Caspases and their substrates

O Julien, JA Wells - Cell Death & Differentiation, 2017 - nature.com
Protease biology is intimately linked to the functional consequences of substrate cleavage
events. Human caspases are a family of 12 fate-determining cysteine proteases that are best …

Exploiting non-canonical translation to identify new targets for T cell-based cancer immunotherapy

CM Laumont, C Perreault - Cellular and molecular life sciences, 2018 - Springer
Cryptic MHC I-associated peptides (MAPs) are produced via two mechanisms: translation of
protein-coding genes in non-canonical reading frames and translation of allegedly non …

The surfaceome of multiple myeloma cells suggests potential immunotherapeutic strategies and protein markers of drug resistance

ID Ferguson, B Patiño-Escobar, ST Tuomivaara… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
The myeloma surface proteome (surfaceome) determines tumor interaction with the
microenvironment and serves as an emerging arena for therapeutic development. Here, we …

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 …

The Pan-Cancer analysis of pseudogene expression reveals biologically and clinically relevant tumour subtypes

L Han, Y Yuan, S Zheng, Y Yang, J Li… - Nature …, 2014 - nature.com
Although individual pseudogenes have been implicated in tumour biology, the biomedical
significance and clinical relevance of pseudogene expression have not been assessed in a …

Proteomic characterization of post-translational modifications in drug discovery

L Zhai, K Chen, B Hao, M Tan - Acta Pharmacologica Sinica, 2022 - nature.com
Protein post-translational modifications (PTMs), which are usually enzymatically catalyzed,
are major regulators of protein activity and involved in almost all celluar processes …

Oxygen and glucose deprivation induces widespread alterations in mRNA translation within 20 minutes

DE Andreev, PBF O'Connor, AV Zhdanov, RI Dmitriev… - Genome biology, 2015 - Springer
Background Oxygen and glucose metabolism play pivotal roles in many (patho)
physiological conditions. In particular, oxygen and glucose deprivation (OGD) during …

Short open reading frame genes in innate immunity: from discovery to characterization

E Malekos, S Carpenter - Trends in immunology, 2022 - cell.com
Next-generation sequencing (NGS) technologies have greatly expanded the size of the
known transcriptome. Many newly discovered transcripts are classified as long noncoding …

Spreading the word: non-autonomous effects of apoptosis during development, regeneration and disease

A Pérez-Garijo, H Steller - Development, 2015 - journals.biologists.com
Apoptosis, in contrast to other forms of cell death such as necrosis, was originally regarded
as a 'silent'mechanism of cell elimination designed to degrade the contents of doomed cells …

The use of duplex-specific nuclease in ribosome profiling and a user-friendly software package for Ribo-seq data analysis

BY Chung, TJ Hardcastle, JD Jones, N Irigoyen… - Rna, 2015 - rnajournal.cshlp.org
Ribosome profiling is a technique that permits genome-wide, quantitative analysis of
translation and has found broad application in recent years. Here we describe a modified …