Effectors and effects of arginine methylation

Y Wang, MT Bedford - Biochemical Society Transactions, 2023 - portlandpress.com
Arginine methylation is a ubiquitous and relatively stable post-translational modification
(PTM) that occurs in three types: monomethylarginine (MMA), asymmetric dimethylarginine …

Chemical inhibitors targeting histone methylation readers

X Huang, Y Chen, Q Xiao, X Shang, Y Liu - Pharmacology & Therapeutics, 2024 - Elsevier
Histone methylation reader domains are protein modules that recognize specific histone
methylation marks, such as methylated or unmethylated lysine or arginine residues on …

Pharmacological perturbation of the phase-separating protein SMNDC1

L Enders, M Siklos, J Borggräfe, S Gaussmann… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
SMNDC1 is a Tudor domain protein that recognizes di-methylated arginines and controls
gene expression as an essential splicing factor. Here, we study the specific contributions of …

Inhibition of RNA splicing triggers CHMP7 nuclear entry, impacting TDP-43 function and leading to the onset of ALS cellular phenotypes

N Al-Azzam, JH To, V Gautam, LA Street, CB Nguyen… - Neuron, 2024 - cell.com
Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) is linked to the reduction of certain nucleoporins in
neurons. Increased nuclear localization of charged multivesicular body protein 7 (CHMP7) …

Tudor–dimethylarginine interactions: the condensed version

D Šimčíková, S Gelles-Watnick… - Trends in Biochemical …, 2023 - cell.com
Biomolecular condensates (BMCs) can facilitate or inhibit diverse cellular functions. BMC
formation is driven by noncovalent protein–protein, protein–RNA, and RNA–RNA …

Crystal structure of Tudor domain of TDRD3 in complex with a small molecule antagonist

M Chen, Z Wang, W Li, Y Chen, Q Xiao, X Shang… - … et Biophysica Acta (BBA …, 2023 - Elsevier
Tudor domain-containing protein 3 (TDRD3) is involved in regulating transcription and
translation, promoting breast cancer progression, and modulating neurodevelopment and …

Exploring Aromatic Cage Flexibility Using Cosolvent Molecular Dynamics Simulations─ An In-Silico Case Study of Tudor Domains

C Vorreiter, D Robaa, W Sippl - Journal of Chemical Information …, 2024 - ACS Publications
Cosolvent molecular dynamics (MD) simulations have proven to be powerful in silico tools to
predict hotspots for binding regions on protein surfaces. In the current study, the method was …

Tudor-Containing Methyl-Lysine and Methyl-Arginine Reader Proteins: Disease Implications and Chemical Tool Development

M Uguen, T Liu, LI James, SV Frye - ACS Chemical Biology, 2025 - ACS Publications
Tudor domains are histone readers that can recognize various methylation marks on lysine
and arginine. This recognition event plays a key role in the recruitment of other epigenetic …

Loss of the methylarginine reader function of SND1 confers resistance to hepatocellular carcinoma

T Wright, Y Wang, SA Stratton, M Sebastian… - Biochemical …, 2023 - portlandpress.com
Staphylococcal nuclease Tudor domain containing 1 (SND1) protein is an oncogene that
'reads' methylarginine marks through its Tudor domain. Specifically, it recognizes …

Chemoselectivity of the CuAAC/Ring Cleavage/Cyclization Reaction between Enaminones and α-Acylketenimine

G Li, D Luo, Q Luo, Z Huang, W Zhuang… - The Journal of …, 2024 - ACS Publications
Ketenimines represent an important class of reactive species, useful synthetic intermediates,
and synthons. However, in general, ketenimines preferentially undergoes nucleophilic …