The Wnt pathway: from signaling mechanisms to synthetic modulators

EY Rim, H Clevers, R Nusse - Annual review of biochemistry, 2022 - annualreviews.org
The Wnt pathway is central to a host of developmental and disease-related processes. The
remarkable conservation of this intercellular signaling cascade throughout metazoan …

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 …

A TREM2-activating antibody with a blood–brain barrier transport vehicle enhances microglial metabolism in Alzheimer's disease models

B van Lengerich, L Zhan, D Xia, D Chan, D Joy… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
Loss-of-function variants of TREM2 are associated with increased risk of Alzheimer's
disease (AD), suggesting that activation of this innate immune receptor may be a useful …

A phosphoinositide signalling pathway mediates rapid lysosomal repair

JX Tan, T Finkel - Nature, 2022 - nature.com
Lysosomal dysfunction has been increasingly linked to disease and normal ageing,.
Lysosomal membrane permeabilization (LMP), a hallmark of lysosome-related diseases …

Modulating biomolecular condensates: a novel approach to drug discovery

DM Mitrea, M Mittasch, BF Gomes, IA Klein… - Nature Reviews Drug …, 2022 - nature.com
In the past decade, membraneless assemblies known as biomolecular condensates have
been reported to play key roles in many cellular functions by compartmentalizing specific …

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 …

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 …

Proximity-based modalities for biology and medicine

X Liu, A Ciulli - ACS Central Science, 2023 - ACS Publications
Molecular proximity orchestrates biological function, and blocking existing proximities is an
established therapeutic strategy. By contrast, strengthening or creating neoproximity with …

Autophagy promotes immune evasion of pancreatic cancer by degrading MHC-I

K Yamamoto, A Venida, J Yano, DE Biancur… - Nature, 2020 - nature.com
Immune evasion is a major obstacle for cancer treatment. Common mechanisms of evasion
include impaired antigen presentation caused by mutations or loss of heterozygosity of the …

[HTML][HTML] CLIP and complementary methods

M Hafner, M Katsantoni, T Köster, J Marks… - Nature Reviews …, 2021 - nature.com
RNA molecules start assembling into ribonucleoprotein (RNP) complexes during
transcription. Dynamic RNP assembly, largely directed by cis-acting elements on the RNA …