Search Results - "Pickersgill, Richard W"
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De novo targeting to the cytoplasmic and luminal side of bacterial microcompartments
Published in Nature communications (24-08-2018)“…Bacterial microcompartments, BMCs, are proteinaceous organelles that encase a specific metabolic pathway within a semi-permeable protein shell. Short…”
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Structural basis of pyrrole polymerization in human porphobilinogen deaminase
Published in Biochimica et biophysica acta. General subjects (01-09-2018)“…Human porphobilinogen deaminase (PBGD), the third enzyme in the heme pathway, catalyzes four times a single reaction to convert porphobilinogen into…”
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Kinetochores attached to microtubule-ends are stabilised by Astrin bound PP1 to ensure proper chromosome segregation
Published in eLife (06-12-2019)“…Microtubules segregate chromosomes by attaching to macromolecular kinetochores. Only microtubule-end attached kinetochores can be pulled apart; how these…”
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Scaffolding Protein GspB/OutB Facilitates Assembly of the Dickeya dadantii Type 2 Secretion System by Anchoring the Outer Membrane Secretin Pore to the Inner Membrane and to the Peptidoglycan Cell Wall
Published in mBio (28-06-2022)“…The phytopathogenic proteobacterium Dickeya dadantii secretes an array of plant cell wall-degrading enzymes and other virulence factors via the type 2…”
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An enzyme-trap approach allows isolation of intermediates in cobalamin biosynthesis
Published in Nature chemical biology (01-11-2012)“…The use of abbreviated pathway constructs leads to trapping of a series of cobalamin intermediates, allowing assignment of the full biosynthetic pathway and…”
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Structure of a trimeric bacterial microcompartment shell protein, EtuB, associated with ethanol utilization in Clostridium kluyveri
Published in Biochemical journal (15-10-2009)“…It has been suggested that ethanol metabolism in the strict anaerobe Clostridium kluyveri occurs within a metabolosome, a subcellular proteinaceous bacterial…”
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A disulfide driven domain swap switches off the activity of Shigella IpaH9.8 E3 ligase
Published in FEBS letters (08-10-2010)“…We show that the monomeric form of Shigella IpaH9.8 E3 ligase catalyses the ubiquitination of human U2AF35 in vitro, providing a molecular mechanism for the…”
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Structural and functional insights into the pilotin-secretin complex of the type II secretion system
Published in PLoS pathogens (01-02-2012)“…Gram-negative bacteria secrete virulence factors and assemble fibre structures on their cell surface using specialized secretion systems. Three of these, T2SS,…”
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Evolution in a family of chelatases facilitated by the introduction of active site asymmetry and protein oligomerization
Published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences - PNAS (04-01-2011)“…The class II chelatases associated with heme, siroheme, and cobalamin biosynthesis are structurally related enzymes that insert a specific metal ion (Fe²⁺ or…”
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A Generic Self‐Assembly Process in Microcompartments and Synthetic Protein Nanotubes
Published in Small (Weinheim an der Bergstrasse, Germany) (01-05-2018)“…Bacterial microcompartments enclose a biochemical pathway and reactive intermediate within a protein envelope formed by the shell proteins. Herein, the…”
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Enzyme-cargo encapsulation peptides bind between tessellating tiles of the bacterial microcompartment shell
Published in The Journal of biological chemistry (01-06-2024)“…Bacterial microcompartments are prokaryotic organelles comprising encapsulated enzymes within a thin protein shell. They facilitate metabolic processing…”
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Enzyme sequence and its relationship to hyperbaric stability of artificial and natural fish lactate dehydrogenases
Published in PloS one (30-04-2008)“…The cDNAs of lactate dehydrogenase b (LDH-b) from both deep-sea and shallow living fish species, Corphaenoides armatus and Gadus morhua respectively, have been…”
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FAD binding, cobinamide binding and active site communication in the corrin reductase (CobR)
Published in Bioscience reports (04-07-2014)“…Adenosylcobalamin, the coenzyme form of vitamin B12, is one Nature's most complex coenzyme whose de novo biogenesis proceeds along either an anaerobic or…”
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Structural and Spectroscopic Studies Shed Light on the Mechanism of Oxalate Oxidase
Published in The Journal of biological chemistry (10-03-2006)“…Oxalate oxidase (EC 1.2.3.4) catalyzes the conversion of oxalate and dioxygen to hydrogen peroxide and carbon dioxide. In this study, glycolate was used as a…”
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The Crystal Structure of Pectate Lyase Pel9A from Erwinia chrysanthemi
Published in The Journal of biological chemistry (05-03-2004)“…The “family 9 polysaccharide lyase” pectate lyase L (Pel9A) from Erwinia chrysanthemi comprises a 10-coil parallel β-helix domain with distinct structural…”
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Structural Insights into Higher Order Assembly and Function of the Bacterial Microcompartment Protein PduA
Published in The Journal of biological chemistry (08-08-2014)“…Bacterial microcompartments are large proteinaceous assemblies that are found in the cytoplasm of some bacteria. These structures consist of proteins…”
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Characterization of retinaldehyde dehydrogenase 3
Published in Biochemical journal (15-02-2006)“…RALDH3 (retinal dehydrogenase 3) was characterized by kinetic and binding studies, protein engineering, homology modelling, ligand docking and…”
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Identification, Characterization, and Structure/Function Analysis of a Corrin Reductase Involved in Adenosylcobalamin Biosynthesis
Published in The Journal of biological chemistry (18-04-2008)“…Vitamin B12, the antipernicious anemia factor, is the cyano derivative of adenosylcobalamin, which is one of nature's most complex coenzymes. Adenosylcobalamin…”
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Substrate channels revealed in the trimeric Lactobacillus reuteri bacterial microcompartment shell protein PduB
Published in Acta crystallographica. Section D, Biological crystallography. (01-12-2012)“…Lactobacillus reuteri metabolizes two similar three‐carbon molecules, 1,2‐propanediol and glycerol, within closed polyhedral subcellular bacterial organelles…”
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Synthetic Protein Nanotubes: A Generic Self‐Assembly Process in Microcompartments and Synthetic Protein Nanotubes (Small 19/2018)
Published in Small (Weinheim an der Bergstrasse, Germany) (01-05-2018)“…In article number 1704020, Richard W. Pickersgill and co‐workers uncover the orientation of shell proteins within synthetic protein nanotubes and bacterial…”
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