Origin, diversification and substrate specificity in the family of NCS1/FUR transporters

Functional characterization of NAT/NCS2 proteins of Aspergillus brasiliensis reveals a genuine xanthine–uric acid transporter and an intrinsically misfolded polypeptide

(2015) Emilia Krypotou et al.   FUNGAL GENETICS AND BIOLOGY

Expression and specificity profile of the major acetate transporter AcpA in Aspergillus nidulans

(2015) Joana Sá-Pessoa et al.   FUNGAL GENETICS AND BIOLOGY

RAxML version 8: a tool for phylogenetic analysis and post-analysis of large phylogenies

(2014) Alexandros Stamatakis   BIOINFORMATICS

Molecular mechanism of ligand recognition by membrane transport protein, Mhp1

(2014) K. J. Simmons et al.   EMBO JOURNAL

Purine utilization proteins in the Eurotiales: Cellular compartmentalization, phylogenetic conservation and divergence

(2014) Katerina Galanopoulou et al.   FUNGAL GENETICS AND BIOLOGY

The Histone Acetyltransferase GcnE (GCN5) Plays a Central Role in the Regulation of Aspergillus Asexual Development

(2014) David Cánovas et al.   GENETICS

Lipid14: The Amber Lipid Force Field

(2014) Callum J. Dickson et al.   Journal of Chemical Theory and Computation

Structure-Function Relationship of a Plant NCS1 Member – Homology Modeling and Mutagenesis Identified Residues Critical for Substrate Specificity of PLUTO, a Nucleobase Transporter from Arabidopsis

(2014) Sandra Witz et al.   PLoS One

Conformational cycle and ion-coupling mechanism of the Na+/hydantoin transporter Mhp1

(2014) K. Kazmier et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Day of the dead: pseudokinases and pseudophosphatases in physiology and disease

(2014) Veronika Reiterer et al.   TRENDS IN CELL BIOLOGY

Nucleobase and nucleoside transport and integration into plant metabolism

(2014) Christopher Girke et al.   Frontiers in Plant Science

Understanding transporter specificity and the discrete appearance of channel-like gating domains in transporters

(2014) George Diallinas   Frontiers in Pharmacology

Common Folds and Transport Mechanisms of Secondary Active Transporters

(2013) Yigong Shi   Annual Review of Biophysics

GROMACS 4.5: a high-throughput and highly parallel open source molecular simulation toolkit

(2013) Sander Pronk et al.   BIOINFORMATICS

Transcriptome analysis of the filamentous fungus Aspergillus nidulans directed to the global identification of promoters

(2013) Christopher Sibthorp et al.   BMC GENOMICS

Transport assays in filamentous fungi: Kinetic characterization of the UapC purine transporter of Aspergillus nidulans

(2013) Emilia Krypotou et al.   FUNGAL GENETICS AND BIOLOGY

Recent advances in genome mining of secondary metabolite biosynthetic gene clusters and the development of heterologous expression systems in Aspergillus nidulans

(2013) Junko Yaegashi et al.   JOURNAL OF INDUSTRIAL MICROBIOLOGY & BIOTECHNOLOGY

The human concentrative and equilibrative nucleoside transporter families, SLC28 and SLC29

(2013) James D. Young et al.   MOLECULAR ASPECTS OF MEDICINE

The arrestin-like protein ArtA is essential for ubiquitination and endocytosis of the UapA transporter in response to both broad-range and specific signals

(2013) Mayia Karachaliou et al.   MOLECULAR MICROBIOLOGY

TheAspergillusGenome Database: multispecies curation and incorporation of RNA-Seq data to improve structural gene annotations

(2013) Gustavo C. Cerqueira et al.   NUCLEIC ACIDS RESEARCH

PhylomeDB v4: zooming into the plurality of evolutionary histories of a genome

(2013) Jaime Huerta-Cepas et al.   NUCLEIC ACIDS RESEARCH

The nucleobase cation symporter 1 of Chlamydomonas reinhardtii and that of the evolutionarily distant Arabidopsis thaliana display parallel function and establish a plant-specific solute transport profile

(2013) Jessica R. Schein et al.   PLANT PHYSIOLOGY AND BIOCHEMISTRY

The Molecular Mechanism of Ion-Dependent Gating in Secondary Transporters

(2013) Chunfeng Zhao et al.   PLoS Computational Biology

Genetic and molecular characterization reveals a unique nucleobase cation symporter 1 in Arabidopsis

(2012) George S. Mourad et al.   FEBS LETTERS

Modeling, Substrate Docking, and Mutational Analysis Identify Residues Essential for the Function and Specificity of a Eukaryotic Purine-Cytosine NCS1 Transporter

(2012) Emilia Krypotou et al.   JOURNAL OF BIOLOGICAL CHEMISTRY

The Methionine-aromatic Motif Plays a Unique Role in Stabilizing Protein Structure

(2012) Christopher C. Valley et al.   JOURNAL OF BIOLOGICAL CHEMISTRY

NIH Image to ImageJ: 25 years of image analysis

(2012) Caroline A Schneider et al.   NATURE METHODS

New lives for old: evolution of pseudoenzyme function illustrated by iRhoms

(2012) Colin Adrain et al.   NATURE REVIEWS MOLECULAR CELL BIOLOGY

De Novo Pyrimidine Nucleotide Synthesis Mainly Occurs outside of Plastids, but a Previously Undiscovered Nucleobase Importer Provides Substrates for the Essential Salvage Pathway inArabidopsis

(2012) Sandra Witz et al.   PLANT CELL

Identification of the Substrate Recognition and Transport Pathway in a Eukaryotic Member of the Nucleobase-Ascorbate Transporter (NAT) Family

(2012) Vasiliki Kosti et al.   PLoS One

ProtTest 3: fast selection of best-fit models of protein evolution

(2011) Diego Darriba et al.   BIOINFORMATICS

Simulations of the Alternating Access Mechanism of the Sodium Symporter Mhp1

(2011) Joshua L. Adelman et al.   BIOPHYSICAL JOURNAL

Rhomboid Family Pseudoproteases Use the ER Quality Control Machinery to Regulate Intercellular Signaling

(2011) Markus Zettl et al.   CELL

Refinement of the Cornell et al. Nucleic Acids Force Field Based on Reference Quantum Chemical Calculations of Glycosidic Torsion Profiles

(2011) Marie Zgarbová et al.   Journal of Chemical Theory and Computation

Fast, scalable generation of high-quality protein multiple sequence alignments using Clustal Omega

(2011) F. Sievers et al.   Molecular Systems Biology

Interactive Tree Of Life v2: online annotation and display of phylogenetic trees made easy

(2011) I. Letunic et al.   NUCLEIC ACIDS RESEARCH

R.E.D. Server: a web service for deriving RESP and ESP charges and building force field libraries for new molecules and molecular fragments

(2011) Enguerran Vanquelef et al.   NUCLEIC ACIDS RESEARCH

Accelerated Profile HMM Searches

(2011) Sean R. Eddy   PLoS Computational Biology

ETE: a python Environment for Tree Exploration

(2010) Jaime Huerta-Cepas et al.   BMC BIOINFORMATICS

The ubiquitous Nucleobase-Ascorbate Transporter (NAT) family: Lessons from model microbial genetic systems

(2010) George Diallinas et al.   Channels

Dynamic Elements at Both Cytoplasmically and Extracellularly Facing Sides of the UapA Transporter Selectively Control the Accessibility of Substrates to Their Translocation Pathway

(2010) Vasiliki Kosti et al.   JOURNAL OF MOLECULAR BIOLOGY

PhylomeDB v3.0: an expanding repository of genome-wide collections of trees, alignments and phylogeny-based orthology and paralogy predictions

(2010) J. Huerta-Cepas et al.   NUCLEIC ACIDS RESEARCH

The R.E.D. tools: advances in RESP and ESP charge derivation and force field library building

(2010) François-Yves Dupradeau et al.   PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY CHEMICAL PHYSICS

FastTree 2 – Approximately Maximum-Likelihood Trees for Large Alignments

(2010) Morgan N. Price et al.   PLoS One

Molecular Basis of Alternating Access Membrane Transport by the Sodium-Hydantoin Transporter Mhp1

(2010) T. Shimamura et al.   SCIENCE

trimAl: a tool for automated alignment trimming in large-scale phylogenetic analyses

(2009) S. Capella-Gutierrez et al.   BIOINFORMATICS

Convergent evolution and orphan genes in the Fur4p-like family and characterization of a general nucleoside transporter inAspergillus nidulans

(2009) Zsuzsanna Hamari et al.   MOLECULAR MICROBIOLOGY

Transport-dependent endocytosis and turnover of a uric acid-xanthine permease

(2009) Christos Gournas et al.   MOLECULAR MICROBIOLOGY

SAM-T08, HMM-based protein structure prediction

(2009) K. Karplus   NUCLEIC ACIDS RESEARCH

TOPCONS: consensus prediction of membrane protein topology

(2009) A. Bernsel et al.   NUCLEIC ACIDS RESEARCH

Prediction of membrane protein structures with complex topologies using limited constraints

(2009) P. Barth et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

DIALIGN-TX: greedy and progressive approaches for segment-based multiple sequence alignment

(2008) Amarendran R Subramanian et al.   Algorithms for Molecular Biology

Recent developments in the MAFFT multiple sequence alignment program

(2008) K. Katoh et al.   BRIEFINGS IN BIOINFORMATICS

Nicotinamide Riboside and Nicotinic Acid Riboside Salvage in Fungi and Mammals

(2008) Peter Belenky et al.   JOURNAL OF BIOLOGICAL CHEMISTRY

CHARMM-GUI: A web-based graphical user interface for CHARMM

(2008) Sunhwan Jo et al.   JOURNAL OF COMPUTATIONAL CHEMISTRY

Specific Interdomain Synergy in the UapA Transporter Determines Its Unique Specificity for Uric Acid among NAT Carriers

(2008) Ioannis Papageorgiou et al.   JOURNAL OF MOLECULAR BIOLOGY

The nucleobase–ascorbate transporter (NAT) family: genomics, evolution, structure–function relationships and physiological role

(2008) Christos Gournas et al.   Molecular BioSystems

The Aspergillus nidulans FcyB cytosine-purine scavenger is highly expressed during germination and in reproductive compartments and is downregulated by endocytosis

(2008) Anna Vlanti et al.   MOLECULAR MICROBIOLOGY

Structure and Molecular Mechanism of a Nucleobase-Cation-Symport-1 Family Transporter

(2008) S. Weyand et al.   SCIENCE