- Molecular basis of cyclic tetra-oligoadenylate processing by small standalone CRISPR-Cas ring nucleases. [Journal Article]
- Standalone ring nucleases are CRISPR ancillary proteins, which downregulate the immune response of Type III CRISPR-Cas systems by cleaving cyclic oligoadenylates (cA) second messengers. Two genes with this function have been found within the Sulfolobus islandicus (Sis) genome. They code for a long polypeptide composed by a CARF domain fused to an HTH domain and a short polypeptide constituted by …
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- Comprehensive Review on Synthesis, Properties, and Applications of Phosphorus (PIII, PIV, PV) Substituted Acenes with More Than Two Fused Benzene Rings. [Review]
- This comprehensive review, covering the years 1968-2022, is not only a retrospective investigation of a certain group of linearly fused aromatics, called acenes, but also a presentation of the current state of the knowledge on the synthesis, reactions, and applications of these compounds. Their characteristic feature is substitution of the aromatic system by one, two, or three organophosphorus gr…
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- Bromodomain Interactions with Acetylated Histone 4 Peptides in the BRD4 Tandem Domain: Effects on Domain Dynamics and Internal Flexibility. [Journal Article]
- The bromodomain and extra-terminal (BET) protein BRD4 regulates gene expression via recruitment of transcriptional regulatory complexes to acetylated chromatin. Like other BET proteins, BRD4 contains two bromodomains, BD1 and BD2, that can interact cooperatively with target proteins and designed ligands, with important implications for drug discovery. Here, we used nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR…
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- Distinct Modes of Hidden Structural Dynamics in the Functioning of an Allosteric Polysaccharide Lyase. [Journal Article]
- Dynamics is an essential process to drive an enzyme to perform a function. When a protein sequence encodes for its three-dimensional structure and hence its function, it essentially defines the intrinsic dynamics of the molecule. The static X-ray crystal structure was thought to shed little insight into the molecule's dynamics until the recently available tool "Ensemble refinement" (ER). Here, we…
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- Structural insights into the mechanism of pH-selective substrate specificity of the polysaccharide lyase Smlt1473. [Journal Article]
- Polysaccharide lyases (PLs) are a broad class of microbial enzymes that degrade anionic polysaccharides. Equally broad diversity in their polysaccharide substrates has attracted interest in biotechnological applications such as biomass conversion to value-added chemicals and microbial biofilm removal. Unlike other PLs, Smlt1473 present in the clinically relevant Stenotrophomonas maltophilia strai…
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- GAPDH delivers heme to soluble guanylyl cyclase. [Journal Article]
- Soluble guanylyl cyclase (sGC) is a key component of NO-cGMP signaling in mammals. Although heme must bind in the sGC β1 subunit (sGCβ) for sGC to function, how heme is delivered to sGCβ remains unknown. Given that GAPDH displays properties of a heme chaperone for inducible NO synthase, here we investigated whether heme delivery to apo-sGCβ involves GAPDH. We utilized an sGCβ reporter construct, …
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- Tetra-cationic platinum(II) porphyrins like a candidate photosensitizers to bind, selective and drug delivery for metastatic melanoma. [Journal Article]
- Photodynamic therapy (PDT) is an expanding treatment modality due to its minimally invasive localized activity and few adverse effects. This therapy requires photosensitive compounds, which have high sensitivity to light exposure. Thus, in this work, the in vitro antitumor activity of meso-tetra(3- and 4-pyridyl)porphyrins (3-TPyP and 4-TPyP) in metastatic melanoma cell (WM1366 line) and non-tumo…
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- Spectroscopic and metal binding properties of a de novo metalloprotein binding a tetrazinc cluster. [Journal Article]
- De novo design provides an attractive approach, which allows one to test and refine the principles guiding metalloproteins in defining the geometry and reactivity of their metal ion cofactors. Although impressive progress has been made in designing proteins that bind transition metal ions including iron-sulfur clusters, the design of tetranuclear clusters with oxygen-rich environments remains in …
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- A Review About Lycopene-Induced Nuclear Hormone Receptor Signalling in Inflammation and Lipid Metabolism via still Unknown Endogenous Apo-10´-Lycopenoids. [Journal Article]
- Lycopene is the red pigment in tomatoes and tomato products and is an important dietary carotenoid found in the human organism. Lycopene-isomers, oxidative lycopene metabolites and apo-lycopenoids are found in the food matrix. Lycopene intake derived from tomato consumption is associated with alteration of lipid metabolism and a lower incidence of cardiovascular diseases (CVD). Lycopene is mainly…
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- Search for non-lactam inhibitors of mtb β-lactamase led to its open shape in apo state: new concept for antibiotic design. [Journal Article]
- Mtb β-lactamase (BlaC) is extremely efficient in hydrolyzing β-lactam antibiotics which renders/leads to protection and/or resistance to this bug. There is a compelling need to develop new non-lactam inhibitors which can bind and inhibit BlaC, but cannot be hydrolyzed, thus neutralizing this survival mechanism of Mtb. Using the crystal structure of BlaC we screened 750000 purchasable compounds fr…
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- A Comparative Study of the Quality of Apical Seal in Resilon/Epiphany SE Following Intra canal Irrigation With 17% EDTA, 10% Citric Acid, And MTAD as Final Irrigants - A Dye Leakage Study Under Vacuum. [Journal Article]
- CONCLUSIONS: 17% EDTA, 10% citric acid, and MTAD were equally effective in achieving the post-obturation apical seal with resilon/epiphany SE sealer when used as a final irrigant in combination with NaOCl.
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- d-Cysteine Ligands Control Metal Geometries within De Novo Designed Three-Stranded Coiled Coils. [Journal Article]
- Although metal ion binding to naturally occurring l-amino acid proteins is well documented, understanding the impact of the opposite chirality (d-)amino acids on the structure and stereochemistry of metals is in its infancy. We examine the effect of a d-configuration cysteine within a designed l-amino acid three-stranded coiled coil in order to enforce a precise coordination number on a metal cen…
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- More than 170 polyunsaturated tocopherol-related compounds in a vitamin E capsule: Countercurrent chromatographic enrichment, gas chromatography/mass spectrometry analysis and preliminary identification of the potential artefacts. [Journal Article]
- Tocopherols and tocotrienols (usually summed up as vitamin E) are a class of structurally related natural antioxidants. Commonly, only some of the eight classic representatives (four tocopherols and four tocotrienols) are found with varied composition in food. In this study we fractionated 230mg oil from commercial vitamin E supplement capsules by countercurrent chromatography (CCC) and subsequen…
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- Inhibiting androgen receptor nuclear entry in castration-resistant prostate cancer. [Journal Article]
- Clinical resistance to the second-generation antiandrogen enzalutamide in castration-resistant prostate cancer (CRPC), despite persistent androgen receptor (AR) activity in tumors, highlights an unmet medical need for next-generation antagonists. We have identified and characterized tetra-aryl cyclobutanes (CBs) as a new class of competitive AR antagonists that exhibit a unique mechanism of actio…
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- A comparative analysis of root surface biomodification with ethylene diamine tetra acetic acid and tetracycline hydrochloride: An in vitro scanning electron microscopic study. [Journal Article]
- CONCLUSIONS: The EDTA produced better effects than tetracycline by providing more demineralized area and collagen exposure at a neutral pH.
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- A comparative study on the interactions of human copper chaperone Cox17 with anticancer organoruthenium(II) complexes and cisplatin by mass spectrometry. [Journal Article]
- Herein we report investigation of the interactions between anticancer organoruthenium complexes, [(η(6)-arene)Ru(en)(Cl)]PF6 (en=ethylenediamine, arene=p-cymene (1) or biphenyl (2)), and the human copper chaperone protein Cox17 by mass spectrometry with cisplatin as a reference. The electrospray ionization mass spectrometry (ESI-MS) results indicate much weaker binding of the ruthenium complexes …
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- Evidence of Allopolyploidy in Urochloa humidicola Based on Cytological Analysis and Genetic Linkage Mapping. [Journal Article]
- The African species Urochloa humidicola (Rendle) Morrone & Zuloaga (syn. Brachiaria humidicola (Rendle) Schweick.) is an important perennial forage grass found throughout the tropics. This species is polyploid, ranging from tetra to nonaploid, and apomictic, which makes genetic studies challenging; therefore, the number of currently available genetic resources is limited. The genomic architecture…
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- Structural basis for olivetolic acid formation by a polyketide cyclase from Cannabis sativa. [Journal Article]
- In polyketide biosynthesis, ring formation is one of the key diversification steps. Olivetolic acid cyclase (OAC) from Cannabis sativa, involved in cannabinoid biosynthesis, is the only known plant polyketide cyclase. In addition, it is the only functionally characterized plant α+β barrel (DABB) protein that catalyzes the C2-C7 aldol cyclization of the linear pentyl tetra-β-ketide CoA as the subs…
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- Calorimetric and spectroscopic investigations of the binding of metallated porphyrins to G-quadruplex DNA. [Journal Article]
- CONCLUSIONS: In the case of apo-TMPyP4, Ni(II)-TMPyP4, and Cu(II)-TMPyP4, the thermodynamic signatures for the two binding modes are consistent with an "end stacking" mechanism for the higher affinity binding mode and an "intercalation" mechanism for the lower affinity binding mode. In the case of Co(III)-TMPyP4 and Zn(II)-TMPyP4, both the lower affinity for the "end-stacking" mode and the loss of the intercalative mode for forming the 2:1 complexes with hTel22 are attributed to the preferred metal coordination geometry and the presence of axial ligands.
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- Structural basis of glycogen branching enzyme deficiency and pharmacologic rescue by rational peptide design. [Journal Article]
- Glycogen branching enzyme 1 (GBE1) plays an essential role in glycogen biosynthesis by generating α-1,6-glucosidic branches from α-1,4-linked glucose chains, to increase solubility of the glycogen polymer. Mutations in the GBE1 gene lead to the heterogeneous early-onset glycogen storage disorder type IV (GSDIV) or the late-onset adult polyglucosan body disease (APBD). To better understand this es…
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- Synthesis of apolipoprotein B lipoparticles to deliver hydrophobic/amphiphilic materials. [Journal Article]
- To develop a drug delivery system (DDS), it is critical to address challenging tasks such as the delivery of hydrophobic and amphiphilic compounds, cell uptake, and the metabolic fate of the drug delivery carrier. Low-density lipoprotein (LDL) has been acknowledged as the human serum transporter of natively abundant lipoparticles such as cholesterol, triacylglycerides, and lipids. Apolipoprotein …
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- A novel amido-pyrophosphate Mn(II) chelate complex with the synthetic ligand O{P(O)[NHC(CH3)3]2}2 (L): [Mn(L)2{OC(H)N(CH3)2}2]Cl2·2H2O. [Journal Article]
- The title complex, trans-bis(dimethylformamide-κO)bis{N,N'-N'',N'''-tetra-tert-butyl[oxybis(phosphonic diamide-κO)]}manganese(II) dichloride dihydrate, [Mn(C16H40N4O3P2)2(C3H7NO)2]Cl2·2H2O, is the first example of a bis-chelate amido-pyrophosphate (pyrophosphoramide) complex containing an O[P(O)(NH)2]2 fragment. Its asymmetric unit contains half of the complex dication, one chloride anion and one…
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- Silver indium diphosphate, AgInP(2)O(7). [Journal Article]
- Polycrystalline material of the title compound, AgInP(2)O(7), was synthesized by traditional high-temperature solid-state methods and single crystals were grown from the melt of a mixture of AgInP(2)O(7) and B(2)O(3) as flux in a platinium crucible. The structure consists of InO(6) octa-hedra, which are corner-shared to PO(4) tetra-hedra into a three-dimensional network with hexa-gonal channels r…
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- Genetic variants of IL-6 and its receptor are not associated with schizophrenia in Taiwan. [Journal Article]
- The pathophysiological process of schizophrenia is still unclear. The levels of interleukine-6 (IL-6) and its receptor, soluble IL-6R, have been reported to be elevated in the plasma and cerebrospinal fluid of schizophrenic patients. In this study, we tested the association of genetic variants of IL-6 and IL-6R with schizophrenia. Genotyping of three single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNP) for each…
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- Calcium induces binding and formation of a spin-coupled dimanganese(II,II) center in the apo-water oxidation complex of photosystem II as precursor to the functional tetra-Mn/Ca cluster. [Journal Article]
- Two new intermediates are described which form in the dark as precursors to the light-induced assembly of the photosynthetic water oxidation complex (WOC) from the inorganic components. Mn2+ binds to the apo-WOC-PSII protein in the absence of calcium at a high-affinity site. By using a hydrophobic chelator to remove Mn2+ and Ca2+ from the WOC and nonspecific Fe3+, a new EPR signal becomes visible…
- High-resolution kinetic studies of the reassembly of the tetra-manganese cluster of photosynthetic water oxidation: proton equilibrium, cations, and electrostatics. [Journal Article]
- The kinetics of pulsed-light photoactivation, the light-induced reassembly of the water-oxidizing complex (WOC) of PSII in the presence of essential inorganic cofactors, has been studied using two improvements: a new efficient chelator, N,N,N',N'-tetrapropionato-1,3-bis(aminomethyl)benzene (TPDBA), for complete extraction of {Mn4} and Ca2+ and an ultrasensitive polarographic cell for O2 detection…
- Assembly of the tetra-Mn site of photosynthetic water oxidation by photoactivation: Mn stoichiometry and detection of a new intermediate. [Journal Article]
- The process of photoactivation, the assembly of the water-oxidizing complex (WOC) of photosystem II (PSII) membranes, has been examined using two major improvements in methodology. First a new lipophilic chelator, N,N,N',N'-tetrapropionate-1,3-bis(aminomethyl)benzene (TPDBA), has been used that permits complete extraction of both manganese and calcium and the three extrinsic WOC polypeptides whil…
- Induction of protein oxidation in human low density lipoprotein by the photosensitive organic hydroperoxide, N,N'-bis(2-hydroxyperoxy-2-methoxyethyl)-1,4,5,8-naphthalene-tetra-carb oxylic- diimide. [Journal Article]Biochem Biophys Res Commun. 1995 Jan 05; 206(1):138-45.BB
- We have developed a new molecular probe, N,N'-bis(2-hydroxyperoxy-2-methyoxyethyl)-1,4,5,8-naphthalen e-tetra-carboxylic- diimide (NP-III), that specifically generates hydroxyl radical upon irradiation with longer wavelength ultraviolet light (UVA). Hydroxyl radicals are generated only upon irradiation, thus NP-III is a new controllable hydroxyl radical source. Apolipoprotein (apo-B) of human low…
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- Reversible thermal inactivation of the quinoprotein glucose dehydrogenase from Acinetobacter calcoaceticus. Ca2+ ions are necessary for re-activation. [Journal Article]
- The soluble form of the homogeneous quinoprotein glucose dehydrogenase from Acinetobacter calcoaceticus is reversibly inactivated at temperatures above 35 degrees C. An equilibrium is established between active and denatured enzyme, this depending on the protein concentration and the inactivation temperature used. Upon thermal inactivation the enzyme dissociates into the prosthetic group pyrroloq…
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- Importance of ligand-induced conformational changes in hemopexin for receptor-mediated heme transport. [Journal Article]
- Hemopexin alters conformation upon binding heme as shown by circular dichroism (CD), but hemopexin binds the heme analog, iron-meso-tetra-(4-sulfonatophenyl)-porphine (FeTPPS), without undergoing concomitant changes in its CD spectrum. Moreover, FeTPPS, unlike heme, does not increase the compactness of the heme-binding domain (I) of hemopexin shown by an increased sedimentation rate in sucrose gr…