Chemoenzymatic semisynthesis of proteins

RE Thompson, TW Muir - Chemical reviews, 2019 - ACS Publications
Protein semisynthesis—defined herein as the assembly of a protein from a combination of
synthetic and recombinant fragments—is a burgeoning field of chemical biology that has …

The membrane surface as a platform that organizes cellular and biochemical processes

TA Leonard, M Loose, S Martens - Developmental cell, 2023 - cell.com
Membranes are essential for life. They act as semi-permeable boundaries that define cells
and organelles. In addition, their surfaces actively participate in biochemical reaction …

Pathological unfoldomics of uncontrolled chaos: intrinsically disordered proteins and human diseases

VN Uversky, V Davé, LM Iakoucheva… - Chemical …, 2014 - ACS Publications
Pathological Unfoldomics of Uncontrolled Chaos: Intrinsically Disordered Proteins and Human
Diseases | Chemical Reviews ACS ACS Publications C&EN CAS Find my institution Log In …

PTEN as a prognostic/predictive biomarker in cancer: an unfulfilled promise?

C Bazzichetto, F Conciatori, M Pallocca, I Falcone… - Cancers, 2019 - mdpi.com
Identifying putative biomarkers of clinical outcomes in cancer is crucial for successful
enrichment, and for the selection of patients who are the most likely to benefit from a specific …

Subtiligase-catalyzed peptide ligation

AM Weeks, JA Wells - Chemical reviews, 2019 - ACS Publications
Subtiligase-catalyzed peptide ligation is a powerful approach for site-specific protein
bioconjugation, synthesis and semisynthesis of proteins and peptides, and chemoproteomic …

Akt kinase activation mechanisms revealed using protein semisynthesis

N Chu, AL Salguero, AZ Liu, Z Chen, DR Dempsey… - Cell, 2018 - cell.com
Akt is a critical protein kinase that drives cancer proliferation, modulates metabolism, and is
activated by C-terminal phosphorylation. The current structural model for Akt activation by C …

Nicastrin functions to sterically hinder γ-secretase–substrate interactions driven by substrate transmembrane domain

DM Bolduc, DR Montagna, Y Gu… - Proceedings of the …, 2016 - National Acad Sciences
γ-Secretase is an intramembrane-cleaving protease that processes many type-I integral
membrane proteins within the lipid bilayer, an event preceded by shedding of most of the …

Synthetic approaches to protein phosphorylation

Z Chen, PA Cole - Current opinion in chemical biology, 2015 - Elsevier
Highlights•Classical site-directed mutagenesis is limited in studying protein
phosphorylation.•We discuss synthetic, semisynthetic, and genetic methods to make …

The structural determinants of PH domain-mediated regulation of Akt revealed by segmental labeling

N Chu, T Viennet, H Bae, A Salguero… - Elife, 2020 - elifesciences.org
Akt is a critical protein kinase that governs cancer cell growth and metabolism. Akt appears
to be autoinhibited by an intramolecular interaction between its N-terminal pleckstrin …

Focus on PTEN regulation

M Bermúdez Brito, E Goulielmaki… - Frontiers in …, 2015 - frontiersin.org
The role of phosphatase and tensin homolog on chromosome 10 (PTEN) as a tumor
suppressor has been for a long time attributed to its lipid phosphatase activity against PI (3 …