Ravi Sonani

Overview: I am a protein chemist with experience in structural biology. I use Cryo-EM and X-ray crystallography to understand the structure and function of biologically important multi-molecular assemblies.

Publications with our group

Cryo-EM structure of flagellotropic bacteriophage Chi. Ravi R Sonani, Nathaniel C Esteves, Birgit E Scharf, Edward H Egelman Published in Structure (London, England : 1993), April 2024 (see publication)

Atomic structures of naphthalene dipeptide micelles unravel mechanisms of assembly and gelation. Ravi R Sonani, Simona Bianco, Bart Dietrich, James Doutch, Emily R Draper, Dave J Adams, Edward H Egelman Published in Cell reports. Physical science, March 2024 (see publication)

An extensive disulfide bond network prevents tail contraction in Agrobacterium tumefaciens phage Milano. Ravi R Sonani, Lee K Palmer, Nathaniel C Esteves, Abigail A Horton, Amanda L Sebastian, Rebecca J Kelly, Fengbin Wang, Mark A B Kreutzberger, William K Russell, Petr G Leiman, Birgit E Scharf, Edward H Egelman Published in Nature communications, January 2024 (see publication)

Glucose-Triggered Gelation of Supramolecular Peptide Nanocoils with Glucose-Binding Motifs. Sihan Yu, Zhou Ye, Rajdip Roy, Ravi R Sonani, Irawan Pramudya, Sijie Xian, Yuanhui Xiang, Guoqiang Liu, Belen Flores, Einat Nativ-Roth, Ronit Bitton, Edward H Egelman, Matthew J Webber Published in Advanced materials (Deerfield Beach, Fla.), December 2023 (see publication)

Tad and toxin-coregulated pilus structures reveal unexpected diversity in bacterial type IV pili. Ravi R Sonani, Juan Carlos Sanchez, Joseph K Baumgardt, Shivani Kundra, Elizabeth R Wright, Lisa Craig, Edward H Egelman Published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, November 2023 (see publication)

Neck and capsid architecture of the robust Agrobacterium phage Milano. Ravi R Sonani, Nathaniel C Esteves, Abigail A Horton, Rebecca J Kelly, Amanda L Sebastian, Fengbin Wang, Mark A B Kreutzberger, Petr G Leiman, Birgit E Scharf, Edward H Egelman Published in Communications biology, September 2023 (see publication)

The evolution of archaeal flagellar filaments. Mark A B Kreutzberger, Virginija Cvirkaite-Krupovic, Ying Liu, Diana P Baquero, Junfeng Liu, Ravi R Sonani, Chris R Calladine, Fengbin Wang, Mart Krupovic, Edward H Egelman Published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, July 2023 (see publication)

Convergent evolution in the supercoiling of prokaryotic flagellar filaments. Mark A B Kreutzberger, Ravi R Sonani, Junfeng Liu, Sharanya Chatterjee, Fengbin Wang, Amanda L Sebastian, Priyanka Biswas, Cheryl Ewing, Weili Zheng, Frédéric Poly, Gad Frankel, B F Luisi, Chris R Calladine, Mart Krupovic, Birgit E Scharf, Edward H Egelman Published in Cell, September 2022 (see publication)