Latest approaches for efficient protein production in drug discovery

T Sugiki, T Fujiwara, C Kojima - Expert opinion on drug discovery, 2014 - Taylor & Francis
Introduction: Pharmaceutical research looks to discover and develop new compounds which
influence the function of disease-associated proteins or respective protein–protein …

A novel gyrase inhibitor from toxin–antitoxin system expressed by Staphylococcus aureus

F Kato, Y Yamaguchi, K Inouye, K Matsuo… - The FEBS …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Toxin–antitoxin (TA) systems consist of a toxin inhibiting essential cellular functions (such as
DNA, RNA and protein synthesis), and its cognate antitoxin neutralizing the toxicity …

Recent applications of isotopic labeling for protein NMR in drug discovery

H Hiroaki - Expert Opinion on Drug Discovery, 2013 - Taylor & Francis
Introduction: Nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) applications in drug discovery are
classified into two categories: ligand-based methods and protein-based methods. The latter …

Heme interaction of the intrinsically disordered N-terminal peptide segment of human cystathionine-β-synthase

A Kumar, A Wißbrock, N Goradia, P Bellstedt… - Scientific Reports, 2018 - nature.com
Abstract Cystathionine-β-synthase (CBS) belongs to a large family of pyridoxal 5'-phosphate
(PLP)-dependent enzymes, responsible for the sulfur metabolism. The heme-dependent …

Engineering soluble tobacco etch virus protease accompanies the loss of stability

J Fang, L Chen, B Cheng, J Fan - Protein Expression and Purification, 2013 - Elsevier
Tobacco etch virus protease (TEVp) is a widely used tool enzyme in biological studies. To
improve the solubility of recombinant TEVp, three variants, including the double mutant …

An endogenous protein inhibitor, YjhX (TopAI), for topoisomerase I from Escherichia coli

Y Yamaguchi, M Inouye - Nucleic acids research, 2015 - academic.oup.com
Almost all free-living bacteria contain toxin-antitoxin (TA) systems on their genomes and the
targets of toxins are highly diverse. Here, we found a novel, previously unidentified TA …

Characterization of YjjJ toxin of Escherichia coli

Y Maeda, CY Lin, Y Ishida, M Inouye… - FEMS microbiology …, 2017 - academic.oup.com
Reminiscent of eukaryotic apoptotic programmed cell death, bacteria also contain a large
number of suicide genes, which are in general co-expressed with their cognate antitoxin …

Semi-synthesis of labeled proteins for spectroscopic applications

L De Rosa, A Russomanno, A Romanelli, LD D'Andrea - Molecules, 2013 - mdpi.com
Since the introduction of SPPS by Merrifield in the 60s, peptide chemists have considered
the possibility of preparing large proteins. The introduction of native chemical ligation in the …

Segmental isotopic labeling of proteins for NMR study using intein technology

D Liu, D Cowburn - Split inteins: Methods and protocols, 2016 - Springer
Segmental isotopic labeling of samples for NMR studies is attractive for large complex
biomacromolecular systems, especially for studies of function-related protein–ligand …

Engineered solubility tag for solution NMR of proteins

AM Ruschak, JD Rose, MP Coughlin… - Protein …, 2013 - Wiley Online Library
The low solubility of many proteins hinders large scale expression and purification as well
as biophysical measurements. Here, we devised a general strategy to solubilize a protein by …