[HTML][HTML] A call for systematic research on solute carriers

A Cesar-Razquin, B Snijder, T Frappier-Brinton… - Cell, 2015 - cell.com
Solute carrier (SLC) membrane transport proteins control essential physiological functions,
including nutrient uptake, ion transport, and waste removal. SLCs interact with several …

[HTML][HTML] Synthetic biology for the directed evolution of protein biocatalysts: navigating sequence space intelligently

A Currin, N Swainston, PJ Day, DB Kell - Chemical Society Reviews, 2015 - pubs.rsc.org
The amino acid sequence of a protein affects both its structure and its function. Thus, the
ability to modify the sequence, and hence the structure and activity, of individual proteins in …

Functional E3 ligase hotspots and resistance mechanisms to small-molecule degraders

A Hanzl, R Casement, H Imrichova, SJ Hughes… - Nature chemical …, 2023 - nature.com
Targeted protein degradation is a novel pharmacology established by drugs that recruit
target proteins to E3 ubiquitin ligases. Based on the structure of the degrader and the target …

Correlating chemical sensitivity and basal gene expression reveals mechanism of action

MG Rees, B Seashore-Ludlow, JH Cheah… - Nature chemical …, 2016 - nature.com
Abstract Changes in cellular gene expression in response to small-molecule or genetic
perturbations have yielded signatures that can connect unknown mechanisms of action …

Human haploid cell genetics reveals roles for lipid metabolism genes in nonapoptotic cell death

SJ Dixon, GE Winter, LS Musavi, ED Lee… - ACS chemical …, 2015 - ACS Publications
Little is known about the regulation of nonapoptotic cell death. Using massive insertional
mutagenesis of haploid KBM7 cells we identified nine genes involved in small-molecule …

[HTML][HTML] Epistasis-driven identification of SLC25A51 as a regulator of human mitochondrial NAD import

E Girardi, G Agrimi, U Goldmann, G Fiume… - Nature …, 2020 - nature.com
About a thousand genes in the human genome encode for membrane transporters. Among
these, several solute carrier proteins (SLCs), representing the largest group of transporters …

[HTML][HTML] A pharmacogenomic landscape in human liver cancers

Z Qiu, H Li, Z Zhang, Z Zhu, S He, X Wang, P Wang… - Cancer Cell, 2019 - cell.com
Liver cancers are highly heterogeneous with poor prognosis and drug response. A better
understanding between genetic alterations and drug responses would facilitate precision …

A widespread role for SLC transmembrane transporters in resistance to cytotoxic drugs

E Girardi, A César-Razquin, S Lindinger… - Nature chemical …, 2020 - nature.com
Solute carriers (SLCs) are the largest family of transmembrane transporters in humans and
are major determinants of cellular metabolism. Several SLCs have been shown to be …

[HTML][HTML] Membrane transporter engineering in industrial biotechnology and whole cell biocatalysis

DB Kell, N Swainston, P Pir, SG Oliver - Trends in biotechnology, 2015 - cell.com
Because they mainly do not involve chemical changes, membrane transporters have been a
Cinderella subject in the biotechnology of small molecule production, but this is a serious …

SLC35F2–SYVN1–TRIM59 axis critically regulates ferroptosis of pancreatic cancer cells by inhibiting endogenous p53

B Che, Y Du, R Yuan, H Xiao, W Zhang, J Shao, H Lu… - Oncogene, 2023 - nature.com
Pancreatic cancer cells undergo intricate metabolic reprogramming to sustain their survival
and proliferation. p53 exhibits a dual role in tumor cell ferroptosis. However, the precise role …