{"title":"One-carbon footprint in B cells","authors":"Rebekah Steiner, Julia Jellusova","doi":"10.1038/s41589-024-01703-4","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1038/s41589-024-01703-4","url":null,"abstract":"Dynamic metabolic signatures underpin B cell function throughout development, maturation and differentiation. Germinal center B cells rely on MTHFD2-driven one-carbon metabolism that is dependent on antioxidant availability, purine synthesis and mTORC1 signaling.","PeriodicalId":18832,"journal":{"name":"Nature chemical biology","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":14.8,"publicationDate":"2024-08-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141974265","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}
Yuzhen Zhang, Yumin Cai, Xin Jin, Qile Wu, Fan Bai, Jintao Liu
{"title":"Persistent glucose consumption under antibiotic treatment protects bacterial community","authors":"Yuzhen Zhang, Yumin Cai, Xin Jin, Qile Wu, Fan Bai, Jintao Liu","doi":"10.1038/s41589-024-01708-z","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1038/s41589-024-01708-z","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Antibiotics typically induce major physiological changes in bacteria. However, their effect on nutrient consumption remains unclear. Here we found that <i>Escherichia coli</i> communities can sustain normal levels of glucose consumption under a broad range of antibiotics. The community-living resulted in a low membrane potential in the bacteria, allowing slow antibiotic accumulation on treatment and better adaptation. Through multi-omics analysis, we identified a prevalent adaptive response characterized by the upregulation of lipid synthesis, which substantially contributes to sustained glucose consumption. The consumption was maintained by the periphery region of the community, thereby restricting glucose penetration into the community interior. The resulting spatial heterogeneity in glucose availability protected the interior from antibiotic accumulation in a membrane potential-dependent manner, ensuring rapid recovery of the community postantibiotic treatment. Our findings unveiled a community-level antibiotic response through spatial regulation of metabolism and suggested new strategies for antibiotic therapies.</p><figure></figure>","PeriodicalId":18832,"journal":{"name":"Nature chemical biology","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":14.8,"publicationDate":"2024-08-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141974160","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}
Jason Z Zhang, Shao-En Ong, David Baker, Dustin J Maly
{"title":"Single-cell sensor analyses reveal signaling programs enabling Ras-G12C drug resistance.","authors":"Jason Z Zhang, Shao-En Ong, David Baker, Dustin J Maly","doi":"10.1038/s41589-024-01684-4","DOIUrl":"10.1038/s41589-024-01684-4","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Clinical resistance to rat sarcoma virus (Ras)-G12C inhibitors is a challenge. A subpopulation of cancer cells has been shown to undergo genomic and transcriptional alterations to facilitate drug resistance but the immediate adaptive effects on Ras signaling in response to these drugs at the single-cell level is not well understood. Here, we used Ras biosensors to profile the activity and signaling environment of endogenous Ras at the single-cell level. We found that a subpopulation of KRas-G12C cells treated with Ras-G12C-guanosine-diphosphate inhibitors underwent adaptive signaling and metabolic changes driven by wild-type Ras at the Golgi and mutant KRas at the mitochondria, respectively. Our Ras biosensors identified major vault protein as a mediator of Ras activation through its scaffolding of Ras signaling pathway components and metabolite channels. Overall, methods including ours that facilitate direct analysis on the single-cell level can report the adaptations that subpopulations of cells adopt in response to cancer therapies, thus providing insight into drug resistance.</p>","PeriodicalId":18832,"journal":{"name":"Nature chemical biology","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":12.9,"publicationDate":"2024-08-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141893846","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}
Lu Gan, Qiwei Jiang, Dong Huang, Xueji Wu, Xinying Zhu, Lei Wang, Wei Xie, Jialuo Huang, Runzhu Fan, Yihang Jing, Guihua Tang, Xiang David Li, Jianping Guo, Sheng Yin
{"title":"A natural small molecule alleviates liver fibrosis by targeting apolipoprotein L2.","authors":"Lu Gan, Qiwei Jiang, Dong Huang, Xueji Wu, Xinying Zhu, Lei Wang, Wei Xie, Jialuo Huang, Runzhu Fan, Yihang Jing, Guihua Tang, Xiang David Li, Jianping Guo, Sheng Yin","doi":"10.1038/s41589-024-01704-3","DOIUrl":"10.1038/s41589-024-01704-3","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Liver fibrosis is an urgent clinical problem without effective therapies. Here we conducted a high-content screening on a natural Euphorbiaceae diterpenoid library to identify a potent anti-liver fibrosis lead, 12-deoxyphorbol 13-palmitate (DP). Leveraging a photo-affinity labeling approach, apolipoprotein L2 (APOL2), an endoplasmic reticulum (ER)-rich protein, was identified as the direct target of DP. Mechanistically, APOL2 is induced in activated hepatic stellate cells upon transforming growth factor-β1 (TGF-β1) stimulation, which then binds to sarcoplasmic/ER calcium ATPase 2 (SERCA2) to trigger ER stress and elevate its downstream protein kinase R-like ER kinase (PERK)-hairy and enhancer of split 1 (HES1) axis, ultimately promoting liver fibrosis. As a result, targeting APOL2 by DP or ablation of APOL2 significantly impairs APOL2-SERCA2-PERK-HES1 signaling and mitigates fibrosis progression. Our findings not only define APOL2 as a novel therapeutic target for liver fibrosis but also highlight DP as a promising lead for treatment of this symptom.</p>","PeriodicalId":18832,"journal":{"name":"Nature chemical biology","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":12.9,"publicationDate":"2024-08-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141893845","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}
Chunte Sam Peng, Yunxiang Zhang, Qian Liu, G Edward Marti, Yu-Wen Alvin Huang, Thomas C Südhof, Bianxiao Cui, Steven Chu
{"title":"Nanometer-resolution tracking of single cargo reveals dynein motor mechanisms.","authors":"Chunte Sam Peng, Yunxiang Zhang, Qian Liu, G Edward Marti, Yu-Wen Alvin Huang, Thomas C Südhof, Bianxiao Cui, Steven Chu","doi":"10.1038/s41589-024-01694-2","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1038/s41589-024-01694-2","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Cytoplasmic dynein is essential for intracellular transport. Despite extensive in vitro characterizations, how the dynein motors transport vesicles by processive steps in live cells remains unclear. To dissect the molecular mechanisms of dynein, we develop optical probes that enable long-term single-particle tracking in live cells with high spatiotemporal resolution. We find that the number of active dynein motors transporting cargo switches stochastically between one and five dynein motors during long-range transport in neuronal axons. Our very bright optical probes allow the observation of individual molecular steps. Strikingly, these measurements reveal that the dwell times between steps are controlled by two temperature-dependent rate constants in which two ATP molecules are hydrolyzed sequentially during each dynein step. Thus, our observations uncover a previously unknown chemomechanical cycle of dynein-mediated cargo transport in living cells.</p>","PeriodicalId":18832,"journal":{"name":"Nature chemical biology","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":12.9,"publicationDate":"2024-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141875356","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}
{"title":"Photoproximity labeling of endogenous receptors in the live mouse brain in minutes.","authors":"Mikiko Takato, Seiji Sakamoto, Hiroshi Nonaka, Fátima Yuri Tanimura Valor, Tomonori Tamura, Itaru Hamachi","doi":"10.1038/s41589-024-01692-4","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1038/s41589-024-01692-4","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Understanding how protein-protein interaction networks in the brain give rise to cognitive functions necessitates their characterization in live animals. However, tools available for this purpose require potentially disruptive genetic modifications and lack the temporal resolution necessary to track rapid changes in vivo. Here we leverage affinity-based targeting and photocatalyzed singlet oxygen generation to identify neurotransmitter receptor-proximal proteins in the live mouse brain using only small-molecule reagents and minutes of photoirradiation. Our photooxidation-driven proximity labeling for proteome identification (named PhoxID) method not only recapitulated the known interactomes of three endogenous neurotransmitter receptors (α-amino-3-hydroxy-5-methyl-4-isoxazolepropionic acid receptor (AMPAR), inhibitory γ-aminobutyric acid type A receptor and ionotropic glutamate receptor delta-2) but also uncovered age-dependent shifts, identifying NECTIN3 and IGSF3 as developmentally regulated AMPAR-proximal proteins in the cerebellum. Overall, this work establishes a flexible and generalizable platform to study receptor microenvironments in genetically intact specimens with an unprecedented temporal resolution.</p>","PeriodicalId":18832,"journal":{"name":"Nature chemical biology","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":12.9,"publicationDate":"2024-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141875357","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}
Louis-Philippe Picard, Alexander Orazietti, Duy Phuoc Tran, Andrejs Tucs, Sari Hagimoto, Zhenzhou Qi, Shuya Kate Huang, Koji Tsuda, Akio Kitao, Adnan Sljoka, R. Scott Prosser
{"title":"Balancing G protein selectivity and efficacy in the adenosine A2A receptor","authors":"Louis-Philippe Picard, Alexander Orazietti, Duy Phuoc Tran, Andrejs Tucs, Sari Hagimoto, Zhenzhou Qi, Shuya Kate Huang, Koji Tsuda, Akio Kitao, Adnan Sljoka, R. Scott Prosser","doi":"10.1038/s41589-024-01682-6","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1038/s41589-024-01682-6","url":null,"abstract":"<p>The adenosine A<sub>2A</sub> receptor (A<sub>2A</sub>R) engages several G proteins, notably G<sub>o</sub> and its cognate G<sub>s</sub> protein. This coupling promiscuity is facilitated by a dynamic ensemble, revealed by <sup>19</sup>F nuclear magnetic resonance imaging of A<sub>2A</sub>R and G protein. Two transmembrane helix 6 (TM6) activation states, formerly associated with partial and full agonism, accommodate the differing volumes of G<sub>s</sub> and G<sub>o</sub>. While nucleotide depletion biases TM7 toward a fully active state in A<sub>2A</sub>R–G<sub>s</sub>, A<sub>2A</sub>R–G<sub>o</sub> is characterized by a dynamic inactive/intermediate fraction. Molecular dynamics simulations reveal that the NPxxY motif, a highly conserved switch, establishes a unique configuration in the A<sub>2A</sub>R–G<sub>o</sub> complex, failing to stabilize the helix-8 interface with G<sub>s</sub>, and adoption of the active state. The resulting TM7 dynamics hamper G protein coupling, suggesting kinetic gating may be responsible for reduced efficacy in the noncognate G protein complex. Thus, dual TM6 activation states enable greater diversity of coupling partners while TM7 dynamics dictate coupling efficacy.</p><figure></figure>","PeriodicalId":18832,"journal":{"name":"Nature chemical biology","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":14.8,"publicationDate":"2024-07-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141857822","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}
{"title":"Making use of machine learning","authors":"","doi":"10.1038/s41589-024-01700-7","DOIUrl":"10.1038/s41589-024-01700-7","url":null,"abstract":"Computational methods for calculating a protein structure from a given amino acid sequence have revolutionized both our understanding of structural biology and the prediction of protein-binding compounds. This issue features several pieces that explore machine learning approaches for protein structure prediction, benchmarking and evaluation of model quality, and how machine learning algorithms can be used in the drug discovery process.","PeriodicalId":18832,"journal":{"name":"Nature chemical biology","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":12.9,"publicationDate":"2024-07-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.nature.com/articles/s41589-024-01700-7.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141855978","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"生物学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Solving the mystery of enediyne biosynthesis","authors":"Max B. Sosa, Michelle C. Y. Chang","doi":"10.1038/s41589-024-01686-2","DOIUrl":"10.1038/s41589-024-01686-2","url":null,"abstract":"The biosynthetic intermediate of the common core of enediyne natural products has been enigmatic for decades. Now, researchers report the identification of a diiodotetrayne compound as the universal enediyne biosynthetic intermediate.","PeriodicalId":18832,"journal":{"name":"Nature chemical biology","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":12.9,"publicationDate":"2024-07-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141794824","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}