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Mack Thompson

@mackthompson88.bsky.social
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Post-doc in the Brohawn lab at UC Berkeley

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Josh Dickerson @joshdcryoem.bsky.social · 23/04/2025
After years parked at a Polara, I’m excited to share that my PhD work is finally out! We figured out why imaging at liquid helium temperatures wasn’t working—and how to fix it. 🔗 www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
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Reducing the effects of radiation damage in cryo-EM using liquid helium temperatures | PNAS
The physical limit in determining the atomic structure of biological molecules is radiation damage. In electron cryomicroscopy, there have been num...
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Hugues Nury @hugbum.bsky.social · 27/03/2025
New preprint! @tatilab.bsky.social imaged the honeybee GABAA RDL receptor. ~10% of insecticides target insect GABAA receptors. She found a new allosteric modulation pocket, a PIP2 site, a closed avermectin-bound conformation, and maybe an unusual desensitized state. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
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Ed Twomey @cryoet.bsky.social · 26/03/2025
Here's our newest study: we reveal the molecular principles of neuronal excitation by glutamate, and how physiological temperatures influence this process. www.nature.com/articles/s41... www.nature.com/articles/d41... Led by @anish-mondal07.bsky.social, published in @natureportfolio.nature.com
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Jim Hurley @jimhurley.bsky.social · 25/03/2025
PINK1/Parkin-dependent mitophagy caught in situ by cryo-ET! New preprint www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... led by @kev-in-situ-et.bsky.social. This has been a long-standing goal of team @mito911.bsky.social within the @asapresearch.parkinsonsroadmap.org initiative.
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Nogales Lab @nogaleslab.bsky.social · 12/01/2025
The Cryo-EM: the next 50 years Symposium held yesterday at @ucberkeleyofficial.bsky.social was a smashing success!!
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David B. Sauer @davidbsauer.bsky.social · 16/12/2024
Now online! Anna’s fantastic work on the structure of the Human adult Muscle-type nicotinic receptor. Wonderful collab with Yin Dong at the @imm.ox.ac.uk www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
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Structures of the human adult muscle-type nicotinic receptor in resting and desensitised states
Muscle-type nicotinic acetylcholine receptor (AChR) is the key signalling molecule in neuromuscular junctions. Here we present the structures of full-length human adult receptors in complex with Fab35...
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Hugues Nury @hugbum.bsky.social · 03/12/2024
New preprint describing a primed nicotinic receptor state with only one agonist bound, seen at low [agonist]. My fav part: ~7% of particles are in that state on cryoEM grids... that's also the proportion predicted from the fitting of single-channel data! Work led by @mackthompson88.bsky.social
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Mack Thompson @mackthompson88.bsky.social · 03/12/2024
So happy to finally share my final paper from my PhD! By collecting cryo-EM datasets at sub-saturating concentrations of ACh, we were able to determine a mono-liganded state of the muscle-type nAChR. This state has a fully activated alpha subunit where ACh binds… www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
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Asynchronous subunit transitions precede acetylcholine receptor activation
Rapid communication at synapses is facilitated by postsynaptic receptors, which convert a chemical signal into an electrical response. In the case of ligand-gated ion channels, agonist binding trigger...
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Antony Lurie @antonylurie.bsky.social · 27/11/2024
The first story from my PhD is now available on bioRxiv!: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... We determined structures of a LRRC8A:D VRAC by cryo-EM and explored the role of pore lipids in their gating. Huge thanks to the whole Brohawn lab, and especially to Steve @stevebrohawn.bsky.social and David!
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