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Alexander Belyy
@alexanderbelyy.bsky.social
Assistant professor, University of Groningen, NL.
Studying bacterial toxins and actin cytoskeleton using cryo-EM.
Reposted by Alexander Belyy
Are you excited to uncover the molecular mechanisms of actin filament assemblies that drive cell migration using cryo-EM?

Only 1.5 week to apply for this exciting PhD position in my newly established lab at the Netherlands Cancer Institute in Amsterdam: www.werkenbijavl.nl/vacatures/ph...
PhD Student – Structural Biology of Actin Filament Assemblies | Werken bij AVL
www.werkenbijavl.nl
October 28, 2025 at 9:17 AM
In our new article, we show how P. aeruginosa, a major cause of chronic respiratory infections in #cysticfibrosis (CF), uses the Type VI Secretion System #T6SS and specific #toxins to eliminate competing bacteria
www.cell.com/cell-reports...
#cryoEM @dshatskiy.bsky.social @jakecolautti.bsky.social
September 14, 2025 at 8:52 AM
Thrilled to be one of 12 awardees of the prestigious #ERCStG from the LS1 panel this year! Over the next five years, we’ll study how intracellular bacterial pathogens #Listeria and #Shigella manipulate #actin to spread infection, with the aim of finding ways to stop them. Exciting times ahead!
September 4, 2025 at 12:38 PM
Reposted by Alexander Belyy
🚨 preprint 2️⃣ this month: our (purely experimental🧪) venture into #ChemBio
We prouldy present: ADD-tagging of proteins (or "ADDing") —a super convenient enzymatic technique to install click chemistry handles on proteins.
Led by superstar @wahyuwidodo.bsky.social
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
A 🧵👇🏽
May 20, 2025 at 12:30 PM
Reposted by Alexander Belyy
If u ever had to depict proteins as schematics in papers, u know the dilemma: how to create a pretty “blob”?
If structure ends up big & central, u’ll render it with PyMol et al, but for a truly schematic depiction u want a biorender-style icon, but for YOUR protein.
Think I’ve finally found a way.
May 3, 2025 at 12:40 PM
#Pseudomonas aeruginosa destroys other #bacteria using #T6SS and its effectors during infection in #cysticfibrosis patients. Here, we determined the #cryo-EM #structure of the effector Ptx2, which depolarizes target bacterial membranes.

Check it out!

www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
May 1, 2025 at 3:37 PM
Reposted by Alexander Belyy
Structure of the F-tractin-F-actin complex. A new study by Dmitry Shatskiy, Athul Sivan, Roland Wedlich-Söldner @uni-muenster.de, and Alexander Belyy @alexanderbelyy.bsky.social @unigroningen.bsky.social: https://buff.ly/3EIqAur

#Cytoskeleton #StructuralBiology #Biochemistry #Actin
February 17, 2025 at 2:07 PM
Reposted by Alexander Belyy
New: Using F-tractin to visualize #actin in living cells? Dmitry Shatskiy, Athul Sivan, Roland Wedlich-Söldner, and Alexander Belyy @alexanderbelyy.bsky.social determined the F-tractin-F-actin structure and showed that this probe is nearly identical to #Lifeact. https://buff.ly/3EIqAur
#cytoskeleton
February 10, 2025 at 5:59 PM
Are you doing cell #biology? Then, let me guess, you likely stained #actin!

Our @jcb.org article reveals the structure of the popular actin probe F-tractin in complex with F-actin and introduces an optimized version for better imaging! A thread! 👀👇

rupress.org/jcb/article/...
Structure of the F-tractin–F-actin complex | Journal of Cell Biology | Rockefeller University Press
This study reveals the structure of F-tractin, a widely used peptide for visualizing the actin cytoskeleton, and introduces an optimized version that minim
rupress.org
February 11, 2025 at 5:38 PM
If you think you know everything about enzymes, check this out, we have a surprise for you 😃
January 30, 2025 at 7:18 PM