Multiscale simulations of biological membranes: the challenge to understand biological phenomena in a living substance

G Enkavi, M Javanainen, W Kulig, T Róg… - Chemical …, 2019 - ACS Publications
Biological membranes are tricky to investigate. They are complex in terms of molecular
composition and structure, functional over a wide range of time scales, and characterized by …

Endoplasmic reticulum stress activates human IRE1α through reversible assembly of inactive dimers into small oligomers

V Belyy, I Zuazo-Gaztelu, A Alamban, A Ashkenazi… - Elife, 2022 - elifesciences.org
Protein folding homeostasis in the endoplasmic reticulum (ER) is regulated by a signaling
network, termed the unfolded protein response (UPR). Inositol-requiring enzyme 1 (IRE1) is …

Surfaceome nanoscale organization and extracellular interaction networks

D Bausch-Fluck, ES Milani, B Wollscheid - Current opinion in chemical …, 2019 - Elsevier
Highlights•The surfaceome is a complex signaling gateway enabling extracellular
interactions.•Surfaceome PPI's are modulated by proteoform composition, abundance and …

What's the defect? Using mass defects to study oligomerization of membrane proteins and peptides in nanodiscs with native mass spectrometry

JA Townsend, MT Marty - Methods, 2023 - Elsevier
Many membrane proteins form functional complexes that are either homo-or hetero-
oligomeric. However, it is challenging to characterize membrane protein oligomerization in …

Imaging strategies for receptor tyrosine kinase dimers in living cells

X Zhang, J Yin, W Pan, Y Li, N Li, B Tang - Analytical and Bioanalytical …, 2023 - Springer
Receptor tyrosine kinases (RTKs) are the essential regulators of cell signal transduction
pathways and play important roles in biological processes. RTK dimerization is generally …

Single-molecule fluorescence vistas of how lipids regulate membrane proteins

AE Ward, Y Ye, JA Schuster, S Wei… - Biochemical Society …, 2021 - portlandpress.com
The study of membrane proteins is undergoing a golden era, and we are gaining
unprecedented knowledge on how this key group of proteins works. However, we still have …

Epidermal growth factor receptor mutations in breast Cancer: Therapeutic challenges and way forward

SR Shetty, T Kar, A Das - Bioorganic Chemistry, 2024 - Elsevier
Epidermal growth factor receptor (EGFR) is a receptor tyrosine kinase (RTK) that is
upregulated in aggressive triple-negative breast cancer (TNBC). Ligands such as EGF, TGF …

Connecting the ends: signaling via receptor tyrosine kinases and cytoskeletal degradation in neurodegeneration

P Sengupta, R Das, P Majumder… - Exploration of …, 2024 - explorationpub.com
Receptor tyrosine kinases (RTKs) are known to perform versatile roles in disease
landscapes, which determine the fate of the cell. Although much has been discussed from …

Homo‐molecular Fluorescence Complementation for Direct Visualization of Receptor Oligomerization in Living Cells

D Song, Y Jung - Angewandte Chemie International Edition, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
Cell surface receptor oligomerization is an attractive target process for drug screening.
However, simple but reliable (and thus high‐throughput) visualization methods for receptor …

Development of a universal method for the measurement of binding affinities of antibody drugs towards a living cell based on AFM force spectroscopy

H Kim, M Hoshi, M Iijima, S Kuroda, C Nakamura - Analytical Methods, 2020 - pubs.rsc.org
A universal method to measure the binding affinities of antibody drugs towards their targets
on the surface of living cells was developed based on atomic force microscopy (AFM) …