Unraveling the dichotomy of enigmatic serine protease HtrA2

A Chakraborty, R Bose, K Bose - Frontiers in Molecular Biosciences, 2022 - frontiersin.org
Mitochondrial high-temperature requirement protease A2 (HtrA2) is an integral member of
the HtrA family of serine proteases that are evolutionarily conserved from prokaryotes to …

Oligomeric assembly regulating mitochondrial HtrA2 function as examined by methyl-TROSY NMR

Y Toyama, RW Harkness, TYT Lee… - Proceedings of the …, 2021 - National Acad Sciences
Human High temperature requirement A2 (HtrA2) is a mitochondrial protease chaperone
that plays an important role in cellular proteostasis and in regulating cell-signaling events …

Dissecting the role of interprotomer cooperativity in the activation of oligomeric high-temperature requirement A2 protein

Y Toyama, RW Harkness… - Proceedings of the …, 2021 - National Acad Sciences
The human high-temperature requirement A2 (HtrA2) mitochondrial protease is critical for
cellular proteostasis, with mutations in this enzyme closely associated with the onset of …

Structural basis of substrate recognition and allosteric activation of the proapoptotic mitochondrial HtrA2 protease

EE Aspholm, J Lidman, BM Burmann - Nature Communications, 2024 - nature.com
The mitochondrial serine protease HtrA2 is a human homolog of the Escherichia coli Deg-
proteins exhibiting chaperone and proteolytic roles. HtrA2 is involved in both apoptotic …

Probing allosteric interactions in homo-oligomeric molecular machines using solution NMR spectroscopy

Y Toyama, LE Kay - … of the National Academy of Sciences, 2021 - National Acad Sciences
Developments in solution NMR spectroscopy have significantly impacted the biological
questions that can now be addressed by this methodology. By means of illustration, we …

The Nϵ‐Rule for Serine, but Not Cysteine Catalytic Triads

H Czapinska, M Bochtler - Angewandte Chemie, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Catalytic triads, composed of a serine or cysteine nucleophile, a histidine, and a third triad
residue (typically Asp/Glu/Asn), are common in enzyme active sites and catalyze a wide …

Cellular substrates and pro-apoptotic function of the human HtrA4 protease

T Wenta, M Jarzab, M Rychlowski, M Borysiak… - Journal of …, 2019 - Elsevier
The human HtrA4 protein, belonging to the HtrA family of proteases/chaperones, participates
in oncogenesis and placentation, and plays a role in preeclampsia. As the knowledge …

Loss of GSK-3β mediated phosphorylation in HtrA2 contributes to uncontrolled cell death with Parkinsonian phenotype

K Bose, A Wagh, V Mishra, S Dutta, AL Parui… - International Journal of …, 2021 - Elsevier
HtrA2, a proapoptotic mitochondrial serine protease, promotes cellular protection against
oxidative damage. Literature reports show positive correlation between loss of HtrA2 …

Insufficient HtrA2 causes meiotic defects in aging germinal vesicle oocytes

M Gao, Y Qiu, T Cao, D Li, J Wang, Y Jiao… - Reproductive Biology …, 2022 - Springer
Background High-temperature requirement protease A2 (HtrA2/Omi) is a mitochondrial
chaperone that is highly conserved from bacteria to humans. It plays an important role in …

[HTML][HTML] INAUGURAL ARTICLE by a Recently Elected Academy Member: Probing allosteric interactions in homo-oligomeric molecular machines using solution NMR …

Y Toyama, LE Kay - Proceedings of the National Academy of …, 2021 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Developments in solution NMR spectroscopy have significantly impacted the biological
questions that can now be addressed by this methodology. By means of illustration, we …