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Dr. Schara Safarian

Project Leader

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Research Project

Schara Safarian: Molecular Mechanisms of Pathogen Respiration

How do pathogens manage their bioenergetics upon host infection? What can we learn from these processes for the development of novel antibiotics? more

Research Experience

Head of ATTRACT research group
2022 – present
Fraunhofer Institute for Translational Medicine and Pharmacology ITMP
Visiting project group leader
2022 – present
Max Planck Institute of Biophysics, Frankfurt (Germany)
Project group leader
2017 – 2022
Max Planck Institute of Biophysics, Frankfurt (Germany)
Visiting assistant professor
2020 – present
University of Otago, Dunedin (New Zealand)
Doctorate in Biochemistry
2013 – 2017
Goethe University, Frankfurt (Germany)

Publications

Journal Article (14)

2024

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Ri, K.; Weng, T.-H.; Claveras Cabezudo, A.; Jösting, W.; Zhang, Y.; Bazzone, A.; Leong, N. C. P.; Welsch, S.; Doty, R. T.; Gursu, G. et al.; Lim, T. J. Y.; Schmidt, S. L.; Abkowitz, J. L.; Hummer, G.; Wu, D.; Nguyen, L. N.; Safarian, S.: Molecular mechanism of choline and ethanolamine transport in humans. Nature 630, pp. 501 - 508 (2024)

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2023

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Wu, D.; Mehdipour, A. R.; Finke, F.; Goojani, H. G.; Groh, R. R.; Grund, T. N.; Reichhart, T. M. B.; Zimmermann, R.; Welsch, S.; Bald, D. et al.; Shepherd, M.; Hummer, G.; Safarian, S.: Dissecting the conformational complexity and mechanism of a bacterial heme transporter. Nature Chemical Biology 19 (8), pp. 992 - 1003 (2023)

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Grund, T. N.; Kabashima, Y.; Kusumoto, T.; Wu, D.; Welsch, S.; Sakamoto, J.; Michel, H.; Safarian, S.: The cryoEM structure of cytochrome bd from C. glutamicum provides novel insights into structural properties of actinobacterial terminal oxidases. Frontiers in Chemistry (2023)

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2021

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Grund, T. N.; Radloff, M.; Wu, D.; Goojani, H. G.; Witte, L. F.; Jösting, W.; Buschmann, S.; Müller, H.; Elamri, I.; Welsch, S. et al.; Schwalbe, H.; Michel, H.; Bald, D.; Safarian, S.: Mechanistic and structural diversity between cytochrome bd isoforms of Escherichia coli. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 118 (50), e2114013118 (2021)

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Radloff, M.; Elamri, I.; Grund, T. N.; Witte, L. F.; Hohmann, K. F.; Nakagaki, S.; Goojani , H. G.; Nasiri, H.; Miyoshi , H.; Bald, D. et al.; Xie, H.; Sakamoto, J.; Schwalbe, H.; Safarian, S.: Short-chain aurachin D derivatives are selective inhibitors of E. coli cytochrome bd-I and bd-II oxidases. Scientific Reports 11 (1), e23852 (2021)

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Kolbe, F.; Safarian, S.; Piórek, Ż.; Welsch, S.; Müller, H.; Michel, H.: Cryo-EM structures of intermediates suggest an alternative catalytic reaction cycle for cytochrome c oxidase. Nature Communications 12, 6903 (2021)

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Zhao, J.; Xie, H.; Mehdipour, A. R.; Safarian, S.; Ermler, U.; Münke, C.; Thielmann, Y.; Hummer, G.; Ebersberger, I.; Wang, J. et al.; Michel, H.: The structure of the Aquifex aeolicus MATE family multidrug resistance transporter and sequence comparisons suggest the existence of a new subfamily. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 118 (46), e2107335118 (2021)

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Safarian, S.; Opel-Reading, H. K.; Wu, D.; Mehdipour, A. R.; Hards, K.; Harold, L. H.; Radloff, M.; Stewart, I.; Welsch, S.; Hummer, G. et al.; Cook, G. M.; Krause, K. L.; Michel, H.: The cryo-EM structure of the bd oxidase from M. tuberculosis reveals a unique structural framework and enables rational drug design to combat TB. Nature Communications 12 (1), 5236 (2021)

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Nikolaev, A.; Safarian, S.; Thesseling, A.; Wohlwend, D.; Friedrich, T.; Michel, H.; Kusumoto, T.; Sakamoto, J.; Melin, F.; Hellwig, P.: Electrocatalytic evidence of the diversity of the oxygen reaction in the bacterial bd oxidase from different organisms. Biochimica et Biophysica Acta, Bioenergetics 1862 (8), e148436 (2021)

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2020

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Wu, D.; Grund, T. N.; Welsch, S.; Mills, D.; Michel, M.; Safarian, S.; Michel, H.: Structural basis for amino acid exchange by a human heteromeric amino acid transporter. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 117 (35), 202008111, pp. 21281 - 21287 (2020)

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Elamri, I.; Radloff, M.; Hohmann, K. F.; Nimbarte, V. D.; Nasiri, H. R.; Bolte, M.; Safarian, S.; Michel, H.; Schwalbe, H.: Synthesis and Biological Screening of new Lawson Derivatives as selective substrate‐based Inhibitors of Cytochrome bo₃ Ubiquinol Oxidase from Escherichia coli. ChemMedChem 15 (14), pp. 1262 - 1271 (2020)

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2019

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Safarian, S.; Hahn, A.; Mills, D.; Radloff, M.; Eisinger, M. L.; Nikolaev, A.; Meier-Credo, J.; Melin, F.; Miyoshi, H.; Gennis, R.B. et al.; Sakamoto, J.; Langer, J. D.; Hellwig, P.; Kühlbrandt, W.; Michel, H.: Active site rearrangement and structural divergence in prokaryotic respiratory oxidases. Science 366 (6461), pp. 100 - 104 (2019)

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Zakrzewska, S.; Mehdipour, A. R.; Malviya, V. N.; Nonaka, T.; Koepke, J.; Muenke, C.; Hausner, W.; Hummer, G.; Safarian, S.; Michel, H.: Inward-facing conformation of a multidrug resistance MATE family transporter. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 116 (25), pp. 12275 - 12284 (2019)

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2016

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Safarian, S.; Rajendran, C.; Müller, H.; Preu, J.; Langer, J. D.; Ovchinnikov, S.; Hirose, T.; Kusumoto, T.; Sakamoto, J.; Michel, H.: Structure of a bd oxidase indicates similar mechanisms for membrane-integrated oxygen reductases. Science 352 (6285), pp. 583 - 586 (2016)

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Thesis - PhD (1)

2017

Thesis - PhD

Safarian, S.: Structural insights into cytochrome bd-type oxygen reductases. Dissertation, 176 pp., Fachbereich Biochemie, Chemie, Pharmazie, Johann Wolfgang Goethe-Universität Frankfurt, Frankfurt am Main (2017)

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Thesis - Master (1)

2012

Thesis - Master

Safarian, S.: Lipid based techniques for reconstitution and biophysical investigations of membrane proteins. Master, 89 pp., Goethe University, Frankfurt am Main, Germany (2012)

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