The complex dance of organelles during mitochondrial division

LC Tábara, JL Morris, J Prudent - Trends in Cell Biology, 2021 - cell.com
Mitochondria are dynamic organelles that undergo cycles of fission and fusion events
depending on cellular requirements. During mitochondrial division, the GTPase dynamin …

Engineering conditional protein-protein interactions for dynamic cellular control

AM Stohr, D Ma, W Chen, M Blenner - Biotechnology Advances, 2024 - Elsevier
Conditional protein-protein interactions enable dynamic regulation of cellular activity and
are an attractive approach to probe native protein interactions, improve metabolic …

Chemically inducible split protein regulators for mammalian cells

E Rihtar, T Lebar, D Lainšček, K Kores… - Nature Chemical …, 2023 - nature.com
Chemically inducible systems represent valuable synthetic biology tools that enable the
external control of biological processes. However, their translation to therapeutic …

A fluorogenic chemically induced dimerization technology for controlling, imaging and sensing protein proximity

S Bottone, O Joliot, ZV Cakil, L El Hajji… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
Molecular tools enabling the control and observation of the proximity of proteins are
essential for studying the functional role of physical distance between two proteins. Here we …

GAS41 promotes H2A. Z deposition through recognition of the N terminus of histone H3 by the YEATS domain

M Kikuchi, S Takase, T Konuma… - Proceedings of the …, 2023 - National Acad Sciences
Glioma amplified sequence 41 (GAS41), which has the Yaf9, ENL, AF9, Taf14, and Sas5
(YEATS) domain that recognizes lysine acetylation (Kac), regulates gene expression as a …

Synthetic Gene Circuits for Regulation of Next‐Generation Cell‐Based Therapeutics

AP Teixeira, M Fussenegger - Advanced Science, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Arming human cells with synthetic gene circuits enables to expand their capacity to execute
superior sensing and response actions, offering tremendous potential for innovative cellular …

Small molecule-inducible gene regulatory systems in mammalian cells: progress and design principles

M Siddiqui, C Tous, WW Wong - Current opinion in biotechnology, 2022 - Elsevier
Highlights•Inducible gene regulation has been a critical tool in interrogating biological
systems.•Small-molecule induction enables regulation at the DNA, RNA, and protein …

Integrated compact regulators of protein activity enable control of signaling pathways and genome-editing in vivo

N Franko, AJ da Silva Santinha, S Xue, H Zhao… - Cell Discovery, 2024 - nature.com
Viral proteases and clinically safe inhibitors were employed to build integrated compact
regulators of protein activity (iCROP) for post-translational regulation of functional proteins …