Lan Guan, M.D. Ph.D.

Professor | Cell Physiology and Molecular Biophysics

Director | Center for Membrane Protein Research

 

3601 4th Street, STOP 6551
Lubbock, Texas 79430
Office Phone: (806) 743-3102
Office Room: 5A149
E-mail: Lan.Guan@ttuhsc.edu

Research Interest:

Membrane proteins constitute ~30% of all eukaryotic proteins and play crucial roles in many aspects of cell function. The long-term goal of our research is to understand the mechanisms of solute transport. Currently, we are studying cation-coupled bacterial and human transporters by an integrated approach including X-ray crystallography, cryo-EM, ligand binding thermodynamics, genetic engineering, novel amphiphiles, and many other biochemical & biophysical analyses.

Current Support:

NIH Award R01

Open position for PHD student

2022 & Other Selected Articles:

	Blaimschein, N., Hariharan, P., Manioglu, S., Guan, L., & Muller, D. J. (2023). Substrate-binding guides individual melibiose permeases MelB to structurally soften and to destabilize cytoplasmic middle-loop C3. Structure, 31(1), 58-67 e54. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.str.2022.11.011
	Panda, A., Giska, F., Duncan., A., Welch, A., Brown, C., McAllister, R., Parameswaran, H.Goder, J. N. D., Coleman, J., Ramakrishnan, S., Pincet, F., Guan, L., Krishnakumar, S., Rothman, J. E., Gupta, K. (2022) Direct determination of oligomeric organization of integral membrane proteins and lipids from intact customizable bilayer. Nature Methods (Accepted).
Selected Publications in the Past Years
	Guan, L. (2022) Editorial,  Structure and mechanism of membrane transporters. Scientific Reports 12:13248 https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-022-17524-1
	Katsube, S., Liang, R., Amin, A., Hariharan, P., & Guan, L. (2022). Molecular Basis for the Cation Selectivity of Salmonella typhimurium Melibiose Permease. Journal of Molecular Biology, 434(12), 167598. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jmb.2022.167598
	Guan, L., Hariharan, P. (2021) X-ray crystallography reveals molecular recognition mechanism for sugar binding in a melibiose transporter MelB. Commun Biol 4, 931. https://doi.org/10.1038/s42003-021-02462-x
	Guan, L. (2020) Glucose/Sugar Transport in Bacteria. Encyclopedia of Biochemistry, 3rd edition, Elsevier Inc. Published in the Life Sciences Reference Collection https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/B9780128194607000931
	H. Ronald Kaback and Lan Guan. (2019)  It takes two to tango: the dance of the permease. J Gen Physiol. 151(7):878-886. doi: 10.1085/jgp.201912377.
	Hariharan, P., Tikhonova, E., Medeiros-Silva, J., Jeucken, A., Bogdanov, M.V., Dowhan, W., Brouwers, J. F., Weingarth, M. and Guan, L. (2018) Structural and functional characterization of protein–lipid interactions of the Salmonella typhimurium melibiose transporter MelB. BMC Biology 16:85 doi: 10.1186/s12915-018-0553-0
	Guan, L. (2018) Na(+)/Melibiose Membrane Transport Protein, MelB. In: Roberts G., Watts A., European Biophysical Societies (eds) Encyclopedia of Biophysics. Springer. DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-35943-9_10082-1
	Hariharan, P. & Guan. L. (2017) Thermodynamic cooperativity of cosubstrate binding and cation selectivity of Salmonella typhimurium MelB. J Gen Physiol. (On the Cover and Highlighted by Research News, “A symporter’s secrets shown”). DOI: 10.1085/jgp.201711922. 149(11):1029-1039. DOI: 10.1085/jgp.201711788.
	Ethayathulla, A.S., Yousef, M.S., Amin, A., Leblanc, G., Kaback, H.R., and Guan, L. (2014) Structure-based mechanism for Na(+)/melibiose symport by MelB. Nature Communications. 5: 3009. DOI:10.1038/ncomms4009.
	Chae, P.S., Rasmussen S.G.F., Rana, R., Gotfryd, K., Chandra, R., Goren, M.A., Kruse, A.C., Nurva, S., Loland, J.C., Pierre, Y., Drew, D., Popot, J.L., Picot, D., Fox, B.G., Guan, L., Gether, U., Byrne, B., Kobilka, B., and Gellman, S.H. (2010) Maltose–neopentyl glycol (MNG) amphiphiles for solubilization, stabilization, and crystallization of membrane proteins. Nature Methods.  7(12):1003-1008. DOI: 10.1038/nmeth.1526.
	Guan, L., Mirza, O., Verner, G., Iwata, S, and Kaback, H.R. (2007) Structural determination of the wild-type lactose permease. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A, 104 (39):15294-15298. DOI: 10.1073/pnas.0707688104.
	Guan, L. & Kaback, H.R. (2007) Site-directed alkylation of cysteine to test solvent accessibility of membrane proteins. Nature Protocols. 2(28), 2012-2017. DOI: 10.1038/nprot.2007.275.
	Guan, L. & Kaback, H.R. (2006) Lessons from lactose permease. Annual Review of Biophysics & Biomolecular Structure. (35):67-91.DOI: 10.1146/annurev.biophys.35.040405.102005.