The combination of theoretical modeling and quantitative live imaging revealed that the repressor proteins work cooperatively or anti-cooperatively depending on enhancer architecture.
Trevor R Sorrells, Amanda N Johnson ... Alexander D Johnson
Cooperativity between two transcription regulators occurs through protein-protein interactions with a general transcription factor complex and potentiates the parallel evolution of their DNA binding sites.
The sharp expression pattern driven by a classic, simple animal enhancer is determined by multiple molecular mechanisms, not only cooperative binding of the activating transcription factor as was previously thought.
Hemoglobin affinity and cooperativity reveal mechanistic insights in how the relation between physiology and evolutionary variations shape a protein's molecular property.
Unbiased single-cell RNAseq data analysis combined with mouse genetic approaches reveal that TGF-β signaling and perimysial-specific regulators may cooperatively define perimysial-to-myogenic signals in regulating pharyngeal myogenesis.
Paul Pfeiffer, Alexei V Egorov ... Susanne Schreiber
Independently gating ion channels typically act fast within milliseconds, but cooperative interactions within a cluster of channels allow for a memory of previous electrical activity for several seconds.
Klaas Bente, Sarah Mohammadinejad ... Damien Faivre
Bacteria reach swimming speeds of several hundred body lengths per second and change direction in less than 5 ms by using coordinated flagella bundle agitation.
The mechanism of substrate binding cooperativity in human thymidylate synthase does not derive from millisecond dynamic interconversion between active and inactive conformations in solution, but instead results primarily from differential changes in faster side-chain motions (conformational entropy), facilitated by a disordered N-terminus.
A suppressor screen of dominant-negative synaptotagmin-induced lethality in Drosophila identifies key properties of the protein that regulate fusion, including the SNARE interaction surface.