Category: publications

Cryo-EM structures of a synthetic antibody against 22 kDa claudin-4 reveal its complex with Clostridium perfringens enterotoxin

Satchal K Erramilli, Pawel K Dominik, Chinemerem P Ogbu, Anthony A Kossiakoff, Alex J Vecchio

bioRxiv 2023 Jun 12, 2023

PMID: 37398044 PMCID: PMC10312657 DOI: 10.1101/2023.06.12.544689

Claudins are a family of ∼25 kDa membrane proteins that integrate into tight junctions to form molecular barriers at the paracellular spaces between endothelial and epithelial cells. Humans have 27 subtypes, which homo- and hetero-oligomerize to …

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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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Structural basis for assembly and lipid-mediated gating of LRRC8A: C volume-regulated anion channels

David M Kern, Julia Bleier, Somnath Mukherjee, Jennifer M Hill, Anthony A Kossiakoff, Ehud Y Isacoff, Stephen G Brohawn

Nat Struct Mol Biol 2023 Mar 16

PMID: 36928458 DOI: 10.1038/s41594-023-00944-6

Leucine-rich repeat-containing protein 8 (LRRC8) family members form volume-regulated anion channels activated by hypoosmotic cell swelling. LRRC8 channels are ubiquitously expressed in vertebrate cells as …

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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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Structure, sequon recognition and mechanism of tryptophan C-mannosyltransferase

Joël S Bloch, Alan John, Runyu Mao, Somnath Mukherjee, Jérémy Boilevin, Rossitza N Irobalieva, Tamis Darbre, Nichollas E Scott, Jean-Louis Reymond, Anthony A Kossiakoff, Ethan D Goddard-Borger, Kaspar P Locher

Nat Chem Biol. 2023 Jan 5

PMID: 36604564 DOI: 10.1038/s41589-022-01219-9

C-linked glycosylation is essential for the trafficking, folding and function of secretory and transmembrane proteins …

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Development, structure, and mechanism of synthetic antibodies that target claudin and Clostridium perfringens enterotoxin complexes

Benjamin J. Orlando, Pawel K. Dominik, Sourav Roy, Chinemerem P. Ogbu, Satchal K. Erramilli, AnthonyA. Kossiakoff, Alex J. Vecchio

JBC Journal of Biological Chemistry 9 August 2022, 102357

PMID: 35952760 PMCID: PMC9463536 DOI: jbc.2022.102357

Strains of Clostridium perfringens produce a two-domain enterotoxin (CpE) that afflicts humans and domesticated animals, causing prevalent gastrointestinal illnesses. CpE’s C-terminal domain …

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Structures of atypical chemokine receptor 3 reveal the basis for its promiscuity and signaling bias

Yu-Chen Yen, Christopher T Schafer, Martin Gustavsson, Stefanie A Eberle, Pawel K Dominik, Dawid Deneka, Penglie Zhang, Thomas J Schall, Anthony A Kossiakoff, John J G Tesmer, Tracy M Handel

Sci Adv. 2022 Jul 15;8(28):eabn8063.

PMID: 35857509 PMCID: PMC9278869 DOI: 10.1126/sciadv.abn8063

Both CXC chemokine receptor 4 (CXCR4) and atypical chemokine receptor 3 (ACKR3) are activated by …

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A peroxisomal ubiquitin ligase complex forms a retrotranslocation channel

Peiqiang Feng, Xudong Wu, Satchal K Erramilli, Joao A Paulo, Pawel Knejski, Steven P Gygi, Anthony A Kossiakoff, Tom A Rapoport

Nature. 2022 Jun 29

PMID: 35768507 DOI: 10.1038/s41586-022-04903-x

Peroxisomes are ubiquitous organelles that house various metabolic reactions and are essential for human health1-4. Luminal peroxisomal proteins are imported from the cytosol by mobile receptors, which then …

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Structure of human NTCP reveals the basis of recognition and sodium-driven transport of bile salts into the liver

Hongtao Liu, Rossitza N. Irobalieva, Rose Bang-Sørensen, Kamil Nosol, Somnath Mukherjee, Parth Agrawal, Bruno Stieger, Anthony A. Kossiakoff & Kaspar P. Locher

Cell Research (2022) 0:1–4

PMID: 35726088 DOI: 10.1038/s41422-022-00680-4

The sodium taurocholate (TC) co-transporting polypeptide NTCP (SLC10A1) is a secondary active membrane transport protein that mediates the uptake of bile salts from the portal blood plasma …

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