Archive of Kirill's Review of the Week - 2006

by Kirill Degtyarenko

Last modified: Fri May 2 11:24:30 BST 2008

15 December 2006.

Jacobsen, F.E., Lewis, J.A. and Cohen, S.M. (2006) The design of inhibitors for medicinally relevant metalloproteins. ChemMedChem 2, 152-171.

8 December 2006.

Carballido-López, R. (2006) The bacterial actin-like cytoskeleton. Microbiol. Mol. Biol. Rev. 70, 888-909.

1 December 2006.

Bae, K. and Edery, I. (2006) Regulating a circadian clock's period, phase and amplitude by phosphorylation: Insights from Drosophila. J. Biochem. 140, 609-617.

Model for the many roles of phosphorylation in the Drosophila clock

24 November 2006.

Greer, A. (2006) Christopher Foote's discovery of the role of singlet oxygen [¹O₂ (¹Δ_g)] in photosensitized oxidation reactions. Acc. Chem. Res. 39, 797-804.

17 November 2006.

Ahmad, S., Isab, A.A. and Ali, S. (2006) Structural and mechanistic aspects of platinum anticancer agents. Transition Metal Chemistry 31, 1003-1016.

10 November 2006.

Burge, S., Parkinson, G.N., Hazel, P., Todd, A.K. and Neidle, S. (2006) Quadruplex DNA: sequence, topology and structure. Nucleic Acids Res. 34, 5402-5415.

Crystal structure of the two bimolecular quadruplexes found in the crystal structure of d(G4T3G4)

3 November 2006.

Brondino, C.D., Rivas, M.G., Romão, M.J., Moura, J.J.G. and Moura, I. (2006) Structural and electron paramagnetic resonance (EPR) studies of mononuclear molybdenum enzymes from sulfate-reducing bacteria. Acc. Chem. Res. 39, 788-796.

Reactions catalysed by mononuclear molybdenum-containing enzymes

27 October 2006.

Resh, M.D. (2006) Trafficking and signaling by fatty-acylated and prenylated proteins. Nature Chemical Biology 2, 584-590.

Trafficking and signaling by fatty-acylated and prenylated proteins

20 October 2006.

Baird, S.D., Turcotte, M., Korneluk, R.G. and Holcik, M. (2006) Searching for IRES. RNA 12, 1755-1785.

Simultaneous prediction of HCV and CSFV IRES secondary structure with Dynalign

13 October 2006.

Gascuel, O. and Steel, M. (2006) Neighbor-joining revealed. Mol. Biol. Evol. 23, 1997-2000.

6 October 2006.

MacPherson, S., Larochelle, M. and Turcotte, B. (2006) A fungal family of transcriptional regulators: the zinc cluster proteins. Microbiol. Mol. Biol. Rev. 70, 583-604.

Crystal structures of the DNA-binding domains of some Zn(II)2Cys6 regulators

29 September 2006.

Lewis, R.V. (2006) Spider silk: ancient ideas for new biomaterials. Chem. Rev. 106, 3762-3774.

22 September 2006.

Rodnina, M.V., Beringer M. and Wintermeyer, W. (2006) Mechanism of peptide bond formation on the ribosome. Q. Rev. Biophys. 39, 203-225.

15 September 2006.

Henriques, S.T., Melo, M.N. and Castanho, M.A.R.B. (2006) Cell-penetrating peptides and antimicrobial peptides: how different are they? Biochem. J. 399, 1-7.

8 September 2006.

Crist, C.G. and Nakamura, Y. (2006) Cross-talk between RNA and prions. J. Biochem. 140, 167-173.

Crystal structure of N-terminally truncated Sup35 of S. pombe

25 August 2006.

Parmeggiani, A. and Nissen, P. (2006) Elongation factor Tu-targeted antibiotics: Four different structures, two mechanisms of action. FEBS Lett. 580, 4576-4581.

28 July 2006.

Liljas, A. (2006) On the complementarity of methods in structural biology. Acta Crystallogr. D 62, 941-945.

Structural biology is an essential part of biological sciences owing to its ability to characterize the molecules involved and their interactions

21 July 2006.

Jenssen, H., Hamill, P. and Hancock, R.E.W. (2006) Peptide antimicrobial agents. Clin. Microbiol. Rev. 19, 491-511.

Structural classes of antimicrobial peptides

14 July 2006.

Kini, R.M. (2006) Anticoagulant proteins from snake venoms: structure, function and mechanism. Biochem. J. 397, 377-387.

7 July 2006.

Warren, J.R. (2006) Helicobacter: The ease and difficulty of a new discovery (Nobel Lecture). ChemMedChem 1, 672-685.

30 June 2006.

Bento, I., Carrondo, M.A. and Lindley, P.F. (2006) Reduction of dioxygen by enzymes containing copper. J. Biol. Inorg. Chem. 11, 539-547.

A simplified version of the reaction mechanism postulated for catechol oxidase

23 June 2006.

Baur, J.A. and Sinclair, D.A. (2006) Therapeutic potential of resveratrol: the in vivo evidence. Nature Rev. Drug Discov. 5, 493-506.

trans-Resveratrol and related structures

16 June 2006.

Donaldson, K., Aitken, R., Tran, L., Stone, V., Duffin, R., Forrest, G. and Alexander, A. (2006) Carbon nanotubes: a review of their properties in relation to pulmonary toxicology and workplace safety. Toxicol. Sci. 92, 5-22.

9 June 2006.

Oess, S., Icking, A., Fulton, D., Govers, R. and Müller-Esterl, W. (2006) Subcellular targeting and trafficking of nitric oxide synthases. Biochem. J. 396, 401-409.

26 May 2006.

Flors, C. and Nonell, S. (2006) Light and singlet oxygen in plant defense against pathogens: phototoxic phenalenone phytoalexins. Acc. Chem. Res. 39, 293-300.