Dr Adrian Lapthorn
- Senior Lecturer (School of Chemistry)
telephone:
01413305940
email:
Adrian.Lapthorn@glasgow.ac.uk
Room B3-06, Chemistry, Joseph Black Building, Glasgow G12 8QQ
Research interests
Research Interests
My research interests are in using the technique of protein crystallography to elucidate protein structure with an aim to answering important questions on protein function and mechanism. I also have a specific interest in protein-protein interactions. Protein Structure and Function; Enzymes of the Shikimate pathway; Structure aided drug discovery; Protein Crystallography; Plant Glutathione S-transferases.
Research Topics
Protein Structure and Function
Enzymes of the Shikimate pathway
Structure aided drug discovery
Protein Crystallography
Plant Glutathione S-transferases
Publication Highlights
"Binding and glutathione conjugation of porphyrinogens by plant glutathione transferases". Dixon, D.P., Lapthorn, A.J., Madesis, P., Mudd, E.A., Day, A. and Edwards, R. J. Biol. Chem. 283, 20268-20276 (2008)
"Design, synthesis, and structural studies on potent biaryl inhibitors of type II dehydroquinases". Payne, R.J., Riboldi-Tunnicliffe, A., Kerbarh, O., Abell, A.D., Lapthorn, A.J. and Abell, C. ChemMedChem, 2, 1010-1013 (2007)
"Crystal structures of Helicobacter pylori type II dehydroquinase inhibitor complexes: New directions for inhibitor design". D.A. Robinson, K.A. Stewart, N.C. Price, P.A. Chalk, J.R. Coggins, A.J. Lapthorn, J. Med. Chem., 49, 1282-1290 (2006)
"Crystal structure of mouse succinic semialdehyde reductase AKR7A5: Structural basis for substrate specificity". X.F. Zhu, A.J. Lapthorn, E.M. Ellis, Biochemistry, 45, 1562-1570 (2006)
"The structure of Escherichia coli ATP-phosphoribosyltransferase: Identification of substrate binding sites and mode of AMP inhibition". B. Lohkamp, G. McDermott, S.A. Campbell, J.R. Coggins, A.J. Lapthorn, J. Mol. Biol., 336, 131-144 (2004)
Research groups
Publications
2024
Cardwell, P. A., Del Moro, C., Murphy, M. P., Lapthorn, A. J. and Hartley, R. C. (2024) Human mitochondrial glutathione transferases: Kinetic parameters and accommodation of a mitochondria-targeting group in substrates. Bioorganic and Medicinal Chemistry, 104, 117712. (doi: 10.1016/j.bmc.2024.117712) (PMID:38593670)
2023
Wallace, S. et al. (2023) Multiplexed biosensing of proteins and virions with disposable plasmonic assays. ACS Sensors, 8(9), pp. 3338-3348. (doi: 10.1021/acssensors.2c02238) (PMID:37610841) (PMCID:PMC10521139)
2020
Kakkar, T. et al. (2020) Superchiral near fields detect virus structure. Light: Science and Applications, 9(1), 195. (doi: 10.1038/s41377-020-00433-1) (PMID:33298854) (PMCID:PMC7705013)
Rodier, M., Keijzer, C., Milner, J. , Karimullah, A. S. , Barron, L., Gadegaard, N. , Lapthorn, A. J. and Kadodwala, M. (2020) Biomacromolecular charge chirality detected using chiral plasmonic nanostructures. Nanoscale Horizons, 5, pp. 336-344. (doi: 10.1039/C9NH00525K)
2019
Rodier, M., Keijzer, C., Milner, J. , Karimullah, A. , Barron, L., Gadegaard, N. , Lapthorn, A. and Kadodwala, M. (2019) Probing specificity of protein-protein interactions with chiral plasmonic nanostructures. Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters, 10, pp. 6105-6111. (doi: 10.1021/acs.jpclett.9b02288) (PMID:31549842)
2018
Kelly, C., Tullius, R., Lapthorn, A. J. , Gadegaard, N. , Cooke, G. , Barron, L. D., Karimullah, A. S. , Rotello, V. M. and Kadodwala, M. (2018) Chiral plasmonic fields probe structural order of biointerfaces. Journal of the American Chemical Society, 140(27), pp. 8509-8517. (doi: 10.1021/jacs.8b03634) (PMID:29909628)
2017
Tullius, R. et al. (2017) Superchiral plasmonic phase sensitivity for fingerprinting of protein interface structure. ACS Nano, 11(12), pp. 12049-12056. (doi: 10.1021/acsnano.7b04698) (PMID:29220155)
Ramakrishnan, G., González-Jiménez, M. , Lapthorn, A. J. and Wynne, K. (2017) Spectrum of slow and super-slow (picosecond to nanosecond) water dynamics around organic and biological solutes. Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters, 8(13), pp. 2964-2970. (doi: 10.1021/acs.jpclett.7b01127) (PMID:28612605)
Paschke, B., Ahmed, S., Milne, S. and Lapthorn, A. (2017) Maths Support for Science: A Blended and Online Development Project. Horizons in STEM Higher Education Conference: Making Connections and Sharing Pedagogy, Edinburgh, Scotland, 29-30 Jun 2017.
2016
Berger, P. and Lapthorn, A. J. (2016) The molecular relationship between antigenic domains and epitopes on hCG. Molecular Immunology, 76, pp. 134-145. (doi: 10.1016/j.molimm.2016.06.015) (PMID:27450517)
González-Jiminéz, M. , Ramakrishnan, G., Harwood, T., Lapthorn, A. J. , Kelly, S. M. , Ellis, E. M. and Wynne, K. (2016) Observation of coherent delocalized phonon-like modes in DNA under physiological conditions. Nature Communications, 7, 11799. (doi: 10.1038/ncomms11799) (PMID:27248361) (PMCID:PMC4895446)
Jack, C. et al. (2016) Spatial control of chemical processes on nanostructures through nano-localized water heating. Nature Communications, 7, 10946. (doi: 10.1038/ncomms10946) (PMID:26961708) (PMCID:PMC4792951)
Berger, P. and Lapthorn, A. (2016) Standardization of Epitopes for human chorionic gonadotropin (hCG) Immunoassays. Current Medicinal Chemistry, 23(30), pp. 3481-3494. (doi: 10.2174/0929867323666160530145503) (PMID:27237818)
2015
Tullius, R., Karimullah, A. S. , Rodier, M., Fitzpatrick, B., Gadegaard, N. , Barron, L. D., Rotello, V. M., Cooke, G. , Lapthorn, A. and Kadodwala, M. (2015) "Superchiral” spectroscopy: detection of protein higher order hierarchical structure with chiral plasmonic nanostructures. Journal of the American Chemical Society, 137(26), pp. 8380-8383. (doi: 10.1021/jacs.5b04806) (PMID:26102606)
2014
Turton, D. A., Senn, H. , Harwood, T., Lapthorn, A. J. , Ellis, E. M. and Wynne, K. (2014) Terahertz underdamped vibrational motion governs protein-ligand binding in solution. Nature Communications, 5, p. 3999. (doi: 10.1038/ncomms4999)
2013
Turton, D., Harwood, T., Lapthorn, A. , Ellis, E. and Wynne, K. (2013) Ultrabroadband terahertz spectroscopies of biomolecules and water. Proceedings of the SPIE: The International Society for Optical Engineering, 8623(862303), (doi: 10.1117/12.2003796)
Lapthorn, A. J. , Zhu, X. and Ellis, E. M. (2013) The diversity of microbial aldo/keto reductases from Escherichia coli K12. Chemico-Biological Interactions, 202(1-3), pp. 168-177. (doi: 10.1016/j.cbi.2012.10.008) (PMID:23103600)
2011
Paz, S. et al. (2011) Tetrahydrobenzothiophene derivatives: conformationally restricted inhibitors of type II dehydroquinase. ChemMedChem, 6(2), pp. 266-272. (doi: 10.1002/cmdc.201000343)
Tran, A.T., Cergol, K.M., West, N.P., Randall, E.J., Britton, W.J., Bokhari, S.A.I., Ibrahim, M., Lapthorn, A.J. and Payne, R.J. (2011) Synthesis and evaluation of potent ene-yne inhibitors of type II dehydroquinases as tuberculosis drug leads. ChemMedChem, 6(2), pp. 262-265. (doi: 10.1002/cmdc.201000399)
2010
Hendry, E., Carpy, T., Johnston, J., Popland, M., Mikhaylovskiy, R.V., Lapthorn, A. , Kelly, S.M., Barron, L.D., Gadegaard, N. and Kadodwala, M. (2010) Ultrasensitive detection and characterization of biomolecules using superchiral fields. Nature Nanotechnology, 5(11), pp. 783-787. (doi: 10.1038/nnano.2010.209)
Tran, A.T., Cergol, K.M., Britton, W.J., Bokhari, S.A.I., Ibrahim, M., Lapthorn, A.J. and Payne, R.J. (2010) Rapid assembly of potent type II dehydroquinase inhibitors via "Click" chemistry. MedChemComm, 1(4), pp. 271-275. (doi: 10.1039/c0md00097c)
2008
Dixon, D. P., Lapthorn, A. , Madesis, P., Mudd, E. A., Day, A. and Edwards, R. (2008) Binding and glutathione conjugation of porphyrinogens by plant glutathione transferases. Journal of Biological Chemistry, 283(29), pp. 20268-20276. (doi: 10.1074/jbc.M802026200)
Stewart, K. A., Robinson, D. A. and Lapthorn, A. J. (2008) Type II dehydroquinase: molecular replacement with many copies. Acta Crystallographica. Section D: Biological Crystallography, 64, pp. 108-118. (doi: 10.1107/S0907444907054923)
2007
Payne, R.J., Riboldi-Tunnicliffe, A., Kerbarh, O., Abell, A.D., Lapthorn, A.J. and Abell, C. (2007) Design, synthesis, and structural studies on potent biaryl inhibitors of type II dehydroquinases. ChemMedChem, 2(7), pp. 1010-1013. (doi: 10.1002/cmdc.200700062)
Prazeres, V. F.V., Sanchez-Sixto, C., Castedo, L., Lamb, H., Hawkins, A. R., Riboldi-Tunnicliffe, A., Coggins, J. R., Lapthorn, A. J. and Gonzalez-Bello, C. (2007) Nanomolar competitive inhibitors of Mycobacterium tuberculosis and Streptomyces coelicolor type II dehydroquinase. ChemMedChem, 2(2), pp. 194-207. (doi: 10.1002/cmdc.200600208)
2006
Lohkamp, B., Paterson, N. and Lapthorn, A. (2006) Application of a new vector system for efficient protein purification in the crystallization of PA5104/ORF from Pseudomonas aeruginosa. Journal of Structural Biology, 155, pp. 111-113. (doi: 10.1016/j.jsb.2006.03.016)
Robinson, D.A.,, Stewart, K.A., Price, N.C., Chalk, P.A., Coggins, J.R. and Lapthorn, A.J. (2006) Crystal structures of Helicobacter pylori type II dehydroquinase inhibitor complexes: new directions for inhibitor design. Journal of Medicinal Chemistry, 49(4), pp. 1282-1290. (doi: 10.1021/jm0505361)
Zhu, X., Lapthorn, A. and Ellis, E. (2006) Crystal structure of mouse succinic semialdehyde reductase AKR7A5: Structural basis for substrate specificity. Biochemistry, 45, pp. 1562-1570. (doi: 10.1021/bi051610k)
2005
Dias-Gunasekara, S., Gubbens, J., van Lith, M., Dunne, C., Williams, J.A.G., Kataky, R., Scoones, D., Lapthorn, A., Bulleid, N.J. and Benham, A.M. (2005) Tissue-specific expression and dimerization of the endoplasmic reticulum oxidoreductase Ero1β. Journal of Biological Chemistry, 280, pp. 33066-33075. (doi: 10.1074/jbc.M505023200)
Charrel-Dennis, M. et al. (2005) The human chorionic gonadotropin-beta arginine(68) to glutamic acid substitution fixes the conformation of the C-terminal peptide. Molecular Endocrinology, 19, pp. 1803-1811. (doi: 10.1210/me.2004-0109)
Dixon, D., Lapthorn, A. and Edwards, R. (2005) Synthesis and analysis of chimeric maize glutathione transferases. Plant Science, 168, pp. 873-881. (doi: 10.1016/j.plantsci.2004.11.009)
Toscano, M.D., Stewart, K.A., Coggins, J.R., Lapthorn, A.J. and Abell, C. (2005) Rational design of new bifunctional inhibitors of type II dehydroquinase. Organic and Biomolecular Chemistry, 3, pp. 3102-3104. (doi: 10.1039/B507156A)
2004
Lohkamp, B., McDermott, G., Campbell, S.A., Coggins, J.R. and Lapthorn, A.J. (2004) The structure of Escherichia coli ATP-phosphoribosyltransferase: identification of substrate binding sites and mode of AMP inhibition. Journal of Molecular Biology, 336(1), pp. 131-144. (doi: 10.1016/j.jmb.2003.12.020)
Charrel-Dennis, M., Jackson, A., Lund, T., Lapthorn, A. , Berger, P., Roitt, I. and Delves, P. (2004) The major hormone-specific discontinuous epitopes on human chorionic gonadotrophin. Journal of Molecular Endocrinology, 32, pp. 571-581.
Frederickson, M., Roszak, A. W., Coggins, J. R., Lapthorn, A. J. and Abell, C. (2004) (1R,4S,5R)-3-Fluoro-1,4,5-trihydroxy-2-cyclohexene-1-carboxylic acid: the fluoro analogue of the enolate intermediate in the reaction catalyzed by type II dehydroquinases. Organic and Biomolecular Chemistry, 2(11), pp. 1592-1596. (doi: 10.1039/B404535A)
2003
Coggins, J.R., Abell, C., Evan, L.B., Frederickson, M., Robinson, D.A., Roszak, A.W. and Lapthorn, A.P. (2003) Experiences with the Shikimate-pathway enzymes as targets for rational drug design. Biochemical Society Transactions, 31(3), pp. 548-552.
Cerasoli, E., Kelly, S.M. , Coggins, J.R., Lapthorn, A.J. , Clarke, D.T. and Price, N.C. (2003) Effects of salts on the function and conformational stability of shikimate kinase. Biochimica et Biophysica Acta: Proteins and Proteomics, 1648(1-2), pp. 43-54. (doi: 10.1016/S1570-9639(03)00110-9)
Michel, G., Roszak, A.W., Sauve, V., Maclean, J., Matte, A., Coggins, J.R., Cygler, M. and Lapthorn, A.J. (2003) Structures of Shikimate dehydrogenase AroE and its paralog YdiB: a common structural framework for different activities. Journal of Biological Chemistry, 278, pp. 19463-19472. (doi: 10.1074/jbc.M300794200)
Dixon, D., McEwen, A., Lapthorn, A. and Edwards, R. (2003) Forced evolution of a herbicide detoxifying glutathione transferase. Journal of Biological Chemistry, 278, pp. 23930-23935. (doi: 10.1074/jbc.M303620200)
Kozma, E., Brown, E., Ellis, E.M. and Lapthorn, A.J. (2003) The high resolution crystal structure of rat liver AKR7A1: understanding the substrate specificites of the AKR7 family. Chemico-Biological Interactions, 143, pp. 289-297.
2002
Evans, L. D.B., Roszak, A. W., Noble, L. J., Robinson, D. A., Chalk, P. A., Matthews, J. L., Coggins, J. R., Price, N. C. and Lapthorn, A. J. (2002) Specificity of substrate recognition by type II dehydroquinases as revealed by binding of polyanions. FEBS Letters, 530(1-3), pp. 24-30. (doi: 10.1016/S0014-5793(02)03346-X)
Roszak, A.W., Robinson, D.A., Krell, T., Hunter, I.S., Fredrickson, M., Abell, C., Coggins, J.R. and Lapthorn, A.J. (2002) The structure and mechanism of the type II dehydroquinase from Streptomyces coelicolor. Structure, 10(4), pp. 493-503. (doi: 10.1016/S0969-2126(02)00747-5)
Dixon, D. P., Lapthorn, A. and Edwards, R. (2002) Plant glutathione transferases. Genome Biology, 3(3), reviews300. (doi: 10.1186/gb-2002-3-3-reviews3004) (PMID:11897031) (PMCID:PMC139027)
Kozma, E., Brown, E., Ellis, E. and Lapthorn, A. (2002) The crystal structure of rat liver AKR7A1 - A dimeric member of the aldo-keto reductase superfamily. Journal of Biological Chemistry, 277, pp. 16285-16293. (doi: 10.1074/jbc.M110808200)
Thom, R., Cummins, I., Dixon, D., Edwards, R., Cole, D. and Lapthorn, A. (2002) Structure of a tau class glutathione S-transferase from wheat active in herbicide detoxification. Biochemistry, 41, pp. 7008-7020. (doi: 10.1021/bi015964x)
2001
Krell, T., Maclean, J., Boam, D.J., Cooper, A., Resmini, M., Brocklehurst, K., Kelly, S.M., Price, N.C., Lapthorn, A.J. and Coggins, J.R. (2001) Biochemical and X-ray crystallographic studies on shikimate kinase: the important structural role of the P-loop lysine. Protein Science, 10(6), pp. 1137-1149. (doi: 10.1110/ps.52501)
Thom, R., Dixon, D., Edwards, R., Cole, D. and Lapthorn, A. (2001) The structure of a zeta class glutathione S-transferase from Arabidopsis thaliana: Characterisation of a GST with novel active-site architecture and a putative role in tyrosine catabolism. Journal of Molecular Biology, 308, pp. 949-962. (doi: 10.1006/jmbi.2001.4638)
Thom, R., Dixon, D., Edwards, R., Cole, D. and Lapthorn, A. (2001) Structure determination of zeta class glutathione transferase from Arabidopsis thaliana. Chemico-Biological Interactions, 133, pp. 53-54.
2000
Maclean, J., Campbell, S. A., Pollock, K., Chackrewarthy, S., Coggins, J. R. and Lapthorn, A. J. (2000) Crystallization and preliminary X-ray analysis of shikimate dehydrogenase fromEscherichia coli. Acta Crystallographica. Section D: Biological Crystallography, 56(4), pp. 512-515. (doi: 10.1107/S0907444900002377)
1998
Krell, T., Coggins, J. R. and Lapthorn, A. J. (1998) The three-dimensional structure of shikimate kinase. Journal of Molecular Biology, 278(5), pp. 983-997. (doi: 10.1006/jmbi.1998.1755) (PMID:9600856)
1997
Idziak, C., Price, N. C., Kelly, S. M., Krell, T., Boam, D. J., Lapthorn, A. J. and Coggins, J. R. (1997) 93 The interaction of shikimate kinase fromErwinia chrystanthemiwith substrates. Biochemical Society Transactions, 25(4), S627-S627. (doi: 10.1042/bst025s627)
Krell, T., Coyle, J. E., Horsburgh, M. J., Coggins, J. R. and Lapthorn, A. J. (1997) Crystallization and preliminary X-ray crystallographic analysis of shikimate kinase fromErwinia chrysanthemi. Acta Crystallographica. Section D: Biological Crystallography, 53(5), pp. 612-614. (doi: 10.1107/S0907444997004319)
1996
Berger, P. et al. (1996) Immunochemical mapping of gonadotropins. Molecular and Cellular Endocrinology, 125(1-2), pp. 33-43. (doi: 10.1016/S0303-7207(96)03943-3)
Bhowmick, N., Huang, J., Puett, D., Isaacs, N.W. and Lapthorn, A.J. (1996) Determination of residues important in hormone binding to the extracellular domain of the luteinizing hormone/chorionic gonadotropin receptor by site-directed mutagenesis and modeling. Molecular Endocrinology, 10(9), pp. 1147-1159. (doi: 10.1210/mend.10.9.8885249)
Jackson, A. M., Klonisch, T., Lapthorn, A. J. , Berger, P., Isaacs, N. W., Delves, P. J., Lund, T. and Roitt, I. M. (1996) Identification and selective destruction of shared epitopes in human chorionic gonadotropin beta subunit. Journal of Reproductive Immunology, 31(1-2), pp. 21-36. (doi: 10.1016/0165-0378(96)00978-3)
Klonisch, T., Delves, P. J., Berger, P., Panayotou, G., Lapthorn, A. J. , Isaacs, N. W., Wick, G., Lund, T. and Roitt, I. M. (1996) Relative location of epitopes involved in synergistic antibody binding using human chorionic gonadotropin as a model. European Journal of Immunology, 26(8), pp. 1897-1905. (doi: 10.1002/eji.1830260834) (PMID:8765037)
1995
Lapthorn, A.J. , Janes, R. W., Isaacs, N.W. and Wallace, B.A. (1995) Cystine nooses and protein specificity. Nature Structural Biology, 2(4), pp. 266-268. (doi: 10.1038/nsb0495-266) (PMID:7796259)
1994
Lapthorn, A. J. , Harris, D. C., Littlejohn, A., Lustbader, J. W., Canfield, R. E., Machin, K. J., Morgan, F. J. and Isaacs, N. W. (1994) Crystal structure of human chorionic gonadotropin. Nature, 369(6480), pp. 455-461. (doi: 10.1038/369455a0) (PMID:8202136)
1993
Guillet, V., Lapthorn, A. , Hartley, R.W. and Mauguen, Y. (1993) Recognition between a bacterial ribonuclease, barnase, and its natural inhibitor, barstar. Structure, 1(3), pp. 165-176. (doi: 10.1016/0969-2126(93)90018-C) (PMID:16100951)
Guillet, V., Lapthorn, A. and Mauguen, Y. (1993) Three-dimensional structure of a barnase-3'GMP complex at 2.2Å resolution. FEBS Letters, 330(2), pp. 137-140. (doi: 10.1016/0014-5793(93)80259-W) (PMID:8396045)
Guillet, V., Lapthorn, A. , Fourniat, J., Benoit, J.-P., Hartley, R. W. and Mauguen, Y. (1993) Crystallization and prelilminary X-ray investigation of barster, the intracellular inhibitor of barnase. Proteins, 17(3), pp. 325-328. (doi: 10.1002/prot.340170309) (PMID:8272429)
Articles
Cardwell, P. A., Del Moro, C., Murphy, M. P., Lapthorn, A. J. and Hartley, R. C. (2024) Human mitochondrial glutathione transferases: Kinetic parameters and accommodation of a mitochondria-targeting group in substrates. Bioorganic and Medicinal Chemistry, 104, 117712. (doi: 10.1016/j.bmc.2024.117712) (PMID:38593670)
Wallace, S. et al. (2023) Multiplexed biosensing of proteins and virions with disposable plasmonic assays. ACS Sensors, 8(9), pp. 3338-3348. (doi: 10.1021/acssensors.2c02238) (PMID:37610841) (PMCID:PMC10521139)
Kakkar, T. et al. (2020) Superchiral near fields detect virus structure. Light: Science and Applications, 9(1), 195. (doi: 10.1038/s41377-020-00433-1) (PMID:33298854) (PMCID:PMC7705013)
Rodier, M., Keijzer, C., Milner, J. , Karimullah, A. S. , Barron, L., Gadegaard, N. , Lapthorn, A. J. and Kadodwala, M. (2020) Biomacromolecular charge chirality detected using chiral plasmonic nanostructures. Nanoscale Horizons, 5, pp. 336-344. (doi: 10.1039/C9NH00525K)
Rodier, M., Keijzer, C., Milner, J. , Karimullah, A. , Barron, L., Gadegaard, N. , Lapthorn, A. and Kadodwala, M. (2019) Probing specificity of protein-protein interactions with chiral plasmonic nanostructures. Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters, 10, pp. 6105-6111. (doi: 10.1021/acs.jpclett.9b02288) (PMID:31549842)
Kelly, C., Tullius, R., Lapthorn, A. J. , Gadegaard, N. , Cooke, G. , Barron, L. D., Karimullah, A. S. , Rotello, V. M. and Kadodwala, M. (2018) Chiral plasmonic fields probe structural order of biointerfaces. Journal of the American Chemical Society, 140(27), pp. 8509-8517. (doi: 10.1021/jacs.8b03634) (PMID:29909628)
Tullius, R. et al. (2017) Superchiral plasmonic phase sensitivity for fingerprinting of protein interface structure. ACS Nano, 11(12), pp. 12049-12056. (doi: 10.1021/acsnano.7b04698) (PMID:29220155)
Ramakrishnan, G., González-Jiménez, M. , Lapthorn, A. J. and Wynne, K. (2017) Spectrum of slow and super-slow (picosecond to nanosecond) water dynamics around organic and biological solutes. Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters, 8(13), pp. 2964-2970. (doi: 10.1021/acs.jpclett.7b01127) (PMID:28612605)
Berger, P. and Lapthorn, A. J. (2016) The molecular relationship between antigenic domains and epitopes on hCG. Molecular Immunology, 76, pp. 134-145. (doi: 10.1016/j.molimm.2016.06.015) (PMID:27450517)
González-Jiminéz, M. , Ramakrishnan, G., Harwood, T., Lapthorn, A. J. , Kelly, S. M. , Ellis, E. M. and Wynne, K. (2016) Observation of coherent delocalized phonon-like modes in DNA under physiological conditions. Nature Communications, 7, 11799. (doi: 10.1038/ncomms11799) (PMID:27248361) (PMCID:PMC4895446)
Jack, C. et al. (2016) Spatial control of chemical processes on nanostructures through nano-localized water heating. Nature Communications, 7, 10946. (doi: 10.1038/ncomms10946) (PMID:26961708) (PMCID:PMC4792951)
Berger, P. and Lapthorn, A. (2016) Standardization of Epitopes for human chorionic gonadotropin (hCG) Immunoassays. Current Medicinal Chemistry, 23(30), pp. 3481-3494. (doi: 10.2174/0929867323666160530145503) (PMID:27237818)
Tullius, R., Karimullah, A. S. , Rodier, M., Fitzpatrick, B., Gadegaard, N. , Barron, L. D., Rotello, V. M., Cooke, G. , Lapthorn, A. and Kadodwala, M. (2015) "Superchiral” spectroscopy: detection of protein higher order hierarchical structure with chiral plasmonic nanostructures. Journal of the American Chemical Society, 137(26), pp. 8380-8383. (doi: 10.1021/jacs.5b04806) (PMID:26102606)
Turton, D. A., Senn, H. , Harwood, T., Lapthorn, A. J. , Ellis, E. M. and Wynne, K. (2014) Terahertz underdamped vibrational motion governs protein-ligand binding in solution. Nature Communications, 5, p. 3999. (doi: 10.1038/ncomms4999)
Turton, D., Harwood, T., Lapthorn, A. , Ellis, E. and Wynne, K. (2013) Ultrabroadband terahertz spectroscopies of biomolecules and water. Proceedings of the SPIE: The International Society for Optical Engineering, 8623(862303), (doi: 10.1117/12.2003796)
Lapthorn, A. J. , Zhu, X. and Ellis, E. M. (2013) The diversity of microbial aldo/keto reductases from Escherichia coli K12. Chemico-Biological Interactions, 202(1-3), pp. 168-177. (doi: 10.1016/j.cbi.2012.10.008) (PMID:23103600)
Paz, S. et al. (2011) Tetrahydrobenzothiophene derivatives: conformationally restricted inhibitors of type II dehydroquinase. ChemMedChem, 6(2), pp. 266-272. (doi: 10.1002/cmdc.201000343)
Tran, A.T., Cergol, K.M., West, N.P., Randall, E.J., Britton, W.J., Bokhari, S.A.I., Ibrahim, M., Lapthorn, A.J. and Payne, R.J. (2011) Synthesis and evaluation of potent ene-yne inhibitors of type II dehydroquinases as tuberculosis drug leads. ChemMedChem, 6(2), pp. 262-265. (doi: 10.1002/cmdc.201000399)
Hendry, E., Carpy, T., Johnston, J., Popland, M., Mikhaylovskiy, R.V., Lapthorn, A. , Kelly, S.M., Barron, L.D., Gadegaard, N. and Kadodwala, M. (2010) Ultrasensitive detection and characterization of biomolecules using superchiral fields. Nature Nanotechnology, 5(11), pp. 783-787. (doi: 10.1038/nnano.2010.209)
Tran, A.T., Cergol, K.M., Britton, W.J., Bokhari, S.A.I., Ibrahim, M., Lapthorn, A.J. and Payne, R.J. (2010) Rapid assembly of potent type II dehydroquinase inhibitors via "Click" chemistry. MedChemComm, 1(4), pp. 271-275. (doi: 10.1039/c0md00097c)
Dixon, D. P., Lapthorn, A. , Madesis, P., Mudd, E. A., Day, A. and Edwards, R. (2008) Binding and glutathione conjugation of porphyrinogens by plant glutathione transferases. Journal of Biological Chemistry, 283(29), pp. 20268-20276. (doi: 10.1074/jbc.M802026200)
Stewart, K. A., Robinson, D. A. and Lapthorn, A. J. (2008) Type II dehydroquinase: molecular replacement with many copies. Acta Crystallographica. Section D: Biological Crystallography, 64, pp. 108-118. (doi: 10.1107/S0907444907054923)
Payne, R.J., Riboldi-Tunnicliffe, A., Kerbarh, O., Abell, A.D., Lapthorn, A.J. and Abell, C. (2007) Design, synthesis, and structural studies on potent biaryl inhibitors of type II dehydroquinases. ChemMedChem, 2(7), pp. 1010-1013. (doi: 10.1002/cmdc.200700062)
Prazeres, V. F.V., Sanchez-Sixto, C., Castedo, L., Lamb, H., Hawkins, A. R., Riboldi-Tunnicliffe, A., Coggins, J. R., Lapthorn, A. J. and Gonzalez-Bello, C. (2007) Nanomolar competitive inhibitors of Mycobacterium tuberculosis and Streptomyces coelicolor type II dehydroquinase. ChemMedChem, 2(2), pp. 194-207. (doi: 10.1002/cmdc.200600208)
Lohkamp, B., Paterson, N. and Lapthorn, A. (2006) Application of a new vector system for efficient protein purification in the crystallization of PA5104/ORF from Pseudomonas aeruginosa. Journal of Structural Biology, 155, pp. 111-113. (doi: 10.1016/j.jsb.2006.03.016)
Robinson, D.A.,, Stewart, K.A., Price, N.C., Chalk, P.A., Coggins, J.R. and Lapthorn, A.J. (2006) Crystal structures of Helicobacter pylori type II dehydroquinase inhibitor complexes: new directions for inhibitor design. Journal of Medicinal Chemistry, 49(4), pp. 1282-1290. (doi: 10.1021/jm0505361)
Zhu, X., Lapthorn, A. and Ellis, E. (2006) Crystal structure of mouse succinic semialdehyde reductase AKR7A5: Structural basis for substrate specificity. Biochemistry, 45, pp. 1562-1570. (doi: 10.1021/bi051610k)
Dias-Gunasekara, S., Gubbens, J., van Lith, M., Dunne, C., Williams, J.A.G., Kataky, R., Scoones, D., Lapthorn, A., Bulleid, N.J. and Benham, A.M. (2005) Tissue-specific expression and dimerization of the endoplasmic reticulum oxidoreductase Ero1β. Journal of Biological Chemistry, 280, pp. 33066-33075. (doi: 10.1074/jbc.M505023200)
Charrel-Dennis, M. et al. (2005) The human chorionic gonadotropin-beta arginine(68) to glutamic acid substitution fixes the conformation of the C-terminal peptide. Molecular Endocrinology, 19, pp. 1803-1811. (doi: 10.1210/me.2004-0109)
Dixon, D., Lapthorn, A. and Edwards, R. (2005) Synthesis and analysis of chimeric maize glutathione transferases. Plant Science, 168, pp. 873-881. (doi: 10.1016/j.plantsci.2004.11.009)
Toscano, M.D., Stewart, K.A., Coggins, J.R., Lapthorn, A.J. and Abell, C. (2005) Rational design of new bifunctional inhibitors of type II dehydroquinase. Organic and Biomolecular Chemistry, 3, pp. 3102-3104. (doi: 10.1039/B507156A)
Lohkamp, B., McDermott, G., Campbell, S.A., Coggins, J.R. and Lapthorn, A.J. (2004) The structure of Escherichia coli ATP-phosphoribosyltransferase: identification of substrate binding sites and mode of AMP inhibition. Journal of Molecular Biology, 336(1), pp. 131-144. (doi: 10.1016/j.jmb.2003.12.020)
Charrel-Dennis, M., Jackson, A., Lund, T., Lapthorn, A. , Berger, P., Roitt, I. and Delves, P. (2004) The major hormone-specific discontinuous epitopes on human chorionic gonadotrophin. Journal of Molecular Endocrinology, 32, pp. 571-581.
Frederickson, M., Roszak, A. W., Coggins, J. R., Lapthorn, A. J. and Abell, C. (2004) (1R,4S,5R)-3-Fluoro-1,4,5-trihydroxy-2-cyclohexene-1-carboxylic acid: the fluoro analogue of the enolate intermediate in the reaction catalyzed by type II dehydroquinases. Organic and Biomolecular Chemistry, 2(11), pp. 1592-1596. (doi: 10.1039/B404535A)
Coggins, J.R., Abell, C., Evan, L.B., Frederickson, M., Robinson, D.A., Roszak, A.W. and Lapthorn, A.P. (2003) Experiences with the Shikimate-pathway enzymes as targets for rational drug design. Biochemical Society Transactions, 31(3), pp. 548-552.
Cerasoli, E., Kelly, S.M. , Coggins, J.R., Lapthorn, A.J. , Clarke, D.T. and Price, N.C. (2003) Effects of salts on the function and conformational stability of shikimate kinase. Biochimica et Biophysica Acta: Proteins and Proteomics, 1648(1-2), pp. 43-54. (doi: 10.1016/S1570-9639(03)00110-9)
Michel, G., Roszak, A.W., Sauve, V., Maclean, J., Matte, A., Coggins, J.R., Cygler, M. and Lapthorn, A.J. (2003) Structures of Shikimate dehydrogenase AroE and its paralog YdiB: a common structural framework for different activities. Journal of Biological Chemistry, 278, pp. 19463-19472. (doi: 10.1074/jbc.M300794200)
Dixon, D., McEwen, A., Lapthorn, A. and Edwards, R. (2003) Forced evolution of a herbicide detoxifying glutathione transferase. Journal of Biological Chemistry, 278, pp. 23930-23935. (doi: 10.1074/jbc.M303620200)
Kozma, E., Brown, E., Ellis, E.M. and Lapthorn, A.J. (2003) The high resolution crystal structure of rat liver AKR7A1: understanding the substrate specificites of the AKR7 family. Chemico-Biological Interactions, 143, pp. 289-297.
Evans, L. D.B., Roszak, A. W., Noble, L. J., Robinson, D. A., Chalk, P. A., Matthews, J. L., Coggins, J. R., Price, N. C. and Lapthorn, A. J. (2002) Specificity of substrate recognition by type II dehydroquinases as revealed by binding of polyanions. FEBS Letters, 530(1-3), pp. 24-30. (doi: 10.1016/S0014-5793(02)03346-X)
Roszak, A.W., Robinson, D.A., Krell, T., Hunter, I.S., Fredrickson, M., Abell, C., Coggins, J.R. and Lapthorn, A.J. (2002) The structure and mechanism of the type II dehydroquinase from Streptomyces coelicolor. Structure, 10(4), pp. 493-503. (doi: 10.1016/S0969-2126(02)00747-5)
Dixon, D. P., Lapthorn, A. and Edwards, R. (2002) Plant glutathione transferases. Genome Biology, 3(3), reviews300. (doi: 10.1186/gb-2002-3-3-reviews3004) (PMID:11897031) (PMCID:PMC139027)
Kozma, E., Brown, E., Ellis, E. and Lapthorn, A. (2002) The crystal structure of rat liver AKR7A1 - A dimeric member of the aldo-keto reductase superfamily. Journal of Biological Chemistry, 277, pp. 16285-16293. (doi: 10.1074/jbc.M110808200)
Thom, R., Cummins, I., Dixon, D., Edwards, R., Cole, D. and Lapthorn, A. (2002) Structure of a tau class glutathione S-transferase from wheat active in herbicide detoxification. Biochemistry, 41, pp. 7008-7020. (doi: 10.1021/bi015964x)
Krell, T., Maclean, J., Boam, D.J., Cooper, A., Resmini, M., Brocklehurst, K., Kelly, S.M., Price, N.C., Lapthorn, A.J. and Coggins, J.R. (2001) Biochemical and X-ray crystallographic studies on shikimate kinase: the important structural role of the P-loop lysine. Protein Science, 10(6), pp. 1137-1149. (doi: 10.1110/ps.52501)
Thom, R., Dixon, D., Edwards, R., Cole, D. and Lapthorn, A. (2001) The structure of a zeta class glutathione S-transferase from Arabidopsis thaliana: Characterisation of a GST with novel active-site architecture and a putative role in tyrosine catabolism. Journal of Molecular Biology, 308, pp. 949-962. (doi: 10.1006/jmbi.2001.4638)
Thom, R., Dixon, D., Edwards, R., Cole, D. and Lapthorn, A. (2001) Structure determination of zeta class glutathione transferase from Arabidopsis thaliana. Chemico-Biological Interactions, 133, pp. 53-54.
Maclean, J., Campbell, S. A., Pollock, K., Chackrewarthy, S., Coggins, J. R. and Lapthorn, A. J. (2000) Crystallization and preliminary X-ray analysis of shikimate dehydrogenase fromEscherichia coli. Acta Crystallographica. Section D: Biological Crystallography, 56(4), pp. 512-515. (doi: 10.1107/S0907444900002377)
Krell, T., Coggins, J. R. and Lapthorn, A. J. (1998) The three-dimensional structure of shikimate kinase. Journal of Molecular Biology, 278(5), pp. 983-997. (doi: 10.1006/jmbi.1998.1755) (PMID:9600856)
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Krell, T., Coyle, J. E., Horsburgh, M. J., Coggins, J. R. and Lapthorn, A. J. (1997) Crystallization and preliminary X-ray crystallographic analysis of shikimate kinase fromErwinia chrysanthemi. Acta Crystallographica. Section D: Biological Crystallography, 53(5), pp. 612-614. (doi: 10.1107/S0907444997004319)
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Bhowmick, N., Huang, J., Puett, D., Isaacs, N.W. and Lapthorn, A.J. (1996) Determination of residues important in hormone binding to the extracellular domain of the luteinizing hormone/chorionic gonadotropin receptor by site-directed mutagenesis and modeling. Molecular Endocrinology, 10(9), pp. 1147-1159. (doi: 10.1210/mend.10.9.8885249)
Jackson, A. M., Klonisch, T., Lapthorn, A. J. , Berger, P., Isaacs, N. W., Delves, P. J., Lund, T. and Roitt, I. M. (1996) Identification and selective destruction of shared epitopes in human chorionic gonadotropin beta subunit. Journal of Reproductive Immunology, 31(1-2), pp. 21-36. (doi: 10.1016/0165-0378(96)00978-3)
Klonisch, T., Delves, P. J., Berger, P., Panayotou, G., Lapthorn, A. J. , Isaacs, N. W., Wick, G., Lund, T. and Roitt, I. M. (1996) Relative location of epitopes involved in synergistic antibody binding using human chorionic gonadotropin as a model. European Journal of Immunology, 26(8), pp. 1897-1905. (doi: 10.1002/eji.1830260834) (PMID:8765037)
Lapthorn, A.J. , Janes, R. W., Isaacs, N.W. and Wallace, B.A. (1995) Cystine nooses and protein specificity. Nature Structural Biology, 2(4), pp. 266-268. (doi: 10.1038/nsb0495-266) (PMID:7796259)
Lapthorn, A. J. , Harris, D. C., Littlejohn, A., Lustbader, J. W., Canfield, R. E., Machin, K. J., Morgan, F. J. and Isaacs, N. W. (1994) Crystal structure of human chorionic gonadotropin. Nature, 369(6480), pp. 455-461. (doi: 10.1038/369455a0) (PMID:8202136)
Guillet, V., Lapthorn, A. , Hartley, R.W. and Mauguen, Y. (1993) Recognition between a bacterial ribonuclease, barnase, and its natural inhibitor, barstar. Structure, 1(3), pp. 165-176. (doi: 10.1016/0969-2126(93)90018-C) (PMID:16100951)
Guillet, V., Lapthorn, A. and Mauguen, Y. (1993) Three-dimensional structure of a barnase-3'GMP complex at 2.2Å resolution. FEBS Letters, 330(2), pp. 137-140. (doi: 10.1016/0014-5793(93)80259-W) (PMID:8396045)
Guillet, V., Lapthorn, A. , Fourniat, J., Benoit, J.-P., Hartley, R. W. and Mauguen, Y. (1993) Crystallization and prelilminary X-ray investigation of barster, the intracellular inhibitor of barnase. Proteins, 17(3), pp. 325-328. (doi: 10.1002/prot.340170309) (PMID:8272429)
Conference or Workshop Item
Paschke, B., Ahmed, S., Milne, S. and Lapthorn, A. (2017) Maths Support for Science: A Blended and Online Development Project. Horizons in STEM Higher Education Conference: Making Connections and Sharing Pedagogy, Edinburgh, Scotland, 29-30 Jun 2017.
Teaching
Teaching
Science Fundamentals:- Aqueous Solutions Science Fundamentals:- Reaction Kinetics
Level-1 Chemistry:- Attractions and Repulsions
Level-3 Chemistry:- Biophysical Chemistry
Research datasets
2024
Cardwell, P. A., Del Moro, C., Murphy, M. P., Lapthorn, A. J. and Hartley, R. C. (2024) Human mitochondrial glutathione transferases: kinetic parameters and accommodation of a mitochondria-targeting group in substrates. [Data Collection]
2016
Gonzalez-Jimenez, M., Ramakrishnan, G., Harwood, T., Lapthorn, A. , Kelly, S. , Ellis, E. and Wynne, K. (2016) Observation of coherent delocalised phonon-like modes in DNA under physiological conditions. [Data Collection]
Additional information
Awards
PhD (York)