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A user-friendly plug-and-play cyclic olefin copolymer-based microfluidic chip for room-temperature, fixed-target serial crystallography. 一种用户友好的即插即用的基于环烯烃共聚物的微流控芯片，用于室温、固定靶序列晶体学。

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Acta Crystallographica. Section D, Structural Biology Pub Date : 2023-10-01 Epub Date: 2023-09-25 DOI: 10.1107/S2059798323007027

Zhongrui Liu, Kevin K Gu, Megan L Shelby, Deepshika Gilbile, Artem Y Lyubimov, Silvia Russi, Aina E Cohen, Sankar Raju Narayanasamy, Sabine Botha, Christopher Kupitz, Raymond G Sierra, Fredric Poitevin, Antonio Gilardi, Stella Lisova, Matthew A Coleman, Matthias Frank, Tonya L Kuhl

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Crystal structures of human and mouse ketohexokinase provide a structural basis for species- and isoform-selective inhibitor design. 人和小鼠酮己糖激酶的晶体结构为物种和异构体选择性抑制剂的设计提供了结构基础。

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Acta Crystallographica. Section D, Structural Biology Pub Date : 2023-10-01 Epub Date: 2023-09-15 DOI: 10.1107/S2059798323006137

Rebecca Ebenhoch, Margit Bauer, Helmut Romig, Dirk Gottschling, Jörg Thomas Kley, Niklas Heine, Alexander Weber, Ingo Uphues, Herbert Nar, Alexander Pautsch

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Michael James (1940-2023). 迈克尔·詹姆斯（1940-2023）。

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Acta Crystallographica. Section D, Structural Biology Pub Date : 2023-10-01 Epub Date: 2023-09-15 DOI: 10.1107/S2059798323006976

J N Mark Glover, Cyril M Kay, Joanne Lemieux, Randy J Read

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X-ray structure of the metastable SEPT14-SEPT7 coiled coil reveals a hendecad region crucial for heterodimerization. 亚稳SEPT14-SEPT7线圈的X射线结构揭示了一个对异二聚至关重要的hendeca区域。

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Acta Crystallographica. Section D, Structural Biology Pub Date : 2023-10-01 Epub Date: 2023-09-15 DOI: 10.1107/S2059798323006514

Italo A Cavini, Ashley J Winter, Humberto D'Muniz Pereira, Derek N Woolfson, Matthew P Crump, Richard C Garratt

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Structural analysis of wild-type and Val120Thr mutant Candida boidinii formate dehydrogenase by X-ray crystallography 野生型和Val120Thr突变型假丝酵母甲酸脱氢酶的x射线晶体学结构分析

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Acta Crystallographica. Section D, Structural Biology Pub Date : 2023-09-09 DOI: 10.1101/2022.12.25.521900

Mehmet Gul, Busra Yuksel, H. Bulut, H. Demirci

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Raimond B. G. Ravelli (25 March 1968-30 June 2023). raymond B. G. Ravelli(1968年3月25日- 2023年6月30日)。

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Acta Crystallographica. Section D, Structural Biology Pub Date : 2023-09-01 DOI: 10.1107/S2059798323006897

Elspeth F Garman

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A Python package based on robust statistical analysis for serial crystallography data processing. 基于稳健统计分析的 Python 软件包，用于序列晶体学数据处理。

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Acta Crystallographica. Section D, Structural Biology Pub Date : 2023-09-01 Epub Date: 2023-08-16 DOI: 10.1107/S2059798323005855

Marjan Hadian-Jazi, Alireza Sadri

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Structural basis of the amidase ClbL central to the biosynthesis of the genotoxin colibactin. 基因毒素可乐菌素生物合成的核心氨酶 ClbL 的结构基础。

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Acta Crystallographica. Section D, Structural Biology Pub Date : 2023-09-01 Epub Date: 2023-08-10 DOI: 10.1107/S2059798323005703

Prabhanshu Tripathi, Jarrod J Mousa, Naga Sandhya Guntaka, Steven D Bruner

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LifeSoaks: a tool for analyzing solvent channels in protein crystals and obstacles for soaking experiments. lifeesoaks:一种分析蛋白质晶体中溶剂通道和浸泡实验障碍的工具。

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Acta Crystallographica. Section D, Structural Biology Pub Date : 2023-09-01 DOI: 10.1107/S205979832300582X

Jonathan Pletzer-Zelgert, Christiane Ehrt, Inken Fender, Axel Griewel, Florian Flachsenberg, Gerhard Klebe, Matthias Rarey

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Novel starting points for fragment-based drug design against mycobacterial thioredoxin reductase identified using crystallographic fragment screening. 利用结晶学片段筛选确定的针对分枝杆菌硫氧还蛋白还原酶的基于片段的药物设计的新起点。

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Acta Crystallographica. Section D, Structural Biology Pub Date : 2023-09-01 DOI: 10.1107/S2059798323005223

Friederike T Füsser, Jan Wollenhaupt, Manfred S Weiss, Daniel Kümmel, Oliver Koch

{"title":"Novel starting points for fragment-based drug design against mycobacterial thioredoxin reductase identified using crystallographic fragment screening.","authors":"Friederike T Füsser, Jan Wollenhaupt, Manfred S Weiss, Daniel Kümmel, Oliver Koch","doi":"10.1107/S2059798323005223","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1107/S2059798323005223","url":null,"abstract":"The increasing number of people dying from tuberculosis and the existence of extensively drug-resistant strains has led to an urgent need for new antituberculotic drugs with alternative modes of action. As part of the thioredoxin system, thioredoxin reductase (TrxR) is essential for the survival of Mycobacterium tuberculosis (Mtb) and shows substantial differences from human TrxR, making it a promising and most likely selective target. As a model organism for Mtb, crystals of Mycobacterium smegmatis TrxR that diffracted to high resolution were used in crystallographic fragment screening to discover binding fragments and new binding sites. The application of the 96 structurally diverse fragments from the F2X-Entry Screen revealed 56 new starting points for fragment-based drug design of new TrxR inhibitors. Over 200 crystal structures were analyzed using FragMAXapp, which includes processing and refinement by largely automated software pipelines and hit identification via the multi-data-set analysis approach PanDDA. The fragments are bound to 11 binding sites, of which four are positioned at binding pockets or important interaction sites and therefore show high potential for possible inhibition of TrxR.","PeriodicalId":7116,"journal":{"name":"Acta Crystallographica. Section D, Structural Biology","volume":"79 Pt 9","pages":"857-865"},"PeriodicalIF":2.2,"publicationDate":"2023-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10478635/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"10520895","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"生物学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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