Integration of Fourier Transform Infrared Spectroscopy, Fluorescence Spectroscopy, Steady-state Kinetics and Molecular Dynamics Simulations of Gαi1Distinguishes between the GTP Hydrolysis and GDP Release Mechanism

What vibrations tell us about GTPases

(2015) Carsten Kötting et al.   BIOLOGICAL CHEMISTRY

Early Formation of the Ion-Conducting Pore in Channelrhodopsin-2

(2014) Jens Kuhne et al.   ANGEWANDTE CHEMIE-INTERNATIONAL EDITION

Different Biochemical Properties Explain Why Two Equivalent Gα Subunit Mutants Cause Unrelated Diseases

(2014) Anthony Leyme et al.   JOURNAL OF BIOLOGICAL CHEMISTRY

A Conserved Phenylalanine as a Relay between the α5 Helix and the GDP Binding Region of Heterotrimeric GiProtein α Subunit

(2014) Ali I. Kaya et al.   JOURNAL OF BIOLOGICAL CHEMISTRY

Reaction Mechanism of Adenylyltransferase DrrA from Legionella pneumophila Elucidated by Time-Resolved Fourier Transform Infrared Spectroscopy

(2014) Konstantin Gavriljuk et al.   JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY

The role of protein-bound water molecules in microbial rhodopsins

(2013) Klaus Gerwert et al.   BIOCHIMICA ET BIOPHYSICA ACTA-BIOENERGETICS

GROMACS 4.5: a high-throughput and highly parallel open source molecular simulation toolkit

(2013) Sander Pronk et al.   BIOINFORMATICS

The dynamics of the catalytic site in small GTPases, variations on a common motif

(2013) Carsten Kötting et al.   FEBS LETTERS

Interactions of the α-subunits of heterotrimeric G-proteins with GPCRs, effectors and RGS proteins: A critical review and analysis of interacting surfaces, conformational shifts, structural diversity and electrostatic potentials

(2013) Fotis A. Baltoumas et al.   JOURNAL OF STRUCTURAL BIOLOGY

Protons as Second Messenger Regulators of G Protein Signaling

(2013) Daniel G. Isom et al.   MOLECULAR CELL

A High Throughput Screen for RGS Proteins Using Steady State Monitoring of Free Phosphate Formation

(2013) C. Aaron Monroy et al.   PLoS One

The Role of Magnesium for Geometry and Charge in GTP Hydrolysis, Revealed by Quantum Mechanics/Molecular Mechanics Simulations

(2012) Till Rudack et al.   BIOPHYSICAL JOURNAL

Time-resolved Fourier Transform Infrared Spectroscopy of the Nucleotide-binding Domain from the ATP-binding Cassette Transporter MsbA

(2012) Falk Syberg et al.   JOURNAL OF BIOLOGICAL CHEMISTRY

Dynamics of Dangling Bonds of Water Molecules in pharaonis Halorhodopsin during Chloride Ion Transportation

(2012) Yuji Furutani et al.   Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters

The TRPM8 ion channel comprises direct Gq protein-activating capacity

(2012) Katharina Klasen et al.   PFLUGERS ARCHIV-EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF PHYSIOLOGY

Ras and GTPase-activating protein (GAP) drive GTP into a precatalytic state as revealed by combining FTIR and biomolecular simulations

(2012) T. Rudack et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Catalytic mechanism of a mammalian Rab{middle dot}RabGAP complex in atomic detail

(2012) K. Gavriljuk et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

GDP Release Preferentially Occurs on the Phosphate Side in Heterotrimeric G-proteins

(2012) Maxime Louet et al.   PLoS Computational Biology

Crystal structure of the β2 adrenergic receptor–Gs protein complex

(2011) Søren G. F. Rasmussen et al.   NATURE

The specific vibrational modes of GTP in solution and bound to Ras: a detailed theoretical analysis by QM/MM simulations

(2011) Fei Xia et al.   PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY CHEMICAL PHYSICS

Proton transfer via a transient linear water-molecule chain in a membrane protein

(2011) E. Freier et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Spectroscopic investigation of the reaction mechanism of CopB-B, the catalytic fragment from an archaeal thermophilic ATP-driven heavy metal transporter

(2009) Christian Völlmecke et al.   FEBS Journal

GIV is a nonreceptor GEF for G i with a unique motif that regulates Akt signaling

(2009) M. Garcia-Marcos et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Trp fluorescence reveals an activation-dependent cation-π interaction in the Switch II region of Gαiproteins

(2009) Heidi E. Hamm et al.   PROTEIN SCIENCE

GROMACS 4:  Algorithms for Highly Efficient, Load-Balanced, and Scalable Molecular Simulation

(2008) Berk Hess et al.   Journal of Chemical Theory and Computation

Heterotrimeric G-proteins: a short history

(2006) Graeme Milligan et al.   BRITISH JOURNAL OF PHARMACOLOGY