189 results found
    1. Cell Biology

    An amphipathic helix in Brl1 is required for nuclear pore complex biogenesis in S. cerevisiae

    Annemarie Kralt, Matthias Wojtynek ... Karsten Weis
    Genetic, proteomic, and structural analyses provide insight into the role of Brl1 during nuclear pore complex biogenesis, suggesting a function in the fusion of outer and inner nuclear membranes.
    1. Structural Biology and Molecular Biophysics
    2. Cell Biology

    The brown adipocyte protein CIDEA promotes lipid droplet fusion via a phosphatidic acid-binding amphipathic helix

    David Barneda, Joan Planas-Iglesias ... Mark Christian
    An interaction between the brown fat protein CIDEA and the phospholipid phosphatidic acid is vital for the expansion of intracellular lipid droplets for energy storage.
    1. Cell Biology
    2. Physics of Living Systems

    Exceptional stability of a perilipin on lipid droplets depends on its polar residues, suggesting multimeric assembly

    Manuel Giménez-Andrés, Tadej Emeršič ... Alenka Čopič
    The amphipathic helix of perilipin 4 relies on the organization of its polar residues to form a remarkably immobile and stable protein layer on the surface of lipid droplets.
    1. Cell Biology
    2. Structural Biology and Molecular Biophysics

    Near-atomic structures of the BBSome reveal the basis for BBSome activation and binding to GPCR cargoes

    Shuang Yang, Kriti Bahl ... Maxence V Nachury
    Membrane recruitment of BBSome is coupled to a conformational change, and interaction of the BBSome with GPCR cargoes depends on the GPCRs releasing their amphipathic helix 8 from the membrane.
    1. Structural Biology and Molecular Biophysics
    2. Cell Biology

    The Sec7 N-terminal regulatory domains facilitate membrane-proximal activation of the Arf1 GTPase

    Brian C Richardson, Steve L Halaby ... J Christopher Fromme
    A new structure reveals two Arf-GEF regulatory domains form a single structural unit that stimulates Arf-GEF activity.
    1. Structural Biology and Molecular Biophysics
    2. Cell Biology

    9Å structure of the COPI coat reveals that the Arf1 GTPase occupies two contrasting molecular environments

    Svetlana O Dodonova, Patrick Aderhold ... John A G Briggs
    A molecular model of the assembled COPI coat, determined by cryo-electron tomography of an in vitro reconstituted budding reaction, reveals details of interactions mediating coat assembly and shows the binding site of ArfGAP2.
    1. Biochemistry and Chemical Biology
    2. Structural Biology and Molecular Biophysics

    Structures of the scanning and engaged states of the mammalian SRP-ribosome complex

    Rebecca M Voorhees, Ramanujan S Hegde
    Structures of the signal recognition particle before and after it captures a transmembrane domain suggest how it chooses, engages, and shields its clients during membrane protein targeting to the endoplasmic reticulum.
    1. Structural Biology and Molecular Biophysics

    Structure-guided mutagenesis of OSCAs reveals differential activation to mechanical stimuli

    Sebastian Jojoa-Cruz, Adrienne E Dubin ... Andrew B Ward
    Structural comparison and electrophysiology of OSCA channels shed light on potential structural features influencing response to poke stimulus.
    1. Evolutionary Biology
    2. Immunology and Inflammation

    Homology-guided identification of a conserved motif linking the antiviral functions of IFITM3 to its oligomeric state

    Kazi Rahman, Charles A Coomer ... Alex A Compton
    A disease-associated polymorphism in a related protein that regulates neurotransmitter release reveals that antiviral protein IFITM3 forms oligomers to rigidify membranes and inhibit virus fusion with cells.
    1. Neuroscience

    Key determinants of the dual clamp/activator function of Complexin

    Mazen Makke, Alejandro Pastor-Ruiz ... Dieter Bruns
    The amphipathic helix at the C-terminus of Complexin II prevents premature secretion, whereas its N-terminal domain regulates mechanisms which are governed by the forward rate of Ca2+ binding to Synaptotagmin I.

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