New Insights into the Cooperativity and Dynamics of Dimeric Enzymes

KW Chen, TY Sun, YD Wu - Chemical Reviews, 2023 - ACS Publications
A survey of protein databases indicates that the majority of enzymes exist in oligomeric
forms, with about half of those found in the UniProt database being homodimeric …

G protein‐coupled receptor hetero‐dimerization: contribution to pharmacology and function

G Milligan - British journal of pharmacology, 2009 - Wiley Online Library
The concept that G protein‐coupled receptors (GPCRs) can form hetero‐dimers or hetero‐
oligomers continues to gain experimental support. However, with the exception of the …

Structure-function relationships in methionine adenosyltransferases

GD Markham, MA Pajares - Cellular and molecular life sciences, 2009 - Springer
Methionine adenosyltransferases (MATs) are the family of enzymes that synthesize the main
biological methyl donor, S-adenosylmethionine. The high sequence conservation among …

Specificity versus stability in computational protein design

DN Bolon, RA Grant, TA Baker… - Proceedings of the …, 2005 - National Acad Sciences
Protein–protein interactions can be designed computationally by using positive strategies
that maximize the stability of the desired structure and/or by negative strategies that seek to …

Natural disesquiterpenoids: an update

LF Ma, YL Chen, WG Shan, ZJ Zhan - Natural Product Reports, 2020 - pubs.rsc.org
Covering: July 2010 to August 2019. Previous review: Nat. Prod. Rep., 2011, 28, 594 The
review covers recent progress on the isolation, identification, bioactivity and biomimetic …

[HTML][HTML] Conformational stability and folding mechanisms of dimeric proteins

JAO Rumfeldt, C Galvagnion, KA Vassall… - Progress in biophysics …, 2008 - Elsevier
The folding of multisubunit proteins is of tremendous biological significance since the large
majority of proteins exist as protein–protein complexes. Extensive experimental and …

Label-free cell-based assays for GPCR screening

Y Fang, AG Frutos, R Verklereen - Combinatorial chemistry & …, 2008 - ingentaconnect.com
G protein-coupled receptors (GPCRs) have been proven to be the largest family of
druggable targets in the human genome. Given the importance of GPCRs as drug targets …

Homodimerized cytoplasmic domain of PD-L1 regulates its complex glycosylation in living cells

L Zhou, F Chai, Y He, Z Zhou, S Guo, P Li… - Communications …, 2022 - nature.com
Whether membrane-anchored PD-L1 homodimerizes in living cells is controversial. The
biological significance of the homodimer waits to be expeditiously explored. However …

Modulation of flexible loops in catalytic cavities reveals the thermal activation mechanism of a glycogen-debranching enzyme

Y Tian, X Ban, C Li, Z Gu, Z Li - Journal of Agricultural and Food …, 2022 - ACS Publications
Some thermophilic enzymes not only exhibit high thermostability at high temperatures but
also have an activation effect by thermal incubation. However, the correlations between …

The anti-apoptotic Coxiella burnetii effector protein AnkG is a strain specific virulence factor

W Schäfer, T Schmidt, A Cordsmeier, V Borges… - Scientific Reports, 2020 - nature.com
The ability to inhibit host cell apoptosis is important for the intracellular replication of the
obligate intracellular pathogen Coxiella burnetii, as it allows the completion of the lengthy …