Journal
MOLECULAR AND CELLULAR BIOCHEMISTRY
Volume 329, Issue 1-2, Pages 3-15Publisher
SPRINGER
DOI: 10.1007/s11010-009-0114-5
Keywords
HAART; Drosophila; Jade Goody; Bioinformatics; Dictyostelium; Ion transport
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Funding
- Wellcome Trust [WT079965, WT086370]
- Cystic Fibrosis Trust [PJ538]
- Association for International Cancer Research
- EuroCareCF European Coordination Action for Research in Cystic Fibrosis
- Cystic Fibrosis Foundation (USA)
- I.S. M. (Dundee) Ltd
- Dundee City Council
- Ablett Stebbing
- BioDundee
- Famous Grouse, Merck Chemicals Ltd
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The guest editor (AM) provides his perspective on the most recent advances on nucleoside diphosphate kinase (NDPK, otherwise known as AWD or NM23) showcasing phospho-histidine biochemistry and its impact on diverse pathology when disordered. His co-author (SO) provides state-of-the-art analyses from the European institute of Bioinformatics in an appendix to support the most recent advances made by the NDPK community. Unfortunately, to those outside the field, NDPK is often dismissed as a tiny 'ancient housekeeper' protein found in marine sponges, social amoebae, worms, fruit flies, rodents and humans but the state-of-the-art papers overviewed here show that NDPK does not act simply in mindless rote, inter-converting cellular 'energy currencies'. That two NDPK isoforms regulate fetal erythroid lineage is a developmental case in point. Seminal Cancer Research UK support is gratefully acknowledged that generated additional resources to enable the NDPK community to meet in Dundee in 2007 (www.dundee.ac.uk/mchs/ndpk; next meeting is planned: 2010/Mannheim-Heidelberg). The presented papers illustrate the point that when scientists are left alone 'shut up in the narrow cell of their laboratory' (as the philosopher Ortega once said, a sentiment echoed by Erwin Schrodinger), then progress will ultimately occur bridging the gap between specialization and translation for human benefit. To aid translation, this overview initially introduces the NDPK family to the non-specialist, who serendipitously finds these proteins in their biology. This is immediately followed by examples of the diverse biology generated by this self-aggregating group of multi-functional proteins and finally capped by an emerging idea explaining how this diversity might arise.
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