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Session Overview
Session
MS-81: Nucleic acids and binding proteins structure and function
Time:
Friday, 20/Aug/2021:
2:45pm - 5:10pm

Session Chair: Stephen Neidle
Session Chair: Charles Bond
Location: Club A

170 1st floor

Invited: Millie Georgiadis (USA), Liliya Yatsunyk (USA)


Session Abstract

Structural biology is particularly sucessful in elucidating how proteins recognize nucleic acids in various physiological process from decoding genetic information, maintenance of the genome, through RNA turnover to name a few. Recent advancements in the field will be presented in this session.


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Presentations
2:45pm - 2:50pm
ID: 1812 / MS-81: 1
Introduction
Oral/poster

Introduction to session

Stephen Neidle, Charles Bond



2:50pm - 3:20pm
ID: 169 / MS-81: 2
Biological and macromolecular crystallography
Invited lecture to session
MS: Nucleic acids and protein - nuclear acid interactions
Keywords: G-quadruplex DNA, i-motif, X-ray crystallography, ligand binding

Non-canonical DNA structures and their interactions with small molecule ligands

Liliya A. Yatsunyk, Dana Beseiso, Sawyer McCarthy, Erin Chen, Elizabeth Gallagher, Joanne Miao

Swarthmore College, 500 College Ave, Swarthmore, PA, United States of America

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3:20pm - 3:50pm
ID: 1564 / MS-81: 3
Biological and macromolecular crystallography
Invited lecture to session
MS: Nucleic acids and protein - nuclear acid interactions
Keywords: Alien DNA; crystal structure; helical form; host-guest; unnatural base pair

Structural properties of Alien DNA, an alternative genetic system

Millie M. Georgiadis1, Shuichi Hoshika2, Steven Benner2

1Indiana University School of Medicine, Indianapolis, Indiana, United States of America; 2Foundation for Applied Molecular Evolution, Alachua, Florida, United States of America

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3:50pm - 4:10pm
ID: 849 / MS-81: 4
Biological and macromolecular crystallography
Oral/poster
MS: Nucleic acids and protein - nuclear acid interactions
Keywords: APE1, DNA repair, Exonuclease, Protein-Nucleic Acid Interaction, Protein-DNA complex

APE1 Exonuclease Distinguishes Various DNA Substrates by an Induced Space-Filling Mechanism.

Tung-Chang Liu2, Chun-Ting Lin1, Kai-Cheng Chang1, Kai-Wei Guo2, Shuying Wang3, Jhih-Wei Chu4, Yu-Yuan Hsiao2

1Department of Biological Science and Technology, National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University, Hsinchu 30068, Taiwan; 2Institute of Molecular Medicine and Bioengineering, National Chiao Tung University, Hsinchu 30068, Taiwan; 3Department of Microbiology and Immunology, College of Medicine, National Cheng Kung University, Tainan, Taiwan; 4Institute of Bioinformatics and Systems Biology, National Chiao Tung University, Hsinchu, 30068, Taiwan

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4:10pm - 4:30pm
ID: 738 / MS-81: 5
Bursary application
Oral/poster
MS: Nucleic acids and protein - nuclear acid interactions, Structural biology of viruses - in memory of Michael Rossmann
Special sessions: Exemplary practice in chemical, biological and materials database archiving
Posters only: Macromolecular and biological crystallography (if it does not fit to any specific topics), General (if it does not fit to any specific topics nor areas)
Keywords: Hereditary breast cancer, BRCA1, BRCT, DNA binding region

Structural characterization of clinically reported missense mutations identified in BRCA1

Neha Mishra, Suchita Dubey, Ashok K Varma

Tata Memorial Centre Advanced Centre for Treatment, Research and Education in Cancer, Mumbai, India

Bibliography
Manuscript under preparation
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4:30pm - 4:50pm
ID: 1306 / MS-81: 6
Biological and macromolecular crystallography
Oral/poster
MS: Nucleic acids and protein - nuclear acid interactions, Macromolecular machines and hybrid methods to crystallography
Keywords: riboswitch, crystal phase transition, time-resolved crystallography, conformational space

Solid-solid phase transition in adenine riboswitch crystals driven by large conformational changes induced by ligand

Jason R. Stagno1, Saminathan Ramakrishnan1, William F. Heinz2, Valentin Magidson2, Xiaobing Zuo3, Yun-Xing Wang1

1Center for Structural Biology, Centre for Cancer Research, National Cancer Institute, Frederick, MD-21702, USA.; 2Optical Microscopy and Analysis Laboratory, Cancer Research Technology Program, Frederick National Laboratory for Cancer Research, Frederick, MD 21702, USA.; 3X-ray Science Division, Argonne National Laboratory, Lemont, IL 60439, USA

External Resource:
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ID: 1500 / MS-81: 7
Biological and macromolecular crystallography
Poster
MS: Nucleic acids and protein - nuclear acid interactions, Structural biology of eukaryotic immune systems, Structural biology of receptors, signaling and membrane proteins
Keywords: crystal structure; immune system; nucleic acid

Molecular mechanism of self-antigen recognition by the ligand binding domain of B cell inhibitory co-receptor CD72

Nobutaka Numoto1, Kunio Hirata2, Chizuru Akatsu3, Takeshi Tsubata3, Nobutoshi Ito1

1Department of Structural Biology, Medical Research Institute, Tokyo Medical and Dental University, Tokyo, Japan; 2RIKEN SPring-8 Center, Hyogo, Japan; 3Department of Immunology, Medical Research Institute, Tokyo Medical and Dental University, Tokyo, Japan

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