Linkers in the structural biology of protein–protein interactions

VP Reddy Chichili, V Kumar, J Sivaraman - Protein science, 2013 - Wiley Online Library
Linkers or spacers are short amino acid sequences created in nature to separate multiple
domains in a single protein. Most of them are rigid and function to prohibit unwanted …

New insights about HERG blockade obtained from protein modeling, potential energy mapping, and docking studies

R Farid, T Day, RA Friesner, RA Pearlstein - Bioorganic & medicinal …, 2006 - Elsevier
We created a homology model of the homo-tetrameric pore domain of HERG using the
crystal structure of the bacterial potassium channel, KvAP, as a template. We docked a set of …

Controlling the enantioselectivity of enzymes by directed evolution: practical and theoretical ramifications

MT Reetz - Proceedings of the National Academy of …, 2004 - National Acad Sciences
A fundamentally new approach to asymmetric catalysis in organic chemistry is described
based on the in vitro evolution of enantioselective enzymes. It comprises the appropriate …

Directed evolution of enantioselective enzymes as catalysts for organic synthesis

MT Reetz - Advances in catalysis, 2006 - Elsevier
This review constitutes a comprehensive and critical account of a fundamentally new
approach to asymmetric catalysis, namely, the exploitation of the methods of directed …

Learning from directed evolution: further lessons from theoretical investigations into cooperative mutations in lipase enantioselectivity

MT Reetz, M Puls, JD Carballeira, A Vogel… - …, 2007 - Wiley Online Library
An earlier experimental study, which involved the directed evolution of enantioselective
lipase variants from Pseudomonas aeruginosa as catalysts in the hydrolytic kinetic …

Learning from directed evolution: theoretical investigations into cooperative mutations in lipase enantioselectivity

M Bocola, N Otte, KE Jaeger, MT Reetz… - ChemBioChem, 2004 - Wiley Online Library
Molecular modeling with classical force‐fields has been used to study the reactant complex
and the tetrahedral intermediate in lipase‐catalyzed ester hydrolysis in 20 enzyme/substrate …

X-ray snapshot of HIV-1 protease in action: observation of tetrahedral intermediate and short ionic hydrogen bond SIHB with catalytic aspartate

A Das, S Mahale, V Prashar, S Bihani… - Journal of the …, 2010 - ACS Publications
Structural snapshots of each step in the catalytic cycle would help development of inhibitors
of human immunodeficiency virus type 1 protease (HIV-1 PR) as effective drugs against …

Small molecule regulation of protein conformation by binding in the flap of HIV protease

T Tiefenbrunn, S Forli, MM Baksh, MW Chang… - ACS chemical …, 2013 - ACS Publications
The fragment indole-6-carboxylic acid (1F1), previously identified as a flap site binder in a
fragment-based screen against HIV protease (PR), has been cocrystallized with pepstatin …

Crystal structure of HIV-1 protease in situ product complex and observation of a low-barrier hydrogen bond between catalytic aspartates

A Das, V Prashar, S Mahale, L Serre… - Proceedings of the …, 2006 - National Acad Sciences
HIV-1 protease is an effective target for designing drugs against AIDS, and structural
information about the true transition state and the correct mechanism can provide important …

Structure of the unbound form of HIV-1 subtype A protease: comparison with unbound forms of proteases from other HIV subtypes

AH Robbins, RM Coman… - … Section D: Biological …, 2010 - scripts.iucr.org
The crystal structure of the unbound form of HIV-1 subtype A protease (PR) has been
determined to 1.7 Å resolution and refined as a homodimer in the hexagonal space group …