Publications associées à Membrane topology

Membrane Activity of a DNA-Based Ion Channel Depends on the Stability of Its Double-Stranded Structure

DNA nanotechnology has emerged as a promising method for designing spontaneously inserting and fully controllable synthetic ion channels. However, both insertion efficiency and stability of existing DNA-based membrane channels leave much room for improveme ...

AMER CHEMICAL SOC2021

Functional and structural characterization of Serratia marcescens ExbB: determinants of the interaction with HasB/TonB

Henning Paul-Julius Stahlberg

ExbBD is part of a cytoplasmic membrane molecular motor driven by the proton-motive force. It belongs to the larger family of motors involved in nutriment import across the outer membrane of Gram-negative bacteria (ExbBD), flagellar rotation (MotAB) or lat ...

2021

Enhancing the Signaling of GPCRs via Orthosteric Ions

Horst Vogel, Shuguang Yuan

G protein-coupled receptors play essential roles in cellular processes such as neuronal signaling, vision, olfaction, tasting, and metabolism. As GPCRs are the most important drug targets, understanding their interactions with ligands is of utmost importan ...

AMER CHEMICAL SOC2020

An experiment-informed signal transduction model for the role of the Staphylococcus aureus MecR1 protein in beta-lactam resistance

Matteo Dal Peraro, Luciano Andres Abriata

The treatment of hospital- and community-associated infections by methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) is a perpetual challenge. This Gram-positive bacterium is resistant specifically to beta-lactam antibiotics, and generally to many other an ...

Springer Nature2019

The Principles of Ligand Specificity on beta-2-adrenergic receptor

Shuguang Yuan

G protein-coupled receptors are recognized as one of the largest families of membrane proteins. Despite sharing a characteristic seven-transmembrane topology, G protein-coupled receptors regulate a wide range of cellular signaling pathways in response to v ...

Nature Research2016

Intrinsic Disorder in Transmembrane Proteins: Roles in Signaling and Topology Prediction

Françoise Gisou van der Goot Grunberg, Jérôme Bürgi

Intrinsically disordered regions (IDRs) are peculiar stretches of amino acids that lack stable conformations in solution. Intrinsic Disorder containing Proteins (IDP) are defined by the presence of at least one large IDR and have been linked to multiple ce ...

Public Library of Science2016

Division of labor among oxidoreductases: TMX1 preferentially acts on transmembrane polypeptides

Maurizio Molinari

The endoplasmic reticulum (ER) is the site of maturation for secretory and membrane proteins in eukaryotic cells. The lumen of the mammalian ER contains >20 members of the protein disulfide isomerase (PDI) superfamily, which ensure formation of the correct ...

Amer Soc Cell Biology2015

Molecular assembly of the aerolysin pore reveals a swirling membrane-insertion mechanism

Henning Paul-Julius Stahlberg, Françoise Gisou van der Goot Grunberg, Matteo Dal Peraro, Matteo Thomas Degiacomi, Mircea Ioan Iacovache

Aerolysin is the founding member of a superfamily of (beta-pore-forming toxins whose pore structure is unknown. We have combined X-ray crystallography, cryo-EM, molecular dynamics and computational modeling to determine the structures of aerolysin mutants ...

Nature Publishing Group2013

Folding and Structure of the Pore Forming Toxin Aerolysin

Mircea Ioan Iacovache

The first obstacle encountered by a bacterial pathogen once inside the host is the plasma membrane surrounding the target cells. Throughout evolution bacteria has acquired and maintained genes that upon stimulation express proteins capable of damaging the ...

EPFL2011

Functional asymmetry of transmembrane segments in nicotinic acetylcholine receptors

Horst Vogel, Rudolf Hovius, Christophe Danelon, Jörg Grandl

Nicotinic acetylcholine receptors are heteropentameric ion channels that open upon activation to a single conducting state. The second transmembrane segments of each subunit were identified as channel-forming elements, but their respective contribution in ...

2006