Monotopic membrane proteins join the fold

KN Allen, S Entova, LC Ray, B Imperiali - Trends in biochemical sciences, 2019 - cell.com
Monotopic membrane proteins, classified by topology, are proteins that embed into a single
face of the membrane. These proteins are generally underrepresented in the Protein Data …

Functional innovation from changes in protein domains and their combinations

JG Lees, NL Dawson, I Sillitoe, CA Orengo - Current opinion in structural …, 2016 - Elsevier
Highlights•An update of recent papers on functional innovations with domains.•Interplay
between changes in a domains function and its interactors/domain partners.•Comparative …

Mutations in transmembrane proteins: diseases, evolutionary insights, prediction and comparison with globular proteins

J Zaucha, M Heinzinger, A Kulandaisamy… - Briefings in …, 2021 - academic.oup.com
Membrane proteins are unique in that they interact with lipid bilayers, making them
indispensable for transporting molecules and relaying signals between and across cells …

Specificity determinants revealed by the structure of glycosyltransferase Campylobacter concisus PglA

N Vuksanovic, JR Clasman, B Imperiali… - Protein …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
In selected Campylobacter species, the biosynthesis of N‐linked glycoconjugates via the pgl
pathway is essential for pathogenicity and survival. However, most of the membrane …

The mARS complex: a critical mediator of immune regulation and homeostasis

SB Amanya, D Oyewole-Said, KJ Ernste… - Frontiers in …, 2024 - frontiersin.org
Over the course of evolution, many proteins have undergone adaptive structural changes to
meet the increasing homeostatic regulatory demands of multicellularity. Aminoacyl tRNA …

Molecular insights of exercise therapy in disease prevention and treatment

D Walzik, TY Wences Chirino, P Zimmer… - Signal Transduction and …, 2024 - nature.com
Despite substantial evidence emphasizing the pleiotropic benefits of exercise for the
prevention and treatment of various diseases, the underlying biological mechanisms have …

Evolution and adaptation of single-pass transmembrane proteins

ID Pogozheva, AL Lomize - Biochimica et Biophysica Acta (BBA) …, 2018 - Elsevier
A comparative analysis of 6039 single-pass (bitopic) membrane proteins from six
evolutionarily distant organisms was performed based on data from the Membranome …

Highly diversified expansions shaped the evolution of membrane bound proteins in metazoans

MM Attwood, A Krishnan, MS Almén, HB Schiöth - Scientific reports, 2017 - nature.com
The dramatic increase in membrane proteome complexity is arguably one of the most pivotal
evolutionary events that underpins the origin of multicellular animals. However, the origin of …

The first identification of complete Eph-ephrin signalling in ctenophores and sponges reveals a role for neofunctionalization in the emergence of signalling domains

A Krishnan, BM Degnan, SM Degnan - BMC evolutionary biology, 2019 - Springer
Background Animals have a greater diversity of signalling pathways than their unicellular
relatives, consistent with the evolution and expansion of these pathways occurring in …

Dimensional crossover of acoustic phonon lifetime in -MoSe

P Soubelet, AA Reynoso, A Fainstein… - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2018 - arxiv.org
A time-resolved observation of coherent interlayer longitudinal acoustic phonons in 2$ H $-
MoSe $ _2 $ is reported. A femtosecond pump-probe technique is used to investigate the …