The MRE11–RAD50–NBS1 complex conducts the orchestration of damage signaling and outcomes to stress in DNA replication and repair

A Syed, JA Tainer - Annual review of biochemistry, 2018 - annualreviews.org
Genomic instability in disease and its fidelity in health depend on the DNA damage
response (DDR), regulated in part from the complex of meiotic recombination 11 homolog 1 …

Evolving SAXS versatility: solution X-ray scattering for macromolecular architecture, functional landscapes, and integrative structural biology

CA Brosey, JA Tainer - Current opinion in structural biology, 2019 - Elsevier
Highlights•SAXS captures architecture and dynamics to elucidate molecular
ensembles.•SAXS advances now probe key thermodynamic and kinetic properties of …

Accurate SAXS profile computation and its assessment by contrast variation experiments

D Schneidman-Duhovny, M Hammel, JA Tainer… - Biophysical journal, 2013 - cell.com
A major challenge in structural biology is to characterize structures of proteins and their
assemblies in solution. At low resolution, such a characterization may be achieved by small …

Exceptionally widespread nanomachines composed of type IV pilins: the prokaryotic Swiss Army knives

JL Berry, V Pelicic - FEMS microbiology reviews, 2015 - academic.oup.com
Prokaryotes have engineered sophisticated surface nanomachines that have allowed them
to colonize Earth and thrive even in extreme environments. Filamentous machineries …

Type IV Pili: dynamic bacterial nanomachines

CK Ellison, GB Whitfield, YV Brun - FEMS Microbiology Reviews, 2022 - academic.oup.com
Bacteria and archaea rely on appendages called type IV pili (T4P) to participate in diverse
behaviors including surface sensing, biofilm formation, virulence, protein secretion and …

The structure and mechanism of the bacterial type II secretion system

S Naskar, M Hohl, M Tassinari… - Molecular …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
The type II secretion system (T2SS) is a multi‐protein complex used by many bacteria to
move substrates across their cell membrane. Substrates released into the environment …

Bidirectional pilus processing in the Tad pilus system motor CpaF

M Hohl, EJ Banks, MP Manley, TBK Le… - Nature …, 2024 - nature.com
The bacterial tight adherence pilus system (TadPS) assembles surface pili essential for
adhesion and colonisation in many human pathogens. Pilus dynamics are powered by the …

The archaellum: an update on the unique archaeal motility structure

SV Albers, KF Jarrell - Trends in microbiology, 2018 - cell.com
Each of the three domains of life exhibits a unique motility structure: while Bacteria use
flagella, Eukarya employ cilia, and Archaea swim using archaella. Since the new name for …

The archaellum: how Archaea swim

SV Albers, KF Jarrell - Frontiers in Microbiology, 2015 - frontiersin.org
Recent studies on archaeal motility have shown that the archaeal motility structure is unique
in several aspects. Although it fulfills the same swimming function as the bacterial flagellum …

The molecular mechanism of the type IVa pilus motors

M McCallum, S Tammam, A Khan, LL Burrows… - Nature …, 2017 - nature.com
Type IVa pili are protein filaments essential for virulence in many bacterial pathogens; they
extend and retract from the surface of bacterial cells to pull the bacteria forward. The motor …