Structure and function of carbonic anhydrases

CT Supuran - Biochemical Journal, 2016 - portlandpress.com
Carbonic anhydrases (CAs, EC 4.2. 1.1) catalyse the interconversion between CO2 and
bicarbonate as well as other hydrolytic reactions. Among the six genetic families known to …

Carbonic anhydrase as a model for biophysical and physical-organic studies of proteins and protein− ligand binding

VM Krishnamurthy, GK Kaufman, AR Urbach… - Chemical …, 2008 - ACS Publications
Carbonic anhydrase (CA, EC 4.2. 1.1) is a protein that is especially well-suited to serve as a
model in many types of studies in biophysics, bioanalysis, the physical-organic chemistry of …

Cryo-EM structures of tau filaments from Alzheimer's disease

AWP Fitzpatrick, B Falcon, S He, AG Murzin… - Nature, 2017 - nature.com
Alzheimer's disease is the most common neurodegenerative disease, and there are no
mechanism-based therapies. The disease is defined by the presence of abundant …

[HTML][HTML] Cryo-EM structure of the respiratory I + III2 supercomplex from Arabidopsis thaliana at 2 Å resolution

N Klusch, M Dreimann, J Senkler, N Rugen… - Nature plants, 2023 - nature.com
Protein complexes of the mitochondrial respiratory chain assemble into respiratory
supercomplexes. Here we present the high-resolution electron cryo-microscopy structure of …

Short peptides self-assemble to produce catalytic amyloids

CM Rufo, YS Moroz, OV Moroz, J Stöhr, TA Smith… - Nature …, 2014 - nature.com
Enzymes fold into unique three-dimensional structures, which underlie their remarkable
catalytic properties. The requirement to adopt a stable, folded conformation is likely to …

Zinc coordination sphere in biochemical zinc sites

DS Auld - Zinc biochemistry, physiology, and homeostasis: recent …, 2001 - Springer
Zinc is known to be indispensable to growth and development and transmission of the
genetic message. It does this through a remarkable mosaic of zinc binding motifs that …

Prokaryotic carbonic anhydrases

KS Smith, JG Ferry - FEMS microbiology reviews, 2000 - academic.oup.com
Carbonic anhydrases catalyze the reversible hydration of CO2 []. Since the discovery of this
zinc (Zn) metalloenzyme in erythrocytes over 65 years ago, carbonic anhydrase has not only …

Natural β-sheet proteins use negative design to avoid edge-to-edge aggregation

JS Richardson, DC Richardson - Proceedings of the …, 2002 - National Acad Sciences
The fact that natural β-sheet proteins are usually soluble but that fragments or designs of β
structure usually aggregate suggests that natural β proteins must somehow be designed to …

[HTML][HTML] Plant carbonic anhydrases: structures, locations, evolution, and physiological roles

RJ DiMario, H Clayton, A Mukherjee, M Ludwig… - Molecular plant, 2017 - cell.com
Carbonic anhydrases (CAs) are zinc metalloenzymes that catalyze the interconversion of
CO 2 and HCO 3− and are ubiquitous in nature. Higher plants contain three evolutionarily …

Carbonic anhydrases as targets for medicinal chemistry

CT Supuran, A Scozzafava - Bioorganic & medicinal chemistry, 2007 - Elsevier
Carbonic anhydrases (CAs, EC 4.2. 1.1) are zinc enzymes acting as efficient catalysts for the
reversible hydration of carbon dioxide to bicarbonate. 16 different α-CA isoforms were …