Yoshinori Hirano, Yong-Guang Gao ... Rhoderick E Brown
The C2-domain of cytoplasmic phospholipase A2α is structurally designed to target PC-rich membrane regions to increase the enzymatic efficiency of the catalytic domain, which prefers PCs with polyunsaturated acyl chains.
Marian Breuer, Tyler M Earnest ... Zaida Luthey-Schulten
A near-complete flux balance analysis model of a minimal cell demonstrates the high essentiality of its metabolic genes, agrees well with experimental essentiality data and suggests some further gene removals.
Inês Gomes Castro, Shawn P Shortill ... Maya Schuldiner
High-throughput analysis of several Saccharomyces cerevisiae contact sites reveals a large data set of potential contact site proteins, including proteins involved in the regulation of lipid distribution within cells.
Phosphate accumulation in zinc-deficient Arabidobsis shoots is regulated by a pathway involving the transcription factor bZIP23, the phospholipid-remodelling enzyme LPCAT1 and the transporter PHT1;1.
Benzene mapping simulations of envelope protein rafts from six different flaviviruses reveal a conserved cryptic site whose cluster of ionisable residues is likely responsible for orchestrating pH-dependent conformational changes during fusion, thereby representing an attractive target for antiviral development.