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Antiparallel (biochemistry)

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Structures of three MORN repeat proteins and a re-evaluation of the proposed lipid-binding properties of MORN repeats

MORN (Membrane Occupation and Recognition Nexus) repeat proteins have a wide taxonomic distribution, being found in both prokaryotes and eukaryotes. Despite this ubiquity, they remain poorly characterised at both a structural and a functional level compare ...

PUBLIC LIBRARY SCIENCE2020

The role of the polyglutamine and N-terminal domains in regulating the aggregation and structural properties of Huntingtin Exon 1

Sophie Vieweg

Huntington Disease (HD) is caused by a CAG repeat expansion in the huntingtin gene leading to the formation of mutant Huntingtin protein (Htt) with an expanded polyglutamine (polyQ) domain (>36Q). Generation of short N-terminal Htt fragments by proteolysis ...

EPFL2017

The centriolar protein CPAP G-box: an amyloid fibril in a single domain

Georgios Hatzopoulos

Centrioles are evolutionarily conserved cylindrical cell organelleswith characteristic radial symmetry. Despite their considerable size (400 nm x 200 nm, in humans), genetic studies suggest that relatively few protein components are involved in their assem ...

Portland Press Ltd2015

Prion versus Doppel Protein Misfolding: New Insights from Replica-Exchange Molecular Dynamics Simulations

Ursula Röthlisberger, Ivano Tavernelli

The doppel (Dpl) and prion (PrP) proteins share a very similar fold (three helices and two short beta-strands), while they differ significantly in sequence (only 25% homologous) and in disease-related beta-rich conformations that occur for PrP only. In a p ...

American Chemical Society2013

Specific binding of telomeric G-quadruplexes by hydrosoluble perylene derivatives inhibits repeat addition processivity of human telomerase

Joachim Lingner

Telomerase is responsible for the immortal phenotype of cancer cells and telomerase inhibition may specifically target cancer cell proliferation. Ligands able to selectively bind to G-quadruplex telomeric DNA have been considered as telomerase inhibitors b ...

2012

Characterization of Molecular Determinants of the Conformational Stability of Macrophage Migration Inhibitory Factor: Leucine 46 Hydrophobic Pocket

Ursula Röthlisberger, Hilal Lashuel, Florence Pojer, Bruno Claude Daniel Fauvet, Michele Cascella, Marilisa Neri, Magdalena Zweckstetter, Hajer Ouertatani-Sakouhi, Farah El Turk, Min Kyu Cho, Amer Ashrafi

Macrophage Migration Inhibitory Factor (MIF) is a key mediator of inflammatory responses and innate immunity and has been implicated in the pathogenesis of several inflammatory and autoimmune diseases. The oligomerization of MIF, more specifically trimer f ...

Public Library of Science2012

DNA Reactivity Profile of trans-Platinum Planar Amine Derivatives

Alexey Nazarov

New trans-platinum planar amines (TPAs) represent a family of platinum-based drugs with cytotoxicity equivalent to that of cisplatin, but with negligible cross-resistance. According to the substitution pattern around the metal center, distinct DNA adducts ...

2011

Synchrotron Infrared Microspectroscopy Detecting the Evolution of Huntington's Disease Neuropathology and Suggesting Unique Correlates of Dysfunction in White versus Gray Brain Matter

László Forró, Sylvia Jeney, Heike Runne, Markus Bonda

Huntington's disease (HD), caused by a mutation of the corresponding gene encoding the protein huntingtin (htt), is characterized by progressive deterioration of cognitive and motor functions, paralleled by extensive loss of striatal neurons. At the cellul ...

2011

Toward Structural Dynamics: Protein Motions Viewed by Chemical Shift Modulations and Direct Detection of C ' N Multiple-Quantum Relaxation

Geoffrey Bodenhausen, Daniel Abergel

Multiple quantum relaxation in proteins reveals unexpected relationships between correlated or anti-correlated conformational backbone dynamics in alpha-helices or beta-sheets. The contributions of conformational exchange to the relaxation rates of C'N coh ...

American Chemical Society2010

H-1, C-13 and N-15 assignment of the C-terminal domain of GNA2132 from Neisseria meningitidis

Valeria Musi

GNA2132 (Genome-derived Neisseria Antigen 2132) is a surface-exposed lipoprotein discovered by reverse vaccinology and expressed by genetically diverse Neisseria meningitidis strains (Pizza et al. 2000). The protein induces bactericidal antibodies against ...

2010

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