“Reading” a new chapter in protozoan parasite transcriptional regulation

K Fleck, M Nitz, V Jeffers - PLoS Pathogens, 2021 - journals.plos.org
Protozoan parasites continue to cause a significant health and economic burden worldwide.
As infectious organisms, they pose unique and difficult challenges due to a level of …

MOB: pivotal conserved proteins in cytokinesis, cell architecture and tissue homeostasis

ILS Delgado, B Carmona, S Nolasco, D Santos… - Biology, 2020 - mdpi.com
Simple Summary Multicellular organisms develop from a single cell into a multitude of cell
types organized in tissues and organs. Organisms grow at a coordinated pace until reaching …

The protein methylation network in yeast: a landmark in completeness for a eukaryotic post-translational modification

JJ Hamey, MR Wilkins - Proceedings of the National …, 2023 - National Acad Sciences
Defining all sites for a post-translational modification in the cell, and identifying their
upstream modifying enzymes, is essential for a complete understanding of a modification's …

ROS inhibits RORα degradation by decreasing its arginine methylation in liver cancer

H Im, H Baek, E Yang, K Kim, SK Oh, JS Lee… - Cancer …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Retinoic acid receptor–related orphan receptor α (RORα) is a transcription factor involved in
nuclear gene expression and a known tumor suppressor. RORα was the first identified …

Eukaryote-conserved histone post-translational modification landscape in Giardia duodenalis revealed by mass spectrometry

SJ Emery-Corbin, JJ Hamey, B Balan… - International journal for …, 2021 - Elsevier
Diarrheal disease caused by Giardia duodenalis is highly prevalent, causing over 200
million cases globally each year. The processes that drive parasite virulence, host immune …

MSImpute: Imputation of label-free mass spectrometry peptides by low-rank approximation

S Hediyeh-zadeh, AI Webb, MJ Davis - bioRxiv, 2020 - biorxiv.org
Recent developments in mass spectrometry (MS) instruments and data acquisition modes
have aided multiplexed, fast, reproducible and quantitative analysis of proteome profiles, yet …

Lysine methyltransferase 2 plays a key role in the encystation process in the parasite Giardia lamblia

L Díaz-Pérez, A Salusso, R Patolsky, G Mayol… - Acta Tropica, 2024 - Elsevier
Histone post-translational modifications are extensively studied for their role in regulating
gene transcription and cellular environmental adaptation. Research into these modifications …

Not all Is SET for Methylation: Evolution of Eukaryotic Protein Methyltransferases

AA Erlendson, M Freitag - Histone Methyltransferases: Methods and …, 2022 - Springer
Dynamic posttranslational modifications to canonical histones that constitute the
nucleosome (H2A, H2B, H3, and H4) control all aspects of enzymatic transactions with DNA …

Non‐histone protein methylation in Trypanosoma cruzi epimastigotes

RF de Almeida, ACR Lucena, M Batista… - …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Post‐translational methylation of proteins, which occurs in arginines and lysines, modulates
several biological processes at different levels of cell signaling. Recently, methylation has …

Protein arginine and lysine methylation in Trypanosoma cruzi

RF de Almeida, AC Rodrigues Lucena, M Batista… - bioRxiv, 2022 - biorxiv.org
Post-translational methylation of proteins, which occurs in arginines and lysines, modulates
several biological processes at different levels of cell signaling. Recently, methylation has …