Emerging time-resolved x-ray diffraction approaches for protein dynamics

DR Hekstra - Annual review of biophysics, 2023 - annualreviews.org
Proteins guide the flows of information, energy, and matter that make life possible by
accelerating transport and chemical reactions, by allosterically modulating these reactions …

Best practices for time-resolved serial synchrotron crystallography

EC Schulz, BA Yorke, AR Pearson… - Biological …, 2022 - journals.iucr.org
With recent developments in X-ray sources, instrumentation and data-analysis tools, time-
resolved crystallographic experiments, which were originally the preserve of a few expert …

Defining a new nomenclature for the structures of active and inactive kinases

V Modi, RL Dunbrack Jr - Proceedings of the National Academy of …, 2019 - pnas.org
Targeting protein kinases is an important strategy for intervention in cancer. Inhibitors are
directed at the active conformation or a variety of inactive conformations. While attempts …

Temporal and spatial resolution of distal protein motions that activate hydrogen tunneling in soybean lipoxygenase

JPT Zaragoza, AR Offenbacher, S Hu, CL Gee… - Proceedings of the …, 2023 - pnas.org
The enzyme soybean lipoxygenase (SLO) provides a prototype for deep tunneling
mechanisms in hydrogen transfer catalysis. This work combines room temperature X-ray …

Ligand binding remodels protein side-chain conformational heterogeneity

SA Wankowicz, SH de Oliveira, DW Hogan… - Elife, 2022 - elifesciences.org
While protein conformational heterogeneity plays an important role in many aspects of
biological function, including ligand binding, its impact has been difficult to quantify …
DA Keedy, LR Kenner, M Warkentin, RA Woldeyes… - Elife, 2015 - elifesciences.org
Determining the interconverting conformations of dynamic proteins in atomic detail is a
major challenge for structural biology. Conformational heterogeneity in the active site of the …

Macromolecular room temperature crystallography

M Fischer - Quarterly Reviews of Biophysics, 2021 - cambridge.org
X-ray crystallography enables detailed structural studies of proteins to understand and
modulate their function. Conducting crystallographic experiments at cryogenic temperatures …

Rescue of conformational dynamics in enzyme catalysis by directed evolution

R Otten, L Liu, LR Kenner, MW Clarkson… - Nature …, 2018 - nature.com
Rational design and directed evolution have proved to be successful approaches to
increase catalytic efficiencies of both natural and artificial enzymes. Protein dynamics is …

Functional roles of enzyme dynamics in accelerating active site chemistry: Emerging techniques and changing concepts

S Gao, JP Klinman - Current opinion in structural biology, 2022 - Elsevier
With the growing acceptance of the contribution of protein conformational ensembles to
enzyme catalysis and regulation, research in the field of protein dynamics has shifted toward …