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Research

Our research group is interested in cell-cell recognition processes, i.e., how the immune cells, for example, NK cells, recognize by receptors expressed on their surface the target proteins expressed on the surface of healthy cells or of the tumor, virally infected, or stressed cells. We are interested firstly in the structure-function relationship, using a wide range of modern methods of research of protein structure, their properties and interactions, and secondly, how we could transfer the gained knowledge into a practical level, besides other things, by designing artificial protein constructs which would help the immune cells to recognize better and eliminate the target cells. For news and more information, please visit the full website of our research group.

Laboratory of Structural Biochemistry of Immune Recognition

 

Structural research of complexes of NK cell receptors with their ligands

  • Used methods:
    • Recombinant protein expression within the HEK293 human cell line
    • Biophysical characterization of proteins and their interactions (AUC, ITC, MST, DLS, DSF, SPR)
    • Protein crystallography, structural mass spectrometry, SAXS, NMR

Research of NK cell receptor arrangement on the surface of a living cell

  • Superresolution microscopy, fluorescence microscopy, flow cytometry, single-molecule localization microscopy (SMLM)

Production of fusion constructs of nanobodies with ligands of activation receptors of NK cells and testing their biological activity

  • Isolation of NK cells from the blood of healthy donors
  • Cytotoxicity tests of NK cells against tumor cell lines

Production of fusion constructs with cytokines or growth factors

  • Expression, purification, and study of properties of fusion proteins containing protein hormones or cytokines

 

Contact

Department of Biochemistry, Faculty of Science, Charles University

Hlavova 2030/8, 128 00 Prague 2, 2st floor, door 204

tel: +420 221 951 272

e-mail: ondrej.vanek@natur.cuni.cz

 

People

Group leader: Ondřej Vaněk

Research staff: Jan Bláha (presently post-doc stay at EMBL Hamburg), Barbora Kalousková (presently post-doc stay at TU Wien), Ondřej Skořepa (presently post-doc stay at MPI Biochemie Münich)

PhD. students: Celeste de Sousa Santos Abreu, Shiva Nejadebrahim

MSc. students: Nadezda Bragina, Anastassiya Rudenko, Zuzana Urbanová, Jakub Jeníček, Tereza Cibiková

BSc. students: Daniel Hoffman, Andrea Janoušková, Samuel Janík

 

Projects

Czech Science Foundation, 15-15181S Harnessing soluble forms of NK cell receptors and their ligands for the generation of novel anticancer immunotherapeutics (2015 – 2017) - O. Vaněk

Grant Agency of the Charles University, 161216 Utilization of a structural description of the interaction of human lymphocyte complex NKR-P1 and LLT1 for development of immunoactive fusion therapeutics (2016 – 2018) - J. Bláha / B. Kalousková

Grant Agency of the Charles University, 927916 Impact of NKp30 glycosylation and oligomerization on its complex formation – the key features for NK cells activation (2016 – 2018) - S. Pažický / O. Skořepa

Ministry of Education, Youth, and Sports of the Czech Republic, INTER-COST program, LTC17065 Utilization of integrative molecular biophysical approaches for the functional studies of human natural killer cell receptors and formation of their complexes with tumor ligands (2017 – 2020) - O. Vaněk

Czech Science Foundation, 18-10687S New ligands for old receptors of human natural killer cells: structure, assembly within the immune synapse and potential for therapy (2018 – 2020) - O. Vaněk

Grant Agency of the Charles University, 1740318 Utilization of activation ligands and nanobodies for directed stimulation of NK cells cytotoxicity (2018 – 2019) - D. Cmunt

Grant Agency of the Charles University, 1378219 Quaternary structure of selected human lymphocyte receptors through the looking glass of super-resolution microscopy: What is the biological reality behind the crystal structures? (2019 – 2021) - B. Kalousková

Czech Science Foundation, 20-13029S Novel clinically relevant IL-2 immunotherapeutics for cancer treatment (2020 – 2022) - O. Vaněk (co-investigator)

Grant Agency of the Charles University, 1436020 Structural biochemistry of NK cell complexes NKp44:PCNA and NKp46:Epa1, and utilization of Epa1 for stimulation of NK cells (2020 – 2022) - J. Houserová

Grant Agency of the Charles University, 1436220 Activation of NK cell anti-tumour response using bispecific fusion proteins with nanobodies (2020 – 2022) - C. Abreu

Ministry of Education, Youth, and Sports of the Czech Republic, INTER-COST program, LTC20078 Glycan-dependent regulation of NK cell recognition: structural biology and novel methods of glycopeptide analysis (2020 – 2023) - O. Vaněk

Grant Agency of the Charles University, 318122 Activation receptor NKp80 and its ligand AICL: structure and mutual interaction in solution and on the surface of human NK cells (2022 – 2024) - K. Pazderová / Z. Urbanová

Grant Agency of the Charles University, 358322 Interaction of galectin-3 with the NKp30 receptor and its role in the antitumor immune response (2022 – 2024) - M. Tulpa

Grant Agency of the Charles University, 285423 Novel recombinant immunocytokines to stimulate the anti-tumor immune response (2023 – 2025) - N. Bragina

Grant Agency of the Charles University, 173923 Utilising sortase A for the preparation of polymer immunotherapeutics and determining their antitumor activity (2023 – 2025) - M. Hejl

Czech Science Foundation, 23-08490L Nanoscale organization of NK cell receptor-ligand complexes through the optics of quantitative single-molecule microscopy (2023 – 2026) - O. Vaněk

Czech Science Foundation, 24-12553O A New Vision: Innovative Imaging Approaches for Investigating the Spatial Organization of Immune Receptors and Ligands (2024 – 2027) - O. Skořepa

Czech Science Foundation, 25-18490S Structural immunology of NK cell recognition: from tumor evasion to its eradication (2025 – 2027) - O. Vaněk

Ministry of Education, Youth, and Sports of the Czech Republic, INTER-ACTION program, LUAUS25250 Exploiting molecular mechanisms of natural killer cell recognition for antitumor therapy (2025 – 2028) - O. Vaněk

 

Publications

2024

Leonard E. K., Tomala J., Gould J. R., Leff M. I., Lin J. X., Li P., Porter M. J., Johansen E. R., Thompson L., Cao S. D., Hou S., Henclova T., Huliciak M., Sargunas P. R., Fabilane C. S., Vaněk O., Kovar M., Schneider B., Raimondi G., Leonard W. J., Spangler J. B. (2024): Engineered cytokine/antibody fusion proteins improve IL-2 delivery to pro-inflammatory cells and promote antitumor activity. JCI Insight 9, e173469. IF 6.3 DOI: 10.1172/jci.insight.173469

 

2023

Di Carluccio C., Milanesi F., Civera M., Abreu C., Sattin S., Francesconi O., Molinaro A., Vaněk O., Marchetti R., Silipo A. (2023): Tumor carbohydrate associated antigen analogs as potential binders for Siglec-7. Eur J Org Chem 26, e202300644. IF 3.261 DOI: 10.1002/ejoc.202300644

 

2022

Anderluh M., Berti F., Bzducha-Wróbel A., Chiodo F., Colombo C., Compostella F., Durlik K., Ferhati X., Holmdahl R., Jovanovic D., Kaca W., Lay L., Marinovic-Cincovic M., Marradi M., Ozil M., Polito L., Reina-Martin J. J., Reis C. A., Sackstein R., Silipo A., Švajger U., Vaněk O., Yamamoto F., Richichi B., van Vliet S. J. (2022): Recent advances on smart glycoconjugate vaccines in infections and cancer. FEBS J 289, 4251–4303. IF 5.622 DOI: 10.1111/febs.15909

Vaněk O., Kalousková B., Abreu C., Nejadebrahim S., Skořepa O. (2022): Natural killer cell-based strategies for immunotherapy of cancer. Adv Protein Chem Struct Biol 129, 91-133. IF 5.447 DOI: 10.1016/bs.apcsb.2022.02.001

Remans K., Lebendiker M., Abreu C., Maffei M., Sellathurai S., May M. M., Vaněk O., de Marco A. (2022): Protein purification strategies must consider downstream applications and individual biological characteristics. Microb Cell Fact 21, 52. IF 6.352 DOI: 10.1186/s12934-022-01778-5

Bláha J., Skálová T., Kalousková B., Skořepa O., Cmunt D., Grobárová V., Pazicky S., Poláchová E., Abreu C., Stránský J., Kovaľ T., Dušková J., Zhao Y., Harlos K., Hašek J., Dohnálek J., Vaněk O. (2022): Structure of the human NK cell NKR-P1:LLT1 receptor:ligand complex reveals clustering in the immune synapse. Nat Commun 13, 5022. IF 17.694 DOI: 10.1038/s41467-022-32577-6

 

2021

Stehlík Š., Henych J., Štenclová P., Král R., Zemenová P., Pangrác J., Vaněk O., Kromka A., Rezek B. (2021): Size and nitrogen inhomogeneity in detonation and laser synthesized primary nanodiamond particles revealed via salt-assisted deaggregation. Carbon 171, 230-239. IF 11.307 DOI: 10.1016/j.carbon.2020.09.026

Zouharová M., Vymětal J., Bednárová L., Vaněk O., Herman P., Vetýšková V., Poštulková K., Lingstaadas P. S., Vondrášek J., Boušová K. (2021): Intrinsically disordered protein domain of human ameloblastin in synthetic fusion with calmodulin increases calmodulin stability and modulates its function. Int J Biol Macromol 168, 1-12. IF 8.025 DOI: 10.1016/j.ijbiomac.2020.11.216

Stehlík Š., Mermoux M., Schummer B., Vaněk O., Kolářová K., Štenclová P., Vlk A., Ledinský M., Pfeifer R., Romanyuk O., Gordeev I., Roussel-Dherbey F., Němečková Z., Henych J., Bezdička P., Kromka A., Rezek B. (2021): Size effects on surface chemistry and Raman spectra of sub-5 nm oxidized high-pressure high-temperature and detonation nanodiamonds. J Phys Chem C 125, 5647-5669. IF 4.177 DOI: 10.1021/acs.jpcc.0c09190

Anderluh M., Berti F., Bzducha-Wróbel A., Chiodo F., Colombo C., Compostella F., Durlik K., Ferhati X., Holmdahl R., Jovanovic D., Kaca W., Lay L., Marinovic-Cincovic M., Marradi M., Ozil M., Polito L., Reina-Martin J. J., Reis C. A., Sackstein R., Silipo A., Švajger U., Vaněk O., Yamamoto F., Richichi B., van Vliet S. J. (2021): Emerging glyco-based strategies to steer immune responses. FEBS J 288, 4746-4772. IF 5.622 DOI: 10.1111/febs.15830

Peleg Y., Vincentelli R., Collins B. M., Chen K., Livingstone E. K., Weeratunga S., Leneva N., Guo Q., Remans K., Perez K., Bjerga G. E. K., Larsen Ø., Vaněk O., Skořepa O., Jacquemin S., Poterszman A., Kjaer S., Christodoulou E., Albeck S., Dym O., Ainbinder E., Unger T., Schuetz A., Matthes S., Bader M., de Marco A., Storici P., Semrau M. S., Stolt-Bergner P., Aigner C., Suppmann S., Goldenzweig A., Fleishman S. J. (2021): Community-wide experimental evaluation of the PROSS stability-design method. J Mol Biol 433, 166964. IF 6.151 DOI: 10.1016/j.jmb.2021.166964

López-Méndez B., Baron B., Brautigam C. A., Jowitt T. A., Knauer S. H., Uebel S., Williams M. A., Sedivy A., Abian O., Abreu C., Adamczyk M., Bal W., Berger S., Buell A. K., Carolis C., Daviter T., Fish A., Garcia-Alai M., Guenther C., Hamacek J., Holková J., Houser J., Johnson C., Kelly S., Leech A., Mas C., Matulis D., McLaughlin S. H., Montserret R., Nasreddine R., Nehmé R., Nguyen Q., Ortega-Alarcón D., Perez K., Pirc K., Piszczek G., Podobnik M., Rodrigo N., Rokov-Plavec J., Schaefer S., Sharpe T., Southall J., Staunton D., Tavares P., Vaněk O., Weyand M., Wu D. (2021): Reproducibility and accuracy of microscale thermophoresis in the NanoTemper Monolith: a multi laboratory benchmark study. Eur Biophys J 50, 411-427. IF 2.095 DOI: 10.1016/10.1007/s00249-021-01532-6

Boušová K., Bednárová L., Zouharová M., Vetýšková V., Poštulková K., Hofbauerová K., Petrvalská O., Vaněk O., Tripsianes K., Vondrášek J. (2021): The order of PDZ3 and TrpCage in fusion chimeras determines their properties – a biophysical characterization. Protein Sci 30, 1653-1666. IF 6.993 DOI: 10.1002/pro.4107

Kalousková B., Skořepa O., Cmunt D., Abreu C., Krejčová K., Bláha J., Sieglová I., Král V., Fábry M., Pola R., Pechar M., Vaněk O. (2021): Tumor marker B7-H6 bound to the coiled coil peptide-polymer conjugate enables targeted therapy by activating human natural killer cells. Biomedicines 9, 1597. IF 4.757 DOI: 10.3390/biomedicines9111597

 

2020

Janisova L., Gruzinov A., Zaborova O. V., Velychkivska N., Vaněk O., Chytil P., Etrych T., Janoušková O., Zhang X., Blanchet C., Papadakis C. M., Svergun D. I., Filippov S. K. (2020): Molecular mechanisms of the interactions of N-(2-hydroxypropyl)methacrylamide copolymers designed for cancer therapy with the blood plasma proteins. Pharmaceutics 12, 106. IF 6.321 DOI: 10.3390/pharmaceutics12020106

Skořepa O., Pažický S., Kalousková B., Bláha J., Abreu C., Ječmen T., Rosůlek M., Fish A., Sedivy A., Harlos K., Dohnálek J., Skálová T., Vaněk O.* (2020): Natural killer cell activation receptor NKp30 oligomerization depends on its N-glycosylation. Cancers 12, 1998. IF 6.639 DOI: 10.3390/cancers12071998

Sumová P., Polanská N., Leštinová T., Spitzová T., Kalousková B., Vaněk O., Volf P., Rohoušová I. (2020): Phlebotomus perniciosus recombinant salivary proteins polarize murine macrophages towards the anti-inflammatory phenotype. Front Cell Infect Microbiol 10, 427. IF 5.293 DOI: 10.3389/fcimb.2020.00427

Vetýšková V., Zouharová M., Bednárová L., Vaněk O., Sázelová P., Kašička V., Vymětal J., Srp J., Rumlová M., Charnavets T., Poštulková K., Reseland J. E., Boušová K., Vondrášek J. (2020): Characterization of AMBN I and II isoforms and study of their Ca2+-binding properties. Int J Mol Sci 21, 9293. IF 5.923 DOI: 10.3390/ijms21239293

Skálová T., Lengálová A., Dohnálek J., Harlos K., Mihalčin P., Kolenko P., Stráňava M., Bláha J., Shimizu T., Martínková M. (2020): Disruption of the dimerization interface of the sensing domain in the dimeric heme-based oxygen sensor AfGcHK abolishes bacterial signal transduction. J Biol Chem 295, 1587-1597. IF 5,157 DOI: 10.1074/jbc.RA119.011574

 

2019

Sumová P., Šíma M., Kalousková B., Polanská N., Vaněk O., Oliveira F., Valenzuela J. G., Volf P. (2019): Amine-binding properties of salivary yellow-related proteins in phlebotomine sand flies. Insect Biochem Mol Biol 115, 103245. IF 3.827 DOI: 10.1016/j.ibmb.2019.103245

Willen L., Leštinová T., Kalousková B., Sumová P., Spitzová T., Velez R., Domenech E., Vaněk O., Gállego M., Mertens P., Volf P. (2019): Field study of the improved rapid sand fly exposure test in areas endemic for canine leishmaniasis. PLoS Negl Trop Dis 13, e0007832. IF 3.885 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pntd.0007832

Vaněk O.*, Celadová P., Skořepa O., Bláha J., Kalousková B., Dvorská A., Poláchová E., Pucholtová H., Kavan D., Pompach P., Hofbauerová K., Kopecký V. Jr., Mesci A., Voigt S., Carlyle J. R. (2019): Production of recombinant soluble dimeric C-type lectin-like receptors of rat natural killer cells. Sci Rep 9, 17836. IF 3.998 DOI: 10.1038/s41598-019-52114-8

 

2018

Škerlová J., Bláha J., Pachl P., Hofbauerová K., Kukačka Z., Man P., Pompach P., Novák P., Otwinowski Z., Brynda J., Vaněk O.*, Řezáčová P. (2018): Crystal structure of native β-N-acetylhexosaminidase isolated from Aspergillus oryzae sheds light onto its substrate specificity, high stability, and regulation by propeptide. FEBS J 285, 580-598. IF 4.739 DOI: 10.1111/febs.14360

Malý M., Skálová T., Švecová L., Dohnálek J., Bláha J., Vaněk O., Harlos K., Kolenko P. (2018): Paired refinement: Impact of reintegration and rescaling. In: Dragounová K., ed. Sborník 8. Studentské vědecké konference fyziky pevných látek a materiálů FJFI ČVUT. Praha: České vysoké učení technické v Praze, s. 8-10. ISBN 978-80-01-06511-2

 

2017

Bláha J., Kalousková B., Skořepa O., Pažický S., Novák P., Vaněk O.* (2017): High-level expression and purification of soluble form of human natural killer cell receptor NKR-P1 in HEK293S GnTI- cells. Protein Expr Purif 140, 36-43. IF 1.338 DOI: 10.1016/j.pep.2017.07.016

Stehlík Š., Varga M., Štenclová P., Ondič L., Ledinský M., Pangrác J., Vaněk O., Lipov J., Kromka A., Rezek B. (2017): Ultrathin Nanocrystalline Diamond Films with Silicon Vacancy Color Centers via Seeding by 2 nm Detonation Nanodiamonds. ACS Appl Mater Interfaces 9, 38842-38853. IF 8.097 DOI: 10.1021/acsami.7b14436

Stráňava M., Man P., Skálová T., Kolenko P., Bláha J., Fojtíková V., Martínek V., Dohnálek J., Lengálová A., Rosůlek M., Shimizu T., Martínková M. (2017): Coordination and redox state-dependent structural changes of the heme-based oxygen sensor AfGcHK associated with intraprotein signal transduction. J Biol Chem 292, 20921-20935. IF 4.011 DOI: 10.1074/jbc.M117.817023

 

2016

Doležal M., Zábranský A., Dostál J., Vaněk O., Brynda J., Lepšík M., Hadravová R., Pichová I. (2016): Myristoylation drives dimerization of matrix protein from mouse mammary tumor virus. Retrovirology 13, 2. IF 3.867 DOI: 10.1186/s12977-015-0235-8

Stráňava M., Martínek V., Man P., Fojtíková V., Kavan D., Vaněk O., Shimizu T., Martínková M. (2016): Structural Characterization of the Heme-based Oxygen Sensor, AfGcHK, its Interactions with the Cognate Response Regulator, and their Combined Mechanism of Action in a Bacterial Two-component Signaling System. Proteins 84, 1375-1389. IF 2.289 DOI: 10.1002/prot.25083

 

2015

Bláha J., Pachl P., Novák P., Vaněk O.* (2015): Expression and purification of soluble and stable ectodomain of natural killer cell receptor LLT1 through high-density transfection of suspension adapted HEK293S GnTI- cells. Protein Expr Purif 109, 7-13. IF 1.407 DOI: 10.1016/j.pep.2015.01.006

Skálová T., Bláha J., Harlos K., Dušková J., Kovaľ T., Stránský J., Hašek J., Vaněk O., Dohnálek J. (2015): Four crystal structures of human LLT1, a ligand for human NKR-P1, in varied glycosylation and oligomerization states. Acta Crystallogr Sect D Biol Crystallogr 71, 578-591. IF 2.512 DOI: 10.1107/S1399004714027928

Machová I., Snášel J., Dostál J., Brynda J., Fanfrlík J., Singh M., Tarábek J., Vaněk O., Bednárová L., Pichová I. (2015): Structural and functional studies of phosphoenolpyruvate carboxykinase from Mycobacterium tuberculosis. PLoS ONE 10, e0120682. IF 3.057 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0120682

Lynn G. M., Laga R., Darrah P. A., Ishizuka A. S., Balaci A. J., Dulcey A. E., Pechar M., Pola R., Gerner M. Y., Yamamoto A., Buechler C. R., Quinn K. M., Smelkinson M. G., Vaněk O., Cawood R., Hills T., Vasalatiy O., Kastenmüller K., Francica J. R., Stutts L., Tom J. K., Ryu K. A., Esser-Kahn A. P., Etrych T., Fisher K. D., Seymour L. W., Seder R. A. (2015): In vivo characterization of the physicochemical properties of polymer-linked TLR agonists that enhance vaccine immunogenicity. Nat Biotechnol 33, 1201-1210. IF 43.113 DOI: 10.1038/nbt.3371

 

Collaboration

Academic partners

Dr. Mario Brameshuber, Technical University of Vienna, Austria

prof. Ario de Marco, University Nova Gorica, Slovenia

prof. James R. Carlyle, University Toronto, Canada (in memoriam)

Dr. Jakub Tomala, prof. Jamie Spangler, John Hopkins University, USA

Dr. Jan Dohnálek, IBT CAS CR, BIOCEV

Dr. Michal Pechar, IMC CAS CR

 

Industry and commercial partners

Merck s.r.o. (2010-2018)

IOCB TECH s.r.o. (2017–2018)

PROGEN Biotechnik GmbH (2021)

 

Teaching

Advanced Practical Biochemistry - MC250C17E

Advanced Practical Biochemistry for KATA - MC250C03E

Advanced practical course in biochemistry II - MC250C08

Biology for biochemists - MC250P49

Therapeutic proteins - MC250P67

Introduction to knowledge and technology transfer - MS750P02

Management of biochemistry - MC250P50

 

Defended bachelor theses: 41

Defended master theses: 27

Defended PhD. theses: 3

 

Alumni

Supervision of bachelor theses

Hájková Alena (2007): Preparation of vector for the recombinant expression of human protein NKR-P1, receptor of natural killer cell

Němcová Petra (2007): Preparation of vector for the recombinant expression of protein NKR-P1A, receptor of rat natural killer cell

Novotná Lenka (2008): Preparation of vector for the recombinant expression of protein NKR-P1B, receptor of rat natural killer cell

Celadová Petra (2008): Molecular cloning and amplification of b and g isoforms of Clr gene, ligand for Nkrp1 receptors of mouse NK cells

Holubová Martina (2008): Molecular cloning and amplification of B, D, and F isoforms of NKR-P1 mouse natural killer cell receptor

Bláha Jan (2010): Optimization of recombinant protein expression in HEK293 cell line

Čuperková Romana (2012): Optimization of Culture Medium for HEK293 Cell Line

Dvorská Anna (2012): Preparation and studies of complex of rat NK cell receptors NKR-P1B and Clrb

Leontovyč Adrian (2012): Preparation of expression vector for production of receptors CD69 and S1P1

Poláchová Edita (2012): Preparation of Expression Vectors That Regulate Cell Cycle and Apoptosis to Optimize Expression System of HEK293 Cell Line

Pucholtová Helena (2012): Preparation of dimeric form of mouse NK cell receptor NKR-P1C

Illéš David (2013): Optimization of purification of recombinant nitrilase from Arthroderma benhamiae

Mikulová Barbora (2013): Preparation of expression vectors for NKp65 and KACL, new members of human NK cell receptor family

Nový Jiří (2013): Preparation of the human NK cell receptor KACL

Petermannová Romana (2013): Production of auxin transporter PIN1 in HEK293 cell line

Slavata Lukáš (2013): Preparation of plasmids for expression of interleukin 2-fusion monoclonal antibody

Kalousková Barbora (2014): Preparation of glycosylated form of human immunoreceptor NKp30

Pažický Samuel (2014): Preparation of expression vectors for receptor NKp30 and its ligands B7-H6 and BAG-6

Skořepa Ondřej (2014): Preparation of lentiviral expression vector with reporter gene

Gáthy Lajos (2015): Recombinant expression and purification of C324S modified nitrilase from Arthroderma benhamiae

Prokopová Tereza (2015): Production and purification of recombinant receptor Clrb

Herynek Štěpán (2017): Recombinant preparation of proliferating cell nuclear antigen (PCNA)

Krejčová Kateřina (2017): Preparation of tumour ligand B7-H6 with coiled-coil tag and verifying of its binding to receptor NKp30

Hausleitner Filip (2018): The influence of S159A mutation on the oligomeric state of human NK cell receptor NKR-P1A

Houserová Jana (2018): Recombinant expression of protein NKp46 and its ligand Epa1

Nepokojová Tereza (2018): Preparation of fusion ligands and evaluation of their binding to NK cell receptors

Runová Alžběta (2018): Preparation of receptor AICL in fusion with Fc fragment of human IgG

Rožová Dominika (2020): Production of interleukin 2 in fusion with monoclonal antibody S4B6

Gabriela Chytrá (2021): Study of the role of N-glycosylation in function of anti-HER2 nanobody

Hejl Maxmilián (2021): Optimization of in vitro assays focused on activation of NK cells

Kozojedová Petra (2021): Preparation of reporter cell line for validation of recombinant protein biological activity

Pazderová Kristýna (2021): Mutagenesis and expression of protein NKp80, the activation receptor of human lymphocytes

Tulpa Matouš (2021): Galectin-3 and its interaction with the natural cytotoxicity receptor NKp30

Bragina Nadezda (2022): Production of recombinant substrates for transpeptidase reaction

Dubanych Yurii (2022): Production and characterization of galectin-3 mutant

Rudenko Anastassiya (2022): Recombinant expression of the mouse NK cell receptor NKR-P1C

Urbanová Zuzana (2022): Recombinant expression of rat NK cell receptor Clr-b in the presence of fluorinated analogues of monosaccharides

Jeníček Jakub (2023): Preparation of the high-affinity binding domain of protein B7-H6

Cibiková Tereza (2024): Anti-CD20 nanobody production and its conjugation to a polymeric carrier

Maksimova Anna Dmitryvna (2024): Production of a soluble form of the human NK cell receptor NKR-P1 and its ligand LLT1

Murajdová Viktória (2024): Optimization of recombinant protein expression in the human cell line HEK293

 

Supervision of master theses

Hájková Alena (2009): Recombinant expression and studies on receptor hNKR-P1

Němcová Petra (2009): Recombinant expression and studies on rNKR-P1A receptor

Celadová Petra (2010): Preparation of rat NK cell receptors using HEK293T expression system

Bláha Jan (2012): Preparation and study of human lymphocyte receptor LLT1

Dvorská Anna (2014): Structural biology of complex of rat NK cell receptors NKR-P1B and Clrb

Hradilová Iveta (2014): Preparation and characterization of cyanide hydratase from Aspergillus niger and nitrilase from Arthroderma benhamiae

Poláchová Edita (2014): Optimization of HEK293 cell line expression system by regulation of cell cycle and apoptosis

Pucholtová Helena (2014): Production of mouse NK cell receptor NKR-P1C and seeking of its ligand

Zawadová Dorota (2014): Recombinant expression and purification of nitrilase from Neurospora crassa

Nový Jiří (2015): Preparation and study of human NK cell receptor AICL

Petermannová Romana (2015): Preparation of HEK293 cell line expressing auxin transporter PIN7 and testing of inhibitors of auxin transport

Kalousková Barbora (2016): Preparation of human NK cell activation receptor NKp80 and its ligand AICL

Pažický Samuel (2016): Study of NKp30 oligomerization and its interaction with B7-H6

Skořepa Ondřej (2016): Structural studies of rat NK cell receptor NKR-P1B and its ligand Clrb

Abreu de Sousa Santos Celeste (2019): Interaction of Galectin-1 with human NK cell receptors

Cmunt Denis (2019): Preparation of fusion domains of human immunoreceptors for their utilization in immunotherapy

Herynek Štěpán (2019): Structural biology of receptor NKp44 and its ligand PCNA

Houserová Jana (2020): Study of the interaction of receptor NKp46 with adhesin Epa1

Frantová Eliška (2022): Production of IL-2 fusion antibodies and determination of their biological activity

Malá Viktorie (2022): Preparation of mutated forms of protein B7-H6

Bednaříková Kristýna (2023): Production of a novel type of recombinant IL-2 immunocytokine

Hejl Maxmilián (2023): Preparation of a polymeric therapeutic targeting CD20 positive B-lymphomas and NK cells

Tulpa Matouš (2023): The role of N-glycosylation in homooligomerization of natural cytotoxicity receptor NKp30

Chytrá Gabriela (2024): Activating antitumor immune response using bispecific fusion proteins

Otépka Tomáš (2024: Preparation of growth factor TGF-β3 with coiled-coil tag

Dubanych Yurii (2024): Characterization of the interaction of galectin-3 with the natural cytotoxicity receptor NKp30

Pazderová Kristýna (2024): Structural biochemistry of protein NKp80, an activation receptor of human lymphocytes

 

Supervision of PhD. theses

Bláha Jan (2017): Study of structure and interaction of human lymphocyte receptors

Skořepa Ondřej (2021): Structural biochemistry of human NK cell receptor complex NKp30 and B7-H6

Kalousková Barbora (2022): Harnessing soluble forms of NK cell receptors and their ligands for cancer immunotherapy

 

Offered/Supervised/Defended theses

Ondřej Vaněk