scholarly journals Native cysteine residues are dispensable for the structure and function of all five yeast mitotic septins

2013 ◽  
Vol 81 (11) ◽  
pp. 1964-1979 ◽  
Author(s):  
Natalia Val ◽  
Michael A. McMurray ◽  
Lisa H. Lam ◽  
Chris C.‐S. Hsiung ◽  
Aurélie Bertin ◽  
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2010 ◽  
Vol 2010 ◽  
pp. 1-10 ◽  
Author(s):  
J. Santiago Mejia ◽  
Erik N. Arthun ◽  
Richard G. Titus

One approach to identify epitopes that could be used in the design of vaccines to control several arthropod-borne diseases simultaneously is to look for common structural features in the secretome of the pathogens that cause them. Using a novel bioinformatics technique, cysteine-abundance and distribution analysis, we found that many different proteins secreted by several arthropod-borne pathogens, includingPlasmodium falciparum, Borrelia burgdorferi, and eight species of Proteobacteria, are devoid of cysteine residues. The identification of three cysteine-abundance and distribution patterns in several families of proteins secreted by pathogenic and nonpathogenic Proteobacteria, and not found when the amino acid analyzed was tryptophan, provides evidence of forces restricting the content of cysteine residues in microbial proteins during evolution. We discuss these findings in the context of protein structure and function, antigenicity and immunogenicity, and host-parasite relationships.


Science ◽  
1987 ◽  
Vol 236 (4806) ◽  
pp. 1315-1318 ◽  
Author(s):  
N. Giese ◽  
K. Robbins ◽  
S. Aaronson

2000 ◽  
Vol 28 (5) ◽  
pp. A266-A266
Author(s):  
M. Doufexis ◽  
P-A Frändberg ◽  
S. Kapas ◽  
V. Chhajlani

Virology ◽  
2005 ◽  
Vol 332 (2) ◽  
pp. 550-562 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tina M. Cairns ◽  
Daniel J. Landsburg ◽  
J. Charles Whitbeck ◽  
Roselyn J. Eisenberg ◽  
Gary H. Cohen

2006 ◽  
Vol 281 (48) ◽  
pp. 37227-37236 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jeremiah Stitham ◽  
Scott R. Gleim ◽  
Karen Douville ◽  
Eric Arehart ◽  
John Hwa

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