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- Artículo:
Crystal structure of the FTO protein reveals basis for its substrate specificity
- Autor:
Zhifu Han
- Resumen:
The fat mass and obesity-associated (FTO) gene has been associated with increased body weight. The FTO protein has DNA/RNA demethylase activity. Here, the crystal structure of human FTO in complex with the mononucleotide 3-methylthymidine is presented. The structure provides a basis for understanding the substrate specificity of FTO, and should serve as a foundation for the design of FTO inhibitors
- Página:
1205
- Publicación:
Nature
- Volúmen:
464
- Número:
7292
- Periodo:
22 Abril 2010
- ISSN:
00280836
- SrcID:
00280836-2010-04-22.txt
- Documento número 539519
- Actualizado el martes, 10 de julio de 2018 10:13:50 a. m.
- Creado el martes, 10 de julio de 2018 10:13:50 a. m.
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- Artículo:
Isolation of the elusive supercomplex that drives cyclic electron flow in photosynthesis
- Autor:
Masakazu Iwai
- Resumen:
During photosynthesis, light energy is used by photosystems I and II to establish electron flow, which ultimately results in the production of ATP and NADPH. Two modes of electron flow exist, a linear electron flow and a cyclic electron flow (CEF). The latter pathway generates more ATP, but its molecular components have been elusive. Here, a combination of biochemical and spectroscopic techniques has been used to identify the supercomplex that drives CEF in the green alga Chlamydomonas reinhardtii
- Página:
1210
- Publicación:
Nature
- Volúmen:
464
- Número:
7292
- Periodo:
22 Abril 2010
- ISSN:
00280836
- SrcID:
00280836-2010-04-22.txt
- Documento número 539520
- Actualizado el martes, 10 de julio de 2018 10:13:50 a. m.
- Creado el martes, 10 de julio de 2018 10:13:50 a. m.
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- Artículo:
Ku is a 5?-dRP/AP lyase that excises nucleotide damage near broken ends
- Autor:
Steven A. Roberts
- Resumen:
Most agents that generate breaks in DNA leave 'dirty ends' that cannot be joined immediately; instead, intervening steps are required to restore the integrity of nucleotides at the break. Here it is shown that the non-homologous end joining pathway requires a 5?-dRP/AP lyase activity to remove abasic sites at double-strand breaks. Surprisingly, this activity is catalysed by the Ku70 protein, which, together with its partner Ku86, had been thought only to recognize broken DNA ends and to recruit other factors that process ends
- Página:
1214
- Publicación:
Nature
- Volúmen:
464
- Número:
7292
- Periodo:
22 Abril 2010
- ISSN:
00280836
- SrcID:
00280836-2010-04-22.txt
- Documento número 539521
- Actualizado el martes, 10 de julio de 2018 10:13:50 a. m.
- Creado el martes, 10 de julio de 2018 10:13:50 a. m.
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- Artículo:
Super-resolution biomolecular crystallography with low-resolution data
- Autor:
Gunnar F. Schröder
- Resumen:
X-ray crystallography has become the most common way for structural biologists to obtain the three-dimensional structures of proteins and protein complexes. However, crystals of large macromolecular complexes often diffract only weakly (yielding a resolution worse than 4 Å), so new methods that work at such low resolution are needed. Here a new method is described by which to obtain higher-quality electron density maps and more accurate molecular models of weakly diffracting crystals
- Página:
1218
- Publicación:
Nature
- Volúmen:
464
- Número:
7292
- Periodo:
22 Abril 2010
- ISSN:
00280836
- SrcID:
00280836-2010-04-22.txt
- Documento número 539522
- Actualizado el martes, 10 de julio de 2018 10:13:50 a. m.
- Creado el martes, 10 de julio de 2018 10:13:50 a. m.
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- Artículo:
RNA interference: Homing in on delivery
- Autor:
Monya Baker
- Resumen:
The scientific community now seems convinced that small RNAs will become therapies, if new tools can help these large molecules to make it safely into cells. Monya Baker reports
- Página:
1225
- Publicación:
Nature
- Volúmen:
464
- Número:
7292
- Periodo:
22 Abril 2010
- ISSN:
00280836
- SrcID:
00280836-2010-04-22.txt
- Documento número 539523
- Actualizado el martes, 10 de julio de 2018 10:13:50 a. m.
- Creado el martes, 10 de julio de 2018 10:13:50 a. m.
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