Orchestrating serine/threonine phosphorylation and elucidating downstream effects by short linear motifs

J Kliche, Y Ivarsson - Biochemical Journal, 2022 - portlandpress.com
Cellular function is based on protein–protein interactions. A large proportion of these
interactions involves the binding of short linear motifs (SLiMs) by folded globular domains …

The mysterious nature of bacterial surface (gliding) motility: a focal adhesion-based mechanism in Myxococcus xanthus

ST Islam, T Mignot - Seminars in cell & developmental biology, 2015 - Elsevier
Motility of bacterial cells promotes a range of important physiological phenomena such as
nutrient detection, harm avoidance, biofilm formation, and pathogenesis. While much …

An inherent difference between serine and threonine phosphorylation: phosphothreonine strongly prefers a highly ordered, compact, cyclic conformation

AK Pandey, HK Ganguly, SK Sinha… - ACS Chemical …, 2023 - ACS Publications
Phosphorylation and dephosphorylation of proteins by kinases and phosphatases are
central to cellular responses and function. The structural effects of serine and threonine …

Kinase-modulated bioluminescent indicators enable noninvasive imaging of drug activity in the brain

Y Wu, JR Walker, M Westberg, L Ning… - ACS Central …, 2023 - ACS Publications
Aberrant kinase activity contributes to the pathogenesis of brain cancers,
neurodegeneration, and neuropsychiatric diseases, but identifying kinase inhibitors that …

A phosphorylated pseudokinase complex controls cell wall synthesis in mycobacteria

CL Gee, KG Papavinasasundaram, SR Blair… - Science …, 2012 - science.org
Prokaryotic cell wall biosynthesis is coordinated with cell growth and division, but the
mechanisms regulating this dynamic process remain obscure. Here, we describe a …

The FHA domain protein ArnA functions as a global DNA damage response repressor in the hyperthermophilic archaeon Saccharolobus islandicus

Z Jiang, Z Lin, Q Gan, P Wu, X Zhang, Y Xiao, Q She… - Mbio, 2023 - Am Soc Microbiol
Forkhead-associated (FHA) domain proteins specifically recognize phosphorylated
threonine via the FHA domain and are involved in signal transduction in various processes …

An N‐terminal acidic region of Sgs1 interacts with Rpa70 and recruits Rad53 kinase to stalled forks

AM Hegnauer, N Hustedt, K Shimada, BL Pike… - The EMBO …, 2012 - embopress.org
DNA replication fork stalling poses a major threat to genome stability. This is counteracted in
part by the intra‐S phase checkpoint, which stabilizes arrested replication machinery …

Regulation of archaella expression by the FHA and von Willebrand domain‐containing proteins ArnA and ArnB in Sulfolobus acidocaldarius

J Reimann, K Lassak, S Khadouma… - Molecular …, 2012 - Wiley Online Library
The ability of microorganisms to sense and respond to sudden changes in their environment
is often based on regulatory systems comprising reversible protein phosphorylation. The …

Structural basis for recognition of H3T3ph and Smac/DIABLO N-terminal peptides by human Survivin

J Du, AE Kelly, H Funabiki, DJ Patel - Structure, 2012 - cell.com
Survivin is an inhibitor of apoptosis family protein implicated in apoptosis and mitosis. In
apoptosis, it has been shown to recognize the Smac/DIABLO protein. It is also a component …

Modular peptide binding: from a comparison of natural binders to designed armadillo repeat proteins

C Reichen, S Hansen, A Plückthun - Journal of structural biology, 2014 - Elsevier
Several binding scaffolds that are not based on immunoglobulins have been designed as
alternatives to traditional monoclonal antibodies. Many of them have been developed to …