Archive of Kirill's Review of the Week - 2004

by Kirill Degtyarenko

Last modified: Fri Jan 7 16:20:04 GMT 2005

24 December 2004.

van Staveren, D.R. and Metzler-Nolte, N. (2004) Bioorganometallic chemistry of ferrocene. Chem. Rev. 104, 5931-5986.

Molecular structure of the ferrocenyl-modified FAD cofactor

And yes, P450cam is mentioned as well!

17 December 2004.

Zientz, E., Dandekar, T. and Gross, R. (2004) Metabolic interdependence of obligate intracellular bacteria and their insect hosts. Microbiol. Mol. Biol. Rev. 68, 745-770.

Models of pathway evolution in endosymbionts

10 December 2004.

Noller, H.F. (2004) The driving force for molecular evolution of translation. RNA 10, 1833-1837.

An example of ligand-induced structural rearrangement of RNA

3 December 2004.

Snyder, J.W., Zebger, I., Gao, Z., Poulsen, L., Frederiksen, P.K., Skovsen, E., McIlroy, S.P., Klinger, M., Andersen, L.K. and Ogilby, P.R. (2004) Singlet oxygen microscope: From phase-separated polymers to single biological cells. Acc. Chem. Res. 37, 894-901.

26 November 2004.

Igamberdiev, A.U. and Hill, R.D. (2004) Nitrate, NO and haemoglobin in plant adaptation to hypoxia: an alternative to classic fermentation pathways. J. Exp. Bot. 55, 2473-2482.

19 November 2004.

Continuing the last week's story...

Davies, D.R. and Hol, W.G.J. (2004) The power of vanadate in crystallographic investigations of phosphoryl transfer enzymes. FEBS Lett. 577, 315-321.

12 November 2004.

Holmes, R.R. (2004) Phosphoryl transfer enzymes and hypervalent phosphorus chemistry. Acc. Chem. Res. 37, 746-753.

5 November 2004.

Lingel, A. and Izaurralde, E. (2004) RNAi: Finding the elusive endonuclease. RNA 10, 1675-1679.

29 October 2004.

Sharon, N. and Lis, H. (2004) History of lectins: from hemagglutinins to biological recognition molecules. Glycobiology 14, 53R-62R.

22 October 2004.

Sakharov, I.Yu. (2004) Palm tree peroxidases. Biochemistry (Moscow) 69, 823-829.

15 October 2004.

Matthews, A., Grimaldi, A., Walker, M., Bartowsky, E., Grbin, P. and Jiranek, V. (2004) Lactic acid bacteria as a potential source of enzymes for use in vinification. Appl. Environ. Microbiol. 70, 5715-5731.

8 October 2004.

Mansilla, M.C., Cybulski, L.E., Albanesi, D. and de Mendoza, D. (2004) Control of membrane lipid fluidity by molecular thermosensors. J. Bacteriol. 186, 6679-6680.

1 October 2004.

Dalko, P.I. and Moisan, L. (2004) In the Golden Age of organocatalysis. Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 43, 5138-5175.

24 September 2004.

Kornblihtt, A.R., De La Mata, M., Fededa, J.P., Muñoz, M.J. and Nogués, G. (2004) Multiple links between transcription and splicing. RNA 10, 1489-1498.

17 September 2004.

Roy, J.J. and Abraham, E.T. (2004) Strategies in making cross-linked enzyme crystals. Chem. Rev. 104, 3705-3722.

Cross-linked enzyme crystals of horseradish peroxidase

10 September 2004.

Thompson, F.L., Iida, T. and Swings, J. (2004) Biodiversity of vibrios. Microbiol. Mol. Biol. Rev. 68, 403-431.

3 September 2004.

Furukawa, K., Suenaga, H. and Goto M. (2004) Biphenyl dioxygenases: functional versatilities and directed evolution. J. Bacteriol. 186, 5189-5196.

Catabolic pathway for degradation of biphenyl in P. pseudoalcaligenes

27 August 2004.

Lamparter, T. (2004) Evolution of cyanobacterial and plant phytochromes. FEBS Lett. 573, 1-5.

20 August 2004.

Graether, S.P. and Sykes, B.D. (2004) Cold survival in freeze-intolerant insects: The structure and function of -helical antifreeze proteins. Eur. J. Biochem. 271, 3285-3296.

Comparison of insect AFP structures solved by X-ray crystallography and NMR

6 August 2004.

Moggs, J.G. and Orphanides, G. (2004) The role of chromatin in molecular mechanisms of toxicity. Toxicol. Sci. 80, 218-224.

30 July 2004.

Meyer, J. (2004) Miraculous catch of iron-sulfur protein sequences in the Sargasso Sea. FEBS Lett. 570, 1-6.

Dendrogram derived from sequence alignments of [4Fe-4S] high-potential Fd

16 July 2004.

Rehling, P., Brandner, K. and Pfanner, N. (2004) Mitochondrial import and the twin-pore translocase. Nature Rev. Mol. Cell Biol. 5, 519-530.

A hypothetical model for membrane insertion by the twin-pore translocase

9 July 2004.

Kolberg, M., Strand, K.R., Graff, P. and Andersson, K.K. (2004) Structure, function, and mechanism of ribonucleotide reductases. Biochim. Biophys. Acta 1699, 1-34.

2 July 2004.

Gupta, M.N. and Roy, I. (2004) Enzymes in organic media. Eur. J. Biochem. 271, 2575-2583.

25 June 2004.

Boichenko, V.A. (2004) Photosynthetic units of phototrophic organisms. Biochemistry (Moscow) 69, 471-484.

18 June 2004.

Woese, C.R. (2004) A new biology for a new century. Microbiol. Mol. Biol. Rev. 68, 173-186.

Read it.

11 June 2004.

Kühn, U. and Wahle, E. (2004) Structure and function of poly(A) binding proteins. Biochim. Biophys. Acta 1678, 67-84.

4 June 2004.

Messias, A.C. and Sattler, M. (2004) Structural basis of single-stranded RNA recognition. Acc. Chem. Res. 37, 279-287.

Modular RNA recognition by RNA binding repeats and oligomeric RNA binding domains

28 May 2004.

Morey, C. and Avner, P. (2004) Employment opportunities for non-coding RNAs. FEBS Lett. 567, 27-34.
This minireview appears in the special issue of FEBS Letters dedicated to the 40th Anniversary of The Federation of European Biochemical Societies (FEBS Letters vol. 567, no. 1, 2004).

21 May 2004.

Simões, I. and Faro, C. (2004) Structure and function of plant aspartic proteinases. Eur. J. Biochem. 271, 2067-2075.

14 May 2004.

Gokel, G.W., Leevy, W.M. and Weber, M.E. (2004) Crown ethers: sensors for ions and molecular scaffolds for materials and biological models. Chem. Rev. 104, 2723-2750.
This review appears in the special issue of Chemical Reviews on Heterocycles (Chemical Reviews vol. 104, no. 5, 2004).

7 May 2004.

De Bont, R. and van Larebeke, N. (2004) Endogenous DNA damage in humans: a review of quantitative data. Mutagenesis 19, 169-185.

30 April 2004.

Garcia-Blanco, M.A., Baraniak, A.P. and Lasda, E.L. (2004) Alternative splicing in disease and therapy. Nature Biotechnol. 22, 535-546.

23 April 2004.

Sandri-Goldin, R.M. (2004) Viral regulation of mRNA export. J. Virol. 78, 4389-4396.

HIV Rev exports unspliced viral mRNAs through the CRM1 export receptor

16 April 2004.

Kolset, S.O., Prydz, K. and Pejler, G. (2004) Intracellular proteoglycans. Biochem. J. 379, 217-227.

9 April 2004.

Bressler, C. and Chergui, M. (2004) Ultrafast X-ray absorption spectroscopy. Chem. Rev. 104, 1781-1812.
This review appears in the special issue of Chemical Reviews on Femtochemistry (Chemical Reviews vol. 104, no. 4, 2004).

2 April 2004.

Powell, A.K., Yates, E.A., Fernig, D.G. and Turnbull, J.E. (2004) Interactions of heparin/heparan sulfate with proteins: Appraisal of structural factors and experimental approaches. Glycobiology 14, 17R-30R.

26 March 2004.

Norberg, J. and Nilsson, L. (2003) Advances in biomolecular simulations: methodology and recent applications. Q. Rev. Biophys. 36, 257-306.

19 March 2004.

Perkins-Balding, D., Ratliff-Griffin, M. and Stojiljkovic, I. (2004) Iron transport systems in Neisseria meningitidis. Microbiol. Mol. Biol. Rev. 68, 154-171.

iron acquisition systems in N. meningitidis

12 March 2004.

Shenoy, A.R. and Visweswariah, S.S. (2004) Class III nucleotide cyclases in bacteria and archaebacteria: lineage-specific expansion of adenylyl cyclases and a dearth of guanylyl cyclases. FEBS Lett. 561, 11-21.

critical Class III cyclase domain residues

5 March 2004.

Jänne, J., Alhonen, L., Pietilä, M. and Keinänen, T.A. (2004) Genetic approaches to the cellular functions of polyamines in mammals. Eur. J. Biochem. 271, 877-894.

27 February 2004.

Kuimov, A.N. (2004) Polypeptide components of telomere nucleoprotein complex. Biochemistry (Moscow) 69, 117-129.

20 February 2004.

Mure, M. (2004) Tyrosine-derived quinone cofactors. Acc. Chem. Res. 37, 131-139.

Active-site structures of copper amine oxidase

13 February 2004.

David, R., Richter, M.P.O. and Beck-Sickinger, A.G. (2004) Expressed protein ligation. Eur. J. Biochem. 271, 663-677.

6 February 2004.

Winterhalder, R.C., Hirsch, F.R., Kotantoulas, G.K., Franklin, W.A. and Bunn, P.A., Jr. (2004) Chemoprevention of lung cancer - from biology to clinical reality. Ann. Oncol. 15, 185-196.

30 January 2004.

Martinez-Argudo, I., Little, R., Shearer, N., Johnson, P. and Dixon, R. (2004) The NifL-NifA system: a multidomain transcriptional regulatory complex that integrates environmental signals. J. Bacteriol. 186, 601-610.

Nitrogen source regulation of nif gene transcription in A. vinelandii

23 January 2004.

Dunwell, J.M., Purvis, A. and Khuri, S. (2004) Cupins: the most functionally diverse protein superfamily? Phytochemistry 65, 7-17.

16 January 2004.

Rawlings, N.D., Tolle, D.P. and Barrett, A.J. (2004) Evolutionary families of peptidase inhibitors. Biochem. J. 378, 705-716.

9 January 2004.

Jaeger, S., Eriani, G. and Martin, F. (2004) Results and prospects of the yeast three-hybrid system. FEBS Lett. 556, 7-12.

2 January 2004.

Rouault, T.A. (2003) How mammals acquire and distribute iron needed for oxygen-based metabolism. PLoS Biology 1, 326-329.

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