Publications by authors named "Douglas Quinn"

A series of glycoconjugates with defined connectivity were synthesized to investigate the impact of coupling Salmonella typhimurium O-antigen to different amino acids of CRM197 protein carrier. In particular, two novel methods for site-selective glycan conjugation were developed to obtain conjugates with single attachment site on the protein, based on chemical modification of a disulfide bond and pH-controlled transglutaminase-catalyzed modification of lysine, respectively. Importantly, conjugation at the C186-201 bond resulted in significantly higher anti O-antigen bactericidal antibody titers than coupling to K37/39, and in comparable titers to conjugates bearing a larger number of saccharides.

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The highly conserved 70 kDa heat shock proteins (Hsp70) play an integral role in proteostasis such that dysregulation has been implicated in numerous diseases. Elucidating the precise role of Hsp70 family members in the cellular context, however, has been hampered by the redundancy and intricate regulation of the chaperone network, and relatively few selective and potent tools. We have characterized a natural product, novolactone, that targets cytosolic and ER-localized isoforms of Hsp70 through a highly conserved covalent interaction at the interface between the substrate-binding and ATPase domains.

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Embryonic stem (ES) cells require a coordinated network of transcription factors to maintain pluripotency or trigger lineage specific differentiation. Central to these processes are the proteins Oct4, Nanog, and Sox2. Although the transcriptional targets of these factors have been extensively studied, very little is known about how the proteins themselves are regulated, especially at the post-translational level.

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Tyrosine phosphorylation is a type of post-translational modification that plays a crucial role in signal transduction. Thus, the study of this modification at the proteomic level has great biological significance. However, because of the low abundance of tyrosine-phosphorylated proteins in total cell lysate, it is difficult to evaluate the dynamics of tyrosine phosphorylation at a global level.

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Advanced glycation end products (AGEs) accumulate with age and at an accelerated rate in diabetes. AGEs bind cell-surface receptors including the receptor for advanced glycation end products (RAGE). The dependence of RAGE binding on specific biochemical characteristics of AGEs is currently unknown.

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Comparative proteomic studies can lead to the identification of protein markers for disease diagnostics and protein targets for potential disease interventions. An inverse labeling strategy based on the principle of protein stable isotope labeling and mass spectrometric detection has been successfully applied to three general protein labeling methods. In contrast to the conventional single experiment approach, two labeling experiments are performed in which the initial labeling is reversed in the second experiment.

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The inverse labeling/mass spectrometry strategy has been applied to protein metabolic (15)N labeling for gel-free proteomics to achieve the rapid identification of protein markers/targets. Inverse labeling involves culturing both the perturbed (by disease or by a drug treatment) and control samples each in two separate pools of normal and (15)N-enriched culture media such that four pools are produced as opposed to two in a conventional labeling approach. The inverse labeling is then achieved by combining the normal (14)N-control with the (15)N-perturbed sample, and the (15)N-control with the (14)N-perturbed sample.

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