Featured Publications
Systems biochemistry to “deorphanize” human mitochondrial proteome
Miros F, Liu R, Shen H. Systems biochemistry to “deorphanize” human mitochondrial proteome. Molecular Cell 2022, 82: 2735-2737. PMID: 35931038, DOI: 10.1016/j.molcel.2022.07.005.Peer-Reviewed Original Research
2022
Enhanced access to the human phosphoproteome with genetically encoded phosphothreonine
Moen J, Mohler K, Rogulina S, Shi X, Shen H, Rinehart J. Enhanced access to the human phosphoproteome with genetically encoded phosphothreonine. Nature Communications 2022, 13: 7226. PMID: 36433969, PMCID: PMC9700786, DOI: 10.1038/s41467-022-34980-5.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchConceptsUbiquitous post-translational modificationCo-translational insertionKinase activation mechanismProtein interaction platformOrthogonal translation systemProtein-protein interactionsPost-translational modificationsPhospho-amino acidsAminoacyl-tRNA synthetaseHuman phosphoproteomePhosphorylation eventsTRNA pairsFunctional assignmentCellular processesProtein phosphorylationUpstream kinasePhysiological functionsActivation mechanismTranslation systemKinasePhosphorylationInteraction platformPhosphoproteomePhosphothreoninePhospho
2017
Comparative Analysis of Mitochondrial N-Termini from Mouse, Human, and Yeast*
Calvo SE, Julien O, Clauser KR, Shen H, Kamer KJ, Wells JA, Mootha VK. Comparative Analysis of Mitochondrial N-Termini from Mouse, Human, and Yeast*. Molecular & Cellular Proteomics 2017, 16: 512-523. PMID: 28122942, PMCID: PMC5383775, DOI: 10.1074/mcp.m116.063818.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchConceptsN-terminusMitochondrial proteinsCleavage eventsMature mitochondrial proteinN-terminal presequenceNovel protein isoformsN-end ruleAmino acidsMultiple cleavage eventsMitochondrial processingNuclear genomeHuman U937 cellsMature proteinMitochondrial peptidasesYeast proteinsProtein isoformsSequence levelCanonical motifsIndividual proteinsPresequenceDistinct enzymesPolypeptide cleavageCleavage siteYeastProtein