An orthogonalized platform for genetic code expansion in both bacteria and eukaryotes.

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：: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

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journal_title：Nature chemical biology

authors： Song Y

更新日期：2018-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Conditional cooperativity is a common mechanism involved in transcriptional regulation of prokaryotic type II toxin-antitoxin operons and is intricately related to bacterial persistence. It allows the toxin component of a toxin-antitoxin module to act as a co-repressor at low doses of toxin as compared to antitoxin. W...

journal_title：Nature chemical biology

authors： Garcia-Pino A,De Gieter S,Talavera A,De Greve H,Efremov RG,Loris R

更新日期：2016-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Improving the control of energy homeostasis can lower cardiovascular risk in metabolically compromised individuals. To identify new regulators of whole-body energy control, we conducted a high-throughput screen in transgenic reporter zebrafish for small molecules that modulate the expression of the fasting-inducible g...

journal_title：Nature chemical biology

authors： Gut P,Baeza-Raja B,Andersson O,Hasenkamp L,Hsiao J,Hesselson D,Akassoglou K,Verdin E,Hirschey MD,Stainier DY

更新日期：2013-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Intrinsically disordered regions (IDRs) of proteins often regulate function upon post-translational modification (PTM) through interactions with folded domains. An IDR linking two α-helices (α1-α2) of the antiapoptotic protein Bcl-xL experiences several PTMs that reduce antiapoptotic activity. Here, we report that PTM...

journal_title：Nature chemical biology

authors： Follis AV,Llambi F,Kalkavan H,Yao Y,Phillips AH,Park CG,Marassi FM,Green DR,Kriwacki RW

更新日期：2018-05-01 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：: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：: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：:Genetic screens in cultured human cells represent a powerful unbiased strategy to identify cellular pathways that determine drug efficacy, providing critical information for clinical development. We used insertional mutagenesis-based screens in haploid cells to identify genes required for the sensitivity to lasonolide...

journal_title：Nature chemical biology

authors： Dubey R,Stivala CE,Nguyen HQ,Goo YH,Paul A,Carette JE,Trost BM,Rohatgi R

更新日期：2020-02-01 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：:ADP-ribosylation (ADPr) is a biologically and clinically important post-translational modification, but little is known about the amino acids it targets on cellular proteins. Here we present a proteomic approach for direct in vivo identification and quantification of ADPr sites on histones. We have identified 12 uniqu...

journal_title：Nature chemical biology

authors： Leidecker O,Bonfiglio JJ,Colby T,Zhang Q,Atanassov I,Zaja R,Palazzo L,Stockum A,Ahel I,Matic I

更新日期：2016-12-01 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：:Serine is both a proteinogenic amino acid and the source of one-carbon units essential for de novo purine and deoxythymidine synthesis. In the canonical pathway of glucose-derived serine synthesis, Homo sapiens phosphoglycerate dehydrogenase (PHGDH) catalyzes the first, rate-limiting step. Genetic loss of PHGDH is tox...

journal_title：Nature chemical biology

authors： Pacold ME,Brimacombe KR,Chan SH,Rohde JM,Lewis CA,Swier LJ,Possemato R,Chen WW,Sullivan LB,Fiske BP,Cho S,Freinkman E,Birsoy K,Abu-Remaileh M,Shaul YD,Liu CM,Zhou M,Koh MJ,Chung H,Davidson SM,Luengo A,Wang AQ,

更新日期：2016-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:N6-Methyladenosine (m6A) RNA modification is present in messenger RNAs (mRNA), ribosomal RNAs (rRNA), and spliceosomal RNAs (snRNA) in humans. Although mRNA m6A modifications have been extensively studied and shown to play critical roles in many cellular processes, the identity of m6A methyltransferases for rRNAs and ...

journal_title：Nature chemical biology

authors： Ma H,Wang X,Cai J,Dai Q,Natchiar SK,Lv R,Chen K,Lu Z,Chen H,Shi YG,Lan F,Fan J,Klaholz BP,Pan T,Shi Y,He C

更新日期：2019-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:N-Acetylglucosamine β-O-linked to nucleocytoplasmic proteins (O-GlcNAc) is implicated in the regulation of gene expression in organisms, from humans to Drosophila melanogaster. Within Drosophila, O-GlcNAc transferase (OGT) is one of the Polycomb group proteins (PcGs) that act through Polycomb group response elements (...

journal_title：Nature chemical biology

authors： Liu TW,Myschyshyn M,Sinclair DA,Cecioni S,Beja K,Honda BM,Morin RD,Vocadlo DJ

更新日期：2017-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Identification of endogenous glycan-binding ligands for cell-surface receptors has been difficult. Incorporation of a photoactive sialic acid analog into B-cell surface glycoproteins suggests that CD22 molecules may cluster by binding carbohydrate antigens on neighboring CD22 molecules. ...

journal_title：Nature chemical biology

authors： Yarema KJ,Sun Z

更新日期：2005-07-01 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：:The rise of antibiotic resistance demands the acceleration of molecular diversification strategies to inspire new chemical entities for antibiotic medicines. We report here on the large-scale engineering of ribosomally synthesized and post-translationally modified antimicrobial peptides carrying the ring-forming amino...

journal_title：Nature chemical biology

authors： Schmitt S,Montalbán-López M,Peterhoff D,Deng J,Wagner R,Held M,Kuipers OP,Panke S

更新日期：2019-05-01 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：: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：:Biodiversity, or the relative abundance of species, measures the persistence of an ecosystem. To better understand its modulation, we analyzed the spatial and temporal dynamics of a synthetic, chemical-mediated ecosystem that consisted of two engineered Escherichia coli populations. Depending on the specific experimen...

journal_title：Nature chemical biology

authors： Song H,Payne S,Gray M,You L

更新日期：2009-12-01 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：:Intracellular Ca(2+) regulates numerous proteins and cellular functions and can vary substantially over submicron and submillisecond scales, so precisely localized fast detection is desirable. We have created a approximately 1-kDa biarsenical Ca(2+) indicator, called Calcium Green FlAsH (CaGF, 1), to probe [Ca(2+)] su...

journal_title：Nature chemical biology

authors： Tour O,Adams SR,Kerr RA,Meijer RM,Sejnowski TJ,Tsien RW,Tsien RY

更新日期：2007-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Designing selective inhibitors of proteases has proven problematic, in part because pharmacophores that confer potency exploit the conserved catalytic apparatus. We developed a fundamentally different approach by designing irreversible inhibitors that target noncatalytic cysteines that are structurally unique to a tar...

journal_title：Nature chemical biology

authors： Hagel M,Niu D,St Martin T,Sheets MP,Qiao L,Bernard H,Karp RM,Zhu Z,Labenski MT,Chaturvedi P,Nacht M,Westlin WF,Petter RC,Singh J

更新日期：2011-01-01 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

abstract：:The resistance of Caenorhabditis elegans to pharmacological perturbation limits its use as a screening tool for novel small bioactive molecules. One strategy to improve the hit rate of small-molecule screens is to preselect molecules that have an increased likelihood of reaching their target in the worm. To learn whic...

journal_title：Nature chemical biology

authors： Burns AR,Wallace IM,Wildenhain J,Tyers M,Giaever G,Bader GD,Nislow C,Cutler SR,Roy PJ

更新日期：2010-07-01 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：:Accumulation of unfolded proteins within the endoplasmic reticulum (ER) of eukaryotic cells leads to an unfolded protein response (UPR) that either restores homeostasis or commits the cells to apoptosis. Tools traditionally used to study the UPR are proapoptotic and thus confound analysis of long-term cellular respons...

journal_title：Nature chemical biology

authors： Raina K,Noblin DJ,Serebrenik YV,Adams A,Zhao C,Crews CM

更新日期：2014-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Ferroptosis is a form of regulated necrotic cell death controlled by glutathione peroxidase 4 (GPX4). At present, mechanisms that could predict sensitivity and/or resistance and that may be exploited to modulate ferroptosis are needed. We applied two independent approaches-a genome-wide CRISPR-based genetic screen and...

journal_title：Nature chemical biology

authors： Doll S,Proneth B,Tyurina YY,Panzilius E,Kobayashi S,Ingold I,Irmler M,Beckers J,Aichler M,Walch A,Prokisch H,Trümbach D,Mao G,Qu F,Bayir H,Füllekrug J,Scheel CH,Wurst W,Schick JA,Kagan VE,Angeli JP,Conrad M

更新日期：2017-01-01 00:00:00