Eukaryotic translation initiation factors as promising targets in cancer therapy

P Hao, J Yu, R Ward, Y Liu, Q Hao, S An… - Cell Communication and …, 2020 - Springer
The regulation of the translation of messenger RNA (mRNA) in eukaryotic cells is critical for
gene expression, and occurs principally at the initiation phase which is mainly regulated by …

Translational control by ribosome pausing in bacteria: how a non-uniform pace of translation affects protein production and folding

E Samatova, J Daberger, M Liutkute… - Frontiers in …, 2021 - frontiersin.org
Protein homeostasis of bacterial cells is maintained by coordinated processes of protein
production, folding, and degradation. Translational efficiency of a given mRNA depends on …

Structural basis of early translocation events on the ribosome

EJ Rundlet, M Holm, M Schacherl, SK Natchiar… - Nature, 2021 - nature.com
Peptide-chain elongation during protein synthesis entails sequential aminoacyl-tRNA
selection and translocation reactions that proceed rapidly (2–20 per second) and with a low …

A versatile active learning workflow for optimization of genetic and metabolic networks

A Pandi, C Diehl, A Yazdizadeh Kharrazi… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
Optimization of biological networks is often limited by wet lab labor and cost, and the lack of
convenient computational tools. Here, we describe METIS, a versatile active machine …

Quality control of protein synthesis in the early elongation stage

A Nagao, Y Nakanishi, Y Yamaguchi, Y Mishina… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
In the early stage of bacterial translation, peptidyl-tRNAs frequently dissociate from the
ribosome (pep-tRNA drop-off) and are recycled by peptidyl-tRNA hydrolase. Here, we …

Strategies to overcome the challenges of low or no expression of heterologous proteins in Escherichia coli

R Jiang, S Yuan, Y Zhou, Y Wei, F Li, M Wang… - Biotechnology …, 2024 - Elsevier
Protein expression is a critical process in diverse biological systems. For Escherichia coli, a
widely employed microbial host in industrial catalysis and healthcare, researchers often face …

Exploring the synthetic biology potential of bacteriophages for engineering non-model bacteria

EM Lammens, PI Nikel, R Lavigne - Nature communications, 2020 - nature.com
Non-model bacteria like Pseudomonas putida, Lactococcus lactis and other species have
unique and versatile metabolisms, offering unique opportunities for Synthetic Biology …

Comprehensive quantitative modeling of translation efficiency in a genome‐reduced bacterium

M Weber, A Sogues, E Yus, R Burgos… - Molecular Systems …, 2023 - embopress.org
Translation efficiency has been mainly studied by ribosome profiling, which only provides an
incomplete picture of translation kinetics. Here, we integrated the absolute quantifications of …

Deep learning prediction of ribosome profiling with Translatomer reveals translational regulation and interprets disease variants

J He, L **ong, S Shi, C Li, K Chen, Q Fang… - Nature Machine …, 2024 - nature.com
Gene expression involves transcription and translation. Despite large datasets and
increasingly powerful methods devoted to calculating genetic variants' effects on …

Large-scale analysis of mRNA sequences localized near the start and amber codons and their impact on the diversity of mRNA display libraries

S Umemoto, T Kondo, T Fu**o, G Hayashi… - Nucleic Acids …, 2023 - academic.oup.com
Extremely diverse libraries are essential for effectively selecting functional peptides or
proteins, and mRNA display technology is a powerful tool for generating such libraries with …