Research Highlights

Structural basis for a germline-biased antibody response to SARS-CoV-2 (RBD:C1A-B12 Fab)
Clark, S. A., Clark, L. E., Pan, J., Coscia, A., McKay, L. G. A., Shankar, S., Johnson, R. I., Griffiths, A., and Abraham, J. (2020) Molecular basis for a germline-biased neutralizing antibody response to SARS-CoV-2. bioRxiv. 10.1101/2020.11.13.381533
6PNK Structure
Lin, L. Yingqi, McCarthy, S., Powell, B. M., Manurung, Y., Xiang, I. M., Dean, W. L., Chaires, B., and Yatsunyk, L. A. (2020) Biophysical and X-ray structural studies of the (GGGTT)3GGG G-quadruplex in complex with N-methyl mesoporphyrin IX. PLoS One. 15, e0241513
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Liu, S., Li, S., Shen, G., Sukumar, N., Krezel, A. M., and Li, W. (2020) Structural basis of antagonizing the vitamin K catalytic cycle for anticoagulation. Science. 10.1126/science.abc5667
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Rut, W., Lv, Z., Zmudzinski, M., Patchett, S., Nayak, D., Snipas, S. J., Oualid, F. El, Huang, T. T., Békés, M., Drag, M., and Olsen, S. K. (2020) Activity profiling and crystal structures of inhibitor-bound SARS-CoV-2 papain-like protease: A framework for anti-COVID-19 drug design. Sci Adv. 10.1126/sciadv.abd4596
Crystal Structure of Human Protocadherin-15 EC2-
Choudhary, D., Narui, Y., Neel, B. L., Wimalasena, L. N., Klanseck, C. F., De-la-Torre, P., Chen, C., Araya-Secchi, R., Tamilselvan, E., and Sotomayor, M. (2020) Structural determinants of protocadherin-15 mechanics and function in hearing and balance perception. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 10.1073/pnas.1920444117
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Polizzi, N. F., and DeGrado, W. F. (2020) A defined structural unit enables de novo design of small-molecule-binding proteins. Science. 369, 1227-1233
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Ye, Q., West, A. M. V., Silletti, S., and Corbett, K. D. (2020) Architecture and self-assembly of the SARS-CoV-2 nucleocapsid protein. Protein Sci. 10.1002/pro.3909
M Joyce, G., Sankhala, R. S., Chen, W. - H., Choe, M., Bai, H., Hajduczki, A., Yan, L., Sterling, S. L., Peterson, C. E., Green, E. C., Smith, C., de Val, N., Amare, M., Scott, P., Laing, E. D., Broder, C. C., Rolland, M., Michael, N. L., and Modjarrad, K. (2020) A Cryptic Site of Vulnerability on the Receptor Binding Domain of the SARS-CoV-2 Spike Glycoprotein. bioRxiv. 10.1101/2020.03.15.992883
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Viswanathan, T., Arya, S., Chan, S. - H., Qi, S., Dai, N., Misra, A., Park, J. - G., Oladunni, F., Kovalskyy, D., Hromas, R. A., Martinez-Sobrido, L., and Gupta, Y. K. (2020) Structural basis of RNA cap modification by SARS-CoV-2. Nat Commun. 11, 3718
Crystal structure of the LSD1/CoREST histone demethylase bound to its nucleosome substrate
Kim, S. - A., Zhu, J., Yennawar, N., Eek, P., and Tan, S. (2020) Crystal Structure of the LSD1/CoREST Histone Demethylase Bound to Its Nucleosome Substrate. Mol Cell. 10.1016/j.molcel.2020.04.019
Structure of 2019-nCoV chimeric receptor-binding domain complexed with its receptor human ACE2
Shang, J., Ye, G., Shi, K., Wan, Y., Luo, C., Aihara, H., Geng, Q., Auerbach, A., and Li, F. (2020) Structural basis of receptor recognition by SARS-CoV-2. Nature. 10.1038/s41586-020-2179-y
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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