Architecture of human Rag GTPase heterodimers and their complex with mTORC1

M Anandapadamanaban, GR Masson, O Perisic… - Science, 2019 - science.org
The Rag guanosine triphosphatases (GTPases) recruit the master kinase mTORC1 to
lysosomes to regulate cell growth and proliferation in response to amino acid availability …

Structural basis of cytokine-mediated activation of ALK family receptors

S De Munck, M Provost, M Kurikawa, I Omori… - Nature, 2021 - nature.com
Anaplastic lymphoma kinase (ALK) and the related leukocyte tyrosine kinase (LTK) are
recently deorphanized receptor tyrosine kinases. Together with their activating cytokines …

Large-scale phage-based screening reveals extensive pan-viral mimicry of host short linear motifs

F Mihalič, L Simonetti, G Giudice, MR Sander… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
Viruses mimic host short linear motifs (SLiMs) to hijack and deregulate cellular functions.
Studies of motif-mediated interactions therefore provide insight into virus-host …

Structure of the decoy module of human glycoprotein 2 and uromodulin and its interaction with bacterial adhesin FimH

A Stsiapanava, C Xu, S Nishio, L Han… - Nature Structural & …, 2022 - nature.com
Abstract Glycoprotein 2 (GP2) and uromodulin (UMOD) filaments protect against
gastrointestinal and urinary tract infections by acting as decoys for bacterial fimbrial lectin …

RING domains act as both substrate and enzyme in a catalytic arrangement to drive self-anchored ubiquitination

L Kiss, D Clift, N Renner, D Neuhaus… - Nature …, 2021 - nature.com
Attachment of ubiquitin (Ub) to proteins is one of the most abundant and versatile of all
posttranslational modifications and affects outcomes in essentially all physiological …

Crystal structures and nuclear magnetic resonance studies of the apo form of the c-MYC: MAX bHLHZip complex reveal a helical basic region in the absence of DNA

S Sammak, N Hamdani, F Gorrec, MD Allen… - Biochemistry, 2019 - ACS Publications
The c-MYC transcription factor is a master regulator of cell growth and proliferation and is an
established target for cancer therapy. This basic helix–loop–helix Zip protein forms a …

A molecular basis for the T cell response in HLA-DQ2. 2 mediated celiac disease

YT Ting, S Dahal-Koirala, HSK Kim… - Proceedings of the …, 2020 - National Acad Sciences
The highly homologous human leukocyte antigen (HLA)-DQ2 molecules, HLA-DQ2. 5 and
HLA-DQ2. 2, are implicated in the pathogenesis of celiac disease (CeD) by presenting …

[HTML][HTML] Protein crystallization screens developed at the MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology

F Gorrec - Drug Discovery Today, 2016 - Elsevier
Highlights•We present three types of initial screens and an optimization screen for protein
crystallization.•Published conditions were selected to formulate the LMB sparse matrix.•Pi …

Diversity of mechanisms to control bacterial GTP homeostasis by the mutually exclusive binding of adenine and guanine nucleotides to IMP dehydrogenase

D Fernández‐Justel, Í Marcos‐Alcalde… - Protein …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
IMP dehydrogenase (IMPDH) is an essential enzyme that catalyzes the rate‐limiting step in
the guanine nucleotide pathway. In eukaryotic cells, GTP binding to the regulatory domain …

Interdomain conformational flexibility underpins the activity of UGGT, the eukaryotic glycoprotein secretion checkpoint

P Roversi, L Marti, AT Caputo… - Proceedings of the …, 2017 - National Acad Sciences
Glycoproteins traversing the eukaryotic secretory pathway begin life in the endoplasmic
reticulum (ER), where their folding is surveyed by the 170-kDa UDP-glucose: glycoprotein …