| | This journal provides immediate access to some articles. Editorial Thank You, Steve Bryant, and Welcome, Carol Post! Mark Hermodson PMCID: PMC2253419 Review Assessing predictions of protein–protein interaction: The CAPRI experiment Joël Janin PMCID: PMC2253420 Articles Analysis of allosteric signal transduction mechanisms in an engineered fluorescent maltose biosensor Jonathan D. Dattelbaum, Loren L. Looger, David E. Benson, Kevin M. Sali, Richard B. Thompson, and Homme W. Hellinga PMCID: PMC2253422 Improving the alkalophilic performances of the Xyl1 xylanase from Streptomyces sp. S38: Structural comparison and mutational analysis Frédéric De Lemos Esteves, Thierry Gouders, Josette Lamotte-Brasseur, Sébastien Rigali, and Jean-Marie Frère PMCID: PMC2253399 Stability of mutant serpin/furin complexes: Dependence on pH and regulation at the deacylation step Erick K. Dufour, Antoine Désilets, Jean-Michel Longpré, and Richard Leduc PMCID: PMC2253415 Physicochemical and residue conservation calculations to improve the ranking of protein–protein docking solutions Yuhua Duan, Boojala V.B. Reddy, and Yiannis N. Kaznessis PMCID: PMC2253405 Stability of HAMLET—A kinetically trapped α-lactalbumin oleic acid complex Jonas Fast, Ann-Kristin Mossberg, Catharina Svanborg, and Sara Linse PMCID: PMC2253409 An engineered chaperonin caging a guest protein: Structural insights and potential as a protein expression tool Masahiro Furutani, Jun-Ichi Hata, Yasuhito Shomura, Keisuke Itami, Takao Yoshida, Yoshitaka Izumoto, Akiko Togi, Akira Ideno, Takuo Yasunaga, Kunio Miki, and Tadashi Maruyama PMCID: PMC2253423 Sequence swapping does not result in conformation swapping for the β4/β5 and β8/β9 β-hairpin turns in human acidic fibroblast growth factor Jaewon Kim, Jihun Lee, Stephen R. Brych, Timothy M. Logan, and Michael Blaber PMCID: PMC2253408 EDD, a novel phosphotransferase domain common to mannose transporter EIIA, dihydroxyacetone kinase, and DegV Lisa N. Kinch, Sara Cheek, and Nick V. Grishin PMCID: PMC2253402 Spectral magnitude effects on the analyses of secondary structure from circular dichroism spectroscopic data Andrew J. Miles, Lee Whitmore, and B.A. Wallace PMCID: PMC2253404 Helical structure determined by NMR of the HIV-1 (345–392)Gag sequence, surrounding p2: Implications for particle assembly and RNA packaging Nelly Morellet, Sabine Druillennec, Christine Lenoir, Serge Bouaziz, and Bernard P. Roques PMCID: PMC2253411 The crystal structure of an eukaryotic iron superoxide dismutase suggests intersubunit cooperation during catalysis Inés G. Muñoz, Jose F. Moran, Manuel Becana, and Guillermo Montoya PMCID: PMC2253407 Crystal structure of the complex formed between a group I Phospholipase A2 and a naturally occurring fatty acid at 2.7 Å resolution Garima Singh, Jayasankar Jasti, K. Saravanan, Sujata Sharma, Punit Kaur, A. Srinivasan, and Tej P. Singh PMCID: PMC2253428 Folding and particle assembly are disrupted by single-point mutations near the autocatalytic cleavage site of Nudaurelia capensis ω virus capsid protein Derek J. Taylor and John E. Johnson PMCID: PMC2253427 The crystal structures of semi-synthetic aequorins Sachiko Toma, Khoon Tee Chong, Atsushi Nakagawa, Katsunori Teranishi, Satoshi Inouye, and Osamu Shimomura PMCID: PMC2253417 An avidin-like domain that does not bind biotin is adopted for oligomerization by the extracellular mosaic protein fibropellin Itai Yanai, Yong Yu, Xiahui Zhu, Charles R. Cantor, and Zhiping Weng PMCID: PMC2253421 NMR structure of HI0004, a putative essential gene product from Haemophilus influenzae, and comparison with the X-ray structure of an Aquifex aeolicus homolog Deok Cheon Yeh, Lisa M. Parsons, James F. Parsons, Fang Liu, Edward Eisenstein, and John Orban PMCID: PMC2253416 Descriptor-based protein remote homology identification Ziding Zhang, Sunil Kochhar, and Martin G. Grigorov PMCID: PMC2253398 The mechanism of inhibition of the cyclin-dependent kinase-2 as revealed by the molecular dynamics study on the complex CDK2 with the peptide substrate HHASPRK Iveta Bártová, Michal Otyepka, Zdeněk KřÍž, and Jaroslav Koča PMCID: PMC2253414 Deamidation: Differentiation of aspartyl from isoaspartyl products in peptides by electron capture dissociation Jason J. Cournoyer, Jason L. Pittman, Vera B. Ivleva, Eric Fallows, Lucy Waskell, Catherine E. Costello, and Peter B. O’Connor PMCID: PMC2253403 Specific erythrocyte binding capacity and biological activity of Plasmodium falciparum erythrocyte binding ligand 1 (EBL-1)-derived peptides Hernando Curtidor, Luis E. Rodríguez, Marisol Ocampo, Ramses López, Javier E. García, John Valbuena, Ricardo Vera, Álvaro Puentes, Magnolia Vanegas, and Manuel E. Patarroyo PMCID: PMC2254251 Intramolecular disulphide bond arrangements in nonhomologous proteins Gerald R.S. Hartig, Tran T. Tran, and Mark L. Smythe PMCID: PMC2253424 Reversible self-association of ovalbumin at air–water interfaces and the consequences for the exerted surface pressure Elena V. Kudryashova, Antonie J.W.G. Visser, and Harmen H.J. De Jongh PMCID: PMC2253413 Myristoyl moiety of HIV Nef is involved in regulation of the interaction with calmodulin in vivo Mamoru Matsubara, Tao Jing, Kumi Kawamura, Naoshi Shimojo, Koiti Titani, Keiichiro Hashimoto, and Nobuhiro Hayashi PMCID: PMC2253426 Identifying Plasmodium falciparum cytoadherence-linked asexual protein 3 (CLAG 3) sequences that specifically bind to C32 cells and erythrocytes Marisol Ocampo, Luis E. Rodríguez, Hernando Curtidor, Álvaro Puentes, Ricardo Vera, John J. Valbuena, Ramses López, Javier E. García, Luis E. Ramírez, Elizabeth Torres, Jimena Cortes, Diana Tovar, Yolanda López, Manuel A. Patarroyo, and Manuel E. Patarroyo PMCID: PMC2253410 The H2A.Z/H2B dimer is unstable compared to the dimer containing the major H2A isoform Brandon J. Placek, L. Nicole Harrison, Brooke M. Villers, and Lisa M. Gloss PMCID: PMC2253418 Regulation of protein activity with small-molecule-controlled inteins Georgios Skretas and David W. Wood PMCID: PMC2386410 Specificity and reactive loop length requirements for crmA inhibition of serine proteases Lisa D. Tesch, Manikanahally P. Raghavendra, Tina Bedsted-Faarvang, Peter G.W. Gettins, and Steven T. Olson PMCID: PMC2253425 Mapping protein energy landscapes with amide hydrogen exchange and mass spectrometry: I. A generalized model for a two-state protein and comparison with experiment Hui Xiao, Joshua K. Hoerner, Stephen J. Eyles, Andras Dobo, Edward Voigtman, Andre I. Mel’čuk, and Igor A. Kaltashov PMCID: PMC2253406 Protein Structure Report Crystal structures of RsbQ, a stress-response regulator in Bacillus subtilis Tomonori Kaneko, Nobuo Tanaka, and Takashi Kumasaka PMCID: PMC2253412 |
