Irene Serrano
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Irene Serrano
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Senior Editor @naturecomms.bsky.social Structural Biology, Biochemistry and Biophysics Team. First gen. Mom. Baker. Craft Maker. Thoughts and typos are all my own (she/her/hers)
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Today is the International day for the elimination of violence against women. In 2024, an estimated 50,000 women and girls were killed by intimate partners or family members worldwide. That is 137 women and girls every day. One every ten minutes. www.un.org/en/observanc...
International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women | United Nations
The International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women aims to create awareness of the fact that violence against women is a human rights violation that impedes progress in many areas, in...
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November 25, 2025 at 4:28 PM
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The E3 ubiquitin ligase complex SIFI has a role in terminating stress response signalling, to restore cellular homeostasis. Researchers @nature present the cryo-EM structure of this ~1.3 MDa complex providing insights into its mechanism of action. www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Molecular basis of SIFI activity in the integrated stress response - Nature
Nature - Molecular basis of SIFI activity in the integrated stress response
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May 6, 2025 at 3:05 PM
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O-GlcNAcylation reduces proteome solubility and regulates the formation of biomolecular condensates in human cells #NatCommun #MassSpec www.nature.com/articles/s41...
O-GlcNAcylation reduces proteome solubility and regulates the formation of biomolecular condensates in human cells - Nature Communications
O-GlcNAcylation can regulate protein properties and functions. Here, the authors systematically study its impacts on protein solubility and biocondensate formation. O-GlcNAc dramatically reduces prote...
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May 1, 2025 at 12:55 PM
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Nature Communications is looking to hire an organic chemist – more details in the link below #Chemsky #Chemjobs 🧪
Associate or Senior Editor (Organic Chemistry), Nature Communications
Job Title: Associate or Senior Editor (Organic Chemistry), Nature Communications Organisation: Nature Portfolio Locations: Jersey City, London, New York, Philadelphia or Washington DC - hybrid working...
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April 10, 2025 at 1:07 PM
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New Preprint: We have solved the structure of the proteasome in complex with two different ubiquitin chains: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... This work is spearheaded by PhD Student Sascha Amann
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Structural basis for the ubiquitin chain recognition of the human 26S proteasome
Proteasomal degradation is a fundamental process for all eukaryotic life. A protein destined for degradation is first tagged with a polyubiquitin chain, which is selected by the proteasome. Different ...
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April 9, 2025 at 8:59 AM
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🚨 Our #singlecell article is out! We describe the Chip-Tip label-free SCP workflow quantifying >5000 proteins in single HeLa cells. With high scalability, increased depth and throughput we can now envision large-scale LFQ-SCP biomedical studies!
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Enhanced sensitivity and scalability with a Chip-Tip workflow enables deep single-cell proteomics - Nature Methods
Chip-Tip is a label-free quantification-based single-cell proteomics workflow for deep single-cell proteomics, which identifies over 5,000 proteins and 40,000 peptides in single HeLa cells.
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January 17, 2025 at 7:54 AM
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Today in @nature.com we share our back-to-back stories with Ning Zheng’s lab revealing chemical-genetic convergence between a molecular glue degrader & E3 ligase cancer mutations. 1/5
February 12, 2025 at 4:20 PM
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🌱 Thrilled to share that our latest research on Vacuolar Quality Control is now published in Nature Plants! 🚀 We uncovered a new mechanism of ATG8ylation of the tonoplast, which helps us understand how cells survive to cell wall damage.
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ATG8ylation of vacuolar membrane protects plants against cell wall damage - Nature Plants
ATG8ylation of the tonoplast, triggered by cell wall damage, acts as a vital vacuolar quality control mechanism that safeguards vacuolar integrity and ensures cell survival under stress.
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February 7, 2025 at 11:11 AM
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Hold this date for the 2nd UK Proteostasis Network in Dundee👉🏾 3-5 June 2025. This will be a joint meeting with the UK Autophagy network. More info coming soon proteostasisuk.co.uk/conference-2...
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February 4, 2025 at 9:40 PM
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How do cells recognise disease- and stress-affected proteins for clearance by ubiquitination? Work @nature shows that such proteins are marked with C-terminal amides, allowing their targeting by SCF/FBXO31 ubiquitin ligase for degradation. shorturl.at/B3rmR
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C-terminal amides mark proteins for degradation via SCF–FBXO31 - Nature
SCF–FBXO31 scans proteins for C-terminal amidation and marks them for subsequent proteasomal degradation.
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January 29, 2025 at 5:33 PM
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A majority of eukaryotic proteins are N-terminally acetylated. Here is an updated review of the responsible enzymes and the impact of this modification for proteins, cells and organisms @naturecomms.bsky.social @ispt-proteinterm.bsky.social #acetylation #N-termini #N-degron rdcu.be/d6mbd
January 15, 2025 at 4:33 PM
Tell me they are growing up with cats without telling me that they are growing up with cats…
January 14, 2025 at 4:09 PM
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Our call for papers with @naturecomms.bsky.social, Communications Chemistry & Scientific Reports welcomes manuscripts exploring glycans in the broadest sense, seeking basic, translational, and applied glycobiology research:
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January 13, 2025 at 1:16 PM
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A new tool FUSEP profiles the E2-specific ubiquitome and enables systematic studies of non-lysine ubiquitin conjugation, here used to identify the existence of tyrosine ubiquitination

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E2–Ub-R74G strategy reveals E2-specific ubiquitin conjugation profiles in live cells - Nature Chemical Biology
Shen and Yin developed a technology named FUSEP to profile the E2-specific ubiquitome that makes use of a fusion between E2 and ubiquitin carrying a R74G point mutation, which leaves an LGGG remnant f...
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January 10, 2025 at 3:07 PM