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Krittapas Jantarug (Set)
@kjantarug.bsky.social
PhD student @UZH @LOCBP
Interested in research in Chemical Biology
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We’ve refreshed the AlphaFold Database Entry Pages!

Explore the cleaner design, improved 3D viewer, and easier access from any device 👇
www.alphafold.ebi.ac.uk/entry/P04637

Or read more👇
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#AlphaFold #Bioinformatics #UXForScience
@pdbeurope.bsky.social
August 7, 2025 at 12:19 PM
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PANCS-Binders (phage-assisted noncontinuous selection of protein binders) screens multiple high-diversity protein libraries against a panel of dozens of targets for high-throughput binder discovery. @chembiobryan.bsky.social @mstyles-chembiol.bsky.social

www.nature.com/articles/s41...
August 6, 2025 at 7:49 PM
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Happy to share this work, led by Olek Pisera, on dialing in a wide range of copy numbers for the orthogonal plasmid of OrthoRep. We used this ability to study how plasmid copy number influences evolutionary outcomes. www.nature.com/articles/s41...
The role of plasmid copy number and mutation rate in evolutionary outcomes - Nature Ecology & Evolution
In an experimental multicopy plasmid evolution system that allows manipulation of mutation rate and copy number, low copy number promoted enrichment of beneficial alleles whereas high copy number main...
www.nature.com
July 15, 2025 at 8:47 PM
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📄 🌟 Preprint research from @juliankompa.bsky.social (@kjohnsson.bsky.social lab) and colleagues introduces Rho-tag and SiR-tag – engineered protein tags that bind unsubstituted rhodamine and silicon rhodamine dyes, respectively, with nanomolar affinity: bit.ly/40dXc7t

#Microscopy #Imaging
July 14, 2025 at 3:27 PM
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Online now @ Cell is the yeast multicellular engineering paper from Fankang Meng - the fruits of his productive PhD in our group. He developed modular synthetic biology tools to bring multicellular behaviours to yeast - specific adhesion, juxtacrine signalling and more. www.cell.com/cell/fulltex...
Engineering yeast multicellular behaviors via synthetic adhesion and contact signaling
By designing synthetic toolkits for contact-based signaling (MARS) and cell-cell adhesion (SATURN), we program yeast to form multicellular structures and perform complex tasks, like building logic cir...
www.cell.com
July 11, 2025 at 3:01 PM
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Teaching an old bacterial protein new tricks: Fast, bright and reversible rhodamine tags for live-cell imaging:

www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Congratulations to Julian Kompa and the entire team.
Fast, Bright and Reversible Rhodamine Tags for Live-Cell Imaging
We present Rho-tag and SiR-tag, engineered protein tags derived from bacterial multidrug-resistance proteins that bind unsubstituted (silicon-) rhodamines with nanomolar affinity, enabling fast, rever...
www.biorxiv.org
July 9, 2025 at 7:58 PM
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Finally out in Nature Chem Bio:
SNAP-tag2 for faster and brighter protein labeling
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Thank you Steffi and Veselin.
SNAP-tag2 for faster and brighter protein labeling - Nature Chemical Biology
SNAP-tag is a widespread tool for labeling protein for bioimaging. Now, Kühn et al. report SNAP-tag2 with increased labeling kinetics and brightness, which translates into a better performance in live...
www.nature.com
July 3, 2025 at 7:45 PM
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We're hiring for 2 postdocs to work in our lab in London on the newly announced Wellcome Trust SynHG project. If you know people looking to work on big-scale ambitious science like this, please RT and share this with them. Apply by 7/20, interviews in Aug. imperial.ac.uk/jobs/search-...
June 30, 2025 at 2:34 PM
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De novo designed bright, hyperstable rhodamine binders for fluorescence microscopy by Bo Huang and team: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
June 26, 2025 at 1:50 PM
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A new paper from the Institute for Protein Design at UW presents RFpeptides, an extension of RoseTTAFold2 and RFdiffusion for de novo design of macrocyclic peptide binders

www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Accurate de novo design of high-affinity protein-binding macrocycles using deep learning - Nature Chemical Biology
A method for de novo design of peptide macrocyles called RFpeptides has been developed. RFpeptides is an extension of RoseTTAFold2 and RFdiffusion and combines structure prediction and protein backbon...
www.nature.com
June 23, 2025 at 4:54 PM
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This is wild!
Engineering E. coli bacteria to turn plastic waste into paracetamol (Tylenol)
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
June 23, 2025 at 6:55 PM
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Huh?
Non-aromatic fluorescence from single α-helical peptides: Cell Reports Physical Science www.cell.com/cell-reports...
June 19, 2025 at 7:50 AM
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Please check out our new high-affinity split-HaloTag for live-cell protein labeling www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
Congratulations to Yin-Hsi Lin!
www.biorxiv.org
June 16, 2025 at 2:24 PM
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We are hiring! Check out our open PhD position for an exciting industry collaboration with Novo Nordisk:
jobs.ethz.ch/job/view/JOP...
PhD Position in Peptide-Based Drug Discovery (Industry Collaboration, w/m/d)
jobs.ethz.ch
June 10, 2025 at 2:30 PM
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I had to recreate a FACS plot in R, for *reasons*. It was not obvious (to me) how to make a line and fill histogram, so here's a quick post showing how to do it.

quantixed.org/2025/06/05/l...
Let It Flow: recreating a FACS plot with ggplot – quantixed
quantixed.org
June 5, 2025 at 12:18 PM
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Applications are now open for the 4th edition of the “Ecole de Physique des Houches” on Fluorescence Markers for Advanced Microscopies, a WE-Heraeus seminar.
March 15th-20th 2026
Join us to learn everything you wanted to know about Fluorescent Markers for advanced microscopies.
May 26, 2025 at 11:52 AM
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🚨 preprint 2️⃣ this month: our (purely experimental🧪) venture into #ChemBio
We prouldy present: ADD-tagging of proteins (or "ADDing") —a super convenient enzymatic technique to install click chemistry handles on proteins.
Led by superstar @wahyuwidodo.bsky.social
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
A 🧵👇🏽
May 20, 2025 at 12:30 PM
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We’re hiring. Postdoctoral and PhD positions available in Medicinal Radiochemistry.

Must have high level of skills and experience in synthetic chemistry, with knowledge of radiochemistry, cellular studies, in vivo imaging desirable.

@erc.europa.eu
@snsf-ch.bsky.social
@chemuzhch.bsky.social
May 11, 2025 at 9:09 AM
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We’re excited to share new work on the continuous in vivo evolution of gene libraries towards arbitrary functions. Led by superstar Olek Pisera, our experiments show that gene evolution is highly versatile...
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
Rapid continuous evolution of gene libraries towards arbitrary functions
The emergence and evolution of new gene functions is central to biology, yet experimental tools that allow us to prospectively probe and understand this process are lacking. While systems for continuo...
www.biorxiv.org
May 6, 2025 at 6:23 PM
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Lead author @ssmelyansky.bsky.social spearheaded a strategy to label a single sulfur-containing glycan called ManLAM on the cell envelope of the bacteria that cause #TB. news.mit.edu/2025/new-mol... or here: www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/... 🧪 #glycotime @mitchemistry.bsky.social
New molecular label could lead to simpler, faster tuberculosis tests
MIT chemists found a way to identify a complex sugar molecule in the cell walls of Mycobacterium tuberculosis, the world’s deadliest pathogen. This labeling could lead to simpler, faster TB tests.
news.mit.edu
May 5, 2025 at 9:53 PM
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A quantitative yeast-surface display and FACS approach generates fully human conformational antibodies against amyloid aggregates without the need for immunization

www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Facile generation of drug-like conformational antibodies specific for amyloid fibrils - Nature Chemical Biology
A quantitative fluorescence-activated cell sorting method for generating fully human conformational antibodies against amyloid aggregates associated with neurodegenerative disorders—without the need f...
www.nature.com
May 5, 2025 at 1:44 PM
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Excited to see this out in @science.org today!! www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
May 1, 2025 at 6:17 PM
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📣 #Call for #Postdoc.Mobility. Expand your #research experience with a stay abroad. If you would like to find out more about this call, take part in our online information event on 12 May 2025.
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📆 Submission deadline: 5 August 2025
May 1, 2025 at 7:02 AM
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Check out the nice News and Views article about our work from lead author @sijiewang.bsky.social using phage display to find covalent inhibitors of protein-protein interactions. #ChemBio
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Fishing for covalent peptides
Nature Chemical Biology - Electrophilic phage display has emerged as a powerful platform for discovering high-affinity or covalent peptide ligands. A new study reveals that this platform enables...
www.nature.com
May 1, 2025 at 3:46 PM
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Happy to share the results of a fun side project in which we used the COUPY dye and mutants of HaloTag7 to show that changes in fluorescence lifetime correlate with the polarity of the protein binding pocket!
chemistry-europe.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1...
#FLIM #fluorescence #HaloTag
Fluorescence Lifetime Multiplexing with Environment‐Sensitive Chemigenetic Probes
HaloTag (HT) is a versatile self-labeling protein that has been widely adopted in fluorescence microscopy. Besides its established use as an intensity-based marker and sensor, interest in using HT fo....
chemistry-europe.onlinelibrary.wiley.com
April 30, 2025 at 12:10 PM