Tag: X-ray crystallography

Engineered Antigen-Binding Fragments for Enhanced Crystallization of Antibody:Antigen Complexes

Heather A Bruce, Alexander U Singer, Ekaterina V Filippova, Levi L Blazer, Jarrett J Adams, Leonie Enderle, Moshe Ben-David, Elizabeth H Radley, Daniel Y L Mao, Victor Pau, Stephen Orlicky, Frank Sicheri, Igor Kourinov, Shane Atwell, Anthony A Kossiakoff, Sachdev S Sidhu

Protein Sci. 2023 Nov 9:e4824.

PMID: 37945533 DOI: 10.1002/pro.4824

The atomic-resolution structural information …

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Conformation-specific Synthetic Antibodies Discriminate Multiple Functional States of the Ion Channel CorA

Satchal K. Erramilli, Pawel K. Dominik, Dawid Deneka , Piotr Tokarz , Sangwoo S. Kim, Bharat G. Reddy, Blazej M. Skrobek , Olivier Dalmas , Eduardo Perozo, Anthony A. Kossiakoff 

J Mol Biol. 2023

PMD: 37394032 PMID: 37394032 DOI: 10.1016/j.jmb.2023.168192

CorA, the primary magnesium ion channel in prokaryotes and archaea, is a prototypical homopentameric ion channel that undergoes ion-dependent conformational transitions. CorA adopts five-fold symmetric non-conductive states in the presence of high concentrations of Mg2+, and highly asymmetric …

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Characterization of synthetic antigen binding fragments targeting Toc75 for the isolation of TOC in A. thaliana and P. sativum

Karthik Srinivasan, Satchal K. Erramilli, Srinivas Chakravarthy, Adrian Gonzalez, Anthony Kossiakoff, Nicholas Noinaj

Structure. 2023 Mar 17; S0969-2126(23)00078-3.

PMID: 36977410 DOI: 10.1016/j.str.2023.03.002

Roughly 95% of the proteins that make up the chloroplast must be imported from the cytoplasm. The machinery responsible for the translocation of these cargo proteins is called the translocon at the outer …

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Isoform- and ligand-specific modulation of the adhesion GPCR ADGRL3/Latrophilin3 by a synthetic binder

Szymon P Kordon, Przemysław Dutka, Justyna M Adamska, Sumit J Bandekar, Katherine Leon, Satchal K Erramilli, Brock Adams, Jingxian Li, Anthony A Kossiakoff, Demet Araç

Nat Commun. 2023 Feb 6

PMID: 36746957 PMCID: PMC9902482 DOI: 10.1038/s41467-023-36312-7

Adhesion G protein-coupled receptors (aGPCRs) are cell-surface proteins with large extracellular regions that bind to multiple ligands to regulate …

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Architecture of the cytoplasmic face of the nuclear pore

Christopher J Bley, Si Nie, George W Mobbs, Stefan Petrovic, Anna T Gres, Xiaoyu Liu, Somnath Mukherjee, Sho Harvey, Ferdinand M Huber, Daniel H Lin, Bonnie Brown, Aaron W Tang, Emily J Rundlet, Ana R Correia, Shane Chen, Saroj G Regmi, Taylor A Stevens, Claudia A Jette, Mary Dasso, Alina Patke, Alexander F Palazzo, Anthony …

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Quaternary structure independent folding of voltage-gated ion channel pore domain subunits

Cristina Arrigoni, Marco Lolicato, David Shaya, Ahmed Rohaim, Felix Findeisen, Lam-Kiu Fong, Claire M Colleran, Pawel Dominik, Sangwoo S Kim, Jonathan P Schuermann, William F DeGrado, Michael Grabe, Anthony A Kossiakoff, Daniel L Minor

Nat Struct Mol Biol. 2022 Jun;29(6):537-548.

PMID: 35655098 DOI: 10.1038/s41594-022-00775-x

Every voltage-gated ion channel (VGIC) has a pore domain (PD) made from …

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