Medium-and short-chain dehydrogenase/reductase gene and protein families: the SDR superfamily: functional and structural diversity within a family of metabolic and …

KL Kavanagh, H Jörnvall, B Persson… - Cellular and Molecular …, 2008 - Springer
Short-chain dehydrogenases/reductases (SDRs) constitute a large family of NAD (P)(H)-
dependent oxidoreductases, sharing sequence motifs and displaying similar mechanisms …

The aldo-keto reductase superfamily and its role in drug metabolism and detoxification

OA Barski, SM Tipparaju, A Bhatnagar - Drug metabolism reviews, 2008 - Taylor & Francis
The aldo-keto reductase (AKR) superfamily comprises enzymes that catalyze redox
transformations involved in biosynthesis, intermediary metabolism, and detoxification …

Critical residues for structure and catalysis in short-chain dehydrogenases/reductases

C Filling, KD Berndt, J Benach, S Knapp… - Journal of Biological …, 2002 - ASBMB
Short-chain dehydrogenases/reductases form a large, evolutionarily old family of NAD
(P)(H)-dependent enzymes with over 60 genes found in the human genome. Despite low …

Protein promiscuity and its implications for biotechnology

I Nobeli, AD Favia, JM Thornton - Nature biotechnology, 2009 - nature.com
Molecular recognition between proteins and their interacting partners underlies the
biochemistry of living organisms. Specificity in this recognition is thought to be essential …

Short-chain dehydrogenases/reductases (SDR): the 2002 update

U Oppermann, C Filling, M Hult, N Shafqat, X Wu… - Chemico-biological …, 2003 - Elsevier
Short-chain dehydrogenases/reductases (SDR) form a large, functionally heterogeneous
protein family presently with about 3000 primary and about 30 3D structures deposited in …

Short‐chain dehydrogenases/reductases (SDRs) Coenzyme‐based functional assignments in completed genomes

Y Kallberg, U Oppermann, H Jörnvall… - European Journal of …, 2002 - Wiley Online Library
Short‐chain dehydrogenases/reductases (SDRs) are enzymes of great functional diversity.
Even at sequence identities of typically only 15–30%, specific sequence motifs are …

The science of steroids

TJ Cole, KL Short, SB Hooper - Seminars in Fetal and Neonatal Medicine, 2019 - Elsevier
Steroids are complex lipophilic molecules that have many actions in the body to regulate
cellular, tissue and organ functions across the life-span. Steroid hormones such as cortisol …

The role of 17 beta-hydroxysteroid dehydrogenases

R Mindnich, G Möller, J Adamski - Molecular and cellular endocrinology, 2004 - Elsevier
The biological activity of steroid hormones is regulated at the pre-receptor level by several
enzymes including 17 beta-hydroxysteroid dehydrogenases (17 beta-HSD). The latter are …

m1A Post-Transcriptional Modification in tRNAs

S Oerum, C Dégut, P Barraud, C Tisné - Biomolecules, 2017 - mdpi.com
To date, about 90 post-transcriptional modifications have been reported in tRNA expanding
their chemical and functional diversity. Methylation is the most frequent post-transcriptional …

Classification of the short‐chain dehydrogenase/reductase superfamily using hidden Markov models

Y Kallberg, U Oppermann, B Persson - The FEBS journal, 2010 - Wiley Online Library
The short‐chain dehydrogenase/reductase (SDR) superfamily now has over 47 000
members, most of which are distantly related, with typically 20–30% residue identity in …