cGAMP-activated cGAS–STING signaling: its bacterial origins and evolutionary adaptation by metazoans

DJ Patel, Y Yu, W **e - Nature Structural & Molecular Biology, 2023 - nature.com
The metazoan cGAMP-activated cGAS–STING innate immunity pathway is triggered in
response to genomic instability and DNA damage, thereby providing host defense against …

Membrane transporters in drug development and as determinants of precision medicine

A Galetin, KLR Brouwer, D Tweedie… - Nature Reviews Drug …, 2024 - nature.com
The effect of membrane transporters on drug disposition, efficacy and safety is now well
recognized. Since the initial publication from the International Transporter Consortium …

Structure of the human dopamine transporter and mechanisms of inhibition

DK Srivastava, V Navratna, DK Tosh, A Chinn, MF Sk… - Nature, 2024 - nature.com
The neurotransmitter dopamine has central roles in mood, appetite, arousal and movement.
Despite its importance in brain physiology and function, and as a target for illicit and …

Molecular basis of polyspecific drug and xenobiotic recognition by OCT1 and OCT2

Y Suo, NJ Wright, H Guterres, JG Fedor… - Nature structural & …, 2023 - nature.com
A wide range of endogenous and xenobiotic organic ions require facilitated transport
systems to cross the plasma membrane for their disposition. In mammals, organic cation …

Recognition of cyclic dinucleotides and folates by human SLC19A1

Q Zhang, X Zhang, Y Zhu, P Sun, L Zhang, J Ma… - Nature, 2022 - nature.com
Cyclic dinucleotides (CDNs) are ubiquitous signalling molecules in all domains of life,.
Mammalian cells produce one CDN, 2′ 3′-cGAMP, through cyclic GMP–AMP synthase …

Transport and inhibition mechanism for VMAT2-mediated synaptic vesicle loading of monoamines

Y Wang, P Zhang, Y Chao, Z Zhu, C Yang, Z Zhou, Y Li… - Cell research, 2024 - nature.com
Monoamine neurotransmitters such as serotonin and dopamine are loaded by vesicular
monoamine transporter 2 (VMAT2) into synaptic vesicles for storage and subsequent …

Structure-based mechanisms of 2′ 3′-cGAMP intercellular transport in the cGAS–STING immune pathway

W **e, DJ Patel - Trends in Immunology, 2023 - cell.com
Upon activation by double-stranded DNA (dsDNA), the cytosolic dsDNA sensor cyclic GMP-
AMP synthase (cGAS) synthesizes the diffusible cyclic dinucleotide 2′ 3′-cGAMP (cyclic …

Quassinoids from Eurycoma longifolia as Potential Dihydrofolate Reductase Inhibitors: A Computational Study

NM Yunos, MG Al-Thiabat… - Current …, 2024 - benthamdirect.com
Background: Quassinoids are degraded triterpene compounds that can be obtained from
various species of the Simaroubaceae plant family, including Eurycoma longifolia …

Structural basis of thiamine transport and drug recognition by SLC19A3

F Gabriel, L Spriestersbach, A Fuhrmann… - Nature …, 2024 - nature.com
Thiamine (vitamin B1) functions as an essential coenzyme in cells. Humans and other
mammals cannot synthesise this vitamin de novo and thus have to take it up from their diet …

Molecular mechanism of substrate recognition by folate transporter SLC19A1

Y Dang, D Zhou, X Du, H Zhao, CH Lee, J Yang… - Cell Discovery, 2022 - nature.com
Folate (vitamin B9) is the coenzyme involved in one-carbon transfer biochemical reactions
essential for cell survival and proliferation, with its inadequacy causing developmental …