M Y Galperin

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Affiliation: National Institutes of Health
Country: USA

Publications

  1. ncbi House cleaning, a part of good housekeeping
    Michael Y Galperin
    National Center for Biotechnology Information, National Library of Medicine, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD 20894, USA
    Mol Microbiol 59:5-19. 2006
  2. ncbi Genomic determinants of sporulation in Bacilli and Clostridia: towards the minimal set of sporulation-specific genes
    Michael Y Galperin
    National Center for Biotechnology Information, National Library of Medicine, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD 20894, USA
    Environ Microbiol 14:2870-90. 2012
  3. ncbi Encapsulated in silica: genome, proteome and physiology of the thermophilic bacterium Anoxybacillus flavithermus WK1
    Jimmy H Saw
    Department of Microbiology, University of Hawai i, 2538 The Mall, Honolulu, HI 96822, USA
    Genome Biol 9:R161. 2008
  4. ncbi Complete genome sequence of the extremely acidophilic methanotroph isolate V4, Methylacidiphilum infernorum, a representative of the bacterial phylum Verrucomicrobia
    Shaobin Hou
    Advance Studies in Genomics, Proteomics and Bioinformatics, College of Natural Sciences, University of Hawaii, Keller Hall 319, Honolulu, Hawaii, 96822, USA
    Biol Direct 3:26. 2008
  5. ncbi Non-homologous isofunctional enzymes: a systematic analysis of alternative solutions in enzyme evolution
    Marina V Omelchenko
    National Center for Biotechnology Information, National Library of Medicine, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland 20894, USA
    Biol Direct 5:31. 2010
  6. ncbi Evolutionary primacy of sodium bioenergetics
    Armen Y Mulkidjanian
    School of Physics, University of Osnabruck, D 49069 Osnabruck, Germany
    Biol Direct 3:13. 2008
  7. ncbi On the origin of life in the zinc world. 2. Validation of the hypothesis on the photosynthesizing zinc sulfide edifices as cradles of life on Earth
    Armen Y Mulkidjanian
    School of Physics, Universitat Osnabruck, D 49069 Osnabruck, Germany
    Biol Direct 4:27. 2009
  8. ncbi Algorithms for computing parsimonious evolutionary scenarios for genome evolution, the last universal common ancestor and dominance of horizontal gene transfer in the evolution of prokaryotes
    Boris G Mirkin
    School of Information Systems and Computer Science, Birkbeck College, University of London, Malet Street, London, WC1E 7HX, UK
    BMC Evol Biol 3:2. 2003
  9. ncbi Survival of the fittest before the beginning of life: selection of the first oligonucleotide-like polymers by UV light
    Armen Y Mulkidjanian
    Division of Biophysics, Department of Biology and Chemistry, Universitat Osnabruck, D 49069 Osnabruck, Germany
    BMC Evol Biol 3:12. 2003
  10. ncbi The quest for biofuels fuels genome sequencing
    Michael Y Galperin
    National Center for Biotechnology Information, National Library of Medicine, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD 20894, USA
    Environ Microbiol 10:2471-5. 2008

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  1. ncbi House cleaning, a part of good housekeeping
    Michael Y Galperin
    National Center for Biotechnology Information, National Library of Medicine, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD 20894, USA
    Mol Microbiol 59:5-19. 2006
    ..We discuss the structural diversity of these enzymes, their phylogenetic distribution, substrate specificity and the problem of identifying their true substrates...
  2. ncbi Genomic determinants of sporulation in Bacilli and Clostridia: towards the minimal set of sporulation-specific genes
    Michael Y Galperin
    National Center for Biotechnology Information, National Library of Medicine, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD 20894, USA
    Environ Microbiol 14:2870-90. 2012
    ..These profiles should help further experimental studies of uncharacterized widespread sporulation genes, which would ultimately allow delineation of the minimal set(s) of sporulation-specific genes in Bacilli and Clostridia...
  3. ncbi Encapsulated in silica: genome, proteome and physiology of the thermophilic bacterium Anoxybacillus flavithermus WK1
    Jimmy H Saw
    Department of Microbiology, University of Hawai i, 2538 The Mall, Honolulu, HI 96822, USA
    Genome Biol 9:R161. 2008
    ..The ability of A. flavithermus to grow in super-saturated silica solutions makes it an ideal subject to study the processes of sinter formation, which might be similar to the biomineralization processes that occurred at the dawn of life...
  4. ncbi Complete genome sequence of the extremely acidophilic methanotroph isolate V4, Methylacidiphilum infernorum, a representative of the bacterial phylum Verrucomicrobia
    Shaobin Hou
    Advance Studies in Genomics, Proteomics and Bioinformatics, College of Natural Sciences, University of Hawaii, Keller Hall 319, Honolulu, Hawaii, 96822, USA
    Biol Direct 3:26. 2008
    ..Similar organisms were independently isolated from geothermal systems in Italy and Russia...
  5. ncbi Non-homologous isofunctional enzymes: a systematic analysis of alternative solutions in enzyme evolution
    Marina V Omelchenko
    National Center for Biotechnology Information, National Library of Medicine, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland 20894, USA
    Biol Direct 5:31. 2010
    ..In addition, efforts in structural genomics resulted in a vastly improved structural coverage of proteomes, providing for definitive assessment of (non)homologous relationships between proteins...
  6. ncbi Evolutionary primacy of sodium bioenergetics
    Armen Y Mulkidjanian
    School of Physics, University of Osnabruck, D 49069 Osnabruck, Germany
    Biol Direct 3:13. 2008
    ..The prevalent proton-dependent ATPases are generally viewed as the primary form of the enzyme whereas the sodium-translocating ATPases of some prokaryotes are usually construed as an exotic adaptation to survival in extreme environments...
  7. ncbi On the origin of life in the zinc world. 2. Validation of the hypothesis on the photosynthesizing zinc sulfide edifices as cradles of life on Earth
    Armen Y Mulkidjanian
    School of Physics, Universitat Osnabruck, D 49069 Osnabruck, Germany
    Biol Direct 4:27. 2009
    ..The hypothesis suggests that life emerged within compartmentalized, photosynthesizing ZnS formations of hydrothermal origin (the Zn world), assembled in sub-aerial settings on the surface of the primeval Earth...
  8. ncbi Algorithms for computing parsimonious evolutionary scenarios for genome evolution, the last universal common ancestor and dominance of horizontal gene transfer in the evolution of prokaryotes
    Boris G Mirkin
    School of Information Systems and Computer Science, Birkbeck College, University of London, Malet Street, London, WC1E 7HX, UK
    BMC Evol Biol 3:2. 2003
    ..This complicates the notion of a species tree, which needs to be re-interpreted as a prevailing evolutionary trend, rather than the full depiction of evolution, and makes reconstruction of ancestral genomes a non-trivial task...
  9. ncbi Survival of the fittest before the beginning of life: selection of the first oligonucleotide-like polymers by UV light
    Armen Y Mulkidjanian
    Division of Biophysics, Department of Biology and Chemistry, Universitat Osnabruck, D 49069 Osnabruck, Germany
    BMC Evol Biol 3:12. 2003
    ..However, so far there has been no explanation of how the first RNA-like biopolymers could originate and survive on the primordial Earth...
  10. ncbi The quest for biofuels fuels genome sequencing
    Michael Y Galperin
    National Center for Biotechnology Information, National Library of Medicine, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD 20894, USA
    Environ Microbiol 10:2471-5. 2008
  11. ncbi A square archaeon, the smallest eukaryote and the largest bacteria
    Michael Y Galperin
    National Center for Biotechnology Information, National Library of Medicine, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD 20894, USA
    Environ Microbiol 8:1683-7. 2006
  12. ncbi Sampling of microbial diversity by complete genomes
    Michael Y Galperin
    National Center for Biotechnology Information, National Library of Medicine, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD 20894, USA
    Environ Microbiol 8:1313-7. 2006
  13. ncbi Genomes to aid in bioremediation of dry cleaning solvents, mothballs and more
    Michael Y Galperin
    National Center for Biotechnology Information, National Library of Medicine, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD 20894, USA
    Environ Microbiol 8:949-55. 2006
  14. ncbi The minimal genome keeps growing
    Michael Y Galperin
    National Center for Biotechnology Information, National Library of Medicine, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD 20894, USA
    Environ Microbiol 8:569-73. 2006
  15. ncbi Protecting sausages with bacteria instead of salt
    Michael Y Galperin
    National Center for Biotechnology Information, National Library of Medicine, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD 20894, USA
    Environ Microbiol 8:185-92. 2006
  16. ncbi The Molecular Biology Database Collection: 2006 update
    Michael Y Galperin
    National Center for Biotechnology Information, National Library of Medicine, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD 20894, USA
    Nucleic Acids Res 34:D3-5. 2006
    ..The complete database list and summaries are available online at the Nucleic Acids Research website http://nar.oxfordjournals.org/...
  17. ncbi More cool news from marine bacteria
    Michael Y Galperin
    National Center for Biotechnology Information, National Library of Medicine, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD 20894, USA
    Environ Microbiol 7:1864-7. 2005
  18. ncbi The secret of being cool
    Michael Y Galperin
    National Center for Biotechnology Information, National Library of Medicine, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD 20894, USA
    Environ Microbiol 7:1499-504. 2005
  19. ncbi To finish or not to finish?
    Michael Y Galperin
    National Center for Biotechnology Information, National Library of Medicine, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD 20894, USA
    Environ Microbiol 7:1061-4. 2005
  20. ncbi A census of membrane-bound and intracellular signal transduction proteins in bacteria: bacterial IQ, extroverts and introverts
    Michael Y Galperin
    National Center for Biotechnology Information, National Library of Medicine, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD 20894, USA
    BMC Microbiol 5:35. 2005
    ....
  21. ncbi The vibrio that sheds light
    Michael Y Galperin
    National Center for Biotechnology Information, National Library of Medicine, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD 20894, USA
    Environ Microbiol 7:757-60. 2005
  22. ncbi On the bottom of the deep blue sea
    Michael Y Galperin
    National Center for Biotechnology Information, National Library of Medicine, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD 20894, USA
    Environ Microbiol 7:453-8. 2005
  23. ncbi The fuzzy border between a cell and an organelle
    Michael Y Galperin
    National Center for Biotechnology Information, National Library of Medicine, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD 20894, USA
    Environ Microbiol 8:2062-7. 2006
  24. ncbi The Molecular Biology Database Collection: 2007 update
    Michael Y Galperin
    National Center for Biotechnology Information, National Library of Medicine, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD 20894, USA
    Nucleic Acids Res 35:D3-4. 2007
    ..The complete database list and summaries are available online on the Nucleic Acids Research web site http://nar.oxfordjournals.org/...
  25. ncbi Diversity of structure and function of response regulator output domains
    Michael Y Galperin
    National Center for Biotechnology Information, National Library of Medicine, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD 20894, USA
    Curr Opin Microbiol 13:150-9. 2010
    ..Patterns of the distribution of various RR families are generally conserved within key microbial lineages and can be used to trace adaptations of various species to their unique ecological niches...
  26. ncbi Linear chromosomes in bacteria: no straight edge advantage?
    Michael Y Galperin
    National Center for Biotechnology Information, National Library of Medicine, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD 20894, USA
    Environ Microbiol 9:1357-62. 2007
  27. ncbi Genomes of model organisms: know thy tools
    Michael Y Galperin
    National Center for Biotechnology Information, National Library of Medicine, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD 20894, USA
    Environ Microbiol 10:1383-91. 2008
  28. ncbi Interplay of heritage and habitat in the distribution of bacterial signal transduction systems
    Michael Y Galperin
    National Center for Biotechnology Information, National Library of Medicine, National Institutes of Health, 8600 Rockville Pike, Bethesda, Maryland 20894, USA
    Mol Biosyst 6:721-8. 2010
    ..Thus, they reflect evolutionary relationships between organisms as well as individual adaptations of each organism to its specific ecological niche...
  29. ncbi The dawn of synthetic genomics
    Michael Y Galperin
    National Center for Biotechnology Information, National Library of Medicine, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD 20894, USA
    Environ Microbiol 10:821-5. 2008
  30. ncbi Social bacteria and asocial eukaryotes
    Michael Y Galperin
    National Center for Biotechnology Information, National Library of Medicine, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD 20894, USA
    Environ Microbiol 10:281-8. 2008
  31. ncbi Some bacteria degrade explosives, others prefer boiling methanol
    Michael Y Galperin
    National Center for Biotechnology Information, National Library of Medicine, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland 20894, USA
    Environ Microbiol 9:2905-10. 2007
  32. ncbi Dark matter in a deep-sea vent and in human mouth
    Michael Y Galperin
    National Center for Biotechnology Information, National Library of Medicine, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD 20894, USA
    Environ Microbiol 9:2385-91. 2007
  33. ncbi Genomics against flatulence
    Michael Y Galperin
    National Center for Biotechnology Information, National Library of Medicine, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD 20894, USA
    Environ Microbiol 9:1869-77. 2007
  34. ncbi From complete genome sequence to 'complete' understanding?
    Michael Y Galperin
    National Center for Biotechnology Information, National Library of Medicine, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD 20894, USA
    Trends Biotechnol 28:398-406. 2010
    ..We also discuss problems in understanding the functions of the remaining 'conserved hypothetical' genes...
  35. ncbi The 2011 Nucleic Acids Research Database Issue and the online Molecular Biology Database Collection
    Michael Y Galperin
    National Center for Biotechnology Information, National Library of Medicine, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD 20894, USA
    Nucleic Acids Res 39:D1-6. 2011
    ..oxfordjournals.org/nar/database/a/, now lists 1330 carefully selected molecular biology databases. The full content of the Database Issue is freely available online at the Nucleic Acids Research web site (http://nar.oxfordjournals.org/)...
  36. ncbi Mycobacterial genomes for all tastes: from BCG to biodegradation of naphtalene and pyrene
    Michael Y Galperin
    National Center for Biotechnology Information, National Library of Medicine, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD 20894, USA
    Environ Microbiol 9:839-45. 2007
  37. ncbi Using archaeal genomics to fight global warming and clostridia to fight cancer
    Michael Y Galperin
    National Center for Biotechnology Information, National Library of Medicine, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD 20894, USA
    Environ Microbiol 9:279-86. 2007
  38. ncbi Life is not defined just in base pairs
    Michael Y Galperin
    National Center for Biotechnology Information, National Library of Medicine, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD 20894, USA
    Environ Microbiol 7:149-52. 2005
  39. ncbi The Molecular Biology Database Collection: 2005 update
    Michael Y Galperin
    National Center for Biotechnology Information, National Library of Medicine, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD 20894, USA
    Nucleic Acids Res 33:D5-24. 2005
    ..The database list and summaries are available online at the Nucleic Acids Research web site, http://nar.oupjournals.org/...
  40. ncbi Sources of systematic error in functional annotation of genomes: domain rearrangement, non-orthologous gene displacement and operon disruption
    M Y Galperin
    National Center for Biotechnology Information, National Library of Medicine, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland 20894, USA
    In Silico Biol 1:55-67. 1998
    ..e. involvement of structurally unrelated proteins in the same function. These observations suggest that case by case validation of functional annotation by expert biologists remains crucial for productive genome analysis...
  41. ncbi Bacterial signal transduction network in a genomic perspective
    Michael Y Galperin
    National Center for Biotechnology Information, National Library of Medicine, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland 20894, USA
    Environ Microbiol 6:552-67. 2004
    ..Experimental characterization of the novel domains and domain combinations would be needed for achieving a better understanding of the mechanisms of signalling response and the intracellular hierarchy of different signalling pathways...
  42. ncbi Novel domains of the prokaryotic two-component signal transduction systems
    M Y Galperin
    National Center for Biotechnology Information, National Library of Medicine, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD 20894, USA
    FEMS Microbiol Lett 203:11-21. 2001
    ..It appears that the real picture of the complexity of phosphorelay signal transduction in prokaryotes is only beginning to unfold...
  43. ncbi Metagenomics: from acid mine to shining sea
    Michael Y Galperin
    National Center for Biotechnology Information, National Library of Medicine, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD 20894, USA
    Environ Microbiol 6:543-5. 2004
  44. ncbi MHYT, a new integral membrane sensor domain
    M Y Galperin
    National Center for Biotechnology Information, National Library of Medicine, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD 20894, USA
    FEMS Microbiol Lett 205:17-23. 2001
    ..A model of the membrane topology of the MHYT domain indicates that its conserved residues could coordinate one or two copper ions, suggesting a role in sensing oxygen, CO, or NO...
  45. ncbi Conserved core structure and active site residues in alkaline phosphatase superfamily enzymes
    M Y Galperin
    National Center for Biotechnology Information, National Library of Medicine, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland 20894, USA
    Proteins 45:318-24. 2001
    ..We predict that catalytical cycles of all the enzymes of AlkP superfamily include phosphoenzyme (or sulfoenzyme) intermediates...
  46. ncbi All bugs, big and small
    Michael Y Galperin
    National Center for Biotechnology Information and National Library of Medicine, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD 20894, USA
    Environ Microbiol 6:435-7. 2004
  47. ncbi The Molecular Biology Database Collection: 2004 update
    Michael Y Galperin
    National Center for Biotechnology Information, National Library of Medicine, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD 20894, USA
    Nucleic Acids Res 32:D3-22. 2004
    ..Each database in the list comes with a recently updated brief description. The database list and the database descriptions can be accessed online at the Nucleic Acids Research web site http://nar. oupjournals.org/...
  48. ncbi Looking at big brothers for clues
    Michael Y Galperin
    National Center for Biotechnology Information, National Library of Medicine, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD 20894, USA
    Environ Microbiol 6:767-8. 2004
  49. ncbi The bugs that came in from the cold
    Michael Y Galperin
    National Center for Biotechnology Information, National Library of Medicine, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD 20894, USA
    Environ Microbiol 6:1001-4. 2004
  50. ncbi The synthetase domains of cobalamin biosynthesis amidotransferases cobB and cobQ belong to a new family of ATP-dependent amidoligases, related to dethiobiotin synthetase
    M Y Galperin
    National Center for Biotechnology Information, National Library of Medicine, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland 20894, USA
    Proteins 41:238-47. 2000
    ..These results should help in understanding the enzymology of cobalamin biosynthesis and in resolving the role of phosphotransacetylase in regulation of the carbon flow to and from acetate...
  51. ncbi A diverse superfamily of enzymes with ATP-dependent carboxylate-amine/thiol ligase activity
    M Y Galperin
    National Center for Biotechnology Information, National Library of Medicine, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland 20894, USA
    Protein Sci 6:2639-43. 1997
    ....
  52. ncbi A superfamily of metalloenzymes unifies phosphopentomutase and cofactor-independent phosphoglycerate mutase with alkaline phosphatases and sulfatases
    M Y Galperin
    National Center for Biotechnology Information, National Library of Medicine, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland 20894, USA
    Protein Sci 7:1829-35. 1998
    ..Mutational changes in the vicinity of these residues in several sulfatases cause mucopolysaccharidosis (Hunter, Maroteaux-Lamy, Morquio, and Sanfilippo syndromes) and metachromatic leucodystrophy...
  53. ncbi Genomes back-to-back: when sequencing race is a good thing
    Michael Y Galperin
    National Center for Biotechnology Information, National Library of Medicine, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD 20894, USA
    Environ Microbiol 6:1205-9. 2004
  54. ncbi Searching for drug targets in microbial genomes
    M Y Galperin
    National Center for Biotechnology Information, National Library of Medicine, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD 20894, USA
    Curr Opin Biotechnol 10:571-8. 1999
    ..Species-specific genes, on the other hand, may offer the possibility to design drugs against a particular, narrow group of pathogens...
  55. ncbi Structural classification of bacterial response regulators: diversity of output domains and domain combinations
    Michael Y Galperin
    National Center for Biotechnology Information, National Library of Medicine, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD 20894, USA
    J Bacteriol 188:4169-82. 2006
    ..The complete list of response regulators encoded in each of the 200 analyzed genomes is available online at http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/Complete_Genomes/RRcensus.html...
  56. ncbi Aldolases of the DhnA family: a possible solution to the problem of pentose and hexose biosynthesis in archaea
    M Y Galperin
    National Center for Biotechnology Information, National Library of Medicine, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD 20894, USA
    FEMS Microbiol Lett 183:259-64. 2000
    ..The DhnA-family enzymes are predicted to possess an aldolase activity and to play a critical role in sugar biosynthesis in archaea...
  57. ncbi C-di-GMP: the dawning of a novel bacterial signalling system
    Ute Romling
    Microbiology and Tumor Biology Center, Karolinska Institutet, Box 280, SE 17177 Stockholm, Sweden
    Mol Microbiol 57:629-39. 2005
    ..The accumulated data clearly indicate that a novel ubiquitous signalling system in bacteria has been discovered...
  58. ncbi Comparison of archaeal and bacterial genomes: computer analysis of protein sequences predicts novel functions and suggests a chimeric origin for the archaea
    E V Koonin
    National Center for Biotechnology Information, National Library of Medicine, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD 20894, USA
    Mol Microbiol 25:619-37. 1997
    ..It is likely that the evolution of archaea included at least one major merger between ancestral cells from the bacterial lineage and the lineage leading to the eukaryotic nucleocytoplasm...
  59. ncbi Prokaryotic genomes: the emerging paradigm of genome-based microbiology
    E V Koonin
    National Center for Biotechnology Information, National Library of Medicine, National Institute of Health, Bethesda, Maryland 20894, USA
    Curr Opin Genet Dev 7:757-63. 1997
    ....
  60. ncbi The COG database: a tool for genome-scale analysis of protein functions and evolution
    R L Tatusov
    National Center for Biotechnology Information, National Library of Medicine, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD 20894, USA
    Nucleic Acids Res 28:33-6. 2000
    ..The COG database is accompanied by the COGNITOR program that is used to fit new proteins into the COGs and can be applied to functional and phylogenetic annotation of newly sequenced genomes...
  61. ncbi A novel type of conserved DNA-binding domain in the transcriptional regulators of the AlgR/AgrA/LytR family
    Anastasia N Nikolskaya
    National Center for Biotechnology Information, National Library of Medicine, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD 20894, USA
    Nucleic Acids Res 30:2453-9. 2002
    ..In addition to response regulators, the LytTR domain is found in combination with MHYT, PAS and other sensor domains...
  62. ncbi Beyond complete genomes: from sequence to structure and function
    E V Koonin
    National Center for Biotechnology Information, National Library of Medicine, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland 20894, USA
    Curr Opin Struct Biol 8:355-63. 1998
    ..Taken together, sequence and structure comparisons provide a powerful methodology that can successfully complement traditional experimental approaches...
  63. ncbi Common extracellular sensory domains in transmembrane receptors for diverse signal transduction pathways in bacteria and archaea
    Igor B Zhulin
    School of Biology, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA 30332 0230, USA
    J Bacteriol 185:285-94. 2003
    ..The variety of signaling pathways using the CHASE-type domains indicates that these domains sense some critically important extracellular signals...
  64. ncbi Identification of sensory and signal-transducing domains in two-component signaling systems
    Michael Y Galperin
    National Center for Biotechnology Information, National Library of Medicine, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, USA
    Methods Enzymol 422:47-74. 2007
    ..These protocols rely on publicly available computational tools and databases and can be utilized by anyone with Internet access...
  65. ncbi Identification and functional analysis of 'hypothetical' genes expressed in Haemophilus influenzae
    Eugene Kolker
    BIATECH, 19310 North Creek Parkway, Suite 115, Bothell, WA 98011, USA
    Nucleic Acids Res 32:2353-61. 2004
    ....
  66. ncbi PilZ domain is part of the bacterial c-di-GMP binding protein
    Dorit Amikam
    Department of Biotechnology and Environmental Sciences, Tel Hai Academic College Tel Hai, Israel
    Bioinformatics 22:3-6. 2006
    ....
  67. ncbi Independent evolution of heavy metal-associated domains in copper chaperones and copper-transporting atpases
    I K Jordan
    National Center for Biotechnology Information, National Library of Medicine, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD 20894, USA
    J Mol Evol 53:622-33. 2001
    ..Copper chaperone-Cu-ATPase operons appear to have evolved independently in different prokaryotic lineages, probably due to a strong selective pressure for coexpression of these genes...
  68. ncbi 'Conserved hypothetical' proteins: prioritization of targets for experimental study
    Michael Y Galperin
    National Center for Biotechnology Information, National Library of Medicine, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD 20894, USA
    Nucleic Acids Res 32:5452-63. 2004
    ....
  69. ncbi MASE1 and MASE2: two novel integral membrane sensory domains
    Anastsia N Nikolskaya
    National Center for Biotechnology Information, National Library of Medicine, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD 20894, USA
    J Mol Microbiol Biotechnol 5:11-6. 2003
    ....
  70. ncbi Sequence conservation in the chagasin family suggests a common trend in cysteine proteinase binding by unrelated protein inhibitors
    Daniel J Rigden
    National Centre of Genetic Resources and Biotechnology, Cenargen Embrapa, S A I N Parque Rural, Final W5 Norte, 70770 900 Brasília, Brazil
    Protein Sci 11:1971-7. 2002
    ....
  71. ncbi Sequence analysis and characterization of a novel fibronectin-binding repeat domain from the surface of Streptococcus pneumoniae
    Daniela Bumbaca
    Children's Hospital Oakland Research Institute, Oakland, California 94609, USA
    OMICS 8:341-56. 2004
    ..pneumoniae SP0082 protein and its homologs in other streptococci as fibronectin-binding surface adhesins. The SSURE domain is likely to contain a novel protein fold, which was tentatively modeled using ab initio modeling methods...
  72. ncbi Sentra: a database of signal transduction proteins for comparative genome analysis
    Elizabeth M Glass
    Computational Biology Group, Mathematics and Computer Science Division, Argonne National Laboratory, Argonne, IL 60439, USA
    Nucleic Acids Res 35:D271-3. 2007
    ..Sentra leverages the PUMA2 system to support interactive analysis and annotation of signal transduction proteins by the users...
  73. ncbi Phylogenomic analysis of the Giardia intestinalis transcarboxylase reveals multiple instances of domain fusion and fission in the evolution of biotin-dependent enzymes
    I King Jordan
    National Center for Biotechnology Information, National Library of Medicine, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD 20894, USA
    J Mol Microbiol Biotechnol 5:172-89. 2003
    ....
  74. ncbi New metrics for comparative genomics
    Michael Y Galperin
    National Center for Biotechnology Information, National Library of Medicine, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD 20894, USA
    Curr Opin Biotechnol 17:440-7. 2006
    ..Several new metrics have recently been used in comparative genome analysis, yet challenges remain in finding an appropriate language for the emerging discipline of systems biology...
  75. ncbi The crystal structure of a complex of Campylobacter jejuni dUTPase with substrate analogue sheds light on the mechanism and suggests the "basic module" for dimeric d(C/U)TPases
    Olga V Moroz
    Structural Biology Laboratory, Department of Chemistry, University of York, Heslington, York YO10 5YW, UK
    J Mol Biol 342:1583-97. 2004
    ..These results in concert with a number of conserved residues responsible for interdomain cross-talk provide valuable insight towards rational drug design...
  76. ncbi The PA14 domain, a conserved all-beta domain in bacterial toxins, enzymes, adhesins and signaling molecules
    Daniel J Rigden
    School of Biological Sciences, University of Liverpool, Crown Street, Liverpool L69 7ZB, UK
    Trends Biochem Sci 29:335-9. 2004
  77. ncbi Dimeric dUTPases, HisE, and MazG belong to a new superfamily of all-alpha NTP pyrophosphohydrolases with potential "house-cleaning" functions
    Olga V Moroz
    York Structural Biology Laboratory, Department of Chemistry, University of York, Heslington, York YO10 5YW, UK
    J Mol Biol 347:243-55. 2005
    ..We outline probable tertiary and quaternary structures of the all-alpha NTP pyrophosphatase superfamily members...
  78. ncbi Genome sequence of the cyanobacterium Prochlorococcus marinus SS120, a nearly minimal oxyphototrophic genome
    Alexis Dufresne
    Station Biologique, , , BP74, 29682 Roscoff Cedex, France
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    National Center for Biotechnology Information, National Library of Medicine, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD 20894, USA
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    National Center for Biotechnology Information, National Library of Medicine, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD 20894, USA
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    Department of Microbiology, University of Hawaii, Snyder Hall 111, 2538 The Mall, Honolulu, HI 96822, USA
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