Contact information
Agata Krupa
jones-pa@strubi.ox.ac.uk
https://www.strubi.ox.ac.uk/research/professor-e-yvonne-jones-frs-fmedsci
Henry Wellcome Building of Genomic Medicine
Colleges
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The structure of the RPTPmu trans dimer (Aricescu et al Science 2007) |
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Semaphorin-plexin recognition complex (Janssen et al Nature 2010) |
E. Yvonne Jones
FRS, FMedSci
Professor of Protein Crystallography
Yvonne Jones is Director of the Cancer Research UK Receptor Structure Research Group which is focused on the structural biology of extracellular recognition and signalling complexes. The group's core techniques include protein crystallography and, increasingly, cryo electron microscopy, which are used to generate high resolution structural information. Importantly, studies using these techniques are integrated with advanced light microscopy and cryo electron tomography, as well as cell-based functional studies, to probe molecular mechanisms at the cell surface.
The group's research addresses fundamental questions about cell-cell signalling systems of importance to human health. How are signalling assemblies arranged? Which features are necessary for normal signal transduction into the cell? What mechanisms trigger dysfunctional signalling? The work ties into an extensive network of interdisciplinary local and international collaborations with the ultimate aim of learning how to manipulate these signalling systems for the design of new clinical therapies. Current projects within the group focus on signalling systems of importance in developmental biology. These include systems involved in cell guidance (e.g. semaphorin/plexin and ephrin/Eph signalling), as well as mechanisms controlling signalling by the Wnt family of morphogens.
Recent publications
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Caffeine inhibits Notum activity by binding at the catalytic pocket
Journal article
Zhao Y. et al, (2020), Communications Biology, 3
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Hand-foot-and-mouth disease virus receptor KREMEN1 binds the canyon of Coxsackie Virus A10
Journal article
Zhao Y. et al, (2020), Nature Communications, 11
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The guidance and adhesion protein FLRT2 dimerizes in cis via dual Small-X3-Small transmembrane motifs
Journal article
Jackson V. et al, (2020)
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Screening of a Custom-Designed Acid Fragment Library Identifies 1-Phenylpyrroles and 1-Phenylpyrrolidines as Inhibitors of Notum Carboxylesterase Activity.
Journal article
Mahy W. et al, (2020), Journal of medicinal chemistry
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Drosophila OTK Is a Glycosaminoglycan-Binding Protein with High Conformational Flexibility.
Journal article
Rozbesky D. et al, (2020), Structure (London, England : 1993)