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62. Cryo-EM structures of ryanodine receptors and diamide insecticides reveal the mechanisms of selectivity and resistance.
Lin L, Wang C, Wang W, Jiang H, Murayama T, Kobayashi T, Hadiatullah H, Chen YS, Wu S, Wang Y, Korza H, Gu Y, Zhang Y, Du J, Petegem FV*, Yuchi Z* Nat Comm 2024, 15, 9056
61. Study of sulfoglycolysis in Enterococcus gilvus reveals a widespread bifurcated pathway for dihydroxypropanesulfonate degradation
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60. A Widespread Radical-Mediated Glycolysis Pathway
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58. Glycyl Radical Enzymes Catalyzing the Dehydration of Two Isomers of N-Methyl-4-hydroxyproline
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57. 2,6-diaminopurine (Z)-containing toehold probes improve genotyping sensitivity
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56. Mechanistic investigation of a D to N mutation in DAHP synthase that dictates carbon flux into the shikimate pathway in yeast
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54. Isethionate is an intermediate in the utilization of sulfoacetate as a terminal electron acceptor by the human gut pathobiont Bilophila wadsworthia
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J Biol Chem. 2023 DOI: 10.1016/j.jbc.2023.105010
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53. A variant of the sulfoglycolytic transketolase pathway for the degradation of sulfoquinovose into sulfoacetate
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Appl Environ Microbiol. 2023 DOI: 10.1128/aem.00617-23
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52. Anaerobic phloroglucinol degradation by Clostridium scatologenes
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50. A (S)-3-hydroxybutyrate dehydrogenase belonging to the 3-hydroxyacyl-CoA dehydrogenase family facilitates hydroxyacid degradation in anaerobic bacteria
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Appl Environ Microbiol. 2023 DOI:10.1128/aem.00366-23
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49. Anaerobic purinolytic enzymes enable dietary purine clearance by engineered gut bacteria
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48. Dynamics of synthetic yeast chromosome evolution shaped by hierarchical chromatin organization
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46. Enzymatic synthesis of the unnatural nucleotide 2′-deoxyisoguanosine 5′-monophosphate
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45. Anaerobic hydroxyproline degradation involving C-N cleavage by a glycyl radical enzyme
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44. Rapid antigen diagnostics as frontline testing in the COVID-19 pandemic
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Small Science 2022 Jul 5 : 2200009
43. (S)-3-aminopiperidine-2,6-dione is a biosynthetic intermediate of microbial blue pigment indigoidine
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42. Genetic suppressors of Δgrx3 Δgrx4, lacking redundant multi-domain monothiol yeast glutaredoxins, rescue growth and iron homeostasis
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41. Identification and characterization of the biosynthetic pathway of the sulfonolipid capnine
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Biochemistry 2022 DOI: 10.1021/acs.biochem.2c00102
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40. Structures of PKA-phospholamban complexes reveal a mechanism of familial dilated cardiomyopathy
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39. Handheld microfluidic filtration platform enables rapid, low-cost and robust self-testing of SARS-CoV-2 virus
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ACS Catal. 2021, 11: 14740-14750
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36. Structural and biochemical investigation of UTP cyclohydrolase
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ACS Catal. 2021, 11(14), 8895–8901
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34. Structural Insights into the Diamide Modulation of Ryanodine Receptor.
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33. The glycyl radical enzyme arylacetate decarboxylase from Olsenella scatoligenes
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31. Serological antibody testing in the COVID-19 pandemic: their molecular basis and applications
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30. A transaldolase-dependent sulfoglycolysis pathway in Bacillus megaterium DSM 1804
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29. Structural basis for diamide modulation of ryanodine receptor
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28. A ferredoxin-dependent dihydropyrimidine dehydrogenase in Clostridium chromiireducens
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27. Two radical-dependent mechanisms for anaerobic degradation of the globally abundant organosulfur compound dihydroxypropanesulfonate
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26. A pathway for degradation of uracil to acetyl coenzyme A in Bacillus megaterium
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25. An extended bacterial reductive pyrimidine degradation pathway that enables nitrogen release from β-alanine
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J Biol Chem. 2019 Oct 25; 294(43): 15662-15671
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23. Identification and characterization of a new sulfoacetaldehyde reductase from the human gut bacterium Bifidobacterium kashiwanohense
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Appl & Environ Microbiol. 2019 Jul 18;85(15)
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21. Biochemical and structural investigation of taurine:2-oxoglutarate aminotransferase from Bifidobacterium kashiwanohense
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20. Radical-mediated C-S bond cleavage in C2 sulfonate degradation by anaerobic bacteria
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19. Structure of glycerol dehydrogenase (GldA) from Escherichia coli
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Acta Crystallogr F. 2019 Mar 1;75(Pt 3):176-183
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18. Biochemical and structural investigation of sulfoacetaldehyde reductase from Klebsiella oxytoca
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16. Indoleacetate decarboxylase is a glycyl radical enzyme catalysing the formation of malodorant skatole
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Nat Comm. 2018 Oct 11;9(1):4224
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15. Developing a colorimetric assay for Fe(II)/2-oxoglutarate-dependent dioxygenase
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Anal Biochem. 2018, May 1; 548: 109-114
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14. Characterization of santalene synthases using an inorganic pyrophosphatase coupled colorimetric assay
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13. EPR studies of wild type and mutant Dre2 identify essential [2Fe–2S] and [4Fe–4S] clusters and their cysteine ligands
Zhang Y, Yang C, Dancis A, Nakamaru-Ogiso E
J Biochem. 2017, Jan; 161(1): 67-78
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12. Conserved electron donor complex Dre2-Tah18 Is required for ribonucleotide reductase metallocofactor assembly and DNA synthesis
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Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2014 Apr 29; 111(17): E1695-704
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11. Frataxin-bypassing Isu1: characterization of the bypass activity in cells and mitochondria
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10. Investigation of in vivo roles of the carboxyl terminal tails of the small subunit (ββ’) of S. cerevisiae ribonucleotide reductase: contribution to cofactor formation and inter-subunit association within the active holoenzyme
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J Biol Chem. 2013 May 17; 288(20): 13951-9
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9. Investigation of in vivo diferric tyrosyl radical formation in Saccharomyces cerevisiae Rnr2 protein requirement of Rnr4 and contribution of Grx3/4 and Dre2
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8. Bacillus subtilis class Ib ribonucleotide reductase is a dimanganese(III)-tyrosyl radical enzyme
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Biochemistry. 2011 Jun 28; 50(25): 5615-23
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7. Cytosolic monothiol glutaredoxins function in intracellular iron sensing and trafficking via their bound iron-sulfur cluster
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5. Dre2, a conserved eukaryotic protein with both [2Fe-2S] and [4Fe-4S] clusters, functions in cytosolic iron-sulfur protein biogenesis
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4. Mrs3p, Mrs4p, and frataxin provide iron for Fe-S cluster synthesis in mitochondria
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J Biol Chem. 2006 Aug 11; 281(32): 22493-502
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3. Frataxin and mitochondrial carrier proteins, Mrs3p and Mrs4p, cooperate in providing iron for heme synthesis
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J Biol Chem. 2005 May 20; 280(20): 19794-807
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2. Yeast frataxin solution structure, iron binding, and ferrochelatase interaction
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1. Overexpression of ccl1-2 can bypass the need for the putative apocytochrome chaperone CycH during the biogenesis of c-type cytochromes
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