Search Results - "Saldanha, J W"
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The role of the sonic hedgehog signalling pathway in patients with midline defects and congenital hypopituitarism
Published in Clinical endocrinology (Oxford) (01-05-2015)“…Summary Introduction The Gli family of zinc finger (GLI) transcription factors mediates the sonic hedgehog signalling pathway (HH) essential for CNS, early…”
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Nifs and Sufs in malaria
Published in Molecular microbiology (01-09-2001)“…This review assembles data from three bodies of literature (bacterial genetics, plastid biogenesis and parasitology) that seldom have much direct cross‐talk…”
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Parasite plastids: maintenance and functions
Published in Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B. Biological sciences (29-01-2003)“…genes have emerged only recently and point to the areas of iron homeostasis, [Fe–S] cluster formation and oxidative stress. We present experimental evidence…”
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Structure and activation of muscarinic acetylcholine receptors
Published in Biochemical Society transactions (01-02-2003)“…A homology model of the M(1) muscarinic acetylcholine receptor, based on the X-ray structure of bovine rhodopsin, has been used to interpret the results of…”
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SufC hydrolyzes ATP and interacts with SufB from Thermotoga maritima
Published in FEBS letters (13-03-2002)“…Genetic experiments in bacteria have shown the suf operon is involved in iron homeostasis and the oxidative stress response. The sufB and sufC genes that…”
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The extracellular regions of PSMA and the transferrin receptor contain an aminopeptidase domain: Implications for drug design
Published in Protein science (01-11-1999)“…The Aeromonas proteolytica aminopeptidase (AMP), Pseudomonas sp. (RS-16) carboxypeptidase G2 (CPG2), and Streptomyces griseus aminopeptidase (SGAP) are zinc…”
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Seven-transmembrane receptors: crystals clarify
Published in Trends in Pharmacological Sciences (01-03-2002)“…The X-ray structure of the photoreceptor rhodopsin has provided the first atomic-resolution structure of a seven-transmembrane (7-TM) G-protein-coupled…”
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Site-directed Mutagenesis of CC Chemokine Receptor 1 Reveals the Mechanism of Action of UCB 35625, a Small Molecule Chemokine Receptor Antagonist
Published in The Journal of biological chemistry (11-02-2005)“…The chemokine receptor CCR1 and its principal ligand, CCL3/MIP-1α, have been implicated in the pathology of several inflammatory diseases including rheumatoid…”
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Expression of recombinant Plasmodium falciparum subtilisin-like protease-1 in insect cells. Characterization, comparison with the parasite protease, and homology modeling
Published in The Journal of biological chemistry (16-08-2002)“…Serine proteases play crucial roles in erythrocyte invasion by merozoites of the malaria parasite. Plasmodium falciparum subtilisin-like protease-1 (PfSUB-1)…”
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A structural model for the glutamate-specific endopeptidase from Streptomyces griseus that explains substrate specificity
Published in FEBS letters (07-06-1993)“…We present a model for the three-dimensional structure of the glutamate-specific endopeptidase from Streptomyces griseus based on the crystal structures of…”
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Prediction of domain organisation and secondary structure of thyroid peroxidase, a human autoantigen involved in destructive thyroiditis
Published in FEBS letters (18-06-1990)“…Organ specific autoimmune diseases are relatively common immunological disorders in man which include thyroid autoimmune disease, insulin-dependent diabetes…”
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Antagonist binding in the rat muscarinic receptor A study by docking and X-ray crystallography
Published in Computational biology and chemistry (01-12-2004)“…A series of agonists to the rat muscarinic receptor have been docked computationally to the active site of a homology model of rat M1 muscarinic receptor. The…”
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A single backmutation in the human kIV framework of a previously unsuccessfully humanized antibody restores the binding activity and increases the secretion in cos cells
Published in Molecular immunology (01-08-1999)“…Humanization of rodent mAbs by CDR-grafting (also called “reshaping”) is now a standard procedure for reducing immunogenicity and recruiting human effector…”
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A model for the cytoplasmic domain of the influenza A virus M2 channel by analogy to the HIV-1 Vpu protein
Published in Protein and peptide letters (01-12-2002)“…A model for the cytoplasmic domain of the M2 proton channel of influenza A virus was formulated based primarily on the cytoplasmic domain of the Vpu protein of…”
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Structural role of extracellular domain 1 of alpha-platelet-derived growth factor (PDGF) receptor for PDGF-AA and PDGF-BB binding
Published in The Journal of biological chemistry (17-11-1995)“…The purpose of this study was to bacterially express, purify, and refold combinations of the extracellular immunoglobulin (Ig)-like domains (2-3, 1-3, and 1-5)…”
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Transmembrane domains 4 and 7 of the M(1) muscarinic acetylcholine receptor are critical for ligand binding and the receptor activation switch
Published in The Journal of biological chemistry (07-09-2001)“…Activation of the muscarinic acetylcholine receptors requires agonist binding followed by a conformational change, but the ligand binding and…”
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Transmembrane Domains 4 and 7 of the M sub(1) Muscarinic Acetylcholine Receptor Are Critical for Ligand Binding and the Receptor Activation Switch
Published in The Journal of biological chemistry (07-09-2001)“…Activation of the muscarinic acetylcholine receptors requires agonist binding followed by a conformational change, but the ligand binding and…”
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Crystal and molecular structure of 5-carbamyl-5H-dibenzo[b,f] azepine
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A two-component signal transduction system with a PAS domain-containing sensor is required for virulence of Mycobacterium tuberculosis in mice
Published in Biochemical and biophysical research communications (30-01-2004)“…Mycobacterium tuberculosis, the causative organism of tuberculosis, encounters oxidative stress during phagocytosis by the macrophage and following macrophage…”
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Novel features of serine protease active sites and specificity pockets: sequence analysis and modelling studies of glutamate-specific endopeptidases and epidermolytic toxins
Published in Protein engineering (01-07-1996)“…With a view to obtaining a better understanding of the structural determinants of P1 glutamate specificity in glutamate-specific endopeptidases (GSEs), the…”
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