Search Results - "Vaughan, Robert M"
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Chromatin Regulation through Ubiquitin and Ubiquitin-like Histone Modifications
Published in Trends in biochemical sciences (Amsterdam. Regular ed.) (01-04-2021)“…Chromatin functions are influenced by the addition, removal, and recognition of histone post-translational modifications (PTMs). Ubiquitin and ubiquitin-like…”
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Streamlined quantitative analysis of histone modification abundance at nucleosome-scale resolution with siQ-ChIP version 2.0
Published in Scientific reports (09-05-2023)“…We recently introduced an absolute and physical quantitative scale for chromatin immunoprecipitation followed by sequencing (ChIP-seq). The scale itself was…”
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Chromatin structure and its chemical modifications regulate the ubiquitin ligase substrate selectivity of UHRF1
Published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences - PNAS (28-08-2018)“…Mitotic inheritance of DNA methylation patterns is facilitated by UHRF1, a DNA- and histone-binding E3 ubiquitin ligase that helps recruit the maintenance DNA…”
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Chemical Biology Screening Identifies a Vulnerability to Checkpoint Kinase Inhibitors in TSC2-Deficient Renal Angiomyolipomas
Published in Frontiers in oncology (10-03-2022)“…The tuberous sclerosis complex (TSC) is a rare genetic syndrome and multisystem disease resulting in tumor formation in major organs. A molecular hallmark of…”
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SARS-CoV-2 Genotyping Highlights the Challenges in Spike Protein Drift Independent of Other Essential Proteins
Published in Microorganisms (Basel) (09-09-2024)“…As of 2024, SARS-CoV-2 continues to propagate and drift as an endemic virus, impacting healthcare for years. The largest sequencing initiative for any species…”
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The histone and non-histone methyllysine reader activities of the UHRF1 tandem Tudor domain are dispensable for the propagation of aberrant DNA methylation patterning in cancer cells
Published in Epigenetics & chromatin (23-10-2020)“…The chromatin-binding E3 ubiquitin ligase ubiquitin-like with PHD and RING finger domains 1 (UHRF1) contributes to the maintenance of aberrant DNA methylation…”
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The complex, dynamic SpliceOme of the small GTPase transcripts altered by technique, sex, genetics, tissue specificity, and RNA base editing
Published in Frontiers in cell and developmental biology (17-11-2022)“…The small GTPase family is well-studied in cancer and cellular physiology. With 162 annotated human genes, the family has a broad expression throughout cells…”
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A Degenerate Peptide Library Approach to Reveal Sequence Determinants of Methyllysine-Driven Protein Interactions
Published in Frontiers in cell and developmental biology (09-04-2020)“…Lysine methylation facilitates protein-protein interactions through the activity of methyllysine (Kme) "reader" proteins. Functions of Kme readers have…”
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A Read/Write Mechanism Connects p300 Bromodomain Function to H2A.Z Acetylation
Published in iScience (22-11-2019)“…Acetylation of the histone variant H2A.Z (H2A.Zac) occurs at active regulatory regions associated with gene expression. Although the Tip60 complex is proposed…”
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A DNA methylation reader complex that enhances gene transcription
Published in Science (American Association for the Advancement of Science) (07-12-2018)“…DNA methylation generally functions as a repressive transcriptional signal, but it is also known to activate gene expression. In either case, the downstream…”
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The finger loop of the SRA domain in the E3 ligase UHRF1 is a regulator of ubiquitin targeting and is required for the maintenance of DNA methylation
Published in The Journal of biological chemistry (25-10-2019)“…The Su(var)3–9, enhancer of zeste, and trithorax (SET) and really interesting new gene (RING) finger–associated (SRA) protein domain is conserved across…”
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Examining the Roles of H3K4 Methylation States with Systematically Characterized Antibodies
Published in Molecular cell (04-10-2018)“…Histone post-translational modifications (PTMs) are important genomic regulators often studied by chromatin immunoprecipitation (ChIP), whereby their locations…”
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Molecular dynamics simulations provide insights into ULK-101 potency and selectivity toward autophagic kinases ULK1/2
Published in Journal of biomolecular structure & dynamics (13-11-2024)“…Kinase domains are highly conserved within proteins in both sequence and structure. Many factors, including phosphorylation, amino acid substitutions or…”
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A physical basis for quantitative ChIP-sequencing
Published in The Journal of biological chemistry (20-11-2020)“…ChIP followed by next-generation sequencing (ChIP-Seq) is a key technique for mapping the distribution of histone posttranslational modifications (PTMs) and…”
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Comparative biochemical analysis of UHRF proteins reveals molecular mechanisms that uncouple UHRF2 from DNA methylation maintenance
Published in Nucleic acids research (18-05-2018)“…Abstract UHRF1 is a histone- and DNA-binding E3 ubiquitin ligase that functions with DNMT1 to maintain mammalian DNA methylation. UHRF1 facilitates DNMT1…”
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A trivalent nucleosome interaction by PHIP/BRWD2 is disrupted in neurodevelopmental disorders and cancer
Published in Genes & development (01-12-2021)“…Mutations in the chromatin regulator cause the human neurodevelopmental disorder Chung-Jansen syndrome, while alterations in expression are linked to cancer…”
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A fluorescent carbapenem for structure function studies of penicillin-binding proteins, β-lactamases, and β-lactam sensors
Published in Analytical biochemistry (15-10-2014)“…By reacting fluorescein isothiocyanate with meropenem, we have prepared a carbapenem-based fluorescent β-lactam. Fluorescein–meropenem binds both…”
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A functional proteomics platform to reveal the sequence determinants of lysine methyltransferase substrate selectivity
Published in Science advances (01-11-2018)“…Lysine methylation is a key regulator of histone protein function. Beyond histones, few connections have been made to the enzymes responsible for the…”
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Epigenetic Regulation through UHRF Proteins
Published in The FASEB journal (01-04-2017)“…Abstract only The epigenetic inheritance of DNA methylation requires UHRF1, a histone‐ and DNA‐binding RING E3 ubiquitin ligase whose misregulation may…”
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Biochemical Studies of the E3 Ubiquitin Ligases UHRF1 and UHRF2
Published 01-01-2021“…Deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA) and histone proteins are the building blocks of nucleosomes, repeating units of chromatin. Both DNA and histone proteins are…”
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