[HTML][HTML] Cryo-EM structure of an active bacterial TIR–STING filament complex

BR Morehouse, MCJ Yip, AFA Keszei… - Nature, 2022 - nature.com
Stimulator of interferon genes (STING) is an antiviral signalling protein that is broadly
conserved in both innate immunity in animals and phage defence in prokaryotes 1 , 2 , 3 – 4 . …

Structures of translationally inactive mammalian ribosomes

A Brown, MR Baird, MCJ Yip, J Murray, S Shao - Elife, 2018 - elifesciences.org
10.7554/eLife.40486.001 The cellular levels and activities of ribosomes directly regulate
gene expression during numerous physiological processes. The mechanisms that globally …

Structure and activation mechanism of the BBSome membrane protein trafficking complex

SK Singh, M Gui, F Koh, MCJ Yip, A Brown - elife, 2020 - elifesciences.org
Bardet-Biedl syndrome (BBS) is a currently incurable ciliopathy caused by the failure to
correctly establish or maintain cilia-dependent signaling pathways. Eight proteins associated …

Detecting and rescuing stalled ribosomes

MCJ Yip, S Shao - Trends in biochemical sciences, 2021 - cell.com
Ribosomes that stall inappropriately during protein synthesis harbor proteotoxic components
linked to cellular stress and neurodegenerative diseases. Molecular mechanisms that …

Ddi1 is a ubiquitin-dependent protease

MCJ Yip, NO Bodnar… - Proceedings of the …, 2020 - National Acad Sciences
The Saccharomyces cerevisiae protein Ddi1 and its homologs in higher eukaryotes have
been proposed to serve as shuttling factors that deliver ubiquitinated substrates to the …

Mechanism for recycling tRNAs on stalled ribosomes

MCJ Yip, AFA Keszei, Q Feng, V Chu… - Nature Structural & …, 2019 - nature.com
Aberrantly stalled ribosomes initiate the ribosome-associated quality control (RQC) and mRNA
surveillance pathways for the degradation of potentially toxic peptides and faulty mRNAs. …

[PDF][PDF] ELAC1 repairs tRNAs cleaved during ribosome-associated quality control

MCJ Yip, S Savickas, SP Gygi, S Shao - Cell reports, 2020 - cell.com
Ribosome-associated quality control (RQC) disassembles aberrantly stalled translation
complexes to recycle or degrade the constituent parts. A key step of RQC is the cleavage of P-…

The eRF1 degrader SRI-41315 acts as a molecular glue at the ribosomal decoding center

JPL Coelho, MCJ Yip, K Oltion, J Taunton… - Nature Chemical …, 2024 - nature.com
Translation termination is an essential cellular process, which is also of therapeutic interest
for diseases that manifest from premature stop codons. In eukaryotes, translation termination …

Structural insights into metazoan pretargeting GET complexes

AFA Keszei, MCJ Yip, TC Hsieh, S Shao - Nature structural & molecular …, 2021 - nature.com
Close coordination between chaperones is essential for protein biosynthesis, including the
delivery of tail-anchored (TA) proteins containing a single C-terminal transmembrane domain …

Mechanism of client selection by the protein quality-control factor UBE2O

MCJ Yip, SF Sedor, S Shao - Nature structural & molecular biology, 2022 - nature.com
The E2/E3 enzyme UBE2O ubiquitylates diverse clients to mediate important processes,
including targeting unassembled ‘orphan’ proteins for quality control and clearing ribosomes …