BPS2024 Full Program & Abstracts

Protein Structure and Conformation II (Boards B1 - B32)

1061-Pos Board B14 OLIGOMERIZATION-MEDIATED ACTIVATION OF A SHORT PROKARYOTIC ARGONAUTE. Zhangfei Shen 1062-Pos Board B15 CHARACTERIZING FIBROBLAST GROWTH FACTOR 21 THROUGH BIO PHYSICAL METHODS. Jason Hoang , Suresh Kumar K. Thallapuranam 1063-Pos Board B16 INTERACTION BETWEEN THE MITOCHONDRIAL ADAPTOR MIRO AND MOTOR ADAPTOR TRAK. Elana E. Baltrusaitis , Erika E. Ravitch, Roberto Dominguez 1064-Pos Board B17 INVESTIGATING MICROENVIRONMENTAL CONDITIONS ON A BIOMO LECULAR CHROMOPHORE. Nicholas J. Kurth , Nathaniel V. Nucci 1065-Pos Board B18 Travel Award Winner CAPTURING THE ELUSIVE MEMBRANE-BOUND STRUCTURE OF A LIPID CHAPERONE BY CONFINEMENT WITHIN A MEMBRANE MIMIC. Abdul J. Castillo , George Zorn, Rachel Signorelli, Brian Fuglestad 1066-Pos Board B19 REVERSIBLE ACTIVATION OF MURINE NOROVIRUS BY METAL IONS. Faith J. Cox , Michael Sherman, Hong Q. Smith, Thomas J. Smith 1067-Pos Board B20 REAL-TIME VISUALIZATION OF INTERMOLECULAR INTERACTIONS BE TWEEN SARS-COV-2 SPIKE PROTEIN AND NTD-BINDING ANTIBODY US ING HIGH-SPEED ATOMIC FORCE MICROSCOPY. Pangmiaomiao Zhang , Chia-Wei Chou, Ilya J. Finkelstein, Yi-Chih Lin 1068-Pos Board B21 MECHANICAL CONTROL OF THE ADHESION OF MALARIA-INFECTED ERYTHROCYTES TO THE PLACENTA. Rita Roessner, Nicholas Michelarakis, Frauke Gräter, Camilo Aponte-Santamaria 1069-Pos Board B22 IDENTIFICATION OF CHIRAL AMINO ACIDS USING AN ELECTROSTATI CALLY ASYMMETRIC NANOPORE. Fan Gao , Mathias Winterhalter, Yi-Lun Ying, Yi-Tao Long 1070-Pos Board B23 STRUCTURAL MAPPING OF THE FREE ENERGY LANDSCAPE OF THE SMALL GTPASE ARF6. Noam Hantman , Edgar Peters, Tejaswi Naidu Koduru, Scott A. McCallum, Richard E. Gillilan, Jacqueline Cherfils, Catherine A. Royer 1071-Pos Board B24 A STUDY ON ELECTION FLOW IN A COPPER PROTEIN AND ITS IMPLI CATION IN ARTIFICIAL PHOTOSYNTHESIS AND ENZYME-BASED FUEL CELLS. Narayanasami Sukumar , Victor Davidson, Sahana Sukumar, Divya Prakash 1072-Pos Board B25 DIRECTED EVOLUTION OF A BIFUNCTIONAL PC2 DEHYDROGENASE/SHC FERROCHELATASE. Yashika Garg , M. Elizabeth Stroupe 1073-Pos Board B26 CONTRIBUTION OF THE N-TERMINAL HELIX OF ARF1 TO NUCLEOTIDE SPECIFICITY. Edgar Peters , Tejaswi Naidu Koduru, Noam Hantman, Jacqueline Cherfils, Scott A. McCallum, Richard E. Gillilan, Catherine A. Royer 1074-Pos Board B27 CHARACTERIZATION OF A FGF1-FGFG21 CHIMERIC PROTEIN WITH IN CREASED THERMAL STABILITY AND BIOLOGICAL ACTIVITIES. Phuc Phan , Suresh Kumar K. Thallapuranam

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1048-Pos Travel Award Winner MUTAGENESIS OF THE HIV-1 NEF HOMODIMERIZATION INTERFACE SUPPRESSES MULTIPLE FUNCTIONS WITHOUT ALTERING THE CORE FOLD. Catherine E. Thomas , Frank Heinrich, John J. Alvarado, Thomas E. Board B2 A MECHANISTIC UNDERSTANDING OF HOW A MACROMOLECULAR CROWDER AFFECTS THE STRUCTURE AND FUNCTION OF THERAPEUTI CALLY IMPORTANT ENZYME HUMAN ARGINASE-I. Anjali Kalia , Vineet Sadarangani, Tasneem Kausar, Pooja Murarka 1050-Pos Board B3 THE INFLUENCE OF PEG CROWDING ON MCHERRY DYNAMICS, DISOR DER, AND STRUCTURE. Liam Haas-Neill , Khalil Joron, Eitan Lerner, Sarah Board B4 EFFECT OF MACROMOLECULAR CROWDING IN THE STRUCTURAL DYNAMICS AND DRUGGABILITY OF A CRYPTIC POCKET IN EBOLA VP35 . Prajna Mishra , Gregory Bowman 1052-Pos Board B5 EFFECTS OF DRYING AND ADDITIVES ON PROTEIN STRUCTURE AT THE RESIDUE LEVEL. Brent O. Hutcheson , Julia A. Noonan Brom, Gary J. Pielak 1053-Pos Board B6 Travel Award Winner CROWDING-INDUCED EFFECTS ON THE STABILITY OF UBIQUITIN-FAMILY PROTEINS. Simran Arora, Sri Rama Koti Ainavarapu 1054-Pos Board B7 Travel Award Winner CHARACTERIZING THE DYNAMICS OF THE SMALL HEAT SHOCK PROTEIN HSPB1 IN THE PRESENCE OF A PHASE-SEPARATED PROTEIN CLIENT. Al exander P. Plonski , Raymond Berkeley, Tien M. Phan, Mark A. Herzik, Jeetain Mittal, Galia T. Debelouchina 1055-Pos Board B8 ENGINEERING YEAST HSP104 VARIANTS AGAINST HUMAN PROTEO TOXICITYTHROUGH NUCLEOTIDE-BINDING DOMAIN 2. Zarin Tabassum , JiaBei Lin, James Shorter 1056-Pos Board B9 EFFECT OF N-LINKED GLYCOSYLATION AND DISULFIDE BONDS ON YEAST ER PROTEOME REFOLDABILITY. Xinzhe Ren 1057-Pos Board B10 GLYCOSYLATION OF PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM CIRCUMSPOROZO ITE PROTEIN INDUCES NOVEL CONFORMATIONAL CHANGES. Sofia Nakuchima , Karine Reiter, Apostolos Gittis, Guofeng Zhang, Richard D. Leapman, Patrick E. Duffy, Albert J. Jin, David L. Narum 1058-Pos Board B11 MOLECULAR DAMAGE IN INDIVIDUAL FIBRIN FIBERS: INSIGHTS FROM NANOSCALE MECHANICS. Sajjad Norouzi , Sapun H. Parekh 1059-Pos Board B12 HSP104 IS A STOCHASTIC PROCESSIVE TRANSLOCASE THAT CAN TRAVEL IN BOTH DIRECTIONS. JiaBei Lin , Yale E. Goldman, James Shorter 1060-Pos Board B13 INVESTIGATING THE MICROENVIRONMENTAL EFFECTS ON THE STRUC TURE OF THE LLPS-INDUCING PROTEIN MCDB. Kali N. Pierson , Heather J. Tejeda, Jacob T. Zangaro, Joseph L. Basalla, Anthony G. Vecchiarelli, Nathaniel V. Nucci Board B1 Smithgall 1049-Pos Rauscher 1051-Pos

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