Publications
* corresponding authors #joint first authors
2019
(41) Chan S., Shan H., Dahoun T., Vogel H., Yuan S.*, Advancing Drug Discovery via Artificial Intelligence. Trends in Pharmacological Sciences (2019). (doi:10.1016/j.tips.2019.06.004)
(40) Chan S., Li Y., Dahoun T., Vogel H., Yuan S.*, New binding sites, new opportunities for GPCR drug discovery. Trends in Biochemical Sciences (2019). (doi:10.1016/j.tibs.2018.11.011)
(39) Liu L, Chan S, Mo T, Ding W, Yu S., Zhang Q.*, Yuan S.*, Movements of the Substrate-Binding Clamp of Cypemycin Decarboxylase CypD. Journal of Chemical Information and Modeling (2019). (doi:10.1021/acs.jcim.9b00156)
(38) Yuan S.*, Dahoun T., Brugarolas M., Pick H., Filipek S., Vogel H.*, Computational modeling of the olfactory receptor Olfr73 suggests a molecular basis for low potency of olfactory receptor-activating compounds, Communications Biology (2019). (doi:10.1038/s42003-019-0384-8)
(37) Zheng L., Falschlunger C., Huang K, Mairhofer E, Yuan S, et. al. Hatchet ribozyme structure and implications for cleavage mechanism. Proc Natl Acad Sci USA (2019). (10.1073/pnas.1902413116)
2018
(36) WIPO Patent: Aissaoui H., Guerry P., Lehembre F., Pothier J., Pouzol L., Richard S., Yuan S., Piperidine CXCR7 receptor modulators. (2018). (patent no. WO 2018/019929 A1)
(35) Chan S., Wang J., Palczewski K., Filipek S., Vogel H.*, Liu Z.*, Yuan S.*, Exploring a new ligand binding site of G protein-coupled receptors. Chemical Science (2018). (cover story, doi:10.1039/C8SC01680A)
(34) Chan S., Pan L., Li Y., Yuan S.*, Rationalization of stereoselectivity in enzyme reactions. Computational Molecular Science (2018). (cover story, doi:10.1002/wcms.1403)
(33) Yan Y., Liu Q., Zang X., Yuan S., Bat-Erdene U., Nguyen C., Gan J., Zhou J.*, Jacobsen S.*, Tang Y.*, Resistance-Gene Directed Discovery of a Natural Product Herbicide with a New Mode of Action. Nature (2018). (doi:10.1038/s41586-018-0319-4)
(32) Peng Y., McCorvy J., Harpsøe K., Lansu K, Yuan S., et. al. Roth B.*, Stevens R.*, Liu Z.*, 5-HT2C Receptor Structures Reveal the Structural Basis of GPCR Polypharmacology. Cell (2018). (doi:10.1016/j.cell.2018.01.001)
(31) Ernst I., Haase M., Ernst S., Yuan S., Kuhn A., Leptihn S., Large conformational changes of a highly dynamic Pre-Protein Binding Domain in SecA. Communications Biology (2018). (doi:10.1038/s42003-018-0133-4)
(30) Li W, Zhou Y, You W, Yang M, Ma Y, Wang M, Wang Y, Yuan S., Xiao Y*, Development of Photoaffinity Probe for the Discovery of Steviol Glycosides Biosynthesis Pathway in Stevia rebuadiana and Rapid Substrate Screening, ACS Chemical Biology (2018). (doi:10.1021/acschembio.8b00285)
(29) Zhou Y, Li W, You W, Di Z, Wang M, Zhou H, Yuan S., Wong NK, Xiao Y*, Discovery of Arabidopsis UGT73C1 as a steviol-catalyzing UDP-glycosyltransferase with chemical probes. Chemical Communications (2018). (doi:10.1039/C7CC09951G)
2017
(28) Sun Z., Wu L., Bocola M., Chan S., Lonsdale R., Kong X., Yuan S.*, Zhou J.*, Reetz M.*, Structural and Computational Insight into the Catalytic Mechanism of Limonene Epoxide Hydrolase Mutants in Stereoselective Transformations. Journal of the American Chemical Society (2017). (doi:10.1021/jacs.7b10278)
(27) Yuan H., Zhang J., Cai Y., Wu S., Yang K., Chan S., Huang W., Jin W., Li Y., Yin Y., Igarashi Y., Yuan S.*, Zhou J.*, Tang G.*, GyrI-like proteins catalyze cyclopropanoid hydrolysis to confer cellular protection. Nature communications (2017). (doi:10.1038/s41467-017-01508-1)
(26) Chan S., McCarthy D., Li J., Palczewski K., Yuan S.*, Designing Safer Analgesics via µ-Opioid Receptor Pathways. Trends in Pharmacological Sciences (2017). (doi:10.1016/j.tips.2017.08.004)
(25) Wang J., Llie A., Yuan S.*, Reetz M.*, Investigating Substrate Scope and Enantioselectivity of a Defluorinase by a Stereochemical Probe. Journal of the American Chemical Society (2017). (doi:10.1021/jacs.7b06019)
(24) Yuan S.*, Chan S., Hu Z.Q., Implementing WebGL and HTML5 in macromolecular visualization and modern computer-aided drug design. Trends in Biotechnology (2017). (doi:10.1016/j.tibtech.2017.03.009)
(23) Yuan S.*, Chan S., Hu Z.Q.,Using PyMOL as a platform for computational drug design. Computational Molecular Science (2017) (cover story, doi:10.1002/wcms.1303)
2016
(22) Yuan S.*, Peng Q., Palczewski K., Vogel H., Filipek S*. Mechanistic Studies on the Stereoselectivity of the Serotonin 5-HT1A Receptor. Angewandte Chemie Int Ed Engl (2016). (doi:10.1002/anie.201603766)
(21) Yuan S.*, Chan H. C., Vogel H., Filipek S., Stevens R.C.*, Palczewski, K*. The Molecular Mechanism of P2Y1 Receptor Activation. Angewandte Chemie Int Ed Engl (2016) (doi:10.1002/anie.201605147)
(20) Zhang Z, Ma K., Yuan S., Luo Y., Jiang S., Hawara E., Pan S., Ma W.* Song, J*. Structure of a pathogen effector reveals the enzymatic mechanism of a novel acetyltransferase family. Nature structural & molecular biology (2016), (doi:10.1038/nsmb.3279)
(19) Yuan S.*, Chan S., Filipek S., Vogel H., PyMOL and Inkscape bridge the data and the data visualization. Structure (2016) (doi:10.1016/j.str.2016.11.012)
(18) Chan H. C., Filipek S.*, Yuan S.*, The Principles of Ligand Specificity on beta-2-adrenergic receptor. Scientific Reports (2016), (doi:10.1038/srep34736)
(17) Yuan S.*, Filipek S., Vogel*, H. A Gating Mechanism of the Serotonin 5-HT3 Receptor. Structure (2016) (doi:10.1016/j.str.2016.03.019)
(16) Ji X., Liu W., Yuan S., Ding W.*, Zhang Q*. Mechanistic study of the radical SAM-dependent amine dehydrogenation reactions. Chemical Communications (2016), (doi: 10.1039/C6CC05661J )
2015
(15) Yuan S.*, Palczewski K., Peng Q., Kolinski M., Vogel H., Filipek S*. The Mechanism of Ligand-Induced Activation or Inhibition of mu- and kappa-Opioid Receptors. Angewandte Chemie Int Ed Engl (2015) (VIP paper, doi:10.1002/anie.201501742)
(14) Baud O., Yuan S., Veya L., Filipek S., Vogel H*., Pick H*. Exchanging ligand-binding specificity between a pair of mouse olfactory receptor paralogs reveals odorant recognition principles. Scientific Reports (2015), (doi:10.1038/srep14948)
2014
(13) Yuan S.*, Hu Z., Filipek S., Vogel H*. W246 Opens a Gate for a Continuous Intrinsic Water Pathway during Activation of the Adenosine A Receptor. Angewandte Chemie Int Ed Engl (2014), (doi:10.1002/anie.201409679)
(12) Yuan S.*, Filipek S., Palczewski K., Vogel H*. Activation of G-protein-coupled receptors correlates with the formation of a continuous internal water pathway. Nature communications (2014), (doi:10.1038/ncomms5733)
(11) Kong X, Yuan S., Li L., Chen S., Xu J. H., Zhou J* . Engineering of an epoxide hydrolase for efficient bioresolution of bulky pharmaco substrates. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A (2014), (doi:10.1073/pnas.1404915111)
(10) Kufareva I., Katritch V., Participants of GPCR contests, Stevens R. C., Abagyan R* . Advances in GPCR modeling evaluated by the GPCR Dock 2013 assessment: meeting new challenges. Structure (2014), (doi:10.1016/j.str.2014.06.012)
2013
(9) Yuan S.*, Vogel H., Filipek S*. The Role of Water and Sodium Ions in the Activation of the mu-Opioid Receptor. Angewandte Chemie Int Ed Engl (2013), (doi:10.1002/anie.201302244)
(8) Yuan S.*, Wu R., Latek D., Trzaskowski B., Filipek S*. Lipid Receptor S1P1 Activation Scheme Concluded from Microsecond All-Atom Molecular Dynamics Simulations. PLoS Computational Biolology (2013), (doi:10.1371/journal.pcbi.1003261)
(7) Wu Y., Yuan S., Chen S., Wu D., Chen J., Wu J*. Enhancing the production of galacto-oligosaccharides by mutagenesis of Sulfolobus solfataricus beta-galactosidase. Food chemistry (2013), (doi:10.1016/j.foodchem.2012.11.052 )
(6) Le Roy K., Vergauwen R., Struyf T., Yuan S., Lammens W., Matrai J., De Maeyer M., Van den Ende W*. Understanding the role of defective invertases in plants: tobacco Nin88 fails to degrade sucrose. Plant physiology (2013), (doi:10.1104/pp.112.209460 )
before 2013
(5) Yuan S., Le Roy K., Venken T., Lammens W., Van den Ende W., De Maeyer M*. pKa modulation of the acid/base catalyst within GH32 and GH68: a role in substrate/inhibitor specificity? PloS one (2012), (doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0037453)
(4) Yuan S., Ghoshdastider U., Trzaskowski B., Latek D., Debinski A., Pulawski W., Wu R., Gerke V., Filipek*, S. The role of water in activation mechanism of human N-formyl peptide receptor 1 (FPR1) based on molecular dynamics simulations. PloS one (2012), (doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0047114)
(3) Trzaskowski B., Latek D., Yuan S., Ghoshdastider U., Debinski A., Filipek S*. Action of molecular switches in GPCRs - theoretical and experimental studies. Curr Med Chem (2012), (PMID:22300046)
(2) Lammens W., Le Roy K., Yuan S., Vergauwen R., Rabijns A., Van Laere A., Strelkov S. V., Van den Ende W*. Crystal structure of 6-SST/6-SFT from Pachysandra terminalis, a plant fructan biosynthesizing enzyme in complex with its acceptor substrate 6-kestose. The Plant journal : for cell and molecular biology (2012), (doi:10.1111/j.1365-313X.2011.04858.x)
(1) Zheng C., Liu H. H., Yuan S., Zhou J., Zhang B*. Molecular basis of LMAN1 in coordinating LMAN1-MCFD2 cargo receptor formation and ER-to-Golgi transport of FV/FVIII. Blood (2010), (doi:10.1182/blood-2010-04-278325)