Redox signaling by reactive electrophiles and oxidants

S Parvez, MJC Long, JR Poganik, Y Aye - Chemical reviews, 2018 - ACS Publications
The concept of cell signaling in the context of nonenzyme-assisted protein modifications by
reactive electrophilic and oxidative species, broadly known as redox signaling, is a uniquely …

The lipid peroxidation product 4-hydroxynonenal inhibits NLRP3 inflammasome activation and macrophage pyroptosis

CG Hsu, CL Chávez, C Zhang, M Sowden… - Cell Death & …, 2022 - nature.com
Pyroptosis is a form of cell death triggered by the innate immune system that has been
implicated in the pathogenesis of sepsis and acute lung injury. At the cellular level …

An oculus to profile and probe target engagement in vivo: how T-REX was born and its evolution into G-REX

MJC Long, C Rogg, Y Aye - Accounts of chemical research, 2020 - ACS Publications
Conspectus Here we provide a personal account of innovation and design principles
underpinning a method to interrogate precision electrophile signaling that has come to be …

Organ-specific electrophile responsivity mapping in live C. elegans

J Liu, A Kulkarni, YQ Gao, DA Urul, R Hamelin… - Cell, 2024 - cell.com
Proximity labeling technologies are limited to indexing localized protein residents. Such data—
although valuable—cannot inform on small-molecule responsivity of local residents. We …

Function-guided proximity mapping unveils electrophilic-metabolite sensing by proteins not present in their canonical locales

Y Zhao, PA Miranda Herrera… - Proceedings of the …, 2022 - National Acad Sciences
Enzyme-assisted posttranslational modifications (PTMs) constitute a major means of
signaling across different cellular compartments. However, how nonenzymatic PTMs …

Z-REX uncovers a bifurcation in function of Keap1 paralogs

A Van Hall-Beauvais, JR Poganik, KT Huang, S Parvez… - Elife, 2022 - elifesciences.org
Studying electrophile signaling is marred by difficulties in parsing changes in pathway flux
attributable to on-target, vis-à-vis off-target, modifications. By combining bolus dosing …

Proteomics and beyond: cell decision-making shaped by reactive electrophiles

X Liu, MJC Long, Y Aye - Trends in biochemical sciences, 2019 - cell.com
Revolutionary proteomic strategies have enabled rapid profiling of the cellular targets of
electrophilic small molecules. However, precise means to directly interrogate how these …

Neighborhood watch: tools for defining locale-dependent subproteomes and their contextual signaling activities

MJC Long, Y Zhao, Y Aye - RSC chemical biology, 2020 - pubs.rsc.org
Transient associations between numerous organelles—eg, the endoplasmic reticulum and
the mitochondria—forge highly-coordinated, particular environments essential for cross …

Getting the message? Native reactive electrophiles pass two out of three thresholds to be bona fide signaling mediators

JR Poganik, MJC Long, Y Aye - Bioessays, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
Precision cell signaling activities of reactive electrophilic species (RES) are arguably among
the most poorly‐understood means to transmit biological messages. Latest research …

Chemical biology gateways to mapping location, association, and pathway responsivity

MJC Long, X Liu, Y Aye - Frontiers in chemistry, 2019 - frontiersin.org
Here we discuss, how by applying chemical concepts to biological problems, methods have
been developed to map spatiotemporal regulation of proteins and small-molecule …