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Tino Pleiner

@pleinerlab.bsky.social

Assistant Professor @Stanford_Molecular & Cellular Physiology; Membrane protein homeostasis; Protein quality control; Antibody engineering; Engineering cells with genetically encodable #nanobodies, #FirstGen; Pronouns: He/Him https://www.pleinerlab.org/

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Open Postdoctoral position, faculty mentor Ruth Huttenhain | Office of Postdoctoral Affairs

My lab @stanfordmedicine.bsky.social is recruiting! We are looking for a postdoc at the interface of quantitative proteomics and G protein-coupled receptor (GPCR) biology:
postdocs.stanford.edu/prospective/...
#TeamMassSpec #Proteomics #GPCR #Postdoc

02.10.2025 18:27 β€” πŸ‘ 23    πŸ” 20    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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TRIP12 structures reveal HECT E3 formation of K29 linkages and branched ubiquitin chains - Nature Structural & Molecular Biology Using biochemistry, chemical biology, and cryo-EM, Maiwald et al. elucidate how TRIP12 forms K29 linkages and K29/K48-linked branched ubiquitin chains, revealing a mechanism for polyubiquitylation sha...

Excited to share our latest study on how K29/K48-branched #ubiquitin chains are forged by the #E3 ligase TRIP12, and how this suggests a consensus mechanism for chain formation by HECT E3s!

@natsmb.nature.com

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www.nature.com/articles/s41...

26.05.2025 09:36 β€” πŸ‘ 44    πŸ” 17    πŸ’¬ 4    πŸ“Œ 3

ER needs ATP for processes like protein quality control, but can't make its own. Here, how ATP is imported into the ER lumen and exchanged for ADP.

24.05.2025 04:56 β€” πŸ‘ 20    πŸ” 8    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
Breakthrough Prize-Winning Biochemist on the Deadly Cost of Funding Cuts | Amanpour and Company
YouTube video by Amanpour and Company Breakthrough Prize-Winning Biochemist on the Deadly Cost of Funding Cuts | Amanpour and Company

David Liu @harvard.edu beautifully articulates the criticality of basic science funding for developing revolutionary therapeutics like life-saving base editors πŸ‘

youtu.be/8YhJM6zxYDw?...

24.05.2025 01:13 β€” πŸ‘ 239    πŸ” 102    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 1
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Leucine aminopeptidase LyLAP enables lysosomal degradation of membrane proteins Breakdown of every transmembrane protein trafficked to lysosomes requires proteolysis of their hydrophobic helical transmembrane domains. Combining lysosomal proteomics with functional genomic dataset...

Amazing story from #MolecularTherapeutics faculty @robzonculab.bsky.social with lead author @aakritijain.bsky.social describing membrane protein degradation in the lysosome. Congratulations!!

www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

27.03.2025 21:36 β€” πŸ‘ 19    πŸ” 11    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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In situ architecture of the human prohibitin complex - Nature Cell Biology Lange, Ratz, et al. investigate the number and distribution of human prohibitin complexes in the mitochondrial inner membrane, uncovering their bell-shaped structure and assembly of alternating PHB1 a...

Excited to share our paper with Jakobs Lab @mpi-nat.bsky.social on the in situ structure of the prohibitin complex in human mitochondria! Although mitochondria contain >1000 proteins, it seems a single, 2-subunit complex occupies 1-3% of the crista membrane area 🀯

www.nature.com/articles/s41...

25.03.2025 20:47 β€” πŸ‘ 7    πŸ” 3    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Prohormone cleavage prediction uncovers a non-incretin anti-obesity peptide - Nature Computational drug discovery is used to identify a 12-mer peptide derived from BRINP2 with potent anti-obesity effects that are independent of leptin, glucagon-like peptide 1 receptor and melanocortin...

Exciting discovery by Svensson lab and collaborators @stanfordmedicine.bsky.social, computational discovery of 2500 new bioactive peptides, including 12-mer named BRP that reduces food intake leading to weight loss w/o nausea in mice!

www.nature.com/articles/s41...

11.03.2025 23:22 β€” πŸ‘ 105    πŸ” 34    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 5
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Thrilled to share the structure of dimerised human PINK1 docked to an endogenous translocase array on the mitochondrial surface, composed of two TOM complexes, bridged by a VDAC2 dimer! Published today in Science www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

@wehi-research.bsky.social @komanderlab.bsky.social

13.03.2025 19:19 β€” πŸ‘ 168    πŸ” 57    πŸ’¬ 9    πŸ“Œ 6
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Pamela J. Bjorkman Wolf Prize Laureate in Medicine 2025

The 2025 Wolf Prize Laureate in Medicine, Professor Pamela J. Bjorkman β€œFor pioneering innovative strategies to overcome viral defenses through novel antibody-focused approaches” @caltech.edu wolffund.org.il/pamela-j-bjo... @bjorkman-lab.bsky.social

10.03.2025 19:38 β€” πŸ‘ 7    πŸ” 4    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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C-terminal amides mark proteins for degradation via SCF–FBXO31 - Nature SCF–FBXO31 scans proteins for C-terminal amidation and marks them for subsequent proteasomal degradation.

scary but fascinating - cells have a degradation pathway that hunts down C-terminal scars (amides!) on damaged proteins. just wow. chemical biology plus CRISPR at its best. big congrats to all authors!

www.nature.com/articles/s41...

29.01.2025 17:57 β€” πŸ‘ 107    πŸ” 34    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 1

Nice highlighting of @taylor-mighell.bsky.social's GPCR pharmacochaperone preprint by @dereklowe.bsky.social @science.org www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

19.01.2025 14:05 β€” πŸ‘ 11    πŸ” 4    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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In a great collaboration with @hummerlab.bsky.social and the KrΓ€usslich lab: HIV capsid doesn't break at the NPC; instead, it cracks open the NPC itself! Details in Cell: authors.elsevier.com/sd/article/S... @mpibp.bsky.social @uniheidelberg.bsky.social A thread below:

17.01.2025 18:43 β€” πŸ‘ 424    πŸ” 134    πŸ’¬ 7    πŸ“Œ 19
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iAPEX: Improved APEX-based proximity labeling for subcellular proteomics using an enzymatic reaction cascade Ascorbate peroxidase (APEX) is a versatile labeling enzyme used for live-cell proteomics at high spatial and temporal resolution. However, toxicity of its substrate hydrogen peroxide and background la...

Proud to share our work spear-headed by PhD student Tommy Sroka with major contributions by #xenopus expert Kerstin Feistel.

Our iAPEX #ProximityLabeling method for #MassSpec based subcellular #proteomics works by locally generating H2O2 using a D-amino acid oxidase that activates APEX2 in situ.

11.01.2025 19:51 β€” πŸ‘ 34    πŸ” 16    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 1
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Protein quality control is a tug-of-war between degradation machinery and chaperones that promote folding. Thrilled to see our latest manuscript is now published!
πŸ‘‡ Follow 🧡 for quick summary
journals.biologists.com/jcs/article-...

10.01.2025 17:10 β€” πŸ‘ 38    πŸ” 15    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 2
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I am excited to report the preprint of my postdoc work in the @olzmannlab.bsky.social! We have discovered the first lipid droplet quality control pathway with broad implications for lipid physiology and diseases associated with LD accumulation and oxidative stress! #lipidtime

shorturl.at/2HqFd

08.01.2025 13:46 β€” πŸ‘ 64    πŸ” 15    πŸ’¬ 6    πŸ“Œ 0

Check out our work, where we discover how receptor GPCR senses pH! We solved a longstanding question by developing foundational GPCR DMS tech dev + structural bio! Led by brilliant PhD student @matthewkhoward.bsky.social and Nick Hoppe w/ @amanglik.bsky.social!

www.cell.com/cell/fulltex...

06.01.2025 23:47 β€” πŸ‘ 63    πŸ” 12    πŸ’¬ 3    πŸ“Œ 1
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Interested in #organelle biogenesis, subcellular #membrane #protein targeting or #LipidMetabolism? We are hiring! #PhD student or #postdoc.
We combine #Biochemistry & #CellBiology with Computational Modeling & Experimental Physics / Physical Chemistry approaches.
#research #academicsky #AcademicJob

26.11.2024 14:51 β€” πŸ‘ 38    πŸ” 16    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

I’ll have more to say about this later, but please have a look, and I hope the #TeamTomo community finds good uses for those 1829 Chlamy tomograms πŸ§ͺπŸ§ΆπŸ§¬πŸŒΎπŸ”¬

29.12.2024 16:17 β€” πŸ‘ 65    πŸ” 22    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 2
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Mitochondria consist of networks of cylindrical tubes, right? Not necessarily! - in our new preprint, @gavsturm.bsky.social investigates how mitochondria transiently adopt a beads-on-a-string morphology

www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

23.12.2024 17:49 β€” πŸ‘ 268    πŸ” 92    πŸ’¬ 6    πŸ“Œ 11
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My lab @Stanford studies membrane protein insertion, assembly and quality control at the human ER membrane. We develop tiny genetically encodable antibodies from alpacas, called nanobodies, as tools to acutely manipulate intracellular biology. Join us as a postdoc! Apply here: bit.ly/_Postdocs

18.12.2024 00:37 β€” πŸ‘ 14    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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GΓΆrlich lab develops secondary #nanobodies! They outperform conventional secondary antibodies and can replace these and their controversial production in animals: Nanobodies can be produced in large scale by bacteria. @JCellBiol http://www.mpibpc.mpg.de/15856308/pr_1726

20.12.2017 15:57 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

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