Protein language: post-translational modifications talking to each other

L Dai Vu, K Gevaert, I De Smet - Trends in plant science, 2018 - cell.com
Post-translational modifications (PTMs) are at the heart of many cellular signaling events.
Apart from a single regulatory PTM, there are also PTMs that function in orchestrated …

Middle-down approach: a choice to sequence and characterize proteins/proteomes by mass spectrometry

PB Pandeswari, V Sabareesh - RSC advances, 2019 - pubs.rsc.org
Owing to rapid growth in the elucidation of genome sequences of various organisms,
deducing proteome sequences has become imperative, in order to have an improved …

Accelerating the field of epigenetic histone modification through mass spectrometry–based approaches

C Lu, M Coradin, EG Porter, BA Garcia - Molecular & Cellular Proteomics, 2021 - ASBMB
Histone post-translational modifications (PTMs) are one of the main mechanisms of
epigenetic regulation. Dysregulation of histone PTMs leads to many human diseases, such …

The CHD6 chromatin remodeler is an oxidative DNA damage response factor

S Moore, ND Berger, MS Luijsterburg, CG Piett… - Nature …, 2019 - nature.com
Cell survival after oxidative DNA damage requires signaling, repair and transcriptional
events often enabled by nucleosome displacement, exchange or removal by chromatin …

A dynamic and combinatorial histone code drives malaria parasite asexual and sexual development

H von Grüning, M Coradin, MR Mendoza… - Molecular & Cellular …, 2022 - ASBMB
Histone posttranslational modifications (PTMs) frequently co-occur on the same chromatin
domains or even in the same molecule. It is now established that these" histone codes" are …

The function of histone acetylation in cervical cancer development

S Liu, W Chang, Y Jin, C Feng, S Wu, J He… - Bioscience …, 2019 - portlandpress.com
Cervical cancer is the fourth most common female cancer in the world. It is well known that
cervical cancer is closely related to high-risk human papillomavirus (HPV) infection …

Molecular and in vivo studies of a glutamate-class prolyl-endopeptidase for coeliac disease therapy

L del Amo-Maestro, SR Mendes… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
The digestion of gluten generates toxic peptides, among which a highly immunogenic
proline-rich 33-mer from wheat α-gliadin, that trigger coeliac disease. Neprosin from the …

Post-proline cleaving enzymes (PPCEs): classification, structure, molecular properties, and applications

A Baharin, TY Ting, HH Goh - Plants, 2022 - mdpi.com
Proteases or peptidases are hydrolases that catalyze the breakdown of polypeptide chains
into smaller peptide subunits. Proteases exist in all life forms, including archaea, bacteria …

Extensive characterization of heavily modified histone tails by 193 nm ultraviolet photodissociation mass spectrometry via a middle–down strategy

SM Greer, S Sidoli, M Coradin… - Analytical …, 2018 - ACS Publications
The ability to map combinatorial patterns of post-translational modifications (PTMs) of
proteins remains challenging for traditional bottom–up mass spectrometry workflows. There …

Quantitation of single and combinatorial histone modifications by integrated chromatography of bottom-up peptides and middle-down polypeptide tails

KA Janssen, M Coradin, C Lu, S Sidoli… - Journal of the …, 2019 - ACS Publications
The analysis of histone post-translational modifications (PTMs) by mass spectrometry (MS)
has been critical to the advancement of the field of epigenetics. The most sensitive and …