Proteostasis of islet amyloid polypeptide: a molecular perspective of risk factors and protective strategies for type II diabetes

D Milardi, E Gazit, SE Radford, Y Xu… - Chemical …, 2021 - ACS Publications
The possible link between hIAPP accumulation and β-cell death in diabetic patients has
inspired numerous studies focusing on amyloid structures and aggregation pathways of this …

Lipid membrane mimetics in functional and structural studies of integral membrane proteins

S Majeed, AB Ahmad, U Sehar, ER Georgieva - Membranes, 2021 - mdpi.com
Integral membrane proteins (IMPs) fulfill important physiological functions by providing cell–
environment, cell–cell and virus–host communication; nutrients intake; export of toxic …

Conformational coupling across the plasma membrane in activation of the EGF receptor

NF Endres, R Das, AW Smith, A Arkhipov, E Kovacs… - Cell, 2013 - cell.com
How the epidermal growth factor receptor (EGFR) activates is incompletely understood. The
intracellular portion of the receptor is intrinsically active in solution, and to study its …

Fusion peptide of SARS-CoV-2 spike rearranges into a wedge inserted in bilayered micelles

RK Koppisetti, YG Fulcher… - Journal of the American …, 2021 - ACS Publications
The receptor binding and proteolysis of Spike of SARS-CoV-2 release its S2 subunit to
rearrange and catalyze viral-cell fusion. This deploys the fusion peptide for insertion into the …

Supported lipid bilayer formation: beyond vesicle fusion

JA Jackman, NJ Cho - Langmuir, 2020 - ACS Publications
Supported lipid bilayers (SLBs) are cell-membrane-mimicking platforms that can be formed
on solid surfaces and integrated with a wide range of surface-sensitive measurement …

[HTML][HTML] Regulation of T cell receptor activation by dynamic membrane binding of the CD3ɛ cytoplasmic tyrosine-based motif

C Xu, E Gagnon, ME Call, JR Schnell, CD Schwieters… - Cell, 2008 - cell.com
Many immune system receptors signal through cytoplasmic tyrosine-based motifs (ITAMs),
but how receptor ligation results in ITAM phosphorylation remains unknown. Live-cell …

Structural basis for membrane anchoring of HIV-1 envelope spike

J Dev, D Park, Q Fu, J Chen, HJ Ha, F Ghantous… - Science, 2016 - science.org
HIV-1 envelope spike (Env) is a type I membrane protein that mediates viral entry. We used
nuclear magnetic resonance to determine an atomic structure of the transmembrane (TM) …

Higher-order clustering of the transmembrane anchor of DR5 drives signaling

L Pan, TM Fu, W Zhao, L Zhao, W Chen, C Qiu, W Liu… - Cell, 2019 - cell.com
Receptor clustering on the cell membrane is critical in the signaling of many
immunoreceptors, and this mechanism has previously been attributed to the extracellular …

Interactions of surfactants with lipid membranes

H Heerklotz - Quarterly reviews of biophysics, 2008 - cambridge.org
Surfactants are surface-active, amphiphilic compounds that are water-soluble in the micro-to
millimolar range, and self-assemble to form micelles or other aggregates above a critical …

Residual dipolar couplings in structure determination of biomolecules

JH Prestegard, CM Bougault, AI Kishore - Chemical reviews, 2004 - ACS Publications
The use of residual dipolar couplings (RDCs) in the analysis of biomolecular structure and
dynamics has expanded rapidly since its potential as a source of structural information on …