Search Results - "Oliveira, Paulo Sergio Lopes de"
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Featuring the nucleosome surface as a therapeutic target
Published in Trends in pharmacological sciences (Regular ed.) (01-05-2015)“…Highlights • Chromatin dynamics depend on competition by NBPs and the histone H4 tail to bind to the nucleosome's acidic patch. • eNBMs and distinct NBPs lead…”
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Genes Controlled by DNA Methylation Are Involved in Wilms Tumor Progression
Published in Cells (Basel, Switzerland) (17-08-2019)“…To identify underlying mechanisms involved with metastasis formation in Wilms tumors (WTs), we performed comprehensive DNA methylation and gene expression…”
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Mechanistic insights revealed by a UBE2A mutation linked to intellectual disability
Published in Nature chemical biology (01-01-2019)“…Ubiquitin-conjugating enzymes (E2) enable protein ubiquitination by conjugating ubiquitin to their catalytic cysteine for subsequent transfer to a target…”
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Kinase inhibitor profile for human nek1, nek6, and nek7 and analysis of the structural basis for inhibitor specificity
Published in Molecules (Basel, Switzerland) (13-01-2015)“…Human Neks are a conserved protein kinase family related to cell cycle progression and cell division and are considered potential drug targets for the…”
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Protein folding creates structure-based, noncontiguous consensus phosphorylation motifs recognized by kinases
Published in Science signaling (04-11-2014)“…Linear consensus motifs are short contiguous sequences of residues within a protein that can form recognition modules for protein interaction or catalytic…”
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Structural analysis of intermolecular interactions in the kinesin adaptor complex fasciculation and elongation protein zeta 1/ short coiled-coil protein (FEZ1/SCOCO)
Published in PloS one (07-10-2013)“…Cytoskeleton and protein trafficking processes, including vesicle transport to synapses, are key processes in neuronal differentiation and axon outgrowth. The…”
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Oligomerization as a strategy for cold adaptation: Structure and dynamics of the GH1 β-glucosidase from Exiguobacterium antarcticum B7
Published in Scientific reports (31-03-2016)“…Psychrophilic enzymes evolved from a plethora of structural scaffolds via multiple molecular pathways. Elucidating their adaptive strategies is instrumental to…”
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Improving obesity research: Unveiling metabolic pathways through a 3D In vitro model of adipocytes using 3T3-L1 cells
Published in PloS one (31-05-2024)“…Obesity, a burgeoning global health crisis, has tripled in prevalence over the past 45 years, necessitating innovative research methodologies. Adipocytes,…”
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Structural dynamics of SARS-CoV-2 nucleocapsid protein induced by RNA binding
Published in PLoS computational biology (12-05-2022)“…The nucleocapsid (N) protein of the SARS-CoV-2 virus, the causal agent of COVID-19, is a multifunction phosphoprotein that plays critical roles in the virus…”
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pyKVFinder: an efficient and integrable Python package for biomolecular cavity detection and characterization in data science
Published in BMC bioinformatics (20-12-2021)“…Biomolecular interactions that modulate biological processes occur mainly in cavities throughout the surface of biomolecular structures. In the data science…”
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DNA methylation of the promoter region at the CREB1 binding site is a mechanism for the epigenetic regulation of brain-specific PKMζ
Published in Biochimica et biophysica acta. Gene regulatory mechanisms (01-03-2023)“…Protein kinase M zeta, PKMζ, is a brain enriched kinase with a well characterized role in Long-Term Potentiation (LTP), the activity-dependent strengthening of…”
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Molecular Mechanisms Associated with Xylan Degradation by Xanthomonas Plant Pathogens
Published in The Journal of biological chemistry (14-11-2014)“…Xanthomonas pathogens attack a variety of economically relevant plants, and their xylan CUT system (carbohydrate utilization with TonB-dependent outer membrane…”
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The mechanism by which a distinguishing arabinofuranosidase can cope with internal di-substitutions in arabinoxylans
Published in Biotechnology for biofuels (11-08-2018)“…Arabinoxylan is an abundant polysaccharide in industrially relevant biomasses such as sugarcane, corn stover and grasses. However, the arabinofuranosyl…”
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Glutaminase Affects the Transcriptional Activity of Peroxisome Proliferator-Activated Receptor γ (PPARγ) via Direct Interaction
Published in Biochemistry (Easton) (06-11-2018)“…Phosphate-activated glutaminases catalyze the deamidation of glutamine to glutamate and play key roles in several physiological and pathological processes. In…”
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Vasodilator effects and putative guanylyl cyclase stimulation by 2-nitro-1-phenylethanone and 2-nitro-2-phenyl-propane-1,3-diol on rat aorta
Published in European journal of pharmacology (05-07-2018)“…Compounds containing a nitro group may reveal vasodilator properties. Several nitro compounds have a NO2 group in a short aliphatic chain connected to an…”
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Hydrocephalus and arthrogryposis in an immunocompetent mouse model of ZIKA teratogeny: A developmental study
Published in PLoS neglected tropical diseases (23-02-2017)“…The teratogenic mechanisms triggered by ZIKV are still obscure due to the lack of a suitable animal model. Here we present a mouse model of developmental…”
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Structure and Mechanism of Dimer–Monomer Transition of a Plant Poly(A)-Binding Protein upon RNA Interaction: Insights into Its Poly(A) Tail Assembly
Published in Journal of molecular biology (31-07-2015)“…Poly(A)-binding proteins (PABPs) play crucial roles in mRNA biogenesis, stability, transport and translational control in most eukaryotic cells. Although…”
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SpliceProt: A protein sequence repository of predicted human splice variants
Published in Proteomics (Weinheim) (01-02-2014)“…The mechanism of alternative splicing in the transcriptome may increase the proteome diversity in eukaryotes. In proteomics, several studies aim to use protein…”
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Rational design and validation of an anti-protein kinase C active-state specific antibody based on conformational changes
Published in Scientific reports (25-02-2016)“…Protein kinase C (PKC) plays a regulatory role in key pathways in cancer. However, since phosphorylation is a step for classical PKC (cPKC) maturation and does…”
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ParKVFinder: A thread-level parallel approach in biomolecular cavity detection
Published in SoftwareX (01-07-2020)“…Biological processes are regulated mainly by the binding of small molecules into cavities distributed throughout the biomolecular structure. Computational…”
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