AMPK signalling in health and disease

D Carling - Current opinion in cell biology, 2017 - Elsevier
In eukaryotic cells AMP-activated protein kinase (AMPK) plays a major role in regulating
cellular energy balance. AMPK responds to changes in intracellular adenine nucleotide …

Structural features of the protein kinase domain and targeted binding by small-molecule inhibitors

C Arter, L Trask, S Ward, S Yeoh, R Bayliss - Journal of Biological …, 2022 - ASBMB
Protein kinases are key components in cellular signaling pathways as they carry out the
phosphorylation of proteins, primarily on Ser, Thr, and Tyr residues. The catalytic activity of …

Spatiotemporal control of ULK1 activation by NDP52 and TBK1 during selective autophagy

JNS Vargas, C Wang, E Bunker, L Hao, D Maric… - Molecular cell, 2019 - cell.com
Selective autophagy recycles damaged organelles and clears intracellular pathogens to
prevent their aberrant accumulation. How ULK1 kinase is targeted and activated during …

Exploring the many-body localization transition in two dimensions

J Choi, S Hild, J Zeiher, P Schauß, A Rubio-Abadal… - Science, 2016 - science.org
A fundamental assumption in statistical physics is that generic closed quantum many-body
systems thermalize under their own dynamics. Recently, the emergence of many-body …

Phosphorylation-mediated RNA/peptide complex coacervation as a model for intracellular liquid organelles

WM Aumiller Jr, CD Keating - Nature chemistry, 2016 - nature.com
Biological cells are highly organized, with numerous subcellular compartments.
Phosphorylation has been hypothesized as a means to control the assembly/disassembly of …

Atomic structure of Hsp90-Cdc37-Cdk4 reveals that Hsp90 traps and stabilizes an unfolded kinase

KA Verba, RYR Wang, A Arakawa, Y Liu, M Shirouzu… - Science, 2016 - science.org
The Hsp90 molecular chaperone and its Cdc37 cochaperone help stabilize and activate
more than half of the human kinome. However, both the mechanism by which these …

Physicochemical properties of cells and their effects on intrinsically disordered proteins (IDPs)

FX Theillet, A Binolfi, T Frembgen-Kesner… - Chemical …, 2014 - ACS Publications
It has long been axiomatic that a protein's structure determines its function. Intrinsically
disordered proteins (IDPs) and disordered protein regions (IDRs) defy this structure …

Structural basis of AMPK regulation by small molecule activators

B Xiao, MJ Sanders, D Carmena, NJ Bright… - Nature …, 2013 - nature.com
AMP-activated protein kinase (AMPK) plays a major role in regulating cellular energy
balance by sensing and responding to increases in AMP/ADP concentration relative to ATP …

[HTML][HTML] The cytosolic DNA sensor cGAS forms an oligomeric complex with DNA and undergoes switch-like conformational changes in the activation loop

X Zhang, J Wu, F Du, H Xu, L Sun, Z Chen… - Cell reports, 2014 - cell.com
The presence of DNA in the cytoplasm is a danger signal that triggers immune and
inflammatory responses. Cytosolic DNA binds to and activates cyclic GMP-AMP (cGAMP) …

Structural insights into the functional diversity of the CDK–cyclin family

DJ Wood, JA Endicott - Open biology, 2018 - royalsocietypublishing.org
Since their characterization as conserved modules that regulate progression through the
eukaryotic cell cycle, cyclin-dependent protein kinases (CDKs) in higher eukaryotic cells are …