The many faces of the helix-turn-helix domain: transcription regulation and beyond

L Aravind, V Anantharaman, S Balaji… - FEMS microbiology …, 2005 - academic.oup.com
The helix-turn-helix (HTH) domain is a common denominator in basal and specific
transcription factors from the three super-kingdoms of life. At its core, the domain comprises …

Selenoproteins in Archaea and Gram-positive bacteria

T Stock, M Rother - Biochimica et Biophysica Acta (BBA)-General Subjects, 2009 - Elsevier
Selenium is an essential trace element for many organisms by serving important catalytic
roles in the form of the 21st co-translationally inserted amino acid selenocysteine. It is mostly …

The pathway to GTPase activation of elongation factor SelB on the ribosome

N Fischer, P Neumann, LV Bock, C Maracci, Z Wang… - Nature, 2016 - nature.com
In all domains of life, selenocysteine (Sec) is delivered to the ribosome by selenocysteine-
specific tRNA (tRNASec) with the help of a specialized translation factor, SelB in bacteria …

Structural basis for recognition and sequestration of UUUOH 3′ temini of nascent RNA polymerase III transcripts by La, a rheumatic disease autoantigen

M Teplova, YR Yuan, AT Phan, L Malinina, S Ilin… - Molecular cell, 2006 - cell.com
The nuclear phosphoprotein La was identified as an autoantigen in patients with systemic
lupus erythematosus and Sjogren's syndrome. La binds to and protects the UUU OH 3 …

Structure of the La motif: a winged helix domain mediates RNA binding via a conserved aromatic patch

G Dong, G Chakshusmathi, SL Wolin… - The EMBO journal, 2004 - embopress.org
The La protein is a ubiquitous nuclear phosphoprotein that recognizes the 3′ uridylates
found in all newly synthesized RNA polymerase III transcripts. La binding stabilizes these …

De novo computational RNA modeling into cryo-EM maps of large ribonucleoprotein complexes

K Kappel, S Liu, KP Larsen, G Skiniotis, EV Puglisi… - Nature …, 2018 - nature.com
Increasingly, cryo-electron microscopy (cryo-EM) is used to determine the structures of RNA–
protein assemblies, but nearly all maps determined with this method have biologically …

Selenocysteine tRNA‐specific elongation factor SelB is a structural chimaera of elongation and initiation factors

M Leibundgut, C Frick, M Thanbichler, A Böck… - The EMBO …, 2005 - embopress.org
In all three kingdoms of life, SelB is a specialized translation elongation factor responsible
for the cotranslational incorporation of selenocysteine into proteins by recoding of a UGA …

The many levels of control on bacterial selenoprotein synthesis

S Yoshizawa, A Böck - Biochimica et Biophysica Acta (BBA)-General …, 2009 - Elsevier
Selenium shares many chemical facets with sulphur but differs from it in the redox potential,
especially of the Se2−/S2− oxidation state. The higher chemical reactivity of the …

Sampling native-like structures of RNA-protein complexes through Rosetta folding and docking

K Kappel, R Das - Structure, 2019 - cell.com
RNA-protein complexes underlie numerous cellular processes including translation,
splicing, and posttranscriptional regulation of gene expression. The structures of these …

The physiology and evolution of microbial selenium metabolism

M Wells, P Basu, JF Stolz - Metallomics, 2021 - academic.oup.com
Selenium is an essential trace element whose compounds are widely metabolized by
organisms from all three domains of life. Moreover, phylogenetic evidence indicates that …