Probing cell-division phenotype space and Polo-like kinase function using small molecules.

abstract：:Sulfoquinovose is produced by photosynthetic organisms at a rate of 10(10) tons per annum and is degraded by bacteria as a source of carbon and sulfur. We have identified Escherichia coli YihQ as the first dedicated sulfoquinovosidase and the gateway enzyme to sulfoglycolytic pathways. Structural and mutagenesis studi...

journal_title：Nature chemical biology

authors： Speciale G,Jin Y,Davies GJ,Williams SJ,Goddard-Borger ED

更新日期：2016-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Occurrence of the BCR-ABL(T315I) gatekeeper mutation is among the most pressing challenges in the therapy of chronic myeloid leukemia (CML). Several BCR-ABL inhibitors have multiple targets and pleiotropic effects that could be exploited for their synergistic potential. Testing combinations of such kinase inhibitors i...

journal_title：Nature chemical biology

authors： Winter GE,Rix U,Carlson SM,Gleixner KV,Grebien F,Gridling M,Müller AC,Breitwieser FP,Bilban M,Colinge J,Valent P,Bennett KL,White FM,Superti-Furga G

更新日期：2012-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Single-molecule observations reveal that lipid- and protein-based interactions jointly contribute to the interactions among glycosylphosphatidylinositol-anchored proteins in membranes. Understanding these interactions will help to refine long-evolving (and still debated) models of 'raft' domains in biological membrane...

journal_title：Nature chemical biology

authors： Silvius JR

更新日期：2012-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Serine phosphorylation is a key post-translational modification that regulates diverse biological processes. Powerful analytical methods have identified thousands of phosphorylation sites, but many of their functions remain to be deciphered. A key to understanding the function of protein phosphorylation is access to p...

journal_title：Nature chemical biology

authors： Rogerson DT,Sachdeva A,Wang K,Haq T,Kazlauskaite A,Hancock SM,Huguenin-Dezot N,Muqit MM,Fry AM,Bayliss R,Chin JW

更新日期：2015-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Mammals that degrade uric acid are not affected by gout or urate kidney stones. It is not fully understood how they convert uric acid into the much more soluble allantoin. Until recently, it had long been thought that urate oxidase was the only enzyme responsible for this conversion. However, detailed studies of the m...

journal_title：Nature chemical biology

authors： Ramazzina I,Folli C,Secchi A,Berni R,Percudani R

更新日期：2006-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The streptothricin (ST) antibiotics, produced by Streptomyces bacteria, contain L-β-lysine ((3S)-3,6-diaminohexanoic acid) oligopeptides as pendant chains. Here we describe three unusual nonribosomal peptide synthetases (NRPSs) involved in ST biosynthesis: ORF 5 (a stand-alone adenylation (A) domain), ORF 18 (containi...

journal_title：Nature chemical biology

authors： Maruyama C,Toyoda J,Kato Y,Izumikawa M,Takagi M,Shin-ya K,Katano H,Utagawa T,Hamano Y

更新日期：2012-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The heat shock protein 90 (Hsp90) has a critical role in malignant transformation. Whereas its ability to maintain the functional conformations of mutant and aberrant oncoproteins is established, a transformation-specific regulation of the antiapoptotic phenotype by Hsp90 is poorly understood. By using selective compo...

journal_title：Nature chemical biology

authors： Rodina A,Vilenchik M,Moulick K,Aguirre J,Kim J,Chiang A,Litz J,Clement CC,Kang Y,She Y,Wu N,Felts S,Wipf P,Massague J,Jiang X,Brodsky JL,Krystal GW,Chiosis G

更新日期：2007-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Oxidation of methionine disrupts the structure and function of a range of proteins, but little is understood about the chemistry that underlies these perturbations. Using quantum mechanical calculations, we found that oxidation increased the strength of the methionine-aromatic interaction motif, a driving force for pr...

journal_title：Nature chemical biology

authors： Lewis AK,Dunleavy KM,Senkow TL,Her C,Horn BT,Jersett MA,Mahling R,McCarthy MR,Perell GT,Valley CC,Karim CB,Gao J,Pomerantz WC,Thomas DD,Cembran A,Hinderliter A,Sachs JN

更新日期：2016-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In response to decreasing Ca2+ levels in the endoplasmic reticulum, STIM proteins couple with Orai channels in the plasma membrane, leading to Ca2+ influx into the cell. In addition to Ca2+-related endoplasmic reticulum stress, STIM proteins are emerging as general stress sensors that react to multiple stress signals ...

journal_title：Nature chemical biology

authors： Soboloff J,Madesh M,Gill DL

更新日期：2011-07-18 00:00:00

abstract：:N(1)-Methyladenosine (m(1)A) is a prevalent post-transcriptional RNA modification, yet little is known about its abundance, topology and dynamics in mRNA. Here, we show that m(1)A is prevalent in Homo sapiens mRNA, which shows an m(1)A/A ratio of ∼0.02%. We develop the m(1)A-ID-seq technique, based on m(1)A immunoprec...

journal_title：Nature chemical biology

authors： Li X,Xiong X,Wang K,Wang L,Shu X,Ma S,Yi C

更新日期：2016-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The plant hormone auxin regulates virtually every aspect of plant growth and development. Auxin acts by binding the F-box protein transport inhibitor response 1 (TIR1) and promotes the degradation of the AUXIN/INDOLE-3-ACETIC ACID (Aux/IAA) transcriptional repressors. Here we show that efficient auxin binding requires...

journal_title：Nature chemical biology

authors： Calderón Villalobos LI,Lee S,De Oliveira C,Ivetac A,Brandt W,Armitage L,Sheard LB,Tan X,Parry G,Mao H,Zheng N,Napier R,Kepinski S,Estelle M

更新日期：2012-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Drugs with prolonged on-target residence times often show superior efficacy, yet general strategies for optimizing drug-target residence time are lacking. Here we made progress toward this elusive goal by targeting a noncatalytic cysteine in Bruton's tyrosine kinase (BTK) with reversible covalent inhibitors. Using an ...

journal_title：Nature chemical biology

authors： Bradshaw JM,McFarland JM,Paavilainen VO,Bisconte A,Tam D,Phan VT,Romanov S,Finkle D,Shu J,Patel V,Ton T,Li X,Loughhead DG,Nunn PA,Karr DE,Gerritsen ME,Funk JO,Owens TD,Verner E,Brameld KA,Hill RJ,Goldstein DM,

更新日期：2015-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Concatenation of engineered biocatalysts into multistep pathways markedly increases their utility, but the development of generalizable assembly methods remains a major challenge. Herein we evaluate 'bioretrosynthesis', which is an application of the retrograde evolution hypothesis, for biosynthetic pathway constructi...

journal_title：Nature chemical biology

authors： Birmingham WR,Starbird CA,Panosian TD,Nannemann DP,Iverson TM,Bachmann BO

更新日期：2014-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Regulation of gene expression in response to the changing environment is critical for cell survival. For instance, binding of macrolide antibiotics to the ribosome promotes translation arrest at the leader open reading frames ermCL and ermBL, which is necessary for inducing the antibiotic resistance genes ermC and erm...

journal_title：Nature chemical biology

authors： Gupta P,Liu B,Klepacki D,Gupta V,Schulten K,Mankin AS,Vázquez-Laslop N

更新日期：2016-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:AMPA receptors mediate fast excitatory neurotransmission by converting chemical signals into electrical signals, and thus it is important to understand the relationship between their chemical biology and their function. We used single-molecule fluorescence resonance energy transfer to examine the conformations explore...

journal_title：Nature chemical biology

authors： Landes CF,Rambhadran A,Taylor JN,Salatan F,Jayaraman V

更新日期：2011-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Hundreds of human proteins are modified by reversible palmitoylation of cysteine residues (S-palmitoylation), but the regulation of depalmitoylation is poorly understood. Here, we develop 'depalmitoylation probes' (DPPs), small-molecule fluorophores, to monitor the endogenous activity levels of 'erasers' of S-palmitoy...

journal_title：Nature chemical biology

authors： Kathayat RS,Elvira PD,Dickinson BC

更新日期：2017-02-01 00:00:00

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journal_title：Nature chemical biology

authors： Song Y

更新日期：2018-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Kinetochores act as hubs for multiple activities during cell division, including microtubule interactions and spindle checkpoint signaling. Each kinetochore can act autonomously, and activities change rapidly as proteins are recruited to, or removed from, kinetochores. Understanding this dynamic system requires tools ...

journal_title：Nature chemical biology

authors： Zhang H,Aonbangkhen C,Tarasovetc EV,Ballister ER,Chenoweth DM,Lampson MA

更新日期：2017-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Synthetic mRNA is an attractive vehicle for gene therapies because of its transient nature and improved safety profile over DNA. However, unlike DNA, broadly applicable methods to control expression from mRNA are lacking. Here we describe a platform for small-molecule-based regulation of expression from modified RNA (...

journal_title：Nature chemical biology

authors： Wagner TE,Becraft JR,Bodner K,Teague B,Zhang X,Woo A,Porter E,Alburquerque B,Dobosh B,Andries O,Sanders NN,Beal J,Densmore D,Kitada T,Weiss R

更新日期：2018-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Actin filament dynamics are critical in cell motility. The structure of actin filament changes spontaneously and can also be regulated by actin-binding proteins, allowing actin to readily function in response to external stimuli. The interaction with the motor protein myosin changes the dynamic nature of actin filamen...

journal_title：Nature chemical biology

authors： Kozuka J,Yokota H,Arai Y,Ishii Y,Yanagida T

更新日期：2006-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In eukaryotes, cytosolic monothiol glutaredoxins are proteins implicated in intracellular iron trafficking and sensing via their bound [2Fe-2S] clusters. We define a new role of human cytosolic monothiol glutaredoxin-3 (GRX3) in transferring its [2Fe-2S] clusters to human anamorsin, a physical and functional protein p...

journal_title：Nature chemical biology

authors： Banci L,Ciofi-Baffoni S,Gajda K,Muzzioli R,Peruzzini R,Winkelmann J

更新日期：2015-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Mitochondrial electron transport drives ATP synthesis but also generates reactive oxygen species, which are both cellular signals and damaging oxidants. Superoxide production by respiratory complex III is implicated in diverse signaling events and pathologies, but its role remains controversial. Using high-throughput ...

journal_title：Nature chemical biology

authors： Orr AL,Vargas L,Turk CN,Baaten JE,Matzen JT,Dardov VJ,Attle SJ,Li J,Quackenbush DC,Goncalves RL,Perevoshchikova IV,Petrassi HM,Meeusen SL,Ainscow EK,Brand MD

更新日期：2015-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Chemical biology is an interdisciplinary field that is undergoing rapid expansion around the globe. Recently, the Japanese Society for Chemical Biology sponsored its inaugural scientific meeting to discuss research at the interface of chemistry and biology. ...

journal_title：Nature chemical biology

authors： Kikuchi K,Kakeya H

更新日期：2006-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Improved methods for studying intracellular reactive Fe(II) are of significant interest for studies of iron metabolism and disease-relevant changes in iron homeostasis. Here we describe a highly selective reactivity-based probe in which a Fenton-type reaction with intracellular labile Fe(II) leads to unmasking of the ...

journal_title：Nature chemical biology

authors： Spangler B,Morgan CW,Fontaine SD,Vander Wal MN,Chang CJ,Wells JA,Renslo AR

更新日期：2016-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Nature uses a variety of tools to mediate the flow of information in cells, many of which control distances between key biomacromolecules. Researchers have thus generated compounds whose activities stem from interactions with two (or more) proteins simultaneously. In this Perspective, we describe how these 'bifunction...

journal_title：Nature chemical biology

authors： Gerry CJ,Schreiber SL

更新日期：2020-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Vertebrate vision is initiated by photoisomerization of the visual pigment chromophore 11-cis-retinal and is maintained by continuous regeneration of this retinoid through a series of reactions termed the retinoid cycle. However, toxic side reaction products, especially those involving reactive aldehyde groups of the ...

journal_title：Nature chemical biology

authors： Maeda A,Golczak M,Chen Y,Okano K,Kohno H,Shiose S,Ishikawa K,Harte W,Palczewska G,Maeda T,Palczewski K

更新日期：2011-12-25 00:00:00

abstract：:Clinically significant antibiotic resistance has evolved against virtually every antibiotic deployed. Yet the development of new classes of antibiotics has lagged far behind our growing need for such drugs. Rather than focusing on therapeutics that target in vitro viability, much like conventional antibiotics, an alte...

journal_title：Nature chemical biology

authors： Clatworthy AE,Pierson E,Hung DT

更新日期：2007-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Bacterial biofilms can be programmed to produce living materials with self-healing and evolvable functionalities. However, the wider use of artificial biofilms has been hindered by limitations on processability and functional protein secretion capacity. We describe a highly flexible and tunable living functional mater...

journal_title：Nature chemical biology

authors： Huang J,Liu S,Zhang C,Wang X,Pu J,Ba F,Xue S,Ye H,Zhao T,Li K,Wang Y,Zhang J,Wang L,Fan C,Lu TK,Zhong C

更新日期：2019-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Excluding the ribosome and riboswitches, developing small molecules that selectively target RNA is a longstanding problem in chemical biology. A typical cellular RNA is difficult to target because it has little tertiary, but abundant secondary structure. We designed allele-selective compounds that target such an RNA, ...

journal_title：Nature chemical biology

authors： Rzuczek SG,Colgan LA,Nakai Y,Cameron MD,Furling D,Yasuda R,Disney MD

更新日期：2017-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:BCL-2 family protein interactions regulate apoptosis, a critical process that maintains tissue homeostasis but can cause a host of human diseases when deregulated. Venetoclax is the first FDA-approved drug to reactivate apoptosis in cancer by selectively targeting an anti-apoptotic BCL-2 family member. The drug's acti...

journal_title：Nature chemical biology

authors： Walensky LD

更新日期：2019-07-01 00:00:00