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		Research article Crystal structure of putative CbiT from Methanocaldococcus jannaschii: an intermediate enzyme activity in cobalamin (vitamin B₁₂) biosynthesis Balasundaram Padmanabhan, Shigeyuki Yokoyama, Yoshitaka Bessho BMC Structural Biology 2013, 13:10 (20 May 2013) Abstract \| Full text \| PDF \| PubMed
		Research article Helical ambivalency induced by point mutations Nicholus Bhattacharjee, Parbati Biswas BMC Structural Biology 2013, 13:9 (15 May 2013) Abstract \| Full text \| PDF \| PubMed
		Research article A structural role for the PHP domain in E. coli DNA polymerase III Tiago Barros, Joel Guenther, Brian Kelch, Jordan Anaya, Arjun Prabhakar, Mike O’Donnell, John Kuriyan, Meindert H Lamers BMC Structural Biology 2013, 13:8 (14 May 2013) Abstract \| Full text \| PDF \| ePUB \| PubMed \| Editor’s summary 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.
		Research article Localization of putative binding sites for cyclic guanosine monophosphate and the anti-cancer drug 5-fluoro-2′-deoxyuridine-5′-monophosphate on ABCC11 in silico models Mylène Honorat, Raphaël Terreux, Pierre Falson, Attilio Di Pietro, Charles Dumontet, Lea Payen BMC Structural Biology 2013, 13:7 (6 May 2013) Abstract \| Full text \| PDF \| ePUB \| PubMed
		Research article Structural and functional studies of S-adenosyl-L-methionine binding proteins: a ligand-centric approach Rajaram Gana, Shruti Rao, Hongzhan Huang, Cathy Wu, Sona Vasudevan BMC Structural Biology 2013, 13:6 (25 April 2013) Abstract \| Full text \| PDF \| ePUB \| PubMed \| Editor’s summary 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
		Research article Structural basis for hypermodification of the wobble uridine in tRNA by bifunctional enzyme MnmC Jungwook Kim, Steven C Almo BMC Structural Biology 2013, 13:5 (24 April 2013) Abstract \| Full text \| PDF \| ePUB \| PubMed
		Research article Disturbance of DNA conformation by the binding of testosterone-based platinum drugs via groove-face and intercalative interactions: a molecular dynamics simulation study Shanshan Cui, Yan Wang, Guangju Chen BMC Structural Biology 2013, 13:4 (22 March 2013) Abstract \| Full text \| PDF \| ePUB \| PubMed
		Research article The role of Cysteine 6.47 in class A GPCRs Mireia Olivella, Gianluigi Caltabiano, Arnau Cordomí BMC Structural Biology 2013, 13:3 (15 March 2013) Abstract \| Full text \| PDF \| ePUB \| PubMed \| Editor’s summary Analysis of G protein-coupled receptor (GPCR) crystal structures and molecular dynamics simulations of model peptides suggests Cys6.47 is the gate keeper of a hydrogen bond network involving residues known to be crucial to receptor activation.
		Research article Designing and benchmarking the MULTICOM protein structure prediction system Jilong Li, Xin Deng, Jesse Eickholt, Jianlin Cheng BMC Structural Biology 2013, 13:2 (27 February 2013) Abstract \| Full text \| PDF \| PubMed
		Reviewer acknowledgement Annual acknowledgement of manuscript reviewers Simon Harold BMC Structural Biology 2013, 13:1 (19 February 2013) Abstract \| Full text \| PDF \| PubMed
		Research article The possible mechanisms of CYP2E1 interactions with HSP90 and the influence of ethanol on them Volodymyr O Kitam, Oksana V Maksymchuk, Mykola O Chashchyn BMC Structural Biology 2012, 12:33 (17 December 2012) Abstract \| Full text \| PDF \| PubMed
		Research article Ternary complex structures of human farnesyl pyrophosphate synthase bound with a novel inhibitor and secondary ligands provide insights into the molecular details of the enzyme’s active site closure Jaeok Park, Yih-Shyan Lin, Joris W De Schutter, Youla S Tsantrizos, Albert M Berghuis BMC Structural Biology 2012, 12:32 (12 December 2012) Abstract \| Full text \| PDF \| PubMed \| Editor’s summary Three crystal structures of human farnesyl pyrophosphate synthase (FPPS) in ternary complex with a novel bisphosphonate inhibitor reveal mechanistic insight of the conformational change in the C-terminal tail closure that is essential for catalysis.
		Software Protein Nano-Object Integrator (ProNOI) for generating atomic style objects for molecular modeling Nicholas Smith, Brandon Campbell, Lin Li, Chuan Li, Emil Alexov BMC Structural Biology 2012, 12:31 (5 December 2012) Abstract \| Full text \| PDF \| PubMed \| Editor’s summary Protein Nano-Object Integrator (ProNOI) is a novel software tool for generating atomic-style nano shapes in conjunction with biological macromolecules, allowing users to manipulate shape, dimension and position, and charge objects with user-specified charge density.
		Research article Theoretical investigation on structural, functional and epitope of a 12 kDa excretory-secretory protein from Toxoplasma gondii Yap Boon Wooi Tommy, Theam Soon Lim, Rahmah Noordin, Geita Saadatnia, Yee Siew Choong BMC Structural Biology 2012, 12:30 (27 November 2012) Abstract \| Full text \| PDF \| PubMed \| Editor’s summary The 3D structure of the 12 kDa excretory-secretory protein of Toxoplasma gondii reveals a thioredoxin-like backbone and three potential epitopes functioning as a single antibody binding site, aiding the development of an antigen detection test for toxoplasmosis.
		Methodology article MTMDAT-HADDOCK: High-throughput, protein complex structure modeling based on limited proteolysis and mass spectrometry Janosch Hennig, Sjoerd J de Vries, Klaus DM Hennig, Leah Randles, Kylie J Walters, Maria Sunnerhagen, Alexandre MJJ Bonvin BMC Structural Biology 2012, 12:29 (15 November 2012) Abstract \| Full text \| PDF \| PubMed
		Research article Structural and molecular basis of interaction of HCV non-structural protein 5A with human casein kinase 1α and PKR Govindarajan Sudha, Subburaj Yamunadevi, Nidhi Tyagi, Saumitra Das, Narayanaswamy Srinivasan BMC Structural Biology 2012, 12:28 (13 November 2012) Abstract \| Full text \| PDF \| PubMed
		Research article Evolutionarily consistent families in SCOP: sequence, structure and function Ralph B Pethica, Michael Levitt, Julian Gough BMC Structural Biology 2012, 12:27 (18 October 2012) Abstract \| Full text \| PDF \| PubMed
		Software Structure Motivator: A tool for exploring small three-dimensional elements in proteins David P Leader, E Milner-White BMC Structural Biology 2012, 12:26 (16 October 2012) Abstract \| Full text \| PDF \| PubMed
		Research article In silico identification and characterization of the ion transport specificity for P-type ATPases in the Mycobacterium tuberculosis complex Lorena Novoa-Aponte, Andrés León-Torres, Miyer Patiño-Ruiz, Jenifer Cuesta-Bernal, Luz-Mary Salazar, David Landsman, Leonardo Mariño-Ramírez, Carlos-Yesid Soto BMC Structural Biology 2012, 12:25 (3 October 2012) Abstract \| Full text \| PDF \| PubMed
		Research article Structural and mechanistic investigations on Salmonella typhimurium acetate kinase (AckA): identification of a putative ligand binding pocket at the dimeric interface Sagar Chittori, Handanahal S Savithri, Mathur RN Murthy BMC Structural Biology 2012, 12:24 (2 October 2012) Abstract \| Full text \| PDF \| PubMed
		Research article Crystal structure of HutZ, a heme storage protein from Vibrio cholerae: A structural mismatch observed in the region of high sequence conservation Xiuhua Liu, Jing Gong, Tiandi Wei, Zhi Wang, Qian Du, Deyu Zhu, Yan Huang, Sujuan Xu, Lichuan Gu BMC Structural Biology 2012, 12:23 (26 September 2012) Abstract \| Full text \| PDF \| PubMed \| Editor’s summary Structural mismatch between the only heme storage protein of Vibrio cholera, HutZ, and its homologous protein HugZ, suggests that deficiency in heme oxygenase activity might derive from a single residue shift.
		Research article Enabling structure-based drug design of Tyk2 through co-crystallization with a stabilizing aminoindazole inhibitor Maria A Argiriadi, Eric R Goedken, David Banach, David W Borhani, Andrew Burchat, Richard W Dixon, Doug Marcotte, Gary Overmeyer, Valerie Pivorunas, Ramkrishna Sadhukhan, Silvino Sousa, Nigel St Moore, Medha Tomlinson, Jeffrey Voss, Lu Wang, Neil Wishart, Kevin Woller, Robert V Talanian BMC Structural Biology 2012, 12:22 (20 September 2012) Abstract \| Full text \| PDF \| PubMed \| Editor’s summary The mouse Tyk2 protein kinase complexed to an ATP-competitive 3-aminoindazole inhibitor is stabilized relative to the unliganded enzyme, with the crystal structure revealing key differences in the glycine-rich loop conformation compared to those in human orthologs.
		Research article Exploring the binding of BACE-1 inhibitors using comparative binding energy analysis (COMBINE) Shu Liu, Rao Fu, Xiao Cheng, Sheng-Ping Chen, Li-Hua Zhou BMC Structural Biology 2012, 12:21 (27 August 2012) Abstract \| Full text \| PDF \| PubMed
		Research article Peptide binding to HLA-DP proteins at pH 5.0 and pH 7.0: a quantitative molecular docking study Atanas Patronov, Ivan Dimitrov, Darren R Flower, Irini Doytchinova BMC Structural Biology 2012, 12:20 (5 August 2012) Abstract \| Full text \| PDF \| PubMed
		Research article A three-dimensional topology of complex I inferred from evolutionary correlations Philip R Kensche, Isabel Duarte, Martijn A Huynen BMC Structural Biology 2012, 12:19 (3 August 2012) Abstract \| Full text \| PDF \| PubMed \| Editor’s summary Co-evolution of proteins can be used to predict the 3D arrangement of subunits in a multi-protein complex, with more than 60% of the evolutionary correlation among subunits in eukaryotic complex I explained by physical distance.

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		Research article Crystal structure of putative CbiT from Methanocaldococcus jannaschii: an intermediate enzyme activity in cobalamin (vitamin B₁₂) biosynthesis Balasundaram Padmanabhan, Shigeyuki Yokoyama, Yoshitaka Bessho BMC Structural Biology 2013, 13:10 (20 May 2013) Abstract \| Full text \| PDF \| PubMed
		Research article Helical ambivalency induced by point mutations Nicholus Bhattacharjee, Parbati Biswas BMC Structural Biology 2013, 13:9 (15 May 2013) Abstract \| Full text \| PDF \| PubMed
		Research article A structural role for the PHP domain in E. coli DNA polymerase III Tiago Barros, Joel Guenther, Brian Kelch, Jordan Anaya, Arjun Prabhakar, Mike O’Donnell, John Kuriyan, Meindert H Lamers BMC Structural Biology 2013, 13:8 (14 May 2013) Abstract \| Full text \| PDF \| ePUB \| PubMed \| Editor’s summary 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.
		Research article Localization of putative binding sites for cyclic guanosine monophosphate and the anti-cancer drug 5-fluoro-2′-deoxyuridine-5′-monophosphate on ABCC11 in silico models Mylène Honorat, Raphaël Terreux, Pierre Falson, Attilio Di Pietro, Charles Dumontet, Lea Payen BMC Structural Biology 2013, 13:7 (6 May 2013) Abstract \| Full text \| PDF \| ePUB \| PubMed
		Research article Structural and functional studies of S-adenosyl-L-methionine binding proteins: a ligand-centric approach Rajaram Gana, Shruti Rao, Hongzhan Huang, Cathy Wu, Sona Vasudevan BMC Structural Biology 2013, 13:6 (25 April 2013) Abstract \| Full text \| PDF \| ePUB \| PubMed \| Editor’s summary 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
		Research article Structural basis for hypermodification of the wobble uridine in tRNA by bifunctional enzyme MnmC Jungwook Kim, Steven C Almo BMC Structural Biology 2013, 13:5 (24 April 2013) Abstract \| Full text \| PDF \| ePUB \| PubMed
		Research article Disturbance of DNA conformation by the binding of testosterone-based platinum drugs via groove-face and intercalative interactions: a molecular dynamics simulation study Shanshan Cui, Yan Wang, Guangju Chen BMC Structural Biology 2013, 13:4 (22 March 2013) Abstract \| Full text \| PDF \| ePUB \| PubMed
		Research article The role of Cysteine 6.47 in class A GPCRs Mireia Olivella, Gianluigi Caltabiano, Arnau Cordomí BMC Structural Biology 2013, 13:3 (15 March 2013) Abstract \| Full text \| PDF \| ePUB \| PubMed \| Editor’s summary Analysis of G protein-coupled receptor (GPCR) crystal structures and molecular dynamics simulations of model peptides suggests Cys6.47 is the gate keeper of a hydrogen bond network involving residues known to be crucial to receptor activation.
		Research article Designing and benchmarking the MULTICOM protein structure prediction system Jilong Li, Xin Deng, Jesse Eickholt, Jianlin Cheng BMC Structural Biology 2013, 13:2 (27 February 2013) Abstract \| Full text \| PDF \| PubMed
		Reviewer acknowledgement Annual acknowledgement of manuscript reviewers Simon Harold BMC Structural Biology 2013, 13:1 (19 February 2013) Abstract \| Full text \| PDF \| PubMed
		Research article The possible mechanisms of CYP2E1 interactions with HSP90 and the influence of ethanol on them Volodymyr O Kitam, Oksana V Maksymchuk, Mykola O Chashchyn BMC Structural Biology 2012, 12:33 (17 December 2012) Abstract \| Full text \| PDF \| PubMed
		Research article Ternary complex structures of human farnesyl pyrophosphate synthase bound with a novel inhibitor and secondary ligands provide insights into the molecular details of the enzyme’s active site closure Jaeok Park, Yih-Shyan Lin, Joris W De Schutter, Youla S Tsantrizos, Albert M Berghuis BMC Structural Biology 2012, 12:32 (12 December 2012) Abstract \| Full text \| PDF \| PubMed \| Editor’s summary Three crystal structures of human farnesyl pyrophosphate synthase (FPPS) in ternary complex with a novel bisphosphonate inhibitor reveal mechanistic insight of the conformational change in the C-terminal tail closure that is essential for catalysis.
		Software Protein Nano-Object Integrator (ProNOI) for generating atomic style objects for molecular modeling Nicholas Smith, Brandon Campbell, Lin Li, Chuan Li, Emil Alexov BMC Structural Biology 2012, 12:31 (5 December 2012) Abstract \| Full text \| PDF \| PubMed \| Editor’s summary Protein Nano-Object Integrator (ProNOI) is a novel software tool for generating atomic-style nano shapes in conjunction with biological macromolecules, allowing users to manipulate shape, dimension and position, and charge objects with user-specified charge density.
		Research article Theoretical investigation on structural, functional and epitope of a 12 kDa excretory-secretory protein from Toxoplasma gondii Yap Boon Wooi Tommy, Theam Soon Lim, Rahmah Noordin, Geita Saadatnia, Yee Siew Choong BMC Structural Biology 2012, 12:30 (27 November 2012) Abstract \| Full text \| PDF \| PubMed \| Editor’s summary The 3D structure of the 12 kDa excretory-secretory protein of Toxoplasma gondii reveals a thioredoxin-like backbone and three potential epitopes functioning as a single antibody binding site, aiding the development of an antigen detection test for toxoplasmosis.
		Methodology article MTMDAT-HADDOCK: High-throughput, protein complex structure modeling based on limited proteolysis and mass spectrometry Janosch Hennig, Sjoerd J de Vries, Klaus DM Hennig, Leah Randles, Kylie J Walters, Maria Sunnerhagen, Alexandre MJJ Bonvin BMC Structural Biology 2012, 12:29 (15 November 2012) Abstract \| Full text \| PDF \| PubMed
		Research article Structural and molecular basis of interaction of HCV non-structural protein 5A with human casein kinase 1α and PKR Govindarajan Sudha, Subburaj Yamunadevi, Nidhi Tyagi, Saumitra Das, Narayanaswamy Srinivasan BMC Structural Biology 2012, 12:28 (13 November 2012) Abstract \| Full text \| PDF \| PubMed
		Research article Evolutionarily consistent families in SCOP: sequence, structure and function Ralph B Pethica, Michael Levitt, Julian Gough BMC Structural Biology 2012, 12:27 (18 October 2012) Abstract \| Full text \| PDF \| PubMed
		Software Structure Motivator: A tool for exploring small three-dimensional elements in proteins David P Leader, E Milner-White BMC Structural Biology 2012, 12:26 (16 October 2012) Abstract \| Full text \| PDF \| PubMed
		Research article In silico identification and characterization of the ion transport specificity for P-type ATPases in the Mycobacterium tuberculosis complex Lorena Novoa-Aponte, Andrés León-Torres, Miyer Patiño-Ruiz, Jenifer Cuesta-Bernal, Luz-Mary Salazar, David Landsman, Leonardo Mariño-Ramírez, Carlos-Yesid Soto BMC Structural Biology 2012, 12:25 (3 October 2012) Abstract \| Full text \| PDF \| PubMed
		Research article Structural and mechanistic investigations on Salmonella typhimurium acetate kinase (AckA): identification of a putative ligand binding pocket at the dimeric interface Sagar Chittori, Handanahal S Savithri, Mathur RN Murthy BMC Structural Biology 2012, 12:24 (2 October 2012) Abstract \| Full text \| PDF \| PubMed
		Research article Crystal structure of HutZ, a heme storage protein from Vibrio cholerae: A structural mismatch observed in the region of high sequence conservation Xiuhua Liu, Jing Gong, Tiandi Wei, Zhi Wang, Qian Du, Deyu Zhu, Yan Huang, Sujuan Xu, Lichuan Gu BMC Structural Biology 2012, 12:23 (26 September 2012) Abstract \| Full text \| PDF \| PubMed \| Editor’s summary Structural mismatch between the only heme storage protein of Vibrio cholera, HutZ, and its homologous protein HugZ, suggests that deficiency in heme oxygenase activity might derive from a single residue shift.
		Research article Enabling structure-based drug design of Tyk2 through co-crystallization with a stabilizing aminoindazole inhibitor Maria A Argiriadi, Eric R Goedken, David Banach, David W Borhani, Andrew Burchat, Richard W Dixon, Doug Marcotte, Gary Overmeyer, Valerie Pivorunas, Ramkrishna Sadhukhan, Silvino Sousa, Nigel St Moore, Medha Tomlinson, Jeffrey Voss, Lu Wang, Neil Wishart, Kevin Woller, Robert V Talanian BMC Structural Biology 2012, 12:22 (20 September 2012) Abstract \| Full text \| PDF \| PubMed \| Editor’s summary The mouse Tyk2 protein kinase complexed to an ATP-competitive 3-aminoindazole inhibitor is stabilized relative to the unliganded enzyme, with the crystal structure revealing key differences in the glycine-rich loop conformation compared to those in human orthologs.
		Research article Exploring the binding of BACE-1 inhibitors using comparative binding energy analysis (COMBINE) Shu Liu, Rao Fu, Xiao Cheng, Sheng-Ping Chen, Li-Hua Zhou BMC Structural Biology 2012, 12:21 (27 August 2012) Abstract \| Full text \| PDF \| PubMed
		Research article Peptide binding to HLA-DP proteins at pH 5.0 and pH 7.0: a quantitative molecular docking study Atanas Patronov, Ivan Dimitrov, Darren R Flower, Irini Doytchinova BMC Structural Biology 2012, 12:20 (5 August 2012) Abstract \| Full text \| PDF \| PubMed
		Research article A three-dimensional topology of complex I inferred from evolutionary correlations Philip R Kensche, Isabel Duarte, Martijn A Huynen BMC Structural Biology 2012, 12:19 (3 August 2012) Abstract \| Full text \| PDF \| PubMed \| Editor’s summary Co-evolution of proteins can be used to predict the 3D arrangement of subunits in a multi-protein complex, with more than 60% of the evolutionary correlation among subunits in eukaryotic complex I explained by physical distance.