Sir Henry Dale Fellow and University Lecturer
Division of Virology
Molecular mechanisms of membrane trafficking and viral infection
University of Cambridge
Tennis Court Road
Cambridge
CB2 1QP
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Research themes
- Virology:
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Molecular mechanisms of membrane trafficking and viral infection
Division
Research Interests
The compartmentalisation characteristic of eukaryotic cells presents a logistical dilemma: How do cells ensure components are efficiently delivered to only the correct intracellular compartment? My lab seeks to understand how multiprotein complexes regulate fusion of compartments in the eukaryotic endocytic pathway.
Viruses that seek to exploit the rich environment inside host cells face a similar dilemma: How can they subvert host membrane trafficking to ensure progeny virions efficiently exit infected cells? I am investigating how viruses that acquire double membrane envelopes within cells are trafficked to and fuse with the plasma membrane.
- Group Members:
Susanna Colaco, Chen Gao, Tomasz Benedyk
Collaborators
Key Publications
- A. Albecka, D.J. Owen, L. Ivanova, J. Brun, R. Liman, L. Davies, M.F. Ahmed, S. Colaco, M. Hollinshead, S.C. Graham^ and C.M. Crump^ (2017) Dual function of the pUL7-pUL51 tegument protein complex in HSV-1 infection. Journal of Virology, 81: e02196-16
doi: 10.1128/JVI.02196-16 - J. Muenzner, L.M. Traub, B.T. Kelly^, S.C. Graham^ (2017) Cellular and viral peptides bind multiple sites on the N-terminal domain of clathrin. Traffic, 18: 44–57
doi: 10.1111/tra.12457 - S. Neidel, C. Maluquer de Motes, D.S. Mansur, P. Strnadova, G.L. Smith, S.C. Graham (2015) Vaccinia Virus Protein A49 is an Unexpected Member of the B-cell Lymphoma (Bcl)-2 Protein Family. Journal of Biological Chemistry, 290: 5991–6002
doi: 10.1074/jbc.M114.624650 - B.T. Kelly, S.C. Graham, N. Liska, P.N. Dannhauser, S. Höning, E.J. Ungewickell, D.J. Owen (2014) AP2 controls clathrin polymerization with a membrane-activated switch. Science, 345: 459–463
doi: 10.1126/science.1254836 - S.C. Graham*^, L. Wartosch*, S.R. Gray, E.J. Scourfield, J.E. Deane, J.P. Luzio^, D.J. Owens (2013) Structural basis of Vps33A recruitment to the human HOPS complex by Vps16. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the USA, 110: 13345–13350
doi: 10.1073/pnas.1307074110
(*Joint first authors, ^Joint corresponding authors)