Publications

Albanese, K. I.; Chubb, J. J.; Gutierrez-Rus, L. I.; Leng, X.; Kurgan, K. W.; Mylemans, B.; Ożga, K.; Petrenas, R.; Romanyuk, A. V.; Acevedo-Jake, A. M.; Roca-Martinez, J.; Cross, S. J.; Anderson, J. L. R.; Clayden, J.; Leggett, G. J.; McManus, J. J.; Oliver, T. A. A.; Orengo, C. A.; Scrutton, N. S.; Wilson, A. J.; Boyle, A. L.; Woolfson, D. N. Expanding All-α-Helical Protein Space through Rational Computational Design. bioRxiv July 3, 2026, p 2026.07.03.736327. https://doi.org/10.64898/2026.07.03.736327.

Kurgan, K. W.; Martin, F. J. O.; Dawson, W. M.; Brunnock, T.; Orr-Ewing, A. J.; Woolfson, D. N. Exchange, Promiscuity, and Orthogonality in de Novo Designed Coiled-Coil Peptide Assemblies. Chem. Sci. 2025, 16 (4), 1826–1836. https://doi.org/10.1039/D4SC06329E.

Srivastava, A. K.; Venkata, B. S.; Sweat, Y. Y.; Rizzo, H. R.; Jean-François, L.; Zuo, L.; Kurgan, K. W.; Moore, P.; Shashikanth, N.; Smok, I.; Sachleben, J. R.; Turner, J. R.; Meredith, S. C. Serine 408 Phosphorylation Is a Molecular Switch That Regulates Structure and Function of the Occludin α-Helical Bundle. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 2022, 119 (34), e2204618119. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2204618119.

Kurgan, K. W. Towards Crystallization of Single-Pass Transmembrane Domains. Ph.D., The University of Wisconsin - Madison, United States -- Wisconsin, 2021. https://www.proquest.com/docview/2497009390/abstract/3EB9C1C352F4D6EPQ/1 (accessed 2026-02-19).

Kurgan, K. W.; Chen, B.; Brown, K. A.; Falco Cobra, P.; Ye, X.; Ge, Y.; Gellman, S. H. Stable Picodisc Assemblies from Saposin Proteins and Branched Detergents. Biochemistry 2021, 60 (14), 1108–1119. https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.biochem.0c00924.

Kurgan, K. W.; Kleman, A. F.; Bingman, C. A.; Kreitler, D. F.; Weisblum, B.; Forest, K. T.; Gellman, S. H. Retention of Native Quaternary Structure in Racemic Melittin Crystals. J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2019, 141 (19), 7704–7708. https://doi.org/10.1021/jacs.9b02691.