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60
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11719
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Overview

Els Pardon is affiliated with Vrije Universiteit Brussel in Belgium. Their research focuses primarily on Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology, encompassing 157 publications. Within this broad field, they have contributed extensively to subfields including Molecular Biology, Radiology, Nuclear Medicine and Imaging, Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience, Cell Biology, and Physiology.

The scientist's work addresses several main topics such as Monoclonal and Polyclonal Antibodies Research, RNA and protein synthesis mechanisms, Glycosylation and Glycoproteins Research, Lipid Membrane Structure and Behavior, Receptor Mechanisms and Signaling, Enzyme Structure and Function, and Bacteriophages and microbial interactions.

Els Pardon has authored notable papers including:

  • "Megabodies expand the nanobody toolkit for protein structure determination by single-particle cryo-EM" (2021), published in Nature Methods
  • "Nanobody-enabled monitoring of kappa opioid receptor states" (2020), published in Nature Communications
  • "Structure, substrate recognition and initiation of hyaluronan synthase" (2022), published in Nature
  • "Nanobodies to study protein conformational states" (2020), published in Current Opinion in Structural Biology
  • "Development of a universal nanobody-binding Fab module for fiducial-assisted cryo-EM studies of membrane proteins" (2021), published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

Els Pardon's frequent co-authors include Jan Steyaert, Tomasz Uchański, Thomas Zögg, Alexandre Wohlkönig, and Wim Versées.

The scientist often publishes in venues such as bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory), Nature Communications, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, eLife, and the EMPIAR dataset.

Best Publications

  • Crystal structure of the β2 adrenergic receptor-Gs protein complex.

    Søren G. F. Rasmussen;Brian T. DeVree;Yaozhong Zou;Andrew C. Kruse

  • Structure of a nanobody-stabilized active state of the β2 adrenoceptor

    Søren G F Rasmussen;Hee Jung Choi;Juan Jose Fung;Els Pardon

  • Activation and allosteric modulation of a muscarinic acetylcholine receptor

    Andrew C. Kruse;Aaron M. Ring;Aashish Manglik;Jianxin Hu

  • A general protocol for the generation of Nanobodies for structural biology

    Els Pardon;Toon Laeremans;Sarah Triest;Søren G F Rasmussen

  • Mutations in PMM2, a phosphomannomutase gene on chromosome 16p13, in carbohydrate-deficient glycoprotein type I syndrome (Jaeken syndrome)

    Gert Matthijs;E Schollen;Els Pardon;M Veiga-Da-Cunha

  • GABAAreceptor signalling mechanisms revealed by structural pharmacology.

    S. Masiulis;R. Desai;T. Uchanski;I. Serna Martin

  • Structure of the Nanobody-Stabilized Active State of the Kappa Opioid Receptor

    Tao Che;Susruta Majumdar;Saheem A. Zaidi;Pauline Ondachi

  • Cryo-EM structure of the human α1β3γ2 GABA A receptor in a lipid bilayer.

    Laverty D;Desai R;Uchański T;Masiulis S

  • Allosteric nanobodies reveal the dynamic range and diverse mechanisms of G-protein-coupled receptor activation

    Dean P Staus;Ryan T Strachan;Aashish Manglik;Biswaranjan Pani

  • Allosteric coupling from G protein to the agonist-binding pocket in GPCRs

    Brian T. Devree;Jacob P. Mahoney;Gisselle A. Vélez-Ruiz;Soren G.F. Rasmussen

  • Structural insights into the activation of metabotropic glutamate receptors.

    Antoine Koehl;Hongli Hu;Dan Feng;Bingfa Sun

  • Structural flexibility of the Gαs α-helical domain in the β 2-adrenoceptor Gs complex

    Gerwin H. Westfield;Søren G. F. Rasmussen;Søren G. F. Rasmussen;Min Su;Somnath Dutta

  • Identification of a universal VHH framework to graft non-canonical antigen-binding loops of camel single-domain antibodies.

    Dirk Saerens;Mireille Pellis;Remy Loris;Els Pardon

  • Structures of P-glycoprotein reveal its conformational flexibility and an epitope on the nucleotide-binding domain.

    Andrew A.B. Ward;Paul Szewczyk;Vinciane Grimard;Chang-Wook Lee

  • The Molecular Mechanism of Transport by the Mitochondrial ADP/ATP Carrier

    Jonathan J Ruprecht;Martin S King;Thomas Zögg;Antoniya A Aleksandrova

  • Structure and flexibility of the endosomal Vps34 complex reveals the basis of its function on membranes

    Ksenia Rostislavleva;Nicolas Soler;Yohei Ohashi;Lufei Zhang

  • Crystal Structure of the N-Terminal Domain of the Secretin GspD from ETEC Determined with the Assistance of a Nanobody

    Konstantin V. Korotkov;Els Pardon;Jan Steyaert;Wim G.J. Hol

  • Crystal structure of a SLC11 (NRAMP) transporter reveals the basis for transition-metal ion transport.

    Ines A Ehrnstorfer;Eric R Geertsma;Eric R Geertsma;Els Pardon;Jan Steyaert;Jan Steyaert

  • Structure and Properties of a Complex of alpha-Synuclein and a Single-Domain Camelid Antibody

    Erwin J De Genst;Tim Guilliams;Joke Wellens;Elizabeth M O'Day

  • Structure of a prokaryotic fumarate transporter reveals the architecture of the SLC26 family.

    Eric R Geertsma;Eric R Geertsma;Yung-Ning Chang;Yung-Ning Chang;Farooque R Shaik;Yvonne Neldner

Frequent Co-Authors

Jan Steyaert
Jan Steyaert Vrije Universiteit Brussel
Brian K. Kobilka
Brian K. Kobilka Stanford University
Lode Wyns
Lode Wyns Vrije Universiteit Brussel
Roger K. Sunahara
Roger K. Sunahara University of California, San Diego
Serge Muyldermans
Serge Muyldermans Vrije Universiteit Brussel
Wim G. J. Hol
Wim G. J. Hol University of Washington
Keith W. Miller
Keith W. Miller Harvard University
Christopher M. Dobson
Christopher M. Dobson University of Cambridge
A. Radu Aricescu
A. Radu Aricescu MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology
Mark S.P. Sansom
Mark S.P. Sansom University of Oxford

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