Modelling three-dimensional protein structures for applications in drug design

T Schmidt, A Bergner, T Schwede - Drug discovery today, 2014 - Elsevier
Highlights•The majority of proteins encoded in a genome are accessible by structure
modelling.•Modelling can provide accurate target predictions for structure-based drug …

A designed photoenzyme for enantioselective [2+ 2] cycloadditions

JS Trimble, R Crawshaw, FJ Hardy, CW Levy… - Nature, 2022 - nature.com
The ability to program new modes of catalysis into proteins would allow the development of
enzyme families with functions beyond those found in nature. To this end, genetic code …

[PDF][PDF] The PDB_REDO server for macromolecular structure model optimization

RP Joosten, F Long, GN Murshudov, A Perrakis - IUCrJ, 2014 - journals.iucr.org
The refinement and validation of a crystallographic structure model is the last step before the
coordinates and the associated data are submitted to the Protein Data Bank (PDB). The …

Glycan complexity dictates microbial resource allocation in the large intestine

A Rogowski, JA Briggs, JC Mortimer, T Tryfona… - Nature …, 2015 - nature.com
The structure of the human gut microbiota is controlled primarily through the degradation of
complex dietary carbohydrates, but the extent to which carbohydrate breakdown products …

A series of PDB-related databanks for everyday needs

WG Touw, C Baakman, J Black… - Nucleic acids …, 2015 - academic.oup.com
We present a series of databanks (http://swift. cmbi. ru. nl/gv/facilities/) that hold information
that is computationally derived from Protein Data Bank (PDB) entries and that might …

RNF168 ubiquitinates K13-15 on H2A/H2AX to drive DNA damage signaling

F Mattiroli, JHA Vissers, WJ van Dijk, P Ikpa, E Citterio… - Cell, 2012 - cell.com
Ubiquitin-dependent signaling during the DNA damage response (DDR) to double-strand
breaks (DSBs) is initiated by two E3 ligases, RNF8 and RNF168, targeting histone H2A and …

Posttranslational modification of microtubules by the MATCAP detyrosinase

L Landskron, J Bak, A Adamopoulos, K Kaplani… - Science, 2022 - science.org
The detyrosination-tyrosination cycle involves the removal and religation of the C-terminal
tyrosine of α-tubulin and is implicated in cognitive, cardiac, and mitotic defects. The …

Privateer: software for the conformational validation of carbohydrate structures

J Agirre, J Iglesias-Fernández, C Rovira… - Nature structural & …, 2015 - nature.com
Figure 1 N-glycan D-pyranosides in high-energy conformations, as deposited in the PDB
(left), and their corrected counterparts (right). Gray mesh, omit mFo–DFc density contoured …

Basic mechanism of transcription by RNA polymerase II

V Svetlov, E Nudler - Biochimica et Biophysica Acta (BBA)-Gene Regulatory …, 2013 - Elsevier
RNA polymerase II-like enzymes carry out transcription of genomes in Eukaryota, Archaea,
and some viruses. They also exhibit fundamental similarity to RNA polymerases from …

Specific quinone reductase 2 inhibitors reduce metabolic burden and reverse Alzheimer's disease phenotype in mice

NL Gould, GR Scherer, S Carvalho… - The Journal of …, 2023 - Am Soc Clin Investig
Biological aging can be described as accumulative, prolonged metabolic stress and is the
major risk factor for cognitive decline and Alzheimer's disease (AD). Recently, we identified …