Redox metabolism: ROS as specific molecular regulators of cell signaling and function

C Lennicke, HM Cochemé - Molecular Cell, 2021 - cell.com
Redox reactions are intrinsically linked to energy metabolism. Therefore, redox processes
are indispensable for organismal physiology and life itself. The term reactive oxygen species …

Deubiquitinases: From mechanisms to their inhibition by small molecules

SM Lange, LA Armstrong, Y Kulathu - Molecular cell, 2022 - cell.com
Deubiquitinases (DUBs) are specialized proteases that remove ubiquitin from substrates or
cleave within ubiquitin chains to regulate ubiquitylation and therefore play important roles in …

UCSF ChimeraX: Tools for structure building and analysis

EC Meng, TD Goddard, EF Pettersen… - Protein …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Advances in computational tools for atomic model building are leading to accurate models of
large molecular assemblies seen in electron microscopy, often at challenging resolutions of …

[HTML][HTML] BA. 2.12. 1, BA. 4 and BA. 5 escape antibodies elicited by Omicron infection

Y Cao, A Yisimayi, F Jian, W Song, T Xiao, L Wang… - Nature, 2022 - nature.com
Severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) Omicron sublineages BA.
2.12. 1, BA. 4 and BA. 5 exhibit higher transmissibility than the BA. 2 lineage 1. The receptor …

Deep learning-guided discovery of an antibiotic targeting Acinetobacter baumannii

G Liu, DB Catacutan, K Rathod, K Swanson… - Nature Chemical …, 2023 - nature.com
Acinetobacter baumannii is a nosocomial Gram-negative pathogen that often displays
multidrug resistance. Discovering new antibiotics against A. baumannii has proven …

[HTML][HTML] SARS-CoV-2 Omicron-B. 1.1. 529 leads to widespread escape from neutralizing antibody responses

W Dejnirattisai, J Huo, D Zhou, J Zahradník, P Supasa… - Cell, 2022 - cell.com
On 24 th November 2021, the sequence of a new SARS-CoV-2 viral isolate Omicron-B. 1.1.
529 was announced, containing far more mutations in Spike (S) than previously reported …

Fanzor is a eukaryotic programmable RNA-guided endonuclease

M Saito, P Xu, G Faure, S Maguire, S Kannan… - Nature, 2023 - nature.com
RNA-guided systems, which use complementarity between a guide RNA and target nucleic
acid sequences for recognition of genetic elements, have a central role in biological …

Bespoke library docking for 5-HT2A receptor agonists with antidepressant activity

AL Kaplan, DN Confair, K Kim, X Barros-Álvarez… - Nature, 2022 - nature.com
There is considerable interest in screening ultralarge chemical libraries for ligand discovery,
both empirically and computationally,,–. Efforts have focused on readily synthesizable …

Accurate prediction of protein structures and interactions using a three-track neural network

M Baek, F DiMaio, I Anishchenko, J Dauparas… - Science, 2021 - science.org
DeepMind presented notably accurate predictions at the recent 14th Critical Assessment of
Structure Prediction (CASP14) conference. We explored network architectures that …

SARS-CoV-2 RBD antibodies that maximize breadth and resistance to escape

TN Starr, N Czudnochowski, Z Liu, F Zatta, YJ Park… - Nature, 2021 - nature.com
An ideal therapeutic anti-SARS-CoV-2 antibody would resist viral escape,–, have activity
against diverse sarbecoviruses,,–, and be highly protective through viral neutralization,,–and …