A user's guide to golden gate cloning methods and standards

JE Bird, J Marles-Wright, A Giachino - ACS Synthetic Biology, 2022 - ACS Publications
The continual demand for specialized molecular cloning techniques that suit a broad range
of applications has driven the development of many different cloning strategies. One method …

Assembly of recombinant tau into filaments identical to those of Alzheimer's disease and chronic traumatic encephalopathy

S Lövestam, FA Koh, B van Knippenberg, A Kotecha… - Elife, 2022 - elifesciences.org
Abundant filamentous inclusions of tau are characteristic of more than 20
neurodegenerative diseases that are collectively termed tauopathies. Electron cryo …

Evolving a peptide: library platforms and diversification strategies

K Bozovičar, T Bratkovič - International journal of molecular sciences, 2019 - mdpi.com
Peptides are widely used in pharmaceutical industry as active pharmaceutical ingredients,
versatile tools in drug discovery, and for drug delivery. They find themselves at the …

Age-dependent formation of TMEM106B amyloid filaments in human brains

M Schweighauser, D Arseni, M Bacioglu, M Huang… - Nature, 2022 - nature.com
Many age-dependent neurodegenerative diseases, such as Alzheimer's and Parkinson's,
are characterized by abundant inclusions of amyloid filaments. Filamentous inclusions of the …

Small heat shock proteins operate as molecular chaperones in the mitochondrial intermembrane space

E Adriaenssens, B Asselbergh, P Rivera-Mejías… - Nature Cell …, 2023 - nature.com
Mitochondria are complex organelles with different compartments, each harbouring their
own protein quality control factors. While chaperones of the mitochondrial matrix are well …

Lentiviral transduction of mammalian cells for fast, scalable and high-level production of soluble and membrane proteins

J Elegheert, E Behiels, B Bishop, S Scott, RE Woolley… - Nature protocols, 2018 - nature.com
Structural, biochemical and biophysical studies of eukaryotic soluble and membrane
proteins require their production in milligram quantities. Although large-scale protein …

Identification of plant transcriptional activation domains

N Morffy, L Van den Broeck, C Miller, RJ Emenecker… - Nature, 2024 - nature.com
Gene expression in Arabidopsis is regulated by more than 1,900 transcription factors (TFs),
which have been identified genome-wide by the presence of well-conserved DNA-binding …

Structure of the class D GPCR Ste2 dimer coupled to two G proteins

V Velazhahan, N Ma, G Pándy-Szekeres, AJ Kooistra… - Nature, 2021 - nature.com
G-protein-coupled receptors (GPCRs) are divided phylogenetically into six classes,, denoted
A to F. More than 370 structures of vertebrate GPCRs (belonging to classes A, B, C and F) …

Structural mobility tunes signalling of the GluA1 AMPA glutamate receptor

D Zhang, J Ivica, JM Krieger, H Ho, K Yamashita… - Nature, 2023 - nature.com
AMPA glutamate receptors (AMPARs), the primary mediators of excitatory
neurotransmission in the brain, are either GluA2 subunit-containing and thus Ca2+ …

Massively parallel characterization of CYP2C9 variant enzyme activity and abundance

CJ Amorosi, MA Chiasson, MG McDonald… - The American Journal of …, 2021 - cell.com
CYP2C9 encodes a cytochrome P450 enzyme responsible for metabolizing up to 15% of
small molecule drugs, and CYP2C9 variants can alter the safety and efficacy of these …