實驗室研究方向主要著重於利用非典型氨基酸體內轉譯技術,探索蛋白質轉譯後修飾及其下游網絡交互作用,透過蛋白質化學,酵素學及化學生物學的研究方法,增進蛋白質轉譯後修飾在疾病模式下的了解,也進一步發展新穎蛋白質藥物。
目前研究計劃集中在三個方面:
Site-Specific Histidine Aza-Michael Addition in Proteins Enabled by a Ferritin-Based Metalloenzyme.
Tsou JC, Tsou CJ, Wang CH, Ko ALA, Wang YH, Liang HH, Sun, JC, Huang KF, Ko TP, Lin SY, Wang YS*
J. Am. Chem. Soc. (2024)
Ferritin Conjugates With Multiple Clickable Amino Acids Encoded by C-Terminal Engineered Pyrrolysyl-tRNA Synthetase.
Wang YH, Jian ML, Chen PJ, Tsou JC, Truong LP, Wang YS*
Frontiers in chemistry (2021)
Revealing USP7 Deubiquitinase Substrate Specificity by Unbiased Syn-thesis of Ubiquitin Tagged SUMO2.
Jiang HK, Kurkute P, Li CL, Wang YH, Chen PJ, Lin SY, Wang YS*
Biochemistry (2020)
Probing the Active Site of Deubiquitinase USP30 with Noncanonical Tryptophan Analogues.
Jiang HK, Wang YH, Weng JH, Kurkute P, Li CL, Lee MN, Chen PJ, Tseng HW, Tsai MD, Wang YS*
Biochemistry (2020)
Crystal structures reveal an elusive functional domain of pyrrolysyl-tRNA synthetase.
Suzuki T, Miller C, Guo LT, Ho JML, Bryson DI, Wang YS, Liu DR, Söll D
Nat. Chem. Bioli. (2017)
Evolution of translation machinery in recoded bacteria enables multi-site incorporation of nonstandard amino acids.
Amiram M, Haimovich AD, Fan C, Wang YS, Aerni HR, Ntai I, Moonan DW, Ma NJ, Rovner AJ, Hong SH, Kelleher NL, Goodman AL, Jewett MC, Söll D, Rinehart J, Isaacs FJ
Nat. Biotechnol. (2015)
Probing the active site tryptophan of Staphylococcus aureus thioredoxin with an analog.
Englert M, Nakamura A, Wang YS, Eiler D, Söll D, Guo LT
Nucl. Acids Res. (2015)
Polyspecific pyrrolysyl-tRNA synthetases from directed evolution.
Guo LT, Wang YS, Nakamura A, Eiler D, Kavran JM, Wong M, Kiessling LL, Steitz TA, O'Donoghue P, Söll D
Proc. Nalt. Acad. Sci. USA (2014)
Upgrading protein synthesis for synthetic biology.
O'Donoghue P, Ling J, Wang YS, Söll D
Nat. Chem. Biol. (2013)
A rationally designed pyrrolysyl-tRNA synthetase mutant with a broad substrate spectrum.
Wang YS, Fang X, Wallace AL, Wu B, Liu WR
J. Am. Chem. Soc. (2012)