Alfred and Ziyi’s collaborative work with Deuerling and Ban labs on protein N-myristoylation is accepted in Molecular Cell. Congratulations!
Zikun’s paper on cotranslational mitochondrial protein targeting is accepted in Cell. Congratulations!
Check out our new paper on how cpSRP43 coordinates light-harvesting complex biogenesis. Congratulations to Alex! Switchable client specificity in a dual functional chaperone coordinates light-harvesting complex biogenesis
Max joins the lab. Welcome Max!
Congratulations to Sunny for passing his candidacy!
Congratulations to Ziyi and Bryce for passing their candidacies!
Shu-ou is elected by the National Academy of Sciences as a member in recognition of her distinguished and continuing achievements in original research. Congratulations, Shu-ou!
Yelim and Sunny join the lab. Welcome!
Ziyi and Bryce join the lab. Welcome!
Congratulations to Zikun for successfully defending his PhD thesis!
Shu-ou is the winner of the 2024 NAS Award in Molecular Biology. Congratulations, Shu-ou!
Wren Steifel joins the lab. Welcome, Wren!
Congratulations to Ruilin for passing the candidacy!
Congratulations to Hao-Hsuan for successfully defending his PhD thesis!
Welcome, Radek, to Pasadena! Radek is our new captain on the single molecule TIRF microscope.
Congratulations to Chien-I for successfully defending her PhD thesis!
Check out our new paper about SecA-driven cotranslational protein translocation. Congratulations to Zikun and Shuai! Ribosome profiling reveals multiple roles of SecA in cotranslational protein export
Congratulations to Hao-Hsuan for the new article in Science! Check out how NAC acts as a molecular gatekeeper on the ribosome to impart specificity of protein targeting. Mechanism of signal sequence handover from NAC to SRP on ribosomes during ER-protein targeting.
Switchable client specificity in a dual functional chaperone coordinates light-harvesting complex biogenesis
Alex R. Siegel, Gerard Kroon, Changqi Zhao, Peng Wang, Peter E. Wright and Shu-ou Shan*. (2025)
Science Advances. PMID: 40512866
NAC guides a ribosomal multienzyme complex for nascent protein processing
Alfred M Lentzsch‡, Denis Yudin‡, Martin Gamerdinger, Sowmya Chandrasekar, Laurenz Rabl, Alain Scaiola, Elke Deuerling, Nenad Ban* & Shu-ou Shan*. (2024)
Nature. PMID: 39169182
Dynamic stability of Sgt2 enables selective and privileged client handover in a chaperone triad
Hyunju Cho, Yumeng Liu, SangYoon Chung, Sowmya Chandrasekar, Shimon Weiss & Shu-ou Shan*. (2024)
Nature Commun. PMID: 38167697
An ankyrin repeat chaperone targets toxic oligomers during amyloidogenesis
Gupta A, Lu C, Wang F, Chou TF, Shan SO*. (2023)
Protein Sci. PMID: 37433015
Dodecamer assembly of a metazoan AAA+ chaperone couples substrate extraction to refolding
Arpit Gupta‡, Alfred M. Lentzsch‡, Alex Siegel‡, Zanlin Yu, Un Seng Chio, Yifan Cheng, Shu-Ou Shan*. (2023)
Science Advances. PMID: 37163603
System-wide analyses reveal essential roles of N-terminal protein modification in bacterial membrane integrity
Chien-I Yang, Zikun Zhu, Jeffrey J.Jones, Brett Lomenick, Tsui-Fen Chou, Shu-ou Shan*. (2022)
iScience PMID: 35942092
Ribosome profiling reveals multiple roles of SecA in cotranslational protein export.
Zhu Z‡, Wang S‡, Shan SO*. (2022)
Nat Commun. PMID: 35697696
Ribosome-nascent Chain Interaction Regulates N-terminal Protein Modification.
Yang CI, Kim J, Shan SO*. (2022)
J Mol Biol. PMID: 35278477
Mechanism of signal sequence handover from NAC to SRP on ribosomes during ER-protein targeting.
Jomaa A‡, Gamerdinger M‡, Hsieh HH‡, Wallisch A, Chandrasekaran V, Ulusoy Z, Scaiola A, Hegde RS, Shan SO*, Ban N*, Deuerling E*. (2022)
Science. PMID: 35201867