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Nuclear pore

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Thermodynamic bounds on the ultra- and infra-affinity of Hsp70 for its substrates

The 70 kDa Heat Shock Proteins Hsp70 have several essential functions in living systems, such as protecting proteins against protein aggregation, assisting protein folding, remodeling protein complexes and driving the translocation into organelles. These f ...

2017

Revealing Assembly of a Pore-Forming Complex Using Single-Cell Kinetic Analysis and Modeling

Françoise Gisou van der Goot Grunberg, Felix Naef, Mirko Bischofberger, Daniel Boss, Mircea Ioan Iacovache

Many biological processes depend on the sequential assembly of protein complexes. However, studying the kinetics of such processes by direct methods is often not feasible. As an important class of such protein complexes, pore-forming toxins start their jou ...

Elsevier2016

Dynein Transmits Polarized Actomyosin Cortical Flows to Promote Centrosome Separation

Pierre Gönczy, Alessandro De Simone

The two centrosomes present at the onset of mitosis must separate in a timely and accurate fashion to ensure proper bipolar spindle assembly. The minus-end-directed motor dynein plays a pivotal role in centrosome separation, but the underlying mechanisms r ...

Elsevier2016

Mechanisms of centrosome separation in C. elegans

Alessandro De Simone

Centrosomes are the major microtubule organizing centers of animal cells. The two centrosomes present at the onset of mitosis must separate in a timely fashion along the nuclear envelope to ensure proper bipolar spindle assembly and thus genome stability. ...

EPFL2016

Total Synthesis of Fijiolide A via an Atropselective Paracyclophane Formation

Christoph Heinz

The natural product fijiolide A is a secondary metabolite isolated from a marine-derived actinomycete of the genus Nocardiopsis. It displays inhibitory activity against TNF-Î±-induced activation of NFÎºB, an important transcription factor and a potential t ...

EPFL2016

Structural and functional characterization of the mycobacterial ESX-1 secretion system

Ye Lou

Human tuberculosis (TB) is a frequently fatal lung disease mostly caused by Mycobacterium tuberculosis (M. tb), a slow-growing intracellular pathogen. M. tb utilizes the ESX-1 secretion system, classified as type VII, to export the virulence factors needed ...

EPFL2016

Cryo-EM structure of aerolysin variants reveals a novel protein fold and the pore-formation process

Françoise Gisou van der Goot Grunberg, Matteo Dal Peraro, Mircea Ioan Iacovache, Nuria Cirauqui Diaz

Owing to their pathogenical role and unique ability to exist both as soluble proteins and transmembrane complexes, pore-forming toxins (PFTs) have been a focus of microbiologists and structural biologists for decades. PFTs are generally secreted as water-s ...

Nature Publishing Group2016

Pore-forming toxins: ancient, but never really out of fashion

Françoise Gisou van der Goot Grunberg, Matteo Dal Peraro

Pore-forming toxins (PFTs) are virulence factors produced by many pathogenic bacteria and have long fascinated structural biologists, microbiologists and immunologists. Interestingly, pore-forming proteins with remarkably similar structures to PFTs are fou ...

Nature Publishing Group2016

GSDMD membrane pore formation constitutes the mechanism of pyroptotic cell death

Henning Paul-Julius Stahlberg

Pyroptosis is a lytic type of cell death that is initiated by inflammatory caspases. These caspases are activated within multi-protein inflammasome complexes that assemble in response to pathogens and endogenous danger signals. Pyroptotic cell death has be ...

EMBO2016

Importin-beta modulates the permeability of the nuclear pore complex in a Ran-dependent manner

Michael Graf

Soluble karyopherins of the importin-beta (imp beta) family use RanGTP to transport cargos directionally through the nuclear pore complex (NPC). Whether imp beta or RanGTP regulate the permeability of the NPC itself has been unknown. In this study, we iden ...

Elife Sciences Publications Ltd2015

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