Cracking the code: reprogramming the genetic script in prokaryotes and eukaryotes to harness the power of noncanonical amino acids

C Jann, S Giofré, R Bhattacharjee, EA Lemke - Chemical Reviews, 2024 - ACS Publications
Over 500 natural and synthetic amino acids have been genetically encoded in the last two
decades. Incorporating these noncanonical amino acids into proteins enables many …

Paramagnetic chemical probes for studying biological macromolecules

Q Miao, C Nitsche, H Orton, M Overhand… - Chemical …, 2022 - ACS Publications
Paramagnetic chemical probes have been used in electron paramagnetic resonance (EPR)
and nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) spectroscopy for more than four decades. Recent …

The PINK1-PARKIN mitochondrial ubiquitylation pathway drives a program of OPTN/NDP52 recruitment and TBK1 activation to promote mitophagy

JM Heo, A Ordureau, JA Paulo, J Rinehart, JW Harper - Molecular cell, 2015 - cell.com
Damaged mitochondria are detrimental to cellular homeostasis. One mechanism for removal
of damaged mitochondria involves the PINK1-PARKIN pathway, which poly-ubiquitylates …

A semi-synthetic organism that stores and retrieves increased genetic information

Y Zhang, JL Ptacin, EC Fischer, HR Aerni, CE Caffaro… - Nature, 2017 - nature.com
Since at least the last common ancestor of all life on Earth, genetic information has been
stored in a four-letter alphabet that is propagated and retrieved by the formation of two base …

Cell-free protein synthesis from genomically recoded bacteria enables multisite incorporation of noncanonical amino acids

RW Martin, BJ Des Soye, YC Kwon, J Kay… - Nature …, 2018 - nature.com
Cell-free protein synthesis has emerged as a powerful approach for expanding the range of
genetically encoded chemistry into proteins. Unfortunately, efforts to site-specifically …

FFAT motif phosphorylation controls formation and lipid transfer function of inter‐organelle contacts

T Di Mattia, A Martinet, S Ikhlef, AG McEwen… - The EMBO …, 2020 - embopress.org
Organelles are physically connected by membrane contact sites. The endoplasmic reticulum
possesses three major receptors, VAP‐A, VAP‐B, and MOSPD2, which interact with proteins …

The ubiquitin signal and autophagy: an orchestrated dance leading to mitochondrial degradation

K Yamano, N Matsuda, K Tanaka - EMBO reports, 2016 - embopress.org
The quality of mitochondria, essential organelles that produce ATP and regulate numerous
metabolic pathways, must be strictly monitored to maintain cell homeostasis. The loss of …

A central role for regulated protein stability in the control of TFE3 and MITF by nutrients

C Nardone, BA Palanski, DC Scott, RT Timms… - Molecular cell, 2023 - cell.com
The TFE3 and MITF master transcription factors maintain metabolic homeostasis by
regulating lysosomal, melanocytic, and autophagy genes. Previous studies posited that their …

7SK methylation by METTL3 promotes transcriptional activity

M Perez-Pepe, AW Desotell, H Li, W Li, B Han… - Science …, 2023 - science.org
A fundamental feature of cell signaling is the conversion of extracellular signals into
adaptive transcriptional responses. The role of RNA modifications in this process is poorly …

Robust production of recombinant phosphoproteins using cell-free protein synthesis

JP Oza, HR Aerni, NL Pirman, KW Barber… - Nature …, 2015 - nature.com
Understanding the functional and structural consequences of site-specific protein
phosphorylation has remained limited by our inability to produce phosphoproteins at high …