Svend Kjaer

Reduced antibody cross-reactivity following infection with B.1.1.7 than with parental SARS-CoV-2 strains

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Nikhil Faulkner
Kevin Ng
Mary Wu
Ruth Harvey
Marios Margaritis
Stavroula Paraskevopoulou
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Michael Howell
David LV Bauer
Eleni Nastouli
SAFER Investigators
George Kassiotis

eLife

Published 30 July 2021

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MICAL2 enhances branched actin network disassembly by oxidizing Arp3B-containing Arp2/3 complexes

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Chiara Galloni
Davide Carra
Jasmine VG Abella
Svend Kjaer
Pavithra Singaravelu
David Barry
Naoko Kogata
Christophe Guérin
Laurent Blanchoin
Michael Way

Journal of Cell Biology

Published 2 August 2021

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SARS-CoV-2 can recruit a haem metabolite to evade antibody immunity

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Annachiara Rosa
Val Pye
Carl Graham
Luke Muir
Jeffrey Seow
Kevin Ng
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Richard S Tedder
George Kassiotis
Laura E Mccoy
Katie J Doores
Peter Cherepanov

Science advances

Published 28 May 2021

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Optimization of metabolic oligosaccharide engineering with Ac4GalNAlk and Ac4GlcNAlk by an engineered pyrophosphorylase

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Anna Cioce
Ganka Bineva-Todd
Anthony J Agbay
Junwon Choi
Thomas M Wood
Marjoke F Debets
[...]
Omur Yilmaz Tastan
Svend Kjaer
Jacob T Bush
Carolyn R Bertozzi
Ben Schumann

ACS Chemical Biology

Published 9 April 2021

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Community-wide experimental evaluation of the PROSS stability-design method

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Yoav Peleg
Renaud Vincentelli
Brett M Collins
Kai-En Chen
Emma K Livingstone
Saroja Weeratunga
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Peggy Stolt-Bergner
Christian Aigner
Sabine Suppmann
Adi Goldenzweig
Sarel J Fleishman

Journal of Molecular Biology

Published 25 June 2021

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A two-site flexible clamp mechanism for RET-GDNF-GFRα1 assembly reveals both conformational adaptation and strict geometric spacing

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Sarah Adams
Andrew G Purkiss
Phillip P Knowles
Andrea Nans
David Briggs
Annabel Borg
[...]
Aaron J Borg
Pauline B McIntosh
Frankie Houghton
Svend Kjaer
Neil McDonald

Structure

Published 1 July 2021

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Mutations in SKI in Shprintzen-Goldberg syndrome lead to attenuated TGF-β responses through SKI stabilization

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Ilaria Gori
Roger George
Andrew G Purkiss
Stephanie Strohbuecker
Rebecca A Randall
Roksana Ogrodowicz
Virginie Carmignac
Laurence Faivre
Dhira Joshi
Svend Kjaer
Caroline Hill

eLife

Published 8 January 2021

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Preexisting and de novo humoral immunity to SARS-CoV-2 in humans

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Kevin Ng
Nikhil Faulkner
Georgina H Cornish
Annachiara Rosa
Ruth Harvey
Saira Hussain
[...]
Steve Gamblin
Laura E Mccoy
Peter Cherepanov
Eleni Nastouli
George Kassiotis

Science

Published 11 December 2020

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5-Phenyl-1,3,4-oxadiazol-2(3H)-ones Are Potent Inhibitors of Notum Carboxylesterase Activity Identified by the Optimization of a Crystallographic Fragment Screening Hit

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William Mahy
Nicky J Willis
Yuguang Zhao
Hannah L Woodward
Fredrik Svensson
James Sipthorp
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Patricia C Salinas
Paul Whiting
Jean-Paul Vincent
E Yvonne Jones
Paul V Fish

Journal of Medicinal Chemistry

Published 12 November 2020

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Metabolic precision labeling enables selective probing of O-linked N-acetylgalactosamine glycosylation

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Marjoke F Debets
Omur Yilmaz Tastan
Simon P Wisnovsky
Stacy A Malaker
Nikos Angelis
Leonhard KR Moeckl
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Michael C Bassik
WE Moerner
Vivian Li
Carolyn R Bertozzi
Ben Schumann

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of USA

Published 13 October 2020

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A small molecule inhibitor of HER3: a proof-of-concept study

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Audrey Colomba
Martina Fitzek
Roger George
Gregory Weitsman
Selene Roberts
Laura Zanetti-Domingues
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Bram Snijders
Tony Ng
Marisa Martin-Fernandez
David M Smith
Peter Parker

Biochemical Journal

Published 10 September 2020

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Cryo-EM of human Arp2/3 complexes provides structural insights into actin nucleation modulation by ARPC5 isoforms

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Ottilie von Loeffelholz
Andrew Purkiss
Luyan Cao
Svend Kjaer
Naoko Kogata
Guillaume Romet-Lemonne
Michael Way
Carolyn A Moores

Biology Open

Published 31 July 2020

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Pandemic peak SARS-CoV-2 infection and seroconversion rates in London frontline health-care workers

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Catherine F Houlihan
Nina Vora
Thomas Byrne
Dan Lewer
Gavin Kelly
Judith Heaney
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Andrew Hayward
Richard Gilson
Gavin Kelly
Fiona Roberts
Emine Hatipoglu

Scalable and robust SARS-CoV-2 testing in an academic center

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Jim Aitken
Karen Ambrose
Sam Barrell
Rupert Beale
Ganka Bineva-Todd
Dhruva Biswas
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Sophia Ward
Wai Keong Wong
Joshua Wright
Mary Wu
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Evidence that STK19 is not an NRAS-dependent melanoma driver

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Cell

Published 11 June 2020

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The Aurora B specificity switch is required to protect from non-disjunction at the metaphase/anaphase transition

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Joanna R Kelly
Silvia Martini
Nicola Brownlow
Dhira Joshi
Stefania Federico
Shirin Jamshidi
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Nicola Lockwood
Khondaker Miraz Rahman
Franca Fraternali
Peter Parker
Tanya Soliman

Nature Communications

Published 13 March 2020

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Butyrophilin-like 3 directly binds a human Vγ4+ T cell receptor using a modality distinct from clonally-restricted antigen

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Carrie R Willcox
Pierre Vantourout
Mahboob Salim
Iva Zlatareva
Daisy Melandri
Leonor Zanardo
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Svend Kjaer
Mark Jeeves
Fiyaz Mohammed
Adrian Hayday
Benjamin E Willcox

Immunity

Published 19 November 2019

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Discovery of 2-phenoxyacetamides as inhibitors of the Wnt-depalmitoleating enzyme NOTUM from an X-ray fragment screen

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Benjamin N Atkinson
David Steadman
Yuguang Zhao
James Sipthorp
Luca Vecchia
Reinis R Ruza
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Amy Monaghan
Svend Kjaer
Magda Bictash
E Yvonne Jones
Paul V Fish

MedChemComm

Published 1 August 2019

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The Rho-family GEF FARP2 is activated by aPKCι to control tight junction formation and polarity

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Ahmed Elbediwy
Yixiao Zhang
Mathias Cobbaut
Philippe Riou
Ray S Tan
Selene K Roberts
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Svend Kjaer
Marisa L Martin-Fernandez
Barry J Thompson
Neil McDonald
Peter Parker

Journal of Cell Science

Published 25 April 2019

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Reduced antibody cross-reactivity following infection with B.1.1.7 than with parental SARS-CoV-2 strains

Identifying SARS-CoV-2 antiviral compounds by screening for small molecule inhibitors of nsp13 helicase

MICAL2 enhances branched actin network disassembly by oxidizing Arp3B-containing Arp2/3 complexes

SARS-CoV-2 can recruit a haem metabolite to evade antibody immunity

Optimization of metabolic oligosaccharide engineering with Ac4GalNAlk and Ac4GlcNAlk by an engineered pyrophosphorylase

Community-wide experimental evaluation of the PROSS stability-design method

A two-site flexible clamp mechanism for RET-GDNF-GFRα1 assembly reveals both conformational adaptation and strict geometric spacing

Mutations in SKI in Shprintzen-Goldberg syndrome lead to attenuated TGF-β responses through SKI stabilization

Preexisting and de novo humoral immunity to SARS-CoV-2 in humans

5-Phenyl-1,3,4-oxadiazol-2(3H)-ones Are Potent Inhibitors of Notum Carboxylesterase Activity Identified by the Optimization of a Crystallographic Fragment Screening Hit

Metabolic precision labeling enables selective probing of O-linked N-acetylgalactosamine glycosylation

A small molecule inhibitor of HER3: a proof-of-concept study

Cryo-EM of human Arp2/3 complexes provides structural insights into actin nucleation modulation by ARPC5 isoforms

Pandemic peak SARS-CoV-2 infection and seroconversion rates in London frontline health-care workers

Scalable and robust SARS-CoV-2 testing in an academic center

Evidence that STK19 is not an NRAS-dependent melanoma driver

The Aurora B specificity switch is required to protect from non-disjunction at the metaphase/anaphase transition

Butyrophilin-like 3 directly binds a human Vγ4+ T cell receptor using a modality distinct from clonally-restricted antigen

Discovery of 2-phenoxyacetamides as inhibitors of the Wnt-depalmitoleating enzyme NOTUM from an X-ray fragment screen

The Rho-family GEF FARP2 is activated by aPKCι to control tight junction formation and polarity

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