A global view of the human post-translational modification landscape

N Kitamura, JJ Galligan - Biochemical Journal, 2023 - portlandpress.com
Post-translational modifications (PTMs) provide a rapid response to stimuli, finely tuning
metabolism and gene expression and maintain homeostasis. Advances in mass …

Exploiting chemical protein synthesis to study the role of tyrosine sulfation on anticoagulants from hematophagous organisms

JWC Maxwell, PME Hawkins, EE Watson… - Accounts of Chemical …, 2023 - ACS Publications
Conspectus Tyrosine sulfation is a post-translational modification (PTM) that modulates
function by mediating key protein–protein interactions. One of the early proteins shown to …

Genetic Encoding of Phosphorylated Amino Acids into Proteins

MC Allen, PA Karplus, RA Mehl, RB Cooley - Chemical Reviews, 2024 - ACS Publications
Reversible phosphorylation is a fundamental mechanism for controlling protein function.
Despite the critical roles phosphorylated proteins play in physiology and disease, our ability …

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 …

Tyrosine sulfation at antibody light chain CDR-1 increases binding affinity and neutralization potency to interleukine-4

AM D'Antona, JM Lee, M Zhang, C Friedman… - International Journal of …, 2024 - mdpi.com
Structure and function of therapeutic antibodies can be modulated by a variety of post-
translational modifications (PTM). Tyrosine (Tyr) sulfation is a type of negatively charged …

Adaptive Modifications in Plant Sulfur Metabolism over Evolutionary Time

S Kopriva, P Rahimzadeh Karvansara… - Journal of …, 2024 - academic.oup.com
Sulfur (S) is an essential element for life on Earth. Plants are able to take up and utilize
sulfate (SO42-), the most oxidized inorganic form of S compounds on Earth, through the …

A potential antibody repertoire diversification mechanism through tyrosine sulfation for biotherapeutics engineering and production

X Zhong, AM D'Antona - Frontiers in Immunology, 2022 - frontiersin.org
The diversity of three hypervariable loops in antibody heavy chain and light chain, termed
the complementarity-determining regions (CDRs), defines antibody's binding affinity and …

Sulfation pathways in the maintenance of functional beta-cell mass and implications for diabetes

JW Mueller, P Thomas, LT Dalgaard… - Essays in …, 2024 - portlandpress.com
Abstract Diabetes Type 1 and Type 2 are widely occurring diseases. In spite of a vast
amount of biomedical literature about diabetic processes in general, links to certain …

Computational Characterization of the Binding Properties of the HIV1-Neutralizing Antibody PG16 and Design of PG16-Derived CDRH3 Peptides

M Deubler, L Weißenborn, S Leukel, AHC Horn… - Biology, 2023 - mdpi.com
Simple Summary Antibodies play a critical role in the immune system's defense against
pathogens. Such antibodies can be used for passive immunization, but they are rather …

Sulfur-Element containing metabolic pathways in human health and crosstalk with the microbiome

AW Hansen, KV Venkatachalam - Biochemistry and Biophysics Reports, 2023 - Elsevier
In humans, methionine derived from dietary proteins is necessary for cellular homeostasis
and regeneration of sulfur containing pathways, which produce inorganic sulfur species …