Judy Luke

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Time-controlled microfluidic seeding in nL-volume droplets to separate nucleation and growth stages of protein crystallization

Gerdts CJ, Tereshko V, Yadav MK, Dementieva I, Collart F, Joachimiak A, Stevens RC, Kuhn P, Kossiakoff A, Ismagilov RF

Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. Engl. 2006 Dec;45(48):8156-60

PMID: 17099920

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Comprehensive and quantitative mapping of energy landscapes for protein-protein interactions by rapid combinatorial scanning

Pál G, Kouadio JL, Artis DR, Kossiakoff AA, Sidhu SS

J. Biol. Chem. 2006 Aug;281(31):22378-85

PMID: 16762925

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A novel, quantitative saturation (QS) scanning strategy was developed to obtain a comprehensive data base of the structural and functional effects of all possible mutations across a large protein-protein interface. The QS scan approach was applied to …

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The role of protein dynamics in increasing binding affinity for an engineered protein-protein interaction established by H/D exchange mass spectrometry

Horn JR, Kraybill B, Petro EJ, Coales SJ, Morrow JA, Hamuro Y, Kossiakoff AA

Biochemistry 2006 Jul;45(28):8488-98

PMID: 16834322

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It is generally accepted that protein and solvation dynamics play fundamental roles in the mechanisms of protein-protein binding; however, assessing their contribution meaningfully has not been straightforward. Here, hydrogen/deuterium exchange mass spectrometry (H/D-Ex) was employed …

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Crystal structure and site 1 binding energetics of human placental lactogen

Walsh ST, Kossiakoff AA

J. Mol. Biol. 2006 May;358(3):773-84

PMID: 16546209

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In primates, placental lactogen (PL) is a pituitary hormone with fundamental roles during pregnancy involving fetal growth, metabolism, and stimulating lactation in the mother. Human placental lactogen (hPL) is highly conserved with human growth hormone (hGH) and both hormones bind to the hPRLR …

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Dissecting the energetics of protein alpha-helix C-cap termination through chemical protein synthesis

Bang D, Gribenko AV, Tereshko V, Kossiakoff AA, Kent SB, Makhatadze GI

Nat. Chem. Biol. 2006 Mar;2(3):139-43

PMID: 16446709

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The alpha-helix is a fundamental protein structural motif and is frequently terminated by a glycine residue. Explanations for the predominance of glycine at the C-cap terminal portions of alpha-helices have invoked uniquely favorable energetics of …

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Structure of bistramide A-actin complex at a 1.35 angstroms resolution

Rizvi SA, Tereshko V, Kossiakoff AA, Kozmin SA

J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2006 Mar;128(12):3882-3

PMID: 16551075

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Bistramide A is a highly potent antiproliferative marine natural product from Lissoclinum bistratum. We have previously established actin as the primary cellular receptor of bistramide A. We report herein the X-ray structure of bistramide A bound to monomeric …

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The crystal structure of Aq_328 from the hyperthermophilic bacteria Aquifex aeolicus shows an ancestral histone fold

Qiu Y, Tereshko V, Kim Y, Zhang R, Collart F, Yousef M, Kossiakoff A, Joachimiak A

Proteins 2006 Jan;62(1):8-16

PMID: 16287087

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The structure of Aq_328, an uncharacterized protein from hyperthermophilic bacteria Aquifex aeolicus, has been determined to 1.9 A by using multi-wavelength anomalous diffraction (MAD) phasing. Although the amino acid sequence analysis shows that …

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Alternative views of functional protein binding epitopes obtained by combinatorial shotgun scanning mutagenesis

Pál G, Fong SY, Kossiakoff AA, Sidhu SS

Protein Sci. 2005 Sep;14(9):2405-13

PMID: 16131663

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Combinatorial shotgun scanning mutagenesis was used to analyze two large, related protein binding sites to assess the specificity and importance of individual side chain contributions to binding affinity. The strategy allowed for cost-effective generation of a plethora of functional data. …

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Shotgun alanine scanning shows that growth hormone can bind productively to its receptor through a drastically minimized interface

Kouadio JL, Horn JR, Pal G, Kossiakoff AA

J. Biol. Chem. 2005 Jul;280(27):25524-32

PMID: 15857837

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The high affinity binding site (Site1) of the human growth hormone (hGH) binds to its cognate receptor (hGHR) via a concave surface patch containing about 35 residues. Using 167 sequences from a shotgun alanine scanning analysis of Site1, we …

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Total chemical synthesis and X-ray crystal structure of a protein diastereomer: [D-Gln 35]ubiquitin

Bang D, Makhatadze GI, Tereshko V, Kossiakoff AA, Kent SB

Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. Engl. 2005 Jun;44(25):3852-6

PMID: 15834850

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