S-Adenosylmethionine: more than just a methyl donor

YH Lee, D Ren, B Jeon, H Liu - Natural product reports, 2023 - pubs.rsc.org
Covering: from 2000 up to the very early part of 2023 S-Adenosyl-L-methionine (SAM) is a
naturally occurring trialkyl sulfonium molecule that is typically associated with biological …

[HTML][HTML] Diversity of the reaction mechanisms of SAM-dependent enzymes

Q Sun, M Huang, Y Wei - Acta Pharmaceutica Sinica B, 2021 - Elsevier
S-adenosylmethionine (SAM) is ubiquitous in living organisms and is of great significance in
metabolism as a cofactor of various enzymes. Methyltransferases (MTases), a major group …

Elevated methionine flux drives pyroptosis evasion in persister cancer cells

A El-Kenawi, A Berglund, V Estrella, Y Zhang, M Liu… - Cancer research, 2023 - AACR
Induction of cell death represents a primary goal of most anticancer treatments. Despite the
efficacy of such approaches, a small population of “persisters” develop evasion strategies to …

4-Hydroxy pyridones from heterologous expression and cultivation of the native host

WY Zhang, Y Zhong, Y Yu, DF Shi… - Journal of Natural …, 2020 - ACS Publications
4-Hydroxy pyridones are a class of fungi-derived polyketide–nonribosomal peptide products
featuring a core of 4-hydroxy-2-pyridone which have a wide range of biological activities …

[HTML][HTML] Current therapeutic modalities and chemopreventive role of natural products in liver cancer: Progress and promise

AK Singh, SV Singh, R Kumar, S Kumar… - World journal of …, 2023 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Liver cancer is a severe concern for public health officials since the clinical cases are
increasing each year, with an estimated 5-year survival rate of 30%–35% after diagnosis …

[HTML][HTML] Paving the way for small-molecule drug discovery

YS Ma, R Xin, XL Yang, Y Shi, DD Zhang… - American Journal of …, 2021 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Small-molecule drugs are organic compounds affecting molecular pathways by targeting
important proteins, which have a low molecular weight, making them penetrate cells easily …

New therapeutic options for advanced hepatocellular carcinoma

YS Ma, JB Liu, TM Wu, D Fu - Cancer Control, 2020 - journals.sagepub.com
Hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC), one of the most common lethal diseases in the world, has
a 5-year survival rate of only 7%. Hepatocellular carcinoma has no symptoms in the early …

The Structure and Function of Biomaterial Endolysin EFm1 from E. faecalis Phage

X Zhou, X Zeng, L Wang, Y Zheng, G Zhang, W Cheng - Materials, 2022 - mdpi.com
The endolysin EFm1 from the E. faecalis 002 (002) phage IME-EF1 efficiently lyses E.
faecalis, a gram-positive bacterium that severely threatens human health. Here, the structure …

Sphingosine kinase 1 promotes cerebral ischemia‐reperfusion injury through inducing ER stress and activating the NF‐κB signaling pathway

M Zhang, D Zhou, Z Ouyang, M Yu… - Journal of Cellular …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Endoplasm reticulum stress and inflammation response have been found to be linked to
cerebral ischemia‐reperfusion (IR) injury. Sphingosine kinase 1 (SPHK1) has been reported …

Crystal structure of a S‐adenosyl‐L‐methionine‐dependent O‐methyltransferase‐like enzyme from Aspergillus flavus

L Liao, Y Zhou, T Peng, Y Guo… - Proteins: Structure …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Abstract S‐adenosyl‐L‐methionine (SAM)‐dependent methyltransferases (MTases) are
widely distributed among almost all organisms and often characterized with conserved …