Galligan Lab
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University of Arizona. Studying all things PTM and metabolism. Galliganlab.com
5 more years of funding! Thanks NIGMS! If you are interested in pursuing a postdoc in the Galligan Lab, please reach out!
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Glyoxalase 1 is a proadipogenic gene
Diabetes is one of the most prevalent and widespread diseases, with the majority of cases stemming from prolonged obesity. Obesity occurs through the expansion of adipose tissue in an unhealthy and dy...
https://www.jbc.org/article/S0021-9258(25)02778-4/fulltext
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Stephan Hacker
8 months ago
How can we study target engagement and selectivity of covalent inhibitors? Which electrophilic probes are best suited to study a certain amino acid? Our study on "Profiling the proteome-wide selectivity of diverse electrophiles" is published in Nature Chemistry.(1/7)
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Profiling the proteome-wide selectivity of diverse electrophiles - Nature Chemistry
Covalent inhibitors are powerful entities in drug discovery. Now the amino acid selectivity and reactivity of a diverse electrophile library have been assessed proteome-wide using an unbiased workflow...
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41557-025-01902-z
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The Buck Institute for Research on Aging
9 months ago
Can a cocktail of glycation-lowering compounds curb
#hunger
, lower
#insulin
resistance and extend
#lifespan
? It does in mice! Buck scientists fight the sugary chemistry of
#aging
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www.buckinstitute.org/news/glycati...
@cp-cellreports.bsky.social
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@pkapahi.bsky.social
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Glycation-lowering compounds curb hunger, lower insulin resistance and extend lifespan in mice
Buck scientists fight the sugary chemistry of aging The same chemical reaction that makes a piece of freshly toasted bread delicious also happens in our bodies, with far less appetizing consequences. ...
https://www.buckinstitute.org/news/glycation-lowering-compounds-curb-hunger-lower-insulin-resistance-and-extend-lifespan-in-mice/
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Nature Chemical Biology
about 1 year ago
A new paper used reactivity-based metabolomics to show that methylglyoxal and its main metabolite lactoylglutathione react rapidly with cysteines to generate L- and D-lactoylated thioesters suggesting an additional pathway to enable protein lactoylation
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Reactivity-based metabolomics reveal cysteine has glyoxalase 1-like and glyoxalase 2-like activities - Nature Chemical Biology
Using reactivity-based metabolomics, methylglyoxal and its main metabolite lactoylglutathione were found to react rapidly with cysteines to generate l-lactoylated and d-lactoylated thioesters, suggest...
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41589-025-01909-0?utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=nchembio
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Mashek Lab
about 1 year ago
Super excited to share our new publication identifying the food preservative, sorbic acid, as a new PTM. Even cooler is that the deacylation and acylation of this PTM is catalyzed by the non-canonical activity of Class I HDACs using free sorbate (not sorbyl-CoA)
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
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Sorbate induces lysine sorbylation through noncanonical activities of class I HDACs to regulate the expression of inflammation genes
Sorbic acid regulates inflammatory gene expression through the mechanism of lysine sorbylation.
https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/sciadv.adv1071
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Reactivity-based metabolomics reveal cysteine has glyoxalase 1-like and glyoxalase 2-like activities - Nature Chemical Biology
Using reactivity-based metabolomics, methylglyoxal and its main metabolite lactoylglutathione were found to react rapidly with cysteines to generate l-lactoylated and d-lactoylated thioesters, suggest...
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41589-025-01909-0
about 1 year ago
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Jordan Meier
over 1 year ago
Excited to share this one! We developed an in vivo model for specific manipulation of transfer RNA acetylation and found it serves as a sentinel modification whose loss causes ribosome stalling and stress signaling. Implications for a genetic disorder and cancer.
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
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Transfer RNA acetylation regulates in vivo mammalian stress signaling
An ancient tRNA modification is used by mammalian cells to coordinate protein translation and adaptive signaling.
https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/sciadv.ads2923
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Yael David
over 1 year ago
I am extremely proud to see our work about Hepatitis B now published in
@cellpress.bsky.social
From basic research to identifying the key step of infection & a potential first drug for curing this devastating disease. This has been an incredible journey.🧵
www.cell.com/cell/fulltex...
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A nucleosome switch primes hepatitis B virus infection
A reconstituted cccDNA platform facilitated the discovery of an early chromatinization event that promotes transcription of the hepatitis B virus (HBV) regulatory X gene. The use of a small-molecule c...
https://www.cell.com/cell/fulltext/S0092-8674(25)00102-3
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Dibble Lab
over 1 year ago
First post! Starting by pinning our review in Nature Metabolism on Coenzyme A biosynthesis and metabolism. Check it out if you didn't catch it when it was published!
www.nature.com/articles/s42...
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Coenzyme A biosynthesis: mechanisms of regulation, function and disease - Nature Metabolism
This Review summarizes the fundamental aspects related to coenzyme A synthesis and its implications as a central molecule in metabolism.
https://www.nature.com/articles/s42255-024-01059-y
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Gregory Ducker Lab
over 1 year ago
Happy New Year. I’m pleased to report publication of the Ducker lab’s latest cancer metabolism paper led by graduate student Kyle Dunlap in
@cp-cellreports.bsky.social
www.cell.com/cell-reports...
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SLC7A5 is required for cancer cell growth under arginine-limited conditions
Metabolic adaptations are key to cancer cell survival in nutrient-limited microenvironments, but strategies for coping with arginine scarcity are poorly understood. Dunlap et al. use CRISPR screening and metabolomics to identify the plasma membrane transporter SLC7A5 as a citrulline transporter essential for cancer cell growth under arginine limitation.
https://www.cell.com/cell-reports/fulltext/S2211-1247(24)01481-5
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Hoping this is like what the old one used to be!
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