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ArticleNature communications2023

Programming conformational cooperativity to regulate allosteric protein-oligonucleotide signal transduction.

Yuan Liang, Yunkai Qie, Jing Yang, Ranfeng Wu, Shuang Cui, Yuliang Zhao, Greg J Anderson, Guangjun Nie, Suping Li, Cheng Zhang

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Article in Nature communications, 2023. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 4 papers.

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4citing papers in PubMed
2.2field-weighted citation impact, top 12% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

4 citing papers in PubMed, 14 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

10 authors at 6 institutions in 2 countries.

Yuan Liang *School of Computer Science, Key Lab of High Confidence Software Technologies, Peking University, 100871, Beijing, China.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0001-5154-7389
Yunkai Qie *CAS Key Laboratory for Biomedical Effects of Nanomaterials & Nanosafety, CAS Center for Excellence in Nanoscience, National Center for Nanoscience and Technology, 100190, Beijing, China.
Jing YangSchool of Control and Computer Engineering, North China Electric Power University, 102206, Beijing, China.
Ranfeng WuSchool of Computer Science, Key Lab of High Confidence Software Technologies, Peking University, 100871, Beijing, China.
Shuang CuiSchool of Computer Science, Key Lab of High Confidence Software Technologies, Peking University, 100871, Beijing, China.
Yuliang ZhaoCAS Key Laboratory for Biomedical Effects of Nanomaterials & Nanosafety, CAS Center for Excellence in Nanoscience, National Center for Nanoscience and Technology, 100190, Beijing, China.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-9586-9360
Greg J AndersonQIMR Berghofer Medical Research Institute, Royal Brisbane Hospital, Herston, Queensland, 4029, Australia.
Guangjun NieCAS Key Laboratory for Biomedical Effects of Nanomaterials & Nanosafety, CAS Center for Excellence in Nanoscience, National Center for Nanoscience and Technology, 100190, Beijing, China.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0001-5040-9793
Suping LiCAS Key Laboratory for Biomedical Effects of Nanomaterials & Nanosafety, CAS Center for Excellence in Nanoscience, National Center for Nanoscience and Technology, 100190, Beijing, China. lisuping@nanoctr.cn.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-0294-8861
Cheng ZhangSchool of Computer Science, Key Lab of High Confidence Software Technologies, Peking University, 100871, Beijing, China. zhangcheng369@pku.edu.cn.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-1131-6516
Peking University · CNNational Center for Nanoscience and Technology · CNNorth China Electric Power University · CNNational Engineering Research Center for Nanotechnology · CNQIMR Berghofer Medical Research Institute · AUSecond Hospital of Tianjin Medical University · CN

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Conformational cooperativity is a universal molecular effect mechanism and plays a critical role in signaling pathways. However, it remains a challenge to develop artificial molecular networks regulated by conformational cooperativity, due to the difficulties in programming and controlling multiple structural interactions. Herein, we develop a cooperative strategy by programming multiple conformational signals, rather than chemical signals, to regulate protein-oligonucleotide signal transduction, taking advantage of the programmability of allosteric DNA constructs. We generate a cooperative regulation mechanism, by which increasing the loop lengths at two different structural modules induced the opposite effects manifesting as down- and up-regulation. We implement allosteric logic operations by using two different proteins. Further, in cell culture we demonstrate the feasibility of this strategy to cooperatively regulate gene expression of PLK1 to inhibit tumor cell proliferation, responding to orthogonal protein-signal stimulation. This programmable conformational cooperativity paradigm has potential applications in the related fields.

Indexed as

OligonucleotidesSignal TransductionAllosteric RegulationMolecular ConformationOligonucleotides

Identifiers

PMID37580346
PMCPMC10425332
OpenAlexW4385806088

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