[HTML][HTML] Role of computational methods in going beyond X-ray crystallography to explore protein structure and dynamics

A Srivastava, T Nagai, A Srivastava… - International journal of …, 2018 - mdpi.com
Protein structural biology came a long way since the determination of the first three-
dimensional structure of myoglobin about six decades ago. Across this period, X-ray …

Chemical shift-based methods in NMR structure determination

S Nerli, AC McShan, NG Sgourakis - Progress in nuclear magnetic …, 2018 - Elsevier
Chemical shifts are highly sensitive probes harnessed by NMR spectroscopists and
structural biologists as conformational parameters to characterize a range of biological …

[HTML][HTML] A cryptic RNA-binding domain mediates Syncrip recognition and exosomal partitioning of miRNA targets

F Hobor, A Dallmann, NJ Ball, C Cicchini… - Nature …, 2018 - nature.com
Exosomal miRNA transfer is a mechanism for cell–cell communication that is important in
the immune response, in the functioning of the nervous system and in cancer …

[HTML][HTML] Structure and pro-toxic mechanism of the human Hsp90/PPIase/Tau complex

J Oroz, BJ Chang, P Wysoczanski, CT Lee… - Nature …, 2018 - nature.com
The molecular chaperone Hsp90 is critical for the maintenance of cellular homeostasis and
represents a promising drug target. Despite increasing knowledge on the structure of Hsp90 …

[HTML][HTML] Molecular dynamics simulations revealed structural differences among WRKY domain-DNA interaction in barley (Hordeum vulgare)

B Pandey, A Grover, P Sharma - BMC genomics, 2018 - Springer
Background The WRKY transcription factors are a class of DNA-binding proteins involved in
diverse plant processes play critical roles in response to abiotic and biotic stresses. Genome …

Cloning, overexpression, purification of bacteriocin enterocin-B and structural analysis, interaction determination of enterocin-A, B against pathogenic bacteria and …

D Ankaiah, E Palanichamy, CB Antonyraj… - International journal of …, 2018 - Elsevier
In this present study, a gene (ent-B) encoding the bacteriocin enterocin-B was cloned,
overexpressed and purified from Enterococcus faecium por1. The molecular weight of the …

Determining Cholesterol Binding to Membrane Proteins by Cholesterol 13C Labeling in Yeast and Dynamic Nuclear Polarization NMR

MR Elkins, IV Sergeyev, M Hong - Journal of the American …, 2018 - ACS Publications
We present a general strategy for determining the cholesterol-binding site of eukaryotic
membrane proteins in native-like lipid membranes by NMR spectroscopy. The strategy …

Structure-based prediction of protein–peptide binding regions using Random Forest

G Taherzadeh, Y Zhou, AWC Liew, Y Yang - Bioinformatics, 2018 - academic.oup.com
Motivation Protein–peptide interactions are one of the most important biological interactions
and play crucial role in many diseases including cancer. Therefore, knowledge of these …

[HTML][HTML] RSV hijacks cellular protein phosphatase 1 to regulate M2-1 phosphorylation and viral transcription

CA Richard, V Rincheval, S Lassoued, J Fix… - PLoS …, 2018 - journals.plos.org
Respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) RNA synthesis occurs in cytoplasmic inclusion bodies (IBs)
in which all the components of the viral RNA polymerase are concentrated. In this work, we …

InterEvDock2: an expanded server for protein docking using evolutionary and biological information from homology models and multimeric inputs

C Quignot, J Rey, J Yu, P Tufféry, R Guerois… - Nucleic acids …, 2018 - academic.oup.com
Computational protein docking is a powerful strategy to predict structures of protein-protein
interactions and provides crucial insights for the functional characterization of …