From protein film electrochemistry to nanoconfined enzyme cascades and the electrochemical leaf

FA Armstrong, B Cheng, RA Herold… - Chemical …, 2022 - ACS Publications
Protein film electrochemistry (PFE) has given unrivalled insight into the properties of redox
proteins and many electron-transferring enzymes, allowing investigations of otherwise ill …

The purinosome: a case study for a mammalian metabolon

AM Pedley, V Pareek… - Annual review of …, 2022 - annualreviews.org
Over the past fifteen years, we have unveiled a new mechanism by which cells achieve
greater efficiency in de novo purine biosynthesis. This mechanism relies on the …

PAICS ubiquitination recruits UBAP2 to trigger phase separation for purinosome assembly

MC Chou, YH Wang, FY Chen, CY Kung, KP Wu… - Molecular Cell, 2023 - cell.com
Purinosomes serve as metabolons to enhance de novo purine synthesis (DNPS) efficiency
through compartmentalizing DNPS enzymes during stressed conditions. However, the …

Metabolic modulation of transcription: The role of one-carbon metabolism

JMG Lin, S Kourtis, R Ghose, NP Lorente… - Cell Chemical …, 2022 - cell.com
While it is well known that expression levels of metabolic enzymes regulate the metabolic
state of the cell, there is mounting evidence that the converse is also true, that metabolite …

Targeting purine metabolism-related enzymes for therapeutic intervention: A review from molecular mechanism to therapeutic breakthrough

D Wu, S Yang, C Yuan, K Zhang, J Tan, K Guan… - International Journal of …, 2024 - Elsevier
Purines are ancient metabolites with established and emerging metabolic and non-
metabolic signaling attributes. The expression of purine metabolism-related genes is …

Purinosomes spatially co-localize with mitochondrial transporters

Z Sha, SJ Benkovic - Journal of Biological Chemistry, 2024 - jbc.org
In this study, we advance our understanding of the spatial relationship between the
purinosome, a liquid condensate consisting of six enzymes involved in de novo purine …

Membraneless organelles and condensates orchestrate innate immunity against viruses

GL Boccaccio, MG Thomas, CC García - Journal of Molecular Biology, 2023 - Elsevier
The cellular defense against viruses involves the assembly of oligomers, granules and
membraneless organelles (MLOs) that govern the activation of several arms of the innate …

Diverse strategies adopted by nature for regulating purine biosynthesis via fine-tuning of purine metabolic enzymes

S Singh, R Anand - Current Opinion in Chemical Biology, 2023 - Elsevier
Purine nucleotides, generated by de novo synthesis and salvage pathways, are essential for
metabolism and act as building blocks of genetic material. To avoid an imbalance in the …

Interaction network among de novo purine nucleotide biosynthesis enzymes in Escherichia coli

A Gedeon, G Karimova, N Ayoub, J Dairou… - The FEBS …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
In human cells, de novo purine nucleotide biosynthesis is known to be regulated through the
formation of a metabolon called purinosome. Here, we employed a bacterial two‐hybrid …

PAICS as a potential target for cancer therapy linking purine biosynthesis to cancer progression

A Huo, X Xiong - Life Sciences, 2023 - Elsevier
Tumor cells are required to undergo metabolic reprogramming for rapid development and
progression, and one of the metabolic characteristics of cancer cells is the excessive …