5 Papers
Kai Jin is an academic researcher from University of Connecticut Health Center. The author has contributed to research in topics: Spore germination & Protein subunit. The author has an hindex of 5, co-authored 5 publications.
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Crystal Structure of the Catalytic Domain of the Bacillus cereus SleB Protein, Important in Cortex Peptidoglycan Degradation during Spore Germination
TL;DR: SleB bearing a Glu157-to-Gln mutation lost its cortex degradative activity completely, and CwlJ in Bacillus species likely has a three-dimensional structure similar to that of SleB, including the invariant putative catalytic Glu residue.
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Structural and functional analyses of the N-terminal domain of the A subunit of a Bacillus megaterium spore germinant receptor.
Yunfeng Li,Kai Jin,Abigail Perez-Valdespino,Kyle Federkiewicz,Andrew Davis,Mark W. Maciejewski,Peter Setlow,Bing Hao +7 more
TL;DR: The crystal structure of the N-terminal domain (NTD) of the A subunit of the Bacillus megaterium GerK 3 GR is presented, revealing two distinct globular subdomains bisected by a cleft, a fold with strong homology to substrate-binding proteins in bacterial ABC transporters.
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Structural basis of the phosphorylation-independent recognition of cyclin D1 by the SCFFBXO31 ubiquitin ligase.
TL;DR: It is found that the F-box protein FBXO31 targets cyclin D1 for phosphorylation-independent ubiquitination by recognizing and binding to its extreme C terminus, which enhances the understanding of the molecular mechanism of FBxO31-mediated cyclinD1 proteolysis following genotoxic stress and may facilitate efforts to identify a novel molecular target for anticancer drug discovery.
Structural and functional analysis of the GerD spore germination protein of Bacillus species.
Yunfeng Li,Kai Jin,Sonali Ghosh,Parvathimadhavi Devarakonda,Kristina Carlson,Andrew Davis,Kerry-Ann V. Stewart,Elizabeth Cammett,Patricia Pelczar Rossi,Barbara Setlow,Min Lu,Peter Setlow,Bing Hao +12 more
TL;DR: It is proposed that GerD mediates clustering of germination proteins in the inner membrane of dormant spores and thus promotes the rapid and cooperative germination response to nutrients.
Crystal structure of the ubiquitin-like small archaeal modifier protein 2 from Haloferax volcanii.
Yunfeng Li,Mark W. Maciejewski,Jonathan B. Martin,Kai Jin,Yuhang Zhang,Julie A. Maupin-Furlow,Bing Hao +6 more
TL;DR: In this paper, the biophysical and structural properties of SAMP2 from Haloferax volcanii have been characterized and shown to have a unique β-hinge motif, which anchors an unusual C-terminal extension.