Jonathan Pruneda

@jnpruneda.bsky.social

Associate Professor at Oregon Health & Science University studying microbial interference in host ubiquitin signaling. Current ASM Northwest Branch President. Formerly @UWBiochemistry and @MRC_LMB.

To understand what a lipid does, we need to know its partners. Which proteins bind lipids and how can we capture those interactions? Our new Nature Protocols paper provides a practical, step-by-step guide to identifying lipid-binding proteins. 🧵

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Over the past 5 years, 50 structures of full-length HECT-type ligase constructs have been deposited in the PDB. What have we learned from these studies, and what key questions remain open? Check out our new review on this exciting and fast-moving field: www.jbc.org/article/S002...

HECT-type ubiquitin ligases: Emerging principles in the era of full-length structures

Ubiquitin coordinates a complex network of cellular pathways through covalent modification of substrates. Specificity in substrate recognition and modification choice is largely conferred by ubiquitin...

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Our paper is finally out! 🥳 If you want to know how a single Salmonella effector rewires the whole macrophage transcriptional landscape by hijacking one host transcription factor, check our latest research! Thanks to the @thurstonlab.bsky.social and @peterwshill.bsky.social labs for an amazing work!

Salmonella effector SteE reprograms the macrophage regulatory network to drive specific hyperactivation of STAT3 target genes

The ability of Salmonella Typhimurium to exploit macrophages as a niche for survival, replication, and dissemination is central to its pathogenesis. T…

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