The emerging role of mass spectrometry-based proteomics in drug discovery

F Meissner, J Geddes-McAlister, M Mann… - Nature Reviews Drug …, 2022 - nature.com
Proteins are the main targets of most drugs; however, system-wide methods to monitor
protein activity and function are still underused in drug discovery. Novel biochemical …

Hidden codes in mRNA: Control of gene expression by m6A

S Murakami, SR Jaffrey - Molecular cell, 2022 - cell.com
Information in mRNA has largely been thought to be confined to its nucleotide sequence.
However, the advent of mapping techniques to detect modified nucleotides has revealed …

A proximity-dependent biotinylation map of a human cell

CD Go, JDR Knight, A Rajasekharan, B Rathod… - Nature, 2021 - nature.com
Compartmentalization is a defining characteristic of eukaryotic cells, and partitions distinct
biochemical processes into discrete subcellular locations. Microscopy and biochemical …

A framework for understanding the functions of biomolecular condensates across scales

AS Lyon, WB Peeples, MK Rosen - Nature Reviews Molecular Cell …, 2021 - nature.com
Biomolecular condensates are found throughout eukaryotic cells, including in the nucleus, in
the cytoplasm and on membranes. They are also implicated in a wide range of cellular …

Deciphering molecular interactions by proximity labeling

W Qin, KF Cho, PE Cavanagh, AY Ting - Nature methods, 2021 - nature.com
Many biological processes are executed and regulated through the molecular interactions of
proteins and nucleic acids. Proximity labeling (PL) is a technology for tagging the …

[HTML][HTML] G3BP1 is a tunable switch that triggers phase separation to assemble stress granules

P Yang, C Mathieu, RM Kolaitis, P Zhang, J Messing… - Cell, 2020 - cell.com
The mechanisms underlying ribonucleoprotein (RNP) granule assembly, including the basis
for establishing and maintaining RNP granules with distinct composition, are unknown. One …

OpenCell: Endogenous tagging for the cartography of human cellular organization

NH Cho, KC Cheveralls, AD Brunner, K Kim… - Science, 2022 - science.org
Elucidating the wiring diagram of the human cell is a central goal of the postgenomic era.
We combined genome engineering, confocal live-cell imaging, mass spectrometry, and data …

The SARS-CoV-2 nucleocapsid phosphoprotein forms mutually exclusive condensates with RNA and the membrane-associated M protein

S Lu, Q Ye, D Singh, Y Cao, JK Diedrich… - Nature …, 2021 - nature.com
The multifunctional nucleocapsid (N) protein in SARS-CoV-2 binds the~ 30 kb viral RNA
genome to aid its packaging into the 80–90 nm membrane-enveloped virion. The N protein …

A unified model for the function of YTHDF proteins in regulating m6A-modified mRNA

S Zaccara, SR Jaffrey - Cell, 2020 - cell.com
Summary N 6-methyladenosine (m 6 A) is the most abundant mRNA nucleotide modification
and regulates critical aspects of cellular physiology and differentiation. m 6 A is thought to …

Competing protein-RNA interaction networks control multiphase intracellular organization

DW Sanders, N Kedersha, DSW Lee, AR Strom… - Cell, 2020 - cell.com
Liquid-liquid phase separation (LLPS) mediates formation of membraneless condensates
such as those associated with RNA processing, but the rules that dictate their assembly …