Classification of intrinsically disordered regions and proteins

R Van Der Lee, M Buljan, B Lang, RJ Weatheritt… - Chemical …, 2014 - ACS Publications
Over the past decade, we have observed a massive increase in the amount of information
describing protein sequences from a variety of organisms. 1, 2 While this may reflect the …

The eIF2α kinases: their structures and functions

N Donnelly, AM Gorman, S Gupta, A Samali - Cellular and molecular life …, 2013 - Springer
Cell signaling in response to an array of diverse stress stimuli converges on the
phosphorylation of the α-subunit of eukaryotic initiation factor 2 (eIF2). Phosphorylation of …

Small‐angle scattering for structural biology—Expanding the frontier while avoiding the pitfalls

DA Jacques, J Trewhella - Protein science, 2010 - Wiley Online Library
The last decade has seen a dramatic increase in the use of small‐angle scattering for the
study of biological macromolecules in solution. The drive for more complete structural …

Mechanism of PKR Activation by dsRNA

PA Lemaire, E Anderson, J Lary, JL Cole - Journal of molecular biology, 2008 - Elsevier
Protein kinase R (PKR) is a central component of the interferon antiviral defense pathway.
Upon binding double-stranded RNA (dsRNA), PKR undergoes autophosphorylation …

Activation of PKR: an open and shut case?

JL Cole - Trends in biochemical sciences, 2007 - cell.com
The double-stranded (ds) RNA-activated protein kinase, PKR, has a key role in the innate
immunity response to viral infection in higher eukaryotes. PKR contains an N-terminal …

Dynamics of human protein kinase Aurora A linked to drug selectivity

W Pitsawong, V Buosi, R Otten, RV Agafonov, A Zorba… - Elife, 2018 - elifesciences.org
Protein kinases are major drug targets, but the development of highly-selective inhibitors
has been challenging due to the similarity of their active sites. The observation of distinct …

Structural insights into high density lipoprotein: old models and new facts

V Gogonea - Frontiers in pharmacology, 2016 - frontiersin.org
The physiological link between circulating high density lipoprotein (HDL) levels and
cardiovascular disease is well-documented, albeit its intricacies are not well-understood. An …

Hematopoietic cell kinase associates with the 40S ribosomal subunit and mediates the ribotoxic stress response to deoxynivalenol in mononuclear phagocytes

H Bae, JS Gray, M Li, L Vines, J Kim… - Toxicological …, 2010 - academic.oup.com
The trichothecene deoxynivalenol (DON) binds to eukaryotic ribosomes and triggers p38-
driven proinflammatory gene expression in the macrophage—a response that is dependent …

Structural characterization of gephyrin by AFM and SAXS reveals a mixture of compact and extended states

B Sander, G Tria, AV Shkumatov, EY Kim… - … Section D: Biological …, 2013 - journals.iucr.org
Gephyrin is a trimeric protein involved in the final steps of molybdenum-cofactor (Moco)
biosynthesis and in the clustering of inhibitory glycine and GABAA receptors at postsynaptic …

IPS-1 plays an essential role in dsRNA-induced stress granule formation by interacting with PKR and promoting its activation

P Zhang, Y Li, J Xia, J He, J Pu, J Xie… - Journal of cell …, 2014 - journals.biologists.com
The formation of cytoplasmic stress granules and the innate immune response are two
distinct cellular stress responses. Our study investigated the involvement of four innate …