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Expression of a trefoil-fold sequence and circular permutants shows that only the wild-type N-terminal motif definition yields an intact β-trefoil trimeric assembly, while permutants yield monomers. The results elucidate the folding requirements of the primordial trefoil-fold motif, and also suggest that this motif may sample a compact conformation that limits hydrophobic residue exposure, contains key trefoil-fold structural features, but is more structurally homologous to a β-propeller blade motif. This article is protected by copyright. All rights reserved. © 2020 The Protein Society.This work presents a DFT-based computational study on the regio- and enantioselective C - H functionalization of pyridines with alkenes at the relatively unreactive C4-position, which was successfully achieved by Shi et al. [ J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2019 , 141 , 5628-5634] using Ni(0)/N-heterocyclic carbene (NHC) catalysis under the assistance of an aluminum-based Lewis acid additive (2,6-t-Bu 2 -4-Me-C 6 H 2 O) 2 AlMe (MAD). The calculations indicate that the selective functionalization involves a three-step mechanism where a unique H-migration assisted oxidation metalation (HMAOM) step is identified as the rate- and enantioselectivity-determining step. The newly proposed mechanism can well rationalize the experimental observation that the preferred product is the endo -type (vs exo -type), R -configuration (vs S -configuraton) product at the C4 (vs C2) position, and also unveil the reasons that the NHC ligand and the MAD additive can facilitate the reaction. © 2020 WILEY-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA, Weinheim.First-in-class Cu(II) and Au(III) metaled phosphorus dendrons were synthesized and showed significant antiproliferative activity against several aggressive breast cancer cell lines. The data suggest that the cytotoxicity increases with reducing the length of the alkyl chains, whereas the replacement of Cu(II) by Au(III) considerably increases the antiproliferative activity of metaled phosphorus dendrons. Very interestingly, we found that the cell death pathway is related to the nature of the metal complexed by the plain dendrons. Cu(II) metaled dendrons showed a potent caspase-independent cell death pathway; whereas Au(III) metaled dendrons displayed a caspase-dependent apoptotic pathway. The complexation of plain dendrons with Au(III) increased the cellular lethality versus dendrons with Cu(II) and promoted the translocation of Bax into the mitochondria and the release of Cytochrome C (Cyto C). © 2020 WILEY-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA, Weinheim.Targets in the protein docking experiment CAPRI (Critical Assessment of Predicted Interactions) generally present new challenges and contribute to new developments in methodology. In rounds 38 to 45 of CAPRI, most targets could be effectively predicted using template-based methods. However, the server ClusPro required structures rather than sequences as input, and hence we had to generate and dock homology models. The available templates also provided distance restraints that were directly used as input to the server. We show here that such an approach has some advantages. Free docking with template-based restraints using ClusPro reproduced some interfaces suggested by weak or ambiguous templates while not reproducing others, resulting in correct server predicted models. Semaglutide order More recently we developed the fully automated ClusPro TBM server that performs template-based modeling and thus can use sequences rather than structures of component proteins as input. The performance of the server, freely available for noncommercial use at https//tbm.cluspro.org, is demonstrated by predicting the protein-protein targets of rounds 38 to 45 of CAPRI. © 2020 Wiley Periodicals, Inc.BACKGROUND Intronic variant rs564309 in tripartite motif containing 11 (TRIM11) is associated with clinical phenotypic differences in progressive supranuclear palsy (PSP), whereby the minor allele (A) is more common in atypical PSP than typical PSP (PSP-Richardson's syndrome). However, rs564309 has not been investigated relative to neuropathological outcomes. OBJECTIVE Evaluate the association of rs564309 with the neuropathologically assessed severity of tau pathology, as measured by semi-quantitative scores for neurofibrillary tangles, tufted astrocytes, neuropil threads, and oligodendroglial coiled bodies. METHODS 797 neuropathologically confirmed PSP cases were genotyped for TRIM11 rs564309 and assessed for tau pathology across 20 neuroanatomical regions. Tau pathology measures and age at death were examined for association with TRIM11 rs564309-A using multivariable linear regression models. RESULTS TRIM11 rs564309-A was associated with increased neurofibrillary tangles pathology (P = 0.050), but was not significantly associated with age at death, neuropil threads, coiled bodies, or tufted astrocytes tau pathology scores. CONCLUSIONS TRIM11 rs564309 may influence burden of neurofibrillary tangles tau pathology in PSP; further study is warranted. © 2020 International Parkinson and Movement Disorder Society. © 2020 International Parkinson and Movement Disorder Society.We report the case of a 63-year-old Caucasian woman with multiple relapsed IgM multiple myeloma (MM) and elevated free kappa light chains (fκLC). Due to hyperviscosity syndrome with visual impairment, regular plasma exchanges were performed. As part of her 11th line of therapy, an experimental protocol consisting of pembrolizumab, pomalidomide, and dexamethasone was initiated. To reduce fκLC and immunoglobulin (Ig) M, we performed immunoadsorption (IA) using columns containing recombinant single domain camelid antibody fragments as ligands. We measured pembrolizumab (humanized IgG4 kappa anti-PD1 antibody) levels before and after each IA session and found a 98.1% reduction from baseline with five sessions of IA. Comparable elimination kinetics were observed for serum IgG, whereas fκLC and IgM were eliminated to a substantially lesser extent. These findings highlight that in hyperviscosity syndrome due to IgM MM, broad spectrum IA columns might be only moderately effective compared to total plasma exchange or double filtration plasmapheresis.Semaglutide order