Publications of Schara Safarian

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)

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)

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)

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)

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)

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)

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)

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)

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)

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)

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)

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)

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)

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)

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)

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