Dr. Beata Turoňová

Project Group Leader

Max Planck Institute of Biophysics, Frankfurt/Main, Germany

Research Positions

2020-present: Project group leader at the Department of Molecular Sociology, Max-Planck Institute of Biophysics, Frankfurt am Main

2017-2020: Postdoctoral fellow in Martin Beck’s laboratory, Structural and Computational Biology Department, EMBL, Heidelberg

2016-2017: Postdoctoral fellow in John Briggs’ laboratory, Structural and Computational Biology Department, EMBL, Heidelberg

Publications

1. Bactericidal effect of tetracycline in E. coli strain ED1a may be associated with ribosome dysfunction. Khusainov I, Romanov N, Goemans C, Turoňová B, Zimmerli CE, Welsch S, Langer JD, Typas A, Beck M. Nature Communications 2024, 15, 4783. https://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41467-024-49084-5

2. High-confidence 3D template matching for cryo-electron tomography. Cruz-León S, Majtner T, Hoffmann PC, Kreysing JP, Kehl S, Tuijtel MW, Schaefer SL, Geißler K, Beck M, Turoňová B, Hummer G. Nature Communications 2024, 15, 3992. https://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41467-024-47839-8

3. Thinner is not always better: Optimizing cryo-lamellae for subtomogram averaging. Tuijtel MW, Cruz-León S, Kreysing JP, Welsch S, Hummer G, Beck M, Turoňová B. Science Advances 2024, 10, eadk6285. https://dx.doi.org/doi:10.1126/sciadv.adk6285

4. The palisade layer of the poxvirus core is composed of flexible A10 trimers. Liu J, Corroyer-Dulmont S, Pražák V, Khusainov I, Bahrami K, Welsch S, Vasishtan D, Obarska-Kosińska A, Thorkelsson SR, Grünewald K, Quemin ERJ, Turoňová B, Locker JK. Nature Structural & Molecular Biology 2024, https://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41594-024-01218-5

5. Subtomogram Averaging. Turoňová B, Wan W. In: F Förster, A Briegel (eds). Cryo-Electron Tomography: Structural Biology in situ. 2024. Springer International Publishing, Cham, pp 219-256. https://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-51171-4_8

6. Translation dynamics in human cells visualized at high resolution reveal cancer drug action. Xing H, Taniguchi R, Khusainov I, Kreysing JP, Welsch S, Turoňová B, Beck M. Science 2023, 381, 70-75. https://dx.doi.org/doi:10.1126/science.adh1411

7. AI-based structure prediction empowers integrative structural analysis of human nuclear pores. Mosalaganti S, Obarska-Kosinska A, Siggel M, Taniguchi R, Turoňová B, Zimmerli CE, Buczak K, Schmidt FH, Margiotta E, Mackmull M-T, Hagen WJH, Hummer G, Kosinski J, Beck M. Science 2022, 376, eabm9506. https://dx.doi.org/doi:10.1126/science.abm9506

8. In-cell architecture of the nuclear pore and snapshots of its turnover. Allegretti M, Zimmerli CE, Rantos V, Wilfling F, Ronchi P, Fung HKH, Lee CW, Hagen W, Turoňová B, Karius K, Börmel M, Zhang XJ, Muller CW, Schwab Y, Mahamid J, Pfander B, Kosinski J, Beck M. Nature 2020, 586, 796-+. https://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41586-020-2670-5

8. In situ structural analysis of SARS-CoV-2 spike reveals flexibility mediated by three hinges. Turoňová B, Sikora M, Schürmann C, Hagen WJH, Welsch S, Blanc FEC, von Bülow S, Gecht M, Bagola K, Hörner C, van Zandbergen G, Landry J, de Azevedo NTD, Mosalaganti S, Schwarz A, Covino R, Mühlebach MD, Hummer G, Krijnse Locker J, Beck M. Science 2020, 370, 203-208. https://dx.doi.org/doi:10.1126/science.abd5223

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