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Department of Molecular Biology and Genetics

Neurobiology

The Section for Neurobiology is part of the Danish Research Institute of Translational Neuroscience – DANDRITE

- the Danish node of the Nordic EMBL Partnership for Molecular Medicine, which performs basic and translational research in brain and the nervous system.

Groups at DANDRITE encompass ambitious research programs that include:

Molecular and cellular mechanisms of memory
Effort-based decision making
Neuronal development and stem cells
Motor control
Brain processing of vision
Neurological and neurodegenerative diseases
Psychiatric disorders
Neurotrophic receptors, sorting
Structural biology of membrane transporters and receptors

Read more about the research at DANDRITE.

Below you see the list of researchers at DANDRITE affiliated with the Department of Molecular Biology and Genetics.

List of staff and students in the research group

Group leaders

Professors

Associate Professors

Tenure Track Assistant Professor

Gilles Claude Vanwalleghem

Professor

Associate Professors

Tenure Track Assistant Professor

Peer-reviewed publications

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Sørensen, T. L.-M., Olesen, C., Jensen, A.-M. L., Møller, J. V. & Nissen, P. (2006). Crystals of sarcoplasmic reticulum Ca²⁺-ATPase. Journal of Biotechnology, 124(4), 704-716.

Sørensen, T. L. M., Hjorth-Jensen, S. J., Oksanen, E., Andersen, J. L., Olesen, C., Møller, J. V. & Nissen, P. (2018). Membrane-protein crystals for neutron diffraction. Acta crystallographica Section D: Structural biology , 74(Pt 12), 1208-1218. https://doi.org/10.1107/S2059798318012561

Sonntag, Y., Musgaard, M., Olesen, C., Schiøtt, B., Møller, J. V., Nissen, P. & Thøgersen, L. (2011). Mutual adaptation of a membrane protein and its lipid bilayer during conformational changes. Nature Communications, 2, 304. https://doi.org/10.1038/ncomms1307

Skjørringe, T., Pedersen, P. A., Thorborg, S. S., Nissen, P., Gourdon, P. & Møller, L. B. (2017). Characterization of ATP7A missense mutants suggests a correlation between intracellular trafficking and severity of Menkes disease. Scientific Reports, 7(1), Article 757. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-017-00618-6

Sitsel, O., Grønberg, C., Autzen, H., Wang, K., Meloni, G., Nissen, P. & Gourdon, P. (2015). Structure and function of Cu(I)- and Zn(II)-ATPases. Biochemistry, 54(37), 5673-5683. https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.biochem.5b00512

Sitsel, A., De Raeymaecker, J., Drachmann, N. D., Derua, R., Smaardijk, S., Andersen, J. L., Vandecaetsbeek, I., Chen, J., De Maeyer, M., Waelkens, E., Olesen, C., Vangheluwe, P. & Nissen, P. (2019). Structures of the heart specific SERCA2a Ca ²⁺ -ATPase. EMBO Journal, 38(5), Article e100020. https://doi.org/10.15252/embj.2018100020

Shahsavar, A., Stohler, P., Bourenkov, G., Zimmermann, I., Siegrist, M., Guba, W., Pinard, E., Sinning, S., Seeger, M. A., Schneider, T. R., Dawson, R. J. P. & Nissen, P. (2021). Structural insights into the inhibition of glycine reuptake. Nature, 591(7851), 677-681. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-021-03274-z

Sengupta, J., Nilsson, J., Gursky, R., Spahn, C. M. T., Nissen, P. & Frank, J. (2004). Identification of the versatile scaffold protein RACK1 on the eukaryotic ribosome by cryo-electron microscopy. Nat. Struct. Biol. ,11, 957-962.

Sehgal, P., Szalai, P., Olesen, C., Praetorius, H. A., Nissen, P., Christensen, S. B., Engedal, N. & Møller, J. V. (2017). Inhibition of the sarco/endoplasmic reticulum (ER) Ca2+-ATPase by thapsigargin analogs induces cell death via ER Ca2+ depletion and the unfolded protein response. Journal of Biological Chemistry, 292(48), 19656-19673. https://doi.org/10.1074/jbc.M117.796920

Schack, V. R., Morth, J. P., Toustrup-Jensen, M. S., Anthonisen, A. N., Nissen, P., Andersen, J. P. & Vilsen, B. (2008). Identification and function of a cytoplasmic K⁺ site of the Na⁺,K⁺ATPase. Journal of Biological Chemistry, 283(41), 27982-90. https://doi.org/10.1074/jbc.M803506200

Saleh, N., Wang, Y., Nissen, P. & Lindorff-Larsen, K. (2019). Allosteric modulation of the sarcoplasmic reticulum Ca2+ ATPase by thapsigargin via decoupling of functional motions. Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics, 21(39), 21991-21995. https://doi.org/10.1039/c9cp04736k

Roeters, S. J., Golbek, T. W., Bregnhøj, M., Drace, T., Alamdari, S., Roseboom, W., Kramer, G., Šantl-Temkiv, T., Finster, K., Pfaendtner, J., Woutersen, S., Boesen, T. & Weidner, T. (2021). Ice-nucleating proteins are activated by low temperatures to control the structure of interfacial water. Nature Communications, 12(1), Article 1183. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-021-21349-3

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