Recent advances in the chemistry and applications of N-heterocyclic carbenes

P Bellotti, M Koy, MN Hopkinson, F Glorius - Nature Reviews Chemistry, 2021 - nature.com
N-Heterocyclic carbenes, despite being isolated and characterized three decades ago, still
capture scientists' interest as versatile, modular and strongly coordinating moieties. In the …

Cross-linking mass spectrometry for investigating protein conformations and protein–protein interactions─ a method for all seasons

L Piersimoni, PL Kastritis, C Arlt, A Sinz - Chemical Reviews, 2021 - ACS Publications
Mass spectrometry (MS) has become one of the key technologies of structural biology. In this
review, the contributions of chemical cross-linking combined with mass spectrometry (XL …

Phosphorylation of PDHA by AMPK drives TCA cycle to promote cancer metastasis

Z Cai, CF Li, F Han, C Liu, A Zhang, CC Hsu, D Peng… - Molecular cell, 2020 - cell.com
Cancer metastasis accounts for the major cause of cancer-related deaths. How
disseminated cancer cells cope with hostile microenvironments in secondary site for full …

Substrate channelling as an approach to cascade reactions

I Wheeldon, SD Minteer, S Banta, SC Barton… - Nature …, 2016 - nature.com
Millions of years of evolution have produced biological systems capable of efficient one-pot
multi-step catalysis. The underlying mechanisms that facilitate these reaction processes are …

Therapeutic targeting of the pyruvate dehydrogenase complex/pyruvate dehydrogenase kinase (PDC/PDK) axis in cancer

PW Stacpoole - JNCI: Journal of the National Cancer Institute, 2017 - academic.oup.com
The mitochondrial pyruvate dehydrogenase complex (PDC) irreversibly decarboxylates
pyruvate to acetyl coenzyme A, thereby linking glycolysis to the tricarboxylic acid cycle and …

A nuclear pyruvate dehydrogenase complex is important for the generation of acetyl-CoA and histone acetylation

G Sutendra, A Kinnaird, P Dromparis, R Paulin… - Cell, 2014 - cell.com
DNA transcription, replication, and repair are regulated by histone acetylation, a process that
requires the generation of acetyl-coenzyme A (CoA). Here, we show that all the subunits of …

The phytochemical hyperforin triggers thermogenesis in adipose tissue via a Dlat-AMPK signaling axis to curb obesity

S Chen, X Liu, C Peng, C Tan, H Sun, H Liu, Y Zhang… - Cell Metabolism, 2021 - cell.com
Stimulation of adipose tissue thermogenesis is regarded as a promising avenue in the
treatment of obesity. However, pharmacologic engagement of this process has proven …

Biochemistry and evolution of anaerobic energy metabolism in eukaryotes

M Müller, M Mentel, JJ van Hellemond… - Microbiology and …, 2012 - Am Soc Microbiol
Major insights into the phylogenetic distribution, biochemistry, and evolutionary significance
of organelles involved in ATP synthesis (energy metabolism) in eukaryotes that thrive in …

Sirtuin 4 is a lipoamidase regulating pyruvate dehydrogenase complex activity

RA Mathias, TM Greco, A Oberstein, HG Budayeva… - Cell, 2014 - cell.com
Sirtuins (SIRTs) are critical enzymes that govern genome regulation, metabolism, and aging.
Despite conserved deacetylase domains, mitochondrial SIRT4 and SIRT5 have little to no …

[HTML][HTML] The molecular mechanisms of cuproptosis and its relevance to cardiovascular disease

D Wang, Z Tian, P Zhang, L Zhen, Q Meng… - Biomedicine & …, 2023 - Elsevier
Recently, cuproptosis has been demonstrated to be a new non-apototic cell death mode that
is characterized by copper dependence and the regulation of mitochondrial respiration …