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Jul 05 2022
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 …
May 13 2022
Synthetic antibody binders detect distinct cellular states of Chromosome Passenger Complex proteins
Marcin Ura, Somnath Mukherjee, Edyta Marcon, Stefan A Koestler, Anthony A Kossiakoff
J Mol Biol. 2022 Apr 22;167602.
PMID: 35469831 DOI: 10.1016/j.jmb.2022.167602
High-performance affinity reagents are essential tools to enable biologists to profile the cellular location and composition of macromolecular complexes undergoing dynamic reorganization. To support further development of such tools, we have assembled a …
Apr 07 2022
Structural basis of lipopolysaccharide maturation by the O-antigen ligase
Khuram U. Ashraf, Rie Nygaard, Owen N. Vickery, Satchal K. Erramilli, Carmen M. Herrera, Thomas H. McConville, Vasileios I. Petrou, Sabrina I. Giacometti, Meagan Belcher Dufrisne, Kamil Nosol, Allen P. Zinkle, Chris L. B. Graham, Michael Loukeris, Brian Kloss, Karolina Skorupinska-Tudek, Ewa Swiezewska, David I. Roper, Oliver B. Clarke, Anne-Catrin Uhlemann, Anthony A. Kossiakoff, M. …
Mar 07 2022
Targeting a proteolytic neoepitope on CUB domain containing protein 1 (CDCP1) for RAS-driven cancers
Shion A Lim, Jie Zhou, Alexander J Martinko, Yung-Hua Wang, Ekaterina V Filippova, Veronica Steri, Donghui Wang, Soumya G Remesh, Jia Liu, Byron Hann, Anthony A Kossiakoff, Michael J Evans, Kevin K Leung, James A Wells
J Clin Invest. 2022 Feb 15;132(4):e154604.
PMID: 35166238 PMCID: PMC8843743 DOI: 10.1172/JCI154604
Extracellular proteolysis is frequently dysregulated in disease and can generate …
Mar 04 2022
Engineering of a synthetic antibody fragment for structural and functional studies of K+ channels
Ahmed Rohaim, Tomasz Slezak, Young Hoon Koh, Lydia Blachowicz, Anthony A Kossiakoff, Benoît Roux
J Gen Physiol. 2022 Apr 4;154(4):e202112965.
PMID: 35234830 DOI: 10.1085/jgp.202112965
Engineered antibody fragments (Fabs) have made major impacts on structural biology research, particularly to aid structural determination of membrane proteins. Nonetheless, Fabs generated by traditional monoclonal technology suffer from challenges of routine …
Jan 04 2022
Protein Engineering: Advances in Phage Display for Basic Science and Medical Research
Elena K Davydova
Review Biochemistry (Mosc). 2022 Jan;87(Suppl 1):S146-S110
PMID: 35501993 PMCID: PMC8802281 DOI: 10.1134/S0006297922140127
Functional Protein Engineering became the hallmark of biomolecule manipulation in the new millennium, building on and surpassing the underlying structural DNA manipulation and recombination techniques developed and employed in the last decades of the 20th century. Because of their prominence …
Dec 06 2021
Development of a universal nanobody-binding Fab module for fiducial-assisted cryo-EM studies of membrane proteins
Joël S Bloch, Somnath Mukherjee, Julia Kowal, Ekaterina V Filippova, Martina Niederer, Els Pardon, Jan Steyaert, Anthony A Kossiakoff, Kaspar P Locher
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2021 Nov 23;118(47)
PMID: 34782475 DOI: 10.1073/pnas.2115435118
With conformation-specific nanobodies being used for a wide range of structural, biochemical, and cell biological applications, there is a …
Oct 24 2021
Structures of ABCB4 provide insight into phosphatidylcholine translocation
Kamil Nosol, Rose Bang-Sørensen, Rossitza N Irobalieva, Satchal K Erramilli, Bruno Stieger, Anthony A Kossiakoff, Kaspar P Locher
Proc Natl Acad Sci USA 2021 Aug 17;118(33):e2106702118.
PMID: 34385322 PMCID: PMC8379956 (available on 2022-02-12)
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.2106702118
ABCB4 is expressed in hepatocytes and translocates phosphatidylcholine into bile canaliculi. The mechanism of specific lipid recruitment from the canalicular …
Jul 23 2021
Structure of an AMPK complex in an inactive, ATP-bound state
Yan Yan, Somnath Mukherjee, Kaleeckal G. Harikumar, Timothy S. Strutzenberg, Edward Zhou, Kelly Suino-Powell, Ting-Hai Xu, Ryan D. Sheldon, Jared Lamp, Joseph S. Brunzelle, Katarzyna Radziwon, Abigail Ellis, Scott J. Novick, Irving E. Vega, Russell G. Jones, Laurence J. Miller, H. Eric Xu, Patrick R. Griffin, Anthony A. Kossiakoff, Karsten Melcher
Science 23 Jul 2021: …
Jul 20 2021
Structures of rhodopsin in complex with G-protein-coupled receptor kinase 1
Qiuyan Chen, Manolo Plasencia, Zhuang Li, Somnath Mukherjee, Dhabaleswar Patra, Chun-Liang Chen, Thomas Klose, Xin-Qiu Yao, Anthony A Kossiakoff, Leifu Chang, Philip C Andrews, John J G Tesmer
Nature. 2021 Jul 14. doi: 10.1038/s41586-021-03721-x
PMID: 34262173
G-protein-coupled receptor (GPCR) kinases (GRKs) selectively phosphorylate activated GPCRs, thereby priming them for desensitization1. Although it is unclear how …