Simon Erlendsson, Kamil Gotfryd ... Claus J Loland
Solid state NMR is unable to detect any association of substrate to the second binding site, S2, in the extracellular vestibule of the Neurotransmitter:Sodium Symporter LeuT.
Daniel K Weber, U Venkateswara Reddy ... Gianluigi Veglia
A spectroscopic analysis of the sarco(endo)plasmic reticulum Ca2+-ATPase (SERCA)-phospholamban membrane complex reveals the importance of the relative transmembrane orientation for inhibition or activation of the ATPase.
Nicolai Tidemand Johansen, Marta Bonaccorsi ... Lise Arleth
The Mg2+-channel CorA explores a wide conformational landscape of non-conducting states irrespective of bound Mg2+, but only in abscence of Mg2+, conducting states become accessible due to increased backbone dynamics.
Using a combination of all-atom molecular simulation and continuum membrane mechanics, M2 channels from influenza are shown to be stabilized in negative Gaussian curvature regions, such as the neck of budding viral particles, only in C2-symmetric conformations.
B-type natriuretic peptide (BNP) modulates itch via BNP-NPRC pathway by enhancing NMB-NMBR signaling, which is independently of gastrin-releasing peptide (GRP)-GRPR signaling in the spinal cord.
Conservative mutations within a secondary active transport protein influenced the conformational equilibrium probed using NMR spectroscopy which correlated to the functional output in vivo.
Nuclear pore complex mimics based on solid-state nanopores show significant selectivity below a diameter of 55 nm, which decreases gradually for larger pore diameters.
Ricardo Guerrero-Ferreira, Nicholas MI Taylor ... Henning Stahlberg
The alpha-synuclein fibril structure reported here buries residues 50-57 at the interface between its two protofilaments, suggesting that familial Parkinson's disease associated mutations in these residues lead to a structure not compatible with the one presented here.