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Watching and weighting--chaperone complexes in actionCarol V Robinson
Department of Chemistry, University of Cambridge, Lensfield Road, Cambridge, CB2 1EW, UK
Nat Methods 2:331-2. 2005
The molecular sociology of the cellCarol V Robinson
Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road, University of Cambridge, Cambridge CB2 1EW, UK
Nature 450:973-82. 2007..With these structures in hand, researchers will be poised to use cryo-electron tomography to view protein complexes in action within cells, providing unprecedented insights into protein-interaction networks...
Protein complexes take flightCarol V Robinson
Mass Spectrometry, University Chemical Laboratory, University of Cambridge, Lensfield Road, Cambridge, CB2 1EW, UK
Nat Struct Biol 9:505-6. 2002
The co-chaperone p23 arrests the Hsp90 ATPase cycle to trap client proteinsStephen H McLaughlin
Cambridge University, Chemical Laboratory, Lensfield Road, Cambridge CB2 1EW, UK
J Mol Biol 356:746-58. 2006..We propose a model where the role of p23 is to lock individual subunits of Hsp90 in an ATP-dependent conformational state that has a high affinity for client proteins...
Subunit architecture of intact protein complexes from mass spectrometry and homology modelingThomas Taverner
Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road, University of Cambridge, Cambridge CB2 1EW, UK
Acc Chem Res 41:617-27. 2008..Overall therefore this mass spectrometry and homology modeling approach has given significant insight into the structure of two previously intractable protein complexes and as such has broad application in structural biology...
"Zn-link": a metal-sharing interface that organizes the quaternary structure and catalytic site of the endoribonuclease, RNase EAnastasia J Callaghan
Department of Biochemistry, University of Cambridge, Cambridge CB2 1GA, United Kingdom
Biochemistry 44:4667-75. 2005..One or both interfaces organize the active site, which is distinct from the primary site of RNA binding...
Studies of the RNA degradosome-organizing domain of the Escherichia coli ribonuclease RNase EAnastasia J Callaghan
Department of Biochemistry, University of Cambridge, 80 Tennis Court Road, Cambridge CB2 1GA, UK
J Mol Biol 340:965-79. 2004..The carboxy-terminal domain of RNase E may thus act as a flexible tether of the degradosome components. The implications of these and other observations for the organization of the RNA degradosome are discussed...
Mass spectrometry of intact V-type ATPases reveals bound lipids and the effects of nucleotide bindingMin Zhou
Department of Chemistry, Physical and Theoretical Chemistry Laboratory, University of Oxford, Oxford OX1 3QZ, UK
Science 334:380-5. 2011..Consequently, we can link specific lipid and nucleotide binding with distinct regulatory roles...
Impact of the native-state stability of human lysozyme variants on protein secretion by Pichia pastorisJanet R Kumita
Department of Chemistry, University of Cambridge, UK
FEBS J 273:711-20. 2006..These findings indicate that a complex interplay between reduced native-state stability, lower secretion levels, and protein aggregation propensity influences the types of mutation that give rise to familial forms of amyloid disease...
Quaternary dynamics and plasticity underlie small heat shock protein chaperone functionFlorian Stengel
Department of Chemistry, University of Cambridge, Lensfield Road, Cambridge CB2 1EW, United Kingdom
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 107:2007-12. 2010..This extends the paradigm that intrinsic dynamics are crucial to protein function to include equilibrium fluctuations in quaternary structure, and suggests they are integral to the sHSPs' role in the cellular protein homeostasis network...
Micelles protect membrane complexes from solution to vacuumNelson P Barrera
Department of Chemistry, University of Cambridge, Lensfield Road, Cambridge CB21EW, UK
Science 321:243-6. 2008....
A non-natural variant of human lysozyme (I59T) mimics the in vitro behaviour of the I56T variant that is responsible for a form of familial amyloidosisChristine L Hagan
Department of Chemistry, University of Cambridge, Lensfield Road, Cambridge CB2 1EW, UK
Protein Eng Des Sel 23:499-506. 2010..Moreover, we demonstrate that the I59T variant can readily form fibrils in vitro, similar in nature to those of the amyloidogenic I56T variant, under significantly milder conditions than are needed for the wild-type protein...
Reduced global cooperativity is a common feature underlying the amyloidogenicity of pathogenic lysozyme mutationsMireille Dumoulin
Department of Chemistry, University of Cambridge, Lensfield Road, Cambridge CB2 1EW, UK
J Mol Biol 346:773-88. 2005....
L55P transthyretin accelerates subunit exchange and leads to rapid formation of hybrid tetramersCatherine A Keetch
Department of Chemistry, University of Cambridge, Cambridge CB2 1EW, United Kingdom
J Biol Chem 280:41667-74. 2005..This implies interactions between the two proteins that accelerate the formation of hybrid tetramers, a result with important implications for transthyretin amyloidosis...
Subunit exchange of polydisperse proteins: mass spectrometry reveals consequences of alphaA-crystallin truncationJ Andrew Aquilina
Department of Chemistry, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, CB2 1EW, United Kingdom
J Biol Chem 280:14485-91. 2005....
Small heat shock protein activity is regulated by variable oligomeric substructureJustin L P Benesch
Department of Chemistry, University of Cambridge, Cambridge CB2 1EW, United Kingdom
J Biol Chem 283:28513-7. 2008..We propose that a bias toward monomeric substructure is responsible for the aberrant chaperone behavior associated with the alpha-crystallins in protein deposition diseases...
Heptameric (L12)6/L10 rather than canonical pentameric complexes are found by tandem MS of intact ribosomes from thermophilic bacteriaLeopold L Ilag
Department of Chemistry, University of Cambridge, Lensfield Road, Cambridge CB2 1EW, United Kingdom
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 102:8192-7. 2005....
Integrating ion mobility mass spectrometry with molecular modelling to determine the architecture of multiprotein complexesArgyris Politis
Department of Chemistry, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom
PLoS ONE 5:e12080. 2010....
Characterization of symmetric complexes of nerve growth factor and the ectodomain of the pan-neurotrophin receptor, p75NTRJukka P Aurikko
Department of Biochemistry, University of Cambridge, Cambridge CB2 1GA, United Kingdom
J Biol Chem 280:33453-60. 2005..Molecular models of the 2:2 p75(NTR) x NGF complex based on these data are not consistent with the further assembly of either symmetric (2:2:2) or asymmetric (2:2:1) ternary p75(NTR) x NGF x TrkA complexes...
Tandem mass spectrometry reveals the quaternary organization of macromolecular assembliesJustin L P Benesch
Department of Chemistry, University of Cambridge, Lensfield Road, Cambridge, CB2 1EW, United Kingdom
Chem Biol 13:597-605. 2006..Using this basis of understanding, we highlight differences in the dissociation pathways of three related macromolecular assemblies and show how these are a direct consequence of changes in both local and global oligomeric organization...
The extracellular chaperone clusterin potently inhibits human lysozyme amyloid formation by interacting with prefibrillar speciesJanet R Kumita
Department of Chemistry, University of Cambridge, Cambridge CB2 1EW, UK
J Mol Biol 369:157-67. 2007....
Conformational dynamics of the molecular chaperone Hsp90 in complexes with a co-chaperone and anticancer drugsJonathan J Phillips
Cambridge University Chemical Laboratory, University of Cambridge, Lensfield Road, Cambridge, CB2 1EW, UK Department of Biochemistry, University of Cambridge, Old Addenbrookes Site, 80 Tennis Court Road, Cambridge, CB2 1GA, UK
J Mol Biol 372:1189-203. 2007..For the inhibitors, differences in the interface between the middle domain and the C-terminal domain were also observed. These data provide important insight into the structure of the biologically active form of the protein...
Polypyrimidine tract-binding protein stimulates the poliovirus IRES by modulating eIF4G bindingPanagiota Kafasla
Department of Biochemistry, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK
EMBO J 29:3710-22. 2010....
Isoforms of U1-70k control subunit dynamics in the human spliceosomal U1 snRNPHelena Hernandez
Department of Chemistry, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, United Kingdom
PLoS ONE 4:e7202. 2009..These results therefore provide the important functional link between proteomics and structure as well as insight into the dynamic quaternary structure of the native U1 snRNP important for its function...
Rationalising lysozyme amyloidosis: insights from the structure and solution dynamics of T70N lysozymeRussell J K Johnson
Department of Chemistry, University of Cambridge, Lensfield Road, Cambridge CB2 1EW, UK
J Mol Biol 352:823-36. 2005....
Structure of a Blinkin-BUBR1 complex reveals an interaction crucial for kinetochore-mitotic checkpoint regulation via an unanticipated binding SiteVictor M Bolanos-Garcia
Department of Biochemistry, University of Cambridge, Cambridge CB2 1GA, UK
Structure 19:1691-700. 2011..We also show that substitution of several BUBR1 residues engaged in binding Blinkin leads to defects in the SAC, thus providing the first molecular details of the recognition mechanism underlying kinetochore-SAC signaling...
The regulatory protein RraA modulates RNA-binding and helicase activities of the E. coli RNA degradosomeMaria W Górna
Department of Biochemistry, University of Cambridge, Cambridge CB2 1GA, United Kingdom
RNA 16:553-62. 2010..The multidentate interactions of RraA impede the RNA-binding and ribonuclease activities of the degradosome and may result in complex modulation and rerouting of degradosome activity...
Me, my cell, and I: the role of the collision cell in the tandem mass spectrometry of macromoleculesMargaret G McCammon
Cambridge University Chemical Laboratory, Cambridge University, Cambridge, UK
Biotechniques 39:447, 449, 451 passim. 2005
Mass spectrometry reveals the missing links in the assembly pathway of the bacterial 20 S proteasomeMichal Sharon
Department of Chemistry, University of Cambridge, Lensfield Road, Cambridge, CB2 1EW, United Kingdom
J Biol Chem 282:18448-57. 2007..In summary, this study provides evidence for transient intermediates in the assembly pathway and reveals detailed insight into the cleavage sites of the propeptide...
Acetylation of L12 increases interactions in the Escherichia coli ribosomal stalk complexYuliya Gordiyenko
Department of Chemistry, University of Cambridge, Lensfield Road, Cambridge CB2 1EW, UK
J Mol Biol 380:404-14. 2008..5 MDa particle...
Gas-phase unfolding and disassembly reveals stability differences in ligand-bound multiprotein complexesSuk Joon Hyung
Department of Chemistry, University of Cambridge, Lensfield Road, Cambridge CB2 1EW, UK
Chem Biol 16:382-90. 2009..Overall, therefore, our results have implications for small-molecule drug design directed at multiprotein targets...
The quaternary organization and dynamics of the molecular chaperone HSP26 are thermally regulatedJustin L P Benesch
Department of Chemistry, Physical and Theoretical Chemistry Laboratory, Oxford, UK
Chem Biol 17:1008-17. 2010..This is consistent with a conformational change of the oligomers at elevated temperatures which regulates the disassembly rates of this thermally activated protein...
Mass spectrometry defines the stoichiometry of ribosomal stalk complexes across the phylogenetic treeYuliya Gordiyenko
Department of Chemistry, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, United Kingdom
Mol Cell Proteomics 9:1774-83. 2010..Moreover the ratio of pentameric to heptameric stalk complexes changed during the course of cell growth. We consider these differences in stoichiometry within ribosomal stalk complexes in the context of convergent evolution...
Biochemical and structural studies of the interaction of Cdc37 with Hsp90Wei Zhang
Department of Biochemistry, University of Cambridge, Tennis Court Road, Cambridge CB2 1GA, UK
J Mol Biol 340:891-907. 2004....
Evidence for macromolecular protein rings in the absence of bulk waterBrandon T Ruotolo
Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road, University of Cambridge, Cambridge CB2 1EW, UK
Science 310:1658-61. 2005....
The component polypeptide chains of bovine insulin nucleate or inhibit aggregation of the parent protein in a conformation-dependent mannerGlyn L Devlin
Cavendish Laboratory, University of Cambridge, JJ Thomson Avenue, Cambridge CB3 0HE, UK
J Mol Biol 360:497-509. 2006....
Ion mobility mass spectrometry of two tetrameric membrane protein complexes reveals compact structures and differences in stability and packingSheila C Wang
Department of Chemistry, University of Oxford, Oxford OX1 3TA, UK
J Am Chem Soc 132:15468-70. 2010..These results highlight the potential of ion mobility mass spectrometry for characterizing the overall topologies of membrane protein complexes and the structural changes associated with nucleotide, lipid, and drug binding...
Engineering a camelid antibody fragment that binds to the active site of human lysozyme and inhibits its conversion into amyloid fibrilsPak Ho Chan
Department of Chemistry, University of Cambridge, Lensfield Road, Cambridge CB2 1EW, UK
Biochemistry 47:11041-54. 2008..Moreover, this work further demonstrates the unique properties of camelid single-domain antibody fragments as structural probes for studying the mechanism of aggregation and as potential inhibitors of fibril formation...
A single subunit directs the assembly of the Escherichia coli DNA sliding clamp loaderAh Young Park
Department of Chemistry, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK
Structure 18:285-92. 2010..The implications for intracellular assembly of the DNA polymerase III holoenzyme are discussed...
An oligomeric signaling platform formed by the Toll-like receptor signal transducers MyD88 and IRAK-4Precious G Motshwene
Department of Biochemistry, University of Cambridge, Cambridge CB2 1GA, United Kingdom
J Biol Chem 284:25404-11. 2009..Taken together, these findings indicate that TLR activation causes the formation of a highly oligomeric signaling platform analogous to the death-inducing signaling complex of the Fas receptor pathway...
Mass measurements of increased accuracy resolve heterogeneous populations of intact ribosomesAdam R McKay
Department of Chemistry, University of Cambridge, UK
J Am Chem Soc 128:11433-42. 2006..More generally, the results establish a rigorous procedure for accurate mass measurement and spectral analysis of heterogeneous macromolecular assemblies...
Multimers of the fibroblast growth factor (FGF)-FGF receptor-saccharide complex are formed on long oligomers of heparinNicholas J Harmer
Department of Biochemistry, University of Cambridge, 80 Tennis Court Road, Cambridge CB2 1GA, UK
Biochem J 393:741-8. 2006....
Ion mobility-mass spectrometry reveals the influence of subunit packing and charge on the dissociation of multiprotein complexesElisabetta Boeri Erba
University Chemistry Department, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, United Kingdom
Anal Chem 82:9702-10. 2010..This investigation increases our understanding of the factors governing the CID of protein complexes and moves us closer to the goal of obtaining structural information on subunit interactions and packing from gas-phase experiments...
Correlating solution binding and ESI-MS stabilities by incorporating solvation effects in a confined cucurbit[8]uril systemUrs Rauwald
Melville Laboratory for Polymer Synthesis, and Department of Chemistry, University of Cambridge, Lensfield Road, Cambridge CB2 1EW, UK
J Phys Chem B 114:8606-15. 2010..Finally, this treatment enabled us to predict association constants that were in excellent agreement with measured values, including several highly insoluble guest compounds...
Structural organization of the 19S proteasome lid: insights from MS of intact complexesMichal Sharon
Department of Chemistry, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, United Kingdom
PLoS Biol 4:e267. 2006..More generally, the results highlight the potential of mass spectrometry to add crucial insight into the structural organization of an endogenous, wild-type complex...
20S proteasomes have the potential to keep substrates in store for continual degradationMichal Sharon
Department of Chemistry, University of Cambridge, Lensfield Road, Cambridge CB2 1EW, United Kingdom
J Biol Chem 281:9569-75. 2006....
Stoichiometry and localization of the stator subunits E and G in Thermus thermophilus H+-ATPase/synthaseOlga Esteban
Laboratory of Molecular Biology, Medical Research Council, Hills Road, Cambridge, United Kingdom
J Biol Chem 283:2595-603. 2008..Both approaches could be applicable to the structural analysis of other membrane protein complexes...
Heteronuclear NMR investigations of dynamic regions of intact Escherichia coli ribosomesJohn Christodoulou
Department of Chemistry, University of Cambridge, Lensfield Road, Cambridge CB2 1EW, United Kingdom
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 101:10949-54. 2004....
Ion mobility-mass spectrometry reveals long-lived, unfolded intermediates in the dissociation of protein complexesBrandon T Ruotolo
Cambridge University, Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road, Cambridge, CB2 1EW, UK
Angew Chem Int Ed Engl 46:8001-4. 2007
Separating and visualising protein assemblies by means of preparative mass spectrometry and microscopyJustin L P Benesch
Department of Chemistry, University of Cambridge, Lensfield Road, Cambridge CB2 1EW, UK
J Struct Biol 172:161-8. 2010....
Structural basis for the inhibition of activin signalling by follistatinAdrian E Harrington
Department of Biochemistry, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK
EMBO J 25:1035-45. 2006..The structure provides a detailed description of the inhibitory mechanism and gives insights into interactions of follistatin with other TGF-beta family proteins...
The flight of macromolecular complexes in a mass spectrometerFrank Sobott
Department of Chemistry, University of Cambridge, Lensfield Road, Cambridge CB2 1EW, UK
Philos Transact A Math Phys Eng Sci 363:379-89; discussion 389-91. 2005..Overall, therefore, we show that mass spectrometry used in this way is capable of addressing features of the energy landscape not readily accessed by traditional structural biology approaches...
Characterisation of serpin polymers in vitro and in vivoDidier Belorgey
Dept of Medicine, University of Cambridge, Cambridge Institute for Medical Research, Wellcome Trust MRC Building, Hills Road, Cambridge CB2 0XY, UK
Methods 53:255-66. 2011..The characterisation of the pathological polymers requires heating of the folded protein or alternatively the assessment of ordered polymers from cell and animal models of disease or from the tissues of humans who carry the mutation...
The role of mass spectrometry in structure elucidation of dynamic protein complexesMichal Sharon
Department of Chemistry, University of Cambridge, Cambridge CB2 1EW, United Kingdom
Annu Rev Biochem 76:167-93. 2007..Moreover, recent successes in revealing the overall subunit architecture of complexes are set to promote MS from a complementary approach to a structural biology tool in its own right...
Non-homologous end-joining partners in a helical dance: structural studies of XLF-XRCC4 interactionsQian Wu
Department of Biochemistry, University of Cambridge, Tennis Court Road, Cambridge CB2 1GA, UK
Biochem Soc Trans 39:1387-92, suppl 2 p following 1392. 2011....
Protein complexes in the gas phase: technology for structural genomics and proteomicsJustin L P Benesch
Department of Chemistry, University of Cambridge, Lensfield Road, Cambridge CB2 1EW, UK
Chem Rev 107:3544-67. 2007
Evidence for micellar structure in the gas phaseMichal Sharon
Department of Chemistry, University of Cambridge, Lensfield Road, Cambridge CB2 1EW, UK
J Am Chem Soc 129:8740-6. 2007..Overall, therefore, our results show that the solution-phase orientation of surfactants is preserved during electrospray and are consistent with interactions being maintained between surfactants and an encapsulated protein...
Structural insight into the mechanism of activation of the Toll receptor by the dimeric ligand SpätzleMonique Gangloff
Department of Biochemistry, Cambridge University, Cambridge, UK
J Biol Chem 283:14629-35. 2008..The unexpected 2:2 complex was confirmed by mass spectrometry under native conditions. These results suggest that activation of Toll is an allosteric mechanism induced by an end-on binding mode of its ligand Spz...
Phosphorylation of alphaB-crystallin alters chaperone function through loss of dimeric substructureJ Andrew Aquilina
Department of Chemistry, University of Cambridge, Cambridge CB2 1EW, United Kingdom
J Biol Chem 279:28675-80. 2004....
Alternate dissociation pathways identified in charge-reduced protein complex ionsKevin Pagel
University of Cambridge, Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road, Cambridge, CB2 1EW, UK
Anal Chem 82:5363-72. 2010..Taken together, the results presented highlight the potential of charge state modulation as a method for directing the course of gas-phase dissociation and unfolding of protein complexes...
Site-specific hydrogen exchange of proteins: insights into the structures of amyloidogenic intermediatesZhong-Ping Yao
Department of Chemistry, University of Cambridge, UK
Methods Enzymol 402:389-402. 2005....
The crystal structure of the N-terminal region of BUB1 provides insight into the mechanism of BUB1 recruitment to kinetochoresVictor M Bolanos-Garcia
Department of Biochemistry, University of Cambridge, Cambridge CB2 1GA, UK
Structure 17:105-16. 2009..The structure provides insight into the molecular basis of Blinkin-specific recognition by BUB1 and, on a broader perspective, of the mechanism that mediates kinetochore localization of BUB1 in checkpoint-activated cells...
Quadrupole-time-of-flight mass spectrometer modified for higher-energy dissociation reduces protein assemblies to peptide fragmentsJustin L P Benesch
Department of Chemistry, University of Cambridge, UK
Anal Chem 81:1270-4. 2009....
Mass spectrometry of intact ribosomesHortense Videler
The University Chemical Laboratory, Lensfield Road, Cambridge CB2 1EW, UK
FEBS Lett 579:943-7. 2005..We also describe how improvements in technology and understanding have widened the scope of our research and lead to dramatic improvements in quality and information available from spectra of intact ribosomes...
Mass spectrometry of ribosomes from Saccharomyces cerevisiae: implications for assembly of the stalk complexCharlotte L Hanson
Department of Chemistry, University of Cambridge, Lensfield Road, Cambridge CB2 1EW, United Kingdom
J Biol Chem 279:42750-7. 2004..This implies that assembly of the stalk complex is not governed solely by interactions with P0 but is a cooperative process involving binding to partner proteins for additional stability on the ribosome...
Real-time monitoring of protein complexes reveals their quaternary organization and dynamicsAlexander J Painter
Department of Chemistry, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, CB2 1EW, United Kingdom
Chem Biol 15:246-53. 2008..Furthermore, we propose that the approach used here is applicable to a range of nonequilibrium systems and is capable of providing both structural and dynamical information necessary for functional genomics...
Mass spectrometry of membrane transporters reveals subunit stoichiometry and interactionsNelson P Barrera
Department of Chemistry, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK
Nat Methods 6:585-7. 2009..This enabled us to characterize both subunit stoichiometry and lipid binding in 4 membrane protein complexes...
Activation of ubiquitin ligase SCF(Skp2) by Cks1: insights from hydrogen exchange mass spectrometryZhong ping Yao
Department of Chemistry, University of Cambridge, Lensfield Road, Cambridge CB2 1EW, UK
J Mol Biol 363:673-86. 2006....
Metal-dependent folding and stability of nuclear hormone receptor DNA-binding domainsLieh Yoon Low
Department of Biochemistry, University of Cambridge, 80 Tennis Court Road, Cambridge CB2 1GA, UK
J Mol Biol 319:87-106. 2002..The comparatively compact shapes of the denatured and apo forms may explain, in part, the marginal stability of the native fold...
Quaternary structure and catalytic activity of the Escherichia coli ribonuclease E amino-terminal catalytic domainAnastasia J Callaghan
Department of Biochemistry, University of Cambridge, 80 Tennis Court Road, Cambridge CB2 1GA, UK
Biochemistry 42:13848-55. 2003..These observations have implications for the structure and function of the RNase E/RNase G ribonuclease family and for the assembly of the E. coli RNA degradosome, in which RNase E is the central component...
Towards a resolution of the stoichiometry of the fibroblast growth factor (FGF)-FGF receptor-heparin complexNicholas J Harmer
Department of Biochemistry, University of Cambridge, 80 Tennis Court Road, Cambridge CB2 1GA, UK
J Mol Biol 339:821-34. 2004....
Assembly reflects evolution of protein complexesEmmanuel D Levy
MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology, Hills Road, Cambridge CB2 2QH, UK
Nature 453:1262-5. 2008..Our model of self-assembly allows reliable prediction of evolution and assembly of a complex solely from its crystal structure...
Structures of SAS-6 suggest its organization in centriolesMark van Breugel
Medical Research Council Laboratory of Molecular Biology MRC LMB, Hills Road, Cambridge, UK
Science 331:1196-9. 2011..Thus, these interactions are probably essential to the structural organization of cartwheel centers...
Ion mobility-mass spectrometry analysis of large protein complexesBrandon T Ruotolo
Department of Chemistry, University of Cambridge, Lensfield Road, Cambridge CB2 1EW, UK
Nat Protoc 3:1139-52. 2008..The protocol also covers basic instrument settings and best practices for both observation and detection of large noncovalent protein complexes by ion mobility-mass spectrometry...
Protein complexes gain momentumFrank Sobott
Cambridge University Chemical Laboratory, Lensfield Road, UK
Curr Opin Struct Biol 12:729-34. 2002....
Phospholipid complexation and association with apolipoprotein C-II: insights from mass spectrometryCharlotte L Hanson
University Chemistry Department, University of Cambridge, Cambridge CB2 1EW, UK
Biophys J 85:3802-12. 2003....
Observation of sequence specificity in the seeding of protein amyloid fibrilsMark R H Krebs
Department of Chemistry, University of Cambridge, Lensfield Road, Cambridge CB2 1EW, UK
Protein Sci 13:1933-8. 2004..In addition, it is consistent with the observation of a single dominant type of protein in the deposits associated with each form of amyloid disease...
A camelid antibody fragment inhibits the formation of amyloid fibrils by human lysozymeMireille Dumoulin
Department of Chemistry, University of Cambridge, Lensfield Road, Cambridge CB2 1EW, UK
Nature 424:783-8. 2003....
Aspects of native proteins are retained in vacuumBrandon T Ruotolo
Department of Chemistry, University of Cambridge, Lensfield Road, Cambridge, UK
Curr Opin Chem Biol 10:402-8. 2006....
Mass spectrometry of macromolecular assemblies: preservation and dissociationJustin L P Benesch
Department of Chemistry, University of Cambridge, Lensfield Road, Cambridge CB2 1EW, UK
Curr Opin Struct Biol 16:245-51. 2006....
Subunit exchange of multimeric protein complexes. Real-time monitoring of subunit exchange between small heat shock proteins by using electrospray mass spectrometryFrank Sobott
Department of Chemistry, Cambridge University, Lensfield Road, Cambridge CB2 1EW, United Kingdom
J Biol Chem 277:38921-9. 2002..More generally, these experiments illustrate a powerful approach for the real-time analysis of the evolution of transient species and their relative populations during the subunit exchange of multimeric protein complexes...
Thermal dissociation of multimeric protein complexes by using nanoelectrospray mass spectrometryJustin L P Benesch
Department of Chemistry, University of Cambridge, Lensfield Road, Cambridge, CB2 1EW, UK
Anal Chem 75:2208-14. 2003..As such, this probe allows the study of the reversible heat-induced changes of noncovalent complexes in a biologically relevant manner...
When proteomics meets structural biologyMin Zhou
Department of Chemistry, Physical and Theoretical Chemistry Laboratory, University of Oxford, South Parks Road, Oxford OX1 3QZ, UK
Trends Biochem Sci 35:522-9. 2010..In this review, we discuss how superimposing proteomics information onto both low-resolution 3D models and high-resolution atomic structures can reveal new insight into function...
Structural change in response to ligand bindingMargaret G McCammon
Cambridge University Chemical Laboratory, Lensfield Road, Cambridge CB2 1EW, UK
Curr Opin Chem Biol 8:60-5. 2004..In this article we review recent applications of MS for selection of ligands and definition of their binding characteristics for individual protein targets through to macromolecular complexes such as ribosomes...
Polydispersity of a mammalian chaperone: mass spectrometry reveals the population of oligomers in alphaB-crystallinJ Andrew Aquilina
Department of Chemistry, Cambridge University, Lensfield Road, Cambridge CB2 1EW, United Kingdom
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 100:10611-6. 2003....
Drug binding revealed by tandem mass spectrometry of a protein-micelle complexLeopold L Ilag
Department of Chemistry, University of Cambridge, Lensfield Road, Cambridge CB2 1EW, UK
J Am Chem Soc 126:14362-3. 2004..Taken together, the results provide direct evidence for drug binding within a relevant gas-phase protein-micelle complex...
Studies of the Escherichia coli Rsd-sigma70 complexLars F Westblade
School of Biosciences, The University of Birmingham, Edgbaston, Birmingham B15 2TT, UK
J Mol Biol 335:685-92. 2004..Alanine scanning and deletion mutagenesis were used to locate regions of sigma(70) that are required for the formation of the Rsd-sigma(70) complex...
Structural insights into the activity of enhancer-binding proteinsMathieu Rappas
Department of Biological Sciences, Imperial College London, London, SW7 2AZ, UK
Science 307:1972-5. 2005..Comparing enhancer-binding structures in different nucleotide states and mutational analysis led us to propose nucleotide-dependent conformational changes that free the loops for association with sigma54...
Regional and segmental flexibility of antibodies in interaction with antigens of different sizeMasayuki Oda
Graduate School of Agriculture, Kyoto Prefectural University, Japan
FEBS J 273:1476-87. 2006..Our results allow us to propose that the Fab arms of B-cell receptors whose Fc regions are immobilized on cell surface have a reduced dynamic range...
Tandem mass spectrometry of intact GroEL-substrate complexes reveals substrate-specific conformational changes in the trans ringEsther van Duijn
Department of Biomolecular Mass Spectrometry, Bijvoet Center for Biomolecular Research and Utrecht Institute for Pharmaceutical Sciences, Utrecht University, The Netherlands
J Am Chem Soc 128:4694-702. 2006....
R120G alphaB-crystallin promotes the unfolding of reduced alpha-lactalbumin and is inherently unstableTeresa M Treweek
Department of Chemistry, University of Wollongong, NSW, Australia
FEBS J 272:711-24. 2005..These characteristics may explain the involvement of R120G alphaB-crystallin with human disease states...
Dodecameric structure of the small heat shock protein Acr1 from Mycobacterium tuberculosisChristopher K Kennaway
School of Crystallography and Institute of Structural Molecular Biology, Birkbeck, University of London, Malet Street, London WC1E 7HX
J Biol Chem 280:33419-25. 2005..Along with the differential regulation of these two proteins, the differences in their quaternary structures demonstrated here supports their distinct functional roles...
The polypyrimidine tract binding protein is a monomerTom P Monie
Division of Cell and Molecular Biology, Imperial College London, London SW7 2AZ, United Kingdom
RNA 11:1803-8. 2005..These findings have implications for the construction of models of PTB function in regulating mRNA metabolism...
Mimicking phosphorylation of alphaB-crystallin affects its chaperone activityHeath Ecroyd
School of Chemistry and Physics, University of Adelaide, Adelaide, SA 5005, Australia
Biochem J 401:129-41. 2007....
Structural insights into the p97-Ufd1-Npl4 complexValerie E Pye
Division of Molecular Biosciences, Faculty of Natural Sciences, Imperial College London, London SW7 2AZ, United Kingdom
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 104:467-72. 2007....
Allosteric activation of the ATPase activity of the Escherichia coli RhlB RNA helicaseJonathan A R Worrall
Department of Biochemistry, University of Cambridge, 80 Tennis Court Road, Cambridge CB2 1GA
J Biol Chem 283:5567-76. 2008..We conjecture that this communication may govern the mechanical power and efficiency of the helicases, and is tuned in individual helicases in accordance with cellular function...
Temperature and concentration-controlled dynamics of rhizobial small heat shock proteinsNicolas Lentze
, , , Switzerland
Eur J Biochem 271:2494-503. 2004..Reduced complex stability coincided with reduced chaperone activity...
