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Nobutoshi Ito

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PubMed2006

PreBI: prediction of biological interfaces of proteins in crystals.

PreBI is a server that predicts biological interfaces in protein crystal structures, according to the complementarity and the area of the interface. The server accepts a coordinate file in the PDB format, and all of the possible interfaces are generated automatically, according to the symmetry operations given in the coordinate file. For all of the interfaces generated, the complementarities of the electrostatic potential, hydrophobicity and shape of the interfaces are analyzed, and the most probable biological interface is identified according to the combination of the degree of complementarity derived from the database analyses and the area of the interface. The results can be checked through an interactive viewer, and the most probable complex can be downloaded as atomic coordinates in the PDB format. PreBI is available at http://pre-s.protein.osaka-u.ac.jp/~prebi/.

Crystallography, X-Ray↗
PubMed2004

PDBML: the representation of archival macromolecular structure data in XML.

SUMMARY: The Protein Data Bank (PDB) has recently released versions of the PDB Exchange dictionary and the PDB archival data files in XML format collectively named PDBML. The automated generation of these XML files is driven by the data dictionary infrastructure in use at the PDB. The correspondences between the PDB dictionary and the XML schema metadata are described as well as the XML representations of PDB dictionaries and data files.

Amino Acid Sequence↗
PubMed2004

Translesion synthesis by human DNA polymerase eta across oxidative products of guanine.

Guanine is the most oxidizable base among natural bases. 8-Oxoguanine (8-oxoG) is the typical oxidative product, but the amount of 8-oxoG does not directly reflect the strength of oxidative stress. Imidazolone, oxazolone and guanidinohydantoin are oxidative products of guanine and 8-oxoG. Here, we investigated enzymatic reactions with human DNA polymerase eta on these lesions.

Base Sequence↗
PubMed2003

Crystal structure of the Pyrococcus horikoshii DNA primase-UTP complex: implications for the mechanism of primer synthesis.

BACKGROUND: In chromosomal DNA replication, DNA primase initiates the synthesis of a dinucleotide on a single-stranded template DNA, and elongates it to form a primer RNA for the replicative DNA polymerase. Although the apo-structure of an archaeal primase has been reported, the mechanism of primer synthesis by the eukaryotic-type primase still remains to be elucidated. RESULTS: In this study, we present the crystal structure of the eukaryotic-type DNA primase from the hyperthermophilic archaeon (Pyrococcus horikoshii) with the uridine 5'-triphosphate (UTP). In the present primase-UTP complex, the primase binds the triphosphate moiety of the UTP at the active site, which includes Asp95, Asp97, and Asp280, the essential residues for the nucleotidyl transfer reaction. CONCLUSION: The nucleotide binding geometry in this complex explains the previous biochemical analyses of the eukaryotic primase. Based on the complex structure, we constructed a model between the DNA primase and a primer/template DNA for the primer synthesis. This model facilitates the comprehension of the reported features of DNA primase.

Amino Acid Sequence↗