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Overview

Eitan Bibi is affiliated with the Weizmann Institute of Science in Israel and specializes in fields spanning Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology, Chemistry, and Materials Science. Their research primarily focuses on Biophysics, Spectroscopy, Materials Chemistry, Psychiatry and Mental Health, and Electronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials.

The research topics associated with their work include Electron Spin Resonance Studies, Advanced NMR Techniques and Applications, Lanthanide and Transition Metal Complexes, Magnetism in coordination complexes, RNA and protein synthesis mechanisms, Bacterial Genetics and Biotechnology, and Bacteriophages and microbial interactions.

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Eitan Bibi are Eliane Hadas Yardeni, Thorsten Bahrenberg, Akiva Feintuch, Daniella Goldfarb, and Smriti Mishra.

Publishing venues where their work has frequently appeared include the Journal of Molecular Biology, Biophysical Journal, bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory), and BJPsych Open.

Selected recent papers by Eitan Bibi are:

  • The Multidrug Transporter MdfA Deviates from the Canonical Model of Alternating Access of MFS Transporters, 2020, Journal of Molecular Biology
  • Substrate binding in the multidrug transporter MdfA in detergent solution and in lipid nanodiscs, 2021, Biophysical Journal
  • Co-Translational Membrane Targeting and Holo-Translocon Docking of Ribosomes Translating the SRP Receptor, 2022, Journal of Molecular Biology
  • Drug binding sites in the multidrug transporter MdfA in detergent solution and in lipid nanodiscs, 2020, bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Malignant catatonia in an adolescent with pogo transposable element derived with zinc finger domain (POGZ) gene mutation: case report, 2025, BJPsych Open

Best Publications

  • Alkaline pH homeostasis in bacteria: new insights.

    Etana Padan;Eitan Bibi;Masahiro Ito;Terry A. Krulwich

  • MdfA, an Escherichia coli multidrug resistance protein with an extraordinarily broad spectrum of drug recognition

    R Edgar;E Bibi

  • In vivo expression of the lacY gene in two segments leads to functional lac permease.

    E Bibi;H R Kaback

  • FtsY, the prokaryotic signal recognition particle receptor homologue, is essential for biogenesis of membrane proteins.

    Andrei Seluanov;Eitan Bibi

  • Structural basis for intramembrane proteolysis by rhomboid serine proteases

    Adam Ben-Shem;Deborah Fass;Eitan Bibi

  • How intramembrane proteases bury hydrolytic reactions in the membrane

    Elinor Erez;Deborah Fass;Eitan Bibi

  • A single membrane-embedded negative charge is critical for recognizing positively charged drugs by the Escherichia coli multidrug resistance protein MdfA.

    Rotem Edgar;Eitan Bibi

  • New prospects in studying the bacterial signal recognition particle pathway

    Anat A. Herskovits;Elena S. Bochkareva;Eitan Bibi

  • Alkalitolerance: A biological function for a multidrug transporter in pH homeostasis

    Oded Lewinson;Etana Padan;Eitan Bibi

  • Bacterial multidrug transport through the lens of the major facilitator superfamily.

    Nir Fluman;Eitan Bibi

  • Do physiological roles foster persistence of drug/multidrug-efflux transporters? A case study

    Terry A. Krulwich;Oded Lewinson;Etana Padan;Eitan Bibi

  • Studying membrane proteins through the eyes of the genetic code revealed a strong uracil bias in their coding mRNAs.

    Jaime Prilusky;Eitan Bibi

  • mRNA-programmed translation pauses in the targeting of E. coli membrane proteins

    Nir Fluman;Sivan Navon;Eitan Bibi;Yitzhak Pilpel

  • Dissection of Mechanistic Principles of a Secondary Multidrug Efflux Protein

    Nir Fluman;Christopher M. Ryan;Julian P. Whitelegge;Eitan Bibi

  • Escherichia coli Signal Recognition Particle Receptor FtsY Contains an Essential and Autonomous Membrane-binding Amphipathic Helix

    Richard Parlitz;Asa Eitan;Goran Stjepanovic;Liat Bahari

  • A structure-based mechanism for drug binding by multidrug transporters.

    Ekaterina E Zheleznova;Penelope Markham;Rotem Edgar;Eitan Bibi

  • The NG domain of the prokaryotic signal recognition particle receptor, FtsY, is fully functional when fused to an unrelated integral membrane polypeptide

    Adrian Zelazny;Andrei Seluanov;Arie Cooper;Eitan Bibi

  • Association of Escherichia coli ribosomes with the inner membrane requires the signal recognition particle receptor but is independent of the signal recognition particle.

    Anat A. Herskovits;Eitan Bibi

  • Lipophilic cations: a group of model substrates for the multidrug-resistance transporter.

    Gros P;Talbot F;Tang-Wai D;Bibi E

  • Evidence for Simultaneous Binding of Dissimilar Substrates by the Escherichia coli Multidrug Transporter MdfA

    Oded Lewinson;Eitan Bibi

Frequent Co-Authors

H. Ronald Kaback
H. Ronald Kaback University of California, Los Angeles
Yitzhak Pilpel
Yitzhak Pilpel Weizmann Institute of Science
Andrei Seluanov
Andrei Seluanov University of Rochester
Etana Padan
Etana Padan Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Daniella Goldfarb
Daniella Goldfarb Weizmann Institute of Science
Irmgard Sinning
Irmgard Sinning Heidelberg University
Terry A. Krulwich
Terry A. Krulwich Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai
Steven J. D. Karlish
Steven J. D. Karlish Weizmann Institute of Science
Miklós Sahin-Tóth
Miklós Sahin-Tóth University of California, Los Angeles
Philippe Gros
Philippe Gros McGill University

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