Search Results - "Hanson, Sonya M"
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Heat activation is intrinsic to the pore domain of TRPV1
Published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences - PNAS (09-01-2018)“…The TRPV1 channel is a sensitive detector of pain-producing stimuli, including noxious heat, acid, inflammatory mediators, and vanilloid compounds. Although…”
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Capsaicin Interaction with TRPV1 Channels in a Lipid Bilayer: Molecular Dynamics Simulation
Published in Biophysical journal (24-03-2015)“…Transient receptor potential vanilloid subtype 1 (TRPV1) is a heat-sensitive ion channel also involved in pain sensation, and is the receptor for capsaicin,…”
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Do mutations in the murine ataxia gene TRPC3 cause cerebellar ataxia in humans?
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Specificity, synergy, and mechanisms of splice-modifying drugs
Published in Nature communications (29-02-2024)“…Drugs that target pre-mRNA splicing hold great therapeutic potential, but the quantitative understanding of how these drugs work is limited. Here we introduce…”
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A dynamic mechanism for allosteric activation of Aurora kinase A by activation loop phosphorylation
Published in eLife (21-02-2018)“…Many eukaryotic protein kinases are activated by phosphorylation on a specific conserved residue in the regulatory activation loop, a post-translational…”
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Engineering vanilloid-sensitivity into the rat TRPV2 channel
Published in eLife (13-05-2016)“…The TRPV1 channel is a detector of noxious stimuli, including heat, acidosis, vanilloid compounds and lipids. The gating mechanisms of the related TRPV2…”
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Ensembler: Enabling High-Throughput Molecular Simulations at the Superfamily Scale
Published in PLoS computational biology (01-06-2016)“…The rapidly expanding body of available genomic and protein structural data provides a rich resource for understanding protein dynamics with biomolecular…”
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Packing of the Extracellular Domain Hydrophobic Core Has Evolved to Facilitate Pentameric Ligand-gated Ion Channel Function
Published in The Journal of biological chemistry (04-02-2011)“…Protein function depends on conformational flexibility and folding stability. Loose packing of hydrophobic cores is not infrequent in proteins, as the enhanced…”
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Microtubules and intracellular transport — A microscopic perspective
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Conformational heterogeneity and probability distributions from single-particle cryo-electron microscopy
Published in Current opinion in structural biology (01-08-2023)“…Single-particle cryo-electron microscopy (cryo-EM) is a technique that takes projection images of biomolecules frozen at cryogenic temperatures. A major…”
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Protein dynamics underlying allosteric regulation
Published in Current opinion in structural biology (01-02-2024)“…Allostery is the mechanism by which information and control are propagated in biomolecules. It regulates ligand binding, chemical reactions, and conformational…”
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What Makes a Kinase Promiscuous for Inhibitors?
Published in Cell chemical biology (21-03-2019)“…ATP-competitive kinase inhibitors often bind several kinases due to the high conservation of the ATP binding pocket. Through clustering analysis of a large…”
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Molecular basis of polyglutamine-modulated ELF3 aggregation in Arabidopsis temperature response
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Ensemble Reweighting Using Cryo-EM Particle Images
Published in The journal of physical chemistry. B (22-06-2023)“…Cryo-electron microscopy (cryo-EM) has recently become a leading method for obtaining high-resolution structures of biological macromolecules. However, cryo-EM…”
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Structural ensemble refinement with cryo-EM
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Structure-function analysis suggests that the photoreceptor LITE-1 is a light-activated ion channel
Published in Current biology (21-08-2023)“…Sensation of light is essential for all organisms. The eye-less nematode Caenorhabditis elegans detects UV and blue light to evoke escape behavior. The…”
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Reactant Stationary Approximation in Enzyme Kinetics
Published in The journal of physical chemistry. A, Molecules, spectroscopy, kinetics, environment, & general theory (18-09-2008)“…In the application of the quasi-steady-state approximation, it is generally assumed that there is an initial transient during which the substrate concentration…”
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Extracting thermodynamic properties from van 't Hoff plots with emphasis on temperature-sensing ion channels
Published in Temperature (Austin) (2024)“…Transient receptor potential (TRP) ion channels are among the most well-studied classes of temperature-sensing molecules. Yet, the molecular mechanism and…”
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An Open Library of Human Kinase Domain Constructs for Automated Bacterial Expression
Published in Biochemistry (Easton) (07-08-2018)“…Kinases play a critical role in cellular signaling and are dysregulated in a number of diseases, such as cancer, diabetes, and neurodegeneration. Therapeutics…”
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Modeling error in experimental assays using the bootstrap principle: understanding discrepancies between assays using different dispensing technologies
Published in Journal of computer-aided molecular design (01-12-2015)“…All experimental assay data contains error, but the magnitude, type, and primary origin of this error is often not obvious. Here, we describe a simple set of…”
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