Interrogating epigenetic mechanisms with chemically customized chromatin

N Hananya, S Koren, TW Muir - Nature Reviews Genetics, 2024 - nature.com
Genetic and genomic techniques have proven incredibly powerful for identifying and
studying molecular players implicated in the epigenetic regulation of DNA-templated …

Functional analysis of protein post‐translational modifications using genetic codon expansion

T Peng, T Das, K Ding, HC Hang - Protein Science, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Post‐translational modifications (PTMs) of proteins not only exponentially increase the
diversity of proteoforms, but also contribute to dynamically modulating the localization …

New Strategies for Probing the Biological Functions of Protein Post-translational Modifications in Mammalian Cells with Genetic Code Expansion

W Ding, H Zhao, Y Chen, S Lin - Accounts of Chemical Research, 2023 - ACS Publications
Conspectus Protein post-translational modification (PTM) is a major mechanism for
functional diversification of the human genome and plays a crucial role in almost every …

Orthogonal Translation for Site-Specific Installation of Post-translational Modifications

Q Gan, C Fan - Chemical Reviews, 2024 - ACS Publications
Post-translational modifications (PTMs) endow proteins with new properties to respond to
environmental changes or growth needs. With the development of advanced proteomics …

The Biosynthesis and Applications of Protein Lipidation

W Ding, J Gu, W Xu, J Wu, Y Huang, S Zhang… - Chemical …, 2024 - ACS Publications
Protein lipidation dramatically affects protein structure, localization, and trafficking via
remodeling protein–membrane and protein–protein interactions through hydrophobic lipid …

[HTML][HTML] Metabolic reprogramming directed by super-enhancers in tumors: an emerging landscape

Z Zhou, J Li, D Ousmane, L Peng, X Yuan, J Wang - Molecular Therapy, 2024 - cell.com
Metabolic reprogramming is an essential hallmark of tumors, and metabolic abnormalities
are strongly associated with the malignant phenotype of tumor cells. This is closely related to …

Characterize direct protein interactions with enrichable, cleavable and latent bioreactive unnatural amino acids

DD Liu, W Ding, JT Cheng, Q Wei, Y Lin, TY Zhu… - Nature …, 2024 - nature.com
Latent bioreactive unnatural amino acids (Uaas) have been widely used in the development
of covalent drugs and identification of protein interactors, such as proteins, DNA, RNA and …

Chemical and Biological Strategies for Profiling Protein‐Protein Interactions in Living Cells

YY Wang, W Li, BC Ye, XB Bi - Chemistry–An Asian Journal, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Protein‐protein interactions (PPIs) play critical roles in almost all cellular signal transduction
events. Characterization of PPIs without interfering with the functions of intact cells is very …

Rare codon recoding for efficient noncanonical amino acid incorporation in mammalian cells

W Ding, W Yu, Y Chen, L Lao, Y Fang, C Fang, H Zhao… - Science, 2024 - science.org
The ability to genetically encode noncanonical amino acids (ncAAs) has empowered
proteins with improved or previously unknown properties. However, existing strategies in …

Development of Complementary Photo‐arginine/lysine to Promote Discovery of Arg/Lys hPTMs Interactomes

Y Zong, N Weiss, K Wang, AE Pagano… - Advanced …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Arginine and lysine, frequently appearing as a pair on histones, have been proven to carry
diverse modifications and execute various epigenetic regulatory functions. However, the …