Protein lipidation: occurrence, mechanisms, biological functions, and enabling technologies

H Jiang, X Zhang, X Chen, P Aramsangtienchai… - Chemical …, 2018 - ACS Publications
Protein lipidation, including cysteine prenylation, N-terminal glycine myristoylation, cysteine
palmitoylation, and serine and lysine fatty acylation, occurs in many proteins in eukaryotic …

Post-translational modifications of G Protein–Coupled receptors control cellular signaling dynamics in space and time

A Patwardhan, N Cheng, JA Trejo - Pharmacological reviews, 2021 - ASPET
G protein–coupled receptors (GPCRs) are a large family comprising> 800 signaling
receptors that regulate numerous cellular and physiologic responses. GPCRs have been …

A SARS-CoV-2 protein interaction map reveals targets for drug repurposing

DE Gordon, GM Jang, M Bouhaddou, J Xu, K Obernier… - Nature, 2020 - nature.com
A newly described coronavirus named severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2
(SARS-CoV-2), which is the causative agent of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19), has …

Inhibiting PD-L1 palmitoylation enhances T-cell immune responses against tumours

H Yao, J Lan, C Li, H Shi, JP Brosseau… - Nature biomedical …, 2019 - nature.com
Checkpoint blockade therapy targeting the programmed-death ligand 1 (PD-L1) and its
receptor programmed cell death 1 promotes T-cell-mediated immunosurveillance against …

MusiteDeep: a deep-learning based webserver for protein post-translational modification site prediction and visualization

D Wang, D Liu, J Yuchi, F He, Y Jiang… - Nucleic Acids …, 2020 - academic.oup.com
MusiteDeep is an online resource providing a deep-learning framework for protein post-
translational modification (PTM) site prediction and visualization. The predictor only uses …

Engineering extracellular vesicles enriched with palmitoylated ACE2 as COVID‐19 therapy

F Xie, P Su, T Pan, X Zhou, H Li, H Huang… - Advanced …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Abstract Angiotensin converting enzyme 2 (ACE2) is a key receptor present on cell surfaces
that directly interacts with the viral spike (S) protein of the severe acute respiratory syndrome …

[PDF][PDF] A Ca2+-sensor switch for tolerance to elevated salt stress in Arabidopsis

L Steinhorst, G He, LK Moore, S Schültke… - Developmental Cell, 2022 - cell.com
Excessive Na+ in soils inhibits plant growth. Here, we report that Na+ stress triggers primary
calcium signals specifically in a cell group within the root differentiation zone, thus forming a" …

Advances in applying computer-aided drug design for neurodegenerative diseases

MM Salman, Z Al-Obaidi, P Kitchen, A Loreto… - International journal of …, 2021 - mdpi.com
Neurodegenerative diseases (NDs) including Alzheimer's disease, Parkinson's disease,
amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, and Huntington's disease are incurable and affect millions of …

Where is mTOR and what is it doing there?

C Betz, MN Hall - Journal of Cell Biology, 2013 - rupress.org
Target of rapamycin (TOR) forms two conserved, structurally distinct kinase complexes
termed TOR complex 1 (TORC1) and TORC2. Each complex phosphorylates a different set …

Structural determinants and functional consequences of protein affinity for membrane rafts

JH Lorent, B Diaz-Rohrer, X Lin, K Spring… - Nature …, 2017 - nature.com
Eukaryotic plasma membranes are compartmentalized into functional lateral domains,
including lipid-driven membrane rafts. Rafts are involved in most plasma membrane …