Detergent-free isolation of membrane proteins and strategies to study them in a near-native membrane environment

B Krishnarjuna, A Ramamoorthy - Biomolecules, 2022 - mdpi.com
Atomic-resolution structural studies of membrane-associated proteins and peptides in a
membrane environment are important to fully understand their biological function and the …

A structural explanation for the low effectiveness of the seasonal influenza H3N2 vaccine

NC Wu, SJ Zost, AJ Thompson, D Oyen… - PLoS …, 2017 - journals.plos.org
The effectiveness of the annual influenza vaccine has declined in recent years, especially
for the H3N2 component, and is a concern for global public health. A major cause for this …

Disordered epitopes as peptide vaccines

CA MacRaild, J Seow, SC Das, RS Norton - Peptide Science, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
The development of clinically useful peptide‐based vaccines remains a long‐standing goal.
This review highlights that intrinsically disordered protein antigens, which lack an ordered …

Global diversity and balancing selection of 23 leading Plasmodium falciparum candidate vaccine antigens

MT Naung, E Martin, J Munro, S Mehra… - PLoS Computational …, 2022 - journals.plos.org
Investigation of the diversity of malaria parasite antigens can help prioritize and validate
them as vaccine candidates and identify the most common variants for inclusion in vaccine …

A suite of kinetically superior AEP ligases can cyclise an intrinsically disordered protein

KS Harris, RF Guarino, RS Dissanayake, P Quimbar… - Scientific reports, 2019 - nature.com
Asparaginyl endopeptidases (AEPs) are a class of enzymes commonly associated with
proteolysis in the maturation of seed storage proteins. However, a subset of AEPs work …

Antibody recognition of disordered antigens

CA MacRaild, JS Richards, RF Anders, RS Norton - Structure, 2016 - cell.com
Disordered proteins are important antigens in a range of infectious diseases. Little is known,
however, about the molecular details of recognition of disordered antigens by their cognate …

Insights into the immunological properties of intrinsically disordered malaria proteins using proteome scale predictions

AJ Guy, V Irani, CA MacRaild, RF Anders, RS Norton… - PLoS …, 2015 - journals.plos.org
Malaria remains a significant global health burden. The development of an effective malaria
vaccine remains as a major challenge with the potential to significantly reduce morbidity and …

Optimization of a Plasmodium falciparum circumsporozoite protein repeat vaccine using the tobacco mosaic virus platform

MD Langowski, FA Khan, AA Bitzer… - Proceedings of the …, 2020 - National Acad Sciences
Plasmodium falciparum vaccine RTS, S/AS01 is based on the major NPNA repeat and the C-
terminal region of the circumsporozoite protein (CSP). RTS, S-induced NPNA-specific …

Disorder‐to‐order transition in PE–PPE proteins of Mycobacterium tuberculosis augments the pro‐pathogen immune response

J Ahmad, M Khubaib, JA Sheikh, R Pancsa… - FEBS Open …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
A growing body of evidence supports the hypothesis that intrinsically disordered proteins
often mediate host–pathogen interactions and modulate host functions for pathogen survival …

Conformational diversity facilitates antibody mutation trajectories and discrimination between foreign and self-antigens

DL Burnett, P Schofield, DB Langley… - Proceedings of the …, 2020 - National Acad Sciences
Conformational diversity and self-cross-reactivity of antigens have been correlated with
evasion from neutralizing antibody responses. We utilized single cell B cell sequencing …