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Structural basis for hijacking siderophore receptors by antimicrobial lasso peptides.

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The lasso peptide microcin J25 is known to hijack the siderophore receptor FhuA for initiating internalization and the first structural evidence on the recognition mechanism is provided and biochemical data show that another closely related lasso Peptide cannot interact with F HuA.
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The lasso peptide microcin J25 is known to hijack the siderophore receptor FhuA for initiating internalization. Here, we provide what is to our knowledge the first structural evidence on the recognition mechanism, and our biochemical data show that another closely related lasso peptide cannot interact with FhuA. Our work provides an explanation on the narrow activity spectrum of lasso peptides and opens the path to the development of new antibacterials.

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Bacteriocins of lactic acid bacteria: extending the family

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Beyond iron: non-classical biological functions of bacterial siderophores

TL;DR: An exposition of past and current work into non-classical functions of siderophores is presented and the directions in which this research is headed are highlighted.
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Lasso Peptides: An Intriguing Class of Bacterial Natural Products

TL;DR: The newest findings about the lasso peptides, an emerging class of ribosomally assembled and post-translationally modified peptides from bacteria that were first described in 1991 are discussed and the general methodology to elucidate these structures by NMR will be discussed and pitfalls for these approaches are highlighted.
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Scaling and assessment of data quality

TL;DR: The various physical factors affecting measured diffraction intensities are discussed, as are the scaling models which may be used to put the data on a consistent scale and algorithms used by the CCP4 scaling program SCALA.
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Automated macromolecular model building for X-ray crystallography using ARP/wARP version 7.

TL;DR: ARP/wARP 7.0 tackles several tasks: iterative protein model building including a high-level decision-making control module; fast construction of the secondary structure of a protein; building flexible loops in alternate conformations; fully automated placement of ligands; and finding ordered water molecules.
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Bacteriocins — a viable alternative to antibiotics?

TL;DR: Although the application of specific bacteriocins might be curtailed by the development of resistance, an understanding of the mechanisms by which such resistance could emerge will enable researchers to develop strategies to minimize this potential problem.
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