Vanadium is a trace element, which may be beneficial and possibly essential in humans1
but certainly essential for some living organisms. 2r11 Metal ions and thus vanadium ions …

Binuclear metallohydrolases are a structurally diverse group of enzymes that use binuclear
metal ion centers to catalyze the hydrolysis of amides and esters of carboxylic and …

Biological cells are highly organized, with numerous subcellular compartments.
Phosphorylation has been hypothesized as a means to control the assembly/disassembly of …

Living systems use fuel-driven supramolecular polymers such as actin to control important
cell functions. Fuel molecules like ATP are used to control when and where such polymers …

Over the past two decades increasing information about the function and structural detail of
phosphatases has become available detailing the interaction with vanadate or other …

The epithelial cell transforming gene 2 (ECT2) protooncogene encodes a Rho exchange
factor, and regulates cytokinesis. ECT2 is phosphorylated in G2/M phases, but its role in the …

Manganese transport regulator (MntR) is a member of the diphtheria toxin repressor (DtxR)
family of transcription factors that is responsible for manganese homeostasis in Bacillus …

A yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae Snf1 kinase, an analog of mammalian AMPK, regulates
glucose derepression of genes required for utilization of alternative carbon sources through …

Aurora B kinase, a key regulator of cell division, localizes to specific cellular locations, but
the regulatory mechanisms responsible for phosphorylation of substrates located remotely …

Mycobacterium tuberculosis is an important human pathogen and has developed
sophisticated mechanisms to evade the host immune system. These could involve the use of …