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Bronte Johnstone

@bjohnstone.bsky.social
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Structural biologist and coffee-fuelled research fellow in the Ghosal Lab at Bio21Institute, University of Melbourne

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Bronte Johnstone @bjohnstone.bsky.social · 30/03/2025
These structures reveal how multiple regulatory features, such as proteolytic activation, ensure pore formation. Furthermore, we find features that are not common to the related CDC family of pore-forming toxins. Instead, CDCLs seem show features that straddle the CDC, MACPF and gasdermin families.
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Bronte Johnstone @bjohnstone.bsky.social · 30/03/2025
This includes the crystal structure of the proteolytically-activated form and cryo-EM structures of the inserted pore and prepore-like complex, solved on the surface of liposomes.
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Bronte Johnstone @bjohnstone.bsky.social · 30/03/2025
Excited to share that our work on a family of pore-forming proteins is now live in Science Advances! We show structural snapshots across the entire pore-forming pathway for a cholesterol-dependent cytolysin-like (CDCL) bicomponent system.
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