Andrew Leis

Luminal particles within cellular microtubules

Garvalov, Boyan K., Zuber, Benoît, Bouchet-Marquis, Cédric, Kudryashev, Mikhail, Gruska, Manuela, Beck, Martin, ...

The regulation of microtubule dynamics is attributed to microtubule-associated proteins that bind to the microtubule outer surface, but little is known about cellular components that may associate...

Cryoelectron tomography reveals periodic material at the inner side of subpellicular microtubules in apicomplexan parasites

Cyrklaff, Marek, Kudryashev, Mikhail, Leis, Andrew, Leonard, Kevin, Baumeister, Wolfgang, Menard, Robert, ...

Microtubules are dynamic cytoskeletal structures important for cell division, polarity, and motility and are therefore major targets for anticancer and antiparasite drugs. In the invasive forms of...

Cryo-electron tomography of cells: connecting structure and function

Lučić, Vladan, Leis, Andrew, Baumeister, Wolfgang

Cryo-electron tomography (cryo-ET) allows the visualization of cellular structures under close-to-life conditions and at molecular resolution. While it is inherently a static approach, yielding...

Disclosure of the mycobacterial outer membrane: Cryo-electron tomography and vitreous sections reveal the lipid bilayer structure

Hoffmann, Christian, Leis, Andrew, Niederweis, Michael, Plitzko, Jürgen M., Engelhardt, Harald

The cell walls of mycobacteria form an exceptional permeability barrier, and they are essential for virulence. They contain extractable lipids and long-chain mycolic acids that are covalently linked...

Chromatin Organization and Radio Resistance in the Bacterium Gemmata obscuriglobus▿ †

Lieber, Arnon, Leis, Andrew, Kushmaro, Ariel, Minsky, Abraham, Medalia, Ohad

The organization of chromatin has a major impact on cellular activities, such as gene expression. For bacteria, it was suggested that the spatial organization of the genetic material correlates with...