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Volume 8;  2008
Software
GANDivAWeb: A web server for detecting early folding units ("foldons") from protein 3D structures
Thomas Laborde, Masaru Tomita, and Arun Krishnan
BMC Struct Biol. 2008; 8: 15. Published online 2008 March 7. doi: 10.1186/1472-6807-8-15.
PMCID: PMC2275735
PSAIA – Protein Structure and Interaction Analyzer
Josip Mihel, Mile Šikić, Sanja Tomić, Branko Jeren, and Kristian Vlahoviček
BMC Struct Biol. 2008; 8: 21. Published online 2008 April 9. doi: 10.1186/1472-6807-8-21.
PMCID: PMC2364630
K2D2: Estimation of protein secondary structure from circular dichroism spectra
Carolina Perez-Iratxeta and Miguel A Andrade-Navarro
BMC Struct Biol. 2008; 8: 25. Published online 2008 May 13. doi: 10.1186/1472-6807-8-25.
PMCID: PMC2397409
Graphical analysis of NMR structural quality and interactive contact map of NOE assignments in ARIA
Benjamin Bardiaux, Aymeric Bernard, Wolfgang Rieping, Michael Habeck, Thérèse E Malliavin, and Michael Nilges
BMC Struct Biol. 2008; 8: 30. Published online 2008 June 5. doi: 10.1186/1472-6807-8-30.
PMCID: PMC2432060
HOLLOW: Generating Accurate Representations of Channel and Interior Surfaces in Molecular Structures
Bosco K Ho and Franz Gruswitz
BMC Struct Biol. 2008; 8: 49. Published online 2008 November 14. doi: 10.1186/1472-6807-8-49.
PMCID: PMC2603037
PDBalert: automatic, recurrent remote homology tracking and protein structure prediction
Vatsal Agarwal, Michael Remmert, Andreas Biegert, and Johannes Söding
BMC Struct Biol. 2008; 8: 51. Published online 2008 November 25. doi: 10.1186/1472-6807-8-51.
PMCID: PMC2605448
Research Articles
Distantly related lipocalins share two conserved clusters of hydrophobic residues: use in homology modeling
Benoit Adam, Benoit Charloteaux, Jerome Beaufays, Luc Vanhamme, Edmond Godfroid, Robert Brasseur, and Laurence Lins
BMC Struct Biol. 2008; 8: 1. Published online 2008 January 11. doi: 10.1186/1472-6807-8-1.
PMCID: PMC2254393
Preservation of protein clefts in comparative models
David Piedra, Sergi Lois, and Xavier de la Cruz
BMC Struct Biol. 2008; 8: 2. Published online 2008 January 16. doi: 10.1186/1472-6807-8-2.
PMCID: PMC2249585
The crystal structure of the putative peptide-binding fragment from the human Hsp40 protein Hdj1
Junbin Hu, Yunkun Wu, Jingzhi Li, Xinguo Qian, Zhengqing Fu, and Bingdong Sha
BMC Struct Biol. 2008; 8: 3. Published online 2008 January 22. doi: 10.1186/1472-6807-8-3.
PMCID: PMC2254625
Multiple molecular dynamics simulation of the isoforms of human translation elongation factor 1A reveals reversible fluctuations between "open" and "closed" conformations and suggests specific for eEF1A1 affinity for Ca2+-calmodulin
Dmitry S Kanibolotsky, Oleksandra V Novosyl'na, Catherine M Abbott, Boris S Negrutskii, and Anna V El'skaya
BMC Struct Biol. 2008; 8: 4. Published online 2008 January 25. doi: 10.1186/1472-6807-8-4.
PMCID: PMC2275276
Crystal structures of a purple acid phosphatase, representing different steps of this enzyme's catalytic cycle
Gerhard Schenk, Tristan W Elliott, Eleanor Leung, Lyle E Carrington, Nataša Mitić, Lawrence R Gahan, and Luke W Guddat
BMC Struct Biol. 2008; 8: 6. Published online 2008 January 31. doi: 10.1186/1472-6807-8-6.
PMCID: PMC2267794
Comparative modelling by restraint-based conformational sampling
Nicholas Furnham, Paul IW de Bakker, Swanand Gore, David F Burke, and Tom L Blundell
BMC Struct Biol. 2008; 8: 7. Published online 2008 January 31. doi: 10.1186/1472-6807-8-7.
PMCID: PMC2275734
Structural basis of GC-1 selectivity for thyroid hormone receptor isoforms
Lucas Bleicher, Ricardo Aparicio, Fabio M Nunes, Leandro Martinez, Sandra M Gomes Dias, Ana Carolina Migliorini Figueira, Maria Auxiliadora Morim Santos, Walter H Venturelli, Rosangela da Silva, Paulo Marcos Donate, Francisco AR Neves, Luiz A Simeoni, John D Baxter, Paul Webb, Munir S Skaf, and Igor Polikarpov
BMC Struct Biol. 2008; 8: 8. Published online 2008 January 31. doi: 10.1186/1472-6807-8-8.
PMCID: PMC2275733
Modeling structure and flexibility of Candida antarctica lipase B in organic solvents
Peter Trodler and Jürgen Pleiss
BMC Struct Biol. 2008; 8: 9. Published online 2008 February 6. doi: 10.1186/1472-6807-8-9.
PMCID: PMC2262892
Interaction between the C-terminal region of human myelin basic protein and calmodulin: analysis of complex formation and solution structure
Viivi Majava, Maxim V Petoukhov, Nobuhiro Hayashi, Päivi Pirilä, Dmitri I Svergun, and Petri Kursula
BMC Struct Biol. 2008; 8: 10. Published online 2008 February 19. doi: 10.1186/1472-6807-8-10.
PMCID: PMC2288786
Crystal structure of human IPS-1/MAVS/VISA/Cardif caspase activation recruitment domain
Jane A Potter, Richard E Randall, and Garry L Taylor
BMC Struct Biol. 2008; 8: 11. Published online 2008 February 28. doi: 10.1186/1472-6807-8-11.
PMCID: PMC2291057
Structural deformation upon protein-protein interaction: A structural alphabet approach
Juliette Martin, Leslie Regad, Hélène Lecornet, and Anne-Claude Camproux
BMC Struct Biol. 2008; 8: 12. Published online 2008 February 28. doi: 10.1186/1472-6807-8-12.
PMCID: PMC2315654
Crystal structures of PI3K-C2α PX domain indicate conformational change associated with ligand binding
Gary N Parkinson, David Vines, Paul C Driscoll, and Snezana Djordjevic
BMC Struct Biol. 2008; 8: 13. Published online 2008 February 29. doi: 10.1186/1472-6807-8-13.
PMCID: PMC2292188
"Hot cores" in proteins: Comparative analysis of the apolar contact area in structures from hyper/thermophilic and mesophilic organisms
Alessandro Paiardini, Riccardo Sali, Francesco Bossa, and Stefano Pascarella
BMC Struct Biol. 2008; 8: 14. Published online 2008 February 29. doi: 10.1186/1472-6807-8-14.
PMCID: PMC2294123
Donor substrate recognition in the raffinose-bound E342A mutant of fructosyltransferase Bacillus subtilis levansucrase
Guoyu Meng and Klaus Fütterer
BMC Struct Biol. 2008; 8: 16. Published online 2008 March 17. doi: 10.1186/1472-6807-8-16.
PMCID: PMC2277421
Solution structure of the Legionella pneumophila Mip-rapamycin complex
Andreas Ceymann, Martin Horstmann, Philipp Ehses, Kristian Schweimer, Anne-Katrin Paschke, Michael Steinert, and Cornelius Faber
BMC Struct Biol. 2008; 8: 17. Published online 2008 March 17. doi: 10.1186/1472-6807-8-17.
PMCID: PMC2311308
Charge environments around phosphorylation sites in proteins
James Kitchen, Rebecca E Saunders, and Jim Warwicker
BMC Struct Biol. 2008; 8: 19. Published online 2008 March 25. doi: 10.1186/1472-6807-8-19.
PMCID: PMC2291461
The backbone structure of the thermophilic Thermoanaerobacter tengcongensis ribose binding protein is essentially identical to its mesophilic E. coli homolog
Matthew J Cuneo, Yaji Tian, Malin Allert, and Homme W Hellinga
BMC Struct Biol. 2008; 8: 20. Published online 2008 March 28. doi: 10.1186/1472-6807-8-20.
PMCID: PMC2315655
Structural insights on the pamoic acid and the 8 kDa domain of DNA polymerase beta complex: Towards the design of higher-affinity inhibitors
Corinne Hazan, François Boudsocq, Virginie Gervais, Olivier Saurel, Marion Ciais, Christophe Cazaux, Jerzy Czaplicki, and Alain Milon
BMC Struct Biol. 2008; 8: 22. Published online 2008 April 16. doi: 10.1186/1472-6807-8-22.
PMCID: PMC2375893
Exploring allosteric coupling in the α-subunit of Heterotrimeric G proteins using evolutionary and ensemble-based approaches
Kemal Sayar, Özlem Uğur, Tong Liu, Vincent J Hilser, and Ongun Onaran
BMC Struct Biol. 2008; 8: 23. Published online 2008 May 2. doi: 10.1186/1472-6807-8-23.
PMCID: PMC2422842
Improving the accuracy of template-based predictions by mixing and matching between initial models
Tianyun Liu, Michal Guerquin, and Ram Samudrala
BMC Struct Biol. 2008; 8: 24. Published online 2008 May 5. doi: 10.1186/1472-6807-8-24.
PMCID: PMC2424052
Interactions between the quality control ubiquitin ligase CHIP and ubiquitin conjugating enzymes
Zhen Xu, Ekta Kohli, Karl I Devlin, Michael Bold, Jay C Nix, and Saurav Misra
BMC Struct Biol. 2008; 8: 26. Published online 2008 May 16. doi: 10.1186/1472-6807-8-26.
PMCID: PMC2396629
CUSP: an algorithm to distinguish structurally conserved and unconserved regions in protein domain alignments and its application in the study of large length variations
Sankaran Sandhya, Barah Pankaj, Madabosse Kande Govind, Bernard Offmann, Narayanaswamy Srinivasan, and Ramanathan Sowdhamini
BMC Struct Biol. 2008; 8: 28. Published online 2008 May 31. doi: 10.1186/1472-6807-8-28.
PMCID: PMC2423364
Protecting role of cosolvents in protein denaturation by SDS: a structural study
Catherine Michaux, Jenny Pouyez, Johan Wouters, and Gilbert G Privé
BMC Struct Biol. 2008; 8: 29. Published online 2008 June 3. doi: 10.1186/1472-6807-8-29.
PMCID: PMC2429906
Systematic analysis of the effect of multiple templates on the accuracy of comparative models of protein structure
Suvobrata Chakravarty, Sucheta Godbole, Bing Zhang, Seth Berger, and Roberto Sanchez
BMC Struct Biol. 2008; 8: 31. Published online 2008 July 16. doi: 10.1186/1472-6807-8-31.
PMCID: PMC2483983
Structural analysis of urate oxidase in complex with its natural substrate inhibited by cyanide: Mechanistic implications
Laure Gabison, Thierry Prangé, Nathalie Colloc'h, Mohamed El Hajji, Bertrand Castro, and Mohamed Chiadmi
BMC Struct Biol. 2008; 8: 32. Published online 2008 July 20. doi: 10.1186/1472-6807-8-32.
PMCID: PMC2490695
Structural characterization of CA1462, the Candida albicans thiamine pyrophosphokinase
Sébastien Santini, Vincent Monchois, Nicolas Mouz, Cécile Sigoillot, Tristan Rousselle, Jean-Michel Claverie, and Chantal Abergel
BMC Struct Biol. 2008; 8: 33. Published online 2008 July 24. doi: 10.1186/1472-6807-8-33.
PMCID: PMC2515308
Alternating evolutionary pressure in a genetic algorithm facilitates protein model selection
Marc N Offman, Alexander L Tournier, and Paul A Bates
BMC Struct Biol. 2008; 8: 34. Published online 2008 August 1. doi: 10.1186/1472-6807-8-34.
PMCID: PMC2527322
Statistical analysis of the Bacterial Carbohydrate Structure Data Base (BCSDB): Characteristics and diversity of bacterial carbohydrates in comparison with mammalian glycans
Stephan Herget, Philip V Toukach, René Ranzinger, William E Hull, Yuriy A Knirel, and Claus-Wilhelm von der Lieth
BMC Struct Biol. 2008; 8: 35. Published online 2008 August 11. doi: 10.1186/1472-6807-8-35.
PMCID: PMC2543016
Contact prediction in protein modeling: Scoring, folding and refinement of coarse-grained models
Dorota Latek and Andrzej Kolinski
BMC Struct Biol. 2008; 8: 36. Published online 2008 August 11. doi: 10.1186/1472-6807-8-36.
PMCID: PMC2527566
Protein-segment universe exhibiting transitions at intermediate segment length in conformational subspaces
Kazuyoshi Ikeda, Takatsugu Hirokawa, Junichi Higo, and Kentaro Tomii
BMC Struct Biol. 2008; 8: 37. Published online 2008 August 13. doi: 10.1186/1472-6807-8-37.
PMCID: PMC2529298
Docking of molecules identified in bioactive medicinal plants extracts into the p50 NF-kappaB transcription factor: correlation with inhibition of NF-kappaB/DNA interactions and inhibitory effects on IL-8 gene expression
Laura Piccagli, Enrica Fabbri, Monica Borgatti, Valentino Bezzerri, Irene Mancini, Elena Nicolis, Maria C Dechecchi, Ilaria Lampronti, Giulio Cabrini, and Roberto Gambari
BMC Struct Biol. 2008; 8: 38. Published online 2008 September 3. doi: 10.1186/1472-6807-8-38.
PMCID: PMC2543017
pi-Turns: types, systematics and the context of their occurrence in protein structures
Bhaskar Dasgupta and Pinak Chakrabarti
BMC Struct Biol. 2008; 8: 39. Published online 2008 September 22. doi: 10.1186/1472-6807-8-39.
PMCID: PMC2559839
A method for probabilistic mapping between protein structure and function taxonomies through cross training
Kshitiz Gupta, Vivek Sehgal, and Andre Levchenko
BMC Struct Biol. 2008; 8: 40. Published online 2008 October 3. doi: 10.1186/1472-6807-8-40.
PMCID: PMC2573881
Identification of new, well-populated amino-acid sidechain rotamers involving hydroxyl-hydrogen atoms and sulfhydryl-hydrogen atoms
Bosco K Ho and David A Agard
BMC Struct Biol. 2008; 8: 41. Published online 2008 October 7. doi: 10.1186/1472-6807-8-41.
PMCID: PMC2569941
The crystal structure of the catalytic domain of a eukaryotic guanylate cyclase
Jonathan A Winger, Emily R Derbyshire, Meindert H Lamers, Michael A Marletta, and John Kuriyan
BMC Struct Biol. 2008; 8: 42. Published online 2008 October 7. doi: 10.1186/1472-6807-8-42.
PMCID: PMC2576301
Quantifying information transfer by protein domains: Analysis of the Fyn SH2 domain structure
Tom Lenaerts, Jesper Ferkinghoff-Borg, Francois Stricher, Luis Serrano, Joost WH Schymkowitz, and Frederic Rousseau
BMC Struct Biol. 2008; 8: 43. Published online 2008 October 8. doi: 10.1186/1472-6807-8-43.
PMCID: PMC2585567
Flanking p10 contribution and sequence bias in matrix based epitope prediction: revisiting the assumption of independent binding pockets
Christian S Parry
BMC Struct Biol. 2008; 8: 44. Published online 2008 October 16. doi: 10.1186/1472-6807-8-44.
PMCID: PMC2600787
A knowledge-based structure-discriminating function that requires only main-chain atom coordinates
Yoshihide Makino and Nobuya Itoh
BMC Struct Biol. 2008; 8: 46. Published online 2008 October 29. doi: 10.1186/1472-6807-8-46.
PMCID: PMC2600639
Methodology Articles
Fast dynamics perturbation analysis for prediction of protein functional sites
Dengming Ming, Judith D Cohn, and Michael E Wall
BMC Struct Biol. 2008; 8: 5. Published online 2008 January 30. doi: 10.1186/1472-6807-8-5.
PMCID: PMC2276503
A multi-template combination algorithm for protein comparative modeling
Jianlin Cheng
BMC Struct Biol. 2008; 8: 18. Published online 2008 March 17. doi: 10.1186/1472-6807-8-18.
PMCID: PMC2311309
Prediction of structural stability of short beta-hairpin peptides by molecular dynamics and knowledge-based potentials
Karin Noy, Nir Kalisman, and Chen Keasar
BMC Struct Biol. 2008; 8: 27. Published online 2008 May 29. doi: 10.1186/1472-6807-8-27.
PMCID: PMC2427033
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