Publications
2022
Bücker R, Seuring C, Cazey C, Veith K, García-Alai M, Grünewald K, Landau M (2022) The Cryo-EM structures of two amphibian antimicrobial cross-β amyloid fibrils. Nat Commun. 13(1):4356. doi: 10.1038/s41467-022-32039-z
Burastero O, Defelipe LA, Gola G, Tateosian NL, Lopez ED, Martinena CB, Arcon JP, Traian MD, Wetzler DE, Bento I, Barril X, Ramirez J, Marti MA, Garcia-Alai MM, Turjanski AG (2022) Cosolvent Sites-Based Discovery of <i>Mycobacterium Tuberculosis</i> Protein Kinase G Inhibitors. Journal of medicinal chemistry. 65(14):9691-9705. doi:10.1021/acs.jmedchem.1c02012
Niebling S, Veith K, Vollmer B, Lizarrondo J, Burastero O, Schiller J, Struve García A, Lewe P, Seuring C, Witt S, García-Alai M (2022) Biophysical Screening Pipeline for Cryo-EM Grid Preparation of Membrane Proteins. Front. Mol. Biosci. 9:882288. doi: 10.3389/fmolb.2022.882288
Kopicki JD, Saikia A, Niebling S, Günther C, Anjanappa R, Garcia-Alai M, Springer S, Uetrecht C (2022) Opening opportunities for Kd determination and screening of MHC peptide complexes. Commun Biol. 5(1):488. doi: 10.1038/s42003-022-03366-0.
2021
Burastero O, Niebling S, Defelipe LA, Gunther C, Struve A, Alai MMG (2021) eSPC: an online data-analysis platform for molecular biophysics. Acta Crystallographica Section D Structural Biology, 77, 1241{1250 doi:10.1107/S2059798321008998.
Bucher M, Niebling S, Han Y, Molodenskiy D, Nia FH, Kreienkamp HJ, Svergun D, Kim E, Kostyukova AS, Kreutz MR, Mikhaylova M (2021) Autism-associated SHANK3 missense point mutations impact conformational uctuations and protein turnover at synapses.eLife,10 e66165 doi: 10.7554/eLife.66165
Lorenzo R, Defelipe LA, Aliperti L, Niebling S, Custódio TF, Löw C, Schwarz JJ, Remans K, Craig PO, Otero LH, Klinke S, García-Alai M, Sánchez IE, Alonso LG (2021) Deamidation drives molecular aging of the SARS-CoV-2 spike protein receptor-binding motif. J Biol Chem.101175. doi: 10.1016/j.jbc.2021.101175.
López-Méndez B, Baron B, Brautigam CA, Jowitt TA, Knauer SH, Uebel S, Williams MA, Sedivy A, Abian O, Abreu C, Adamczyk M, Bal W, Berger S, Buell AK, Carolis C, Daviter T, Fish A, Garcia-Alai M, Guenther C, Hamacek J, Holková J, Houser J, Johnson C, Kelly S, Leech A, Mas C, Matulis D, McLaughlin SH, Montserret R, Nasreddine R, Nehmé R, Nguyen Q, Ortega-Alarcón D, Perez K, Pirc K, Piszczek G, Podobnik M, Rodrigo N, Rokov-Plavec J, Schaefer S, Sharpe T, Southall J, Staunton D, Tavares P, Vanek O, Weyand M, Wu D (2021) Reproducibility and accuracy of microscale thermophoresis in the NanoTemper Monolith: a multi laboratory benchmark study. Eur Biophys J. 50(3-4):411-427. doi:10.1007/s00249-021-01532-6.
de Marco A, Berrow N, Lebendiker M, Garcia-Alai M, Knauer SH, Lopez-Mendez B, Matagne A, Parret A, Remans K, Uebel S, Raynal B (2021) Quality control of protein reagents for the improvement of research data reproducibility. Nat Commun.12(1):2795. doi:10.1038/s41467-021-23167-z.
Niebling S, Burastero O, Bürgi J, Günther C, Defelipe LA, Sander S, Gattkowski E, Anjanappa R, Wilmanns M, Springer S, Tidow H, García-Alai M (2021) FoldAffinity: binding affinities from nDSF experiments. Sci Rep. 11(1):9572. doi:10.1038/s41598-021-88985-z.
Berrow N, de Marco A, Lebendiker M, Garcia-Alai M, Knauer SH, Lopez-Mendez B, Matagne A, Parret A, Remans K, Uebel S, Raynal B (2021) Quality control of purified proteins to improve data quality and reproducibility: results from a large-scale survey. Eur Biophys J. 50(3-4):453-460. doi:10.1007/s00249-021-01528-2.
Winkel Missel J, Salustros N, Ramos Becares E, Hyld Steffen J, Gerdt Laursen A, Struve Garcia A, Garcia-Alai MM, Kolar Č, Gourdon P, Gotfryd K (2021) Cyclohexyl-α maltoside as a highly efficient tool for membrane protein studies. Current Research in Structural Biology. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.crstbi.2021.03.002.
Lizarrondo J, Klebl DP, Niebling S, Abella M, Schroer MA, Mertens HDT, Veith K, Thuenauer R, Svergun DI, Skruzny M, Sobott F, Muench SP, Garcia-Alai MM (2021) Structure of the endocytic adaptor complex reveals the basis for efficient membrane anchoring during clathrin-mediated endocytosis. Nat Commun.12(1):2889. doi: 10.1038/s41467-021-23151-7.
Günther S, Reinke PYA, Fernández-García Y, Lieske J, Lane TJ, Ginn HM, Koua FHM, Ehrt C, Ewert W, Oberthuer D, Yefanov O, Meier S, Lorenzen K, Krichel B, Kopicki JD, Gelisio L, Brehm W, Dunkel I, Seychell B, Gieseler H, Norton-Baker B, Escudero-Pérez B, Domaracky M, Saouane S, Tolstikova A, White TA, Hänle A, Groessler M, Fleckenstein H, Trost F, Galchenkova M, Gevorkov Y, Li C, Awel S, Peck A, Barthelmess M, Schluenzen F, Lourdu Xavier P, Werner N, Andaleeb H, Ullah N, Falke S, Srinivasan V, França BA, Schwinzer M, Brognaro H, Rogers C, Melo D, Zaitseva-Doyle JJ, Knoska J, Peña-Murillo GE, Mashhour AR, Hennicke V, Fischer P, Hakanpää J, Meyer J, Gribbon P, Ellinger B, Kuzikov M, Wolf M, Beccari AR, Bourenkov G, von Stetten D, Pompidor G, Bento I, Panneerselvam S, Karpics I, Schneider TR, Garcia-Alai MM, Niebling S, Günther C, Schmidt C, Schubert R, Han H, Boger J, Monteiro DCF, Zhang L, Sun X, Pletzer-Zelgert J, Wollenhaupt J, Feiler CG, Weiss MS, Schulz EC, Mehrabi P, Karničar K, Usenik A, Loboda J, Tidow H, Chari A, Hilgenfeld R, Uetrecht C, Cox R, Zaliani A, Beck T, Rarey M, Günther S, Turk D, Hinrichs W, Chapman HN, Pearson AR, Betzel C, Meents A. (2021) X-ray screening identifies active site and allosteric inhibitors of SARS-CoV-2 main protease. Science. 2021 Apr 2:eabf7945. doi: 10.1126/science.abf7945.
2020
Heidemann J, Kölbel K, Konijnenberg A, Van Dyck J, Garcia-Alai M, Meijers R, Sobott F, Uetrecht C. (2020) Further insights from structural mass spectrometry into endocytosis adaptor protein assemblies. Int J Mass Spectrom. 2019 Oct 18;447:116240. doi: 10.1016/j.ijms.2019.116240.
Anjanappa R, Garcia-Alai M, Kopicki JD, Lockhauserbäumer J, Aboelmagd M, Hinrichs J, Nemtanu IM, Uetrecht C, Zacharias M, Springer S, Meijers R (2020) Structures of peptide-free and partially loaded MHC class I molecules reveal mechanisms of peptide selection. Nat Commun. 11;11(1):1314. doi: 10.1038/s41467-020-14862-4.
2019
Saini SK, Tamhane T, Anjanappa R, Saikia A, Ramskov S, Donia M, Svane IM, Jakobsen SN, Garcia-Alai M, Zacharias M, Meijers R, Springer S, Hadrup SR (2019) Empty peptide-receptive MHC class I molecules for efficient detection of antigen-specific T cells. Sci Immunol 410.1126/sciimmunol.aau9039 doi: 10.1126/sciimmunol.aau9039
Moritz A, Anjanappa R, Wagner C, Bunk S, Hofmann M, Pszolla G, Saikia A, Garcia-Alai M, Meijers R, Rammensee HG, Springer S, Maurer D (2019) High-throughput peptide-MHC complex generation and kinetic screenings of TCRs with peptide-receptive HLA-A*02:01 molecules. Sci Immunol 410.1126/sciimmunol.aav0860. doi: 10.1126/sciimmunol.aav0860.
Kotov V, Bartels K, Veith K, Josts I, Subhramanyam UKT, Gunther C, Labahn J, Marlovits TC, Moraes I, Tidow H, Low C, Garcia-Alai MM (2019) High-throughput stability screening for detergent-solubilized membrane proteins. Sci Rep 9: 10379.doi: 10.1038/s41598-019-46686-8
Gattkowski E, Johnsen A, Bauche A, Möckl F, Kulow F, Garcia Alai M, Rutherford TJ, Fliegert R, Tidow H. (2019) Novel CaM-binding motif in its NudT9H domain contributes to temperature sensitivity of TRPM2. Biochim Biophys Acta Mol Cell Res. 2019 Jul;1866(7):1162-1170. doi: 10.1016/j.bbamcr.2018.12.010.
2018
Garcia-Alai MM, Heidemann J, Skruzny M, Gieras A, Mertens HDT, Svergun DI, Kaksonen M, Uetrecht C, Meijers R (2018) Epsin and Sla2 form assemblies through phospholipid interfaces. Nat Commun 9: 328 doi: 10.1038/s41467-017-02443-x
Molina IG, Josts I, Almeida Hernandez Y, Esperante S, Salgueiro M, Garcia Alai MM, de Prat-Gay G, Tidow H. (2018) Structure and stability of the Human respiratory syncytial virus M 2-1 RNA-binding core domain reveals a compact and cooperative folding unit. Acta Crystallogr F Struct Biol Commun. 2018 Jan 1;74(Pt 1):23-30. doi: 10.1107/S2053230X17017381.