Student Publications

BMB students produce substantial bodies of work that lead to high quality, peer-reviewed publications. The menus below highlight the first-author papers our students have published in recent years.

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2018

 Butyrophilin3A proteins and Vγ9Vδ2 T cell activation.  Gu S, Borowska MT, Boughter CT, Adams EJ.  Semin Cell Dev Biol. 2018 Mar 9. pii: S1084-9521(16)30436-0. doi: 10.1016/j.semcdb.2018.02.007. Review. PMID: 2947103 

Kudryashova E, Heisler DB, Williams B, Harker AJ, Shafer K, Quinlan ME, Kovar DR, Vavylonis D, Kudryashov DS. 2018. Actin Cross-Linking Toxin Is a Universal Inhibitor of Tandem-Organized and Oligomeric G-Actin Binding Proteins. Curr Biol 28:1536-1547.e9. doi:10.1016/j.cub.2018.03.065. PMCID:PMC5964048.  

2017

Phosphoantigen-induced conformational change of butyrophilin 3A1 (BTN3A1) and its implication on Vγ9Vδ2 T cell activation.  Gu S, Sachleben JR, Boughter CT, Nawrocka WI, Borowska MT, Tarrasch JT, Skiniotis G, Roux B, Adams EJ.  Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2017 Aug 29;114(35):E7311-E7320. doi: 10.1073/pnas.1707547114. Epub 2017 Aug 14.  PMID: 28807997   [see notes above]

Burke TA, Harker AJ, Dominguez R, Kovar DR. 2017. The bacterial virulence factors VopL and VopF nucleate actin from the pointed end. J Cell Biol. doi:10.1083/jcb.201608104. PMCID:PMC5412564. 

Leonard, J.D., Gilmore, D.C., Dileepan, T., Nawrocka, W.I., Chao, J.L., Schoenbach, M.H., Jenkins, M.K., Adams, E.J., and Savage, P.A. (2017). Identification of Natural Regulatory T Cell Epitopes Reveals Convergence on a Dominant Autoantigen. Immunity, 47(1):107-117.

Wohlever, M., Mateja, A., McGilvray, P. T., Day, K.J., Keenan, R.J. (2017). Msp1 Is a Membrane Protein Dislocase for Tail-Anchored Proteins. Molecular Cell, 67(2): 1-9.

Riback, J.A., Katanski, C.D., Kear-Scott, J.L., Pilipenko, E.V., Rojek, A.E., Sosnick, T.R., and Drummond, D.A. (2017). Stress-Triggered Phase Separation Is an  Adaptive, Evolutionarily Tuned Response.Cell, 168(6 ): 1028-1040.

Anghel, S.A., McGilvray, P. T., Hegde, M.S., Keenan, R.J. (2017). Identification of Oxa1 Homologs Operating in the Eukaryotic Endoplasmic Reticulum. Cell Reports, 21: 1-9.

2016

Dominik PK, Borowska MT, Dalmas O, Kim SS, Perozo E, Keenan RJ, Kossiakoff AA. Conformational chaperones for structural studies of membrane proteins using antibody phage display with nanodiscsStructure. 2016 Feb 2;24(2):300-9. Epub 2015 Dec 31. doi: 10.1016/j.str.2015.11.014. PMID: 26749445 [ this is from UChicago biosciences https://biosciences.uchicago.edu/current-students/2016-student-publicati...

Winkelman JD, Suarez C, Hocky GM, Harker AJ, Morganthaler AN, Christensen JR, Voth GA, Bartles JR, Kovar DR. 2016. Fascin- and α-Actinin-Bundled Networks Contain Intrinsic Structural Features that Drive Protein Sorting. Current Biology 26:2697-2706. doi:10.1016/j.cub.2016.07.080. PMCID:PMC5119644.

2015

A YidC-like Protein in the Archaeal Plasma Membrane.  Borowska MT, Dominik PK, Anghel SA, Kossiakoff AA, Keenan RJ.  Structure. 2015 Sep 1;23(9):1715-1724. doi: 10.1016/j.str.2015.06.025. Epub 2015 Aug 6.  PMID: 26256539