Search Results - "Remeta, David P."
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Forces Driving a Magic Bullet to Its Target: Revisiting the Role of Thermodynamics in Drug Design, Development, and Optimization
Published in Life (Basel, Switzerland) (15-09-2022)“…Drug discovery strategies have advanced significantly towards prioritizing target selectivity to achieve the longstanding goal of identifying "magic bullets"…”
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Mechanisms of antiviral action and toxicities of ipecac alkaloids: Emetine and dehydroemetine exhibit anti-coronaviral activities at non-cardiotoxic concentrations
Published in Virus research (01-03-2024)“…•Emetine and dehydroemetine inhibit both coronavirus growth and host-cell protein synthesis at nanomolar concentrations.•The stereochemical requirements of…”
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Structural Instability Tuning as a Regulatory Mechanism in Protein-Protein Interactions
Published in Molecular cell (09-12-2011)“…Protein-protein interactions mediate a vast number of cellular processes. Here, we present a regulatory mechanism in protein-protein interactions mediated by…”
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Characterization of Aurintricarboxylic Acid (ATA) Interactions with Plasma Transporter Protein and SARS-CoV-2 Viral Targets: Correlation of Functional Activity and Binding Energetics
Published in Life (Basel, Switzerland) (10-06-2022)“…In an effort to identify functional-energetic correlations leading to the development of efficient anti-SARS-CoV-2 therapeutic agents, we have designed…”
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Substrate-Activated Conformational Switch on Chaperones Encodes a Targeting Signal in Type III Secretion
Published in Cell reports (Cambridge) (01-03-2013)“…The targeting of type III secretion (TTS) proteins at the injectisome is an important process in bacterial virulence. Nevertheless, how the injectisome…”
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continuous hyperchromicity assay to characterize the kinetics and thermodynamics of DNA lesion recognition and base excision
Published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences - PNAS (08-01-2008)“…We report a continuous hyperchromicity assay (CHA) for monitoring and characterizing enzyme activities associated with DNA processing. We use this assay to…”
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Substrate-Activated Conformational Switch on Chaperones Encodes a Targeting Signal in Type III Secretion
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Structural and mechanistic insights into the transport of aristolochic acids and their active metabolites by human serum albumin
Published in The Journal of biological chemistry (01-07-2024)“…Aristolochic acids I and II (AA-I/II) are carcinogenic principles of Aristolochia plants, which have been employed in traditional medicinal practices and…”
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Magnesium Activates Microsecond Dynamics to Regulate Integrin-Collagen Recognition
Published in Structure (London) (07-08-2018)“…Integrin receptors bind collagen via metal-mediated interactions that are modulated by magnesium (Mg2+) levels in the extracellular matrix. Nuclear magnetic…”
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A Revised Picture of the Cu(II)−α-Synuclein Complex: The Role of N‑Terminal Acetylation
Published in Biochemistry (Easton) (06-05-2014)“…α-Synuclein (αS) is an amyloidogenic intrinsically disordered protein implicated in Parkinson’s disease, for which copper-mediated pathways of…”
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Massively parallel, computationally guided design of a proenzyme
Published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences - PNAS (12-04-2022)“…Confining the activity of a designed protein to a specific microenvironment would have broad-ranging applications, such as enabling cell type-specific…”
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Impact of bistrand abasic sites and proximate orientation on DNA global structure and duplex energetics
Published in Biopolymers (01-08-2018)“…Bistrand lesions embedded within a single helical turn of tridecameric deoxyoligonucleotide duplexes represent a model system for exploring the impact of…”
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Heat Shock Protein 90 kDa (Hsp90) Has a Second Functional Interaction Site with the Mitochondrial Import Receptor Tom70
Published in The Journal of biological chemistry (02-09-2016)“…To accomplish its crucial role, mitochondria require proteins that are produced in the cytosol, delivered by cytosolic Hsp90, and translocated to its interior…”
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The Thermodynamics of Template-Directed DNA Synthesis: Base Insertion and Extension Enthalpies
Published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences - PNAS (09-12-2003)“…We used stopped-flow calorimetry to measure the overall enthalpy change associated with template-directed nucleotide insertion and DNA extension. Specifically,…”
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HSF1, Aging, and Neurodegeneration
Published in Advances in experimental medicine and biology (2023)“…Heat shock factor 1 (HSF1) is a master transcription regulator that mediates the induction of heat shock protein chaperones for quality control (QC) of the…”
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What Drives Proteins into the Major or Minor Grooves of DNA?
Published in Journal of molecular biology (05-01-2007)“…The energetic profiles of a significant number of protein–DNA systems at 20 °C reveal that, despite comparable Gibbs free energies, association with the major…”
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Acid-Induced Changes in Thermal Stability and Fusion Activity of Influenza Hemagglutinin
Published in Biochemistry (Easton) (12-02-2002)“…The conformational and thermal stability of full-length hemagglutinin (HA) of influenza virus (strain X31) has been investigated using a combination of…”
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Intrinsic local destabilization of the C-terminus predisposes integrin [alpha]1 I domain to a conformational switch induced by collagen binding
Published in Protein science (01-09-2016)“…Integrin-collagen interactions play a critical role in a myriad of cellular functions that include immune response, and cell development and differentiation,…”
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Intrinsic local destabilization of the C‐terminus predisposes integrin α1 I domain to a conformational switch induced by collagen binding
Published in Protein science (01-09-2016)“…Integrin–collagen interactions play a critical role in a myriad of cellular functions that include immune response, and cell development and differentiation,…”
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Impact of thymine glycol damage on DNA duplex energetics: Correlations with lesion-induced biochemical and structural consequences
Published in Biopolymers (01-09-2015)“…ABSTRACT The magnitude and nature of lesion‐induced energetic perturbations empirically correlate with mutagenicity/cytotoxicity profiles and can be predictive…”
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