Shalev-Benami Lab

Visualization of Macromolecular Complexes

Selected Publications

A bitter anti-inflammatory drug binds at two distinct sites of a human bitter taste GPCR

Peri L., Matzov D., Huxley D. R., Rainish A., Fierro F., Sapir L., Pfeiffer T., Waterloo L., Hübner H., Peleg Y., Gmeiner P., McCormick P. J., Weikert D., Niv M. Y. & Shalev-Benami M. (2024) Nature Communications. 15, 9991.

Rhodopsin-bestrophin fusion proteins from unicellular algae form gigantic pentameric ion channels

Rozenberg A., Kaczmarczyk I., Matzov D., Vierock J., Nagata T., Sugiura M., Katayama K., Kawasaki Y., Konno M., Nagasaka Y., Aoyama M., Das I., Pahima E., Church J., Adam S., Borin V. A., Chazan A., Augustin S., Wietek J., Dine J., Peleg Y., Kawanabe A., Fujiwara Y., Yizhar O., Sheves M., Schapiro I., Furutani Y., Kandori H., Inoue K., Hegemann P., Beja O. & Shalev-Benami M. (2022) Nature Structural and Molecular Biology. 29, 6, p. 592-603

Structure reveals the activation mechanism of the MC4 receptor to initiate satiation signaling

Israeli H., Degtjarik O., Fierro F., Chunilal V., Gill A. K., Roth N. J., Botta J., Prabahar V., Peleg Y., Chan L. F., Ben-Zvi D., McCormick P. J., Niv M. Y. & Shalev-Benami M. (2021) Science. 372, 6544, p. 808-814
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