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David L. Stokes

David L. Stokes, PhD

Professor, Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Pharmacology

Keywords
cryo-electron microscopy, X-Ray crystallography, membrane transport, biophysics, channels and transporters
Summary

Our laboratory is interested primarily in the molecular mechanisms of membrane transport. We use a variety of methods to study active transporters that directly use ATP as an energy source as well as secondary transporters that couple transport to the electrochemical gradient. Current transporters under study include the KdpFABC complex from bacteria that is responsible for active import of potassium, the YiiP transporter, also from bacteria, that uses the proton motive force to export zinc and the Bor1p transporter from yeast that imports borate. We have solved structures of each transporter using either X-ray crystallography or Cryo-EM and have used activity assays to characterize the functional parameters of transport. We are currently exploring a variety of experimental and computational approaches to characterize the conformational changes that accompany transport, with the goal of ultimately developing a comprehensive understanding of the transport cycle from both structural and energetic perspectives.

Phone

212-263-1580

Academic office

450 29th Street, ACLS East Tower

Rm 860

New York, NY 10016

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Ung, Kien Lam; Schulz, Lukas; Stokes, David L; Hammes, Ulrich Z; Pedersen, Bjørn Panyella

Trends in biochemical sciences. 2023 Nov; 48(11):937-948

Hussein, Adel; Fan, Shujie; Lopez-Redondo, Maria; Kenney, Ian; Zhang, Xihui; Beckstein, Oliver; Stokes, David L

eLife. 2023 Oct 31; 12:

Ung, Kien Lam; Winkler, Mikael; Schulz, Lukas; Kolb, Martina; Janacek, Dorina P; Dedic, Emil; Stokes, David L; Hammes, Ulrich Z; Pedersen, Bjørn Panyella

Nature. 2022 Sep; 609(7927):605-610

Lopez-Redondo, Maria; Fan, Shujie; Koide, Akiko; Koide, Shohei; Beckstein, Oliver; Stokes, David L

Journal of general physiology. 2021 Aug 02; 153(8):

Sweet, Marie E; Larsen, Casper; Zhang, Xihui; Schlame, Michael; Pedersen, Bjørn P; Stokes, David L

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America (PNAS). 2021 Jul 20; 118(29):

Dubey, Vikas; Stokes, David; Pedersen, Bjørn Panyella; Khandelia, Himanshu

Journal of molecular biology. 2021 May 02; 167008

Sweet, Marie E; Zhang, Xihui; Erdjument-Bromage, Hediye; Dubey, Vikas; Khandelia, Himanshu; Neubert, Thomas A; Pedersen, Bjørn P; Stokes, David L

eLife. 2020 Sep 21; 9:

Pedersen, Bjørn P; Stokes, David L; Apell, Hans-Jürgen

Molecular membrane biology. 2019 Jul 01; 1-34