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Angiotensin-converting enzyme (ACE) has a critical role in cardiovascular function by cleaving the carboxy terminal His-Leu dipeptide from angiotensin I to produce a potent vasopressor octapeptide, angiotensin II. Inhibitors of ACE are a first line of therapy for hypertension, heart failure, myocardial infarction and diabetic nephropathy. Notably, these inhibitors were developed without knowledge of the structure of human ACE, but were instead designed on the basis of an assumed mechanistic homology with carboxypeptidase A. Here we present the X-ray structure of human testicular ACE and its complex with one of the most widely used inhibitors, lisinopril (N2-[(S)-1-carboxy-3-phenylpropyl]-L-lysyl-L-proline; also known as Prinivil or Zestril), at 2.0 A resolution. Analysis of the three-dimensional structure of ACE shows that it bears little similarity to that of carboxypeptidase A, but instead resembles neurolysin and Pyrococcus furiosus carboxypeptidase--zinc metallopeptidases with no detectable sequence similarity to ACE. The structure provides an opportunity to design domain-selective ACE inhibitors that may exhibit new pharmacological profiles. 相似文献
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Greenway MJ Andersen PM Russ C Ennis S Cashman S Donaghy C Patterson V Swingler R Kieran D Prehn J Morrison KE Green A Acharya KR Brown RH Hardiman O 《Nature genetics》2006,38(4):411-413
We recently identified angiogenin (ANG) as a candidate susceptibility gene for amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), a neurodegenerative disorder characterized by adult-onset loss of motor neurons. We now report the finding of seven missense mutations in 15 individuals, of whom four had familial ALS and 11 apparently 'sporadic' ALS. Our findings provide further evidence that variations in hypoxia-inducible genes have an important role in motor neuron degeneration. 相似文献
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Song K Nam YJ Luo X Qi X Tan W Huang GN Acharya A Smith CL Tallquist MD Neilson EG Hill JA Bassel-Duby R Olson EN 《Nature》2012,485(7400):599-604
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Abazov VM Abbott B Abdesselam A Abolins M Abramov V Acharya BS Adams DL Adams M Ahmed SN Alexeev GD Alton A Alves GA Arnoud Y Avila C Babintsev VV Babukhadia L Bacon TC Baden A Baffioni S Baldin B Balm PW Banerjee S Barberis E Baringer P Barreto J Bartlett JF Bassler U Bauer D Bean A Beaudette F Begel M Belyaev A Beri SB Bernardi G Bertram I Besson A Beuselinck R Bezzubov VA Bhat PC Bhatnagar V Bhattacharjee M Blazey G Blekman F Blessing S Boehnlein A Bojko NI Bolton TA Borcherding F Bos K 《Nature》2004,429(6992):638-642
The standard model of particle physics contains parameters--such as particle masses--whose origins are still unknown and which cannot be predicted, but whose values are constrained through their interactions. In particular, the masses of the top quark (M(t)) and W boson (M(W)) constrain the mass of the long-hypothesized, but thus far not observed, Higgs boson. A precise measurement of M(t) can therefore indicate where to look for the Higgs, and indeed whether the hypothesis of a standard model Higgs is consistent with experimental data. As top quarks are produced in pairs and decay in only about 10(-24) s into various final states, reconstructing their masses from their decay products is very challenging. Here we report a technique that extracts more information from each top-quark event and yields a greatly improved precision (of +/- 5.3 GeV/c2) when compared to previous measurements. When our new result is combined with our published measurement in a complementary decay mode and with the only other measurements available, the new world average for M(t) becomes 178.0 +/- 4.3 GeV/c2. As a result, the most likely Higgs mass increases from the experimentally excluded value of 96 to 117 GeV/c2, which is beyond current experimental sensitivity. The upper limit on the Higgs mass at the 95% confidence level is raised from 219 to 251 GeV/c2. 相似文献
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Structural changes in glycogen phosphorylase induced by phosphorylation 总被引:27,自引:0,他引:27
S R Sprang K R Acharya E J Goldsmith D I Stuart K Varvill R J Fletterick N B Madsen L N Johnson 《Nature》1988,336(6196):215-221
A comparison of the refined crystal structures of dimeric glycogen phosphorylase b and a reveals structural changes that represent the first step in the activation of the enzyme. On phosphorylation of serine-14, the N-terminus of each subunit assumes an ordered helical conformation and binds to the surface of the dimer. The consequent structural changes at the N- and C-terminal regions lead to strengthened interactions between subunits and alter the binding sites for allosteric effectors and substrates. 相似文献
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Zusammenfassung Der Immunisierungsvorgang durch Diphtherie-Toxoid wird beim Pferd elektrophoretisch im Agar-gel verfolgt. Das Auftreten eines Prä-2-Streifens wurde bald nach der ersten Toxoidgabe festgestellt. 相似文献
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Structural and serological evidence for a novel mechanism of antigenic variation in foot-and-mouth disease virus. 总被引:21,自引:0,他引:21
Changes resulting in altered antigenic properties of viruses nearly always occur on their surface and have been attributed to the substitution of residues directly involved in binding antibody. To investigate the mechanism of antigenic variation in foot-and-mouth disease virus (FMDV), variants that escape neutralization by a monoclonal antibody have been compared crystallographically and serologically with parental virus. FMDVs form one of the four genera of the Picornaviridae. The unenveloped icosahedral shell comprises 60 copies each of four structural proteins VP1-4. Representatives from each of the genera have similar overall structure, but differences in the external features. For example, human rhinovirus has a pronounced 'canyon' that is proposed to contain the cell attachment site, whereas elements of the attachment site for FMDV, which involves the G-H loop (residues 134-160) and C-terminus (200-213) of VP1, are exposed on the surface. Moreover, this G-H loop, which is a major antigenic site of FMDV, forms a prominent, highly accessible protrusion, a feature not seen in other picornaviruses. It is this loop that is perturbed in the variant viruses that we have studied. The amino acid mutations characterizing the variants are not at positions directly involved in antibody binding, but result in far-reaching perturbations of the surface structure of the virus. Thus, this virus seems to use a novel escape mechanism whereby an induced conformational change in a major antigenic loop destroys the integrity of the epitope. 相似文献