Sung Hou Kim

Summary

Affiliation: University of California
Country: USA

Publications

  1. ncbi Structural proteomics of minimal organisms: conservation of protein fold usage and evolutionary implications
    John-Marc Chandonia
    Physical Biosciences Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, CA 94720, USA
    BMC Struct Biol 6:7. 2006
  2. ncbi Dynamic and clustering model of bacterial chemotaxis receptors: structural basis for signaling and high sensitivity
    Sung Hou Kim
    Department of Chemistry and E O Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, University of California, Berkeley, CA 94720, USA
    Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 99:11611-5. 2002
  3. ncbi Structure-based functional inference in structural genomics
    Sung Hou Kim
    Department of Chemistry, University of California, Berkeley, California 94720 5230, USA
    J Struct Funct Genomics 4:129-35. 2003
  4. ncbi Structural genomics of minimal organisms and protein fold space
    Sung Hou Kim
    Department of Chemistry, University of California, Berkeley, 94720 5230, USA
    J Struct Funct Genomics 6:63-70. 2005
  5. ncbi Crystal structure of NusA from Thermotoga maritima and functional implication of the N-terminal domain
    Dong Hae Shin
    Physical Biosciences Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, California 94720, USA
    Biochemistry 42:13429-37. 2003
  6. ncbi Crystal structure of a heat-inducible transcriptional repressor HrcA from Thermotoga maritima: structural insight into DNA binding and dimerization
    Jinyu Liu
    Berkeley Structural Genomics Center, Physical Biosciences Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, CA 94720, USA
    J Mol Biol 350:987-96. 2005
  7. ncbi Structure of OsmC from Escherichia coli: a salt-shock-induced protein
    Dong Hae Shin
    Physical Biosciences Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, California 94720, USA
    Acta Crystallogr D Biol Crystallogr 60:903-11. 2004
  8. ncbi Crystal structures of a phosphotransacetylase from Bacillus subtilis and its complex with acetyl phosphate
    Qian Steven Xu
    Berkeley Structural Genomics Center, Physical Biosciences Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, CA 94720, USA
    J Struct Funct Genomics 6:269-79. 2005
  9. ncbi Crystal structure of the "PhoU-like" phosphate uptake regulator from Aquifex aeolicus
    Vaheh Oganesyan
    Berkely Structural Genomics Center, Physical Biosciences Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, 1 Cyclotron Rd, Berkeley, California 94720, USA
    J Bacteriol 187:4238-44. 2005
  10. ncbi Crystal structures of an NAD kinase from Archaeoglobus fulgidus in complex with ATP, NAD, or NADP
    Jinyu Liu
    Berkeley Structural Genomics Center, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Physical Bioscience Division, Berkeley, CA 94720 5230, USA
    J Mol Biol 354:289-303. 2005

Research Grants

  1. STRUCTURE/FUNCTION IN MOLECULAR COMMUNICATION
    Sung Hou Kim; Fiscal Year: 2002
  2. STRUCTURAL GENOMICS OF A MINIMAL GENOME
    Sung Hou Kim; Fiscal Year: 2004
  3. Atomic structures of chemotaxis receptors and complexes
    Sung Hou Kim; Fiscal Year: 2010

Collaborators

Detail Information

Publications78

  1. ncbi Structural proteomics of minimal organisms: conservation of protein fold usage and evolutionary implications
    John-Marc Chandonia
    Physical Biosciences Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, CA 94720, USA
    BMC Struct Biol 6:7. 2006
    ..Folds related to transcription and translation functional categories were also overrepresented in minimal organisms compared to other bacteria...
  2. ncbi Dynamic and clustering model of bacterial chemotaxis receptors: structural basis for signaling and high sensitivity
    Sung Hou Kim
    Department of Chemistry and E O Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, University of California, Berkeley, CA 94720, USA
    Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 99:11611-5. 2002
    ..Taken together, the changes of the dynamic property of one receptor propagating mechanically to many others in the receptor patch provides a plausible, simple mechanism for the high sensitivity and the dynamic range of the receptors...
  3. ncbi Structure-based functional inference in structural genomics
    Sung Hou Kim
    Department of Chemistry, University of California, Berkeley, California 94720 5230, USA
    J Struct Funct Genomics 4:129-35. 2003
    ....
  4. ncbi Structural genomics of minimal organisms and protein fold space
    Sung Hou Kim
    Department of Chemistry, University of California, Berkeley, 94720 5230, USA
    J Struct Funct Genomics 6:63-70. 2005
    ..genitalium. Furthermore, about 1/2 of the structures of 'unique' protein sequences revealed new and novel folds, and over 2/3 of the structures of previously annotated 'hypothetical proteins' inferred their molecular functions...
  5. ncbi Crystal structure of NusA from Thermotoga maritima and functional implication of the N-terminal domain
    Dong Hae Shin
    Physical Biosciences Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, California 94720, USA
    Biochemistry 42:13429-37. 2003
    ..Structural comparison between TmNusA and Mycobacterium tuberculosis NusA reveals a possible hinge motion between NTD and RBD. In addition, a functional implication of the NTD in its interaction with RNA polymerase is discussed...
  6. ncbi Crystal structure of a heat-inducible transcriptional repressor HrcA from Thermotoga maritima: structural insight into DNA binding and dimerization
    Jinyu Liu
    Berkeley Structural Genomics Center, Physical Biosciences Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, CA 94720, USA
    J Mol Biol 350:987-96. 2005
    ..Structural implication on how the inactive form of HrcA may be converted to the active form by GroEL binding to a conserved C-terminal sequence region of HrcA is discussed...
  7. ncbi Structure of OsmC from Escherichia coli: a salt-shock-induced protein
    Dong Hae Shin
    Physical Biosciences Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, California 94720, USA
    Acta Crystallogr D Biol Crystallogr 60:903-11. 2004
    ..In addition, the molecular function of the OsmC sequence family is discussed based on structural comparisons among the subfamily members...
  8. ncbi Crystal structures of a phosphotransacetylase from Bacillus subtilis and its complex with acetyl phosphate
    Qian Steven Xu
    Berkeley Structural Genomics Center, Physical Biosciences Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, CA 94720, USA
    J Struct Funct Genomics 6:269-79. 2005
    ..These results suggest that the CoA is likely to bind to the interdomain cleft of Pta in a similar way as NADP+ binds to the other three enzymes...
  9. ncbi Crystal structure of the "PhoU-like" phosphate uptake regulator from Aquifex aeolicus
    Vaheh Oganesyan
    Berkely Structural Genomics Center, Physical Biosciences Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, 1 Cyclotron Rd, Berkeley, California 94720, USA
    J Bacteriol 187:4238-44. 2005
    ..Other proteins that share the PhoU domain fold include the coiled-coil domains of the STAT protein, the ribosome-recycling factor, and structural proteins like spectrin...
  10. ncbi Crystal structures of an NAD kinase from Archaeoglobus fulgidus in complex with ATP, NAD, or NADP
    Jinyu Liu
    Berkeley Structural Genomics Center, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Physical Bioscience Division, Berkeley, CA 94720 5230, USA
    J Mol Biol 354:289-303. 2005
    ..A possible phosphate transfer mechanism is proposed on the basis of the structures presented...
  11. ncbi Structure of the hypothetical protein AQ_1354 from Aquifex aeolicus
    Vaheh Oganesyan
    Physical Biosciences Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, California 94720, USA
    Acta Crystallogr D Biol Crystallogr 59:1219-23. 2003
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  12. ncbi Structural characterization of the reaction pathway in phosphoserine phosphatase: crystallographic "snapshots" of intermediate states
    Weiru Wang
    Department of Chemistry, University of California, Berkeley, CA 94720 5230, USA
    J Mol Biol 319:421-31. 2002
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  13. ncbi Structural genomics of minimal organisms: pipeline and results
    Sung Hou Kim
    Berkeley Structural Genomics Center, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, and Department of Chemistry, University of California, Berkeley, CA, USA
    Methods Mol Biol 426:475-96. 2008
    ..At the time of this writing, structural information of more than 93% of all soluble proteins of M. genitalium is avail able. This chapter summarizes the approaches taken by the authors' center...
  14. ncbi Crystal structure of ScpB from Chlorobium tepidum, a protein involved in chromosome partitioning
    Jeong Sun Kim
    Department of Chemistry, University of California, Berkeley, California 94720, USA
    Proteins 62:322-8. 2006
    ....
  15. ncbi Crystal structure of DNA sequence specificity subunit of a type I restriction-modification enzyme and its functional implications
    Jeong Sun Kim
    Department of Chemistry, University of California, Berkeley, CA 94720, USA
    Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 102:3248-53. 2005
    ..Furthermore, the relative orientation of the two DNA binding clefts suggests kinking of bound dsDNA and exposing of target adenines from the recognized DNA sequences...
  16. ncbi Crystal structure of a conserved hypothetical protein from Escherichia coli
    Dong Hae Shin
    Department of Chemistry, University of California, Berkeley, California 94720 5230, USA
    J Struct Funct Genomics 2:53-66. 2002
    ..There are several highly conserved residues including two possible functional cysteines in the putative active site. The possible molecular function of the protein is discussed...
  17. ncbi Crystal structure of MJ1247 protein from M. jannaschii at 2.0 A resolution infers a molecular function of 3-hexulose-6-phosphate isomerase
    Luis Alfonso Martinez-Cruz
    Physical Biosciences Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory and Department of Chemistry, University of California, Berkeley, 94720, USA
    Structure 10:195-204. 2002
    ..The fold represents the nucleotide binding motif of a flavodoxin type. MJ1247 is a tetramer in the crystal and in solution and each monomer has a folding similar to the isomerase domain of glucosamine-6-phosphate synthase (GlmS)...
  18. ncbi Global extent of horizontal gene transfer
    In Geol Choi
    Physical Biosciences Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory and Department of Chemistry, University of California, Berkeley, CA 94720, USA
    Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 104:4489-94. 2007
    ....
  19. ncbi Structure of the hypothetical Mycoplasma protein MPN555 suggests a chaperone function
    Ursula Schulze-Gahmen
    Berkeley Structural Genomics Center, Physical Biosciences Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, California 94720, USA
    Acta Crystallogr D Biol Crystallogr 61:1343-7. 2005
    ..The structural data and the homology to other chaperone proteins suggests an involvement in protein folding as a molecular chaperone for MPN555...
  20. ncbi Crystal structure of a protein associated with cell division from Mycoplasma pneumoniae (GI: 13508053): a novel fold with a conserved sequence motif
    Shengfeng Chen
    Department of Chemistry, University of California, Berkeley, California 94720, USA
    Proteins 55:785-91. 2004
    ..The conserved protein residues, including a highly conserved DXXXR motif, are examined on the basis of crystal structure...
  21. ncbi Structure of the putative DNA-binding protein SP_1288 from Streptococcus pyogenes
    Vaheh Oganesyan
    Berkeley Structural Genomics Center, Physical Biosciences Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, California 94720, USA
    Acta Crystallogr D Biol Crystallogr 60:1266-71. 2004
    ..This suggests its possible involvement in the biochemical function of transcription initiation, which includes interaction with DNA...
  22. ncbi Crystal structure of a nicotinate phosphoribosyltransferase from Thermoplasma acidophilum
    Dong Hae Shin
    Berkeley Structural Genomics Center, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, California 94720, USA
    J Biol Chem 280:18326-35. 2005
    ..The structures of TaNAPRTase also provide valuable insight for other sequence subfamilies such as pre-B cell colony-enhancing factor, known to have nicotinamide phosphoribosyltransferase activity...
  23. ncbi Crystal structure of conserved hypothetical protein Aq1575 from Aquifex aeolicus
    Dong Hae Shin
    Department of Chemistry, University of California, Berkeley, CA 94720 5230, USA
    Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 99:7980-5. 2002
    ..There are several highly conserved residues in these putative active sites. The structure based molecular properties and thermostability of the protein are discussed...
  24. ncbi Structural and functional characterization of a novel phosphodiesterase from Methanococcus jannaschii
    Shengfeng Chen
    Department of Chemistry, University of California, Berkeley, California 94720, USA
    J Biol Chem 279:31854-62. 2004
    ..Thus, our structural and enzymatic studies have identified the biochemical function of MJ0936 as that of a novel phosphodiesterase...
  25. ncbi Structure of O67745_AQUAE, a hypothetical protein from Aquifex aeolicus
    Vaheh Oganesyan
    Berkeley Structural Genomics Center, Physical Biosciences Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, California 94720, USA
    Acta Crystallogr Sect F Struct Biol Cryst Commun 63:369-74. 2007
    ..Data are presented that provide the first insights into the structural organization of the proteins within this clan and a distal alternative GDP-binding domain outside the metal-binding active site is proposed...
  26. ncbi Crystal structure of YjeQ from Thermotoga maritima contains a circularly permuted GTPase domain
    Dong Hae Shin
    Berkeley Structural Genomics Center, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, CA 94720, USA
    Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 101:13198-203. 2004
    ..The overall structural features of TmYjeQ make it a good candidate for an RNA-binding protein, which is consistent with the biochemical data of the YjeQ subfamily in binding to the ribosome...
  27. ncbi Structural basis for CDK6 activation by a virus-encoded cyclin
    Ursula Schulze-Gahmen
    Physical Bioscience Division at E O Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, California 94720, USA
    Nat Struct Biol 9:177-81. 2002
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  28. ncbi Whole-genome phylogeny of mammals: evolutionary information in genic and nongenic regions
    Gregory E Sims
    Department of Chemistry, University of California, Berkeley, CA 94720, USA
    Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 106:17077-82. 2009
    ....
  29. ncbi Whole-proteome phylogeny of prokaryotes by feature frequency profiles: An alignment-free method with optimal feature resolution
    Se Ran Jun
    Department of Chemistry, University of California, Berkeley, CA 94720, USA
    Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 107:133-8. 2010
    ..We describe notable similarities and differences between our FFP trees and those based on other methods in grouping and phylogeny of prokaryotes...
  30. ncbi Crystal structure of a PhoU protein homologue: a new class of metalloprotein containing multinuclear iron clusters
    Jinyu Liu
    Berkeley Structural Genomics Center, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, California 94720, USA
    J Biol Chem 280:15960-6. 2005
    ..Our structure reveals a new class of metalloprotein containing multinuclear iron clusters. The possible functional implication based on the structure are discussed...
  31. ncbi Structural analyses of peptide release factor 1 from Thermotoga maritima reveal domain flexibility required for its interaction with the ribosome
    Dong Hae Shin
    Physical Biosciences Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, CA 94720, USA
    J Mol Biol 341:227-39. 2004
    ..The crystal structure of RF1 elucidates the intrinsic property of this family of having large domain movements for proper function with the ribosome...
  32. ncbi Crystal structure of a hypothetical protein, TM841 of Thermotoga maritima, reveals its function as a fatty acid-binding protein
    Ursula Schulze-Gahmen
    Physical Biosciences Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, University of California, Berkeley, CA 94720 5230, USA
    Proteins 50:526-30. 2003
    ..The structure indicates that TM841 has the molecular function of fatty-acid binding and may play a role in the cellular functions of fatty acid transport or metabolism...
  33. ncbi Crystal structure of the multidrug efflux transporter AcrB at 3.1A resolution reveals the N-terminal region with conserved amino acids
    Debanu Das
    Berkeley Structural Genomics Center, Physical Biosciences Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, USA
    J Struct Biol 158:494-502. 2007
    ..We hope that the structural information provides a structural basis for others to design further biochemical investigation of the role of this portion of AcrB in mediating cytoplasmic ligand discrimination and uptake...
  34. ncbi Crystallization and preliminary X-ray analysis of human Brn-5 transcription factor in complex with DNA
    Jose Henrique Pereira
    Department of Chemistry, University of California, Berkeley, California 94720, USA
    Acta Crystallogr Sect F Struct Biol Cryst Commun 64:175-8. 2008
    ..This paper describes several critical steps that allowed the production of high-quality crystals of the full-length Brn-5 protein complexed with its cognate DNA...
  35. ncbi Crystal structure of a phosphatase with a unique substrate binding domain from Thermotoga maritima
    Dong Hae Shin
    Physical Biosciences Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, CA 94720, USA
    Protein Sci 12:1464-72. 2003
    ..From the crystal structure and NMR data, the protein likely undergoes a conformational change upon substrate binding...
  36. ncbi Crystal structure of the conserved hypothetical protein MPN330 (GI: 1674200) from Mycoplasma pneumoniae
    Debanu Das
    Berkeley Structural Genomics Center, Physical Biosciences Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, California 94720, USA
    Proteins 58:504-8. 2005
  37. ncbi Expression of soluble recombinant proteins in a cell-free system using a 96-well format
    Didier Busso
    Department of Chemistry, University of California, Berkeley, 314 Calvin Lab MS5230, CA 94720 5230, USA
    J Biochem Biophys Methods 55:233-40. 2003
    ..The identification of soluble proteins is performed by the Dot Blot procedure using an anti-His tag antibody. The applications and the automation of this method are described...
  38. ncbi Water polygons in high-resolution protein crystal structures
    Jonas Lee
    Department of Chemistry, University of California, Berkeley, California 94720 5230, USA
    Protein Sci 18:1370-6. 2009
    ..The trigons are most commonly observed. We suggest that our observation provides an experimental basis for including these water polygon structures in correlating and predicting various water properties in liquid state...
  39. ncbi Target selection and deselection at the Berkeley Structural Genomics Center
    John-Marc Chandonia
    Berkeley Structural Genomics Center, Physical Biosciences Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, California, USA
    Proteins 62:356-70. 2006
    ..Sequences and data on experimental progress on our targets are available in the public databases TargetDB and PEPCdb...
  40. ncbi Purification of human transcription factors Nanog and Sox2, each in complex with Skp, an Escherichia coli periplasmic chaperone
    Sung Chul Ha
    Department of Chemistry, University of California, Berkeley, CA 94720, USA
    Protein Expr Purif 67:164-8. 2009
    ..Purified Skp complexes of Nanog and Sox maintained DNA-binding activity toward its cognate DNA sequence. A similar approach may be applicable for some other mammalian proteins that are unstable or difficult to over-express in E. coli...
  41. ncbi High-throughput T7 LIC vector for introducing C-terminal poly-histidine tags with variable lengths without extra sequences
    Jonas Lee
    Department of Chemistry, University of California, Berkeley, California 94720 5230, USA
    Protein Expr Purif 63:58-61. 2009
    ..Unlike most LIC vectors available commercially, our vectors will not translate unwanted extra sequences by engineering the N-terminal linker to anneal before the open reading frame, and the C-terminal linker to anneal as a His-tag...
  42. ncbi Structure of human Brn-5 transcription factor in complex with CRH gene promoter
    Jose Henrique Pereira
    Department of Chemistry, University of California, Berkeley, CA 94720, USA
    J Struct Biol 167:159-65. 2009
    ..Moreover, the structure also shows the role of the linker in allowing diverse configurations that can be assumed by the two subdomains...
  43. ncbi On the mechanism of chaperone activity of the small heat-shock protein of Methanococcus jannaschii
    Rosalind Kim
    Physical Biosciences Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, CA 94720, USA
    Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 100:8151-5. 2003
    ....
  44. ncbi Structure of a NAD kinase from Thermotoga maritima at 2.3 A resolution
    Vaheh Oganesyan
    Structural Genomics Center, Physical Biosciences Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, California 94720, USA
    Acta Crystallograph Sect F Struct Biol Cryst Commun 61:640-6. 2005
    ....
  45. ncbi Alignment-free genome comparison with feature frequency profiles (FFP) and optimal resolutions
    Gregory E Sims
    Department of Chemistry, University of California, Berkeley, CA 94720, USA
    Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 106:2677-82. 2009
    ..The topology agrees with the established mammalian phylogeny revealing that intron regions contain a similar level of phylogenic signal as do coding regions...
  46. ncbi PDB Editor: a user-friendly Java-based Protein Data Bank file editor with a GUI
    Jonas Lee
    Department of Chemistry, University of California, Berkeley, California 94720 5230, USA
    Acta Crystallogr D Biol Crystallogr 65:399-402. 2009
    ..PDB Editor can be downloaded from http://sourceforge.net/projects/pdbeditorjl/...
  47. ncbi Crystal structure of a stress inducible protein from Mycoplasma pneumoniae at 2.85 A resolution
    In-Geol Choi
    Department of Chemistry, University of California, Berkeley, California 94720-5230, USA
    J Struct Funct Genomics 4:31-4. 2003
  48. ncbi A global representation of the protein fold space
    Jingtong Hou
    Department of Chemistry and Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, University of California, Berkeley, CA 94720, USA
    Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 100:2386-90. 2003
    ..Random coil-like structures of small proteins and peptides are mapped to a region where the three trends converge, offering an interesting perspective on both the demography of fold space and the evolution of protein structures...
  49. ncbi Discovery of a selective inhibitor of oncogenic B-Raf kinase with potent antimelanoma activity
    James Tsai
    Plexxikon, Inc, 91 Bolivar Drive, Berkeley, CA 94710, USA
    Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 105:3041-6. 2008
    ....
  50. ncbi Optimum solubility (OS) screening: an efficient method to optimize buffer conditions for homogeneity and crystallization of proteins
    Jarmila Jancarik
    Berkeley Structural Genomics Center, Physical Biosciences Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, California 94720, USA
    Acta Crystallogr D Biol Crystallogr 60:1670-3. 2004
    ..This screen can be configured to perform in an automated high-throughput mode and can be expanded for additional buffers and additives...
  51. ncbi Crystal structure of methenyltetrahydrofolate synthetase from Mycoplasma pneumoniae (GI: 13508087) at 2.2 A resolution
    Shengfeng Chen
    Department of Chemistry, University of California, Berkeley, California
    Proteins 56:839-43. 2004
  52. ncbi Crystal structure of tRNA (m1G37) methyltransferase from Aquifex aeolicus at 2.6 A resolution: a novel methyltransferase fold
    Jinyu Liu
    Department of Chemistry, University of California, Berkeley, California, USA
    Proteins 53:326-8. 2003
  53. ncbi A conserved hypothetical protein from Mycoplasma genitalium shows structural homology to nusb proteins
    Jinyu Liu
    Department of Chemistry, University of California, Berkeley, California, USA
    Proteins 55:1082-6. 2004
  54. ncbi Fold prediction of helical proteins using torsion angle dynamics and predicted restraints
    Chao Zhang
    Department of Chemistry and E. O. Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, University of California, Berkeley, CA 94720, USA
    Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 99:3581-5. 2002
    ..When tested against 24 small to medium-sized proteins representing a wide range of helical folds, the completely automated procedure is able to generate native-like models within a limited number of trials consistently...
  55. ncbi Crystal structure of a novel single-stranded DNA binding protein from Mycoplasma pneumoniae
    Debanu Das
    Berkeley Structural Genomics Center, Physical Biosciences Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, California 94720, USA
    Proteins 67:776-82. 2007
  56. ncbi Overview of structural genomics: from structure to function
    Chao Zhang
    Department of Chemistry, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, University of California at Berkeley, Berkeley, CA 94720, USA
    Curr Opin Chem Biol 7:28-32. 2003
    ..These new structures have revealed many unexpected functional and evolution relationships that were hidden at the sequence level...
  57. ncbi Whole-proteome phylogeny of large dsDNA virus families by an alignment-free method
    Guohong Albert Wu
    Department of Chemistry, University of California, Berkeley, CA 94720, USA
    Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 106:12826-31. 2009
    ....
  58. ncbi Evolution of protein structural classes and protein sequence families
    In-Geol Choi
    Physical Biosciences Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, and Department of Chemistry, University of California, Berkeley, CA 94720, USA
    Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 103:14056-61. 2006
    ....
  59. ncbi Using an Escherichia coli cell-free extract to screen for soluble expression of recombinant proteins
    Didier Busso
    Department of Chemistry, University of California, Berkeley, CA 94720-5230, USA
    J Struct Funct Genomics 5:69-74. 2004
    ..We designed a rapid method that allows the characterization of soluble candidates from a large number of genes or from a large number of variants that is highly compatible with structural genomics expectations...
  60. ncbi Crystal structure of a phosphotransacetylase from Streptococcus pyogenes
    Qian Steven Xu
    Berkeley Structural Genomics Center, Physical Biosciences Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, California 94720, USA
    Proteins 55:479-81. 2004
  61. ncbi Protein conformational space in higher order phi-Psi maps
    Gregory E Sims
    Biophysics Graduate Group and Department of Chemistry, University of California, Berkeley, CA 94720, USA
    Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 102:618-21. 2005
    ..Each map can be viewed as a higher order phi-Psi plot defining regions of space that are conformationally allowed...
  62. ncbi Local feature frequency profile: a method to measure structural similarity in proteins
    In-Geol Choi
    Department of Chemistry, University of California, and Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, CA 94720, USA
    Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 101:3797-802. 2004
    ..The LFF profile method efficiently maps complex protein structures into a common Euclidean space without prior assignment of secondary structure information or structural alignment...
  63. ncbi A method for evaluating the structural quality of protein models by using higher-order phi-psi pairs scoring
    Gregory E Sims
    Berkeley Structural Genomics Center, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, CA 94720, USA
    Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 103:4428-32. 2006
    ..Reasonable models have higher-order phi-psi score fit values (m) > -1.00...
  64. ncbi Crystal structure of a flavin-binding protein from Thermotoga maritima
    Weiru Wang
    Physical Biosciences Division of the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, California, USA
    Proteins 52:633-5. 2003
  65. ncbi Crystal structure of flavin binding to FAD synthetase of Thermotoga maritima
    Weiru Wang
    Berkeley Structural Genomics Center, Physical Biosciences Division of the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, California 94720, USA
    Proteins 58:246-8. 2005
  66. ncbi Global mapping of the protein structure space and application in structure-based inference of protein function
    Jingtong Hou
    Department of Chemistry and Graduate Program of Comparative Biochemistry, University of California, Berkeley, CA 94720, USA
    Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 102:3651-6. 2005
    ..We found that this scheme consistently outperformed other predictions made by using either the raw scores or normalized Z-scores of pairwise DALI structure alignment...
  67. ncbi A glutamine switch mechanism for nucleotide selectivity by phosphodiesterases
    Kam Y J Zhang
    Plexxikon Inc, 91 Bolivar Drive, Berkeley, CA 94710, USA
    Mol Cell 15:279-86. 2004
    ..The structural understanding of nucleotide binding enables the design of new PDE inhibitors that may treat diseases in which cyclic nucleotides play a critical role...
  68. ncbi Structural basis for the activity of drugs that inhibit phosphodiesterases
    Graeme L Card
    Plexxikon, Inc, 91 Bolivar Drive, Berkeley, CA 94710, USA
    Structure 12:2233-47. 2004
    ..These structural insights will enable the design of isoform-selective inhibitors with improved binding affinity and should facilitate the discovery of more potent and selective PDE inhibitors for the treatment of a variety of diseases...
  69. ncbi Structural and functional characterization of a 5,10-methenyltetrahydrofolate synthetase from Mycoplasma pneumoniae (GI: 13508087)
    Shengfeng Chen
    Department of Chemistry, University of California, Berkeley, California 94720, USA
    Proteins 61:433-43. 2005
    ..2 A resolution; with ADP, phosphate, and 5-FTHF at 2.5 A resolution. These structures directly demonstrated that the role of Mg2+ in the reaction is to form the ATP--Mg2+-enzyme complex...
  70. ncbi On-column protein refolding for crystallization
    Natalia Oganesyan
    Berkeley Structural Genomics Center, Physical Biosciences Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, California 94720, USA
    J Struct Funct Genomics 6:177-82. 2005
    ..It can be easily automated and formatted for high-throughput process...
  71. ncbi Crystal structure of the DUF16 domain of MPN010 from Mycoplasma pneumoniae
    Dong Hae Shin
    College of Pharmacy, Ewha Womans Unversity, Seoul 120 750, Korea
    Protein Sci 15:921-8. 2006
    ..Based on the structural comparison with other coiled-coil structures, a probable molecular function of the DUF16 family is discussed...
  72. ncbi Structural and enzymatic characterization of DR1281: A calcineurin-like phosphoesterase from Deinococcus radiodurans
    Dong Hae Shin
    College of Pharmacy, Ewha Womans University, Seoul 120 750, Republic of Korea
    Proteins 70:1000-9. 2008
    ..Thus, our structural and enzymatic studies have identified the biochemical function of DR1281 as a novel phosphatase/phosphodiesterase and disclosed key conserved residues involved in metal binding and catalytic activity...
  73. ncbi Structure-based inference of molecular functions of proteins of unknown function from Berkeley Structural Genomics Center
    Dong Hae Shin
    College of Pharmacy, Ewha Womans University, Seoul, Korea
    J Struct Funct Genomics 8:99-105. 2007
    ..We present a brief summary of the process we used at the Berkeley Structural Genomics Center to infer molecular functions of proteins of unknown function...
  74. ncbi Structure-based experimental confirmation of biochemical function to a methyltransferase, MJ0882, from hyperthermophile Methanococcus jannaschii
    Lan Huang
    Dept of Cellular Biochemistry and Biophysics, Sloan Kettering Institute, 1275 York Ave, New York, NY 10021, USA
    J Struct Funct Genomics 2:121-7. 2002
    ..Preliminary biochemical experiments show that MJ0882 specifically binds to AdoMet, which is the essential co-factor for methyltransferases...
  75. ncbi Crystal structure of TM1457 from Thermotoga maritima
    Dong Hae Shin
    College of Pharmacy, Ewha Womans University, Seoul 120-750, Korea
    J Struct Biol 152:113-7. 2005
    ..Therefore, TM1457 still retains a unique topology and reveals a novel fold...
  76. ncbi SU9516: biochemical analysis of cdk inhibition and crystal structure in complex with cdk2
    Deborah J Moshinsky
    SUGEN, Inc, South San Francisco, CA 94080, USA
    Biochem Biophys Res Commun 310:1026-31. 2003
    ..This study should aid in the development of more potent and selective cdk inhibitors for potential therapeutic agents...
  77. ncbi Protein production and purification
    Susanne Gräslund
    Karolinska Institutet, Scheeles vag 2, 171 77 Stockholm, Sweden
    Nat Methods 5:135-46. 2008
    ..This review presents methods that could be applied at the outset of any project, a prioritized list of alternate strategies and a list of pitfalls that trip many new investigators...
  78. ncbi Effect of osmotic stress and heat shock in recombinant protein overexpression and crystallization
    Natalia Oganesyan
    Bio Rad Laboratories, Life Science Group, 2000 Alfred Nobel Drive, Hercules, CA 94547, USA
    Protein Expr Purif 52:280-5. 2007
    ..Our results suggest that by growing the cells under varied conditions one may be able to express targets as soluble proteins (from previously insoluble targets) and to improve the chances of their crystallization...

Research Grants8

  1. STRUCTURE/FUNCTION IN MOLECULAR COMMUNICATION
    Sung Hou Kim; Fiscal Year: 2002
    ..The objective of these studies is to resolve the conflicting evidence about the mechanism of transmembrane signaling in dimeric receptors. ..
  2. STRUCTURAL GENOMICS OF A MINIMAL GENOME
    Sung Hou Kim; Fiscal Year: 2004
    ....
  3. Atomic structures of chemotaxis receptors and complexes
    Sung Hou Kim; Fiscal Year: 2010
    ....