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Long MJC, Aye Y. Climbing into their Skin to Understand Contextual Protein-Protein Associations and Localizations: Functional Investigations in Transgenic Live Model Organisms. Chembiochem 2024; 25:e202400005. [PMID: 38511872 DOI: 10.1002/cbic.202400005] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/02/2024] [Revised: 02/07/2024] [Indexed: 03/22/2024]
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Borrowing some quotes from Harper Lee's novel "To Kill A Mockingbird" to help frame our manuscript, we discuss methods to profile local proteomes. We initially focus on chemical biology regimens that function in live organisms and use reactive biotin species for this purpose. We then consider ways to add new dimensions to these experimental regimens, principally by releasing less reactive (i. e., more selective) (preter)natural electrophiles. Although electrophile release methods may have lower resolution and label fewer proteins than biotinylation methods, their ability to probe simultaneously protein function and locale raises new and interesting possibilities for the field.
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- Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Lausanne (EPFL), Lausanne, 1015, Switzerland
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Huang KT, Poganik JR, Parvez S, Raja S, Miller B, Long MJC, Fetcho JR, Aye Y. Z-REX: shepherding reactive electrophiles to specific proteins expressed tissue specifically or ubiquitously, and recording the resultant functional electrophile-induced redox responses in larval fish. Nat Protoc 2023; 18:1379-1415. [PMID: 37020146 PMCID: PMC11150335 DOI: 10.1038/s41596-023-00809-8] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/24/2017] [Accepted: 12/05/2022] [Indexed: 04/07/2023]
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This Protocol Extension describes the adaptation of an existing Protocol detailing the use of targetable reactive electrophiles and oxidants, an on-demand redox targeting toolset in cultured cells. The adaptation described here is for use of reactive electrophiles and oxidants technologies in live zebrafish embryos (Z-REX). Zebrafish embryos expressing a Halo-tagged protein of interest (POI)-either ubiquitously or tissue specifically-are treated with a HaloTag-specific small-molecule probe housing a photocaged reactive electrophile (either natural electrophiles or synthetic electrophilic drug-like fragments). The reactive electrophile is then photouncaged at a user-defined time, enabling proximity-assisted electrophile-modification of the POI. Functional and phenotypic ramifications of POI-specific modification can then be monitored, by coupling to standard downstream assays, such as click chemistry-based POI-labeling and target-occupancy quantification; immunofluorescence or live imaging; RNA-sequencing and real-time quantitative polymerase chain reaction analyses of downstream-transcript modulations. Transient expression of requisite Halo-POI in zebrafish embryos is achieved by messenger RNA injection. Procedures associated with generation of transgenic zebrafish expressing a tissue-specific Halo-POI are also described. The Z-REX experiments can be completed in <1 week using standard techniques. To successfully execute Z-REX, researchers should have basic skills in fish husbandry, imaging and pathway analysis. Experience with protein or proteome manipulation is useful. This Protocol Extension is aimed at helping chemical biologists study precision redox events in a model organism and fish biologists perform redox chemical biology.
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- Kuan-Ting Huang
- Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Lausanne (EPFL), Lausanne, Switzerland
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- Division of Genetics, Department of Medicine, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA
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- Department of Pharmacology and Toxicology, College of Pharmacy, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT, USA
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- Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Lausanne (EPFL), Lausanne, Switzerland
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- Department of Neurobiology and Behavior, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, USA
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- Department of Neurobiology and Behavior, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, USA.
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- Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Lausanne (EPFL), Lausanne, Switzerland.
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Kozoriz K, Shkel O, Hong KT, Kim DH, Kim YK, Lee JS. Multifunctional Photo-Cross-Linking Probes: From Target Protein Searching to Imaging Applications. Acc Chem Res 2023; 56:25-36. [PMID: 36534922 DOI: 10.1021/acs.accounts.2c00505] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/23/2022]
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Despite advances in genome sequencing technology, the complete molecular interaction networks reflecting the biological functions of gene products have not been fully elucidated due to the lack of robust molecular interactome profiling techniques. Traditionally, molecular interactions have been investigated in vitro by measuring their affinity. However, such a reductionist approach comes with throughput constraints and does not depict an intact living cell environment. Therefore, molecular interactions in live cells must be captured to minimize false-positive results. The photo-cross-linking technique is a promising tool because the production of a temporally controlled reactive functional group can be induced using light exposure. Photoaffinity labeling is used in biochemistry and medicinal chemistry for bioconjugation, including drug and antibody conjugation, target protein identification of bioactive compounds, and fluorescent labeling of target proteins. This Account summarizes recent advances in multifunctional photo-cross-linkers for drug target identification and bioimaging. In addition to our group's contributions, we reviewed the most notable examples from the last few decades to provide a comprehensive overview of how this field is evolving. Based on cross-linking chemistry, photo-cross-linkers are classified as either (i) reactive intermediate-generating or (ii) electrophile-generating. Reactive intermediates generating photoaffinity tags have been extensively modified to target a molecule of interest using aryl azide, benzophenone, diazirine, diazo, and acyl silanes. These species are highly reactive and can form covalent bonds, irrespective of residue. Their short lifetime is ideal for the instant capture and labeling of biomolecules. Recently, photocaged electrophiles have been investigated to take advantage of their residue selectivity and relatively high yield for adduct formation with tetrazole, nitrobenzyl alcohol, o-nitrophenylethylene, pyrone, and pyrimidone. Multifunctional photo-cross-linkers for two parallel practical applications have been developed using both classes of photoactivatable groups. Unbiased target interactome profiling of small-molecule drugs requires a challenging structure-activity relationship study (SAR) step to retain the nature or biological activity of the lead compound, which led to the design of a multifunctional "minimalist tag" comprising a bio-orthogonal handle, a photoaffinity labeling group, and functional groups to load target molecules. In contrast, fluorogenic photo-cross-linking is advantageous for bioimaging because it does not require an additional bio-orthogonal reaction to introduce a fluorophore to the minimalist tag. Our group has made progress on minimalist tags and fluorogenic photo-cross-linkers through fruitful collaborations with other groups. The current range of photoactivation reactions and applications demonstrate that photoaffinity tags can be improved. We expect exciting days in the rational design of new multifunctional photo-cross-linkers, particularly clinically interesting versions used in photodynamic or photothermal therapy.
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- Kostiantyn Kozoriz
- Department of Pharmacology, Korea University College of Medicine, 73 Goryeodae-ro, Seongbuk-gu, Seoul 02841, Republic of Korea
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- Convergence Research Center for Brain Science, Korea Institute of Science and Technology (KIST) & Bio-Med Program, KIST-School UST, Hwarang-ro 14 gil 5, Seongbuk-gu, Seoul 02792, Republic of Korea
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- Convergence Research Center for Brain Science, Korea Institute of Science and Technology (KIST) & Bio-Med Program, KIST-School UST, Hwarang-ro 14 gil 5, Seongbuk-gu, Seoul 02792, Republic of Korea
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- Department of Pharmacology, Korea University College of Medicine, 73 Goryeodae-ro, Seongbuk-gu, Seoul 02841, Republic of Korea
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- Convergence Research Center for Brain Science, Korea Institute of Science and Technology (KIST) & Bio-Med Program, KIST-School UST, Hwarang-ro 14 gil 5, Seongbuk-gu, Seoul 02792, Republic of Korea
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- Department of Pharmacology, Korea University College of Medicine, 73 Goryeodae-ro, Seongbuk-gu, Seoul 02841, Republic of Korea
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Yuan X, Liu Y, Chen Y, Jiao H, Zhao J, Wang X, Zhou Y, Lin H. Effect of substitution of taurine for methionine and additional taurine supplementation on the performance and antioxidative capacity of laying hens. Poult Sci 2022; 102:102426. [PMID: 36587450 PMCID: PMC9811254 DOI: 10.1016/j.psj.2022.102426] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/24/2022] [Revised: 11/22/2022] [Accepted: 12/11/2022] [Indexed: 12/23/2022] Open
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Taurine (TAU), a sulfur-containing amino acid that synthesized from methionine and cystine, plays vital roles in maintenance of redox balance. The effect of substitution of TAU for methionine was evaluated in vivo and in vitro. The effects of replacing methionine with TAU and additional TAU supplementation on the performance and antioxidant capacity of laying hens were evaluated. The in vitro cultured chicken primary hepatocytes and intestinal epithelial cells were further employed. Two hubdred eighty-eight 40-wk-old Isa brown laying hens were divided into 4 groups and subjected one to the following treatments: fed with basal diet with 0.17% crystallized DL-Met (CON), the control diet and replace 25% (21% total Met, 21TAU) or 50% (42% total Met, 42TAU) of crystallized DL-Met with taurine, the control diet supplemented with 0.1% taurine (0.1% TAU). The laying rate, feed intake, egg weight, and feed efficiency were not influenced (P > 0.05) by TAU replacement or additional TAU supplementation. In the liver, 0.1% TAU decreased SOD but increased GSH-Px activity (P < 0.01). In duodenum, 42TAU decreased SOD activity (P < 0.05) while 0.1% TAU decreased GSH level and SOD activity (P < 0.05). In the hepatocytes, TAU treatment decreased (P < 0.05) the MDA and GSH contents, whereas increased SOD and GSH-Px activities (P < 0.05). Meanwhile, TAU treatment decreased (P < 0.05) the protein expression of Nrf2 while increase Keap1 expression. The mRNA expression of Nrf2, SOD1, SOD2, CAT, and GCLC were increased (P < 0.05) and GSR were decreased (P < 0.05) by 0.1% TAU. In the intestinal epithelial cells, TAU treatment decreased (P < 0.05) SOD activity, increased (P < 0.05) CAT activity, and decreased (P < 0.05) the mRNA and protein expression of Nrf2. In summary, partial substitution methionine for taurine (21-42%) has no influence on egg performance of hens. Taurine enhances the antioxidative capacity in hepatocyte but not in the enterocytes and if taurine could offer an improved effect on antioxidant capacity needs to be verified under oxidative stress-challenged conditions.
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- Xiukang Yuan
- College of Animal Science and Technology, Key Laboratory of Efficient Utilization of Non-grain Feed Resources (Co-construction by Ministry and Province), Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs, Shandong Key Lab for Animal Biotechnology and Disease Control and Prevention, Taian, Shandong 271018, China
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- College of Animal Science and Technology, Key Laboratory of Efficient Utilization of Non-grain Feed Resources (Co-construction by Ministry and Province), Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs, Shandong Key Lab for Animal Biotechnology and Disease Control and Prevention, Taian, Shandong 271018, China
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- College of Animal Science and Technology, Key Laboratory of Efficient Utilization of Non-grain Feed Resources (Co-construction by Ministry and Province), Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs, Shandong Key Lab for Animal Biotechnology and Disease Control and Prevention, Taian, Shandong 271018, China
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- College of Animal Science and Technology, Key Laboratory of Efficient Utilization of Non-grain Feed Resources (Co-construction by Ministry and Province), Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs, Shandong Key Lab for Animal Biotechnology and Disease Control and Prevention, Taian, Shandong 271018, China
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- College of Animal Science and Technology, Key Laboratory of Efficient Utilization of Non-grain Feed Resources (Co-construction by Ministry and Province), Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs, Shandong Key Lab for Animal Biotechnology and Disease Control and Prevention, Taian, Shandong 271018, China
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- College of Animal Science and Technology, Key Laboratory of Efficient Utilization of Non-grain Feed Resources (Co-construction by Ministry and Province), Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs, Shandong Key Lab for Animal Biotechnology and Disease Control and Prevention, Taian, Shandong 271018, China
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- College of Chemistry and Material Science, Shandong Agricultural University, Taian, Shandong 271018, China
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- College of Animal Science and Technology, Key Laboratory of Efficient Utilization of Non-grain Feed Resources (Co-construction by Ministry and Province), Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs, Shandong Key Lab for Animal Biotechnology and Disease Control and Prevention, Taian, Shandong 271018, China.
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Van Hall-Beauvais A, Poganik JR, Huang KT, Parvez S, Zhao Y, Lin HY, Liu X, Long MJC, Aye Y. Z-REX uncovers a bifurcation in function of Keap1 paralogs. eLife 2022; 11:e83373. [PMID: 36300632 PMCID: PMC9754640 DOI: 10.7554/elife.83373] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/09/2022] [Accepted: 10/12/2022] [Indexed: 11/13/2022] Open
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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, knockdown, and Z-REX-a tool investigating on-target/on-pathway electrophile signaling, we document that electrophile labeling of one zebrafish-Keap1-paralog (zKeap1b) stimulates Nrf2- driven antioxidant response (AR) signaling (like the human-ortholog). Conversely, zKeap1a is a dominant-negative regulator of electrophile-promoted Nrf2-signaling, and itself is nonpermissive for electrophile-induced Nrf2-upregulation. This behavior is recapitulated in human cells: (1) zKeap1b-expressing cells are permissive for augmented AR-signaling through reduced zKeap1b-Nrf2 binding following whole-cell electrophile treatment; (2) zKeap1a-expressing cells are non-permissive for AR-upregulation, as zKeap1a-Nrf2 binding capacity remains unaltered upon whole-cell electrophile exposure; (3) 1:1 ZKeap1a:zKeap1b-co-expressing cells show no Nrf2-release from the Keap1-complex following whole-cell electrophile administration, rendering these cells unable to upregulate AR. We identified a zKeap1a-specific point-mutation (C273I) responsible for zKeap1a's behavior during electrophilic stress. Human-Keap1(C273I), of known diminished Nrf2-regulatory capacity, dominantly muted electrophile-induced Nrf2-signaling. These studies highlight divergent and interdependent electrophile signaling behaviors, despite conserved electrophile sensing.
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- Swiss Federal Institute of Technology LausanneLausanneSwitzerland
- Division of Genetics, Department of Medicine, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Harvard Medical SchoolBostonUnited States
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- Swiss Federal Institute of Technology LausanneLausanneSwitzerland
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- Department of Pharmacology and Toxicology, College of Pharmacy, University of UtahSalt Lake CityUnited States
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- Swiss Federal Institute of Technology LausanneLausanneSwitzerland
- BayRay Innovation Center, Shenzhen Bay LaboratoryShenzhenChina
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- Department of Chemical Biology, College of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Xiamen UniversityXiamenChina
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- Swiss Federal Institute of Technology LausanneLausanneSwitzerland
- School of Chemistry, The University of SydneySydneyAustralia
- The Heart Research Institute, NewtownNewtownAustralia
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- Department of Biochemistry, Faculty of Biology and Medicine, University of LausanneLausanneSwitzerland
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- Swiss Federal Institute of Technology LausanneLausanneSwitzerland
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Hurben AK, Tretyakova NY. Role of Protein Damage Inflicted by Dopamine Metabolites in Parkinson's Disease: Evidence, Tools, and Outlook. Chem Res Toxicol 2022; 35:1789-1804. [PMID: 35994383 PMCID: PMC10225972 DOI: 10.1021/acs.chemrestox.2c00193] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/13/2022]
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Dopamine is an important neurotransmitter that plays a critical role in motivational salience and motor coordination. However, dysregulated dopamine metabolism can result in the formation of reactive electrophilic metabolites which generate covalent adducts with proteins. Such protein damage can impair native protein function and lead to neurotoxicity, ultimately contributing to Parkinson's disease etiology. In this Review, the role of dopamine-induced protein damage in Parkinson's disease is discussed, highlighting the novel chemical tools utilized to drive this effort forward. Continued innovation of methodologies which enable detection, quantification, and functional response elucidation of dopamine-derived protein adducts is critical for advancing this field. Work in this area improves foundational knowledge of the molecular mechanisms that contribute to dopamine-mediated Parkinson's disease progression, potentially assisting with future development of therapeutic interventions.
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- Alexander K. Hurben
- Department of Medicinal Chemistry and Masonic Cancer Center, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota 55455, United States
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- Department of Medicinal Chemistry and Masonic Cancer Center, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota 55455, United States
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Long MJC, Assari M, Aye Y. Hiding in Plain Sight: The Issue of Hidden Variables. ACS Chem Biol 2022; 17:1285-1292. [PMID: 35603432 DOI: 10.1021/acschembio.2c00142] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/28/2022]
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Here we discuss "hidden variables", which are typically introduced during an experiment as a consequence of the application of two independent variables together to create a stimulus. With increased sophistication in modern chemical biology tools and related precision interrogation techniques, hidden variables have become integral to many chemical biologists' routine experiments. For instance, they can appear in the use of light-activatable chemical probes (e.g., μMap, T-REX), or stimulus-induced enzyme activation (e.g., APEX). Unfortunately, control experiments assess only how independent variables affect measured outcomes and not the multiple differences between the two independent variables and the twain. We outline ways to account for potential hidden variables in experimental design and data interpretation as a means to aid developers of new methods, particularly those involving light-driven techniques, chemical activation, or biorthogonal chemistries, to better incorporate well-controlled procedures.
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- Marcus J. C. Long
- NCCR Chemical Biology and University of Geneva, 1211 Geneva, Switzerland
- University of Lausanne (UNIL), 1110 Epalinges, Switzerland
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- Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Lausanne (EPFL), 1015 Lausanne, Switzerland
- NCCR Chemical Biology and University of Geneva, 1211 Geneva, Switzerland
- Department of Chemistry, The University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois 60637, United States
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- Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Lausanne (EPFL), 1015 Lausanne, Switzerland
- NCCR Chemical Biology and University of Geneva, 1211 Geneva, Switzerland
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Veale CGL, Talukdar A, Vauzeilles B. ICBS 2021: Looking Toward the Next Decade of Chemical Biology. ACS Chem Biol 2022; 17:728-743. [PMID: 35293726 DOI: 10.1021/acschembio.2c00209] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/28/2022]
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- Clinton G. L. Veale
- Department of Chemistry, University of Cape Town, Rondebosch, Cape Town, 7700, South Africa
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- Department of Organic and Medicinal Chemistry, CSIR-Indian Institute of Chemical Biology, 4 Raja S. C. Mullick Road, Kolkata 700032, West Bengal, India
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- Université Paris-Saclay, CNRS, Institut de Chimie des Substances Naturelles, UPR 2301, 91198, Gif-sur-Yvette, France
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Long MJC, Miranda Herrera PA, Aye Y. Hitting the Bullseye: Endogenous Electrophiles Show Remarkable Nuance in Signaling Regulation. Chem Res Toxicol 2022; 35:1636-1648. [PMID: 35394758 DOI: 10.1021/acs.chemrestox.2c00006] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/11/2022]
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Our bodies produce a host of electrophilic species that can label specific endogenous proteins in cells. The signaling roles of these molecules are under active debate. However, in our opinion, it is becoming increasingly likely that electrophiles can rewire cellular signaling processes at endogenous levels. Attention is turning more to understanding how nuanced electrophile signaling in cells is. In this Perspective, we describe recent work from our laboratory that has started to inform on different levels of context-specific regulation of proteins by electrophiles. We discuss the relevance of these data to the field and to the broader application of electrophile signaling to precision medicine development, beyond the traditional views of their pleiotropic cytotoxic roles.
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- Marcus J C Long
- National Centre of Competence in Research Chemical Biology, University of Geneva, 1211 Geneva, Switzerland.,Department of Biochemistry, Faculty of Biology and Medicine, University of Lausanne, 1066 Epalinges, Switzerland
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- Institute of Chemical Sciences and Engineering, School of Basic Sciences, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Lausanne, 1015 Lausanne, Switzerland.,National Centre of Competence in Research Chemical Biology, University of Geneva, 1211 Geneva, Switzerland
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- Institute of Chemical Sciences and Engineering, School of Basic Sciences, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Lausanne, 1015 Lausanne, Switzerland.,National Centre of Competence in Research Chemical Biology, University of Geneva, 1211 Geneva, Switzerland
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Suraritdechachai S, Lakkanasirorat B, Uttamapinant C. Molecular probes for cellular imaging of post-translational proteoforms. RSC Chem Biol 2022; 3:201-219. [PMID: 35360891 PMCID: PMC8826509 DOI: 10.1039/d1cb00190f] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/29/2021] [Accepted: 01/04/2022] [Indexed: 12/29/2022] Open
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Specific post-translational modification (PTM) states of a protein affect its property and function; understanding their dynamics in cells would provide deep insight into diverse signaling pathways and biological processes. However, it is not trivial to visualize post-translational modifications in a protein- and site-specific manner, especially in a living-cell context. Herein, we review recent advances in the development of molecular imaging tools to detect diverse classes of post-translational proteoforms in individual cells, and their applications in studying precise roles of PTMs in regulating the function of cellular proteins.
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- Surased Suraritdechachai
- School of Biomolecular Science and Engineering, Vidyasirimedhi Institute of Science and Technology (VISTEC) Rayong Thailand
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- School of Biomolecular Science and Engineering, Vidyasirimedhi Institute of Science and Technology (VISTEC) Rayong Thailand
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- School of Biomolecular Science and Engineering, Vidyasirimedhi Institute of Science and Technology (VISTEC) Rayong Thailand
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Function-guided proximity mapping unveils electrophilic-metabolite sensing by proteins not present in their canonical locales. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 2022; 119:2120687119. [PMID: 35082156 PMCID: PMC8812531 DOI: 10.1073/pnas.2120687119] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Accepted: 12/14/2021] [Indexed: 11/18/2022] Open
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Enzyme-assisted posttranslational modifications (PTMs) constitute a major means of signaling across different cellular compartments. However, how nonenzymatic PTMs-despite their direct relevance to covalent drug development-impinge on cross-compartment signaling remains inaccessible as current target-identification (target-ID) technologies offer limited spatiotemporal resolution, and proximity mapping tools are also not guided by specific, biologically-relevant, ligand chemotypes. Here we establish a quantitative and direct profiling platform (Localis-rex) that ranks responsivity of compartmentalized subproteomes to nonenzymatic PTMs. In a setup that contrasts nucleus- vs. cytoplasm-specific responsivity to reactive-metabolite modification (hydroxynonenylation), ∼40% of the top-enriched protein sensors investigated respond in compartments of nonprimary origin or where the canonical activity of the protein sensor is inoperative. CDK9-a primarily nuclear-localized kinase-was hydroxynonenylated only in the cytoplasm. Site-specific CDK9 hydroxynonenylation-which we identified in untreated cells-drives its nuclear translocation, downregulating RNA-polymerase-II activity, through a mechanism distinct from that of commonly used CDK9 inhibitors. Taken together, this work documents an unmet approach to quantitatively profile and decode localized and context-specific signaling/signal-propagation programs orchestrated by reactive covalent ligands.
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Hurben AK, Ge P, Bouchard JL, Doran TM, Tretyakova NY. Photocaged dicarbonyl probe provides spatiotemporal control over protein glycation. Chem Commun (Camb) 2022; 58:855-858. [PMID: 34935009 PMCID: PMC10620854 DOI: 10.1039/d1cc06651j] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/29/2022]
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Protein glycation is a disease associated, non-enzymatic, posttranslational modification generated by endogenous dicarbonyl metabolites. Currently, there is a lack of chemical tools capable of studying protein adducts caused by this class of reactive species. Here, we report a chemical biology platform, termed T-DiP (targetable-dicarbonyl precursor), that releases a physiologically relevant dose of bio-orthogonally functionalized dicarbonyl probe upon irradiation with 365 nm light. This approach enables protein glycation to be controlled with spatiotemporal precision within live cells and expands the chemical toolbox needed to elucidate the roles of glycated proteins across various pathologies.
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- Alexander K Hurben
- Department of Medicinal Chemistry, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN, 55455, USA.
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- Department of Medicinal Chemistry, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN, 55455, USA.
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- Department of Medicinal Chemistry, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN, 55455, USA.
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- Department of Medicinal Chemistry, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN, 55455, USA.
- Institute for Translational Neuroscience, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN, 55455, USA
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- Department of Medicinal Chemistry, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN, 55455, USA.
- Masonic Cancer Center, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN, 55455, USA
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Asiimwe N, Lee J, Hong K, murale D, Haque MM, Kim DH, Lee JS. Temporal control of protein labeling by photo-caged benzaldehyde motif and discovery of host cell factors of avian influenza virus infection. Chem Commun (Camb) 2022; 58:9345-9348. [DOI: 10.1039/d2cc04091c] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/21/2022]
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Photo-caged benzaldehyde probes using o-nitrophenylethylene glycol were designed for photo-activated electrophile generation. Unlike radical reaction that produce uncontrolled multiple reaction paths resulting low yield of crosslinking, reaction of electrophile has...
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Long MJC, Ly P, Aye Y. A primer on harnessing non-enzymatic post-translational modifications for drug design. RSC Med Chem 2021; 12:1797-1807. [PMID: 34825181 PMCID: PMC8597429 DOI: 10.1039/d1md00157d] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/05/2021] [Accepted: 10/08/2021] [Indexed: 11/21/2022] Open
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Of the manifold concepts in drug discovery and design, covalent drugs have re-emerged as one of the most promising over the past 20-or so years. All such drugs harness the ability of a covalent bond to drive an interaction between a target biomolecule, typically a protein, and a small molecule. Formation of a covalent bond necessarily prolongs target engagement, opening avenues to targeting shallower binding sites, protein complexes, and other difficult to drug manifolds, amongst other virtues. This opinion piece discusses frameworks around which to develop covalent drugs. Our argument, based on results from our research program on natural electrophile signaling, is that targeting specific residues innately involved in native signaling programs are ideally poised to be targeted by covalent drugs. We outline ways to identify electrophile-sensing residues, and discuss how studying ramifications of innate signaling by endogenous molecules can provide a means to predict drug mechanism and function and assess on- versus off-target behaviors.
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- Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Lausanne (EPFL) 1015 Lausanne Switzerland
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- Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Lausanne (EPFL) 1015 Lausanne Switzerland
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Poganik JR, Huang KT, Parvez S, Zhao Y, Raja S, Long MJC, Aye Y. Wdr1 and cofilin are necessary mediators of immune-cell-specific apoptosis triggered by Tecfidera. Nat Commun 2021; 12:5736. [PMID: 34593792 PMCID: PMC8484674 DOI: 10.1038/s41467-021-25466-x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 16] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/11/2020] [Accepted: 08/11/2021] [Indexed: 01/10/2023] Open
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Despite the emerging importance of reactive electrophilic drugs, deconvolution of their principal targets remains difficult. The lack of genetic tractability/interventions and reliance on secondary validation using other non-specific compounds frequently complicate the earmarking of individual binders as functionally- or phenotypically-sufficient pathway regulators. Using a redox-targeting approach to interrogate how on-target binding of pleiotropic electrophiles translates to a phenotypic output in vivo, we here systematically track the molecular components attributable to innate immune cell toxicity of the electrophilic-drug dimethyl fumarate (Tecfidera®). In a process largely independent of canonical Keap1/Nrf2-signaling, Keap1-specific modification triggers mitochondrial-targeted neutrophil/macrophage apoptosis. On-target Keap1–ligand-engagement is accompanied by dissociation of Wdr1 from Keap1 and subsequent coordination with cofilin, intercepting Bax. This phagocytic-specific cell-killing program is recapitulated by whole-animal administration of dimethyl fumarate, where individual depletions of the players identified above robustly suppress apoptosis. The mechanism-of-action of many electrohilic drugs remains poorly understood. Here, the authors use a redox-targeting approach to elucidate the basis for the innate immune cell toxicity of dimethyl fumarate, showing that it modifies Keap1 to trigger mitochondrial-targeted neutrophil/macrophage apoptosis.
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- Jesse R Poganik
- Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Lausanne (EPFL), Lausanne, Switzerland.,Division of Genetics, Department of Medicine, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA
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- Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Lausanne (EPFL), Lausanne, Switzerland
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- Department of Pharmacology and Toxicology, College of Pharmacy, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT, USA
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- BayRay Innovation Center, Shenzhen Bay Laboratory (SZBL), Guangdong, China
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- Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Lausanne (EPFL), Lausanne, Switzerland
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- Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Lausanne (EPFL), Lausanne, Switzerland.
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Shieh P, Hill MR, Zhang W, Kristufek SL, Johnson JA. Clip Chemistry: Diverse (Bio)(macro)molecular and Material Function through Breaking Covalent Bonds. Chem Rev 2021; 121:7059-7121. [PMID: 33823111 DOI: 10.1021/acs.chemrev.0c01282] [Citation(s) in RCA: 35] [Impact Index Per Article: 11.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/17/2022]
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In the two decades since the introduction of the "click chemistry" concept, the toolbox of "click reactions" has continually expanded, enabling chemists, materials scientists, and biologists to rapidly and selectively build complexity for their applications of interest. Similarly, selective and efficient covalent bond breaking reactions have provided and will continue to provide transformative advances. Here, we review key examples and applications of efficient, selective covalent bond cleavage reactions, which we refer to herein as "clip reactions." The strategic application of clip reactions offers opportunities to tailor the compositions and structures of complex (bio)(macro)molecular systems with exquisite control. Working in concert, click chemistry and clip chemistry offer scientists and engineers powerful methods to address next-generation challenges across the chemical sciences.
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- Peyton Shieh
- Department of Chemistry, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 77 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02139, United States
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- Department of Chemistry, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 77 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02139, United States
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- Department of Chemistry, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 77 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02139, United States
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- Department of Chemistry, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 77 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02139, United States
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- Department of Chemistry, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 77 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02139, United States
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Tsai YH, Doura T, Kiyonaka S. Tethering-based chemogenetic approaches for the modulation of protein function in live cells. Chem Soc Rev 2021; 50:7909-7923. [PMID: 34114579 DOI: 10.1039/d1cs00059d] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/24/2023]
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Proteins are the workhorse molecules performing various tasks to sustain life. To investigate the roles of a protein under physiological conditions, the rapid modulation of the protein with high specificity in a living system would be ideal, but achieving this is often challenging. To address this challenge, researchers have developed chemogenetic strategies for the rapid and selective modulation of protein function in live cells. Here, the target protein is modified genetically to become sensitive to a designer molecule that otherwise has no effect on other cellular biomolecules. One powerful chemogenetic strategy is to introduce a tethering point into the target protein, allowing covalent or non-covalent attachment of the designer molecule. In this tutorial review, we focus on tethering-based chemogenetic approaches for modulating protein function in live cells. We first describe genetic, optogenetic and chemical means to study protein function. These means lay the basis for the chemogenetic concept, which is explained in detail. The next section gives an overview, including advantages and limitations, of tethering tactics that have been employed for modulating cellular protein function. The third section provides examples of the modulation of cell-surface proteins using tethering-based chemogenetics through non-covalent tethering and covalent tethering for irreversible modulation or functional switching. The fourth section presents intracellular examples. The last section summarizes key considerations in implementing tethering-based chemogenetics and shows perspectives highlighting future directions and other applications of this burgeoning research field.
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- Yu-Hsuan Tsai
- Institute of Molecular Physiology, Shenzhen Bay Laboratory, Shenzhen 518132, China.
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Guan I, Williams K, Pan J, Liu X. New Cysteine Covalent Modification Strategies Enable Advancement of Proteome‐wide Selectivity of Kinase Modulators. ASIAN J ORG CHEM 2021. [DOI: 10.1002/ajoc.202100036] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/06/2023]
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- Ivy Guan
- School of Chemistry The Heart Research Institute The University of Sydney Sydney New South Wales 2006 Australia
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- School of Chemistry The University of Sydney Sydney New South Wales 2006 Australia
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- Faculty of Science & Engineering The University of Waikato 124 Hillcrest Road, Hillcrest Hamilton 3216 New Zealand
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- School of Chemistry The Heart Research Institute The University of Sydney Sydney New South Wales 2006 Australia
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Dixon CF, Nottingham AN, Lozano AF, Sizemore JA, Russell LA, Valiton C, Newell KL, Babin D, Bridges WT, Parris MR, Shchirov DV, Snyder NL, Ruppel JV. Synthesis and evaluation of porphyrin glycoconjugates varying in linker length: preliminary effects on the photodynamic inactivation of Mycobacterium smegmatis. RSC Adv 2021; 2021:7037-7042. [PMID: 34336191 PMCID: PMC8320722 DOI: 10.1039/d0ra10793j] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/23/2020] [Accepted: 01/28/2021] [Indexed: 11/21/2022] Open
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Porphyrins have served as common photosensitizing agents in photomedicine due to their unique properties and broad therapeutic potential. While photodynamic therapy (PDT) offers a promising avenue for novel drug development, limitations in application due to selectivity, and the inherent hydrophobicity and poor solubility of porphyrins and other organic photosensitizers has been noted. Porphyrin glycoconjugates have recently gained attention for their potential to overcome these limitations. However, little has been done to explore the effects of the linker between the carbohydrate and porphyrin analog. Here we report the synthesis of over 30 new carbohydrate-porphyrin conjugates which vary in the nature of the sugar (Gal, Glc, GalNAc, GlcNAc, Lac and Tre) and the distance between the porphyrin macrocycle and the carbohydrate. Porphyrin glycoconjugates were synthesized in three steps from a readily available meso-brominated diphenylporphyrin analog by (i) C-O coupling of an appropriate TMS-protected alkynol consisting of two to six carbon spacers (ii) removal of the TMS protecting group, and (iii) CuAAC conjugation with an appropriate glycosyl azide. First studies with trehalose-based glycoporphyrins and M. smeg were used to determine the effects of the linker in photodynamic inactivation (PDI) studies. Preliminary results demonstrated an increase in photodynamic inactivation with a decrease in linker length. Investigations are underway to determine the mechanism for these results.
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- Davidson College, Department of ChemistryBox 7120DavidsonNC 28035USA
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- Davidson College, Department of ChemistryBox 7120DavidsonNC 28035USA
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- Davidson College, Department of ChemistryBox 7120DavidsonNC 28035USA
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- Davidson College, Department of ChemistryBox 7120DavidsonNC 28035USA
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Long MJC, Rogg C, Aye Y. An Oculus to Profile and Probe Target Engagement In Vivo: How T-REX Was Born and Its Evolution into G-REX. Acc Chem Res 2021; 54:618-631. [PMID: 33228351 DOI: 10.1021/acs.accounts.0c00537] [Citation(s) in RCA: 14] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/26/2022]
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Here we provide a personal account of innovation and design principles underpinning a method to interrogate precision electrophile signaling that has come to be known as "REX technologies". This Account is framed in the context of trying to improve methods of target mining and understanding of individual target-ligand engagement by a specific natural electrophile and the ramifications of this labeling event in cells and organisms. We start by explaining from a practical standpoint why gleaning such understanding is critical: we are constantly assailed by a battery of electrophilic molecules that exist as a consequence of diet, food preparation, ineluctable endogenous metabolic processes, and potentially disease. The resulting molecules, which are detectable in the body, appear to be able to modify function of specific proteins. Aside from potentially being biologically relevant in their own right, these labeling events are essentially identical to protein-covalent drug interactions. Thus, on what proteins and even in what ways a covalent drug will work can be understood through the eyes of natural electrophiles; extending this logic leads to the postulate that target identification of specific electrophiles can inform on drug design. However, when we entered this field, there was no way to interrogate how a specific labeling event impacted a specific protein in an unperturbed cell. Methods to evaluate stoichiometry of labeling, and even chemospecificity of a specific phenotype were limited. There were further no generally accepted ways to study electrophile signaling that did not hugely disturb physiology.We developed T-REX, a method to study single-protein-specific electrophile engagement, to interrogate how single-protein electrophile labeling shapes pathway flux. Using T-REX, we discovered that labeling of several proteins by a specific electrophile, even at low occupancy, leads to biologically relevant signaling outputs. Further experimentation using T-REX showed that in some instances, single-protein isoforms were electrophile responsive against other isoforms, such as Akt3. Selective electrophile-labeling of Akt3 elicited inhibition of Akt-pathway flux in cells and in zebrafish embryos. Using these data, we rationally designed a molecule to selectively target Akt3. This was a fusion of the naturally derived electrophile and an isoform-nonspecific, reversible Akt inhibitor in phase-II trials, MK-2206. The resulting molecule was a selective inhibitor of Akt3 and was shown to fare better than MK-2206 in breast cancer xenograft mouse models. Recently, we have also developed a means to screen electrophile sensors that is unbiased and uses a precise burst of electrophiles. Using this method, dubbed G-REX, in conjunction with T-REX, we discovered new DNA-damage response upregulation pathways orchestrated by simple natural electrophiles. We thus emphasize how deriving a quantitative understanding of electrophile signaling that is linked to thorough and precise mechanistic studies can open doors to numerous medicinally and biologically relevant insights, from gleaning better understanding of target engagement and target mining to rational design of targeted covalent medicines.
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- Marcus J. C. Long
- Department of Molecular Biology, University of Geneva, 30 quai Ernest-Ansermet, 1211 Geneva, Switzerland
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- Institute of Chemical Sciences and Engineering (ISIC), Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Lausanne (EPFL), Route Cantonale, 1015 Lausanne, Switzerland
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- Institute of Chemical Sciences and Engineering (ISIC), Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Lausanne (EPFL), Route Cantonale, 1015 Lausanne, Switzerland
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Long MJC, Wang L, Aye Y. Getting the Right Grip? How Understanding Electrophile Selectivity Profiles Could Illuminate Our Understanding of Redox Signaling. Antioxid Redox Signal 2020; 33:1077-1091. [PMID: 31578876 PMCID: PMC7583342 DOI: 10.1089/ars.2019.7894] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/20/2022]
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Significance: Electrophile signaling is coming into focus as a bona fide cell signaling mechanism. The electrophilic regulation occurs typically through a sensing event (i.e., labeling of a protein) and a signaling event (the labeling event having an effect of the proteins activity, association, etc.). Recent Advances: Herein, we focus on the first step of this process, electrophile sensing. Electrophile sensing is typically a deceptively simple reaction between the thiol of a protein cysteine, of which there are around 200,000 in the human proteome, and a Michael acceptor, of which there are numerous flavors, including enals and enones. Recent data overall paint a picture that despite being a simple chemical reaction, electrophile sensing is a discerning process, showing labeling preferences that are often not in line with reactivity of the electrophile. Critical Issues: With a view to trying to decide what brings about highly electrophile-reactive protein cysteines, and how reactive these sensors may be, we discuss aspects of the thermodynamics and kinetics of covalent/noncovalent binding. Data made available by several laboratories indicate that it is likely that specific proteins exhibit highly stereo- and chemoselective electrophile sensing, which we take as good evidence for recognition between the electrophile and the protein before forming a covalent bond. Future Directions: We propose experiments that could help us gain a better and more quantitative understanding of the mechanisms through which sensing comes about. We further extoll the importance of performing more detailed experiments on labeling and trying to standardize the way we assess protein-specific electrophile sensing.
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- Marcus J C Long
- 47 Pudding Gate, Bishop Burton, Beverley East Riding of Yorkshire, United Kingdom
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- Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Lausanne (EPFL), Lausanne, Switzerland
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- Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Lausanne (EPFL), Lausanne, Switzerland
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Hoelzel CA, Zhang X. Visualizing and Manipulating Biological Processes by Using HaloTag and SNAP-Tag Technologies. Chembiochem 2020; 21:1935-1946. [PMID: 32180315 PMCID: PMC7367766 DOI: 10.1002/cbic.202000037] [Citation(s) in RCA: 56] [Impact Index Per Article: 14.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/23/2020] [Revised: 02/27/2020] [Indexed: 12/25/2022]
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Visualizing and manipulating the behavior of proteins is crucial to understanding the physiology of the cell. Methods of biorthogonal protein labeling are important tools to attain this goal. In this review, we discuss advances in probe technology specific for self-labeling protein tags, focusing mainly on the application of HaloTag and SNAP-tag systems. We describe the latest developments in small-molecule probes that enable fluorogenic (no wash) imaging and super-resolution fluorescence microscopy. In addition, we cover several methodologies that enable the perturbation or manipulation of protein behavior and function towards the control of biological pathways. Thus, current technical advances in the HaloTag and SNAP-tag systems means that they are becoming powerful tools to enable the visualization and manipulation of biological processes, providing invaluable scientific insights that are difficult to obtain by traditional methodologies. As the multiplex of self-labeling protein tag systems continues to be developed and expanded, the utility of these protein tags will allow researchers to address previously inaccessible questions at the forefront of biology.
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- Conner A Hoelzel
- Department of Chemistry, Pennsylvania State University, University Park, Pennsylvania, PA 16802, USA
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- Department of Chemistry, Pennsylvania State University, University Park, Pennsylvania, PA 16802, USA
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Long MJC, Zhao Y, Aye Y. Neighborhood watch: tools for defining locale-dependent subproteomes and their contextual signaling activities. RSC Chem Biol 2020; 1:42-55. [PMID: 34458747 PMCID: PMC8341840 DOI: 10.1039/d0cb00041h] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/02/2020] [Accepted: 05/16/2020] [Indexed: 12/21/2022] Open
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Transient associations between numerous organelles-e.g., the endoplasmic reticulum and the mitochondria-forge highly-coordinated, particular environments essential for cross-compartment information flow. Our perspective summarizes chemical-biology tools that have enabled identifying proteins present within these itinerant communities against the bulk proteome, even when a particular protein's presence is fleeting/substoichiometric. However, proteins resident at these ephemeral junctions also experience transitory changes to their interactomes, small-molecule signalomes, and, importantly, functions. Thus, a thorough census of sub-organellar communities necessitates functionally probing context-dependent signaling properties of individual protein-players. Our perspective accordingly further discusses how repurposing of existing tools could allow us to glean a functional understanding of protein-specific signaling activities altered as a result of organelles pulling together. Collectively, our perspective strives to usher new chemical-biology techniques that could, in turn, open doors to modulate functions of specific subproteomes/organellar junctions underlying the nuanced regulatory subsystem broadly termed as contactology.
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- Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Lausanne (EPFL), Institute of Chemical Sciences and Engineering 1015 Lausanne Switzerland
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- Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Lausanne (EPFL), Institute of Chemical Sciences and Engineering 1015 Lausanne Switzerland
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Poganik JR, Van Hall-Beauvais AK, Long MJC, Disare MT, Zhao Y, Aye Y. The mRNA-Binding Protein HuR Is a Kinetically-Privileged Electrophile Sensor. Helv Chim Acta 2020; 103:e2000041. [PMID: 34113045 PMCID: PMC8188987 DOI: 10.1002/hlca.202000041] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/26/2020] [Accepted: 04/11/2020] [Indexed: 12/11/2022]
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The key mRNA-binding proteins HuR and AUF1 are reported stress sensors in mammals. Intrigued by recent reports of sensitivity of these proteins to the electrophilic lipid prostaglandin A2 and other redox signals, we here examined their sensing abilities to a prototypical redox-linked lipid-derived electrophile, 4-hydroxynonenal (HNE). Leveraging our T-REX electrophile delivery platform, we found that only HuR, and not AUF1, is a kinetically-privileged sensor of HNE in HEK293T cells, and sensing functions through a specific cysteine, C13. Cells depleted of HuR, upon treatment with HNE, manifest unique alterations in cell viability and Nrf2-transcription-factor-driven antioxidant response (AR), which our recent work shows is regulated by HuR at the Nrf2-mRNA level. Mutagenesis studies showed that C13-specific sensing alone is not sufficient to explain HuR-dependent stress responsivities, further highlighting a complex context-dependent layer of Nrf2/AR regulation through HuR.
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- Jesse R Poganik
- Institute of Chemical Sciences & Engineering (ISIC), Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Lausanne (EPFL), CH-1015 Lausanne
- Department of Chemistry & Chemical Biology, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York, 14853 New York, United States
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- Institute of Chemical Sciences & Engineering (ISIC), Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Lausanne (EPFL), CH-1015 Lausanne
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- Department of Chemistry & Chemical Biology, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York, 14853 New York, United States
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- Department of Chemistry & Chemical Biology, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York, 14853 New York, United States
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- Institute of Chemical Sciences & Engineering (ISIC), Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Lausanne (EPFL), CH-1015 Lausanne
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- Institute of Chemical Sciences & Engineering (ISIC), Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Lausanne (EPFL), CH-1015 Lausanne
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Aim: Advanced glycation end products (AGE) are the biomarkers of aging and diabetes which are formed via reactions between glycating agents and biomacromolecules. However, no proteomic study has been reported to systematically investigate the protein substrates of AGEs. Results: In this paper, we used an aniline-based probe to capture the glyoxal-imine intermediate which is the transition sate of glyoxal-derived AGEs. Combined with the tandem orthogonal proteolysis activity-based protein profiling strategy, we successfully identified 962 lysines modified by glyoxal. Conclusion: Enzymes in glycolysis are heavily modified by glyoxal and our biochemical experiments showed that glyoxal can significantly inhibit the activity of GAPDH and glycolysis. These data indicated that AGEs modifications may contribute to pathological processes through impairing the glycolytic process.
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Targeted covalent modification is assuming consolidated importance in drug discovery. In this context, the electrophilic tuning of redox-dependent cell signaling is attracting major interest, as it opens prospect for treating numerous pathologic conditions. Herein, we discuss the rationale and the issues of electrophile-based approaches, focusing on the transcriptional Nrf2-Keap1 pathway as a test case. We also highlight relevant medicinal chemistry strategies researchers have devised to meet the ambitious goal, dwelling on the investigational and therapeutic potential of modulating redox-signaling networks through regulatory cysteine switches.
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Long MJ, Liu X, Aye Y. Genie in a bottle: controlled release helps tame natural polypharmacology? Curr Opin Chem Biol 2019; 51:48-56. [PMID: 30913473 DOI: 10.1016/j.cbpa.2019.02.014] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/23/2018] [Revised: 02/02/2019] [Accepted: 02/12/2019] [Indexed: 02/06/2023]
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Ability to faithfully report drug-target interactions constitutes a major critical parameter in preclinical/clinical settings. Yet the assessment of target engagement remains challenging, particularly for promiscuous and/or polypharmacologic ligands. Drawing from our improved insights into native electrophile signaling and emerging technologies that profile and interrogate these non-enzyme-assisted signaling subsystems, we posit that 'trained' polypharmocologic covalent inhibitors can be designed. Accumulating evidence indicates that electrophile-modified states at fractional occupancy can alter cell fate. Thus, by understanding sensing preferences and ligandable regions favored by the natural electrophilic signals at individual protein-ligand resolution, we can better evaluate target engagement and develop a function-guided understanding of polypharmacology.
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- Marcus Jc Long
- 47 Pudding Gate, Bishop Burton, Beverley East Riding of Yorkshire, HU17 8QH, UK
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- École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, Institute of Chemical Sciences and Engineering, 1015, Lausanne, Switzerland
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- École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, Institute of Chemical Sciences and Engineering, 1015, Lausanne, Switzerland.
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Long MJC, Liu X, Aye Y. Chemical Biology Gateways to Mapping Location, Association, and Pathway Responsivity. Front Chem 2019; 7:125. [PMID: 30949469 PMCID: PMC6437114 DOI: 10.3389/fchem.2019.00125] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/16/2018] [Accepted: 02/18/2019] [Indexed: 12/14/2022] Open
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Here we discuss, how by applying chemical concepts to biological problems, methods have been developed to map spatiotemporal regulation of proteins and small-molecule modulation of proteome signaling responses. We outline why chemical-biology platforms are ideal for such purposes. We further discuss strengths and weaknesses of chemical-biology protocols, contrasting them against classical genetic and biochemical approaches. We make these evaluations based on three parameters: occupancy; functional information; and spatial restriction. We demonstrate how the specific choice of chemical reagent and experimental set-up unite to resolve biological problems. Potential improvements/extensions as well as specific controls that in our opinion are often overlooked or employed incorrectly are also considered. Finally, we discuss some of the latest emerging methods to illuminate how chemical-biology innovations provide a gateway toward information hitherto inaccessible by conventional genetic/biochemical means. Finally, we also caution against solely relying on chemical-biology strategies and urge the field to undertake orthogonal validations to ensure robustness of results.
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- École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, Institute of Chemical Sciences and Engineering, Lausanne, Switzerland
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- École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, Institute of Chemical Sciences and Engineering, Lausanne, Switzerland
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Long MJC, Urul DA, Aye Y. REX technologies for profiling and decoding the electrophile signaling axes mediated by Rosetta Stone proteins. Methods Enzymol 2019; 633:203-230. [PMID: 32046846 PMCID: PMC7027669 DOI: 10.1016/bs.mie.2019.02.039] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/07/2023]
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It is now clear that some cysteines on some proteins are highly tuned to react with electrophiles. Based on numerous studies, it is also established that electrophile sensing underpins rewiring of several critical signaling processes. These electrophile-sensing proteins, or privileged first responders (PFRs), are likely critically relevant for drug design. However, identifying PFRs remains a challenging and unsolved problem, despite the development of several high-throughput methods to ID proteins that react with electrophiles. More importantly, we remain unable to rank how different PFRs identified under different conditions relate to one another, in terms of sensing or signaling capacity. Here we evaluate different methods to assay sensing functions of proteins and discuss these methods in the context of developing a "ranking scheme." Based on theoretical and experimental evidence, we propose that T-REX-the only targeted-electrophile delivery tool presently available-is a reliable method to rank PFRs. Finally, we address to what extent electrophile sensing and downstream signaling are correlated. Based on our current data, we observe that such behaviors are indeed correlated. It is our hope that through this manuscript researchers from various arms of the stress signaling fields will focus on developing a quantitative understanding of precision electrophile labeling.
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- Institute of Chemical Sciences and Engineering, École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, Lausanne, Switzerland; Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, United States
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- Institute of Chemical Sciences and Engineering, École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, Lausanne, Switzerland.
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Greene LE, Lincoln R, Cosa G. Spatio-temporal monitoring of lipid peroxyl radicals in live cell studies combining fluorogenic antioxidants and fluorescence microscopy methods. Free Radic Biol Med 2018; 128:124-136. [PMID: 29649566 DOI: 10.1016/j.freeradbiomed.2018.04.006] [Citation(s) in RCA: 15] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/02/2018] [Revised: 04/05/2018] [Accepted: 04/06/2018] [Indexed: 12/28/2022]
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Lipid peroxidation of polyunsaturated fatty acids in cells may occur via their catalytic autoxidation through peroxyl radicals under oxidative stress conditions. Lipid peroxidation is related to a number of pathologies, and may be invoked in new forms of regulated cell death, yet it may also have beneficial roles in cell signaling cascades. Antioxidants are a natural line of defense against lipid peroxidation, and may accordingly impact the biological outcome associated with the redox chemistry of lipid peroxidation. Critical to unraveling the physiological and pathological role of lipid peroxidation is the development of novel probes with the partition, chemical sensitivity and more importantly, molecular specificity, enabling the spatial and temporal imaging of peroxyl radicals in the lipid membranes of live cells, reporting on the redox status of the cell membrane. This review describes our recent progress to visualize lipid peroxidation in model membrane systems and in live cell studies. Our work portrays the mechanistic insight leading to the development of a highly sensitive probe to monitor lipid peroxyl radicals (LOO•). It also describes technical aspects including reagents and fluorescence microscopy methodologies to consider in order to achieve the much sought after monitoring of rates of lipid peroxyl radical production in live cell studies, be it under oxidative stress but also under cell homeostasis. This review seeks to bring attention to the study of lipid redox reactions and to lay the groundwork for the adoption of fluorogenic antioxidant probeshancement and maximum intensity recorded in turn provide a benchmark to estimate, when compared to the control BODIPY dye lacking the intramolecular PeT based switch, the overall exte and related fluorescence microscopy methods toward gaining rich spatiotemporal information on lipid peroxidation in live cells.
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- Lana E Greene
- Department of Chemistry and Quebec Center for Advanced Materials (QCAM/CQMF), McGill University, 801 Sherbrooke Street West, Montreal, QC, Canada H3A 0B8
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- Department of Chemistry and Quebec Center for Advanced Materials (QCAM/CQMF), McGill University, 801 Sherbrooke Street West, Montreal, QC, Canada H3A 0B8
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- Department of Chemistry and Quebec Center for Advanced Materials (QCAM/CQMF), McGill University, 801 Sherbrooke Street West, Montreal, QC, Canada H3A 0B8.
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Proteomics and Beyond: Cell Decision-Making Shaped by Reactive Electrophiles. Trends Biochem Sci 2018; 44:75-89. [PMID: 30327250 DOI: 10.1016/j.tibs.2018.09.014] [Citation(s) in RCA: 28] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/26/2018] [Revised: 08/21/2018] [Accepted: 09/19/2018] [Indexed: 12/11/2022]
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Revolutionary proteomic strategies have enabled rapid profiling of the cellular targets of electrophilic small molecules. However, precise means to directly interrogate how these individual electrophilic modifications at low occupancy functionally reshape signaling networks have until recently been largely limited. We highlight here new methods that transcend proteomic platforms to forge a quantitative link between protein target-selective engagement and downstream signaling. We focus on recent progress in the study of non-enzyme-assisted signaling mechanisms and crosstalk choreographed by native reactive electrophilic species (RES). Using this as a model, we offer a long-term vision of how these toolsets together with fundamental biochemical knowledge of precision electrophile signaling may be harnessed to assist covalent ligand-target matching and ultimately amend disease-specific signaling dysfunction.
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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 complex topic that has been approached from numerous different and multidisciplinary angles. Our Review reflects on five aspects critical for understanding how nature harnesses these noncanonical post-translational modifications to coordinate distinct cellular activities: (1) specific players and their generation, (2) physicochemical properties, (3) mechanisms of action, (4) methods of interrogation, and (5) functional roles in health and disease. Emphasis is primarily placed on the latest progress in the field, but several aspects of classical work likely forgotten/lost are also recollected. For researchers with interests in getting into the field, our Review is anticipated to function as a primer. For the expert, we aim to stimulate thought and discussion about fundamentals of redox signaling mechanisms and nuances of specificity/selectivity and timing in this sophisticated yet fascinating arena at the crossroads of chemistry and biology.
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- Saba Parvez
- Department of Pharmacology and Toxicology, College of
Pharmacy, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, Utah, 84112, USA
- Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology, Cornell
University, Ithaca, New York, 14853, USA
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- Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology, Cornell
University, Ithaca, New York, 14853, USA
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- Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne,
Institute of Chemical Sciences and Engineering, 1015, Lausanne, Switzerland
- Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology, Cornell
University, Ithaca, New York, 14853, USA
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- Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne,
Institute of Chemical Sciences and Engineering, 1015, Lausanne, Switzerland
- Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology, Cornell
University, Ithaca, New York, 14853, USA
- Department of Biochemistry, Weill Cornell Medicine, New
York, New York, 10065, USA
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Van Hall-Beauvais A, Zhao Y, Urul DA, Long MJC, Aye Y. Single-Protein-Specific Redox Targeting in Live Mammalian Cells and C. elegans. CURRENT PROTOCOLS IN CHEMICAL BIOLOGY 2018; 10:e43. [PMID: 30085412 PMCID: PMC6125161 DOI: 10.1002/cpch.43] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/12/2022]
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T-REX (targetable reactive electrophiles and oxidants) enables electrophile targeting in living systems with high spatiotemporal precision and at single-protein-target resolution. T-REX allows functional consequences of individual electrophile signaling events to be directly linked to on-target modifications. T-REX is accomplished by expressing a HaloTagged protein of interest (POI) and introducing a Halo-targetable bioinert photocaged precursor to a reactive electrophilic signal (RES). Light exposure releases the unfettered RES on demand, enabling precision modification of the POI due to proximity. Using alkyne-functionalized 4-hydroxynonenal (HNE) as a representative RES, this protocol delineates optimized strategies to (1) execute T-REX in live human cells and C. elegans, (2) quantitate the POI's RES-sensitivity by either azido-fluorescent-dye conjugation or (3) enrich using biotin-azide/streptavidin pulldown procedure in both model systems, and (4) identify the site of RES-labeling on the POI using proteomics. Built-in T-REX controls that allow users to directly confirm on-target/on-site specificity of RES-sensing are also described. © 2018 by John Wiley & Sons, Inc.
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- Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY 14853
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- Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY 14853
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- Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY 14853
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- Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY 14853
- Department of Biochemistry, Weill Cornell Medicine, New York, NY 10065
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Surya SL, Long MJC, Urul DA, Zhao Y, Mercer EJ, EIsaid IM, Evans T, Aye Y. Cardiovascular Small Heat Shock Protein HSPB7 Is a Kinetically Privileged Reactive Electrophilic Species (RES) Sensor. ACS Chem Biol 2018; 13:1824-1831. [PMID: 29397684 PMCID: PMC6260788 DOI: 10.1021/acschembio.7b00925] [Citation(s) in RCA: 20] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/29/2022]
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Small heat shock protein (sHSP)-B7 (HSPB7) is a muscle-specific member of the non-ATP-dependent sHSPs. The precise role of HSPB7 is enigmatic. Here, we disclose that zebrafish Hspb7 is a kinetically privileged sensor that is able to react rapidly with native reactive electrophilic species (RES), when only substoichiometric amounts of RES are available in proximity to Hspb7 expressed in living cells. Among the two Hspb7-cysteines, this RES sensing is fulfilled by a single cysteine (C117). Purification and characterizations in vitro reveal that the rate for RES adduction is among the most efficient reported for protein-cysteines with native carbonyl-based RES. Covalent-ligand binding is accompanied by structural changes (increase in β-sheet-content), based on circular dichroism analysis. Among the two cysteines, only C117 is conserved across vertebrates; we show that the human ortholog is also capable of RES sensing in cells. Furthermore, a cancer-relevant missense mutation reduces this RES-sensing property. This evolutionarily conserved cysteine-biosensor may play a redox-regulatory role in cardioprotection.
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- Sanjna L. Surya
- Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York 14853, United States
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- Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York 14853, United States
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- Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York 14853, United States
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- Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York 14853, United States
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- Department of Surgery, Weill Cornell Medicine, New York, New York 10065, United States
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- Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York 14853, United States
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- Department of Surgery, Weill Cornell Medicine, New York, New York 10065, United States
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- Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York 14853, United States
- Department of Biochemistry, Weill Cornell Medicine, New York, New York 10065, United States
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Liu Y, Wolstenholme CH, Carter GC, Liu H, Hu H, Grainger LS, Miao K, Fares M, Hoelzel CA, Yennawar HP, Ning G, Du M, Bai L, Li X, Zhang X. Modulation of Fluorescent Protein Chromophores To Detect Protein Aggregation with Turn-On Fluorescence. J Am Chem Soc 2018; 140:7381-7384. [PMID: 29883112 PMCID: PMC6258209 DOI: 10.1021/jacs.8b02176] [Citation(s) in RCA: 116] [Impact Index Per Article: 19.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/28/2022]
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We present a fluorogenic method to visualize misfolding and aggregation of a specific protein-of-interest in live cells using structurally modulated fluorescent protein chromophores. Combining photophysical analysis, X-ray crystallography, and theoretical calculation, we show that fluorescence is triggered by inhibition of twisted-intramolecular charge transfer of these fluorophores in the rigid microenvironment of viscous solvent or protein aggregates. Bioorthogonal conjugation of the fluorophore to Halo-tag fused protein-of-interests allows for fluorogenic detection of both misfolded and aggregated species in live cells. Unlike other methods, our method is capable of detecting previously invisible misfolded soluble proteins. This work provides the first application of fluorescent protein chromophores to detect protein conformational collapse in live cells.
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- Yu Liu
- Department of Chemistry, The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, Pennsylvania 16802, United States
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- Department of Chemistry, The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, Pennsylvania 16802, United States
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- Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, Pennsylvania 16802, United States
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- Department of Chemistry, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington 98105, United States
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- Department of Chemistry, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington 98105, United States
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- Department of Chemistry, The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, Pennsylvania 16802, United States
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- Department of Chemistry, The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, Pennsylvania 16802, United States
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- Department of Chemistry, The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, Pennsylvania 16802, United States
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- Department of Chemistry, The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, Pennsylvania 16802, United States
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- Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, Pennsylvania 16802, United States
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- The Huck Institute of Life Sciences, The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, Pennsylvania 16802, United States
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- Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, Pennsylvania 16802, United States
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- Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, Pennsylvania 16802, United States
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- Department of Chemistry, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington 98105, United States
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- Department of Chemistry, The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, Pennsylvania 16802, United States
- Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, Pennsylvania 16802, United States
- The Huck Institute of Life Sciences, The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, Pennsylvania 16802, United States
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Poganik JR, Long MJC, Aye Y. Getting the Message? Native Reactive Electrophiles Pass Two Out of Three Thresholds to be Bona Fide Signaling Mediators. Bioessays 2018; 40:e1700240. [PMID: 29603288 PMCID: PMC6488019 DOI: 10.1002/bies.201700240] [Citation(s) in RCA: 14] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/13/2017] [Revised: 02/24/2018] [Indexed: 12/11/2022]
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Precision cell signaling activities of reactive electrophilic species (RES) are arguably among the most poorly-understood means to transmit biological messages. Latest research implicates native RES to be a chemically-distinct subset of endogenous redox signals that influence cell decision making through non-enzyme-assisted modifications of specific proteins. Yet, fundamental questions remain regarding the role of RES as bona fide second messengers. Here, we lay out three sets of criteria we feel need to be met for RES to be considered as true cellular signals that directly mediate information transfer by modifying "first-responding" sensor proteins. We critically assess the available evidence and define the extent to which each criterion has been fulfilled. Finally, we offer some ideas on the future trajectories of the electrophile signaling field taking inspiration from work that has been done to understand canonical signaling mediators. Also see the video abstract here: https://youtu.be/rG7o0clVP0c.
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- Jesse R. Poganik
- Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology Cornell University Ithaca, NY 14853, USA
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- Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology Cornell University Ithaca, NY 14853, USA
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- Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology Cornell University Ithaca, NY 14853, USA
- Department of Biochemistry Weill Cornell Medicine New York, NY 10065, USA
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Zhao Y, Long MJC, Wang Y, Zhang S, Aye Y. Ube2V2 Is a Rosetta Stone Bridging Redox and Ubiquitin Codes, Coordinating DNA Damage Responses. ACS CENTRAL SCIENCE 2018; 4. [PMID: 29532025 PMCID: PMC5833000 DOI: 10.1021/acscentsci.7b00556] [Citation(s) in RCA: 42] [Impact Index Per Article: 7.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/11/2023]
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Posttranslational modifications (PTMs) are the lingua franca of cellular communication. Most PTMs are enzyme-orchestrated. However, the reemergence of electrophilic drugs has ushered mining of unconventional/non-enzyme-catalyzed electrophile-signaling pathways. Despite the latest impetus toward harnessing kinetically and functionally privileged cysteines for electrophilic drug design, identifying these sensors remains challenging. Herein, we designed "G-REX"-a technique that allows controlled release of reactive electrophiles in vivo. Mitigating toxicity/off-target effects associated with uncontrolled bolus exposure, G-REX tagged first-responding innate cysteines that bind electrophiles under true kcat/Km conditions. G-REX identified two allosteric ubiquitin-conjugating proteins-Ube2V1/Ube2V2-sharing a novel privileged-sensor-cysteine. This non-enzyme-catalyzed-PTM triggered responses specific to each protein. Thus, G-REX is an unbiased method to identify novel functional cysteines. Contrasting conventional active-site/off-active-site cysteine-modifications that regulate target activity, modification of Ube2V2 allosterically hyperactivated its enzymatically active binding-partner Ube2N, promoting K63-linked client ubiquitination and stimulating H2AX-dependent DNA damage response. This work establishes Ube2V2 as a Rosetta-stone bridging redox and ubiquitin codes to guard genome integrity.
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- Yi Zhao
- Department of Chemistry & Chemical Biology and Proteomics and Mass Spectrometry
Facility, Institute of Biotechnology, Cornell
University, Ithaca, New York 14850, United States
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- Department of Chemistry & Chemical Biology and Proteomics and Mass Spectrometry
Facility, Institute of Biotechnology, Cornell
University, Ithaca, New York 14850, United States
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- Department of Chemistry & Chemical Biology and Proteomics and Mass Spectrometry
Facility, Institute of Biotechnology, Cornell
University, Ithaca, New York 14850, United States
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- Department of Chemistry & Chemical Biology and Proteomics and Mass Spectrometry
Facility, Institute of Biotechnology, Cornell
University, Ithaca, New York 14850, United States
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- Department of Chemistry & Chemical Biology and Proteomics and Mass Spectrometry
Facility, Institute of Biotechnology, Cornell
University, Ithaca, New York 14850, United States
- Department
of Biochemistry, Weill Cornell Medicine, New York, New York 10065, United States
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Long MC, Urul DA, Chawla S, Lin HY, Zhao Y, Haegele JA, Wang Y, Aye Y. Precision Electrophile Tagging in Caenorhabditis elegans. Biochemistry 2018; 57:216-220. [PMID: 28857552 PMCID: PMC5770885 DOI: 10.1021/acs.biochem.7b00642] [Citation(s) in RCA: 14] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/06/2017] [Revised: 08/30/2017] [Indexed: 11/30/2022]
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Adduction of an electrophile to privileged sensor proteins and the resulting phenotypically dominant responses are increasingly appreciated as being essential for metazoan health. Functional similarities between the biological electrophiles and electrophilic pharmacophores commonly found in covalent drugs further fortify the translational relevance of these small-molecule signals. Genetically encodable or small-molecule-based fluorescent reporters and redox proteomics have revolutionized the observation and profiling of cellular redox states and electrophile-sensor proteins, respectively. However, precision mapping between specific redox-modified targets and specific responses has only recently begun to be addressed, and systems tractable to both genetic manipulation and on-target redox signaling in vivo remain largely limited. Here we engineer transgenic Caenorhabditis elegans expressing functional HaloTagged fusion proteins and use this system to develop a generalizable light-controlled approach to tagging a prototypical electrophile-sensor protein with native electrophiles in vivo. The method circumvents issues associated with low uptake/distribution and toxicity/promiscuity. Given the validated success of C. elegans in aging studies, this optimized platform offers a new lens with which to scrutinize how on-target electrophile signaling influences redox-dependent life span regulation.
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- Marcus
J. C. Long
- Department
of Chemistry and Chemical Biology, Cornell
University, Ithaca, New York 14853, United States
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- Department
of Chemistry and Chemical Biology, Cornell
University, Ithaca, New York 14853, United States
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- Department
of Chemistry and Chemical Biology, Cornell
University, Ithaca, New York 14853, United States
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- Department
of Chemistry and Chemical Biology, Cornell
University, Ithaca, New York 14853, United States
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- Department
of Chemistry and Chemical Biology, Cornell
University, Ithaca, New York 14853, United States
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- Department
of Chemistry and Chemical Biology, Cornell
University, Ithaca, New York 14853, United States
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- Department
of Chemistry and Chemical Biology, Cornell
University, Ithaca, New York 14853, United States
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- Department
of Chemistry and Chemical Biology, Cornell
University, Ithaca, New York 14853, United States
- Department
of Biochemistry, Weill Cornell Medicine, New York, New York 10065, United States
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Fares M, Li Y, Liu Y, Miao K, Gao Z, Zhai Y, Zhang X. A Molecular Rotor-Based Halo-Tag Ligand Enables a Fluorogenic Proteome Stress Sensor to Detect Protein Misfolding in Mildly Stressed Proteome. Bioconjug Chem 2018; 29:215-224. [DOI: 10.1021/acs.bioconjchem.7b00763] [Citation(s) in RCA: 28] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/19/2022]
Affiliation(s)
- Matthew Fares
- Department of Chemistry, ‡Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, and §The Huck Institutes
of Life Sciences, The Pennsylvania State University, University
Park, Pennsylvania 16802, United States
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- Department of Chemistry, ‡Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, and §The Huck Institutes
of Life Sciences, The Pennsylvania State University, University
Park, Pennsylvania 16802, United States
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- Department of Chemistry, ‡Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, and §The Huck Institutes
of Life Sciences, The Pennsylvania State University, University
Park, Pennsylvania 16802, United States
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- Department of Chemistry, ‡Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, and §The Huck Institutes
of Life Sciences, The Pennsylvania State University, University
Park, Pennsylvania 16802, United States
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- Department of Chemistry, ‡Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, and §The Huck Institutes
of Life Sciences, The Pennsylvania State University, University
Park, Pennsylvania 16802, United States
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- Department of Chemistry, ‡Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, and §The Huck Institutes
of Life Sciences, The Pennsylvania State University, University
Park, Pennsylvania 16802, United States
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- Department of Chemistry, ‡Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, and §The Huck Institutes
of Life Sciences, The Pennsylvania State University, University
Park, Pennsylvania 16802, United States
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Kocyła A, Krężel A. Zinc clasp-based reversible toolset for selective metal-mediated protein heterodimerization. Chem Commun (Camb) 2018; 54:13539-13542. [DOI: 10.1039/c8cc06301j] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/21/2022]
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Zinc clasp motif derived from natural Zn(ii)-mediated interaction of CD4 co-receptor and Lck protein tyrosine kinase was used for specific and efficient protein heterodimerization. Optimized set of peptide tags forms highly stable complex in the selective heterodimer framework. Utility of obtained toolset demonstrates high specificity, Zn(ii)-dependent reversibility and remarkable kinetic properties.
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- Anna Kocyła
- Department of Chemical Biology
- Faculty of Biotechnology
- University of Wrocław
- Wrocław
- Poland
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- Department of Chemical Biology
- Faculty of Biotechnology
- University of Wrocław
- Wrocław
- Poland
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Pinto G, Radulovic M, Godovac-Zimmermann J. Spatial perspectives in the redox code-Mass spectrometric proteomics studies of moonlighting proteins. MASS SPECTROMETRY REVIEWS 2018; 37:81-100. [PMID: 27186965 DOI: 10.1002/mas.21508] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/09/2016] [Accepted: 05/03/2016] [Indexed: 06/05/2023]
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The Redox Code involves specific, reversible oxidative changes in proteins that modulate protein tertiary structure, interactions, trafficking, and activity, and hence couple the proteome to the metabolic/oxidative state of cells. It is currently a major focus of study in cell biology. Recent studies of dynamic cellular spatial reorganization with MS-based subcellular-spatial-razor proteomics reveal that protein constituents of many subcellular structures, including mitochondria, the endoplasmic reticulum, the plasma membrane, and the extracellular matrix, undergo changes in their subcellular abundance/distribution in response to oxidative stress. These proteins are components of a diverse variety of functional processes spatially distributed across cells. Many of the same proteins are involved in response to suppression of DNA replication indicate that oxidative stress is strongly intertwined with DNA replication/proliferation. Both are replete with networks of moonlighting proteins that show coordinated changes in subcellular location and that include primary protein actuators of the redox code involved in the processing of NAD+ /NADH, NADP+ /NADPH, Cys/CySS, and GSH/GSSG redox couples. Small groups of key proteins such as {KPNA2, KPNB1, PCNA, PTMA, SET} constitute "spatial switches" that modulate many nuclear processes. Much of the functional response involves subcellular protein trafficking, including nuclear import/export processes, vesicle-mediated trafficking, the endoplasmic reticulum/Golgi pathway, chaperone-assisted processes, and other transport systems. This is not visible to measurements of total protein abundance by transcriptomics or proteomics. Comprehensive pictures of cellular function will require collection of data on the subcellular transport and local functions of many moonlighting proteins, especially of those with critical roles in spatial coordination across cells. The proteome-wide analysis of coordinated changes in abundance and trafficking of proteins offered by MS-based proteomics has a unique, crucial role to play in deciphering the complex adaptive systems that underlie cellular function. © 2016 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. Mass Spec Rev.
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- Gabriella Pinto
- Division of Medicine, Center for Nephrology, Royal Free Campus, University College London, Rowland Hill Street, London, NW3 2PF, United Kingdom
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- Insitute of Oncology and Radiology, Pasterova 14, Belgrade, 11000, Serbia
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- Division of Medicine, Center for Nephrology, Royal Free Campus, University College London, Rowland Hill Street, London, NW3 2PF, United Kingdom
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Lincoln R, Greene LE, Zhang W, Louisia S, Cosa G. Mitochondria Alkylation and Cellular Trafficking Mapped with a Lipophilic BODIPY-Acrolein Fluorogenic Probe. J Am Chem Soc 2017; 139:16273-16281. [PMID: 28976196 DOI: 10.1021/jacs.7b08615] [Citation(s) in RCA: 52] [Impact Index Per Article: 7.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/01/2023]
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Protein and DNA alkylation by endogenously produced electrophiles is associated with the pathogenesis of neurodegenerative diseases, to epigenetic alterations and to cell signaling and redox regulation. With the goal of visualizing, in real-time, the spatiotemporal response of the cell milieu to electrophiles, we have designed a fluorogenic BODIPY-acrolein probe, AcroB, that undergoes a >350-fold fluorescence intensity enhancement concomitant with protein adduct formation. AcroB enables a direct quantification of single post-translational modifications occurring on cellular proteins via recording fluorescence bursts in live-cell imaging studies. In combination with super-resolution imaging, protein alkylation events may be registered and individually counted, yielding a map of protein-electrophile reactions within the cell lipid milieu. Alkylation is predominantly observed within mitochondria, a source, yet not a sink, of AcroB adducts, illustrating that a mitochondrial constitutive excretion mechanism ensures rapid disposal of compromised proteins. Sorting within the Golgi apparatus and trafficking along microtubules and through the cell endo- and exocytic pathways can be next visualized via live-cell imaging. Our results offer a direct visualization of cellular response to a noncanonical acrolein warhead. We envision AcroB will enable new approaches for diagnosis of pathologies associated with defective cellular trafficking. AcroB may help elucidate key aspects of mitochondria electrophile adduct excretion and cell endocytic and exocytic pathways. Conceptually, AcroB provides a new paradigm on fluorescence microscopy studies where chemical perturbation is achieved and simultaneously reported by the probe.
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- Richard Lincoln
- Department of Chemistry and Center for Self-Assembled Chemical Structures (CSACS-CRMAA), McGill University , 801 Sherbrooke Street West, Montreal, Quebec H3A 0B8, Canada
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- Department of Chemistry and Center for Self-Assembled Chemical Structures (CSACS-CRMAA), McGill University , 801 Sherbrooke Street West, Montreal, Quebec H3A 0B8, Canada
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- Department of Chemistry and Center for Self-Assembled Chemical Structures (CSACS-CRMAA), McGill University , 801 Sherbrooke Street West, Montreal, Quebec H3A 0B8, Canada
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- Department of Chemistry and Center for Self-Assembled Chemical Structures (CSACS-CRMAA), McGill University , 801 Sherbrooke Street West, Montreal, Quebec H3A 0B8, Canada
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- Department of Chemistry and Center for Self-Assembled Chemical Structures (CSACS-CRMAA), McGill University , 801 Sherbrooke Street West, Montreal, Quebec H3A 0B8, Canada
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Long MJ, Lin HY, Parvez S, Zhao Y, Poganik JR, Huang P, Aye Y. β-TrCP1 Is a Vacillatory Regulator of Wnt Signaling. Cell Chem Biol 2017; 24:944-957.e7. [PMID: 28736239 DOI: 10.1016/j.chembiol.2017.06.009] [Citation(s) in RCA: 33] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/09/2017] [Revised: 05/16/2017] [Accepted: 06/17/2017] [Indexed: 12/22/2022]
Abstract
Simultaneous hyperactivation of Wnt and antioxidant response (AR) are often observed during oncogenesis. However, it remains unclear how the β-catenin-driven Wnt and the Nrf2-driven AR mutually regulate each other. The situation is compounded because many players in these two pathways are redox sensors, rendering bolus redox signal-dosing methods uninformative. Herein we examine the ramifications of single-protein target-specific AR upregulation in various knockdown lines. Our data document that Nrf2/AR strongly inhibits β-catenin/Wnt. The magnitude and mechanism of this negative regulation are dependent on the direct interaction between β-catenin N terminus and β-TrCP1 (an antagonist of both Nrf2 and β-catenin), and independent of binding between Nrf2 and β-TrCP1. Intriguingly, β-catenin positively regulates AR. Because AR is a negative regulator of Wnt regardless of β-catenin N terminus, this switch of function is likely sufficient to establish a new Wnt/AR equilibrium during tumorigenesis.
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- Marcus John Long
- Department of Chemistry & Chemical Biology, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY 14853, USA
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- Department of Chemistry & Chemical Biology, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY 14853, USA
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- Department of Chemistry & Chemical Biology, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY 14853, USA
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- Department of Chemistry & Chemical Biology, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY 14853, USA
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- Department of Chemistry & Chemical Biology, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY 14853, USA
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- Department of Chemistry & Chemical Biology, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY 14853, USA
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- Department of Chemistry & Chemical Biology, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY 14853, USA; Department of Biochemistry, Weill Cornell Medicine, New York, NY 10065, USA.
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This Perspective delineates how redox signaling affects the activity of specific enzyme isoforms and how this property may be harnessed for rational drug design. Covalent drugs have resurged in recent years and several reports have extolled the general virtues of developing irreversible inhibitors. Indeed, many modern pharmaceuticals contain electrophilic appendages. Several invoke a warhead that hijacks active-site nucleophiles whereas others take advantage of spectator nucleophilic side chains that do not participate in enzymatic chemistry, but are poised to bind/react with electrophiles. The latest data suggest that innate electrophile sensing-which enables rapid reaction with an endogenous signaling electrophile-is a quintessential resource for the development of covalent drugs. For instance, based on recent work documenting isoform-specific electrophile sensing, isozyme non-specific drugs may be converted to isozyme-specific analogs by hijacking privileged first-responder electrophile-sensing cysteines. Because this approach targets functionally relevant cysteines, we can simultaneously harness previously untapped moonlighting roles of enzymes linked to redox sensing.
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- Department of Chemistry & Chemical Biology, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY 14850, USA; Department of Biochemistry, Weill Cornell Medicine, New York, NY 10065, USA.
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Baskin JM, Aye Y. Meeting Proceedings, 2017 Cornell University Baker Symposium-Quo Vadis: The Boundless Trajectories of Chemical Biology. Biochemistry 2017; 56:2967-2970. [PMID: 28558237 DOI: 10.1021/acs.biochem.7b00495] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/28/2022]
Affiliation(s)
- Jeremy M Baskin
- Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology, Cornell University , Ithaca, New York 14853, United States.,Weill Institute for Cell and Molecular Biology, Cornell University , Ithaca, New York 14853, United States
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- Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology, Cornell University , Ithaca, New York 14853, United States.,Department of Biochemistry, Weill Cornell Medicine , New York, New York 10065, United States
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Baskin JM, Aye Y. Meeting Proceedings, 2017 Cornell University Baker Symposium— Quo Vadis: The Boundless Trajectories of Chemical Biology. ACS Chem Biol 2017. [DOI: 10.1021/acschembio.7b00432] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/30/2022]
Affiliation(s)
- Jeremy M. Baskin
- Department
of Chemistry and Chemical Biology, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York 14853, United States
- Weill
Institute for Cell and Molecular Biology, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York 14853, United States
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- Department
of Chemistry and Chemical Biology, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York 14853, United States
- Department
of Biochemistry, Weill Cornell Medicine, New York, New York 10065, United States
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Long MJC, Poganik JR, Ghosh S, Aye Y. Subcellular Redox Targeting: Bridging in Vitro and in Vivo Chemical Biology. ACS Chem Biol 2017; 12:586-600. [PMID: 28068059 DOI: 10.1021/acschembio.6b01148] [Citation(s) in RCA: 22] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/12/2023]
Abstract
Networks of redox sensor proteins within discrete microdomains regulate the flow of redox signaling. Yet, the inherent reactivity of redox signals complicates the study of specific redox events and pathways by traditional methods. Herein, we review designer chemistries capable of measuring flux and/or mimicking subcellular redox signaling at the cellular and organismal level. Such efforts have begun to decipher the logic underlying organelle-, site-, and target-specific redox signaling in vitro and in vivo. These data highlight chemical biology as a perfect gateway to interrogate how nature choreographs subcellular redox chemistry to drive precision redox biology.
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- Marcus J. C. Long
- Department of Chemistry & Chemical Biology, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York 14850, United States
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- Department of Chemistry & Chemical Biology, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York 14850, United States
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- Department of Chemistry & Chemical Biology, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York 14850, United States
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- Department of Chemistry & Chemical Biology, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York 14850, United States
- Department
of Biochemistry, Weill Cornell Medicine, New York, New York 10065, United States
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Liu Y, Miao K, Dunham NP, Liu H, Fares M, Boal AK, Li X, Zhang X. The Cation-π Interaction Enables a Halo-Tag Fluorogenic Probe for Fast No-Wash Live Cell Imaging and Gel-Free Protein Quantification. Biochemistry 2017; 56:1585-1595. [PMID: 28221782 PMCID: PMC5362743 DOI: 10.1021/acs.biochem.7b00056] [Citation(s) in RCA: 49] [Impact Index Per Article: 7.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/29/2022]
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The design of fluorogenic
probes for a Halo tag is highly desirable
but challenging. Previous work achieved this goal by controlling the
chemical switch of spirolactones upon the covalent conjugation between
the Halo tag and probes or by incorporating a “channel dye”
into the substrate binding tunnel of the Halo tag. In this work, we
have developed a novel class of Halo-tag fluorogenic probes that are
derived from solvatochromic fluorophores. The optimal probe, harboring
a benzothiadiazole scaffold, exhibits a 1000-fold fluorescence enhancement
upon reaction with the Halo tag. Structural, computational, and biochemical
studies reveal that the benzene ring of a tryptophan residue engages
in a cation−π interaction with the dimethylamino electron-donating
group of the benzothiadiazole fluorophore in its excited state. We
further demonstrate using noncanonical fluorinated tryptophan that
the cation−π interaction directly contributes to the
fluorogenicity of the benzothiadiazole fluorophore. Mechanistically,
this interaction could contribute to the fluorogenicity by promoting
the excited-state charge separation and inhibiting the twisting motion
of the dimethylamino group, both leading to an enhanced fluorogenicity.
Finally, we demonstrate the utility of the probe in no-wash direct
imaging of Halo-tagged proteins in live cells. In addition, the fluorogenic
nature of the probe enables a gel-free quantification of fusion proteins
expressed in mammalian cells, an application that was not possible
with previously nonfluorogenic Halo-tag probes. The unique mechanism
revealed by this work suggests that incorporation of an excited-state
cation−π interaction could be a feasible strategy for
enhancing the optical performance of fluorophores and fluorogenic
sensors.
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- Department of Chemistry, University of Washington , Seattle, Washington 98105, United States
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- Department of Chemistry, University of Washington , Seattle, Washington 98105, United States
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Long MJC, Parvez S, Zhao Y, Surya SL, Wang Y, Zhang S, Aye Y. Akt3 is a privileged first responder in isozyme-specific electrophile response. Nat Chem Biol 2017; 13:333-338. [PMID: 28114274 PMCID: PMC5586141 DOI: 10.1038/nchembio.2284] [Citation(s) in RCA: 49] [Impact Index Per Article: 7.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/11/2016] [Accepted: 11/29/2016] [Indexed: 12/25/2022]
Abstract
Isozyme-specific post-translational regulation fine tunes signaling events. However, redundancy in sequence or activity renders links between isozyme-specific modifications and downstream functions uncertain. Methods to study this phenomenon are underdeveloped. Here we use a redox-targeting screen to reveal that Akt3 is a first-responding isozyme sensing native electrophilic lipids. Electrophile modification of Akt3 modulated downstream pathway responses in cells and Danio rerio (zebrafish) and markedly differed from Akt2-specific oxidative regulation. Digest MS sequencing identified Akt3 C119 as the privileged cysteine that senses 4-hydroxynonenal. A C119S Akt3 mutant was hypomorphic for all downstream phenotypes shown by wild-type Akt3. This study documents isozyme-specific and chemical redox signal-personalized physiological responses.
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- Marcus J. C. Long
- Department of Chemistry & Chemical Biology, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, 14850, United States
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- Department of Chemistry & Chemical Biology, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, 14850, United States
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- Department of Chemistry & Chemical Biology, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, 14850, United States
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- Department of Chemistry & Chemical Biology, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, 14850, United States
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- Department of Chemistry & Chemical Biology, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, 14850, United States
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- Proteomics and Mass Spectrometry Facility, Institute of Biotechnology, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, 14850, United States
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- Department of Chemistry & Chemical Biology, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, 14850, United States
- Department of Biochemistry, Weill Cornell Medicine, New York, NY 10065, United States
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Weerapana E. Taking AKTion on HNEs. Nat Chem Biol 2017; 13:244-245. [DOI: 10.1038/nchembio.2311] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/09/2022]
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