5-Formylcytosine can be a stable DNA modification in mammals.

abstract：:Naphthalene (1) and para-dichlorobenzene (PDCB, 2), which are widely used as moth repellents and air fresheners, cause cancer in rodents and are potential human carcinogens. However, their mechanisms of action remain unclear. Here we describe a novel method for delivering and screening hydrophobic chemicals in C. eleg...

journal_title：Nature chemical biology

authors： Kokel D,Li Y,Qin J,Xue D

更新日期：2006-06-01 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：: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：:Linking bioactive compounds to their cellular targets is a central challenge in chemical biology. Here we report the mode of action of theonellamides, bicyclic peptides derived from marine sponges. We generated a chemical-genomic profile of theonellamide F using a collection of fission yeast strains in which each open...

journal_title：Nature chemical biology

authors： Nishimura S,Arita Y,Honda M,Iwamoto K,Matsuyama A,Shirai A,Kawasaki H,Kakeya H,Kobayashi T,Matsunaga S,Yoshida M

更新日期：2010-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:CRISPR-Cas9 has emerged as a powerful technology that enables ready modification of the mammalian genome. The ability to modulate Cas9 activity can reduce off-target cleavage and facilitate precise genome engineering. Here we report the development of a Cas9 variant whose activity can be switched on and off in human c...

journal_title：Nature chemical biology

authors： Liu KI,Ramli MN,Woo CW,Wang Y,Zhao T,Zhang X,Yim GR,Chong BY,Gowher A,Chua MZ,Jung J,Lee JH,Tan MH

更新日期：2016-11-01 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：:Signal transduction, regulatory processes and pharmaceutical responses are highly dependent upon ligand residence times. Gaining insight into how physical factors influence residence times (1/k(off)) should enhance our ability to manipulate biological interactions. We report experiments that yield structural insight i...

journal_title：Nature chemical biology

authors： Carroll MJ,Mauldin RV,Gromova AV,Singleton SF,Collins EJ,Lee AL

更新日期：2012-01-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Small-molecule inhibitors of kinesin-5 (refs. 1-3), a protein essential for eukaryotic cell division, represent alternatives to antimitotic agents that target tubulin. While tubulin is needed for multiple intracellular processes, the known functions of kinesin-5 are limited to dividing cells, making it likely that kin...

journal_title：Nature chemical biology

authors： Kwok BH,Kapitein LC,Kim JH,Peterman EJ,Schmidt CF,Kapoor TM

更新日期：2006-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cell polarity is the asymmetric compartmentalization of cellular components. An opposing gradient of partitioning-defective protein kinases, atypical protein kinase C (aPKC) and PAR-1, at the cell cortex guides diverse asymmetries in the structure of metazoan cells, but the mechanism underlying their spatial patternin...

journal_title：Nature chemical biology

authors： Ramanujam R,Han Z,Zhang Z,Kanchanawong P,Motegi F

更新日期：2018-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Thiolutin is a disulfide-containing antibiotic and anti-angiogenic compound produced by Streptomyces. Its biological targets are not known. We show that reduced thiolutin is a zinc chelator that inhibits the JAB1/MPN/Mov34 (JAMM) domain-containing metalloprotease Rpn11, a deubiquitinating enzyme of the 19S proteasome....

journal_title：Nature chemical biology

authors： Lauinger L,Li J,Shostak A,Cemel IA,Ha N,Zhang Y,Merkl PE,Obermeyer S,Stankovic-Valentin N,Schafmeier T,Wever WJ,Bowers AA,Carter KP,Palmer AE,Tschochner H,Melchior F,Deshaies RJ,Brunner M,Diernfellner A

更新日期：2017-07-01 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：:Guanine-rich DNA sequences that can adopt non-Watson-Crick structures in vitro are prevalent in the human genome. Whether such structures normally exist in mammalian cells has, however, been the subject of active research for decades. Here we show that the G-quadruplex-interacting drug pyridostatin promotes growth arr...

journal_title：Nature chemical biology

authors： Rodriguez R,Miller KM,Forment JV,Bradshaw CR,Nikan M,Britton S,Oelschlaegel T,Xhemalce B,Balasubramanian S,Jackson SP

更新日期：2012-02-05 00:00:00

abstract：:Propofol is the most important intravenous general anesthetic in current clinical use. It acts by potentiating GABAA (γ-aminobutyric acid type A) receptors, but where it binds to this receptor is not known and has been a matter of some debate. We synthesized a new propofol analog photolabeling reagent whose biological...

journal_title：Nature chemical biology

authors： Yip GM,Chen ZW,Edge CJ,Smith EH,Dickinson R,Hohenester E,Townsend RR,Fuchs K,Sieghart W,Evers AS,Franks NP

更新日期：2013-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The function of many biologically active molecules requires the presence of carbon-nitrogen bonds in strategic positions. The biosynthetic pathways leading to such bonds can be bypassed through chemical synthesis to synthesize natural products more efficiently and also to generate the molecular diversity unavailable i...

journal_title：Nature chemical biology

authors： Hili R,Yudin AK

更新日期：2006-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Serine hydrolases play diverse roles in regulating host-pathogen interactions in a number of organisms, yet few have been characterized in the human pathogen Staphylococcus aureus. Here we describe a chemical proteomic screen that identified ten previously uncharacterized S. aureus serine hydrolases that mostly lack h...

journal_title：Nature chemical biology

authors： Lentz CS,Sheldon JR,Crawford LA,Cooper R,Garland M,Amieva MR,Weerapana E,Skaar EP,Bogyo M

更新日期：2018-06-01 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：:Despite the fundamental roles of sialyl- and fucosyltransferases in mammalian physiology, there are few pharmacological tools to manipulate their function in a cellular setting. Although fluorinated analogs of the donor substrates are well-established transition state inhibitors of these enzymes, they are not membrane...

journal_title：Nature chemical biology

authors： Rillahan CD,Antonopoulos A,Lefort CT,Sonon R,Azadi P,Ley K,Dell A,Haslam SM,Paulson JC

更新日期：2012-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:ADP-ribosylation is a post-translational modification that is known to be involved in cellular homeostasis and stress but has been challenging to analyze biochemically. To facilitate the detection of ADP-ribosylated proteins, we show that an alkyne-adenosine analog, N6-propargyl adenosine (N6pA), is metabolically inco...

journal_title：Nature chemical biology

authors： Westcott NP,Fernandez JP,Molina H,Hang HC

更新日期：2017-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The discovery of functional RNAs that are critical for normal and disease physiology continues to expand at a breakneck pace. Many RNA functions are controlled by the formation of specific structures, and an understanding of each structural component is necessary to elucidate its function. Measuring solvent accessibil...

journal_title：Nature chemical biology

authors： Feng C,Chan D,Joseph J,Muuronen M,Coldren WH,Dai N,Corrêa IR Jr,Furche F,Hadad CM,Spitale RC

更新日期：2018-03-01 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：: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：: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：: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：:Proper gene expression is essential for the survival of every cell. Once thought to be a passive transporter of genetic information, RNA has recently emerged as a key player in nearly every pathway in the cell. A full description of its structure is critical to understanding RNA function. Decades of research have focu...

journal_title：Nature chemical biology

authors： Kubota M,Tran C,Spitale RC

更新日期：2015-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Phosphorylation and glycosylation of the tau protein, which is implicated in neurodegenerative diseases, are intimately linked. In vivo pharmacological inhibition of tau deglycosylation may be a new way to suppress abnormal tau phosphorylation, known to be involved in the formation of neurofibrillary tangles in the br...

journal_title：Nature chemical biology

authors： Fischer PM

更新日期：2008-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：: ...

journal_title：Nature chemical biology

authors： Song Y

更新日期：2018-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Drug discovery resources in academia and industry are not used efficiently, to the detriment of industry and society. Duplication could be reduced, and productivity could be increased, by performing basic biology and clinical proofs of concept within open access industry-academia partnerships. Chemical biologists coul...

journal_title：Nature chemical biology

authors： Edwards AM,Bountra C,Kerr DJ,Willson TM

更新日期：2009-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:As a field, lipidomics is in its infancy, yet it has already begun to influence lipid biochemistry in myriad ways. As with other omic technologies, the field is driven by advances in analytical chemistry, particularly by mass spectrometry. At the heart of a renaissance in lipid biochemistry, systems biology is being u...

journal_title：Nature chemical biology

authors： Brown HA,Murphy RC

更新日期：2009-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Here we identify the amino acid transporter AnsP1 as the unique aspartate importer in the human pathogen Mycobacterium tuberculosis. Metabolomic analysis of a mutant with an inactive AnsP1 revealed that the transporter is essential for M. tuberculosis to assimilate nitrogen from aspartate. Virulence of the AnsP1 mutan...

journal_title：Nature chemical biology

authors： Gouzy A,Larrouy-Maumus G,Wu TD,Peixoto A,Levillain F,Lugo-Villarino G,Guerquin-Kern JL,de Carvalho LP,Poquet Y,Neyrolles O

更新日期：2013-11-01 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