Extracellular nucleotides and P2 receptors in renal function

V Vallon, R Unwin, EW Inscho… - Physiological …, 2020 - journals.physiology.org
The understanding of the nucleotide/P2 receptor system in the regulation of renal
hemodynamics and transport function has grown exponentially over the last 20 yr. This …

Inhibition of pyrimidine biosynthesis pathway suppresses viral growth through innate immunity

M Lucas-Hourani, D Dauzonne, P Jorda… - PLoS …, 2013 - journals.plos.org
Searching for stimulators of the innate antiviral response is an appealing approach to
develop novel therapeutics against viral infections. Here, we established a cell-based …

Analysis of RNA modifications by liquid chromatography–tandem mass spectrometry

K Thüring, K Schmid, P Keller, M Helm - Methods, 2016 - Elsevier
The analysis of RNA modifications is of high importance in order to address a wide range of
biological questions. Therefore, a highly sensitive and accurate method such as liquid …

Absolute and relative quantification of RNA modifications via biosynthetic isotopomers

S Kellner, A Ochel, K Thüring, F Spenkuch… - Nucleic acids …, 2014 - academic.oup.com
In the resurging field of RNA modifications, quantification is a bottleneck blocking many
exciting avenues. With currently over 150 known nucleoside alterations, detection and …

Isotope-dilution mass spectrometry for exact quantification of noncanonical DNA nucleosides

FR Traube, S Schiffers, K Iwan, S Kellner, F Spada… - Nature protocols, 2019 - nature.com
DNA contains not only canonical nucleotides but also a variety of modifications of the bases.
In particular, cytosine and adenine are frequently modified. Determination of the exact …

Structural insights into substrate selectivity and activity of bacterial polyphosphate kinases

BP Nocek, AN Khusnutdinova, M Ruszkowski… - ACS …, 2018 - ACS Publications
Polyphosphate (polyP) kinases are widely conserved enzymes with importance in basic
bacterial metabolism and virulence in many pathogens. However, the molecular …

Kinetic Characterization and Inhibition of Trypanosoma cruzi Hypoxanthine–Guanine Phosphoribosyltransferases

K Glockzin, D Kostomiris, YVT Minnow, K Suthagar… - Biochemistry, 2022 - ACS Publications
Chagas disease, caused by the parasitic protozoan Trypanosoma cruzi, affects over 8
million people worldwide. Current antiparasitic treatments for Chagas disease are ineffective …

LC-MS analysis of methylated RNA

K Thüring, K Schmid, P Keller, M Helm - RNA Methylation: Methods and …, 2017 - Springer
The detection and quantification of methylated RNA can be beneficial to understand certain
cellular regulation processes such as transcriptional modulation of gene expression …

Monitoring the Dynamic Regulation of the Mitochondrial GTP‐to‐GDP Ratio with a Genetically Encoded Fluorescent Biosensor

M Zhang, B Yang, J Zhang, Y Song… - Angewandte Chemie …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
The interconversion of guanosine triphosphate (GTP) and guanosine diphosphate (GDP) is
known to be integral to a wide variety of biological cellular activities, yet to date there are no …

Preparation of restricted-access boronate affinity adsorbent with excellent anti-protein adsorption property for directly extracting small cis-diol molecules from …

Z Yao, M Li, Y Sun, C Wang, Y Wei - Talanta, 2023 - Elsevier
Boronate affinity adsorbents are of great promise in the enrichment of small cis-diol-
containing molecules (cis-diols) from biological matrices. This work develops a restricted …