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Protein pyrophosphorylation by inositol pyrophosphates — detection, function, and regulation

FEBS Letters, EarlyView.
Protein pyrophosphorylation is an unusual signaling mechanism that was discovered two decades ago. It can be driven by inositol pyrophosphate messengers and influences various cellular processes. Herein, we summarize the research progress and challenges of this field, covering pathways found to be regulated by this posttranslational modification as ...
Sarah Lampe, Tanmay Kumar Mohanty, Rashna Bhandari, Dorothea Fiedler   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Elements in the 5′ Untranslated Region of Viral RNA Important for HIV Gag Recognition and Cross-Packaging

Viruses
During retrovirus assembly, Gag packages unspliced viral RNA as the virion genome. Genome packaging is usually specific with occasional exceptions of cross-packaging RNA from distantly related retroviruses.
Zetao Cheng, Olga A. Nikolaitchik, Alice Duchon, Jonathan M. O. Rawson, Vinay K. Pathak, Wei-Shau Hu   +5 more
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The impact of lentiviral vector genome size and producer cell genomic to gag-pol mRNA ratios on packaging efficiency and titre

Molecular Therapy: Methods & Clinical Development, 2021
Lentiviral vectors are showing success in the clinic, but producing enough vector to meet the growing demand is a major challenge. Furthermore, next-generation gene therapy vectors encode multiple genes resulting in larger genome sizes, which is reported
Nathan P. Sweeney, Conrad A. Vink
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Function‐driven design of a surrogate interleukin‐2 receptor ligand

FEBS Letters, EarlyView.
Interleukin (IL)‐2 signaling can be achieved and precisely fine‐tuned through the affinity, distance, and orientation of the heterodimeric receptors with their ligands. We designed a biased IL‐2 surrogate ligand that selectively promotes effector T and natural killer cell activation and differentiation. Interleukin (IL) receptors play a pivotal role in
Ziwei Tang, Zelin Cheng, Teng Li, Fulian Wang, Liangminghui Zhang, Xiuxiu He, Lili Liu, Wei Wang, Aibin Liang, Guang Yang   +9 more
wiley   +1 more source

Multiple ETS family transcription factors bind mutant p53 via distinct interaction regions

FEBS Letters, EarlyView.
Mutant p53 gain‐of‐function is thought to be mediated by interaction with other transcription factors. We identify multiple ETS transcription factors that can bind mutant p53 and found that this interaction can be promoted by a PXXPP motif. ETS proteins that strongly bound mutant p53 were upregulated in ovarian cancer compared to ETS proteins that ...
Stephanie A. Metcalf, Nicholas F. Downing, Kaitlyn M. Mills, Samuel C. Metcalfe, Alexander E. Kritzer, Lindsey D. Mayo, Peter C. Hollenhorst   +6 more
wiley   +1 more source

Structure-Function Model for Kissing Loop Interactions That Initiate Dimerization of Ty1 RNA

Viruses, 2017
The genomic RNA of the retrotransposon Ty1 is packaged as a dimer into virus-like particles. The 5′ terminus of Ty1 RNA harbors cis-acting sequences required for translation initiation, packaging and initiation of reverse transcription (TIPIRT).
Eric R. Gamache, Jung H. Doh, Justin Ritz, Alain Laederach, Stanislav Bellaousov, David H. Mathews, M. Joan Curcio   +6 more
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The newfound relationship between extrachromosomal DNAs and excised signal circles

FEBS Letters, EarlyView.
Extrachromosomal DNAs (ecDNAs) contribute to the progression of many human cancers. In addition, circular DNA by‐products of V(D)J recombination, excised signal circles (ESCs), have roles in cancer progression but have largely been overlooked. In this Review, we explore the roles of ecDNAs and ESCs in cancer development, and highlight why these ...
Dylan Casey, Zeqian Gao, Joan Boyes
wiley   +1 more source

A conserved influenza A virus nucleoprotein code controls specific viral genome packaging

Nature Communications, 2016
The nucleotide sequence of the eight genomic RNA segments of influenza A virus provides essential packaging signals, but how these sequences are recognized is unknown. Here, Moreira et al.
Étori Aguiar Moreira, Anna Weber, Hardin Bolte, Larissa Kolesnikova, Sebastian Giese, Seema Lakdawala, Martin Beer, Gert Zimmer, Adolfo García-Sastre, Martin Schwemmle, Mindaugas Juozapaitis   +10 more
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Conserved structural motifs in PAS, LOV, and CRY proteins regulate circadian rhythms and are therapeutic targets

FEBS Letters, EarlyView.
Cryptochrome and PAS/LOV proteins play intricate roles in circadian clocks where they act as both sensors and mediators of protein–protein interactions. Their ubiquitous presence in signaling networks has positioned them as targets for small‐molecule therapeutics. This review provides a structural introduction to these protein families.
Eric D. Brinckman, Anna E. Lester, Brian D. Zoltowski   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

An upstream open reading frame regulates expression of the mitochondrial protein Slm35 and mitophagy flux

FEBS Letters, EarlyView.
This study reveals how the mitochondrial protein Slm35 is regulated in Saccharomyces cerevisiae. The authors identify stress‐responsive DNA elements and two upstream open reading frames (uORFs) in the 5′ untranslated region of SLM35. One uORF restricts translation, and its mutation increases Slm35 protein levels and mitophagy.
Hernán Romo‐Casanueva, Ariann E. Mendoza‐Martínez, P. Abril Medina‐Flores, Carlos Campero‐Basaldua, Alexander DeLuna, Soledad Funes   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source