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Journal of Structural and Functional Genomics

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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Kyungtaek Lim, Kazunori D Yamada, Martin C Frith, Kentaro Tomii
Protein database search for public databases is a fundamental step in the target selection of proteins in structural and functional genomics and also for inferring protein structure, function, and evolution. Most database search methods employ amino acid substitution matrices to score amino acid pairs. The choice of substitution matrix strongly affects homology detection performance. We earlier proposed a substitution matrix named MIQS that was optimized for distant protein homology search. Herein we further evaluate MIQS in combination with LAST, a heuristic and fast database search tool with a tunable sensitivity parameter m, where larger m denotes higher sensitivity...
December 2016: Journal of Structural and Functional Genomics
https://read.qxmd.com/read/28063110/toward-the-next-step-in-g-protein-coupled-receptor-research-a-knowledge-driven-analysis-for-the-next-potential-targets-in-drug-discovery
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Koji Nagata, Yukie Katayama, Tomomi Sato, Yeondae Kwon, Takeshi Kawabata
More than 800 G protein-coupled receptor (GPCR) genes have been discovered in the human genome. Towards the next step in GPCR research, we performed a knowledge-driven analysis of orphan class-A GPCRs that may serve as novel targets in drug discovery. We examined the relationship between 61 orphan class-A GPCR genes and diseases using the Online Mendelian Inheritance in Man (OMIM) database and the DDSS tool. The OMIM database contains data on disease-related variants of the genes. Particularly, the variants of GPR101, GPR161, and GPR88 are related to the genetic diseases: growth hormone-secreting pituitary adenoma 2, pituitary stalk interruption syndrome (not confirmed), and childhood-onset chorea with psychomotor retardation, respectively...
December 2016: Journal of Structural and Functional Genomics
https://read.qxmd.com/read/28058521/special-issue-big-data-analyses-in-structural-and-functional-genomics
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Shigeyuki Yokoyama, Kei Yura
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December 2016: Journal of Structural and Functional Genomics
https://read.qxmd.com/read/28012138/classification-of-ligand-molecules-in-pdb-with-graph-match-based-structural-superposition
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Clara Shionyu-Mitsuyama, Atsushi Hijikata, Toshiyuki Tsuji, Tsuyoshi Shirai
The fast heuristic graph match algorithm for small molecules, COMPLIG, was improved by adding a structural superposition process to verify the atom-atom matching. The modified method was used to classify the small molecule ligands in the Protein Data Bank (PDB) by their three-dimensional structures, and 16,660 types of ligands in the PDB were classified into 7561 clusters. In contrast, a classification by a previous method (without structure superposition) generated 3371 clusters from the same ligand set. The characteristic feature in the current classification system is the increased number of singleton clusters, which contained only one ligand molecule in a cluster...
December 2016: Journal of Structural and Functional Genomics
https://read.qxmd.com/read/28012137/vapros-a-database-integration-approach-for-protein-genome-information-retrieval
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Takashi Gojobori, Kazuho Ikeo, Yukie Katayama, Takeshi Kawabata, Akira R Kinjo, Kengo Kinoshita, Yeondae Kwon, Ohsuke Migita, Hisashi Mizutani, Masafumi Muraoka, Koji Nagata, Satoshi Omori, Hideaki Sugawara, Daichi Yamada, Kei Yura
Life science research now heavily relies on all sorts of databases for genome sequences, transcription, protein three-dimensional (3D) structures, protein-protein interactions, phenotypes and so forth. The knowledge accumulated by all the omics research is so vast that a computer-aided search of data is now a prerequisite for starting a new study. In addition, a combinatory search throughout these databases has a chance to extract new ideas and new hypotheses that can be examined by wet-lab experiments. By virtually integrating the related databases on the Internet, we have built a new web application that facilitates life science researchers for retrieving experts' knowledge stored in the databases and for building a new hypothesis of the research target...
December 2016: Journal of Structural and Functional Genomics
https://read.qxmd.com/read/27530928/nldb-a-database-for-3d-protein-ligand-interactions-in-enzymatic-reactions
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Yoichi Murakami, Satoshi Omori, Kengo Kinoshita
NLDB (Natural Ligand DataBase; URL: https://nldb.hgc.jp ) is a database of automatically collected and predicted 3D protein-ligand interactions for the enzymatic reactions of metabolic pathways registered in KEGG. Structural information about these reactions is important for studying the molecular functions of enzymes, however a large number of the 3D interactions are still unknown. Therefore, in order to complement such missing information, we predicted protein-ligand complex structures, and constructed a database of the 3D interactions in reactions...
December 2016: Journal of Structural and Functional Genomics
https://read.qxmd.com/read/27522608/homcos-an-updated-server-to-search-and-model-complex-3d-structures
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Takeshi Kawabata
The HOMCOS server ( https://homcos.pdbj.org ) was updated for both searching and modeling the 3D complexes for all molecules in the PDB. As compared to the previous HOMCOS server, the current server targets all of the molecules in the PDB including proteins, nucleic acids, small compounds and metal ions. Their binding relationships are stored in the database. Five services are available for users. For the services "Modeling a Homo Protein Multimer" and "Modeling a Hetero Protein Multimer", a user can input one or two proteins as the queries, while for the service "Protein-Compound Complex", a user can input one chemical compound and one protein...
December 2016: Journal of Structural and Functional Genomics
https://read.qxmd.com/read/27507291/successful-completion-of-a-semi-automated-enzyme-free-cloning-method
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Stefano Bonacci, Scilla Buccato, Domenico Maione, Roberto Petracca
Nowadays, in scientific fields such as Structural Biology or Vaccinology, there is an increasing need of fast, effective and reproducible gene cloning and expression processes. Consequently, the implementation of robotic platforms enabling the automation of protocols is becoming a pressing demand. The main goal of our study was to set up a robotic platform devoted to the high-throughput automation of the polymerase incomplete primer extension cloning method, and to evaluate its efficiency compared to that achieved manually, by selecting a set of bacterial genes that were processed either in the automated platform (330) or manually (94)...
September 2016: Journal of Structural and Functional Genomics
https://read.qxmd.com/read/27400688/structural-mapping-of-kelch13-mutations-associated-with-artemisinin-resistance%C3%A2-in-malaria
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Gajinder Pal Singh, Preeti Goel, Amit Sharma
Mutations in Plasmodium falciparum gene kelch13 (pfkelch13) are strongly and causally associated with resistance to anti-malarial drug artemisinin, but their effects on PfKelch13 structure and function remain unclear. Utilizing the publicly available three-dimensional structure of PfKech13 (PDB ID: 4yy8), we find that most of the mutations in its propeller domain occur in two spatial clusters. Of these, one cluster is enriched in surface exposed residues which may drive PfKelch13-centered protein interactions, and the second cluster mostly contains residues which are buried and whose mutations may destabilize PfKelch13 structure...
September 2016: Journal of Structural and Functional Genomics
https://read.qxmd.com/read/27400687/development-of-a-protein-ligand-binding-site-prediction-method-based-on-interaction-energy-and-sequence-conservation
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Hiroto Tsujikawa, Kenta Sato, Cao Wei, Gul Saad, Kazuya Sumikoshi, Shugo Nakamura, Tohru Terada, Kentaro Shimizu
We present a new method for predicting protein-ligand-binding sites based on protein three-dimensional structure and amino acid conservation. This method involves calculation of the van der Waals interaction energy between a protein and many probes placed on the protein surface and subsequent clustering of the probes with low interaction energies to identify the most energetically favorable locus. In addition, it uses amino acid conservation among homologous proteins. Ligand-binding sites were predicted by combining the interaction energy and the amino acid conservation score...
September 2016: Journal of Structural and Functional Genomics
https://read.qxmd.com/read/27023709/expression-purification-and-crystallization-of-schizosaccharomyces-pombe-eif2b
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Kazuhiro Kashiwagi, Tomoaki Shigeta, Hiroaki Imataka, Takuhiro Ito, Shigeyuki Yokoyama
Tight control of protein synthesis is necessary for cells to respond and adapt to environmental changes rapidly. Eukaryotic translation initiation factor (eIF) 2B, the guanine nucleotide exchange factor for eIF2, is a key target of translation control at the initiation step. The nucleotide exchange activity of eIF2B is inhibited by the stress-induced phosphorylation of eIF2. As a result, the level of active GTP-bound eIF2 is lowered, and protein synthesis is attenuated. eIF2B is a large multi-subunit complex composed of five different subunits, and all five of the subunits are the gene products responsible for the neurodegenerative disease, leukoencephalopathy with vanishing white matter...
March 2016: Journal of Structural and Functional Genomics
https://read.qxmd.com/read/26984848/premeltons-in-dna
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REVIEW
Henry M Sobell
Premeltons are examples of emergent-structures (i.e., structural-solitons) that arise spontaneously in DNA due to the presence of nonlinear-excitations in its structure. They are of two kinds: B-B (or A-A) premeltons form at specific DNA-regions to nucleate site-specific DNA melting. These are stationary and, being globally-nontopological, undergo breather-motions that allow drugs and dyes to intercalate into DNA. B-A (or A-B) premeltons, on the other hand, are mobile, and being globally-topological, act as phase-boundaries transforming B- into A-DNA during the structural phase-transition...
March 2016: Journal of Structural and Functional Genomics
https://read.qxmd.com/read/26935210/the-impact-of-structural-genomics-the-first-quindecennial
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REVIEW
Marek Grabowski, Ewa Niedzialkowska, Matthew D Zimmerman, Wladek Minor
The period 2000-2015 brought the advent of high-throughput approaches to protein structure determination. With the overall funding on the order of $2 billion (in 2010 dollars), the structural genomics (SG) consortia established worldwide have developed pipelines for target selection, protein production, sample preparation, crystallization, and structure determination by X-ray crystallography and NMR. These efforts resulted in the determination of over 13,500 protein structures, mostly from unique protein families, and increased the structural coverage of the expanding protein universe...
March 2016: Journal of Structural and Functional Genomics
https://read.qxmd.com/read/26671275/gene-selection-and-cloning-approaches-for-co-expression-and-production-of-recombinant-protein-protein-complexes
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
György Babnigg, Robert Jedrzejczak, Boguslaw Nocek, Adam Stein, William Eschenfeldt, Lucy Stols, Norman Marshall, Alicia Weger, Ruiying Wu, Mark Donnelly, Andrzej Joachimiak
Multiprotein complexes play essential roles in all cells and X-ray crystallography can provide unparalleled insight into their structure and function. Many of these complexes are believed to be sufficiently stable for structural biology studies, but the production of protein-protein complexes using recombinant technologies is still labor-intensive. We have explored several strategies for the identification and cloning of heterodimers and heterotrimers that are compatible with the high-throughput (HTP) structural biology pipeline developed for single proteins...
December 2015: Journal of Structural and Functional Genomics
https://read.qxmd.com/read/26573864/automated-protein-motif-generation-in-the-structure-based-protein-function-prediction-tool-promol
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Mikhail Osipovitch, Mitchell Lambrecht, Cameron Baker, Shariq Madha, Jeffrey L Mills, Paul A Craig, Herbert J Bernstein
ProMOL, a plugin for the PyMOL molecular graphics system, is a structure-based protein function prediction tool. ProMOL includes a set of routines for building motif templates that are used for screening query structures for enzyme active sites. Previously, each motif template was generated manually and required supervision in the optimization of parameters for sensitivity and selectivity. We developed an algorithm and workflow for the automation of motif building and testing routines in ProMOL. The algorithm uses a set of empirically derived parameters for optimization and requires little user intervention...
December 2015: Journal of Structural and Functional Genomics
https://read.qxmd.com/read/25854603/expression-platforms-for-producing-eukaryotic-proteins-a-comparison-of-e-coli-cell-based-and-wheat-germ-cell-free-synthesis-affinity-and-solubility-tags-and-cloning-strategies
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
David J Aceti, Craig A Bingman, Russell L Wrobel, Ronnie O Frederick, Shin-Ichi Makino, Karl W Nichols, Sarata C Sahu, Lai F Bergeman, Paul G Blommel, Claudia C Cornilescu, Katarzyna A Gromek, Kory D Seder, Soyoon Hwang, John G Primm, Grzegorz Sabat, Frank C Vojtik, Brian F Volkman, Zsolt Zolnai, George N Phillips, John L Markley, Brian G Fox
Vectors designed for protein production in Escherichia coli and by wheat germ cell-free translation were tested using 21 well-characterized eukaryotic proteins chosen to serve as controls within the context of a structural genomics pipeline. The controls were carried through cloning, small-scale expression trials, large-scale growth or synthesis, and purification. Successfully purified proteins were also subjected to either crystallization trials or (1)H-(15)N HSQC NMR analyses. Experiments evaluated: (1) the relative efficacy of restriction/ligation and recombinational cloning systems; (2) the value of maltose-binding protein (MBP) as a solubility enhancement tag; (3) the consequences of in vivo proteolysis of the MBP fusion as an alternative to post-purification proteolysis; (4) the effect of the level of LacI repressor on the yields of protein obtained from E...
June 2015: Journal of Structural and Functional Genomics
https://read.qxmd.com/read/25832174/crystal-structures-of-mycobacterial-meab-and-mmaa-like-gtpases
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Thomas E Edwards, Loren Baugh, Jameson Bullen, Ruth O Baydo, Pam Witte, Kaitlin Thompkins, Isabelle Q H Phan, Jan Abendroth, Matthew C Clifton, Banumathi Sankaran, Wesley C Van Voorhis, Peter J Myler, Bart L Staker, Christoph Grundner, Donald D Lorimer
The methylmalonyl Co-A mutase-associated GTPase MeaB from Methylobacterium extorquens is involved in glyoxylate regulation and required for growth. In humans, mutations in the homolog methylmalonic aciduria associated protein (MMAA) cause methylmalonic aciduria, which is often fatal. The central role of MeaB from bacteria to humans suggests that MeaB is also important in other, pathogenic bacteria such as Mycobacterium tuberculosis. However, the identity of the mycobacterial MeaB homolog is presently unclear...
June 2015: Journal of Structural and Functional Genomics
https://read.qxmd.com/read/25801860/solution-structures-of-the-dna-binding-domains-of-immune-related-zinc-finger-protein-zfat
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Naoya Tochio, Takashi Umehara, Kazuhiko Nakabayashi, Misao Yoneyama, Kengo Tsuda, Mikako Shirouzu, Seizo Koshiba, Satoru Watanabe, Takanori Kigawa, Takehiko Sasazuki, Senji Shirasawa, Shigeyuki Yokoyama
ZFAT is a transcriptional regulator, containing eighteen C2H2-type zinc-fingers and one AT-hook, involved in autoimmune thyroid disease, apoptosis, and immune-related cell survival. We determined the solution structures of the thirteen individual ZFAT zinc-fingers (ZF) and the tandemly arrayed zinc-fingers in the regions from ZF2 to ZF5, by NMR spectroscopy. ZFAT has eight uncommon bulged-out helix-containing zinc-fingers, and six of their structures (ZF4, ZF5, ZF6, ZF10, ZF11, and ZF13) were determined. The distribution patterns of the putative DNA-binding surface residues are different among the ZFAT zinc-fingers, suggesting the distinct DNA sequence preferences of the N-terminal and C-terminal zinc-fingers...
June 2015: Journal of Structural and Functional Genomics
https://read.qxmd.com/read/25758186/crystal-structure-of-the-mazg-related-nucleoside-triphosphate-pyrophosphohydrolase-from-thermotoga-maritima-msb8
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Balasundaram Padmanabhan, Prashant Deshmukh, Shigeyuki Yokoyama, Yoshitaka Bessho
The MazG family proteins, which are highly conserved in bacteria, are nucleoside triphosphate pyrophosphohydrolases that hydrolyze all canonical nucleoside triphosphates, and are also involved in removing noncanonical nucleoside triphosphates to prevent their incorporation into DNA or RNA. The primary structure of TM0360 from Thermotoga maritima MSB8 suggested that TM0360 is a MazG-related nucleoside triphosphate pyrophosphohydrolase. The crystal structure of the TM0360 protein was determined by the MAD technique at 2...
June 2015: Journal of Structural and Functional Genomics
https://read.qxmd.com/read/25630330/annotation-of-proteins-of-unknown-function-initial-enzyme-results
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Talia McKay, Kaitlin Hart, Alison Horn, Haeja Kessler, Greg Dodge, Keti Bardhi, Kostandina Bardhi, Jeffrey L Mills, Herbert J Bernstein, Paul A Craig
Working with a combination of ProMOL (a plugin for PyMOL that searches a library of enzymatic motifs for local structural homologs), BLAST and Pfam (servers that identify global sequence homologs), and Dali (a server that identifies global structural homologs), we have begun the process of assigning functional annotations to the approximately 3,500 structures in the Protein Data Bank that are currently classified as having "unknown function". Using a limited template library of 388 motifs, over 500 promising in silico matches have been identified by ProMOL, among which 65 exceptionally good matches have been identified...
March 2015: Journal of Structural and Functional Genomics
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