BMC Structural Biology

Section Editors

James Chou, Harvard Medical School
Jianping Ding, Shanghai Institutes of Biological Sciences
Jean-Luc Pellequer, CEA Marcoule
Paul A Ramsland, Macfarlane Burnet Institute for Medical Research and Public Health
Torsten Schwede, Biozentrum Univ. of Basel, SIB Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics

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Simon Harold, BioMed Central

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Co-crystallisation of SIRPgamma and Fab

Crystallisation of signal regulatory protein SIRPgamma complexed with the Fab fragment of the OX117 antibody reveals conservation of binding domains between members of the SIRP family and dimerization specific to the crystal structure.

BMC Structural Biology 2013, 13:13
Major structural role for PHP domain

Metal binding can be restored to E. coli polymerase III PHP domain with only three point mutations, demonstrating that the domain structure is highly conserved and is a major structural element of this bacterial replicative polymerase.

BMC Structural Biology 2013, 13:8
Ligand-centric protein annotation

A new systematic approach for grouping protein structures based upon the type and conformation of the ligand they bind to reveals some unexpected findings and extends the existing structural classification of S-adenosyl-L-13 methionine (SAM) binding proteins

BMC Structural Biology 2013, 13:6
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Editor's note - SAS studies in BMC Structural Biology

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Chosen DNA sequence

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Open source tools to repeat this work

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Section Editor's profile

Dr Ramsland is currently the Sir Zelman Cowen Fellow and a Group Leader in the Centre for Immunology at the Burnet Institute (Melbourne, Australia). His research examines the diverse structural roles of carbohydrates and glycoproteins in immunity and infection (Structural Glycobiology) using crystallography, computational modelling, automated docking and solution scattering techniques. He has over 90 scientific publications including primary research papers, reviews/chapters and has recently co-edited a book on Structural Glycobiology.

"Together with Dr Cy Jeffries, Deputy Section Editor, I am pleased to be involved in guiding the development of the Small-Angle Scattering section of BMC Structural Biology. This new section incorporates all aspects of the structural analysis of biological macromolecules using techniques in small-angle scattering including but not limited to: studies incorporating substantial analysis by small-angle X-ray scattering and/or neutron scattering."