Protein Function Journal Club –

(BME281G Weekly Seminar on Protein Structure And Function)

Organizer: Dietlind Gerloff (gerloff@soe.ucsc.edu; 9x4833; PSB320)

Wednesday 3:30-4:40pm in PSB 305 (Physical Sciences Building)

Next Presentation

Wednesday Jan 23, 2008 (at 12:30pm, probably in PSB240):
Thomas presenting at STRUCTURE CLUB: "Augmenting High-Throughput Protein-Protein Interaction Data with Structural Bioinformatics Methods"

Btw, we are looking for presenters for the PFJC sessions of Feb 6 - March 12. Please get in touch if you'd like to present a paper of your interest, or of course some of your own work!

Description

Our group meetings currently run as a Journal Club on Protein Structure/Function. Everyone is welcome to sign up and participate.

Extend your knowledge of protein function by discussing recent publications about protein function determination (through biological experiments) and/or protein function prediction. No prerequisite requirements.

Structure and Paper List

I will post suggestions for papers to present/discuss below – of course you are welcome to present any paper in this general subject area that you find interesting.

• Koning F (2007) A Tertiary Twist to the Transglutaminase Tale. PLoS Biol 5(12): e337

• Favia AD, Nobeli I, Glaser F & Thornton JM (2007). Molecular Docking for Substrate Identification: The Short-Chain Dehydrogenases/Reductases. J Mol Biol 375(3): 855-874

• Yang YS & Strittmatter SM (2007). The reticulons: a family of proteins with diverse functions (review). Genome Biology 8: 234

• Sheer JM, Romanowski MJ & Wells JA (2006). A common allosteric site and mechanism in caspases. PNAS 103: 7595-600

• Harrington ED, Singh AH, Doerks T, Letunic I, von Mering C, Jensen LJ, Raes J & Bork P (2007). Quantitative assessment of protein function prediction from metagenomics shotgun sequences. PNAS 104: 13913-13918

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