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    Acta Crystallographica Section D: Volume 70, Issue 4

    912-1176
    April 2014
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Structural and biochemical characterization of MdaB from cariogenic Streptococcus mutans reveals an NADPH-specific quinone oxidoreductase

Zixi Wang,  Lanfen Li,  Yu-Hui Dong,  Xiao-Dong Su, 
  • Pages: 912-921
  • First Published: 04 April 2014

Structural characterization and comparison of the large subunits of IPM isomerase and homoaconitase from Methanococcus jannaschii

Eun Hye Lee,  Kitaik Lee,  Kwang Yeon Hwang, 
  • Pages: 922-931
  • First Published: 04 April 2014
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Structural characteristics of an insect group I chitinase, an enzyme indispensable to moulting

Lei Chen,  Tian Liu,  Yong Zhou,  Qi Chen,  Xu Shen,  Qing Yang, 
  • Pages: 932-942
  • First Published: 04 April 2014

Structure and possible mechanism of the CcbJ methyltransferase from Streptomyces caelestis

Jacob Bauer,  Gabriela Ondrovičová,  Lucie Najmanová,  Vladimír Pevala,  Zdeněk Kameník,  Július Koštan,  Jiří Janata,  Eva Kutejová, 
  • Pages: 943-957
  • First Published: 04 April 2014
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Simultaneous use of solution NMR and X-ray data in REFMAC5 for joint refinement/detection of structural differences

Mauro Rinaldelli,  Enrico Ravera,  Vito Calderone,  Giacomo Parigi,  Garib N. Murshudov,  Claudio Luchinat, 
  • Pages: 958-967
  • First Published: 04 April 2014

Characterization of the proline-utilization pathway in Mycobacterium tuberculosis through structural and functional studies

Thomas Lagautriere,  Ghader Bashiri,  Neil G. Paterson,  Michael Berney,  Gregory M. Cook,  Edward N. Baker, 
  • Pages: 968-980
  • First Published: 04 April 2014
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The structures of cytosolic and plastid-located glutamine synthetases from Medicago truncatula reveal a common and dynamic architecture

Eva Torreira,  Ana Rita Seabra,  Hazel Marriott,  Min Zhou,  Óscar Llorca,  Carol V. Robinson,  Helena G. Carvalho,  Carlos Fernández-Tornero,  Pedro José Barbosa Pereira, 
  • Pages: 981-993
  • First Published: 04 April 2014

The first crystal structure of NAD-dependent 3-dehydro-2-deoxy-D-gluconate dehydrogenase from Thermus thermophilus HB8

Kudigana J. Pampa,  Neratur K. Lokanath,  Naoki Kunishima,  Ravishankar Vittal Rai, 
  • Pages: 994-1004
  • First Published: 04 April 2014

The crystal structure of wild-type human brain neuroglobin reveals flexibility of the disulfide bond that regulates oxygen affinity

Beatriz G. Guimarães,  Djemel Hamdane,  Christophe Lechauve,  Michael C. Marden,  Béatrice Golinelli-Pimpaneau, 
  • Pages: 1005-1014
  • First Published: 04 April 2014
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Partial rotational lattice order–disorder in stefin B crystals

Miha Renko,  Ajda Taler-Verčič,  Marko Mihelič,  Eva Žerovnik,  Dušan Turk, 
  • Pages: 1015-1025
  • First Published: 04 April 2014

Structural basis for the redox sensitivity of the Mycobacterium tuberculosis SigK–RskA σ–anti-σ complex

Jinal Shukla,  Radhika Gupta,  Krishan Gopal Thakur,  Rajesh Gokhale,  B. Gopal, 
  • Pages: 1026-1036
  • First Published: 04 April 2014
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Anomalies in the refinement of isoleucine

Karen R. M. Berntsen,  Gert Vriend, 
  • Pages: 1037-1049
  • First Published: 04 April 2014

Structural basis for the selective nuclear import of the C2H2 zinc-finger protein Snail by importin β

Saehae Choi,  Eiki Yamashita,  Noriko Yasuhara,  Jinsue Song,  Se-Young Son,  Young Han Won,  Hye Rim Hong,  Yoon Sik Shin,  Toshihiro Sekimoto,  Il Yeong Park,  Yoshihiro Yoneda,  Soo Jae Lee, 
  • Pages: 1050-1060
  • First Published: 04 April 2014

Structure-based characterization and antifreeze properties of a hyperactive ice-binding protein from the Antarctic bacterium Flavobacterium frigoris PS1

Hackwon Do,  Soon-Jong Kim,  Hak Jun Kim,  Jun Hyuck Lee, 
  • Pages: 1061-1073
  • First Published: 04 April 2014

Structural snapshots along the reaction pathway of Yersinia pestis RipA, a putative butyryl-CoA transferase

Rodrigo Torres,  Benson Lan,  Yama Latif,  Nicholas Chim,  Celia W. Goulding, 
  • Pages: 1074-1085
  • First Published: 04 April 2014

Crystallographic characterization of the (R)-selective amine transaminase from Aspergillus fumigatus

Maren Thomsen,  Lilly Skalden,  Gottfried J. Palm,  Matthias Höhne,  Uwe T. Bornscheuer,  Winfried Hinrichs, 
  • Pages: 1086-1093
  • First Published: 04 April 2014

Molecular mechanism for self-protection against the type VI secretion system in Vibrio cholerae

Xuan Yang,  Min Xu,  Yanying Wang,  Pengyan Xia,  Shuo Wang,  Buqing Ye,  Liang Tong,  Tao Jiang,  Zusen Fan, 
  • Pages: 1094-1103
  • First Published: 04 April 2014
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Automated identification of elemental ions in macromolecular crystal structures

Nathaniel Echols,  Nader Morshed,  Pavel V. Afonine,  Airlie J. McCoy,  Mitchell D. Miller,  Randy J. Read,  Jane S. Richardson,  Thomas C. Terwilliger,  Paul D. Adams, 
  • Pages: 1104-1114
  • First Published: 04 April 2014

Analysis of an industrial production suspension of Bacillus lentus subtilisin crystals by powder diffraction: a powerful quality-control tool

Christian G. Frankaer,  Olga V. Moroz,  Johan P. Turkenburg,  Stein I. Aspmo,  Majbritt Thymark,  Esben P. Friis,  Kenny Stahl,  Jens E. Nielsen,  Keith S. Wilson,  Pernille Harris, 
  • Pages: 1115-1123
  • First Published: 04 April 2014

The type IV secretion protein TraK from the Enterococcus conjugative plasmid pIP501 exhibits a novel fold

Nikolaus Goessweiner-Mohr,  Christian Fercher,  Karsten Arends,  Ruth Birner-Gruenberger,  Diana Laverde-Gomez,  Johannes Huebner,  Elisabeth Grohmann,  Walter Keller, 
  • Pages: 1124-1135
  • First Published: 04 April 2014
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The active site of hen egg-white lysozyme: flexibility and chemical bonding

Jeanette Held,  Sander van Smaalen, 
  • Pages: 1136-1146
  • First Published: 04 April 2014

Structures of Legionella pneumophila NTPDase1 in complex with polyoxometallates

Matthias Zebisch,  Michel Krauss,  Petra Schäfer,  Norbert Sträter, 
  • Pages: 1147-1154
  • First Published: 04 April 2014

3′-Azidothymidine in the active site of Escherichia coli thymidine phosphorylase: the peculiarity of the binding on the basis of X-ray study

Vladimir Timofeev,  Yulia Abramchik,  Nadezda Zhukhlistova,  Tatiana Muravieva,  Ilya Fateev,  Roman Esipov,  Inna Kuranova, 
  • Pages: 1155-1165
  • First Published: 04 April 2014
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Threonine 57 is required for the post-translational activation of Escherichia coli aspartate α-decarboxylase

Michael E. Webb,  Briony A. Yorke,  Tom Kershaw,  Sarah Lovelock,  Carina M. C. Lobley,  Mairi L. Kilkenny,  Alison G. Smith,  Tom L. Blundell,  Arwen R. Pearson,  Chris Abell, 
  • Pages: 1166-1172
  • First Published: 04 April 2014

addenda and errata

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The structure of an authentic spore photoproduct lesion in DNA suggests a basis for recognition. Corrigendum

Isha Singh,  Yajun Jian,  Lei Li,  Millie M. Georgiadis, 
  • Page: 1173
  • First Published: 04 April 2014

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AMPLE: a cluster-and-truncate approach to solve the crystal structures of small proteins using rapidly computed ab initio models. Corrigendum

Jaclyn Bibby,  Ronan M. Keegan,  Olga Mayans,  Martyn D. Winn,  Daniel J. Rigden, 
  • Page: 1174
  • First Published: 04 April 2014

book reviews

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Small Angle X-Ray and Neutron Scattering from Solutions of Biological Macromolecules. By Dmitri I. Svergun, Michel H. J. Koch, Peter A. Timmins and Roland P. May. IUCr Texts on Crystallography, No. 19. Oxford University Press, 2013. Pp. 358. Price (hardback) £49.99. ISBN: 978-0-19-963953-3.

Leonard Michel Gabriel Chavas, 
  • Pages: 1175-1176
  • First Published: 04 April 2014