Inari Kursula


CSSB, Helmholtz Centre for Infection Research and University of Hamburg, DESY, 22607 Hamburg, Germany

and

Department of Biochemistry, University of Oulu, 90014 Oulu, Finland
Website in Oulu: http://www.biochem.oulu.fi
/tutkimus/ikursula/
Website at HZI: http://www.desy.de/~inari
/hzi.html
e-mail:
inari.kursula(at)helmholtz-hzi.de, inari.kursula(at)oulu.fi

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Structural biology of the cytoskeleton

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Recent publications

  • Singh BK, Sattler JM, Chatterjee M, Huttu J, Schüler H & Kursula I (2011) Crystal structures explain functional differences in the two actin depolymerization factors of the malaria parasite. J. Biol. Chem., 286: 28256-28264.
  • Nilsson S, Moll K, Angeletti D, Albrecht L, Kursula I, Jiang N, Sun X, Berzins K, Wahlgren M & Chen Q (2011) Characterization of the Duffy-binding like domain of Plasmodium falciparum blood-stage antigen 332. Malaria Res. Treat., Article ID 671439, 14 pages. doi:10.4061/2011/671439.
  • Patel AK, Yadav RP, Majava V, Kursula I & Kursula P (2011) Structure of the dimeric autoinhibited conformation of DAPK2, a pro-apoptotic protein kinase. J. Mol. Biol., 409: 369-383.
  • Huttu J, Singh BK, Bhargav SP, Sattler JM, Schüler H & Kursula I (2010) Crystallization and preliminary structural characterization of the two actin depolymerization factors of the malaria parasite. Acta Cryst. F, 66: 583-587.
  • Majava V, Polverini E, Mazzini A, Nanekar R, Knoll W, Peters J, Natali F, Baumgärtel P, Kursula I & Kursula P (2010) Structural and functional characterization of human peripheral nervous system myelin protein P2. PLoS ONE, 5: e10300.
  • Wigren E, Bourhis JM, Kursula I, Guy J & Lindqvist Y (2010) Crystal structure of the LMAN1-CRD/MCFD2 transport receptor complex provides insight into combined deficiency of Factor V and Factor VIII. FEBS Lett., 548: 878-882.
  • Kursula I, Kursula P, Ganter M, Panjikar S, Matuschewski K & Schüler H (2008) Structural basis for parasite-specific functions of the divergent profilin of Plasmodium falciparum. Structure, 16: 1638-1648.
  • Kursula P, Kursula I, Massimi M, Song Y-H, Downer J, Stanley WA, Witke W & Wilmanns M (2008) High-resolution structural analysis of mammalian profilin 2a complex formation with two physiological ligands: formin homology 1 domain of mDia1 and the proline rich domain of VASP. J. Mol. Biol., 375: 270-290.