The Sun Lab | Structural Biology @ St Jude

Researchers identified how the methyltransferase METTL13 alters the translation factor eEF1A, revealing mechanisms that help drive cancer development and treatment resistance. The findings highlight a potential therapeutic strategy to inhibit KRAS production in tumors. bit.ly/3Wd2KQu
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Excited to share our new paper in NSMB! We reveal the architecture of the Norrin signaling complex and use these insights to design synthetic Norrin mimics, taking a step toward developing strategies to restore the BRB. rdcu.be/DZdju6tDqpPa
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St. Jude scientists identified ZMYND8 as a major regulator of CD8+ T-cell exhaustion. Targeting the gene improved immune function and enhanced immunotherapy, offering a potential new strategy to strengthen anti-tumor responses in solid tumors. bit.ly/3TiiMrc
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St. Jude has named Charles W.M. Roberts, MD, PhD, internationally recognized physician-scientist and director of the St. Jude Comprehensive Cancer Center, as its seventh president and CEO. The announcement is part of a planned leadership transition. Under his leadership, the Cancer Center has grown in scope and impact, earning the National Cancer Institute’s top “Exceptional” rating in both reviews and the best score in institutional history each time. Dr. Roberts’ background in cancer epigenetics, clinical care and collaborative leadership has helped shape major efforts that connect researchers, clinicians and partner institutions to move discovery forward.
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Scientists led a multi-institute collaboration to create PanNDA, a first-of-its-kind atlas mapping proteomes across six neurodegenerative diseases and more than 10,000 brain proteins. PanNDA can be used as a resource to advance diagnosis and treatment. ow.ly/Yk9N50YxEXN
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Excited to share our lab's latest discovery today in @Nature: "orthosteric molecular glue” (OMG) inhibitors - a new drug design strategy that achieves substrate-dependent potency, i.e., substrate selectivity, with conventional orthosteric inhibitors. rdcu.be/e3waV
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My lab #NUS is located at the place near the arrow. My daily walk to the lab feels like stepping into the applewood Wardrobe in Narnia.
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Happy to share our new publication on KCNQ1. In this work, we reveal a cool molecular mechanism that modulates the tissue-specific function of KCNQ1 through its beta subunits, KCNE1/3, which provides different voltage and PIP2 (GPCR) sensitivity for gating nature.com/articles/s41422-0…
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Congratulations, Hongbo!!!
We’re excited to announce Hongbo Chi, PhD, as the new Chair of the St. Jude Department of Immunology. His leadership will advance our mission to find cures for catastrophic childhood diseases.
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Our researchers, in collaboration with the Medical College of Wisconsin, have discovered how chemokines and G protein-coupled receptors (GPCRs) selectively bind to control how cells move. ow.ly/77Yl50VGpKe
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Congratulations 🎉, @JunminPengLab
Beautiful work from @JunminPengLab and @Yanshen73854711 in @CellCellPress Turnover atlas of proteome and phosphoproteome across mouse tissues and brain regions: cell.com/cell/fulltext/S0092… Explore this amazing resource here: yslproteomics.shinyapps.io/t…
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Excited to share our new paper! We mapped proteomic changes in AD models, revealing shared pathways with human AD and delayed protein turnover in amyloid plaques. Read more:nature.com/articles/s41467-0… @JunminPengLab @Yanshen73854711 #proteomics #MassSpec #Proteinturnover #Alzheimers
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Interesting work from @TheHurleyLab
New research from @TheHurleyLab & @ASAP_Research collaborators describes a structural pathway of enzyme activation (determined via cryo-EM analysis) of phosphatidylinositol-3 kinase complexes I (PI3KC3-C1) by VPS15 in autophagy science.org/doi/10.1126/scie…
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Congratulations, Chunyi!
🚀 Thrilled to announce our latest work published in @NatureComms ! NAPTUNE: An ultra-sensitive platform using APE1 to create 5'-phosphorylated DNA, which guides PfAgo for precise nucleic acid & protein detection. 🔗 nature.com/articles/s41467-0… #Diagnostics #PfAgo #NucleicAcids
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congratulations, Christoph.
Congrats to our newest faculty member, Christoph Gorgulla @StJudeResearch, and colleagues @UofT @InSilicoMeds, for work just out @NatureBiotech — using quantum computing to design small molecules that inhibit KRAS. #OpenAccess nature.com/articles/s41587-0…
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