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Novel proteases from the genome of the carnivorous plant Drosera capensis: Structural prediction and comparative analysis by Butts, Carter T., Bierma, Jan C., Martin, Rachel W.

“…ABSTRACT In his 1875 monograph on insectivorous plants, Darwin described the feeding reactions of Drosera flypaper traps and predicted that their secretions…”
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Stability of Protein-Specific Hydration Shell on Crowding by Huang, Kuo-Ying, Kingsley, Carolyn N, Sheil, Ryan, Cheng, Chi-Yuan, Bierma, Jan C, Roskamp, Kyle W, Khago, Domarin, Martin, Rachel W, Han, Songi

“…We demonstrate that the effect of protein crowding is critically dependent on the stability of the protein’s hydration shell, which can dramatically vary…”
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Dissecting Fission Yeast Shelterin Interactions via MICro-MS Links Disruption of Shelterin Bridge to Tumorigenesis by Liu, Jinqiang, Yu, Clinton, Hu, Xichan, Kim, Jin-Kwang, Bierma, Jan C., Jun, Hyun-Ik, Rychnovsky, Scott D., Huang, Lan, Qiao, Feng

“…Shelterin, a six-member complex, protects telomeres from nucleolytic attack and regulates their elongation by telomerase. Here, we have developed a strategy,…”
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The Droserasin 1 PSI: A Membrane-Interacting Antimicrobial Peptide from the Carnivorous Plant Drosera capensis by Sprague-Piercy, Marc A, Bierma, Jan C, Crosby, Marquise G, Carpenter, Brooke P, Takahashi, Gemma R, Paulino, Joana, Hung, Ivan, Zhang, Rongfu, Kelly, John E, Kozlyuk, Natalia, Chen, Xi, Butts, Carter T, Martin, Rachel W

“…The Droserasins, aspartic proteases from the carnivorous plant , contain a 100-residue plant-specific insert (PSI) that is post-translationally cleaved and…”
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Protein refractive index increment is determined by conformation as well as composition by Khago, Domarin, Bierma, Jan C, Roskamp, Kyle W, Kozlyuk, Natalia, Martin, Rachel W

“…The refractive index gradient of the eye lens is controlled by the concentration and distribution of its component crystallin proteins, which are highly…”
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Transient and stabilized complexes of Nsp7, Nsp8, and Nsp12 in SARS-CoV-2 replication by Wilamowski, Mateusz, Hammel, Michal, Leite, Wellington, Zhang, Qiu, Kim, Youngchang, Weiss, Kevin L., Jedrzejczak, Robert, Rosenberg, Daniel J., Fan, Yichong, Wower, Jacek, Bierma, Jan C., Sarker, Altaf H., Tsutakawa, Susan E., Pingali, Sai Venkatesh, O’Neill, Hugh M., Joachimiak, Andrzej, Hura, Greg L.

“…The replication transcription complex (RTC) from the virus SARS-CoV-2 is responsible for recognizing and processing RNA for two principal purposes. The RTC…”
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Divalent Cations and the Divergence of βγ-Crystallin Function by Roskamp, Kyle W, Kozlyuk, Natalia, Sengupta, Suvrajit, Bierma, Jan C, Martin, Rachel W

“…The βγ-crystallin superfamily contains both β- and γ-crystallins of the vertebrate eye lens and the microbial calcium-binding proteins, all of which are…”
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Calcium Binding Dramatically Stabilizes an Ancestral Crystallin Fold in Tunicate βγ-Crystallin by Kozlyuk, Natalia, Sengupta, Suvrajit, Bierma, Jan C, Martin, Rachel W

“…The tunicate (Ciona intestinalis) βγ-crystallin represents an intermediate case between the calcium-binding proteins ancestral to the vertebrate βγ-crystallin…”
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Correlating Conformational Equilibria with Catalysis in the Electron Bifurcating EtfABCX of Thermotoga maritima by Murray, Daniel T., Ge, Xiaoxuan, Schut, Gerrit J., Rosenberg, Daniel J., Hammel, Michal, Bierma, Jan C., Hille, Russ, Adams, Michael W. W., Hura, Greg L.

“…Electron bifurcation (BF) is an evolutionarily ancient energy coupling mechanism in anaerobes, whose associated enzymatic machinery remains enigmatic. In…”
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Controlling Liquid–Liquid Phase Separation of Cold-Adapted Crystallin Proteins from the Antarctic Toothfish by Bierma, Jan C., Roskamp, Kyle W., Ledray, Aaron P., Kiss, Andor J., Cheng, C.-H. Christina, Martin, Rachel W.

“…Liquid–liquid phase separation (LLPS) of proteins is important to a variety of biological processes both functional and deleterious, including the formation of…”
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γS-Crystallin Proteins from the Antarctic Nototheniid Toothfish: A Model System for Investigating Differential Resistance to Chemical and Thermal Denaturation by Kingsley, Carolyn N, Bierma, Jan C, Pham, Vyvy, Martin, Rachel W

“…The γS1- and γS2-crystallins, structural eye lens proteins from the Antarctic toothfish (Dissostichus mawsoni), are homologues of the human lens protein…”
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Cover Image, Volume 84, Issue 10 by Butts, Carter T., Bierma, Jan C., Martin, Rachel W.

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Uncovering the Role of Surface Residues and Buffer Composition in Liquid-Liquid Phase Separation of Eye Lens Crystallins from an Antarctic Toothfish by Bierma, Jan C., Roskamp, Kyle, Ledray, Aaron, Kiss, Andor J., Christina Cheng, C.-H., Martin, Rachel W.

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Exploring Cold-adapted Eye Lens Proteins and Discovery of an Antimicrobial Protein from a Carnivorous Plant by Bierma, Jan C

“…This thesis explores the eye lens proteins from the Antarctic toothfish Dissostichus mawsoni and how they have evolved to the subfreezing temperatures of their…”
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