Research Highlights

Crystal Structure of the Klebsiella pneumoniae LpxH-lipid X complex
Cho, J., Lee, M., C Cochrane, S., Webster, C. G., Fenton, B. A., Zhao, J., Hong, J., and Zhou, P. (2020) Structural basis of the UDP-diacylglucosamine pyrophosphohydrolase LpxH inhibition by sulfonyl piperazine antibiotics. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 117, 4109-4116
Mancia, F., and Harrison, S. C. (2020) The human dimension in contemporary biological research. Nat Struct Mol Biol. 27, 107-108
Crystal structure of ZIKV-116 Fab in complex with ZIKV envelope DIII
Zhao, H., Xu, L., Bombardi, R., Nargi, R., Deng, Z., Errico, J. M., Nelson, C. A., Dowd, K. A., Pierson, T. C., Crowe, J. E., Diamond, M. S., and Fremont, D. H. (2020) Mechanism of differential Zika and dengue virus neutralization by a public antibody lineage targeting the DIII lateral ridge. J Exp Med. 10.1084/jem.20191792
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Ye, Q., Lau, R. K., Mathews, I. T., Birkholz, E. A., Watrous, J. D., Azimi, C. S., Pogliano, J., Jain, M., and Corbett, K. D. (2019) HORMA Domain Proteins and a Trip13-like ATPase Regulate Bacterial cGAS-like Enzymes to Mediate Bacteriophage Immunity. Mol Cell. 10.1016/j.molcel.2019.12.009
Co-crystal structure of M. tuberculosis ileS T-box in complex with tRNA-3'-OH
Battaglia, R. A., Grigg, J. C., and Ke, A. (2019) Structural basis for tRNA decoding and aminoacylation sensing by T-box riboregulators. Nat Struct Mol Biol. 26, 1106-1113
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Nicoludis, J. M., Green, A. G., Walujkar, S., May, E. J., Sotomayor, M., Marks, D. S., and Gaudet, R. (2019) Interaction specificity of clustered protocadherins inferred from sequence covariation and structural analysis. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 116, 17825-17830
Structures of a dimodular NRPS protein reveal the central condensation state and infer very large conformational changes
Reimer, J. M., Eivaskhani, M., Harb, I., Guarné, A., Weigt, M., and T Schmeing, M. (2019) Structures of a dimodular nonribosomal peptide synthetase reveal conformational flexibility. Science. 10.1126/science.aaw4388
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Park, M. Seul, Araya-Secchi, R., Brackbill, J. A., Phan, H. - D., Kehling, A. C., El-Wahab, E. W. Abd, Dayeh, D. M., Sotomayor, M., and Nakanishi, K. (2019) Multidomain Convergence of Argonaute during RISC Assembly Correlates with the Formation of Internal Water Clusters. Mol Cell. 75, 725-740.e6
Structure of the full-length Clostridium difficile toxin B in complex with 3 VHHs
Chen, P., Lam, K. - H., Liu, Z., Mindlin, F. A., Chen, B., Gutierrez, C. B., Huang, L., Zhang, Y., Hamza, T., Feng, H., Matsui, T., Bowen, M. E., Perry, K., and Jin, R. (2019) Structure of the full-length Clostridium difficile toxin B. Nat Struct Mol Biol. 10.1038/s41594-019-0268-0
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Watanabe, A., McCarthy, K. R., Kuraoka, M., Schmidt, A. G., Adachi, Y., Onodera, T., Tonouchi, K., Caradonna, T. M., Bajic, G., Song, S., McGee, C. E., Sempowski, G. D., Feng, F., Urick, P., Kepler, T. B., Takahashi, Y., Harrison, S. C., and Kelsoe, G. (2019) Antibodies to a Conserved Influenza Head Interface Epitope Protect by an IgG Subtype-Dependent Mechanism. Cell. 177, 1124-1135.e16
Crystal structure of the Protocadherin GammaB4 extracellular domain
Brasch, J., Goodman, K. M., Noble, A. J., Rapp, M., Mannepalli, S., Bahna, F., Dandey, V. P., Bepler, T., Berger, B., Maniatis, T., Potter, C. S., Carragher, B., Honig, B., and Shapiro, L. (2019) Visualization of clustered protocadherin neuronal self-recognition complexes. Nature. 569, 280-283
Crystal structure of the high-affinity copper transporter Ctr1
Ren, F., Logeman, B. L., Zhang, X., Liu, Y., Thiele, D. J., and Yuan, P. (2019) X-ray structures of the high-affinity copper transporter Ctr1. Nat Commun. 10, 1386
Structure of mouse RECON (AKR1C13) in complex with cyclic AMP-AMP-GMP (cAAG)
Whiteley, A. T., Eaglesham, J. B., Mann, C. C. de Olive, Morehouse, B. R., Lowey, B., Nieminen, E. A., Danilchanka, O., King, D. S., S Y Lee, A., Mekalanos, J. J., and Kranzusch, P. J. (2019) Bacterial cGAS-like enzymes synthesize diverse nucleotide signals. Nature. 10.1038/s41586-019-0953-5
Structure of VACV Poxin in post-reactive state with Gp[2'-5']Ap[3']
Eaglesham, J. B., Pan, Y., Kupper, T. S., and Kranzusch, P. J. (2019) Viral and metazoan poxins are cGAMP-specific nucleases that restrict cGAS-STING signalling. Nature. 566, 259-263
Crystal structure of LRRK2 WD40 domain dimer
Zhang, P., Fan, Y., Ru, H., Wang, L., Magupalli, V. Giri, Taylor, S. S., Alessi, D. R., and Wu, H. (2019) Crystal structure of the WD40 domain dimer of LRRK2. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 10.1073/pnas.1817889116
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Nithianantham, S., Cook, B. D., Beans, M., Guo, F., Chang, F., and Al-Bassam, J. (2018) Structural basis of tubulin recruitment and assembly by microtubule polymerases with Tumor Overexpressed Gene (TOG) domain arrays. Elife. 10.7554/eLife.38922
Crystal structure of Desulfovibrio vulgaris carbon monoxide dehydrogenase, as-isolated (protein batch 1), canonical C-cluster
Wittenborn, E. C., Merrouch, M., Ueda, C., Fradale, L., Léger, C., Fourmond, V., Pandelia, M. - E., Dementin, S., and Drennan, C. L. (2018) Redox-dependent rearrangements of the NiFeS cluster of carbon monoxide dehydrogenase. Elife. 10.7554/eLife.39451
6CT9 Ribbon
Zhou, W., Whiteley, A. T., Mann, C. C. de Olive, Morehouse, B. R., Nowak, R. P., Fischer, E. S., Gray, N. S., Mekalanos, J. J., and Kranzusch, P. J. (2018) Structure of the Human cGAS-DNA Complex Reveals Enhanced Control of Immune Surveillance. Cell. 174, 300-311.e11
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Pantel, L., Florin, T., Dobosz-Bartoszek, M., Racine, E., Sarciaux, M., Serri, M., Houard, J., Campagne, J. - M., de Figueiredo, R. Marcia, Midrier, C., Gaudriault, S., Givaudan, A., Lanois, A., Forst, S., Aumelas, A., Cotteaux-Lautard, C., Bolla, J. - M., Lundberg, C. Vingsbo, Huseby, D. L., Hughes, D., Villain-Guillot, P., Mankin, A. S., Polikanov, Y. S., and Gualtieri, M. (2018) Odilorhabdins, Antibacterial Agents that Cause Miscoding by Binding at a New Ribosomal Site. Mol Cell. 70, 83-94.e7
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Coleman, J. A., and Gouaux, E. (2018) Structural basis for recognition of diverse antidepressants by the human serotonin transporter. Nat Struct Mol Biol. 10.1038/s41594-018-0026-8
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Lee, S., Choi, J., Mohanty, J., Sousa, L. P., Tome, F., Pardon, E., Steyaert, J., Lemmon, M. A., Lax, I., and Schlessinger, J. (2018) Structures of β-klotho reveal a 'zip code'-like mechanism for endocrine FGF signalling.. Nature. 10.1038/nature25010
Christ, B., Hochstrasser, R., Guyer, L., Francisco, R., Aubry, S., Hörtensteiner, S., and Weng, J. - K. (2017) Non-specific activities of the major herbicide-resistance gene BAR. Nat Plants. 3, 937-945
Born, D. A., Ulrich, E. C., San Ju, K. -, Peck, S. C., van der Donk, W. A., and Drennan, C. L. (2017) Structural basis for methylphosphonate biosynthesis. Science. 358, 1336-1339
Xiao, Y., Ng, S., Nam, K. Hyun, and Ke, A. (2017) How type II CRISPR-Cas establish immunity through Cas1-Cas2-mediated spacer integration. Nature. 550, 137-141
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Hinshaw, S. M., Makrantoni, V., Harrison, S. C., and Marston, A. L. (2017) The Kinetochore Receptor for the Cohesin Loading Complex. Cell. 171, 72-84.e13
Structure on the Cover of Nature
Zhou, Q., Zhou, P., Wang, A. L., Wu, D., Zhao, M., Südhof, T. C., and Brunger, A. T. (2017) The primed SNARE-complexin-synaptotagmin complex for neuronal exocytosis. Nature. 10.1038/nature23484
Yang, H., and Patel, D. J. (2017) Inhibition Mechanism of an Anti-CRISPR Suppressor AcrIIA4 Targeting SpyCas9. Mol Cell. 10.1016/j.molcel.2017.05.024
Feklistov, A., Bae, B., Hauver, J., Lass-Napiorkowska, A., Kalesse, M., Glaus, F., Altmann, K. - H., Heyduk, T., Landick, R., and Darst, S. A. (2017) RNA polymerase motions during promoter melting. Science. 356, 863-866
Cover Image from Twitter
Stanek, K. A., Patterson-West, J., Randolph, P. S., and Mura, C. (2017) Crystal structure and RNA-binding properties of an Hfq homolog from the deep-branching Aquificae: conservation of the lateral RNA-binding mode. Acta Crystallogr D Struct Biol. 73, 294-315
Cover to March Issue of Toxins
Yao, G., Lam, K. - H., Perry, K., Weisemann, J., Rummel, A., and Jin, R. (2017) Crystal Structure of the Receptor-Binding Domain of Botulinum Neurotoxin Type HA, Also Known as Type FA or H. Toxins (Basel). 10.3390/toxins9030093
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Lees, J. A., Messa, M., Sun, E. Wen, Wheeler, H., Torta, F., Wenk, M. R., De Camilli, P., and Reinisch, K. M. (2017) Lipid transport by TMEM24 at ER-plasma membrane contacts regulates pulsatile insulin secretion. Science. 10.1126/science.aah6171
Cover of Nature Structure & Molecular Biology for February 2017
Shi, K., Carpenter, M. A., Banerjee, S., Shaban, N. M., Kurahashi, K., Salamango, D. J., McCann, J. L., Starrett, G. J., Duffy, J. V., Demir, Ö., Amaro, R. E., Harki, D. A., Harris, R. S., and Aihara, H. (2017) Structural basis for targeted DNA cytosine deamination and mutagenesis by APOBEC3A and APOBEC3B. Nat Struct Mol Biol. 24, 131-139
5T77 Biological Subunit
C Y Kuk, A., Mashalidis, E. H., and Lee, S. - Y. (2017) Crystal structure of the MOP flippase MurJ in an inward-facing conformation. Nat Struct Mol Biol. 24, 171-176
AacC2c1-sgRNA-DNA Ternary Complex
Yang, H., Gao, P., Rajashankar, K. R., and Patel, D. J. (2016) PAM-Dependent Target DNA Recognition and Cleavage by C2c1 CRISPR-Cas Endonuclease. Cell. 167, 1814-1828.e12
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Yao, G., Zhang, S., Mahrhold, S., Lam, K. - H., Stern, D., Bagramyan, K., Perry, K., Kalkum, M., Rummel, A., Dong, M., and Jin, R. (2016) N-linked glycosylation of SV2 is required for binding and uptake of botulinum neurotoxin A. Nat Struct Mol Biol. 23, 656-62

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