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Serotonin receptor diversity in the human colon: Expression of serotonin type 3 receptor subunits 5-HT3C, 5-HT3D, and 5-HT3E

Since the first description of 5-HT3 receptors more than 50 years ago, there has been speculation about the molecular basis of their receptor heterogeneity. We have cloned the genes encoding novel 5-HT3 subunits 5-HT3C, 5-HT3D, and 5-HT3E and have shown th ...

Wiley-Blackwell2010

Determining a receptor-ligand interaction useful in e.g. drug screening involves repetitive application of reversibly binding fluorescent ligands with fast association-dissociation kinetics

Horst Arthur Vogel, Rudolf Hovius, Jean-Manuel Segura, Marinela Gjoni Boillat, Christoph Schreiter

NOVELTY - Determining a receptor-ligand interaction involves repeatedly contacting a cell comprising a receptor, with a ligand, of the receptor in which the ligand has a fluorescence labeling group and binds reversibly to the receptor under conditions in w ...

2006

Characterization and Validation of Fluorescent Receptor Ligands: A Case Study of the Ionotropic Serotonin Receptor

Rudolf Hovius

The application of fluorescent receptor ligands has become widespread, incited by two important reasons. “Seeing is believing”—it is possible to visualize in real time in live cells ligand–receptor interactions, and to locate the receptors with subcellular ...

2013

FRET imaging reveals that functional neurokinin-1 receptors are monomeric and reside in membrane microdomains of live cells

Horst Arthur Vogel, Kai Johnsson, Rudolf Hovius, Jean-Manuel Segura, Nathalie George

The lateral organization of a prototypical G protein-coupled receptor, the neurokinin-1 receptor (NK1R), was investigated in living cells by fluorescence resonance energy transfer (FRET) microscopy, taking advantage of the recently developed acyl carrier p ...

National Academy of Sciences2006

Acetylcholine Receptor Organization in Membrane Domains in Muscle Cells: EVIDENCE FOR RAPSYN-INDEPENDENT AND RAPSYN-DEPENDENT MECHANISMS

Horst Arthur Vogel, Rudolf Hovius, Jean-Manuel Segura, Joachim Piguet, Christoph Schreiter

Nicotinic acetylcholine receptors (nAChR) in muscle fibers are densely packed in the postsynaptic region at the neuromuscular junction. Rapsyn plays a central role in directing and clustering nAChR during cellular differentiation and neuromuscular junction ...

American Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology2011

Modulation of proton-induced current fluctuations in the human nicotinic acetylcholine receptor channel

Horst Arthur Vogel, Rudolf Hovius, Christophe Danelon, Jörg Grandl

The nicotinic acetylcholine receptor (nAChR) is a ligand-gated ion channel that switches upon activation from a closed state to a full conducting state. We found that the mutation delta S268K, located at 12' position of the second transmembrane domain of t ...

2007

Dithiol amino acids can structurally shape and enhance the ligand-binding properties of polypeptides

Christian Heinis, Florence Pojer, Rudolf Hovius, Shiyu Chen, Ranganath Gopalakrishnan

The disulfide bonds that form between two cysteine residues are important in defining and rigidifying the structures of proteins and peptides. In polypeptides containing multiple cysteine residues, disulfide isomerization can lead to multiple products with ...

Nature Publishing Group2014

Structural mechanism of cGAS inhibition by the nucleosome

Beat Fierz, Andrea Ablasser, Rudolf Hovius, Simone Cavadini, Kristina Makasheva, Baptiste Claude André Guey, Alexiane Clara Decout, Sélène-Véronique Glück, Pauline Ambre Melenec

The DNA sensor cGAS initiates innate immune responses following microbial infection, cellular stress, and cancer1. Upon activation by double-stranded DNA, cytosolic cGAS produces 2’3’ cyclic GMP-AMP and triggers inflammatory cytokine and type I interferon ...

2020

Repetitive Reversible Labeling of Proteins at Polyhistidine Sequences for Single-Molecule Imaging in Live Cells

Horst Arthur Vogel, Rudolf Hovius, Jean-Manuel Segura, Emmanuel Guignet

Sensitive live-cell fluorescence microscopy and single-molecule imaging are severely limited by rapid photobleaching of fluorescent probes. Herein, we show how to circumvent this problem using a novel, generic labeling strategy. Small nickel-nitrilotriacet ...

2007

New conjugate of agonist ligand directed to ligand-gated ion channels of cysteine loop-family with chromophore, useful, e.g. in receptor proteins/their interaction with agonistic ligand and to study the effect of unlabelled ligands

Horst Arthur Vogel, Rudolf Hovius, Jörg Grandl

NOVELTY - Conjugate (I) of an agonist ligand directed to ligand-gated ion channels (LGICs) of the Cys loop-family with a chromophore, is new. USE - (I) is useful in the receptor proteins and/or their interaction with the agonistic ligand, where the interac ...

2007

Functional asymmetry of transmembrane segments in nicotinic acetylcholine receptors

Horst Arthur Vogel, Rudolf Hovius, Christophe Danelon, Jörg Grandl

Nicotinic acetylcholine receptors are heteropentameric ion channels that open upon activation to a single conducting state. The second transmembrane segments of each subunit were identified as channel-forming elements, but their respective contribution in ...

Springer-Verlag2006

Natural compounds boldine and menthol are antagonists of human 5-HT

Rudolf Hovius

Background Impaired 5-HT3 receptor function is likely involved in the pathogenesis of functional gastrointestinal disorders (FGID) and 5-HT3 receptor antagonists are effective treatments for chemotherapy-induced nausea and vomiting (CINV) and irritable bow ...

2014

Reversible sequential-binding probe receptor-ligand interactions in single cells

Horst Arthur Vogel, Rudolf Hovius, Jean-Manuel Segura, Marinela Gjoni Boillat, Christoph Schreiter

With the reversible sequential (ReSeq) binding assay, we present a novel approach for the ultrasensitive profiling of receptor function in single living cells. This assay is based on the repetitive application of fluorescent ligands that have fast assocn.- ...

2005

Investigating cellular signaling reactions in single attoliter vesicles

Horst Arthur Vogel, Horst Pick, Rudolf Hovius, Erwin Ilegems

Understanding cellular signaling mediated by cell surface receptors is key to modern biomedical research and drug development. The discovery of a growing no. of potential mol. targets and therapeutic compds. requires downscaling and accelerated functional ...

2005

Synthesis of nanoscopic optical fibers using lipid membranes as templates

Pierre Stadelmann, Horst Arthur Vogel, Kurt Schenk, Rudolf Hovius, Jean-Manuel Segura, Dimitrios Stamou, Marinela Gjoni Boillat, Gopakumar Gopalakrishnan

High-aspect-ratio, monocryst. Cd chloride nanowires doped with fluorescent CdS nanoparticles were synthesized using planar lipid membranes as templates. Cd2+ ions bound to the lipid bilayers (a) are released at low pH to the nanometer-sized, interlamellar ...

Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH2005

International Union of Basic and Clinical Pharmacology. CX. Classification of Receptors for 5-hydroxytryptamine; Pharmacology and Function

Horst Arthur Vogel, Rudolf Hovius

5 HT receptors expressed throughout the human body are targets for established therapeutics and various drugs in development. Their diversity of structure and function reflects the important role 5-HT receptors play in physiologic and pathophysiological pr ...

AMER SOC PHARMACOLOGY EXPERIMENTAL THERAPEUTICS2021

X-ray structure of the mouse serotonin 5-HT3 receptor

Horst Arthur Vogel, Henning Paul-Julius Stahlberg, Rudolf Hovius, Cédric Deluz, Ghérici Hassaïne, Romain Wyss, Luigino Grasso, Menno Berend Tol

Neurotransmitter-gated ion channels of the Cys-loop receptor family mediate fast neurotransmission throughout the nervous system. The molecular processes of neurotransmitter binding, subsequent opening of the ion channel and ion permeation remain poorly un ...

Nature Publishing Group2014

Torsin ATPases influence chromatin interaction of the Torsin regulator LAP1

Beat Fierz, Rudolf Hovius

The inner nuclear membrane is functionalized by diverse transmembrane proteins that associate with nuclear lamins and/or chromatin. When cells enter mitosis, membrane-chromatin contacts must be broken to allow for proper chromosome segregation; yet how thi ...

2020

Tetrahydrobiopterin Biosynthesis as a Potential Target of the Kynurenine Pathway Metabolite Xanthurenic Acid

Kai Johnsson, Rudolf Hovius, Miriam Grønlund Pedersen, Hirohito Haruki

Tryptophan metabolites in the kynurenine pathway are up-regulated by pro-inflammatory cytokines or glucocorticoids, and are linked to anti-inflammatory and immunosuppressive activities. In addition, they are up-regulated in pathologies such as cancer, auto ...

Amer Soc Biochemistry Molecular Biology Inc2015

A genetic algorithm based design and experimental characterization of a highly thermostable metalloprotein

Ursula Röthlisberger, Rudolf Hovius, Esra Bozkurt, Nicholas John Browning

The development of thermostable and solvent-tolerant metalloproteins is a long-sought goal for many applica- tions in synthetic biology and biotechnology. In this work, we were able to engineer a highly thermo- and organic solvent- stable metallo variant o ...

2018