Count down for CNPN and HUPO 2025 starte!
This is our honor to have our keynote and invited speakers 🤩
@kislingerthomas.bsky.social and Dr. Stuart Cordwell
For more info about the program: cnpn.ca/cnpn2025/
#HUPO #proteomics #multi-omics #biomarkerdiscovery #therapeutictargets #bacterialphenotypes
À ajouter à votre calendrier! Sir Venki Ramakrishnan (MRC-LMB, Cambridge, UK, prix Nobel de chimie 2009) prononcera une allocution au @RIMUHC1 le 1er mai à 17:00 et à l’Hôpital général de Montréal le 2 mai à 11:00. Le programme complet et les modalités d’inscription suivront.
We are so happy for our own Spyros Artavanis-Tsakonas who today was the co-recipient of the Gairdner Award from his work on the Notch pathway! Congratulations!! www.youtube.com/watch?v=hA6d...
Thanks to you and the structural biology platform at @umontreal.ca !
Tomorrow we host the Annual CRBS Bench-to-Bedside workshop titled "Cellular and Molecular Mechanisms of Aging", with Alanna Watt and Jeremy van Raamsdonk. Please register here: forms.gle/RKy5LxnrguYV.... There will be pizza!
We are recruiting! The McGill University Department of Pharmacology and Therapeutics in the Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences invites applications for a full-time tenure track Assistant or Associate Professor position in the area of toxicology.
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Deeply grateful to NSERC for funding this work, as well as the Canada Research Chair program and CFI, which helped create and sustain the SPR-MS Facility and HDX-MS platform. 7/7
What does it mean for PINK1's function? Mutation of the MPP cleavage site in PINK1 does not affect accumulation on damaged mitochondria, nor processing by PARL under steady-state. However, a.a. 2-34, which binds to MPP, is required for sensing loss of membrane potential. 6/n
Thus, for MPP to turn over multiple substrates, the alpha and beta subunits must dissociate. Structural modelling shows how MPPalpha binding guides (or misguides in the case of PINK1) the cleavage site of the MTS in the catalytic subunit. 5/n
Using mass photometry and hydrogen-deuterium exchange mass spectrometry, we show that the PINK1 MTS acts like a molecular glue by interacting extensively with the regulatory MPPalpha subunit and with the catalytic MPPbeta subunit. 4/n
Intriguingly, we found that while MPP cleaves PINK1's MTS between A28-Y29, it cleaves it much more slowly than other substrates. Using a FRET-based cleavage assay based on MDH2, we find that the PINK1-MTS is a potent (IC50 ca. 500 nM) competitive inhibitor of MPP. 3/n
We first established a bacterial expression system for human MPP alpha and beta. The enzyme is active in vitro and readily cleaves mitochondrial targeting sequence (MTS) from multiple mitochondrial proteins. 2/n
Proud to report our latest work on the mechanism of substrate cleavage by the mitochondrial processing peptidase (MPP). Kudos to Andrew Bayne who drove this project, with help from new PhD student Danielle Simons and Naoto Soya in the Lukacs lab. 1/n www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
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Today is #McGill24. ❤️ Give now and have your gift matched up to dollar for dollar. We are fundraising for the Memorial Studentship in honour of Max Eivaskhani, which will help train outstanding young researchers at McGill CRBS.
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Huge impact for prion diseases
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
In vivo base editing extends lifespan of a humanized mouse model of prion disease
@jftrempe.bsky.social du comité rayonnement du centre a donné une présentation au CEGEP Edouard Montpetit le 30 octobre dernier, devant une salle pleine d'étudiants super allumés! Merci à Carl Ouellet pour l'invitation!