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Wdr1 and cofilin are necessary mediators of immune-cell-specific apoptosis triggered by Tecfidera

Yimon Aye, Jesse Poganik, Yi Zhao, Kuan-Ting Huang, Sruthi Raja

The mechanism-of-action of many electrohilic drugs remains poorly understood. Here, the authors use a redox-targeting approach to elucidate the basis for the innate immune cell toxicity of dimethyl fumarate, showing that it modifies Keap1 to trigger mitoch ...

Nature Portfolio2021

Science's Response to CoVID-19

Yimon Aye

CoVID-19 is a multi-symptomatic disease which has made a global impact due to its ability to spread rapidly, and its relatively high mortality rate. Beyond the heroic efforts to develop vaccines, which we do not discuss herein, the response of scientists a ...

WILEY-V C H VERLAG GMBH2021

A primer on harnessing non-enzymatic post-translational modifications for drug design

Yimon Aye, Phillippe Ly

Of the manifold concepts in drug discovery and design, covalent drugs have re-emerged as one of the most promising over the past 20-or so years. All such drugs harness the ability of a covalent bond to drive an interaction between a target biomolecule, typ ...

ROYAL SOC CHEMISTRY2021

The not so identical twins: (dis)similarities between reactive electrophile and oxidant sensing and signaling

Yimon Aye, Kuan-Ting Huang

In this tutorial review, we compare and contrast the chemical mechanisms of electrophile/oxidant sensing, and the molecular mechanisms of signal propagation. We critically analyze biological systems in which these different pathways are believed to be mani ...

Royal Society of Chemistry2021

Clofarabine Commandeers the RNR-alpha-ZRANB3 Nuclear Signaling Axis

Yimon Aye, Yi Zhao

Ribonucleotide reductase (RNR) is an essential enzyme in DNA biogenesis and a target of several chemotherapeutics. Here, we investigate how antileukemic drugs (e.g., clofarabine [CIF]) that target one of the two subunits of RNR, RNR-alpha, affect noncanoni ...

CELL PRESS2020

Getting the Right Grip? How Understanding Electrophile Selectivity Profiles Could Illuminate Our Understanding of Redox Signaling

Yimon Aye, Lingxi Wang

Recent Advances: Herein, we focus on the first step of this process, electrophile sensing. Electrophile sensing is typically a deceptively simple reaction between the thiol of a protein cysteine, of which there are around 200,000 in the human proteome, and ...

MARY ANN LIEBERT, INC2020

Where Electrophile Signaling and Covalent Ligand-Target Mining Converge

Yimon Aye

Interests in learning how to engineer most effective covalent ligands, identify novel functional targets, and define precise mechanism-of-action are rapidly growing in both academia and pharmaceutical industries. We here illuminate the establishment of a m ...

2020

Neighborhood watch: tools for defining locale-dependent subproteomes and their contextual signaling activities

Yimon Aye, Yi Zhao

Transient associations between numerous organelles-e.g., the endoplasmic reticulum and the mitochondria-forge highly-coordinated, particular environments essential for cross-compartment information flow. Our perspective summarizes chemical-biology tools th ...

ROYAL SOC CHEMISTRY2020

Precision Targeting of pten-Null Triple-Negative Breast Tumors Guided by Electrophilic Metabolite Sensing

Yimon Aye, Xuyu Liu, Lingxi Wang, Chaosheng Luo

Off-target effects continue to impede disease interventions, particularly when targeting a specific protein within a family of similar proteins, such as kinase isoforms that play tumor-subtype-specific roles in cancers. Exploiting the specific electrophili ...

AMER CHEMICAL SOC2020

Empowering Global Chemical Biology at the Dawn of the New Decade

Yimon Aye

On January 22-24, 2020, scientific luminaries across the far-flung corners of chemical biology gathered in Geneva, Switzerland, to deliver their latest and greatest discoveries in the field. Generously supported by the Swiss National Science Foundation (SN ...

AMER CHEMICAL SOC2020

Electrophile Signaling and Emerging Immuno- and Neuro-modulatory Electrophilic Pharmaceuticals

Yimon Aye, Jesse Poganik

With a lipid-rich environment and elevated oxygen consumption, the central nervous system (CNS) is subject to intricate regulation by lipid-derived electrophiles (LDEs). Investigations into oxidative damage and chronic LDE generation in neural disorders ha ...

FRONTIERS MEDIA SA2020

The mRNA-Binding Protein HuR Is a Kinetically-Privileged Electrophile Sensor

Yimon Aye, Jesse Poganik, Alexandra Krina Van Hall-Beauvais, Yi Zhao

The key mRNA-binding proteins HuR and AUF1 are reported stress sensors in mammals. Intrigued by recent reports of sensitivity of these proteins to the electrophilic lipid prostaglandin A2 and other redox signals, we here examined their sensing abilities to ...

2020

REX technologies for profiling and decoding the electrophile signaling axes mediated by Rosetta Stone proteins

Yimon Aye, Daniel Ahmet Urul

It is now clear that some cysteines on some proteins are highly tuned to react with electrophiles. Based on numerous studies, it is also established that electrophile sensing underpins rewiring of several critical signaling processes. These electrophile-se ...

ACADEMIC PRESS LTD-ELSEVIER SCIENCE LTD2020

The more the merrier: how homo-oligomerization alters the interactome and function of ribonucleotide reductase

Yimon Aye, Alexandra Krina Van Hall-Beauvais

Stereotyped as a nexus of dNTP synthesis, the dual-subunit enzyme - ribonucleotide reductase (RNR) - is coming into view as a paradigm of oligomerization and moonlighting behavior. In the present issue of `omics', we discuss what makes the larger subunit o ...

ELSEVIER SCI LTD2020

Proteomics and Beyond: Cell Decision-Making Shaped by Reactive Electrophiles

Yimon Aye, Xuyu Liu

Revolutionary proteomic strategies have enabled rapid profiling of the cellular targets of electrophilic small molecules. However, precise means to directly interrogate how these individual electrophilic modifications at low occupancy functionally reshape ...

2019

Frontiers in ribonucleotide reductases: nucleotide-dependent control of quaternary structure and enzyme activity

Yimon Aye

AMER CHEMICAL SOC2019

Post-transcriptional regulation of Nrf2-mRNA by the mRNA-binding proteins HuR and AUF1

Yimon Aye, Xuyu Liu, Jesse Poganik

The nuclear factor erythroid 2 related factor 2 (Nrf2) signaling axis is a target of covalent drugs and bioactive native electrophiles. However, much of our understanding of Nrf2 regulation has been focused at the protein level. Here we report a post-trans ...

FEDERATION AMER SOC EXP BIOL2019

Chemical Biology Gateways to Mapping Location, Association, and Pathway Responsivity

Yimon Aye, Xuyu Liu

Here we discuss, how by applying chemical concepts to biological problems, methods have been developed to map spatiotemporal regulation of proteins and small-molecule modulation of proteome signaling responses. We outline why chemical-biology platforms are ...

2019

Leaving their mark: From precision electrophile signaling to covalent ligand evolution

Yimon Aye

AMER CHEMICAL SOC2019

Modular Total Synthesis and Cell-Based Anticancer Activity Evaluation of Ouabagenin and Other Cardiotonic Steroids with Varying Degrees of Oxygenation

Yimon Aye

A Cu(II)-catalyzed diastereoselective Michael/aldol cascade approach is used to accomplish concise total syntheses of cardiotonic steroids with varying degrees of oxygenation including cardenolides ouabagenin, sarmentologenin, 19-hydroxysarmentogenin, and ...

AMER CHEMICAL SOC2019

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