Tag: cryogenic electron microscopy

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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ACKR3-arrestin2/3 complexes reveal molecular consequences of GRK-dependent barcoding

Qiuyan Chen, Christopher T Schafer, Somnath Mukherjee, Martin Gustavsson, Parth Agrawal, Xin-Qiu Yao, Anthony A Kossiakoff, Tracy M Handel, John J G Tesmer

bioRxiv 2023 Jul 19, 2023

PMID: 37502840 PMCID: PMC10370059 DOI: 10.1101/2023.07.18.549504

Atypical chemokine receptor 3 (ACKR3, also known as CXCR7) is a scavenger receptor that regulates extracellular levels of the chemokine CXCL12 …

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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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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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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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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 …

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