Tag: Fab

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

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

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

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 Preprint. 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 …

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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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Structure of human drug transporters OATP1B1 and OATP1B3

Anca-Denise Ciută, Kamil Nosol, Julia Kowal, Somnath Mukherjee, Ana S. Ramírez, Bruno Stieger, Anthony A. Kossiakoff & Kaspar P. Locher

Nature Communications volume 14, Article number: 5774 (2023)

PMID: 37723174 PMCID: PMC10507018 DOI: 10.1038/s41467-023-41552-8

The organic anion transporting polypeptides OATP1B1 and OATP1B3 are membrane proteins that mediate uptake of drugs into the liver for subsequent conjugation and biliary …

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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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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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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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Protein Engineering: Advances in Phage Display for Basic Science and Medical Research

Elena K Davydova

Review Biochemistry (Mosc). 2022 Jan;87(Suppl 1):S146-S110

PMID: 35501993 PMCID: PMC8802281 DOI: 10.1134/S0006297922140127

Functional Protein Engineering became the hallmark of biomolecule manipulation in the new millennium, building on and surpassing the underlying structural DNA manipulation and recombination techniques developed and employed in the last decades of the 20th century. Because of their prominence …

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