Daniel J. Rigden

Encapsulated in silica: genome, proteome and physiology of the thermophilic bacterium Anoxybacillus flavithermusWK1 (2008)

Saw, Jimmy H, Mountain, Bruce W, Feng, Lu, Omelchenko, Marina V, Hou, Shaobin, Saito, Jennifer A, ...

Abstract Background Gram-positive bacteria of the genus Anoxybacillus have been found in diverse thermophilic habitats, such as geothermal hot springs and manure, and in processed foods such as...

The protein that binds to DNA base J in trypanosomatids has features of a thymidine hydroxylase (2007)

Yu, Zhong, Genest, Paul-André, Ter Riet, Bas, Sweeney, Kate, DiPaolo, Courtney, Kieft, Rudo, ...

Trypanosomatids contain an unusual DNA base J (β-d-glucosylhydroxymethyluracil), which replaces a fraction of thymine in telomeric and other DNA repeats. To determine the function of base J, we have...

An unsuspected ecdysteroid/steroid phosphatase activity in the key T-cell regulator, Sts-1: Surprising relationship to insect ecdysteroid phosphate phosphatase (2007)

Davies, Lyndsay, Anderson, Ian P., Turner, Philip C., Shirras, Alan D., Rees, Huw H., Rigden, Daniel J.

The insect enzyme ecdysteroid phosphate phosphatase (EPP) mobilizes active ecdysteroids from an inactive phosphorylated pool. Previously assigned to a novel class, it is shown here that it resides in...

The protein that binds to DNA base J in trypanosomatids has features of a thymidine hydroxylase (2007)

Yu, Zhong, Genest, Paul-Andre, Ter Riet, Bas, Sweeney, Kate, DiPaolo, Courtney, Kieft, Rudo, ...

© 2007 The Author et al. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/ by-nc/2.0/uk/)...

Design of new benzoxazole-2-thione derived inhibitors of Streptococcus pneumoniae hyaluronan lyase: structure of a complex with a 2-phenylindole. (2006)

Rigden, Daniel J., Botzki, Alexander, Nukui, Masatoshi, Mewbourne, R. Brandon, Lamani, Ejvis, Braun, Stephan, ...

The bacterial hyaluronan lyases (Hyals) that degrade hyaluronan, an important component of the extracellular matrix, are involved in microbial spread. Inhibitors of these enzymes are essential in...

Design of New Benzoxazole-2-Thione Derived Inhibitors of Streptococcus pneumoniae Hyaluronan Lyase: Structure of a Complex With a 2-Phenylindole (2006)

Rigden, Daniel J., Botzki, Alexander, Nukui, Masatoshi, Mewbourne, R. Brandon, Lamani, Ejvis, Braun, Stephan, ...

The bacterial hyaluronan lyases (Hyal) that degrade hyaluronan, an important component of the extracellular matrix, are involved in microbial spread. Inhibitors of these enzymes are essential in...

Design of new benzoxazole-2-thione-derived inhibitors of Streptococcus pneumoniae hyaluronan lyase: structure of a complex with a 2-phenylindole (2006)

Rigden, Daniel J., Botzki, Alexander, Nukui, Masatoshi, Mewbourne, R. Brandon, Lamani, Ejvis, Braun, Stephan, ...

The bacterial hyaluronan lyases (Hyals) that degrade hyaluronan, an important component of the extracellular matrix, are involved in microbial spread. Inhibitors of these enzymes are essential in...

Design of New Benzoxazole-2-Thione Derived Inhibitors of Streptococcus pneumoniae Hyaluronan Lyase: Structure of a Complex With a 2-Phenylindole (2006)

Rigden, Daniel J., Botzki, Alexander, Nukui, Masatoshi, Mewbourne, R. Brandon, Lamani, Ejvis, Braun, Stephan, ...

The bacterial hyaluronan lyases (Hyal) that degrade hyaluronan, an important component of the extracellular matrix, are involved in microbial spread. Inhibitors of these enzymes are essential in...

Characterization and functional investigation of an Arabidopsis cDNA encoding a homologue to the d-PGMase superfamily (2005)

Bourgis, Fabienne, Botha, Fredrik C., Mani, Srikrishnan, Hiten, Fletcher N., Rigden, Daniel J., Verbruggen, Nathalie

An Arabidopsis thaliana cDNA (At-74) has been isolated that encoded an uncharacterized protein showing homology with members of the d-PGMase superfamily: cofactor-dependent phosphoglycerate mutases...

Characterization and functional investigation of an Arabidopsis cDNA encoding a homologue to the d-PGMase superfamily (2005)

Bourgis, Fabienne, Botha, Fredrik C., Mani, Srikrishnan, Hiten, Fletcher N., Rigden, Daniel J., Verbruggen, Nathalie

An Arabidopsis thaliana cDNA (At-74) has been isolated that encoded an uncharacterized protein showing homology with members of the d-PGMase superfamily: cofactor-dependent phosphoglycerate mutases...

Characterization and functional investigation of an Arabidopsis cDNA encoding a homologue to the d-PGMase superfamily (2005)

Bourgis, Fabienne, Botha, Fredrik C., Mani, Srikrishnan, Hiten, Fletcher N., Rigden, Daniel J., Verbruggen, Nathalie

An Arabidopsis thaliana cDNA (At-74) has been isolated that encoded an uncharacterized protein showing homology with members of the d-PGMase superfamily: cofactor-dependent phosphoglycerate mutases...

L-ascorbic acid-6-hexadecanoate, a potent hyaluronidase inhibitor: X-ray structure and molecular modeling of enzyme-inhibitor complexes. (2004)

Botzki, Alexander, Rigden, Daniel J., Braun, Stephan, Nukui, Masatoshi, Salmen, Sunnhild, Hoechstetter, Julia, ...

Hyaluronidases are enzymes that degrade hyaluronan, an important component of the extracellular matrix. The mammalian hyaluronidases are considered to be involved in many (patho)physiological...

Archaea recruited D-Tyr-tRNATyr deacylase for editing in Thr-tRNA synthetase (2004)

RIGDEN, DANIEL J.

Aminoacyl–tRNA synthetases (AARSs) are key players in the maintenance of the genetic code through correct pairing of amino acids with their cognate tRNA molecules. To this end, some AARSs, as well...

Archaea recruited D-Tyr-tRNATyr deacylase for editing in Thr-tRNA synthetase (2004)

RIGDEN, DANIEL J.

Aminoacyl–tRNA synthetases (AARSs) are key players in the maintenance of the genetic code through correct pairing of amino acids with their cognate tRNA molecules. To this end, some AARSs, as well...

Fold recognition analysis of glycosyltransferase families: further members of structural superfamilies (2003)

Octavio L. Franco, Daniel J. Rigden

Glycosyltransferases (GTs) are diverse enzymes organized into 65 families. X-ray crystallography and in silico studies have shown many of these to belong to two structural superfamilies: GT-A and...

Fold recognition analysis of glycosyltransferases families: further members of structural superfamilies (2003)

Franco, Octávio L., Rigden, Daniel J.

Glycosyltransferases (GTs) are diverse enzymes organized into 65 families. X-ray crystallography and in silico studies have shown many of these to belong to two structural superfamilies - GT-A and...

Fold recognition analysis of glycosyltransferase families: further members of structural superfamilies (2003)

Franco, Octávio L., Rigden, Daniel J.

Glycosyltransferases (GTs) are diverse enzymes organized into 65 families. X-ray crystallography and in silico studies have shown many of these to belong to two structural superfamilies: GT-A and...

Fold recognition analysis of glycosyltransferases families: further members of structural superfamilies (2003)

Franco, Octávio L., Rigden, Daniel J.

Glycosyltransferases (GTs) are diverse enzymes organized into 65 families. X-ray crystallography and in silico studies have shown many of these to belong to two structural superfamilies - GT-A and...

Sequence conservation in the chagasin family suggests a common trend in cysteine proteinase binding by unrelated protein inhibitors (2002)

Rigden, Daniel J., Mosolov, Vladimir V., Galperin, Michael Y.

The recently described inhibitor of cysteine proteinases from Trypanosoma cruzi, chagasin, was found to have close homologs in several eukaryotes, bacteria and archaea, the first protein inhibitors...

Use of covariance analysis for the prediction of structural domain boundaries from multiple protein sequence alignments (2002)

Rigden, Daniel J.

Current methods for identification of domains within protein sequences require either structural information or the identification of homologous domain sequences in different sequence contexts....

PrfA protein of Bacillus species: Prediction and demonstration of endonuclease activity on DNA (2002)

Rigden, Daniel J., Setlow, Peter, Setlow, Barbara, Bagyan, Irina, Stein, Richard A., Jedrzejas, Mark J.

The prfA gene product of Gram-positive bacteria is unusual in being implicated in several cellular processes; cell wall synthesis, chromosome segregation, and DNA recombination and repair. However,...

A cofactor-dependent phosphoglycerate mutase homolog from Bacillus stearothermophilus is actually a broad specificity phosphatase (2001)

Rigden, Daniel J., Bagyan, Irina, Lamani, Ejvis, Setlow, Peter, Jedrzejas, Mark J.

The distribution of phosphoglycerate mutase (PGM) activity in bacteria is complex, with some organisms possessing both a cofactor-dependent and a cofactor-independent PGM and others having only one...

Design and synthesis of germline-based hemi-humanized single-chain Fv against the CD18 surface antigen (2000)

Caldas, Cristina, Rigden, Daniel J., Neschich, Goran, Moro, Ana Maria, Brígido, Marcelo M.

The 6.7 murine monoclonal antibody (mAb) recognizes the human CD18 antigen and is therefore of interest as an anti-inflammatory agent. The 6.7 heavy variable chain (VH) was humanized using the...

Plant-like traits associated with metabolism of Trypanosoma parasites

Hannaert, Véronique, Saavedra, Emma, Duffieux, Francis, Szikora, Jean-Pierre, Rigden, Daniel J., Michels, Paul A. M., ...

Trypanosomatid parasites cause serious diseases among humans, livestock, and plants. They belong to the order of the Kinetoplastida and form, together with the Euglenida, the phylum Euglenozoa....

Archaea recruited d-Tyr-tRNATyr deacylase for editing in Thr–tRNA synthetase

RIGDEN, DANIEL J.

Aminoacyl–tRNA synthetases (AARSs) are key players in the maintenance of the genetic code through correct pairing of amino acids with their cognate tRNA molecules. To this end, some AARSs, as well...

Plant-like traits associated with metabolism of Trypanosoma parasites

Hannaert, Véronique, Saavedra, Emma, Duffieux, Francis, Szikora, Jean-Pierre, Rigden, Daniel J., Michels, Paul A. M., ...

Trypanosomatid parasites cause serious diseases among humans, livestock, and plants. They belong to the order of the Kinetoplastida and form, together with the Euglenida, the phylum Euglenozoa....

Archaea recruited d-Tyr-tRNATyr deacylase for editing in Thr–tRNA synthetase

RIGDEN, DANIEL J.

Aminoacyl–tRNA synthetases (AARSs) are key players in the maintenance of the genetic code through correct pairing of amino acids with their cognate tRNA molecules. To this end, some AARSs, as well...

The protein that binds to DNA base J in trypanosomatids has features of a thymidine hydroxylase

Yu, Zhong, Genest, Paul-André, Ter Riet, Bas, Sweeney, Kate, DiPaolo, Courtney, Kieft, Rudo, ...

Trypanosomatids contain an unusual DNA base J (β-d-glucosylhydroxymethyluracil), which replaces a fraction of thymine in telomeric and other DNA repeats. To determine the function of base J, we have...

A cofactor-dependent phosphoglycerate mutase homolog from Bacillus stearothermophilus is actually a broad specificity phosphatase

Rigden, Daniel J., Bagyan, Irina, Lamani, Ejvis, Setlow, Peter, Jedrzejas, Mark J.

The distribution of phosphoglycerate mutase (PGM) activity in bacteria is complex, with some organisms possessing both a cofactor-dependent and a cofactor-independent PGM and others having only one...

Sequence conservation in the chagasin family suggests a common trend in cysteine proteinase binding by unrelated protein inhibitors

Rigden, Daniel J., Mosolov, Vladimir V., Galperin, Michael Y.

The recently described inhibitor of cysteine proteinases from Trypanosoma cruzi, chagasin, was found to have close homologs in several eukaryotes, bacteria and archaea, the first protein inhibitors...

PrfA protein of Bacillus species: Prediction and demonstration of endonuclease activity on DNA

Rigden, Daniel J., Setlow, Peter, Setlow, Barbara, Bagyan, Irina, Stein, Richard A., Jedrzejas, Mark J.

The prfA gene product of Gram-positive bacteria is unusual in being implicated in several cellular processes; cell wall synthesis, chromosome segregation, and DNA recombination and repair. However,...

Encapsulated in silica: genome, proteome and physiology of the thermophilic bacterium Anoxybacillus flavithermus WK1

Saw, Jimmy H, Mountain, Bruce W, Feng, Lu, Omelchenko, Marina V, Hou, Shaobin, Saito, Jennifer A, ...

Sequencing of the complete genome of Anoxybacillus flavithermus reveals enzymes that are required for silica adaptation and biofilm formation.

Sequence analysis of GerM and SpoVS, uncharacterized bacterial ‘sporulation’ proteins with widespread phylogenetic distribution

Rigden, Daniel J., Galperin, Michael Y.

Sporulation in low-G+C gram-positive bacteria (Firmicutes) is an important survival mechanism that involves up to 150 genes, acting in a highly regulated manner. Many sporulation genes have close...