Selected publications

1. Brouwer JM, Lan P, Cowan AD, Bernardini JP, Birkinshaw RW, van Delft MF, Sleebs BE, Robin AY, Wardak A, Tan IK, Reljic B, Lee EF, Fairlie WD, Call MJ, Smith BJ, Dewson G, Lessene G, Colman PM, Czabotar PE. Conversion of Bim-BH3 from Activator to Inhibitor of Bak through Structure-Based Design. Mol Cell. 2017 Nov 16;68(4):659-72 e9. PMID: 29149594
2. Lee EF, Grabow S, Chappaz S, Dewson G, Hockings C, Kluck RM, Debrincat MA, Gray DH, Witkowski MT, Evangelista M, Pettikiriarachchi A, Bouillet P, Lane RM, Czabotar PE, Colman PM, Smith BJ, Kile BT, Fairlie WD. Physiological restraint of Bak by Bcl-xL is essential for cell survival. Genes Dev. 2016 May 15;30(10):1240-50. PMID: 27198225
3. Cory S, Roberts AW, Colman PM, Adams JM. Targeting BCL-2-like Proteins to Kill Cancer Cells. Trends Cancer. 2016 Aug;2(8):443-60. PMID: 28741496
4. Robin AY, Krishna Kumar K, Westphal D, Wardak AZ, Thompson GV, Dewson G, Colman PM, Czabotar PE. Crystal structure of Bax bound to the BH3 peptide of Bim identifies important contacts for interaction. Cell Death Dis. 2015 Jul 9;6:e1809. PMID: 26158515
5. Marshall B, Puthalakath H, Caria S, Chugh S, Doerflinger M, Colman PM, Kvansakul M. Variola virus F1L is a Bcl-2-like protein that unlike its vaccinia virus counterpart inhibits apoptosis independent of Bim. Cell Death Dis. 2015 Mar 12;6:e1680. PMID: 25766319
6. Yao S, Westphal D, Babon JJ, Thompson GV, Robin AY, Adams JM, Colman PM, Czabotar PE. NMR studies of interactions between Bax and BH3 domain-containing peptides in the absence and presence of CHAPS. Arch Biochem Biophys. 2014 Mar 1;545:33-43. PMID: 24434006
7. Tao ZF, Hasvold L, Wang L, Wang X, Petros AM, Park CH, Boghaert ER, Catron ND, Chen J, Colman PM, Czabotar PE, Deshayes K, Fairbrother WJ, Flygare JA, Hymowitz SG, Jin S, Judge RA, Koehler MF, Kovar PJ, Lessene G, Mitten MJ, Ndubaku CO, Nimmer P, Purkey HE, Oleksijew A, Phillips DC, Sleebs BE, Smith BJ, Smith ML, Tahir SK, Watson KG, Xiao Y, Xue J, Zhang H, Zobel K, Rosenberg SH, Tse C, Leverson JD, Elmore SW, Souers AJ. Discovery of a Potent and Selective BCL-XL Inhibitor with in Vivo Activity. ACS Med Chem Lett. 2014 Oct 9;5(10):1088-93. PMID: 25313317
8. Lee EF, Dewson G, Evangelista M, Pettikiriarachchi A, Gold GJ, Zhu H, Colman PM, Fairlie WD. The functional differences between pro-survival and pro-apoptotic B cell lymphoma 2 (Bcl-2) proteins depend on structural differences in their Bcl-2 homology 3 (BH3) domains. J Biol Chem. 2014 Dec 26;289(52):36001-17. PMID: 25371206
9. Koehler MF, Bergeron P, Choo EF, Lau K, Ndubaku C, Dudley D, Gibbons P, Sleebs BE, Rye CS, Nikolakopoulos G, Bui C, Kulasegaram S, Kersten WJ, Smith BJ, Czabotar PE, Colman PM, Huang DC, Baell JB, Watson KG, Hasvold L, Tao ZF, Wang L, Souers AJ, Elmore SW, Flygare JA, Fairbrother WJ, Lessene G. Structure-Guided Rescaffolding of Selective Antagonists of BCL-XL. ACS Med Chem Lett. 2014 Jun 12;5(6):662-7. PMID: 24944740
10. Campbell S, Thibault J, Mehta N, Colman PM, Barry M, Kvansakul M. Structural insight into BH3 domain binding of vaccinia virus antiapoptotic F1L. J Virol. 2014 Aug;88(15):8667-77. PMID: 24850748

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