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A diterpene synthase from the sandfly Lutzomyia longipalpis produces the pheromone sobralene (2024)
Journal Article
Ducker, C., Baines, C., Guy, J., Euzébio Goulart Santana, A., Pickett, J. A., & Oldham, N. J. (2024). A diterpene synthase from the sandfly Lutzomyia longipalpis produces the pheromone sobralene. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 121(12), Article e2322453121. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2322453121

The phlebotomine sandfly, Lutzomyia longipalpis, a major vector of the Leishmania parasite, uses terpene pheromones to attract conspecifics for mating. Examination of the L. longipalpis genome revealed a putative terpene synthase (TPS), which—upon he... Read More about A diterpene synthase from the sandfly Lutzomyia longipalpis produces the pheromone sobralene.

Characterisation of geranylgeranyl diphosphate synthase from the sandfly Lutzomyia longipalpis (2023)
Journal Article
Ducker, C., French, S., Pathak, M., Taylor, H., Sainter, A., Askem, W., …Oldham, N. J. (2023). Characterisation of geranylgeranyl diphosphate synthase from the sandfly Lutzomyia longipalpis. Insect Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, 161, Article 104001. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ibmb.2023.104001

Leishmaniasis is a debilitating and often fatal neglected tropical disease. Males from sub-populations of the Leishmania-harbouring sandfly, Lutzomyia longipalpis, produce the diterpene sex and aggregation pheromone, sobralene, for which geranylgeran... Read More about Characterisation of geranylgeranyl diphosphate synthase from the sandfly Lutzomyia longipalpis.

The Small Molecule Antagonist KCI807 Disrupts Association of the Amino-Terminal Domain of the Androgen Receptor with ELK1 by Modulating the Adjacent DNA Binding Domain (2023)
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Soave, C., Ducker, C., Islam, N., Kim, S., Yurgelevic, S., Nicely, N. I., …Ratnam, M. (2023). The Small Molecule Antagonist KCI807 Disrupts Association of the Amino-Terminal Domain of the Androgen Receptor with ELK1 by Modulating the Adjacent DNA Binding Domain. Molecular Pharmacology, 103(4), 211-220. https://doi.org/10.1124/molpharm.122.000589

The androgen receptor (AR) is a crucial coactivator of ELK1 for prostate cancer (PCa) growth, associating with ELK1 through two peptide segments (358-457 and 514-557) within the amino-terminal domain (NTD) of AR. The small-molecule antagonist 5-hydro... Read More about The Small Molecule Antagonist KCI807 Disrupts Association of the Amino-Terminal Domain of the Androgen Receptor with ELK1 by Modulating the Adjacent DNA Binding Domain.

Comparative analysis of protein expression systems and PTM landscape in the study of transcription factor ELK-1 (2022)
Journal Article
Ducker, C., Ratnam, M., Shaw, P. E., & Layfield, R. (2023). Comparative analysis of protein expression systems and PTM landscape in the study of transcription factor ELK-1. Protein Expression and Purification, 203, Article 106216. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.pep.2022.106216

Post-translational modifications (PTMs) are important for protein folding and activity, and the ability to recreate physiologically relevant PTM profiles on recombinantly-expressed proteins is vital for meaningful functional analysis. The ETS transcr... Read More about Comparative analysis of protein expression systems and PTM landscape in the study of transcription factor ELK-1.

Identification of ELK1 interacting peptide segments in the androgen receptor (2022)
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Ducker, C., Kim, S., Strahl, T., Rosati, R., Huang, Y., Shaw, P. E., & Ratnam, M. (2022). Identification of ELK1 interacting peptide segments in the androgen receptor. Biochemical Journal, 479(14), 1519-1531. https://doi.org/10.1042/bcj20220297

Prostate cancer (PCa) growth requires tethering of the androgen receptor (AR) to chromatin by the ETS domain transcription factor ELK1 to coactivate critical cell proliferation genes. Disruption of the ELK1–AR complex is a validated potential means o... Read More about Identification of ELK1 interacting peptide segments in the androgen receptor.

Ubiquitin-Mediated Control of ETS Transcription Factors: Roles in Cancer and Development (2021)
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Ducker, C., & Shaw, P. E. (2021). Ubiquitin-Mediated Control of ETS Transcription Factors: Roles in Cancer and Development. International Journal of Molecular Sciences, 22(10), Article 5119. https://doi.org/10.3390/ijms22105119

Genome expansion, whole genome and gene duplication events during metazoan evolution produced an extensive family of ETS genes whose members express transcription factors with a conserved winged helix-turn-helix DNA-binding domain. Unravelling their... Read More about Ubiquitin-Mediated Control of ETS Transcription Factors: Roles in Cancer and Development.