Formylglycine, a post-translationally generated residue with unique catalytic capabilities and biotechnology applications.

abstract：:Chromophore-assisted light inactivation (CALI) is a potentially powerful tool for the acute disruption of a target protein inside living cells with high spatiotemporal resolution. This technology, however, has not been widely utilized, mainly because of the lack of an efficient chromophore as the photosensitizing agen...

journal_title：ACS chemical biology

authors： Takemoto K,Matsuda T,McDougall M,Klaubert DH,Hasegawa A,Los GV,Wood KV,Miyawaki A,Nagai T

更新日期：2011-05-20 00:00:00

abstract：:Secreted tyrosinase from melanin-forming Streptomyces avermitilis MA4680 was involved in both ortho-hydroxylation and further oxidation of trans-resveratrol, leading to the formation of melanin. This finding was confirmed by constructing deletion mutants of melC(2) and melD(2) encoding extracellular and intracellular ...

journal_title：ACS chemical biology

authors： Lee N,Kim EJ,Kim BG

更新日期：2012-10-19 00:00:00

abstract：:The mitochondrial ADP/ATP carrier (AAC) is a prominent actor in the energetic regulation of the cell, importing ADP into the mitochondria and exporting ATP toward the cytoplasm. Severe genetic diseases have been ascribed to specific mutations in this membrane protein. How minute, well-localized modifications of the tr...

journal_title：ACS chemical biology

authors： Ravaud S,Bidon-Chanal A,Blesneac I,Machillot P,Juillan-Binard C,Dehez F,Chipot C,Pebay-Peyroula E

更新日期：2012-07-20 00:00:00

abstract：:Although peptide-based reporters of protein tyrosine kinase (PTK) activity have been used to study PTK enzymology in vitro, the application of these reporters to intracellular conditions is compromised by their dephosphorylation, preventing PTK activity measurements. Nonproteinogenic amino acids may be utilized to rat...

journal_title：ACS chemical biology

authors： Turner AH,Lebhar MS,Proctor A,Wang Q,Lawrence DS,Allbritton NL

更新日期：2016-02-19 00:00:00

abstract：:Elevation of reactive oxygen species (ROS) levels has been observed in many cancer cells relative to nontransformed cells, and recent reports have suggested that small-molecule enhancers of ROS may selectively kill cancer cells in various in vitro and in vivo models. We used a high-throughput screening approach to ide...

journal_title：ACS chemical biology

authors： Adams DJ,Boskovic ZV,Theriault JR,Wang AJ,Stern AM,Wagner BK,Shamji AF,Schreiber SL

更新日期：2013-05-17 00:00:00

abstract：:The human ClpP proteolytic complex (HsClpP) is a serine protease located in the mitochondrial matrix and participates in the maintenance of the mitochondrial proteome among other cellular functions. HsClpP typically forms a multimeric complex with the AAA+ protein unfoldase HsClpX. Notably, compared to that of normal,...

journal_title：ACS chemical biology

authors： Wong KS,Houry WA

更新日期：2019-11-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Gene therapy is expected to be utilized for the treatment of various diseases. However, the spatiotemporal resolution of current gene therapy technology is not high enough. In this study, we generated a new technology for spatiotemporally controllable gene therapy. We introduced optogenetic and CRISPR/Cas9 techniques ...

journal_title：ACS chemical biology

authors： Takayama K,Mizuguchi H

更新日期：2018-02-16 00:00:00

abstract：:Lipids are emerging as key regulators of fundamental cellular processes including cell survival, division, and death. Apoptosis, a form of programmed cell death, is accompanied by numerous membrane-related phenotypic changes. However, we have an incomplete understanding of the involvement of specific lipid structures ...

journal_title：ACS chemical biology

authors： Li N,Lizardo DY,Atilla-Gokcumen GE

更新日期：2016-09-16 00:00:00

abstract：:Peptide-recognizing G protein-coupled receptors (GPCRs) are promising therapeutic targets but often resist drug discovery efforts. Determination of crystal structures for peptide-binding GPCRs has provided opportunities to explore structure-based methods in lead development. Molecular docking screens of two chemical l...

journal_title：ACS chemical biology

authors： Ranganathan A,Heine P,Rudling A,Plückthun A,Kummer L,Carlsson J

更新日期：2017-03-17 00:00:00

abstract：:Activation by glycosaminoglycans (GAGs) is an emerging trend among extracellular proteases important in disease. ProMMP-7, the zymogen of a matrix metalloproteinase secreted by mucosal epithelial and tumor cells, is activated at their surfaces by sulfated GAGs, but how? ProMMP-7 is activated in trans by representative...

journal_title：ACS chemical biology

authors： Fulcher YG,Sanganna Gari RR,Frey NC,Zhang F,Linhardt RJ,King GM,Van Doren SR

更新日期：2014-04-18 00:00:00

abstract：:The lytic transglycosylases are essential bacterial enzymes that catalyze the nonhydrolytic cleavage of the glycan strands of the bacterial cell wall. We describe here the structural and catalytic properties of MltC, one of the seven lytic transglycosylases found in the genome of the Gram-negative bacterium Escherichi...

journal_title：ACS chemical biology

authors： Artola-Recolons C,Lee M,Bernardo-García N,Blázquez B,Hesek D,Bartual SG,Mahasenan KV,Lastochkin E,Pi H,Boggess B,Meindl K,Usón I,Fisher JF,Mobashery S,Hermoso JA

更新日期：2014-09-19 00:00:00

abstract：:Protein organization on biomembranes and their dynamics are essential for cellular function. It is not clear, however, how protein binding may influence the assembly of underlying lipids or how the membrane structure leads to functional protein organization. Toward this goal, we investigated the effects of annexin a5 ...

journal_title：ACS chemical biology

authors： Vats K,Knutson K,Hinderliter A,Sheets ED

更新日期：2010-04-16 00:00:00

abstract：:To combat the increasing spread of antimicrobial resistance and the shortage of novel anti-infectives, one strategy for the development of new antibiotics is to optimize known chemical scaffolds. Here, we focus on the biosynthetic engineering of Amycolatopsis sulphurea for derivatization of the atypical tetracycline c...

journal_title：ACS chemical biology

authors： Lukežič T,Fayad AA,Bader C,Harmrolfs K,Bartuli J,Groß S,Lešnik U,Hennessen F,Herrmann J,Pikl Š,Petković H,Müller R

更新日期：2019-03-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Epigenetic regulation is directed, in part, by the correlated placement of histone post-translational modifications, but the mechanisms controlling correlated modifications are incompletely understood. Correlations arise from crosstalk among modifications and are frequently attributed to protein-protein interactions t...

journal_title：ACS chemical biology

authors： Kornacki JR,Stuparu AD,Mrksich M

更新日期：2015-01-16 00:00:00

abstract：:Toxic heavy metals have been considered to be harmful environmental contaminations. The molecular mechanisms of heavy-metals-induced cytotoxicity and carcinogenicity are still not well elucidated. Previous reports showed exposures to toxic heavy metals can cause a change of DNA cytosine methylation (5-methylcytosine, ...

journal_title：ACS chemical biology

authors： Xiong J,Liu X,Cheng QY,Xiao S,Xia LX,Yuan BF,Feng YQ

更新日期：2017-06-16 00:00:00

abstract：:A major goal of personalized medicine in oncology is the identification of drugs with predictable efficacy based on a specific trait of the cancer cell, as has been demonstrated with gleevec (presence of Bcr-Abl protein), herceptin (Her2 overexpression), and iressa (presence of a specific EGFR mutation). This is a cha...

journal_title：ACS chemical biology

authors： Parkinson EI,Bair JS,Cismesia M,Hergenrother PJ

更新日期：2013-10-18 00:00:00

abstract：:Binding of the Fc domain of Immunoglobulin G (IgG) to Fcγ receptors on leukocytes can initiate a series of signaling events resulting in antibody-dependent cell-mediated cytotoxicity (ADCC) and other important immune responses. Fc domains lacking glycosylation at N297 have greatly diminished Fcγ receptor binding and l...

journal_title：ACS chemical biology

authors： Borrok MJ,Jung ST,Kang TH,Monzingo AF,Georgiou G

更新日期：2012-09-21 00:00:00

abstract：:To discover chemical probes to further under-stand the function of individual DNA polymerases, we established a generally applicable high-throughput screening. By applying this technique we discovered three novel inhibitor classes of human DNA polymerase λ (DNA Pol λ), a key enzyme to maintain the genetic integrity of...

journal_title：ACS chemical biology

authors： Strittmatter T,Bareth B,Immel TA,Huhn T,Mayer TU,Marx A

更新日期：2011-04-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Extracellular expression of heat shock protein 90 (eHsp90) by tumor cells is correlated with malignancy. Development of small molecule probes that can detect eHsp90 in vivo may therefore have utility in the early detection of malignancy. We synthesized a cell impermeable far-red fluorophore-tagged Hsp90 inhibitor to t...

journal_title：ACS chemical biology

authors： Crowe LB,Hughes PF,Alcorta DA,Osada T,Smith AP,Totzke J,Loiselle DR,Lutz ID,Gargesha M,Roy D,Roques J,Darr D,Lyerly HK,Spector NL,Haystead TAJ

更新日期：2017-04-21 00:00:00

abstract：:Fatty acylation or lipid modification of proteins controls their cellular activation and diverse roles in physiology. It mediates protein-protein and protein-membrane interactions and plays an important role in regulating cellular signaling pathways. Currently, there is need for visualizing lipid modifications of prot...

journal_title：ACS chemical biology

authors： Hannoush RN,Arenas-Ramirez N

更新日期：2009-07-17 00:00:00

abstract：:Cutaneous leishmaniasis remains ignored in therapeutic drug discovery programs worldwide. This is mainly because cutaneous leishmaniasis is frequently a disease of impoverished populations in countries where funds are limited for research and patient care. However, the health burden of individuals in endemic areas man...

journal_title：ACS chemical biology

authors： Sharlow ER,Leimgruber S,Murray S,Lira A,Sciotti RJ,Hickman M,Hudson T,Leed S,Caridha D,Barrios AM,Close D,Grögl M,Lazo JS

更新日期：2014-03-21 00:00:00

abstract：:Bacterial resistance to conventional antibiotics is of major concern. Antimicrobial peptides (AMPs) are considered excellent alternatives. Among them, D-cateslytin (D-Ctl, derivative of a host defense peptide) has shown high efficiency against a broad spectrum of bacteria. The first target of AMPs is the outer membran...

journal_title：ACS chemical biology

authors： Quilès F,Barth D,Peric O,Fantner GE,Francius G

更新日期：2020-10-16 00:00:00

abstract：:Phosphoinositides are critical cell-signal mediators present on the plasma membrane. The dynamic change of phosphoinositide concentrations on the membrane including clustering and declustering mediates signal transduction. The importance of phosphoinositides is scored by the fact that they participate in almost all ce...

journal_title：ACS chemical biology

authors： Mondal S,Rakshit A,Pal S,Datta A

更新日期：2016-07-15 00:00:00

abstract：:A complication of diabetes is the inability of wounds to heal in diabetic patients. Diabetic wounds are refractory to healing due to the involvement of activated matrix metalloproteinases (MMPs), which remodel the tissue resulting in apoptosis. There are no readily available methods that identify active unregulated MM...

journal_title：ACS chemical biology

authors： Gooyit M,Peng Z,Wolter WR,Pi H,Ding D,Hesek D,Lee M,Boggess B,Champion MM,Suckow MA,Mobashery S,Chang M

更新日期：2014-01-17 00:00:00

abstract：:Nature uses four methods of carbon chain elongation for the production of 2-ketoacids, fatty acids, polyketides, and isoprenoids. Using a combination of quantum mechanical (QM) modeling, protein-substrate modeling, and protein and metabolic engineering, we have engineered the enzymes involved in leucine biosynthesis f...

journal_title：ACS chemical biology

authors： Marcheschi RJ,Li H,Zhang K,Noey EL,Kim S,Chaubey A,Houk KN,Liao JC

更新日期：2012-04-20 00:00:00

abstract：:Replacing the two Mn(2+) ions normally present in human Arginase I with Co(2+) resulted in a significantly lowered K(M) value without a concomitant reduction in k(cat). In addition, the pH dependence of the reaction was shifted from a pK(a) of 8.5 to a pK(a) of 7.5. The combination of these effects led to a 10-fold in...

journal_title：ACS chemical biology

authors： Stone EM,Glazer ES,Chantranupong L,Cherukuri P,Breece RM,Tierney DL,Curley SA,Iverson BL,Georgiou G

更新日期：2010-03-19 00:00:00

abstract：:Nonribosomal peptides are important natural products biosynthesized by nonribosomal peptide synthetases (NRPSs). Adenylation (A) domains of NRPSs are highly specific for the substrate they recognize. This recognition is determined by 10 residues in the substrate-binding pocket, termed the specificity code. This findin...

journal_title：ACS chemical biology

authors： Throckmorton K,Vinnik V,Chowdhury R,Cook T,Chevrette MG,Maranas C,Pfleger B,Thomas MG

更新日期：2019-09-20 00:00:00

abstract：:Changes in glycosylation are correlated to disease and associated with differentiation processes. Experimental tools are needed to investigate the physiological implications of these changes either by labeling of the modified glycans or by blocking their biosynthesis. N-Acetylgalactosamine (GalNAc) is a monosaccharide...

journal_title：ACS chemical biology

authors： Pouilly S,Bourgeaux V,Piller F,Piller V

更新日期：2012-04-20 00:00:00

abstract：:X-ray crystallographic analysis of a bovine antibody (BLV1H12) revealed a unique scaffold in its ultralong heavy chain complementarity determining region 3 (CDR3H) that folds into a solvent exposed, antiparallel β-stranded "stalk" fused with a disulfide cross-linked "knob" domain. This unusual variable region motif pr...

journal_title：ACS chemical biology

authors： Zhang Y,Wang D,Welzel G,Wang Y,Schultz PG,Wang F

更新日期：2013-10-18 00:00:00

abstract：:O-linked N-acetylglucosamine ( O-GlcNAc) is a ubiquitous post-translational modification of proteins and is essential for cell function. Quantifying the dynamics of O-GlcNAcylation in a proteome-wide level is critical for uncovering cellular mechanisms and functional roles of O-GlcNAcylation in cells. Here, we develop...

journal_title：ACS chemical biology

authors： Li J,Li Z,Duan X,Qin K,Dang L,Sun S,Cai L,Hsieh-Wilson LC,Wu L,Yi W

更新日期：2019-01-18 00:00:00