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Our October issue is live! nature.com/nchembio/volumes/… Inspired by the phases of the moon, the cover artwork uses light and darkness to depict pharmacological control of chimeric antigen receptor (CAR) T cells
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High-resolution NMR spectroscopy of proteins in intact mitochondria nature.com/articles/s41589-0…
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Cell-cycle-driven noncanonical ubiquitination of METTL14 orchestrates RNA methylation nature.com/articles/s41589-0…
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Cryo-EM structures of RNA polymerase II (Pol II) with cisplatin-induced DNA interstrand crosslinks (ICLs) reveal how Pol II remodels cisplatin-ICLs, stalls transcription, and commits lesions to transcription-coupled repair nature.com/articles/s41589-0…
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SRSF1 modulates the dark nucleolar cap pH to restore nucleolar integrity and function nature.com/articles/s41589-0…
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Allenes and alkynes can be biosynthesized via oxidative C(sp2)-demethylation of a prenyl group by fungal cytochrome P450s, expanding the catalytic repertoire of P450 enzymes nature.com/articles/s41589-0…
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Discover groundbreaking research and innovation in chemical biology at the Tri-Institutional Chemical Biology Symposium
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AvaS is a pyridoxal-phosphate-dependent RNA-modifying enzyme, producing the tRNA modification ava2C from k2C in bacteria and plants and linking RNA chemistry to translational regulation of metabolic stress responses nature.com/articles/s41589-0…
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Directed evolution of Lantern enables rapid RNA and protein proximity labeling nature.com/articles/s41589-0…
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Loss of function for 1 gene can make a cancer cell resist a DNA damage response (DDR) inhibitor, while another gene can make it easy to kill. Core Investigator @LukeGilbertSF and collaborators mapped both across five DDR inhibitors and found loss of PRDX1 sensitizes cells to all five.
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