Zhi-Jie Liu

(NZ)CH...O Contacts assist crystallization of a ParB-like nuclease (2007)

Shaw, Neil, Cheng, Chongyun, Tempel, Wolfram, Chang, Jessie, Ng, Joseph, Wang, Xin-Yu, ...

Abstract Background The major bottleneck for determination of 3 D structures of proteins using X-rays is the production of diffraction quality crystals. Often proteins are subjected to chemical...

Crystallization and preliminary crystallographic analysis of molybdenum-cofactor biosynthesis protein C from Thermus thermophilus (2007)

Kanaujia, Shankar Prasad, Ranjani, Chellamuthu Vasuki, Jeyakanthan, Jeyaraman, Baba, Seiki, Chen, Lirong, Liu, Zhi-Jie, ...

The Gram-negative aerobic eubacterium Thermus thermophilus is an extremely important thermophilic microorganism that was originally isolated from a thermal vent environment in Japan. The molybdenum...

Crystallization and preliminary crystallographic analysis of molybdenum-cofactor biosynthesis protein C from Thermus thermophilus (2007)

Kanaujia, Shankar Prasad, Ranjani, Chellamuthu Vasuki, Jeyakanthan, Jeyaraman, Baba, Seiki, Chen, Lirong, Liu, Zhi-Jie, ...

The Gram-negative aerobic eubacterium Thermus thermophilus is an extremely important thermophilic microorganism that was originally isolated from a thermal vent environment in Japan. The molybdenum...

Crystal structure of obelin after Ca2+-triggered bioluminescence suggests neutral coelenteramide as the primary excited state

Liu, Zhi-Jie, Stepanyuk, Galina A., Vysotski, Eugene S., Lee, John, Markova, Svetlana V., Malikova, Natalia P., ...

The crystal structure at 1.93-Å resolution is determined for the Ca2+-discharged obelin containing three bound calcium ions as well as the product of the bioluminescence reaction, coelenteramide....

Crystal structure of obelin after Ca2+-triggered bioluminescence suggests neutral coelenteramide as the primary excited state

Liu, Zhi-Jie, Stepanyuk, Galina A., Vysotski, Eugene S., Lee, John, Markova, Svetlana V., Malikova, Natalia P., ...

The crystal structure at 1.93-Å resolution is determined for the Ca2+-discharged obelin containing three bound calcium ions as well as the product of the bioluminescence reaction, coelenteramide....

(NZ)CH...O Contacts assist crystallization of a ParB-like nuclease

Shaw, Neil, Cheng, Chongyun, Tempel, Wolfram, Chang, Jessie, Ng, Joseph, Wang, Xin-Yu, ...

Isolation, crystallization and preliminary X-ray analysis of a methanol-induced corrinoid protein from Moorella thermoacetica

Zhou, Weihong, Das, Amaresh, Habel, Jeff E., Liu, Zhi-Jie, Chang, Jessie, Chen, Lirong, ...

Strongly diffracting crystals of a methanol-induced corrinoid protein from M. thermoacetica have been obtained.

The First Agmatine/Cadaverine Aminopropyl Transferase: Biochemical and Structural Characterization of an Enzyme Involved in Polyamine Biosynthesis in the Hyperthermophilic Archaeon Pyrococcus furiosus▿

Cacciapuoti, Giovanna, Porcelli, Marina, Moretti, Maria Angela, Sorrentino, Francesca, Concilio, Luigi, Zappia, Vincenzo, ...

We report here the characterization of the first agmatine/cadaverine aminopropyl transferase (ACAPT), the enzyme responsible for polyamine biosynthesis from an archaeon. The gene PF0127 encoding...

All three Ca2+-binding loops of photoproteins bind calcium ions: The crystal structures of calcium-loaded apo-aequorin and apo-obelin

Deng, Lu, Vysotski, Eugene S., Markova, Svetlana V., Liu, Zhi-Jie, Lee, John, Rose, John, ...

A diagnostics design decision model for products under warranty

Liu, Zhi-Jie, Chen, Wei, Huang, Hong-Zhong, Yang, Bo

Structures of an unliganded neurophysin and its vasopressin complex: Implications for binding and allosteric mechanisms

Wu, Chia Kuei, Hu, Bing, Rose, John P., Liu, Zhi-Jie, Nguyen, Tam L., Zheng, Changsheng, ...

The structures of des 1–6 bovine neurophysin-II in the unliganded state and as its complex with lysine vasopressin were determined crystallographically at resolutions of 2.4 Å and 2.3 Å,...