N‐Methylation of Peptides and Proteins: An Important Element for Modulating Biological Functions

J Chatterjee, F Rechenmacher… - Angewandte Chemie …, 2013 - Wiley Online Library
N‐Methylation is one of the simplest chemical modifications often occurring in peptides and
proteins of prokaryotes and higher eukaryotes. Over years of evolution, nature has …

The bump-and-hole tactic: expanding the scope of chemical genetics

K Islam - Cell chemical biology, 2018 - cell.com
Successful mapping of the human genome has sparked a widespread interest in
deciphering functional information encoded in gene sequences. However, because of the …

H2B Lys34 ubiquitination induces nucleosome distortion to stimulate Dot1L activity

H Ai, M Sun, A Liu, Z Sun, T Liu, L Cao, L Liang… - Nature Chemical …, 2022 - nature.com
Ubiquitination-dependent histone crosstalk plays critical roles in chromatin-associated
processes and is highly associated with human diseases. Mechanism studies of the …

[PDF][PDF] Conversion of cysteine into dehydroalanine enables access to synthetic histones bearing diverse post‐translational modifications

JM Chalker, L Lercher, NR Rose, CJ Schofield… - Angewandte Chemie …, 2012 - Citeseer
The eukaryotic genome is packaged into a complex of DNA and proteins called chromatin.
The fundamental repeating unit of chromatin, the nucleosome, consists of an octamer of …

Current chemical biology approaches to interrogate protein methyltransferases

M Luo - ACS chemical biology, 2012 - ACS Publications
Protein methyltransferases (PMTs) play various physiological and pathological roles through
methylating histone and nonhistone targets. However, most PMTs including more than 60 …

One-pot native chemical ligation of peptide hydrazides enables total synthesis of modified histones

J Li, Y Li, Q He, Y Li, H Li, L Liu - Organic & biomolecular chemistry, 2014 - pubs.rsc.org
One of the rising demands in the field of protein chemical synthesis is the development of
facile strategies that yield the protein in workable quantities and homogeneity, with fewer …

[HTML][HTML] Site-specific incorporation of ε-N-crotonyllysine into histones

CH Kim, M Kang, HJ Kim, A Chatterjee… - … (International ed. in …, 2012 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Histones, the major protein components of chromatin, are extensively altered by
posttranslational modifications (PTMs). Deciphering distinctive patterns of these PTMs …

[HTML][HTML] Histone deacetylation of NIS promoter underlies BRAF V600E-promoted NIS silencing in thyroid cancer

Z Zhang, D Liu, AK Murugan, Z Liu… - Endocrine-Related …, 2014 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Abstract The BRAF V600E mutation causes impaired expression of sodium iodide symporter
(NIS) and radioiodine refractoriness of thyroid cancer, but the underlying mechanism …

Sumoylated human histone H4 prevents chromatin compaction by inhibiting long-range internucleosomal interactions

A Dhall, S Wei, B Fierz, CL Woodcock, TH Lee… - Journal of Biological …, 2014 - ASBMB
The structure of eukaryotic chromatin directly influences gene function, and is regulated by
chemical modifications of the core histone proteins. Modification of the human histone H4 N …

Regulation of nucleosome stacking and chromatin compaction by the histone H4 N-terminal tail–H2A acidic patch interaction

Q Chen, R Yang, N Korolev, CF Liu… - Journal of molecular …, 2017 - Elsevier
Chromatin folding and dynamics are critically dependent on nucleosome–nucleosome
interactions with important contributions from internucleosome binding of the histone H4 N …