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Overview

Christian Altenbach is affiliated with the University of California, Los Angeles in the United States. Their research spans multiple fields including biochemistry, genetics and molecular biology, as well as materials science.

The main topics of Christian Altenbach's work include:

  • Electron Spin Resonance Studies
  • Lanthanide and Transition Metal Complexes
  • Receptor Mechanisms and Signaling
  • Neuroscience and Neuropharmacology Research
  • Protein Kinase Regulation and GTPase Signaling
  • Advanced MRI Techniques and Applications
  • Magnetism in coordination complexes

Their subfields of study further specify interests in:

  • Biophysics
  • Materials Chemistry
  • Molecular Biology
  • Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience
  • Radiology, Nuclear Medicine and Imaging

Christian Altenbach has collaborated frequently with several coauthors including Wayne L. Hubbell, Julian D. Grosskopf, Jason W. Sidabras, Jim R. Anderson, and Richard R. Mett.

The scientist's recent publications are distributed across respected journals and venues, such as the Journal of Molecular Biology, Applied Magnetic Resonance, Protein Science, and bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory). Selected recent papers include:

  • "An Eight Amino Acid Segment Controls Oligomerization and Preferred Conformation of the two Non-visual Arrestins" (2020, Journal of Molecular Biology)
  • "Analyzing CW EPR Spectra of Nitroxide Labeled Macromolecules" (2023, Applied Magnetic Resonance)
  • "A pressure-jump EPR system to monitor millisecond conformational exchange rates of spin-labeled proteins" (2024, Protein Science)
  • "A pressure-jump EPR system to monitor millisecond conformational exchange rates of spin-labeled proteins" (2024, bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory))

Best Publications

  • Requirement of Rigid-Body Motion of Transmembrane Helices for Light Activation of Rhodopsin

    David L. Farrens;Christian Altenbach;Ke Yang;Wayne L. Hubbell

  • Identifying conformational changes with site-directed spin labeling.

    Wayne L. Hubbell;David S. Cafiso;Christian Altenbach

  • Structural Insights into the Dynamic Process of β2-Adrenergic Receptor Signaling

    Aashish Manglik;Tae Hun Kim;Matthieu Masureel;Christian Altenbach

  • Transmembrane protein structure: spin labeling of bacteriorhodopsin mutants

    C Altenbach;T Marti;HG Khorana;WL Hubbell

  • A collision gradient method to determine the immersion depth of nitroxides in lipid bilayers: application to spin-labeled mutants of bacteriorhodopsin.

    C Altenbach;D A Greenhalgh;H G Khorana;W L Hubbell

  • Watching proteins move using site-directed spin labeling

    Wayne L Hubbell;Hassane S Mchaourab;Christian Altenbach;Michael A Lietzow

  • High-resolution distance mapping in rhodopsin reveals the pattern of helix movement due to activation

    Christian Altenbach;Ana Karin Kusnetzow;Oliver P. Ernst;Klaus Peter Hofmann

  • Investigation of structure and dynamics in membrane proteins using site-directed spin labeling

    Wayne L. Hubbell;Christian Altenbach

  • Rhodopsin structure, dynamics, and activation: a perspective from crystallography, site-directed spin labeling, sulfhydryl reactivity, and disulfide cross-linking.

    Wayne L Hubbell;Christian Altenbach;Cheryl M Hubbell;H Gobind Khorana

  • Structural studies on transmembrane proteins. 2. Spin labeling of bacteriorhodopsin mutants at unique cysteines.

    C. Altenbach;S.L. Flitsch;H.G. Khorana;W.L. Hubbell

  • Structural features and light-dependent changes in the cytoplasmic interhelical E-F loop region of rhodopsin: a site-directed spin-labeling study.

    C Altenbach;K Yang;D L Farrens;Z T Farahbakhsh

  • Site-specific incorporation of biophysical probes into proteins.

    Virginia W. Cornish;David R. Benson;Christian A. Altenbach;Kalman Hideg

  • Technological advances in site-directed spin labeling of proteins.

    Wayne L Hubbell;Carlos J López;Christian Altenbach;Zhongyu Yang

  • Estimation of Inter-Residue Distances in Spin Labeled Proteins at Physiological Temperatures: Experimental Strategies and Practical Limitations†

    Christian Altenbach;Kyoung-Joon Oh;René J. Trabanino;Kalman Hideg

  • Ca2+ binding to phosphatidylcholine bilayers as studied by deuterium magnetic resonance. Evidence for the formation of a Ca2+ complex with two phospholipid molecules.

    Christian Altenbach;Joachim Seelig

  • Site-directed spin labeling of a genetically encoded unnatural amino acid

    Mark R. Fleissner;Eric M. Brustad;Eric M. Brustad;Tamás Kálai;Christian Altenbach

  • Interaction of alpha-crystallin with spin-labeled peptides

    Zohreh Toossi Farahbakhsh;Qing-Ling Huang;Lin-Lin Ding;Christian Altenbach

  • Molecular characterization of helix-loop-helix peptides

    Spencer J. Anthony-Cahill;Pamela A. Benfield;Robert Fairman;Zelda R. Wasserman

  • Time-resolved detection of structural changes during the photocycle of spin-labeled bacteriorhodopsin

    HJ Steinhoff;R Mollaaghababa;C Altenbach;K Hideg

  • Sugar binding induces an outward facing conformation of LacY

    Irina Smirnova;Vladimir Kasho;Jun-Yong Choe;Christian Altenbach

  • Erratum: Structural Insights into the Dynamic Process of β2-Adrenergic Receptor Signaling (Cell (2015) 161 (1101-1111))

    Aashish Manglik;Tae Hun Kim;Matthieu Masureel;Christian Altenbach

Frequent Co-Authors

Wayne L. Hubbell
Wayne L. Hubbell University of California, Los Angeles
Judith Klein-Seetharaman
Judith Klein-Seetharaman Arizona State University
Vsevolod V. Gurevich
Vsevolod V. Gurevich Vanderbilt University
Emil Reisler
Emil Reisler University of California, Los Angeles
Peter G. Schultz
Peter G. Schultz Scripps Research Institute
Duilio Cascio
Duilio Cascio University of California, Los Angeles
H. Ronald Kaback
H. Ronald Kaback University of California, Los Angeles
Todd O. Yeates
Todd O. Yeates University of California, Los Angeles
Gerald L. Hazelbauer
Gerald L. Hazelbauer University of Missouri

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