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Targeting protein-protein interaction interfaces with antiviral N protein inhibitor in SARS-CoV-2

Biophysical Journal 2024年第4期123卷 478-488页

作者： Hong, Jhen-Yi Lin, Shih-Chao Kehn-Hall, Kylene Zhang, Kai-Min Luo, Shun-Yuan Wu, Hung-Yi Chang, Sui-Yuan Hou, Ming-Hon Institute of Genomics and Bioinformatics and Department of Life Sciences National Chung Hsing University Taichung Taiwan Bachelor Degree Program in Marine Biotechnology College of Life Sciences National Taiwan Ocean University Keelung Taiwan Department of Biomedical Sciences and Pathobiology Virginia-Maryland College of Veterinary Medicine Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University Blacksburg VA United States Center for Emerging Zoonotic and Arthropod-borne Pathogens Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University Blacksburg VA United States Department of Chemistry National Chung Hsing University Taichung Taiwan Graduate Institute of Veterinary Pathobiology College of Veterinary Medicine National Chung Hsing University. Taichung Taiwan Department of Clinical Laboratory Sciences and Medical Biotechnology College of Medicine National Taiwan University Taipei Taiwan PhD Program in Medical Biotechnology National Chung Hsing University Taichung Taiwan Biotechnology Center National Chung Hsing University Taichung Taiwan

Coronaviruses not only pose significant global public health threats but also cause extensive damage to livestock-based industries. Previous studies have shown that 5-benzyloxygramine (P3) targets the Middle East respiratory syndrome coronavirus (MERS-CoV) nucleocapsid (N) protein N-terminal domain (N-NTD), inducing non-native protein-protein interactions (PPIs) that impair N protein function. Moreover, P3 exhibits broad-spectrum antiviral activity against CoVs. The sequence similarity of N proteins is relatively low among CoVs, further exhibiting notable variations in the hydrophobic residue responsible for non-native PPIs in the N-NTD. Therefore, to ascertain the mechanism by which P3 demonstrates broad-spectrum anti-CoV activity, we determined the crystal structure of the SARS-CoV-2 N-NTD:P3 complex. We found that P3 was positioned in the dimeric N-NTD via hydrophobic contacts. Compared with the interfaces in MERS-CoV N-NTD, P3 had a reversed orientation in SARS-CoV-2 N-NTD. The Phe residue in the MERS-CoV N-NTD:P3 complex stabilized both P3 moieties. However, in the SARS-CoV-2 N-NTD:P3 complex, the Ile residue formed only one interaction with the P3 benzene ring. Moreover, the pocket in the SARS-CoV-2 N-NTD:P3 complex was more hydrophobic, favoring the insertion of the P3 benzene ring into the complex. Nevertheless, hydrophobic interactions remained the primary stabilizing force in both complexes. These findings suggested that despite the differences in the sequence, P3 can accommodate a hydrophobic pocket in N-NTD to mediate a non-native PPI, enabling its effectiveness against various CoVs. © 2024 Biophysical Society

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Assessing Family Medicine Residency programs’ Training on Human Trafficking: A National Survey of program Directors

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Journal of Human Trafficking 2020年第4期7卷 1-13页

作者： Mishori, Ranit Stolarz, Katherine Ravi, Anita Korostyshevskiy, Valeriy R. Chambers, Ronald Cronholm, Peter Global Health Initiatives Georgetown University School of Medicine Washington DC United States Global Health Dept. of Family Medicine MedStar Franklin Square Medical Center Baltimore MD United States The Institute for Family Health Department of Family Medicine Community Health Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai New York NY United States Graduate Studies Department of Biostatistics Bioinformatics and Biomathematics Georgetown University Washington DC United States DIO Family Medicine Residency Program Chair Family Medicine Department Medical Director Mercy Family Health Center and Mercy Human Trafficking Clinic Sacramento CA United States Family Medicine and Community Health Perelman School of Medicine University of Pennsylvania Philadelphia PA United States

Background: Human trafficking (HT) affects millions globally, and is linked to significant health effects. Studies suggest victims interact with the healthcare system while exploited, yet go unrecognized. We sought to determine the content and extent of HT training in family medicine residency programs and to identify barriers to providing formal training. Methodology: Participation in the Council of Academic Family Medicine Educational Research Alliance (CERA) program Director (PD) survey in 2018. Results: Almost half of program directors stated their program had no HT training (45.8%), 35.4% had required training and 18.8% offer electives. HT was primarily taught via lectures (77.1%) vs. experiential learning (21.5%);the majority of programs dedicated 1–3 hours total during residency (79.5%) to HT. Nearly 2/3 of residents have reported “basic” competency (60.9%) but only 6% had advanced competency. Required training was associated with higher odds of residents graduating with an advanced level. programs with institutional protocols were 10 times more likely to have residents with advanced competency. Conclusion: Gaps remain in U.S. Family Medicine Residency programs' HT education, though it is unclear how that compares to other specialties. HT knowledge and practice should be linked to Accreditation Council graduate Medical Education competencies and integrated into residency curricula. © 2020, © 2020 Taylor & Francis.

关键词： family medicine graduate medical education Human trafficking primary care

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Ecological landscapes guide the assembly of optimal microbial communities

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arXiv 2021年

作者： George, Ashish B. Korolev, Kirill S. Department of Physics Boston University BostonMA02215 United States Biological Design Center Boston University BostonMA02215 United States Carl R. Woese Institute for Genomic Biology Department of Plant Biology University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign UrbanaIL61801 United States Graduate Program in Bioinformatics Boston University BostonMA02215 United States

Assembling optimal microbial communities is key for various applications in biofuel production, agriculture, and human health. Finding the optimal community is challenging because the number of possible communities grows exponentially with the number of species, and so an exhaustive search cannot be performed even for a dozen species. A heuristic search that improves community function by adding or removing one species at a time is more practical, but it is unknown whether this strategy can discover an optimal or nearly optimal community. Using consumer-resource models with and without cross-feeding, we investigate how the efficacy of search depends on the distribution of resources, niche overlap, cross-feeding, and other aspects of community ecology. We show that search efficacy is determined by the ruggedness of the appropriately-defined ecological landscape. We identify specific ruggedness measures that are both predictive of search performance and robust to noise and low sampling density. The feasibility of our approach is demonstrated using experimental data from a soil microbial community. Overall, our results establish the conditions necessary for the success of the heuristic search and provide concrete design principles for building high-performing microbial consortia. © 2021, CC BY-NC-ND.

关键词： Microorganisms

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Core packing of well-defined x-ray and NMR structures is the same

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arXiv 2022年

作者： Grigas, Alex T. Liu, Zhuoyi Regan, Lynne O’Hern, Corey S. Graduate Program in Computational Biology and Bioinformatics Yale University New HavenCT06520 United States Integrated Graduate Program in Physical and Engineering Biology Yale University New HavenCT06520 United States Department of Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science Yale University New HavenCT06520 United States Institute of Quantitative Biology Biochemistry and Biotechnology Centre for Synthetic and Systems Biology School of Biological Sciences University of Edinburgh United Kingdom Department of Physics Yale University New HavenCT06520 United States Department of Applied Physics Yale University New HavenCT06520 United States

Numerous studies have investigated the differences and similarities between protein structures determined by solution NMR spectroscopy and those determined by x-ray crystallography. A fundamental question is whether any observed differences are due to differing methodologies, or to differences in the behavior of proteins in solution versus in the crystalline state. Here, we compare the properties of the hydrophobic cores of high-resolution protein crystal structures and those in NMR structures, determined using increasing numbers and types of restraints. Prior studies have reported that many NMR structures have denser cores compared to those of high-resolution x-ray crystal structures. Our current work investigates this result in more detail, and finds that these NMR structures tend to violate basic features of protein stereochemistry, such as small non-bonded atomic overlaps and few Ramachandran and side chain dihedral angle outliers. We find that NMR structures solved with more restraints, and which do not significantly violate stereochemistry, have hydrophobic cores that have a similar size and packing fraction as their counterparts determined by x-ray crystallography at high-resolution. These results lead us to conclude that, at least regarding the core packing properties, high-quality structures determined by NMR and x-ray crystallography are the same, and the differences reported earlier are most likely a consequence of methodology, rather than fundamental differences between the protein in the two different environments. Significance: Dense packing of hydrophobic residues is key to protein structure and stability. Previously, it has been noted that structures solved by NMR spectroscopy have denser cores than x-ray crystal structures. Here, we calculate the core size and packing fraction of NMR structures with experimental restraints in the PDB. Their cores are typically smaller, but denser. However, NMR structures with accurate stereochemistry possess core pa

关键词： X ray crystallography

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Improving quantitation accuracy in isobaric-labeling mass spectrometry experiments with spectral library searching and feature-based peptide-spectrum match filter

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Scientific Reports 2023年第1期13卷 1-10页

作者： Kuo, Tzu-Yun Wang, Jen-Hung Huang, Yung-Wen Sung, Ting-Yi Chen, Ching-Tai Department of Biochemical Science and Technology National Taiwan University Taipei 10617 Taiwan Bioinformatics Program Taiwan International Graduate Program Institute of Statistical Science Academia Sinica Taipei 11529 Taiwan Institute of Information Science Academia Sinica Taipei 11529 Taiwan Institute of Biomedical Informatics National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University Taipei 11221 Taiwan Department of Computer Science and Information Engineering National Taiwan University Taipei 10617 Taiwan Department of Bioinformatics and Biomedical Engineering Asia University Taichung 41354 Taiwan Center for Precision Health Research Asia University Taichung 41354 Taiwan

Isobaric labeling relative quantitation is one of the dominating proteomic quantitation technologies. Traditional quantitation pipelines for isobaric-labeled mass spectrometry data are based on sequence database searching. In this study, we present a novel quantitation pipeline that integrates sequence database searching, spectral library searching, and a feature-based peptide-spectrum-match (PSM) filter using various spectral features for filtering. The combined database and spectral library searching results in larger quantitation coverage, and the filter removes PSMs with larger quantitation errors, retaining those with higher quantitation accuracy. Quantitation results show that the proposed pipeline can improve the overall quantitation accuracy at the PSM and protein levels. To our knowledge, this is the first study that utilizes spectral library searching to improve isobaric labeling-based quantitation. For users to conveniently perform the proposed pipeline, we have implemented the feature-based filter being executable on both Windows and Linux platforms;its executable files, user manual, and sample data sets are freely available at https://***/comics/Software_*** . Furthermore, with the developed filter, the proposed pipeline is fully compatible with the Trans-Proteomic Pipeline. © 2023, Springer Nature Limited.

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Protein folding as a jamming transition

arXiv

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arXiv 2024年

作者： Grigas, Alex T. Liu, Zhuoyi Logan, Jack A. Shattuck, Mark D. O’Hern, Corey S. Graduate Program in Computational Biology and Bioinformatics Yale University New HavenCT06520 United States Integrated Graduate Program in Physical and Engineering Biology Yale University New HavenCT06520 United States Department of Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science Yale University New HavenCT06520 United States Benjamin Levich Institute and Physics Department The City College of New York New YorkNY10031 United States Department of Physics Yale University New HavenCT06520 United States Department of Applied Physics Yale University New HavenCT06520 United States

Proteins fold to a specific functional conformation with a densely packed hydrophobic core that controls their stability. We develop a geometric, yet all-atom model for proteins that explains the universal core packing fraction of φc = 0.55 found in experimental measurements. We show that as the hydrophobic interactions increase relative to the temperature, a novel jamming transition occurs when the core packing fraction exceeds φc. The model also recapitulates the global structure of proteins since it can accurately refold to native-like structures from partially unfolded states. © 2024, CC BY.

关键词： Proteins

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Evolution of olfactory receptor genes in East Asian loaches

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Zoological Studies 2009年第2期48卷 223-237页

作者： Wang, Daryi Wang, Tzi-Yuan Weng, Li-Chuan Emori, Yasufumi Tzeng, Chyng-Shyan Li, Wen-Hsiung Biodiversity Research Center Academia Sinica Taipei 115 Taiwan Genomics Research Center Academia Sinica Taipei 115 Taiwan Department of Biophysics and Biochemistry Graduate School of Science University of Tokyo Bunkyo Tokyo 113-0033 7-3-1 Hongo Japan Undergraduate Program for Bioinformatics and System Biology University of Tokyo Bunkyo Tokyo 113-0033 7-3-1 Hongo Japan Institute of Bioinformatics and Structural Biology Department of Life Sciences National Tsing Hua University Hsinchu 300 Taiwan

Daryi Wang, Tzi-Yuan Wang, Li-Chuan Weng, Yasufumi Emori, Chyng-Shyan Tzeng, and Wen-Hsiung Li (2009) Evolution of olfactory receptor genes in East Asian loaches. Zoological Studies 48(2): 223-237. It is well known that fish have fewer olfactory receptor (OR) genes than mammals do. In order to investigate the divergence of and evolutionary changes in OR genes in fish, 2 loach OR gene families (D1/3 and D32) from Taiwanese and Chinese populations of 2 species (Misgurnus anguillicaudatus and Paramisgurnus dabryanus) were analyzed. We found duplications in both D1/3 and D32 that had accumulated after the separation of the island of Taiwan from the Asian mainland ~5 million yrs ago. The accumulation of duplicate copies in a relatively short time suggests that gaining extra copies of OR genes may have been selectively advantageous for adapting to local environments. On the other hand, the loss of some OR genes in the 2 species in Taiwan may reflect loss of selective constraints on some OR genes. Moreover, unlike the situation in mammals in which pseudogenes are found in each family, pseudogenes are clustered in an expanding gene family in P. dabryanus in Taiwan. The presence of pseudogenes and the limited number of functional OR genes in fish suggest that fish do not need a large number of OR genes. Finally, the dynamic changes in OR gene number and the possible explanation for a lower OR gene number in fish are discussed. http://***/Journals/48.2/***.

关键词： Adaptation Misgurnus anguillicaudatus Multigene family Olfaction Paramisgurnus dabryanus

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The connection between polymer collapse and the onset of jamming

arXiv

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arXiv 2023年

作者： Grigas, Alex T. Fisher, Aliza Shattuck, Mark D. O’Hern, Corey S. Graduate Program in Computational Biology and Bioinformatics Yale University New HavenCT06520 United States Integrated Graduate Program in Physical and Engineering Biology Yale University New HavenCT06520 United States Department of Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science Yale University New HavenCT06520 United States Benjamin Levich Institute and Physics Department The City College of New York New YorkNY10031 United States Department of Physics Yale University New HavenCT06520 United States Department of Applied Physics Yale University New HavenCT06520 United States

Previous studies have shown that the interiors of proteins are densely packed, reaching packing fractions that are as large as those found for static packings of individual amino-acid-shaped particles. How can the interiors of proteins take on such high packing fractions given that amino acids are connected by peptide bonds and many amino acids are hydrophobic with attractive interactions? We investigate this question by comparing the structural and mechanical properties of collapsed attractive disk-shaped bead-spring polymers to those of three reference systems: static packings of repulsive disks, of attractive disks, and of repulsive disk-shaped bead-spring polymers. We show that attractive systems quenched to temperatures below the glass transition T Tg and static packings of both repulsive disks and bead-spring polymers possess similar interior packing fractions. Previous studies have shown that static packings of repulsive disks are isostatic at jamming onset, i.e. the number of contacts Nc matches the number of degrees of freedom, which strongly influences their mechanical properties. We find that repulsive polymers are hypostatic at jamming onset, but effectively isostatic when including quartic modes. While attractive disk and polymer packings are hyperstatic, we identify a definition for interparticle contacts for which they can also be considered as effectively isostatic. As a result, we show that the mechanical properties (e.g. scaling of the potential energy with excess contact number and low-frequency contribution to the density of vibrational modes) of weakly attractive disk and polymer packings are similar to those of isostatic repulsive disk and polymer packings. Our results demonstrate that static packings generated via attractive collapse or compression of repulsive particles possess similar structural and mechanical properties. © 2023, CC BY.

关键词： Amino acids

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Tegavivint triggers TECR-dependent nonapoptotic cancer cell death

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Nature chemical biology 2025年 2025 May 26页

作者： Logan Leak Ziwei Wang Alby J Joseph Brianna Johnson Alyssa A Chan Cassandra M Decosto Leslie Magtanong Pin-Joe Ko Weaverly Colleen Lee Joan Ritho Sophia Manukian Alec Millner Shweta Chitkara Jennifer J Salinas Rachid Skouta Matthew G Rees Melissa M Ronan Jennifer A Roth Chad L Myers Jason Moffat Charles Boone Steven J Bensinger David A Nathanson G Ekin Atilla-Gokcumen Everett J Moding Scott J Dixon Department of Biology Stanford University Stanford CA USA. Department of Radiation Oncology Stanford University School of Medicine Stanford CA USA. Department of Chemistry University at Buffalo The State University of New York Buffalo NY USA. Department of Molecular and Medical Pharmacology University of California Los Angeles Los Angeles CA USA. Department of Chemistry University of Massachusetts Amherst Amherst MA USA. Department of Biology University of Massachusetts Amherst Amherst MA USA. Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard Cambridge MA USA. Department of Computer Science and Engineering Bioinformatics and Computational Biology Graduate Program University of Minnesota-Twin Cities Minneapolis MN USA. Program in Genetics & Genome Biology The Hospital for Sick Children Toronto Ontario Canada. Department of Molecular Genetics University of Toronto Toronto Ontario Canada. Donnelly Centre University of Toronto Toronto Ontario Canada. RIKEN Center for Sustainable Resource Science Saitama Japan. Department of Microbiology Immunology and Molecular Genetics University of California Los Angeles Los Angeles CA USA. UCLA Lipidomics Laboratory University of California Los Angeles Los Angeles CA USA. Jonsson Comprehensive Cancer Center David Geffen School of Medicine University of California Los Angeles Los Angeles CA USA. Department of Biology Stanford University Stanford CA USA. sjdixon@stanford.edu.

Small molecules that induce nonapoptotic cell death are of fundamental mechanistic interest and may be useful to treat certain cancers. Here we report that tegavivint, a drug candidate undergoing human clinical trials, can activate a unique mechanism of nonapoptotic cell death in sarcomas and other cancer cells. This lethal mechanism is distinct from ferroptosis, necroptosis and pyroptosis and requires the lipid metabolic enzyme trans-2,3-enoyl-CoA reductase (TECR). TECR is canonically involved in the synthesis of very-long-chain fatty acids but appears to promote nonapoptotic cell death in response to CIL56 and tegavivint via the synthesis of the saturated long-chain fatty acid palmitate. These findings outline a lipid-dependent nonapoptotic cell death mechanism that can be induced by a drug candidate currently being tested in humans.

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Targeting DNA junction sites by bis-intercalators induces topological changes with potent antitumor effects

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Nucleic acids research 2024年第15期52卷 9303-9316页

作者： Shih-Chun Huang Chia-Wei Chen Roshan Satange Chang-Chih Hsieh Chih-Chun Chang Shun-Ching Wang Chi-Li Peng Tai-Lin Chen Ming-Hsi Chiang Yih-Chern Horng Ming-Hon Hou Doctoral Program in Medical Biotechnology National Chung Hsing University Taichung 402 Taiwan. Graduate Institute of Genomics and Bioinformatics National Chung Hsing University Taichung 402 Taiwan. Department of Chemistry National Changhua University of Education Changhua 50058 Taiwan. Institute of Chemistry Academia Sinica Taipei 11528 Taiwan. Graduate Institute of Biotechnology National Chung Hsing University Taichung 402 Taiwan. Post Baccalaureate Medicine School of Medicine National Chung Hsing University Taichung 402 Taiwan. Biotechnology Center National Chung Hsing University Taichung 402 Taiwan.

Targeting inter-duplex junctions in catenated DNA with bidirectional bis-intercalators is a potential strategy for enhancing anticancer effects. In this study, we used d(CGTATACG)2, which forms a tetraplex base-pair junction that resembles the DNA-DNA contact structure, as a model target for two alkyl-linked diaminoacridine bis-intercalators, DA4 and DA5. Cross-linking of the junction site by the bis-intercalators induced substantial structural changes in the DNA, transforming it from a B-form helical end-to-end junction to an over-wounded side-by-side inter-duplex conformation with A-DNA characteristics and curvature. These structural perturbations facilitated the angled intercalation of DA4 and DA5 with propeller geometry into two adjacent duplexes. The addition of a single carbon to the DA5 linker caused a bend that aligned its chromophores with CpG sites, enabling continuous stacking and specific water-mediated interactions at the inter-duplex contacts. Furthermore, we have shown that the different topological changes induced by DA4 and DA5 lead to the inhibition of topoisomerase 2 activities, which may account for their antitumor effects. Thus, this study lays the foundations for bis-intercalators targeting biologically relevant DNA-DNA contact structures for anticancer drug development.

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