Chemically modified and conjugated antimicrobial peptides against superbugs

W Li, F Separovic, NM O'Brien-Simpson… - Chemical Society …, 2021 - pubs.rsc.org
Antimicrobial resistance (AMR) is one of the greatest threats to human health that, by 2050,
will lead to more deaths from bacterial infections than cancer. New antimicrobial agents …

Deciphering protein post-translational modifications using chemical biology tools

AC Conibear - Nature Reviews Chemistry, 2020 - nature.com
Proteins carry out a wide variety of catalytic, regulatory, signalling and structural functions in
living systems. Following their assembly on ribosomes and throughout their lifetimes, most …

Class I histone deacetylases (HDAC1–3) are histone lysine delactylases

C Moreno-Yruela, D Zhang, W Wei, M Bæk, W Liu… - Science …, 2022 - science.org
Lysine L-lactylation [K (L-la)] is a newly discovered histone mark stimulated under conditions
of high glycolysis, such as the Warburg effect. K (L-la) is associated with functions that are …

A STAT3 palmitoylation cycle promotes TH17 differentiation and colitis

M Zhang, L Zhou, Y Xu, M Yang, Y Xu, GP Komaniecki… - Nature, 2020 - nature.com
Cysteine palmitoylation (S-palmitoylation) is a reversible post-translational modification that
is installed by the DHHC family of palmitoyltransferases and is reversed by several acyl …

The regulatory enzymes and protein substrates for the lysine β-hydroxybutyrylation pathway

H Huang, D Zhang, Y Weng, K Delaney, Z Tang… - Science …, 2021 - science.org
Metabolism-mediated epigenetic changes represent an adapted mechanism for cellular
signaling, in which lysine acetylation and methylation have been the historical focus of …

Insights into the post-translational modification and its emerging role in shaping the tumor microenvironment

W Li, F Li, X Zhang, HK Lin, C Xu - Signal transduction and targeted …, 2021 - nature.com
More and more in-depth studies have revealed that the occurrence and development of
tumors depend on gene mutation and tumor heterogeneity. The most important …

Click chemistry in proteomic investigations

CG Parker, MR Pratt - Cell, 2020 - cell.com
Despite advances in genetic and proteomic techniques, a complete portrait of the proteome
and its complement of dynamic interactions and modifications remains a lofty, and as of yet …

Protein palmitoylation and cancer

PJ Ko, SJ Dixon - EMBO reports, 2018 - embopress.org
Protein S‐palmitoylation is a reversible post‐translational modification that alters the
localization, stability, and function of hundreds of proteins in the cell. S‐palmitoylation is …

The cancer-immune dialogue in the context of stress

Y Ma, G Kroemer - Nature Reviews Immunology, 2024 - nature.com
Although there is little direct evidence supporting that stress affects cancer incidence, it does
influence the evolution, dissemination and therapeutic outcomes of neoplasia, as shown in …

Recent progress in enzymatic protein labelling techniques and their applications

Y Zhang, KY Park, KF Suazo… - Chemical Society Reviews, 2018 - pubs.rsc.org
Protein-based conjugates are valuable constructs for a variety of applications. Conjugation
of proteins to fluorophores is commonly used to study their cellular localization and the …