[HTML][HTML] Pore-forming toxins: ancient, but never really out of fashion

MD Peraro, FG Van Der Goot - Nature reviews microbiology, 2016 - nature.com
Pore-forming toxins (PFTs) are virulence factors produced by many pathogenic bacteria and
have long fascinated structural biologists, microbiologists and immunologists. Interestingly …

Bcl-2 family proteins

JC Reed - Oncogene, 1998 - nature.com
Bcl-2 family proteins serve as critical regulators of pathways involved in apoptosis, acting to
either inhibit or promote cell death. Altered expression of these proteins occurs commonly in …

Dead-time free measurement of dipole–dipole interactions between electron spins

M Pannier, S Veit, A Godt, G Jeschke… - Journal of magnetic …, 2011 - Elsevier
A four-pulse version of the pulse double electron–electron resonance (DEER) experiment is
presented, which is designed for the determination of interradical distances on a nanoscopic …

Investigation of structure and dynamics in membrane proteins using site-directed spin labeling

WL Hubbell, C Altenbach - Current opinion in structural biology, 1994 - Elsevier
Site-directed spin labeling has emerged as a powerful method for determining the structure
and topography of proteins. The technique has recently been extended to include time …

Watching proteins move using site-directed spin labeling

WL Hubbell, HS Mchaourab, C Altenbach, MA Lietzow - Structure, 1996 - cell.com
Despite the rapid pace of new protein structure determination by NMR and crystallographic
means, structural problems remain that are generally inaccessible to these powerful …

The synaptic SNARE complex is a parallel four-stranded helical bundle

MA Poirier, W Xiao, JC Macosko, C Chan… - Nature structural …, 1998 - nature.com
The heterotrimeric synaptic soluble N-ethylmaleimide-sensitive factor attachment protein
receptor (SNARE) complex, consisting of the synaptic vesicle-associated membrane protein …

A collision gradient method to determine the immersion depth of nitroxides in lipid bilayers: application to spin-labeled mutants of bacteriorhodopsin.

C Altenbach, DA Greenhalgh… - Proceedings of the …, 1994 - National Acad Sciences
Ten mutants of bacteriorhodopsin, each containing a single cysteine residue regularly
spaced along helix D and facing the lipid bilayer, were derivatized with a nitroxide spin …

The rheostat in the membrane: BCL-2 family proteins and apoptosis

N Volkmann, FM Marassi, DD Newmeyer… - Cell Death & …, 2014 - nature.com
Apoptosis, a mechanism for programmed cell death, has key roles in human health and
disease. Many signals for cellular life and death are regulated by the BCL-2 family proteins …

Determination of end‐to‐end distances in a series of TEMPO diradicals of up to 2.8 nm length with a new four‐pulse double electron electron resonance experiment

RE Martin, M Pannier, F Diederich… - Angewandte Chemie …, 1998 - Wiley Online Library
A four‐pulse version of the pulsed double electron electron resonance (DEER) experiment
has been applied to a series of TEMPO diradicals with well‐defined interradical distances …

The mechanism of membrane insertion for a cholesterol-dependent cytolysin: a novel paradigm for pore-forming toxins

O Shatursky, AP Heuck, LA Shepard, J Rossjohn… - Cell, 1999 - cell.com
Perfringolysin O (PFO), a water-soluble monomeric cytolysin secreted by pathogenic
Clostridium perfringens, oligomerizes and forms large pores upon encountering cholesterol …