Dr. Alan Kadek

Profile

Academic positionPost Doc
Research fieldsBiochemistry,Biophysical Chemistry
Keywordsintegrative structural biology, protein conformational dynamics, viral infection, human papillomaviruses, structural mass spectrometry

Current contact address

CountryCzech Republic
CityVestec
InstitutionCzech Academy of Sciences (CAS)
InstituteBIOCEV

Host during sponsorship

Prof. Dr. Charlotte UetrechtLeibniz-Institut für Virologie (LIV), Hamburg
Start of initial sponsorship01/07/2018

Programme(s)

2017Humboldt Research Fellowship Programme for Postdocs

Publications (partial selection)

2024Yuzhen Feng*, Dominik van Bodegraven*, Alan Kádek*, Ignacio L. B. Munguira, Laura Soria-Martinez, Sarah Nentwich, Sreedeepa Saha, Florian Chardon, Daniel Kavan, Charlotte Uetrecht, Mario Schelhaas, Wouter H. Roos: Glycan-induced structural activation softens the human papillomavirus capsid for entry through reduction of intercapsomere flexibility. In: Nature Communications, 15, 2024, 10076
2023Thomas Kierspel, Alan Kadek, Perdita Barran, Bruno Bellina, Adi Bijedic, Maxim N. Brodmerkel, Jan Commandeur, Carl Caleman, Tomislav Damjanović, Ibrahim Dawod, Emiliano De Santis, Alexandros Lekkas, Kristina Lorenzen, Luis López Morillo, Thomas Mandl, Erik G. Marklund, Dimitris Papanastasiou, Lennart A.I. Ramakers, Lutz Schweikhard, Florian Simke, Anna Sinelnikova, Athanasios Smyrnakis, Nicusor Timneanu and Charlotte Uetrecht for the MS SPIDOC Consortium: Coherent diffractive imaging of proteins and viral capsids: simulating MS SPIDOC. In: Analytical and Bioanalytical Chemistry, 2023,
2022Shivam Shukla, Jan Komarek, Zora Novakova, Jana Nedvedova, Kseniya Ustinova, Pavla Vankova, Alan Kadek, Charlotte Uetrecht, Haydyn Mertens and Cyril Barinka: In-solution structure and oligomerization of human histone deacetylase 6 – an integrative approach. In: The FEBS Journal, 2022,
2021Anja Konietzny, Jasper Grendel, Alan Kadek, Michael Bucher, Yuhao Han, Nathalie Hertrich, Dick H W Dekkers, Jeroen A A Demmers, Kay Grünewald, Charlotte Uetrecht, Marina Mikhaylova: Caldendrin and myosin V regulate synaptic spine apparatus localization via ER stabilization in dendritic spines. In: EMBO J., 2021, e106523
2021Alan Kadek and Kristina Lorenzen and Charlotte Uetrecht: In a flash of light: X-ray free electron lasers meet native mass spectrometry. In: Drug Discovery Today: Technologies, 39, 2021, 89-99
2019Jasmin Dülfer, Alan Kadek, Janine-Denise Kopicki, Boris Krichel, Charlotte Uetrecht: Structural mass spectrometry goes viral. In: Advances in Virus Research, 2019, 189-238