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A bacterial platform for the bio-based production of poly(ester amide)s

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Nature chemical biology Pub Date : 2025-03-17 DOI: 10.1038/s41589-025-01859-7

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De novo biosynthesis of plant lignans by synthetic yeast consortia

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Nature chemical biology Pub Date : 2025-03-17 DOI: 10.1038/s41589-025-01861-z

Ruibing Chen, Xianghui Chen, Yu Chen, Jindong Yang, Wansheng Chen, Yongjin J. Zhou, Lei Zhang

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Author Correction: A cell-free biosensor signal amplification circuit with polymerase strand recycling

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Nature chemical biology Pub Date : 2025-03-17 DOI: 10.1038/s41589-025-01884-6

Yueyi Li, Tyler Lucci, Matias Villarruel Dujovne, Jaeyoung Kirsten Jung, Daiana A. Capdevila, Julius B. Lucks

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Post-translational modifications orchestrate the intrinsic signaling bias of GPR52

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Nature chemical biology Pub Date : 2025-03-14 DOI: 10.1038/s41589-025-01864-w

Bingjie Zhang, Wei Ge, Mengna Ma, Shanshan Li, Jie Yu, Guang Yang, Huilan Wang, Jingwen Li, Qingrun Li, Rong Zeng, Boxun Lu, Wenqing Shui

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Programmable solid-state condensates for spatiotemporal control of mammalian gene expression

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Nature chemical biology Pub Date : 2025-03-14 DOI: 10.1038/s41589-025-01860-0

Yukai Wang, Jian Jiang, Qiqi Xiong, Shichao Li, Jiawei Shao, Mingqi Xie, An-Ping Zeng

{"title":"Programmable solid-state condensates for spatiotemporal control of mammalian gene expression","authors":"Yukai Wang, Jian Jiang, Qiqi Xiong, Shichao Li, Jiawei Shao, Mingqi Xie, An-Ping Zeng","doi":"10.1038/s41589-025-01860-0","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1038/s41589-025-01860-0","url":null,"abstract":"Engineering of nuclear condensates with chemically inducible gene switches is highly desired but challenging for precise and on-demand regulation of mammalian gene expression. Here, we harness the phase-separation capability of biomolecular condensates and describe a versatile strategy to chemically program ligand-dependent gene expression at various stages of interest. By engineering synthetic anchor proteins capable of tethering various genetically encoded condensate structures toward different cellular compartments or gene products of interest, inducible regulation of transcriptional and translational activities was achieved at different endogenous and episomal loci using the same sets of anchor proteins and synthetic solid-state condensates. Using such a holistic condensate-based strategy, we not only achieved regulation performances comparing favorably to state-of-the-art strategies described for CRISPR–Cas9 activity and transcriptional silencing but further showed that chemically inducible retention of mRNA molecules into engineered condensate structures within the nucleus can become a remarkably efficient alternative for translational regulation.<figure></figure>","PeriodicalId":18832,"journal":{"name":"Nature chemical biology","volume":"88 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":14.8,"publicationDate":"2025-03-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143618342","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"生物学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Molecular basis of β-arrestin coupling to the metabotropic glutamate receptor mGlu3

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Nature chemical biology Pub Date : 2025-03-06 DOI: 10.1038/s41589-025-01858-8

Tianlei Wen, Mei Du, Yue Lu, Nan Jia, Xuhang Lu, Ning Liu, Shenghai Chang, Xing Zhang, Yuequan Shen, Xue Yang

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RAS signaling gets granular

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Nature chemical biology Pub Date : 2025-03-04 DOI: 10.1038/s41589-025-01851-1

Hugo Lavoie, Marc Therrien

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The last piece in fucosylation

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Nature chemical biology Pub Date : 2025-03-03 DOI: 10.1038/s41589-025-01850-2

Yasuhiko Kizuka

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Publisher Correction: Visualizing drug effects over time in live animals using optical pharmacodynamics