Norrie disease is an X-linked genetic disorder caused by pathogenic mutations in the . Here, we describe the clinical phenotype and genotype in a 19-week-old male infant with bilateral retinal detachment. Whole exome sequencing using available commercial methods on the proband revealed a hemizygous substitution in exon 3 of , which suggests the etiology behind retinal detachment. This report not only adds to the expanding mutational spectrum of -related retinopathies but also highlights the recurrence of pathogenic variants in the Cys110 residue, adding additional evidence to this residue as a potential mutational hot spot.
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J Mol Biol
March 2024
Center for Membrane Biology, Department of Biochemistry & Molecular Biology, The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston McGovern Medical School, Houston, TX 77030, USA. Electronic address:
Kalium channelrhodopsin 1 from Hyphochytrium catenoides (HcKCR1) is the first discovered natural light-gated ion channel that shows higher selectivity to K than to Na and therefore is used to silence neurons with light (optogenetics). Replacement of the conserved cysteine residue in the transmembrane helix 3 (Cys110) with alanine or threonine results in a >1,000-fold decrease in the channel closing rate. The phenotype of the corresponding mutants in channelrhodopsin 2 is attributed to breaking of a specific interhelical hydrogen bond (the "DC gate").
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August 2022
Institute of Physics, Polish Academy of Sciences, Al. Lotników 32/46, 02-668 Warsaw, Poland.
Disulfide bonds are covalent bonds that connect nonlocal fragments of proteins, and they are unique post-translational modifications of proteins. They require the oxidizing environment to be stable, which occurs for example during oxidative stress; however, in a cell the reductive environment is maintained, lowering their stability. Despite many years of research on disulfide bonds, their role in the protein life cycle is not fully understood and seems to strictly depend on a system or process in which they are involved.
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June 2020
The Atwal Clinic: Genomic & Personalized Medicine, Jacksonville, Florida, United States.
Norrie disease is an X-linked genetic disorder caused by pathogenic mutations in the . Here, we describe the clinical phenotype and genotype in a 19-week-old male infant with bilateral retinal detachment. Whole exome sequencing using available commercial methods on the proband revealed a hemizygous substitution in exon 3 of , which suggests the etiology behind retinal detachment.
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October 2019
Department of Chemistry, Faculty of Science and Technology, SIVA Innovation Centre, UiT - The Arctic University of Norway, Tromsø, Norway.
The gene encoding MG Orn has been identified from a metagenomic library created from the intertidal zone in Svalbard and encodes a protein of 184 amino acid residues. The mg orn gene has been cloned, recombinantly expressed in Escherichia coli, and purified to homogeneity. Biochemical characterization of the enzyme showed that it efficiently degrades short RNA oligonucleotide substrates of 2mer to 10mer of length and has an absolute requirement for divalent cations for optimal activity.
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October 2012
UMR 1347 Agroécologie AgroSup Dijon/INRA/Université de Bourgogne, Pôle Mécanisme et Gestion des Interactions Plantes-microorganismes - ERL CNRS 6300, Dijon, France.
NO has important physiological functions in plants, including the adaptative response to pathogen attack. We previously demonstrated that cryptogein, an elicitor of defence reaction produced by the oomycete Phytophthora cryptogea, triggers NO synthesis in tobacco. To decipher the role of NO in tobacco cells elicited by cryptogein, in the present study we performed a proteomic approach in order to identify proteins undergoing S-nitrosylation.
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