Transcriptional Regulation in Saccharomyces cerevisiae: Transcription Factor Regulation and Function, Mechanisms of Initiation, and Roles of Activators and …

S Hahn, ET Young - Genetics, 2011 - academic.oup.com
Here we review recent advances in understanding the regulation of mRNA synthesis in
Saccharomyces cerevisiae. Many fundamental gene regulatory mechanisms have been …

Current strategies for protein production and purification enabling membrane protein structural biology

A Pandey, K Shin, RE Patterson… - Biochemistry and Cell …, 2016 - cdnsciencepub.com
Membrane proteins are still heavily under-represented in the protein data bank (PDB),
owing to multiple bottlenecks. The typical low abundance of membrane proteins in their …

Mechanism of coupled folding and binding of an intrinsically disordered protein

K Sugase, HJ Dyson, PE Wright - Nature, 2007 - nature.com
Protein folding and binding are analogous processes, in which the protein 'searches' for
favourable intramolecular or intermolecular interactions on a funnelled energy landscape …

Reversible phase separation of ESCRT protein ALIX through tyrosine phosphorylation

RD Elias, Y Zhu, Q Su, R Ghirlando, J Zhang… - Science …, 2023 - science.org
Cytokinetic abscission, the last step of cell division, is regulated by the ESCRT machinery. In
response to mitotic errors, ESCRT proteins, namely, ALIX, CHMP4B, and CHMP4C …

[HTML][HTML] Allosteric effects of the oncogenic RasQ61L mutant on Raf-RBD

SK Fetics, H Guterres, BM Kearney, G Buhrman, B Ma… - Structure, 2015 - cell.com
Summary The Ras/Raf/MEK/ERK signal transduction pathway is a major regulator of cell
proliferation activated by Ras-guanosine triphosphate (GTP). The oncogenic mutant …

Rapid screening for improved solubility of small human proteins produced as fusion proteins in Escherichia coli

M Hammarström, N Hellgren, S van Den Berg… - Protein …, 2002 - Wiley Online Library
A prerequisite for structural genomics and related projects is to standardize the process of
gene overexpression and protein solubility screening to enable automation for higher …

Polyionic tags as enhancers of protein solubility in recombinant protein expression

V Paraskevopoulou, FH Falcone - Microorganisms, 2018 - mdpi.com
Since the introduction of recombinant protein expression in the second half of the 1970s, the
growth of the biopharmaceutical field has been rapid and protein therapeutics has come to …

The acidic transcription activator Gcn4 binds the mediator subunit Gal11/Med15 using a simple protein interface forming a fuzzy complex

PS Brzovic, CC Heikaus, L Kisselev, R Vernon… - Molecular cell, 2011 - cell.com
The structural basis for binding of the acidic transcription activator Gcn4 and one activator-
binding domain of the Mediator subunit Gal11/Med15 was examined by NMR. Gal11 …

Exploring weak, transient protein–protein interactions in crowded in vivo environments by in-cell nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy

Q Wang, A Zhuravleva, LM Gierasch - Biochemistry, 2011 - ACS Publications
Biology relies on functional interplay of proteins in the crowded and heterogeneous
environment inside cells, and functional protein interactions are often weak and transient …

Structural duality enables a single protein to act as a toxin–antidote pair for meiotic drive

Y Hua, J Zhang, MY Yang, JY Ren, F Suo… - Proceedings of the …, 2024 - pnas.org
In sexual reproduction, selfish genetic elements known as killer meiotic drivers (KMDs) bias
inheritance by eliminating gametes that do not carry them. The selective killing behavior of …