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Biochem Soc Trans (2023) 51 (3): 1225–1233.
Published: 04 May 2023
... inhibition structural biology During mitosis, replicated chromosomes are aligned on the mitotic spindle and segregated equally to the daughter cells. To ensure correct segregation, sister chromatid pairs are linked during S phase [ 1 , 2 ] by the ring-shaped protein complex cohesin [ 3 , 4 ], which...
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Biochem Soc Trans (2023) 51 (1): 125–135.
Published: 18 January 2023
...(s) 2023 This is an open access article published by Portland Press Limited on behalf of the Biochemical Society and distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License 4.0 (CC BY-NC-ND) . intrinsically disordered proteins molecular scaffolds structural biology transcription...
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Biochem Soc Trans (2022) 50 (1): 459–22W.
Published: 07 February 2022
... of the Biochemical Society and distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License 4.0 (CC BY) . bacteriophages cryo-electron microscopy protein structure structural biology virology Bacteriophages, or phages, infect prokaryotes and are the most abundant biological entity on the planet [ 1...
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Biochem Soc Trans (2022) 50 (1): 375–386.
Published: 25 January 2022
... ( walter.j.chazin@vanderbilt.edu ) 4 11 2021 20 12 2021 22 12 2021 © 2022 The Author(s). Published by Portland Press Limited on behalf of the Biochemical Society 2022 DNA synthesis and repair nucleotide excision repair structural biology Nucleotide excision repair (NER...
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Biochem Soc Trans (2021) 49 (6): 2917–2927.
Published: 25 November 2021
... on behalf of the Biochemical Society 2021 ABC transporter EPR spectroscopy NMR spectroscopy structural biology Solid-state NMR and EPR spectroscopy offer the possibility to obtain specific data needed to complement 3D structures in order to derive mechanistic models. Both approaches allow...
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Biochem Soc Trans (2021) 49 (5): 1985–1995.
Published: 13 September 2021
... with CAUL. immunology structural biology T-cells Intriguingly, the γ-chain is of central importance in some innate-like γδ T cell subsets, whereby strong restrictions of the Vγ gene usage correlate with TCR mediated reactivities to infectious disease or tumour associated metabolites. Namely...
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Biochem Soc Trans (2020) 48 (6): 2721–2728.
Published: 18 December 2020
...(s). Published by Portland Press Limited on behalf of the Biochemical Society 2020 membranes small gtpases small molecules structural biology trafficking Cytoplasmic small GTPases and most of their interacting proteins belong to the broad class of peripheral membrane proteins, which...
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Biochem Soc Trans (2020) 48 (6): 2625–2641.
Published: 01 December 2020
... numerous vaccination and clinical trials have emerged alongside an innumerable number of drug discovery studies currently in development for disease intervention. Informing every step of the viral replication cycle has been an unprecedented ‘call-to-arms' by the global structural biology community...
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Biochem Soc Trans (2020) 48 (6): 2505–2524.
Published: 10 November 2020
...Tristan O. C. Kwan; Danny Axford; Isabel Moraes The aim of structural biology has been always the study of biological macromolecules structures and their mechanistic behaviour at molecular level. To achieve its goal, multiple biophysical methods and approaches have become part of the structural...
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Biochem Soc Trans (2020) 48 (5): 2089–2100.
Published: 02 October 2020
... under the Creative Commons Attribution License 4.0 (CC BY) . chromosomes condensin DNA binding single-molecule SMC structural biology Organising DNA throughout the cell cycle to ensure correct gene expression, DNA replication, and chromosome division is a remarkable feat. Two...
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Biochem Soc Trans (2020) 48 (2): 621–629.
Published: 20 April 2020
... for interpreting our own functional data, we need to remind ourselves that they stand on the shoulders of a large body of previous structural studies, many of which are still appropriate for use in understanding our results. In this mini-review, we discuss the history of respiratory chain structural biology...
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Biochem Soc Trans (2020) 48 (2): 507–516.
Published: 20 March 2020
... anti-CRISPR proteins molecular interactions molecular mechanisms structural biology Lastly, AcrIIC1 and AcrIIC2 are so far unique examples of inhibitors that bind to the catalytic site of the Cas9 HNH nuclease domain (glossary) and to the NmeCas9 sgRNA-binding site, respectively. AcrIIC1...
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Biochem Soc Trans (2019) 47 (6): 1773–1780.
Published: 05 December 2019
... on behalf of the Biochemical Society 2019 expanded genetic code oligomerization protein complexes protein engineering structural biology synthetic biology The vast expanse of protein sequence space has been the driving force behind molecular evolution, with the quaternary structure adding...
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Biochem Soc Trans (2019) 47 (5): 1259–1268.
Published: 18 October 2019
... a mechanistic view of ABCG5/G8-mediated sterol transport. Correspondence: Jyh-Yeuan Lee ( jyh-yeuan.lee@uottawa.ca ) 18 7 2019 26 9 2019 30 9 2019 ATP-binding cassette transporters cardiovascular disease cholesterol transport lipid metabolism sitosterolemia structural biology...
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Biochem Soc Trans (2019) 47 (1): 399–410.
Published: 07 February 2019
... Mediator complex structural biology transcription The Mediator Head module is composed of seven highly conserved subunits (Med6, Med8, Med11, Med17, Med18, Med20 and Med22) and together with the Middle module, it plays an essential role during the PIC assembly, contacting the RNA Pol II...
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Biochem Soc Trans (2019) 47 (1): 317–327.
Published: 15 January 2019
... these methods generate fragment ions correlating to the exposed surface of the studied native proteins [ 48 ]. mass spectrometry membrane proteins proteomics structural biology Mass spectrometry (MS) has evolved in recent years to become a pillar for integrative structural biology approaches...
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Biochem Soc Trans (2019) 47 (1): 281–293.
Published: 15 January 2019
...Tom Ceska; Chun-Wa Chung; Rob Cooke; Chris Phillips; Pamela A. Williams The impact of structural biology on drug discovery is well documented, and the workhorse technique for the past 30 years or so has been X-ray crystallography. With the advent of several technological improvements, including...
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Biochem Soc Trans (2018) 46 (6): 1753–1770.
Published: 13 December 2018
... structural biology Through their role in signal transduction pathways, protein kinases mediate a plethora of cellular phenotypic changes such as cell growth, proliferation, differentiation and survival [ 1 ]. Receptor tyrosine kinases (RTKs) are an important kinase subfamily whose members span...
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Biochem Soc Trans (2018) 46 (6): 1475–1484.
Published: 04 December 2018
... , D. , Bill , R.M. , Jawhari , A. and Rothnie , A.J. ( 2016 ) Overcoming bottlenecks in the membrane protein structural biology pipeline . Biochem. Soc. Trans. 44 , 838 – 844 10.1042/BST20160049 48 Marsh , D. ( 2008 ) Protein modulation of lipids, and vice-versa...
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Biochem Soc Trans (2018) 46 (6): 1495–1504.
Published: 21 November 2018
...) 2018 This is an open access article published by Portland Press Limited on behalf of the Biochemical Society and distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License 4.0 (CC BY-NC-ND) . membrane proteins protein purification structural biology structural characterisation...
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Biochem Soc Trans (2018) 46 (6): 1541–1549.
Published: 31 October 2018
... structural biology transmembrane proteins Proteins tend to be classified into one of two broad categories, globular cytoplasmic proteins and integral membrane proteins (IMPs) [ 1 ]. This simple classification is defined by a proteins intrinsic ability to produce a stable, functional structure...
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Biochem Soc Trans (2018) 46 (5): 1367–1379.
Published: 21 September 2018
... be found in the reviews cited above. computational biochemistry drug discovery and design structural biology Computational methods of drug discovery have a basis in the very earliest structural studies of protein molecules. The first structure of a protein, that of sperm whale myoglobin...
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Biochem Soc Trans (2018) 46 (2): 379–389.
Published: 14 March 2018
... and non-molecular factors. biophysics lipid-binding domains lipids membranes microfilaments structural biology Lipid membranes determine the shape of the cell surface and organelles. The lipid membrane is a bilayer consisting of phospholipids, sphingolipids, and cholesterol in various...
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Biochem Soc Trans (2016) 44 (3): 838–844.
Published: 09 June 2016
... the native lipid bilayer of a membrane protein during purification and biophysical analysis. Overcoming bottlenecks in the membrane protein structural biology pipeline, primarily by maintaining protein stability, will facilitate the elucidation of many more membrane protein structures in the near future...
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Biochem Soc Trans (2016) 44 (1): 61–67.
Published: 09 February 2016
... and consequently provides an explanation as to why Thr moieties in peptide acceptors are glycosylated more efficiently by this enzyme than their Ser counterparts ( Figure 2 a). GalNAc-Ts retention mechanism structural biology lectin domain flexible linker enzyme dynamics Glycosyltransferases (GTs...
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Biochem Soc Trans (2016) 44 (1): 79–87.
Published: 09 February 2016
... © 2016 Authors; published by Portland Press Limited 2016 biofuels conformational analysis drug design glycobiology glycosidase structural biology Glycans are found almost everywhere, and the enzymes that synthesize, modify and degrade these complex molecules are central to human...
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Biochem Soc Trans (2014) 42 (1): 52–58.
Published: 23 January 2014
... GTPase NMR Ral Ral-binding protein 1 (RalBP1) Ral-interacting protein of 76 kDa (RLIP76) structural biology Small GTPases of the Ras superfamily are characterized by their ability to switch between the GDP-bound ‘off’ state and the GTP-bound active state in response to upstream signals...
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Biochem Soc Trans (2013) 41 (5): 1317–1324.
Published: 23 September 2013
... structural biology Hydrogen is one of the energy carriers of the future. The investigation of hydrogen metabolism from bacteria and archaea has a strong impact on possible scenarios for future energy supply [ 1 ]. Hydrogenases are enzymes which catalyse the reversible oxidation of molecular hydrogen...
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Biochem Soc Trans (2013) 41 (4): 975–980.
Published: 18 July 2013
... fluorescence-based assay kinase-affinity chromatography nucleotide binding pseudokinase structural biology The breadth and functional diversity of the pseudokinase family have only started to emerge. Although pseudokinases display a typical kinase fold, constructed of the ten canonical subdomains...
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Biochem Soc Trans (2013) 41 (4): 1037–1041.
Published: 18 July 2013
...-A drug discovery Nek7 protein kinase structural biology The eukaryotic cell cycle is tightly regulated by protein phosphorylation, which peaks during mitosis and is associated with drastic reorganization of cellular structures and protein activities [ 1 ]. These mitotic phosphorylation events...
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Biochem Soc Trans (2013) 41 (1): 17–28.
Published: 29 January 2013
... structural biology substrate secretion Type IV secretion Bacteria have evolved several specialized machineries that span the cellular envelope to bring about transport across the membrane permeability barrier. Gram-negative bacteria have evolved seven different types of secretion systems from...
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Biochem Soc Trans (2011) 39 (5): 1311–1312.
Published: 21 September 2011
... of structural biology of proteins, presentations covering both historical and current research were given by a number of leading biochemists from both countries. Papers based on these talks have been prepared for this issue of Biochemical Society Transactions . 1 Correspondence may be addressed to either...
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Biochem Soc Trans (2010) 38 (4): 928–933.
Published: 26 July 2010
..., and the obvious conclusion is that it is provided by the stressosome. © The Authors Journal compilation © 2010 Biochemical Society 2010 Bacillus subtilis kinase signal transduction stressosome stress response structural biology The established model of Gram-positive micro-organisms...
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Biochem Soc Trans (2008) 36 (6): 1438–1441.
Published: 19 November 2008
... structures solved by different groups, before concluding in the ‘Outlook’ section. © The Authors Journal compilation © 2008 Biochemical Society 2008 acyl-CoA thioesterase 7 (Acot7) platelet glycoprotein Ibα protein–protein interaction structural biology thrombin X-ray crystallography...
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Biochem Soc Trans (2008) 36 (4): 723–731.
Published: 22 July 2008
... topological arrangements of subunits and interactions within RNA–protein complexes studied in our laboratory over the last 5 years. These studies exemplify the emerging role and potential of MS as a complementary structural biology methodology and demonstrate its unique niche in investigations of dynamic...
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Biochem Soc Trans (2006) 34 (5): 887–893.
Published: 25 October 2006
...-dependent inactivation (CDI) calmodulin (CaM) IQ domain structural biology voltage-gated calcium channel (Ca V ) Voltage-gated calcium channels (Ca V s) play a unique role in the interplay between electrical and chemical signalling in biological systems [ 1 , 2 ]. Ca V s respond to membrane...