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Exploring Protein-DNA Interactions Through Advanced Computational and Experimental Techniques

Recent Publications
Founded with a vision to bridge computational and experimental research, Darlintai Lab has have achieved breakthroughs in understanding molecular recognition mechanisms—revealing enzyme substrate specificity for unnatural amino acid incorporation, discovering pressure-responsive transcription regulation in extremophiles, elucidating glycosylation site preference rules, and developing computational tools for decoding immune receptor interactions—advancing biocatalysis, extremophile biology, glycobiology, and immunotherapy design.
Year 2025
Structural Insights into the Substrate Recognition Mechanism of an ATP-Grasp Peptide-Ligase Producing Diverse Dipeptides Containing Unnatural Amino Acids. Ya-Qian Yan, Si-Yuan Li, Xiao-Na Wu, Ting Zhou, Jia-Xin Li, Shu-Xin Huang, Jian-Ting Zheng, Jun Xu, Lin-Tai Da*, and Min-Juan Xu*, ACS Catal. 2025, 15: 2550–2560
Year 2025
High hydrostatic pressure promotes gene transcription via a cystathionine-β-synthase domain-containing protein in the hyperthermophilic archaeon Pyrococcus yayanosii. Cong Li, Siyuan Li, Qinghao Song, Lin-Tai Da*, and Jun Xu*, Nucleic Acids Research 2025, 53: gkae1289.
Year 2024
Comprehensive Investigations of MUC1 O Glycosylation Process Reveal Initial Site Preference by the Polypeptide GalNAc Transferases. Han Zhang, Kaiyuan Song, Yihan Liu, Fang Yang, Congcong Lu, Rumeng Wei, Zhijue Xu, Xia Zou, Liang Lin, Ting Shi, Lin-Tai Da*, and Yan Zhang*, ACS Catal. 2024, 14: 18365-18377.
Year 2024
Investigating TCR-pMHC interactions for TCRs without identified epitopes by constructing a computational pipeline. Kaiyuan Song, Honglin Xu, Yi Shi, Xin Zou*, Lin-Tai Da*, Jie Hao*, Int. J. Biol. Macromol. 2024, 282: 136502.
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