Tag: cryogenic electron microscopy

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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