Tag: cryo-EM

Cryo-EM Structure of Phospholipase Cε Defines N-terminal Domains and their Roles in Activity.

Kadidia Samassekou, Elisabeth E. Garland-Kuntz, Vaani Ohri, Isaac J. Fisher, Satchal K. Erramilli,Kaushik Muralidharan, Livia M. Bogdan, Abigail M. Gick, Anthony A. Kossiakoff, Angeline M. Lyon

bioRxiv 2024 September 12

PMID: 39314324 PMCID: PMC11418990 DOI: 10.1101/2024.09.11.612521

Phospholipase Cε (PLCε) increases intracellular Ca 2+ and protein kinase C (PKC) activity in the cardiovascular system in response …

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Structural insights into translocation and tailored synthesis of hyaluronan

Ireneusz Górniak, Zachery Stephens, Satchal K. Erramilli, Tomasz Gawda, Anthony A. Kossiakoff & Jochen Zimmer

Nature Structural & Molecular Biology (2024)

PMID: 39322765 DOI: 10.1038/s41594-024-01389-1

Hyaluronan (HA) is an essential component of the vertebrate extracellular matrix. It is a heteropolysaccharide of N-acetylglucosamine (GlcNAc) and glucuronic acid (GlcA) reaching several megadaltons in healthy tissues. HA is …

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Mechanistic studies of mycobacterial glycolipid biosynthesis by the mannosyltransferase PimE

Yaqi Liu, Chelsea M Brown, Nuno Borges, Rodrigo N Nobre, Satchal Erramilli, Meagan Belcher Dufrisne, Brian Kloss, Sabrina Giacometti, Ana M Esteves, Cristina G Timoteo, Piotr Tokarz, Rosemary Cater, Yasu S Morita, Anthony A Kossiakoff, Helena Santos, Phillip J Stansfeld, Rie Nygaard, Filippo Mancia

bioRxiv 2024 September 18

PMID: 39345506 PMCID: PMC11429742 DOI: 10.1101/2024.09.17.613550

Tuberculosis …

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Structural insights into terminal arabinosylation biosynthesis of the mycobacterial cell wall arabinan

Yaqi Liu, Chelsea M. Brown, Satchal Erramilli, Yi-Chia Su, Po-Sen Tseng, Yu-Jen Wang, Nam Ha Duong, Piotr Tokarz, Brian Kloss, Cheng-Ruei Han, Hung-Yu Chen, José Rodrigues, Margarida Archer, Todd L. Lowary, Anthony A. Kossiakoff, Phillip J. Stansfeld, Rie Nygaard, Filippo Mancia

bioRxiv 2024 September 17

PMID: 39345558 PMCID: PMC11429727 DOI: 10.1101/2024.09.17.613533

The emergence of drug-resistant …

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Structural Insights into the Roles of PARP4 and NAD + in the Human Vault Cage

Jane E. Lodwick, Rong Shen, Satchal Erramilli, Yuan Xie, Karolina Roganowicz, Anthony A. Kossiakoff, Minglei Zhao

bioRxiv 2024 Jun 27:2024.06.27.601040. doi: 10.1101/2024.06.27.601040.

PMID: 38979142 PMCID: PMC11230398 DOI: 10.1101/2024.06.27.601040

Vault is a massive ribonucleoprotein complex found across Eukaryota. The major vault protein (MVP) oligomerizes into an ovular cage, which contains several minor vault components (MVCs) and …

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Structure of antiviral drug bulevirtide bound to hepatitis B and D virus receptor protein NTCP

Hongtao Liu, Dariusz Zakrzewicz, Kamil Nosol, Rossitza N Irobalieva, Somnath Mukherjee, Rose Bang-Sørensen, Nora Goldmann, Sebastian Kunz, Lorenzo Rossi, Anthony A Kossiakoff, Stephan Urban, Dieter Glebe, Joachim Geyer, Kaspar P Locher

Nature Communications volume 15, Article number: 2476 (2024)

PMID: 38509088 PMCID: PMC10954734 DOI: 10.1038/s41467-024-46706-w

Cellular entry of the hepatitis B and D viruses (HBV/HDV) …

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Structural analysis and conformational dynamics of a holo-adhesion GPCR reveal interplay between extracellular and transmembrane domains

Szymon P. Kordon, Kristina Cechova, Sumit J. Bandekar, Katherine Leon, Przemysław Dutka, Gracie Siffer, Anthony A. Kossiakoff, Reza Vafabakhsh, and Demet Araç

bioRxiv 2024 Feb 26

PMID: 38464178 DOI: 10.1101/2024.02.25.581807

Adhesion G Protein-Coupled Receptors (aGPCRs) are key cell-adhesion molecules involved in numerous physiological functions. aGPCRs have large multi-domain extracellular regions (ECR) containing a conserved GAIN …

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Structural and molecular basis of choline uptake into the brain by FLVCR2

Rosemary J. Cater, Dibyanti Mukherjee, Eva Gil Iturbe, Satchal K. Erramilli, Ting Chen, Katie Koo, Nicolás Santander Grez, Andrew Reckers, Brian Kloss, Tomasz Gawda, Brendon C. Choy, Zhening Zheng, Oliver B. Clarke, Sook Wah Yee, Anthony A. Kossiakoff, Matthias Quick, Thomas Arnold, Filippo Mancia

bioRxiv. 2023 Oct 5:2023.10.05.561059.

PMID: 37873173 PMCID: PMC10592973 DOI: 10.1101/2023.10.05.561059

Choline is an essential …

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Chaperone-assisted cryo-EM structure of P. aeruginosa PhuR reveals molecular basis for heme uptake

Paweł P Knejski, Satchal K Erramilli, Anthony A Kossiakoff

bioRxiv. 2023 Aug 1:2023.08.01.551527.

PMID: 37577460 PMCID: PMC10418163 DOI: 10.1101/2023.08.01.551527

Pathogenic bacteria, such as Pseudomonas aeruginosa , depend on scavenging heme for the acquisition of iron, an essential nutrient. The TonB-dependent transporter (TBDT) PhuR is the major heme uptake protein in P. aeruginosa clinical isolates. However, a comprehensive understanding …

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Antiviral HIV-1 SERINC restriction factors disrupt virus membrane asymmetry

Susan A Leonhardt, Michael D Purdy, Jonathan R Grover, Ziwei Yang, Sandra Poulos, William E McIntire, Elizabeth A Tatham, Satchal K Erramilli, Kamil Nosol, Kin Kui Lai, Shilei Ding, Maolin Lu, Pradeep D Uchil, Andrés Finzi, Alan Rein, Anthony A Kossiakoff, Walther Mothes, Mark Yeager

Nature Communications volume 14, Article number: 4368 (2023)

PMID: 37474505 …

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