughes Medical Institute, University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, CA 92093-0654, USA.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Record origin:〈/span〉 〈a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22323819" target="_blank"〉PubMed〈/a〉
    Keywords: Adenosine Triphosphate/metabolism ; Allosteric Regulation ; Allosteric Site ; Amino Acid Sequence ; Animals ; Binding Sites ; Crystallization ; Crystallography, X-Ray ; Cyclic AMP/metabolism ; Cyclic AMP-Dependent Protein Kinase Catalytic Subunits/*chemistry/*metabolism ; Cyclic AMP-Dependent Protein Kinase RIIbeta Subunit/*chemistry/*metabolism ; Holoenzymes/chemistry/metabolism ; Hydrophobic and Hydrophilic Interactions ; Mice ; Models, Molecular ; Molecular Sequence Data ; Mutant Proteins/chemistry/metabolism ; Protein Binding ; Protein Folding ; Protein Multimerization ; Protein Structure, Quaternary ; Protein Structure, Tertiary ; Rats
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    Publication Date: 2012-06-16
    Description: Active DNA demethylation is an important part of epigenetic regulation in plants and animals. How active DNA demethylation is regulated and its relationship with histone modification patterns are unclear. Here, we report the discovery of IDM1, a regulator of DNA demethylation in Arabidopsis. IDM1 is required for preventing DNA hypermethylation of highly homologous multicopy genes and other repetitive sequences that are normally targeted for active DNA demethylation by Repressor of Silencing 1 and related 5-methylcytosine DNA glycosylases. IDM1 binds methylated DNA at chromatin sites lacking histone H3K4 di- or trimethylation and acetylates H3 to create a chromatin environment permissible for 5-methylcytosine DNA glycosylases to function. Our study reveals how some genes are indicated by multiple epigenetic marks for active DNA demethylation and protection from silencing.〈br /〉〈br /〉〈a href="https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3575687/" 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/PMC3575687/" target="_blank"〉This paper as free author manuscript - peer-reviewed and accepted for publication〈/a〉〈br /〉〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Notes: 〈/span〉Qian, Weiqiang -- Miki, Daisuke -- Zhang, Heng -- Liu, Yunhua -- Zhang, Xi -- Tang, Kai -- Kan, Yunchao -- La, Honggui -- Li, Xiaojie -- Li, Shaofang -- Zhu, Xiaohong -- Shi, Xiaobing -- Zhang, Kangling -- Pontes, Olga -- Chen, Xuemei -- Liu, Renyi -- Gong, Zhizhong -- Zhu, Jian-Kang -- R01 GM059138/GM/NIGMS NIH HHS/ -- R01 GM070795/GM/NIGMS NIH HHS/ -- R01GM059138/GM/NIGMS NIH HHS/ -- R01GM070795/GM/NIGMS NIH HHS/ -- New York, N.Y. -- Science. 2012 Jun 15;336(6087):1445-8. doi: 10.1126/science.1219416.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Author address: 〈/span〉Shanghai Center for Plant Stress Biology and Shanghai Institute of Plant Physiology and Ecology, Shanghai Institutes of Biological Sciences, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Record origin:〈/span〉 〈a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22700931" target="_blank"〉PubMed〈/a〉
    Keywords: Acetylation ; Arabidopsis/*genetics/*metabolism ; Arabidopsis Proteins/chemistry/genetics/*metabolism ; Chromatin/metabolism ; DNA Glycosylases/metabolism ; *DNA Methylation ; DNA, Plant/*metabolism ; Gene Silencing ; Genes, Plant ; Histone Acetyltransferases/chemistry/genetics/*metabolism ; Histones/metabolism ; Methylation ; Mutation ; Nuclear Proteins/genetics/metabolism ; Protein Structure, Tertiary ; Transgenes
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    Publication Date: 2012-01-28
    Description: TRAAK channels, members of the two-pore domain K(+) (potassium ion) channel family K2P, are expressed almost exclusively in the nervous system and control the resting membrane potential. Their gating is sensitive to polyunsaturated fatty acids, mechanical deformation of the membrane, and temperature changes. Physiologically, these channels appear to control the noxious input threshold for temperature and pressure sensitivity in dorsal root ganglia neurons. We present the crystal structure of human TRAAK at a resolution of 3.8 angstroms. The channel comprises two protomers, each containing two distinct pore domains, which create a two-fold symmetric K(+) channel. The extracellular surface features a helical cap, 35 angstroms tall, that creates a bifurcated pore entryway and accounts for the insensitivity of two-pore domain K(+) channels to inhibitory toxins. Two diagonally opposed gate-forming inner helices form membrane-interacting structures that may underlie this channel's sensitivity to chemical and mechanical properties of the cell membrane.〈br /〉〈br /〉〈a href="https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3329120/" 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/PMC3329120/" target="_blank"〉This paper as free author manuscript - peer-reviewed and accepted for publication〈/a〉〈br /〉〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Notes: 〈/span〉Brohawn, Stephen G -- del Marmol, Josefina -- MacKinnon, Roderick -- Howard Hughes Medical Institute/ -- New York, N.Y. -- Science. 2012 Jan 27;335(6067):436-41. doi: 10.1126/science.1213808.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Author address: 〈/span〉Laboratory of Molecular Neurobiology and Biophysics and Howard Hughes Medical Institute, The Rockefeller University, 1230 York Avenue, New York, NY 10065, USA.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Record origin:〈/span〉 〈a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22282805" target="_blank"〉PubMed〈/a〉
    Keywords: Amino Acid Sequence ; Animals ; CHO Cells ; Cell Membrane/chemistry/physiology ; Cricetinae ; Crystallization ; Crystallography, X-Ray ; Humans ; Hydrophobic and Hydrophilic Interactions ; Ion Channel Gating ; Lipid Bilayers/chemistry ; Membrane Potentials ; Models, Molecular ; Molecular Sequence Data ; Patch-Clamp Techniques ; Potassium/metabolism ; Potassium Channel Blockers/pharmacology ; Potassium Channels/*chemistry/metabolism ; Protein Structure, Secondary ; Protein Structure, Tertiary ; Protein Subunits/chemistry ; Recombinant Proteins/chemistry
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    Publication Date: 2012-03-10
    Description: Amyloid diseases, including Alzheimer's, Parkinson's, and the prion conditions, are each associated with a particular protein in fibrillar form. These amyloid fibrils were long suspected to be the disease agents, but evidence suggests that smaller, often transient and polymorphic oligomers are the toxic entities. Here, we identify a segment of the amyloid-forming protein alphaB crystallin, which forms an oligomeric complex exhibiting properties of other amyloid oligomers: beta-sheet-rich structure, cytotoxicity, and recognition by an oligomer-specific antibody. The x-ray-derived atomic structure of the oligomer reveals a cylindrical barrel, formed from six antiparallel protein strands, that we term a cylindrin. The cylindrin structure is compatible with a sequence segment from the beta-amyloid protein of Alzheimer's disease. Cylindrins offer models for the hitherto elusive structures of amyloid oligomers.〈br /〉〈br /〉〈a href="https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3959867/" 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/PMC3959867/" target="_blank"〉This paper as free author manuscript - peer-reviewed and accepted for publication〈/a〉〈br /〉〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Notes: 〈/span〉Laganowsky, Arthur -- Liu, Cong -- Sawaya, Michael R -- Whitelegge, Julian P -- Park, Jiyong -- Zhao, Minglei -- Pensalfini, Anna -- Soriaga, Angela B -- Landau, Meytal -- Teng, Poh K -- Cascio, Duilio -- Glabe, Charles -- Eisenberg, David -- 016570/PHS HHS/ -- 1R01-AG029430/AG/NIA NIH HHS/ -- 5T32GM008496/GM/NIGMS NIH HHS/ -- P50 AG016570/AG/NIA NIH HHS/ -- R01 AG029430/AG/NIA NIH HHS/ -- R01 AG033069/AG/NIA NIH HHS/ -- RR-15301/RR/NCRR NIH HHS/ -- Howard Hughes Medical Institute/ -- New York, N.Y. -- Science. 2012 Mar 9;335(6073):1228-31. doi: 10.1126/science.1213151.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Author address: 〈/span〉Department of Biological Chemistry, University of California Los Angeles (UCLA), Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI), Los Angeles, CA 90095, USA.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Record origin:〈/span〉 〈a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22403391" target="_blank"〉PubMed〈/a〉
    Keywords: Amino Acid Sequence ; Amyloid/*chemistry/immunology ; Amyloid beta-Peptides/chemistry ; Antibodies/immunology ; Crystallography, X-Ray ; Hydrogen Bonding ; Models, Molecular ; Molecular Dynamics Simulation ; Molecular Sequence Data ; Peptide Fragments/*chemistry/immunology ; Protein Conformation ; Protein Structure, Tertiary ; Recombinant Proteins/chemistry ; alpha-Crystallin B Chain/*chemistry/immunology
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    Publication Date: 2012-01-28
    Description: Two-pore domain potassium (K(+)) channels (K2P channels) control the negative resting potential of eukaryotic cells and regulate cell excitability by conducting K(+) ions across the plasma membrane. Here, we present the 3.4 angstrom resolution crystal structure of a human K2P channel, K2P1 (TWIK-1). Unlike other K(+) channel structures, K2P1 is dimeric. An extracellular cap domain located above the selectivity filter forms an ion pathway in which K(+) ions flow through side portals. Openings within the transmembrane region expose the pore to the lipid bilayer and are filled with electron density attributable to alkyl chains. An interfacial helix appears structurally poised to affect gating. The structure lays a foundation to further investigate how K2P channels are regulated by diverse stimuli.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Notes: 〈/span〉Miller, Alexandria N -- Long, Stephen B -- New York, N.Y. -- Science. 2012 Jan 27;335(6067):432-6. doi: 10.1126/science.1213274.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Author address: 〈/span〉Structural Biology Program, Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, 1275 York Avenue, New York, NY 10065, USA.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Record origin:〈/span〉 〈a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22282804" target="_blank"〉PubMed〈/a〉
    Keywords: Amino Acid Sequence ; Cell Membrane/chemistry ; Crystallization ; Crystallography, X-Ray ; Humans ; Ion Channel Gating ; Lipid Bilayers/chemistry ; Membrane Potentials ; Models, Molecular ; Molecular Sequence Data ; Potassium/metabolism ; Potassium Channels, Tandem Pore Domain/*chemistry/metabolism ; Protein Conformation ; Protein Multimerization ; Protein Structure, Secondary ; Protein Structure, Tertiary ; Recombinant Proteins/chemistry
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    Publication Date: 2012-06-02
    Description: Designing protein molecules that will assemble into various kinds of ordered materials represents an important challenge in nanotechnology. We report the crystal structure of a 12-subunit protein cage that self-assembles by design to form a tetrahedral structure roughly 16 nanometers in diameter. The strategy of fusing together oligomeric protein domains can be generalized to produce other kinds of cages or extended materials.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Notes: 〈/span〉Lai, Yen-Ting -- Cascio, Duilio -- Yeates, Todd O -- New York, N.Y. -- Science. 2012 Jun 1;336(6085):1129. doi: 10.1126/science.1219351.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Author address: 〈/span〉University of California Los Angeles Biomedical Engineering Interdepartmental Program, Los Angeles, CA 90095, USA.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Record origin:〈/span〉 〈a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22654051" target="_blank"〉PubMed〈/a〉
    Keywords: Crystallography, X-Ray ; Models, Molecular ; Peroxidases/*chemistry ; Protein Conformation ; *Protein Engineering ; Protein Multimerization ; Protein Structure, Secondary ; Protein Structure, Tertiary ; Protein Subunits/chemistry ; Proteins/*chemistry ; Viral Matrix Proteins/*chemistry
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    Publication Date: 2012-06-02
    Description: Wnts are lipid-modified morphogens that play critical roles in development principally through engagement of Frizzled receptors. The 3.25 angstrom structure of Xenopus Wnt8 (XWnt8) in complex with mouse Frizzled-8 (Fz8) cysteine-rich domain (CRD) reveals an unusual two-domain Wnt structure, not obviously related to known protein folds, resembling a "hand" with "thumb" and "index" fingers extended to grasp the Fz8-CRD at two distinct binding sites. One site is dominated by a palmitoleic acid lipid group projecting from serine 187 at the tip of Wnt's thumb into a deep groove in the Fz8-CRD. In the second binding site, the conserved tip of Wnt's "index finger" forms hydrophobic amino acid contacts with a depression on the opposite side of the Fz8-CRD. The conservation of amino acids in both interfaces appears to facilitate ligand-receptor cross-reactivity, which has important implications for understanding Wnt's functional pleiotropy and for developing Wnt-based drugs for cancer and regenerative medicine.〈br /〉〈br /〉〈a href="https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3577348/" 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/PMC3577348/" target="_blank"〉This paper as free author manuscript - peer-reviewed and accepted for publication〈/a〉〈br /〉〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Notes: 〈/span〉Janda, Claudia Y -- Waghray, Deepa -- Levin, Aron M -- Thomas, Christoph -- Garcia, K Christopher -- R01 GM097015/GM/NIGMS NIH HHS/ -- R01-GM097015/GM/NIGMS NIH HHS/ -- Howard Hughes Medical Institute/ -- New York, N.Y. -- Science. 2012 Jul 6;337(6090):59-64. doi: 10.1126/science.1222879. Epub 2012 May 31.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Author address: 〈/span〉Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, CA 94305, USA.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Record origin:〈/span〉 〈a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22653731" target="_blank"〉PubMed〈/a〉
    Keywords: Acylation ; Amino Acid Sequence ; Animals ; Binding Sites ; Crystallography, X-Ray ; Cysteine/chemistry ; Fatty Acids, Monounsaturated/chemistry ; Glycosylation ; Hydrophobic and Hydrophilic Interactions ; Ligands ; Mice ; Models, Molecular ; Molecular Sequence Data ; Protein Binding ; Protein Folding ; Protein Interaction Domains and Motifs ; Protein Multimerization ; Protein Structure, Secondary ; Protein Structure, Tertiary ; Receptors, G-Protein-Coupled/*chemistry/metabolism ; Recombinant Proteins/chemistry/metabolism ; Wnt Proteins/*chemistry/metabolism ; Wnt Signaling Pathway ; Xenopus Proteins/*chemistry/metabolism ; Xenopus laevis
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    Publication Date: 2012-04-28
    Description: Argonaute proteins form the functional core of the RNA-induced silencing complexes that mediate RNA silencing in eukaryotes. The 2.3 angstrom resolution crystal structure of human Argonaute2 (Ago2) reveals a bilobed molecule with a central cleft for binding guide and target RNAs. Nucleotides 2 to 6 of a heterogeneous mixture of guide RNAs are positioned in an A-form conformation for base pairing with target messenger RNAs. Between nucleotides 6 and 7, there is a kink that may function in microRNA target recognition or release of sliced RNA products. Tandem tryptophan-binding pockets in the PIWI domain define a likely interaction surface for recruitment of glycine-tryptophan-182 (GW182) or other tryptophan-rich cofactors. These results will enable structure-based approaches for harnessing the untapped therapeutic potential of RNA silencing in humans.〈br /〉〈br /〉〈a href="https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3521581/" 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/PMC3521581/" target="_blank"〉This paper as free author manuscript - peer-reviewed and accepted for publication〈/a〉〈br /〉〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Notes: 〈/span〉Schirle, Nicole T -- MacRae, Ian J -- R01 GM086701/GM/NIGMS NIH HHS/ -- U54 GM074898/GM/NIGMS NIH HHS/ -- New York, N.Y. -- Science. 2012 May 25;336(6084):1037-40. doi: 10.1126/science.1221551. Epub 2012 Apr 26.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Author address: 〈/span〉Department of Molecular Biology, The Scripps Research Institute, La Jolla, CA 92037, USA.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Record origin:〈/span〉 〈a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22539551" target="_blank"〉PubMed〈/a〉
    Keywords: Amino Acid Sequence ; Argonaute Proteins/*chemistry/metabolism ; Base Pairing ; Binding Sites ; Crystallography, X-Ray ; Humans ; Hydrogen Bonding ; Hydrophobic and Hydrophilic Interactions ; MicroRNAs/chemistry/metabolism ; Models, Molecular ; Molecular Sequence Data ; Nucleic Acid Conformation ; Protein Conformation ; Protein Structure, Tertiary ; RNA Interference ; RNA, Guide/chemistry/metabolism ; RNA, Messenger/chemistry/metabolism ; Tryptophan/chemistry
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    Publication Date: 2012-03-31
    Description: Transcription termination is emerging as an important component of gene regulation necessary to partition the genome and minimize transcriptional interference. We have discovered a role for the Arabidopsis RNA silencing enzyme DICER-LIKE 4 (DCL4) in transcription termination of an endogenous Arabidopsis gene, FCA. DCL4 directly associates with FCA chromatin in the 3' region and promotes cleavage of the nascent transcript in a domain downstream of the canonical polyA site. In a dcl4 mutant, the resulting transcriptional read-through triggers an RNA interference-mediated gene silencing of a transgene containing the same 3' region. We conclude that DCL4 promotes transcription termination of the Arabidopsis FCA gene, reducing the amount of aberrant RNA produced from the locus.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Notes: 〈/span〉Liu, Fuquan -- Bakht, Saleha -- Dean, Caroline -- BB/D010799/1/Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council/United Kingdom -- BB/G01406X/1/Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council/United Kingdom -- New York, N.Y. -- Science. 2012 Mar 30;335(6076):1621-3. doi: 10.1126/science.1214402.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Author address: 〈/span〉Department of Cell and Developmental Biology, John Innes Centre, Norwich Research Park, Norwich, UK.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Record origin:〈/span〉 〈a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22461611" target="_blank"〉PubMed〈/a〉
    Keywords: Arabidopsis/*genetics/metabolism ; Arabidopsis Proteins/*genetics/metabolism ; Base Sequence ; Chromatin/genetics/metabolism ; Chromatin Immunoprecipitation ; *Gene Expression Regulation, Plant ; MADS Domain Proteins/genetics/metabolism ; Molecular Sequence Data ; Mutation ; Polyadenylation ; Protein Structure, Tertiary ; RNA Interference ; RNA, Messenger/genetics/metabolism ; RNA, Plant/*genetics/metabolism ; RNA-Binding Proteins/*genetics/metabolism ; Ribonuclease III/chemistry/genetics/*metabolism ; *Transcription, Genetic ; Transgenes
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    Publication Date: 2012-09-08
    Description: Autism spectrum disorders are a genetically heterogeneous constellation of syndromes characterized by impairments in reciprocal social interaction. Available somatic treatments have limited efficacy. We have identified inactivating mutations in the gene BCKDK (Branched Chain Ketoacid Dehydrogenase Kinase) in consanguineous families with autism, epilepsy, and intellectual disability. The encoded protein is responsible for phosphorylation-mediated inactivation of the E1alpha subunit of branched-chain ketoacid dehydrogenase (BCKDH). Patients with homozygous BCKDK mutations display reductions in BCKDK messenger RNA and protein, E1alpha phosphorylation, and plasma branched-chain amino acids. Bckdk knockout mice show abnormal brain amino acid profiles and neurobehavioral deficits that respond to dietary supplementation. Thus, autism presenting with intellectual disability and epilepsy caused by BCKDK mutations represents a potentially treatable syndrome.〈br /〉〈br /〉〈a href="https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3704165/" 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/PMC3704165/" target="_blank"〉This paper as free author manuscript - peer-reviewed and accepted for publication〈/a〉〈br /〉〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Notes: 〈/span〉Novarino, Gaia -- El-Fishawy, Paul -- Kayserili, Hulya -- Meguid, Nagwa A -- Scott, Eric M -- Schroth, Jana -- Silhavy, Jennifer L -- Kara, Majdi -- Khalil, Rehab O -- Ben-Omran, Tawfeg -- Ercan-Sencicek, A Gulhan -- Hashish, Adel F -- Sanders, Stephan J -- Gupta, Abha R -- Hashem, Hebatalla S -- Matern, Dietrich -- Gabriel, Stacey -- Sweetman, Larry -- Rahimi, Yasmeen -- Harris, Robert A -- State, Matthew W -- Gleeson, Joseph G -- K08 MH087639/MH/NIMH NIH HHS/ -- K08MH087639/MH/NIMH NIH HHS/ -- P01 HD070494/HD/NICHD NIH HHS/ -- P01HD070494/HD/NICHD NIH HHS/ -- P30 NS047101/NS/NINDS NIH HHS/ -- P30NS047101/NS/NINDS NIH HHS/ -- R01 NS041537/NS/NINDS NIH HHS/ -- R01 NS048453/NS/NINDS NIH HHS/ -- R01NS048453/NS/NINDS NIH HHS/ -- R25 MH077823/MH/NIMH NIH HHS/ -- RC2 MH089956/MH/NIMH NIH HHS/ -- RC2MH089956/MH/NIMH NIH HHS/ -- T32MH018268/MH/NIMH NIH HHS/ -- U54HG003067/HG/NHGRI NIH HHS/ -- Howard Hughes Medical Institute/ -- New York, N.Y. -- Science. 2012 Oct 19;338(6105):394-7. doi: 10.1126/science.1224631. Epub 2012 Sep 6.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Author address: 〈/span〉Neurogenetics Laboratory, Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Department of Neurosciences, University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, CA 92093, USA. gnovarino@ucsd.edu〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Record origin:〈/span〉 〈a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22956686" target="_blank"〉PubMed〈/a〉
    Keywords: 3-Methyl-2-Oxobutanoate Dehydrogenase (Lipoamide)/*administration & ; dosage/deficiency/*genetics ; Adolescent ; Amino Acids, Branched-Chain/administration & dosage/blood/deficiency ; Animals ; Arginine/genetics ; Autistic Disorder/*diet therapy/enzymology/*genetics ; Base Sequence ; Brain/metabolism ; Child ; Child, Preschool ; Diet ; Epilepsy/*diet therapy/enzymology/*genetics ; Female ; Homozygote ; Humans ; Intellectual Disability/diet therapy/enzymology/genetics ; Male ; Mice ; Mice, Knockout ; Molecular Sequence Data ; Mutation ; Pedigree ; Phosphorylation ; Protein Folding ; Protein Structure, Tertiary ; RNA, Messenger/metabolism ; Young Adult
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    Publication Date: 2012-09-18
    Description: A specifically patterned cell wall is a determinant of plant cell shape. Yet, the precise mechanisms that underlie initiation of cell wall patterning remain elusive. By using a reconstitution assay, we revealed that ROPGEF4 (Rho of plant guanine nucleotide exchange factor 4) and ROPGAP3 [ROP guanosine triphosphatase (GTPase)-activating protein 3] mediate local activation of the plant Rho GTPase ROP11 to initiate distinct pattern of secondary cell walls in xylem cells. The activated ROP11 recruits MIDD1 to induce local disassembly of cortical microtubules. Conversely, cortical microtubules eliminate active ROP11 from the plasma membrane through MIDD1. Such a mutual inhibitory interaction between active ROP domains and cortical microtubules establishes the distinct pattern of secondary cell walls. This Rho-based regulatory mechanism shows how plant cells initiate and control cell wall patterns to form various cell shapes.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Notes: 〈/span〉Oda, Yoshihisa -- Fukuda, Hiroo -- New York, N.Y. -- Science. 2012 Sep 14;337(6100):1333-6. doi: 10.1126/science.1222597.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Author address: 〈/span〉Department of Biological Sciences, Graduate School of Science, The University of Tokyo, 7-3-1, Hongo, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo 113-0033, Japan. oda@biol.s.u-tokyo.ac.jp〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Record origin:〈/span〉 〈a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22984069" target="_blank"〉PubMed〈/a〉
    Keywords: Arabidopsis/chemistry/*cytology/enzymology ; Arabidopsis Proteins/chemistry/genetics/*metabolism ; *Cell Shape ; Cell Wall/*chemistry/enzymology ; GTPase-Activating Proteins/chemistry/genetics/*metabolism ; Guanine Nucleotide Exchange Factors/chemistry/genetics/*metabolism ; Microtubule-Associated Proteins/chemistry/genetics/*metabolism ; Microtubules/chemistry/*enzymology ; Protein Structure, Tertiary ; Xylem/chemistry/*cytology/enzymology ; rho GTP-Binding Proteins/chemistry/genetics/metabolism
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    Publication Date: 2012-05-19
    Description: Calcium uptake into mitochondria occurs via a recently identified ion channel called the uniporter. Here, we characterize the phylogenomic distribution of the uniporter's membrane-spanning pore subunit (MCU) and regulatory partner (MICU1). Homologs of both components tend to co-occur in all major branches of eukaryotic life, but both have been lost along certain protozoan and fungal lineages. Several bacterial genomes also contain putative MCU homologs that may represent prokaryotic calcium channels. The analyses indicate that the uniporter may have been an early feature of mitochondria.〈br /〉〈br /〉〈a href="https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3518847/" 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/PMC3518847/" target="_blank"〉This paper as free author manuscript - peer-reviewed and accepted for publication〈/a〉〈br /〉〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Notes: 〈/span〉Bick, Alexander G -- Calvo, Sarah E -- Mootha, Vamsi K -- R01 GM077465/GM/NIGMS NIH HHS/ -- R01 GM097136/GM/NIGMS NIH HHS/ -- R01GM077465/GM/NIGMS NIH HHS/ -- R01GM097136/GM/NIGMS NIH HHS/ -- T32 GM007753/GM/NIGMS NIH HHS/ -- T32GM007753-33/GM/NIGMS NIH HHS/ -- New York, N.Y. -- Science. 2012 May 18;336(6083):886. doi: 10.1126/science.1214977.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Author address: 〈/span〉Department of Molecular Biology, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA 02114, USA.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Record origin:〈/span〉 〈a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22605770" target="_blank"〉PubMed〈/a〉
    Keywords: Animals ; Bacteria/*chemistry/genetics/metabolism ; Bacterial Proteins/chemistry/genetics ; Calcium Channels/*chemistry/genetics ; Calcium-Binding Proteins/chemistry/genetics ; Cation Transport Proteins/chemistry/genetics ; Eukaryota/*chemistry/genetics/metabolism ; *Evolution, Molecular ; Genome ; Humans ; Mitochondria/*chemistry ; Mitochondrial Membrane Transport Proteins/*chemistry/genetics ; Phylogeny ; Protein Structure, Tertiary ; Proteome
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    Publication Date: 2012-03-01
    Description: Death is a vital developmental cell fate. In Caenorhabditis elegans, programmed death of the linker cell, which leads gonadal elongation, proceeds independently of caspases and apoptotic effectors. To identify genes promoting linker-cell death, we performed a genome-wide RNA interference screen. We show that linker-cell death requires the gene pqn-41, encoding an endogenous polyglutamine-repeat protein. pqn-41 functions cell-autonomously and is expressed at the onset of linker-cell death. pqn-41 expression is controlled by the mitogen-activated protein kinase kinase SEK-1, which functions in parallel to the zinc-finger protein LIN-29 to promote cellular demise. Linker-cell death is morphologically similar to cell death associated with normal vertebrate development and polyglutamine-induced neurodegeneration. Our results may therefore provide molecular inroads to understanding nonapoptotic cell death in metazoan development and disease.〈br /〉〈br /〉〈a href="https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3858082/" 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/PMC3858082/" target="_blank"〉This paper as free author manuscript - peer-reviewed and accepted for publication〈/a〉〈br /〉〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Notes: 〈/span〉Blum, Elyse S -- Abraham, Mary C -- Yoshimura, Satoshi -- Lu, Yun -- Shaham, Shai -- CA09673/CA/NCI NIH HHS/ -- R01 HD042680/HD/NICHD NIH HHS/ -- R01HD042680/HD/NICHD NIH HHS/ -- New York, N.Y. -- Science. 2012 Feb 24;335(6071):970-3. doi: 10.1126/science.1215156.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Author address: 〈/span〉Laboratory of Developmental Genetics, The Rockefeller University, 1230 York Avenue, New York, NY 10065, USA.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Record origin:〈/span〉 〈a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22363008" target="_blank"〉PubMed〈/a〉
    Keywords: Alleles ; Amino Acid Motifs ; Amino Acid Sequence ; Animals ; Caenorhabditis elegans/*cytology/genetics/growth & development/*metabolism ; Caenorhabditis elegans Proteins/chemistry/*genetics/*metabolism ; *Cell Death ; Cell Nucleus/ultrastructure ; Cell Survival ; DNA-Binding Proteins/genetics/metabolism ; Gene Expression Regulation ; Genes, Helminth ; Genome, Helminth ; MAP Kinase Kinase 4/genetics/metabolism ; Male ; Molecular Sequence Data ; Mutant Proteins/chemistry/metabolism ; Peptides/chemistry ; Protein Structure, Tertiary ; RNA Interference ; Sequence Deletion ; Transcription Factors/genetics/metabolism ; Transgenes
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    Publication Date: 2012-05-19
    Description: Eubacteria inactivate their ribosomes as 100S dimers or 70S monomers upon entry into stationary phase. In Escherichia coli, 100S dimer formation is mediated by ribosome modulation factor (RMF) and hibernation promoting factor (HPF), or alternatively, the YfiA protein inactivates ribosomes as 70S monomers. Here, we present high-resolution crystal structures of the Thermus thermophilus 70S ribosome in complex with each of these stationary-phase factors. The binding site of RMF overlaps with that of the messenger RNA (mRNA) Shine-Dalgarno sequence, which prevents the interaction between the mRNA and the 16S ribosomal RNA. The nearly identical binding sites of HPF and YfiA overlap with those of the mRNA, transfer RNA, and initiation factors, which prevents translation initiation. The binding of RMF and HPF, but not YfiA, to the ribosome induces a conformational change of the 30S head domain that promotes 100S dimer formation.〈br /〉〈br /〉〈a href="https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3377384/" 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/PMC3377384/" target="_blank"〉This paper as free author manuscript - peer-reviewed and accepted for publication〈/a〉〈br /〉〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Notes: 〈/span〉Polikanov, Yury S -- Blaha, Gregor M -- Steitz, Thomas A -- GM022778/GM/NIGMS NIH HHS/ -- P01 GM022778/GM/NIGMS NIH HHS/ -- P30 EB009998/EB/NIBIB NIH HHS/ -- Howard Hughes Medical Institute/ -- New York, N.Y. -- Science. 2012 May 18;336(6083):915-8. doi: 10.1126/science.1218538.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Author address: 〈/span〉Department of Molecular Biophysics and Biochemistry, Yale University, New Haven, CT 06520-8114, USA.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Record origin:〈/span〉 〈a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22605777" target="_blank"〉PubMed〈/a〉
    Keywords: Bacterial Proteins/*biosynthesis ; Binding Sites ; Crystallography, X-Ray ; Escherichia coli Proteins/*chemistry/metabolism ; Models, Molecular ; Peptide Chain Initiation, Translational ; Prokaryotic Initiation Factors/metabolism ; Protein Binding ; Protein Conformation ; Protein Structure, Tertiary ; RNA, Bacterial/chemistry/metabolism ; RNA, Messenger/chemistry/metabolism ; RNA, Ribosomal, 16S/chemistry/metabolism ; RNA, Transfer/chemistry/metabolism ; Ribosomal Proteins/*chemistry/metabolism ; Ribosome Subunits, Small, Bacterial/chemistry/metabolism/ultrastructure ; Ribosomes/*chemistry/metabolism/ultrastructure ; Thermus thermophilus/*chemistry
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    Publication Date: 2012-11-03
    Description: Ribosomal proteins are synthesized in the cytoplasm, before nuclear import and assembly with ribosomal RNA (rRNA). Little is known about coordination of nucleocytoplasmic transport with ribosome assembly. Here, we identify a transport adaptor, symportin 1 (Syo1), that facilitates synchronized coimport of the two 5S-rRNA binding proteins Rpl5 and Rpl11. In vitro studies revealed that Syo1 concomitantly binds Rpl5-Rpl11 and furthermore recruits the import receptor Kap104. The Syo1-Rpl5-Rpl11 import complex is released from Kap104 by RanGTP and can be directly transferred onto the 5S rRNA. Syo1 can shuttle back to the cytoplasm by interaction with phenylalanine-glycine nucleoporins. X-ray crystallography uncovered how the alpha-solenoid symportin accommodates the Rpl5 amino terminus, normally bound to 5S rRNA, in an extended groove. Symportin-mediated coimport of Rpl5-Rpl11 could ensure coordinated and stoichiometric incorporation of these proteins into pre-60S ribosomes.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Notes: 〈/span〉Kressler, Dieter -- Bange, Gert -- Ogawa, Yutaka -- Stjepanovic, Goran -- Bradatsch, Bettina -- Pratte, Dagmar -- Amlacher, Stefan -- Strauss, Daniela -- Yoneda, Yoshihiro -- Katahira, Jun -- Sinning, Irmgard -- Hurt, Ed -- New York, N.Y. -- Science. 2012 Nov 2;338(6107):666-71. doi: 10.1126/science.1226960.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Author address: 〈/span〉Biochemie-Zentrum der Universitat Heidelberg, Im Neuenheimer Feld 328, Heidelberg D-69120, Germany. dieter.kressler@unifr.ch〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Record origin:〈/span〉 〈a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23118189" target="_blank"〉PubMed〈/a〉
    Keywords: *Active Transport, Cell Nucleus ; Amino Acid Sequence ; Base Sequence ; Cell Nucleus/*metabolism ; Chaetomium/metabolism ; Crystallography, X-Ray ; Fungal Proteins/chemistry/metabolism ; Models, Molecular ; Molecular Sequence Data ; Protein Binding ; Protein Conformation ; Protein Multimerization ; Protein Structure, Tertiary ; RNA, Fungal/metabolism ; RNA, Ribosomal, 5S/metabolism ; RNA-Binding Proteins/chemistry/*metabolism ; Ribosomal Proteins/chemistry/*metabolism ; Ribosomes/*metabolism ; Saccharomyces cerevisiae/*metabolism ; Saccharomyces cerevisiae Proteins/chemistry/*metabolism ; beta Karyopherins/metabolism
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    Publication Date: 2012-01-10
    Description: TAL (transcription activator-like) effectors, secreted by phytopathogenic bacteria, recognize host DNA sequences through a central domain of tandem repeats. Each repeat comprises 33 to 35 conserved amino acids and targets a specific base pair by using two hypervariable residues [known as repeat variable diresidues (RVDs)] at positions 12 and 13. Here, we report the crystal structures of an 11.5-repeat TAL effector in both DNA-free and DNA-bound states. Each TAL repeat comprises two helices connected by a short RVD-containing loop. The 11.5 repeats form a right-handed, superhelical structure that tracks along the sense strand of DNA duplex, with RVDs contacting the major groove. The 12th residue stabilizes the RVD loop, whereas the 13th residue makes a base-specific contact. Understanding DNA recognition by TAL effectors may facilitate rational design of DNA-binding proteins with biotechnological applications.〈br /〉〈br /〉〈a href="https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3586824/" 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/PMC3586824/" target="_blank"〉This paper as free author manuscript - peer-reviewed and accepted for publication〈/a〉〈br /〉〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Notes: 〈/span〉Deng, Dong -- Yan, Chuangye -- Pan, Xiaojing -- Mahfouz, Magdy -- Wang, Jiawei -- Zhu, Jian-Kang -- Shi, Yigong -- Yan, Nieng -- R01 GM070795/GM/NIGMS NIH HHS/ -- New York, N.Y. -- Science. 2012 Feb 10;335(6069):720-3. doi: 10.1126/science.1215670. Epub 2012 Jan 5.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Author address: 〈/span〉State Key Laboratory of Bio-Membrane and Membrane Biotechnology, Tsinghua University, Beijing 100084, China.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Record origin:〈/span〉 〈a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22223738" target="_blank"〉PubMed〈/a〉
    Keywords: Amino Acid Sequence ; Bacterial Proteins/*chemistry/*metabolism ; Base Sequence ; Crystallography, X-Ray ; DNA/chemistry/*metabolism ; DNA-Binding Proteins/chemistry/metabolism ; Hydrogen Bonding ; Models, Molecular ; Molecular Sequence Data ; Physicochemical Processes ; Protein Conformation ; Protein Structure, Secondary ; Protein Structure, Tertiary ; Repetitive Sequences, Amino Acid ; Virulence Factors/*chemistry/*metabolism ; Xanthomonas/chemistry/pathogenicity
    Print ISSN: 0036-8075
    Electronic ISSN: 1095-9203
    Topics: Biology , Chemistry and Pharmacology , Computer Science , Medicine , Natural Sciences in General , Physics
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