Membranes: first steps to rafts?

abstract：:Higher plants resist the forces of gravity and powerful lateral forces through the cumulative strength of the walls that surround individual cells. These walls consist mainly of cellulose, noncellulosic polysaccharides and lignin, in proportions that depend upon the specific functions of the cell and its stage of deve...

journal_title：Nature chemical biology

authors： Burton RA,Gidley MJ,Fincher GB

更新日期：2010-10-01 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：:Small molecules that specifically activate an intracellular protein of interest are highly desirable. A generally applicable strategy, however, remains elusive. Herein we describe a small molecule-triggered bioorthogonal protein decaging technique that relies on the inverse electron-demand Diels-Alder reaction for eli...

journal_title：Nature chemical biology

authors： Li J,Jia S,Chen PR

更新日期：2014-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Molecular dynamics are essential for protein function. In some cases these dynamics involve the interconversion between ground state, highly populated conformers and less populated higher energy structures ('excited states') that play critical roles in biochemical processes. Here we describe recent advances in NMR spe...

journal_title：Nature chemical biology

authors： Baldwin AJ,Kay LE

更新日期：2009-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Thiazole/oxazole-modified microcins (TOMMs) encompass a recently defined class of ribosomally synthesized natural products with a diverse set of biological activities. Although TOMM biosynthesis has been investigated for over a decade, the mechanism of heterocycle formation by the synthetase enzymes remains poorly und...

journal_title：Nature chemical biology

authors： Dunbar KL,Melby JO,Mitchell DA

更新日期：2012-04-22 00:00:00

abstract：:Nontranslational functions of vertebrate aminoacyl tRNA synthetases (aaRSs), which catalyze the production of aminoacyl-tRNAs for protein synthesis, have recently been discovered. Although these new functions were thought to be 'moonlighting activities', many are as critical for cellular homeostasis as their activity ...

journal_title：Nature chemical biology

authors： Guo M,Schimmel P

更新日期：2013-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Enzymes that use the cofactor thiamin diphosphate (ThDP, 1), the biologically active form of vitamin B(1), are involved in numerous metabolic pathways in all organisms. Although a theory of the cofactor's underlying reaction mechanism has been established over the last five decades, the three-dimensional structures of...

journal_title：Nature chemical biology

authors： Wille G,Meyer D,Steinmetz A,Hinze E,Golbik R,Tittmann K

更新日期：2006-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Directly modulating the activity of genome-editing proteins has the potential to increase their specificity by reducing activity following target locus modification. We developed Cas9 nucleases that are activated by the presence of a cell-permeable small molecule by inserting an evolved 4-hydroxytamoxifen-responsive i...

journal_title：Nature chemical biology

authors： Davis KM,Pattanayak V,Thompson DB,Zuris JA,Liu DR

更新日期：2015-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Here we present a natural product discovery approach, whereby structures are bioinformatically predicted from primary sequence and produced by chemical synthesis (synthetic-bioinformatic natural products, syn-BNPs), circumventing the need for bacterial culture and gene expression. When we applied the approach to nonri...

journal_title：Nature chemical biology

authors： Chu J,Vila-Farres X,Inoyama D,Ternei M,Cohen LJ,Gordon EA,Reddy BV,Charlop-Powers Z,Zebroski HA,Gallardo-Macias R,Jaskowski M,Satish S,Park S,Perlin DS,Freundlich JS,Brady SF

更新日期：2016-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Benzylisoquinoline alkaloids (BIAs) are a diverse family of plant-specialized metabolites that include the pharmaceuticals codeine and morphine and their derivatives. Microbial synthesis of BIAs holds promise as an alternative to traditional crop-based manufacturing. Here we demonstrate the production of the key BIA i...

journal_title：Nature chemical biology

authors： DeLoache WC,Russ ZN,Narcross L,Gonzales AM,Martin VJ,Dueber JE

更新日期：2015-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Beyond established roles in collagen biosynthesis, hypoxic signaling and fatty acid metabolism, recent reports have now revealed roles for human 2-oxoglutarate-dependent oxygenases in histone and nucleic acid demethylation and in signaling protein hydroxylation. The emerging role of these oxygenases in enabling a mult...

journal_title：Nature chemical biology

authors： Loenarz C,Schofield CJ

更新日期：2008-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Polyglutamine (polyQ) stretches exceeding a threshold length confer a toxic function to proteins that contain them and cause at least nine neurological disorders. The basis for this toxicity threshold is unclear. Although polyQ expansions render proteins prone to aggregate into inclusion bodies, this may be a neuronal...

journal_title：Nature chemical biology

authors： Miller J,Arrasate M,Brooks E,Libeu CP,Legleiter J,Hatters D,Curtis J,Cheung K,Krishnan P,Mitra S,Widjaja K,Shaby BA,Lotz GP,Newhouse Y,Mitchell EJ,Osmand A,Gray M,Thulasiramin V,Saudou F,Segal M,Yang XW,Masliah

更新日期：2011-10-30 00:00:00

abstract：:We identify an Arabidopsis pyridoxal-phosphate-dependent aminotransferase, VAS1, whose loss-of-function simultaneously increases amounts of the phytohormone auxin and the ethylene precursor 1-aminocyclopropane-1-carboxylate. VAS1 uses the ethylene biosynthetic intermediate methionine as an amino donor and the auxin bi...

journal_title：Nature chemical biology

authors： Zheng Z,Guo Y,Novák O,Dai X,Zhao Y,Ljung K,Noel JP,Chory J

更新日期：2013-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:F(1)-ATPase is an ATP-driven rotary motor protein in which the γ-subunit rotates against the catalytic stator ring. Although the reaction scheme of F(1) has mostly been revealed, the timing of inorganic phosphate (P(i)) release remains controversial. Here we addressed this issue by verifying the reversibility of ATP h...

journal_title：Nature chemical biology

authors： Watanabe R,Iino R,Noji H

更新日期：2010-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The With-No-Lysine (K) (WNK) kinases play a critical role in blood pressure regulation and body fluid and electrolyte homeostasis. Herein, we introduce the first orally bioavailable pan-WNK-kinase inhibitor, WNK463, that exploits unique structural features of the WNK kinases for both affinity and kinase selectivity. I...

journal_title：Nature chemical biology

authors： Yamada K,Park HM,Rigel DF,DiPetrillo K,Whalen EJ,Anisowicz A,Beil M,Berstler J,Brocklehurst CE,Burdick DA,Caplan SL,Capparelli MP,Chen G,Chen W,Dale B,Deng L,Fu F,Hamamatsu N,Harasaki K,Herr T,Hoffmann P,Hu QY,

更新日期：2016-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Identifying targets of antibacterial compounds remains a challenging step in the development of antibiotics. We have developed a two-pronged functional genomics approach to predict mechanism of action that uses mutant fitness data from antibiotic-treated transposon libraries containing both upregulation and inactivati...

journal_title：Nature chemical biology

authors： Santiago M,Lee W,Fayad AA,Coe KA,Rajagopal M,Do T,Hennessen F,Srisuknimit V,Müller R,Meredith TC,Walker S

更新日期：2018-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Inorganic nitrite (NO(2)(-)) is emerging as a regulator of physiological functions and tissue responses to ischemia, whereas the more stable nitrate anion (NO(3)(-)) is generally considered to be biologically inert. Bacteria express nitrate reductases that produce nitrite, but mammals lack these specific enzymes. Here...

journal_title：Nature chemical biology

authors： Jansson EA,Huang L,Malkey R,Govoni M,Nihlén C,Olsson A,Stensdotter M,Petersson J,Holm L,Weitzberg E,Lundberg JO

更新日期：2008-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In this study, we demonstrate the feasibility of expanding the genetic code of Escherichia coli using its own tryptophanyl-tRNA synthetase and tRNA (TrpRS-tRNATrp) pair. This was made possible by first functionally replacing this endogenous pair with an E. coli-optimized counterpart from Saccharomyces cerevisiae, and ...

journal_title：Nature chemical biology

authors： Italia JS,Addy PS,Wrobel CJ,Crawford LA,Lajoie MJ,Zheng Y,Chatterjee A

更新日期：2017-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We describe Scaffold Hunter, a highly interactive computer-based tool for navigation in chemical space that fosters intuitive recognition of complex structural relationships associated with bioactivity. The program reads compound structures and bioactivity data, generates compound scaffolds, correlates them in a hiera...

journal_title：Nature chemical biology

authors： Wetzel S,Klein K,Renner S,Rauh D,Oprea TI,Mutzel P,Waldmann H

更新日期：2009-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The broad study of histone deacetylases in chemistry, biology and medicine relies on tool compounds to derive mechanistic insights. A phylogenetic analysis of class I and II histone deacetylases (HDACs) as targets of a comprehensive, structurally diverse panel of inhibitors revealed unexpected isoform selectivity even...

journal_title：Nature chemical biology

authors： Bradner JE,West N,Grachan ML,Greenberg EF,Haggarty SJ,Warnow T,Mazitschek R

更新日期：2010-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Studies of gene function and molecular mechanisms in Plasmodium falciparum are hampered by difficulties in characterizing and measuring phenotypic differences between individual parasites. We screened seven parasite lines for differences in responses to 1,279 bioactive chemicals. Hundreds of compounds were active in i...

journal_title：Nature chemical biology

authors： Yuan J,Johnson RL,Huang R,Wichterman J,Jiang H,Hayton K,Fidock DA,Wellems TE,Inglese J,Austin CP,Su XZ

更新日期：2009-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Targeted protein degradation via small-molecule modulation of cereblon offers vast potential for the development of new therapeutics. Cereblon-binding therapeutics carry the safety risks of thalidomide, which caused an epidemic of severe birth defects characterized by forelimb shortening or phocomelia. Here we show th...

journal_title：Nature chemical biology

authors： Matyskiela ME,Couto S,Zheng X,Lu G,Hui J,Stamp K,Drew C,Ren Y,Wang M,Carpenter A,Lee CW,Clayton T,Fang W,Lu CC,Riley M,Abdubek P,Blease K,Hartke J,Kumar G,Vessey R,Rolfe M,Hamann LG,Chamberlain PP

更新日期：2018-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To maximize a desired product, metabolic engineers typically express enzymes to high, constant levels. Yet, permanent pathway activation can have undesirable consequences including competition with essential pathways and accumulation of toxic intermediates. Faced with similar challenges, natural metabolic systems comp...

journal_title：Nature chemical biology

authors： Zhao EM,Suek N,Wilson MZ,Dine E,Pannucci NL,Gitai Z,Avalos JL,Toettcher JE

更新日期：2019-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cholinesterase inhibitors, the current frontline symptomatic treatment for Alzheimer's disease (AD), are associated with low efficacy and adverse effects. M1 muscarinic acetylcholine receptors (M1 mAChRs) represent a potential alternate therapeutic target; however, drug discovery programs focused on this G protein-cou...

journal_title：Nature chemical biology

authors： Bradley SJ,Molloy C,Valuskova P,Dwomoh L,Scarpa M,Rossi M,Finlayson L,Svensson KA,Chernet E,Barth VN,Gherbi K,Sykes DA,Wilson CA,Mistry R,Sexton PM,Christopoulos A,Mogg AJ,Rosethorne EM,Sakata S,John Challiss RA,B

更新日期：2020-03-01 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：:Trafficking and sorting of membrane-anchored Ras GTPases are regulated by partitioning between distinct membrane domains. Here, in vitro experiments and microscopic molecular theory reveal membrane curvature as a new modulator of N-Ras lipid anchor and palmitoyl chain partitioning. Membrane curvature was essential for...

journal_title：Nature chemical biology

authors： Larsen JB,Jensen MB,Bhatia VK,Pedersen SL,Bjørnholm T,Iversen L,Uline M,Szleifer I,Jensen KJ,Hatzakis NS,Stamou D

更新日期：2015-03-01 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：:Plants have recently moved into the spotlight owing to the growing realization that the world needs solutions to energy and food production that are sustainable and environmentally sound. Iron, copper and zinc are essential for plant growth and development, yet the same properties that make these transition metals ind...

journal_title：Nature chemical biology

authors： Palmer CM,Guerinot ML

更新日期：2009-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Secondary structure refolding is a key event in biology as it modulates the conformation of many proteins in the cell, generating functional or aberrant states. The crystal structures of mannosyltransferase PimA reveal an exceptional flexibility of the protein along the catalytic cycle, including β-strand-to-α-helix a...

journal_title：Nature chemical biology

authors： Giganti D,Albesa-Jové D,Urresti S,Rodrigo-Unzueta A,Martínez MA,Comino N,Barilone N,Bellinzoni M,Chenal A,Guerin ME,Alzari PM

更新日期：2015-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Binding to the primary receptor, CD4, triggers conformational changes in the metastable HIV-1 envelope glycoprotein (Env) trimer ((gp120-gp41)3) that are important for virus entry into host cells. These changes include an 'opening' of the trimer, creation of a binding site for the CCR5 co-receptor and formation and/or...

journal_title：Nature chemical biology

authors： Herschhorn A,Gu C,Espy N,Richard J,Finzi A,Sodroski JG

更新日期：2014-10-01 00:00:00