[HTML][HTML] A glimpse of structural biology through X-ray crystallography

Y Shi - Cell, 2014 - cell.com
Since determination of the myoglobin structure in 1957, X-ray crystallography, as the
anchoring tool of structural biology, has played an instrumental role in deciphering the …

Origins of specificity in protein-DNA recognition

R Rohs, X Jin, SM West, R Joshi… - Annual review of …, 2010 - annualreviews.org
Specific interactions between proteins and DNA are fundamental to many biological
processes. In this review, we provide a revised view of protein-DNA interactions that …

[HTML][HTML] A biosensor for the direct visualization of auxin

O Herud-Sikimić, AC Stiel, M Kolb, S Shanmugaratnam… - Nature, 2021 - nature.com
One of the most important regulatory small molecules in plants is indole-3-acetic acid, also
known as auxin. Its dynamic redistribution has an essential role in almost every aspect of …

The role of DNA shape in protein–DNA recognition

R Rohs, SM West, A Sosinsky, P Liu, RS Mann… - Nature, 2009 - nature.com
The recognition of specific DNA sequences by proteins is thought to depend on two types of
mechanism: one that involves the formation of hydrogen bonds with specific bases, primarily …

Sequence complexity of disordered protein

P Romero, Z Obradovic, X Li, EC Garner… - Proteins: Structure …, 2001 - Wiley Online Library
Intrinsic disorder refers to segments or to whole proteins that fail to self‐fold into fixed 3D
structure, with such disorder sometimes existing in the native state. Here we report data on …

Zinc finger-DNA recognition: crystal structure of a Zif268-DNA complex at 2.1 Å

NP Pavletich, CO Pabo - Science, 1991 - science.org
The zinc finger DNA-binding motif occurs in many proteins that regulate eukaryotic gene
expression. The crystal structure of a complex containing the three zinc fingers from Zif268 …

Computer simulation of molecular dynamics: methodology, applications, and perspectives in chemistry

WF Van Gunsteren… - … International Edition in …, 1990 - Wiley Online Library
During recent decades it has become feasible to simulate the dynamics of molecular
systems on a computer. The method of molecular dynamics (MD) solves Newton's equations …

A hot spot of binding energy in a hormone-receptor interface

T Clackson, JA Wells - Science, 1995 - science.org
The x-ray crystal structure of the complex between human growth hormone (hGH) and the
extracellular domain of its first bound receptor (hGHbp) shows that about 30 side chains …

Solvent mediated interactions in the structure of the nucleosome core particle at 1.9 Å resolution

CA Davey, DF Sargent, K Luger, AW Maeder… - Journal of molecular …, 2002 - Elsevier
Solvent binding in the nucleosome core particle containing a 147 base pair, defined-
sequence DNA is characterized from the X-ray crystal structure at 1.9 Å resolution. A single …

Co-crystal structure of the HNF-3/fork head DNA-recognition motif resembles histone H5

KL Clark, ED Halay, E Lai, SK Burley - Nature, 1993 - nature.com
The three-dimensional structure of an HNF-3/fork head DNA-recognition motif complexed
with DNA has been determined by X-ray crystallography at 2.5 Å resolution. This α/β protein …