EXC 115:  Macromolecular Complexes

• Subject Area: Basic Research in Biology and Medicine
• Term: from 2006 to 2019
• Project identifier: Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) - Project number 24286296

• Final Report Year: 2020

Final Report Abstract

The Cluster of Excellence Frankfurt “Macromolecular Complexes” (CEF) was established in 2006 by Goethe University together with the Max Planck Institutes of Biophysics and Brain Research. CEF grew out of the long-standing collaborative research on membrane proteins and RNA molecules. CEF strengthened research efforts in these fields by recruiting further excellent scientists to Frankfurt. Following a successful proposal to the Wissenschaftsrat for a new research building, CEF founded the Buchmann Institute for Molecular Life Sciences (BMLS), a state-of-theart research facility which houses research groups from four faculties of the University. CEF enhanced the technological infrastructure in Frankfurt by purchasing new instrumentation. The Frankfurt Center for Advanced Light Microscopy and the Frankfurt Center for Electron Microscopy are both located in the BMLS and were established by scientists recruited by CEF. The Cluster promoted scientific exchange through a range of programmes as well as through workshops, international conferences, lecture series and faculty dinners. CEF scientists published more than 2600 original research publications (incl. 479 research papers in journals with an impact factor of ≥10) during the Cluster’s lifetime. Important structures of macromolecular complexes have been determined in CEF. Examples for important membrane complexes include the atomic structures of complex I and the ATP synthase of the mitochondrial respiratory chain and of the antigen translocation complex TAP. Research on RNA structure and function led to the definition of regulatory principles of temperature sensing riboswitches, the structure-function relationship of RNA polymerase I, the functions of microRNAs and the mechanisms of rRNA maturation and downstream processes during ribosome biogenesis and recycling. For instance, CEF scientists identified the receptors of ubiquitin chains on the proteasome, deciphered the role of linear ubiquitin chains and described macromolecules regulating mitophagy, xenophagy and ER-phagy. They delineated the role of sumoylation in ribosome quality control and characterized the process of genetic quality control in oocytes. The efforts in these three research areas were accompanied by approaches to design or reprogram macromolecular complexes and new methods developed to expand the already strong expertise. CEF scientists established and advanced the principles of optogenetics as well as biochemical methods for light regulation. They also developed biophysical techniques for the structural and functional characterization of macromolecules. Example include light-switchable molecules designed for in-cell applications and time-resolved techniques to study RNA folding. Light sheet microscopy for the observation of development and LILBID mass spectrometry for the analysis of membrane complexes was improved. PELDOR-EPR was developed to a resolution that allows in-cell measurements.

Link to the final report

https://dx.doi.org/10.2314/GBV:1696608775

Publications

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• (2007) Native protein nanolithography that can write, read and erase. Nat Nanotechnol 2: 220-225
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• (2008) 4-Chloro-α-cyanocinnamic acid is an advanced, rationally designed MALDI matrix. P Natl Acad Sci USA 105: 12200-12205
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• (2008) Optogenetic analysis of synaptic function. Nat Methods 5: 895 - 902
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• (2008) Proteasome subunit Rpn13 is a novel ubiquitin receptor. Nature 453: 481-488
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• (2008) Serine phosphorylation of ephrinB2 regulates trafficking of synaptic AMPA receptors. Nat Neurosci 11: 1035-1043
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• (2008) Structural basis for the selectivity of the external thioesterase of the surfactin synthetase. Nature 454: 907-911
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• (2008) The oxazolidinone antibiotics perturb the ribosomal peptidyl-transferase center and effect tRNA positioning. P Natl Acad Sci USA 105: 13339-13344
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• (2008) Translational regulation via L11: molecular switches on the ribosome turned on and off by thiostrepton and micrococcin. Mol Cell 30: 26-38
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• (2008) Ubiquitin docking at the proteasome through a novel pleckstrin-homology domain interaction. Nature 453: 548-552
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• (2009) Channelrhodopsin-2 is a leaky proton pump. P Natl Acad Sci USA 106: 12317-12322
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• (2009) High-resolution structure of the rotor ring of a proton-dependent ATP synthase. Nat Struct Mol Biol 16: 1068-1073
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• (2009) Increasing organismal healthspan by enhancing mitochondrial protein quality control. Nat Cell Biol 11: 852-858
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• (2009) Molecular basis of transport and regulation in the Na+/betaine symporter BetP. Nature 458: 47-U1
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• (2009) Prp43 bound at different sites on the pre-rRNA performs distinct functions in ribosome synthesis. Mol Cell 36: 583-592
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• (2009) Specific recognition of linear ubiquitin chains by NEMO is important for NF-κB activation p1098. Cell 136: 1098-1109
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• (2010) Ephrin-B2 regulates VEGFR2 function in developmental and tumour angiogenesis. Nature 465: 487-491
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• (2010) Functional modules and structural basis of conformational coupling in mitochondrial complex I. Science 329: 448-451
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• (2010) High-resolution studies of uniformly 13C,15N- labeled RNA by solid-state NMR spectroscopy. Angew Chem Int Edit 49: 4747-4750
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• (2010) Microscopic rotary mechanism of ion translocation in the F0 complex of ATP synthases. Nat Chem Biol 6: 891-899
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• (2010) Regulation of translesion synthesis DNA polymerase η by monoubiquitination. Mol Cell 37: 396-407
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• (2010) Structural basis of Na+-independent and cooperative substrate/product antiport in CaiT. Nature 467: 233-U129
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• (2010) The structure of cbb3 cytochrome oxidase provides insights into proton pumping. Science 329: 327-329
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• (2011) A gene-fusion strategy for stoichiometric and co-localized expression of light-gated membrane proteins. Nat Methods 8: 1083-1088
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• (2011) Chloroplast Omp85 proteins change orientation during evolution. P Natl Acad Sci USA 108: 13841-13846
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• (2011) Determination of the conformation of the 2 ' OH Group in RNA by NMR spectroscopy and DFT calculations. Angew Chem Int Edit 50: 5397-5400
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• (2011) DNA damage in oocytes induces a switch of the quality control factor TAp63a from dimer to tetramer. Cell 144: 566-576
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• (2011) Ephrin Bs are essential components of the Reelin pathway to regulate neuronal migration. Nature 472: 356-360, 478:274
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• (2011) Evidence for short-range helical order in the 30-nm chromatin fibers of erythrocyte nuclei. P Natl Acad Sci USA 108: 16992-16997
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• (2011) Long-range distance measurements on nucleic acids in cells by pulsed EPR spectroscopy. Angew Chem Int Edit 50: 5070-5074
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• (2011) Macromolecular organization of ATP synthase and complex I in whole mitochondria. P Natl Acad Sci USA 108: 14121-14126
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• (2011) Phosphorylation of the autophagy receptor optineurin restricts Salmonella growth. Science 333: 228-233
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• (2011) Realtime multimodal optical control of neurons and muscles in freely behaving Caenorhabditis elegans. Nat Methods 8: 153-U78
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• (2011) SHARPIN forms a linear ubiquitin ligase complex regulating NF-kappa B activity and apoptosis. Nature 471: 637-641
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• (2011) Solution NMR structure of proteorhodopsin. Angew Chem Int Edit 50: 11942-11946
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• (2011) Structural basis for tail-anchored membrane protein biogenesis by the Get3-receptor complex. Science 333: 758-762
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• (2011) The threedimensional molecular structure of the desmosomal plaque. P Natl Acad Sci USA 108: 6480-6485
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• (2011) Ultra light-sensitive and fast neuronal activation with the Ca(2+)-permeable channelrhodopsin CatCh. Nat Neurosci 14: 513-518
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• (2012) Complexome profiling identifies TMEM126B as a component of the mitochondrial complex I assembly complex. Cell Metab 16: 538-549
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• (2012) Fluorescence-based sensors to monitor localization and functions of linear and K63-linked ubiquitin chains in cells. Mol Cell 47: 797-809
  van Wijk SJL, Fiskin E, Putyrski M, Pampaloni F, Hou J, Wild P, Kensche T, Grecco HE, Bastiaens P, Dikic I
  
• (2012) Ultrafast dynamics of a spiropyran in water. J Am Chem Soc 134: 14070-14077
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• 2012) Transport of drugs by the multidrug transporter AcrB involves an access and a deep binding pocket that are separated by a switch-loop. P Natl Acad Sci USA 109: 5687-5692
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• (2013) MicroRNA-34a regulates cardiac ageing and function. Nature 495: 107-110
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• (2013) Three-state mechanism couples ligand and temperature sensing in riboswitches. Nature 499: 355-U135
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• (2015) Accessory NUMM (NDUFS6) subunit harbors a Zn-binding site and is essential for biogenesis of mitochondrial complex I. P Natl Acad Sci USA 112: 5685-5690
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• (2015) Design of photocaged puromycin for nascent polypeptide release and spatiotemporal monitoring of translation. Angew Chem Int Edit 54: 3717-3721
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• (2015) Direct visualization of newly synthesized target proteins in situ. Nat Methods 12: 411-114
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• (2015) Enlightening the photoactive site of channelrhodopsin-2 by DNP-enhanced solid-state NMR spectroscopy. P Natl Acad Sci USA 112: 9896-9901
  Becker-Baldus J, Bamann C, Saxena K, Gustmann H, Brown LJ, Brown RCD, Reiter C, Bamberg E, Wachtveitl J, Schwalbe H, Glaubitz C
  
• (2015) Horizontal membraneintrinsic alpha-helices in the stator a-subunit of an F-type ATP synthase. Nature 521: 237-240
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• (2015) Identification and characterization of hypoxia-regulated endothelial circular RNA. Circ Res 117: 884-890
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• (2015) Influence of arrestin on the photodecay of bovine rhodopsin. Angew Chem Int Edit 54: 13555-13560
  Chatterjee D, Eckert CE, Slavov C, Saxena K, Furtig B, Sanders CR, Gurevich VV, Wachtveitl J, Schwalbe H
  
• (2015) Involvement of long-lived intermediate states in the complex folding pathway of the human telomeric G-quadruplex. Angew Chem Int Edit 54: 8444-8448
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• (2015) Live imaging of Tribolium castaneum embryonic development using light-sheet-based fluorescence microscopy. Nat Protoc 10: 1486-1507
  Strobl F, Schmitz A, Stelzer EHK
  
• (2015) Mechanistic insight from the crystal structure of mitochondrial complex I. Science 347: 44-49
  Zickermann V, Wirth C, Nasiri H, Siegmund K, Schwalbe H, Hunte C, Brandt U
  
• (2015) Optogenetic manipulation of cGMP in cells and animals by the tightly light-regulated guanylyl-cyclase opsin CyclOp. Nat Commun 6: article 8046
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• (2015) Quantitative analysis of cytoskeletal reorganization during epithelial tissue sealing by large-volume electron tomography. Nat Cell Biol 17: 605-U159
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• (2015) Regulation of endoplasmic reticulum turnover by selective autophagy. Nature 522: 354-358
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• (2015) SLAP: Small labeling pair for single-molecule super-resolution imaging. Angew Chem Int Edit 54: 10216-10219
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• (2015) TECPR2 cooperates with LC3C to regulate COPII-dependent er export. Mol Cell 60: 89-104
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• 2015) CUL3-KBTBD6/KBTBD7 ubiquitin ligase cooperates with GABARAP proteins to spatially restrict TIAM1-RAC1 signalling. Mol Cell 57: 995-1010
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• (2016) A eukaryotic sensor for membrane lipid saturation. Mol Cell 63: 1-11
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• (2016) Adenosine-to-inosine RNA editing controls cathepsin S expression in atherosclerosis by enabling HuR-mediated post-transcriptional regulation. Nat Med 22: 1140–1150
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• (2016) Antigenic peptide recognition on the human ABC transporter TAP resolved by DNP-enhanced solid-state NMR spectroscopy. J Am Chem Soc 138: 13967–13974
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• (2016) Autophagy and modular restructuring of metabolism control germline tumor differentiation and proliferation in C. elegans. Autophagy 12: 529-546
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• (2016) Global analysis of host and bacterial ubiquitinome in response to Salmonella Typhimurium infection. Mol Cell 62: 967-81
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• (2016) Live-cell protein labelling with nanometre precision by cell squeezing. Nat Commun 7: 10372
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• (2016) Molecular basis for inhibition of AcrB multidrug efflux pump by novel and powerful pyranopyridine derivatives. P Natl Acad Sci USA 113: 3509-3514
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• (2016) Nascent proteome remodeling following homeostatic scaling at hippocampal synapses. Neuron 92: 358-371
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• (2016) Phosphoribosylation of ubiquitin promotes serine ubiquitination and impairs conventional ubiquitination. Cell 167: 1636-1649.e13
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• (2016) Structure of a bd oxidase indicates similar mechanisms for membraneintegrated oxygen reductases. Science 352: 583-586
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• (2016) Structure of a complete ATP synthase dimer reveals the molecular basis of inner mitochondrial membrane morphology. Mol Cell 63: 445-456
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• (2016) Structure of RNA polymerase I transcribing ribosomal DNA genes. Nature 540: 607–610
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• (2016) SuReSim: simulating localization microscopy experiments from ground truth models. Nat Meth 13: 319-321
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• (2016) The CUE domain of Cue1 aligns growing ubiquitin chains with Ubc7 for rapid elongation. Mol Cell 62: 918–928
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• (2016) Transport of lipophilic carboxylates is mediated by transmembrane helix 2 in multidrug transporter AcrB. Nat Commun 7: 10
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• (2017) Activity-dependent spatially localized miRNA maturation in neuronal dendrites. Science 355: 634-637
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• (2017) Chromophore distortions in photointermediates of proteorhodopsin visualized by dynamic nuclear polarization-enhanced solid-state NMR. J Am Chem Soc 139: 16143–16153
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• (2017) Cryo-EM structure of the TOM core complex from Neurospora crassa. Cell 170: 693-700.e7
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• (2017) Crystal structure and mechanistic basis of a functional homolog of the antigen transporter TAP. P Natl Acad Sci USA 114: E438–E447
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• (2017) csiLSFM combines light-sheet fluorescence microscopy and coherent structured illumination for a lateral resolution below 100 nm. P Natl Acad Sci USA 114: 4869-4874
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• (2017) Solution NMR structure of a ligand/hybrid-2-G-quadruplex complex reveals rearrangements that affect ligand binding. Angew Chem Int Edit 56: 7102–7106
  Wirmer-Bartoschek J, Bendel LE, Jonker HRA, Grün JT, Papi F, Bazzicalupi C, Messori L, Gratteri P, Schwalbe H
  
• (2017) Structure of the 40S-ABCE1 post-splitting complex in ribosome recycling and translation initiation. Nat Struct Mol Biol 24: 453–460
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• (2017) Structure of the human MHC-I peptide-loading complex. Nature 551: 525–528
  Blees A, Januliene D, Hofmann T, Koller N, Schmidt C, Trowitzsch S, Moeller A, Tampé R
  
• 6. Helmling C, Wacker A, Wolfinger MT, Hofacker IL, Hengesbach M, Fuertig B, Schwalbe H (2017) NMR structural profiling of transcriptional intermediates reveals riboswitch regulation by metastable RNA conformations. J Am Chem Soc 139: 2647–2656
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• (2018) Chemo-enzymatic synthesis of position-specifically modified RNA for biophysical studies including light control and NMR spectroscopy. Angew Chem Int Ed 57: 12017-12021
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• (2018) Endothelial Dab1 signalling orchestrates neuro-glia-vessel communication in the central nervous system. Science 361: eaao2861
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• (2018) Food sensation modulates locomotion by dopamine and neuropeptide signalling in a distributed neuronal network. Neuron 100: 1414-1428.e10
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• (2018) Insights into catalysis and function of phosphoribosyl-linked serine ubiquitination. Nature 557: 734-738
  Kalayil S, Bhogaraju S, Bonn F, Shin D, Liu Y, Gan N, Basquin J, Grumati P, Luo Z-Q, Dikic I
  
• (2018) Locking loop movement in the ubiquinone pocket of complex I disengages the proton pumps. Nat Commun 9: 4500
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• (2018) Plant-specific ribosome biogenesis factors in Arabidopsis thaliana with essential function in rRNA processing. Nucleic Acids Res 47: 1880–1895
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• (2018) Tris -N-nitrilotriacetic acid fluorophore as a self-healing dye for single-molecule fluorescence imaging. J Am Chem Soc 140: 11006-11012
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• (2018) Unexplored nucleotide binding modes for the ABC exporter MsbA. J Am Chem Soc 140: 14112–14125
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• (2019) Active site rearrangement and structural divergence in prokaryotic respiratory oxidases. Science 366: 100-104
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