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Kuuku Yawson

@kuukson

Doctoral Candidate || Chemical Biology/Medicinal Chemistry || New York University || Laboratory for Molecular Nanoscience || MolecularChaperones

 New Jersey, USA
Joined August 2015
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Swipe through to learn about how our scientists are researching different mechanisms and modalities to potentially treat cancer in innovative ways. 🧬

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Excited to share some highlights of the @NOBCChE conference where members of the @LupoliLab & @leelab_nyu: @aweon_rich @kuukson Terrence gave technical talks while Tazrif, Chloe & Nadine presented their undergraduate posters. Join us Today at Expo Booth #228 #Nobcche51
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Lupoli Lab@LupoliLab9 Jul 2024
Congrats Nathan, Isabelle, Eric, Sam C. and Chao on this collaborative work with the Zhang lab (@nyuchemistry) and NYU Langone! A Repurposed Drug Interferes with Nucleic Acid to Inhibit the Dual Activities of Coronavirus Nsp13 | ACS Chemical Biology pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/acs…
A Repurposed Drug Interferes with Nucleic Acid to Inhibit the Dual Activities of Coronavirus Nsp13

A Repurposed Drug Interferes with Nucleic Acid to Inhibit the Dual Activities of Coronavirus Nsp13

Abstract. The recent pandemic caused by severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) highlighted a critical need to discover more effective

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Interested in learning how dyes might help in characterizing protein activity? We're excited to share the development of a protein-adaptive DSF platform (paDSF), a dye-based method used to interrogate stability, dynamics, and ligand binding! go.nature.com/4ajNRNp
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Lupoli Lab@LupoliLab29 Mar 2024
Nice talk by Gideon on peptide-based probes in our Friday afternoon student talk series! @nyuchemistry
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Could be quite useful!
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Okay, this cool!!!
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Had a wonderful time at #50NOBCCHE. I am so happy to have met you all . @NOBCChE, thank you for allowing me to be with such amazing chemist and chemical engineers and thank you for selecting me as the 2023 #WinifredBurksHouck Graduate Leadership Awardee. #blackexcellence
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#NOBCChE50 was such a fulfilling experience. Being able to present my work and meet so many amazingly brilliant black chemists and engineers inspires me so much! The next 50 years of @NOBCChE is extremely bright⭐️ – at Baltimore, MD
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Members of @leelab_nyu & @LupoliLab presenting their research at the @NOBCChE graduate poster competition in New Orleans #NOBCChE50 #nobbche2023
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Excited to share some highlights on the first day of the @NOBCChE conference where @aweon_rich presented at the technical session. Also present are members of the @LupoliLab @leelab_nyu and @Weck_Group Join us at Booth #712 #nobcche2023 #nobcche50
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Paramjit S. Arora is the recipient of the 2024 ACS Ralph F. Hirschmann Award in Peptide Chemistry, sponsored by Merck Research Laboratories. Congrats to Bobby!
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Lupoli Lab@LupoliLab31 Aug 2023
Congrats to Brock and Nathan on their latest work with modified J-proteins! Bacterial J‐Domains with C‐Terminal Tags Contact the Substrate Binding Domain of DnaK and Sequester Chaperone Activity - Nelson - ChemBioChem - Wiley Online Library chemistry-europe.onlinelibra…
Bacterial J‐Domains with C‐Terminal Tags Contact the Substrate Binding Domain of DnaK and Sequester...

Bacterial J‐Domains with C‐Terminal Tags Contact the Substrate Binding Domain of DnaK and Sequester...

J-proteins are cofactors that assist molecular chaperones in cellular protein folding. We have found that short C-terminal tags added to the N-terminal domains of J-proteins (J-domains) can promote...

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Hans Renata@hanzyduzit18 Aug 2023
Continuing our interest in noncanonical amino acid synthesis, we developed a chemoenzymatic approach to azacyclic noncanonicals with additional terminal branching, allowing access to >20 AA products. Kudos to Tsung-Han, Xiangyu and Yu for this work! chemrxiv.org/engage/chemrxiv…
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Congrats to Tania Lupoli, International Chemical Biology Society Early Career Investigator! as.nyu.edu/departments/chemi…
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Had a great time at my first @GordonConf! Learned a lot about HTP technologies, got to connect with amazing scientists, and share my current research project. A major thank you to the Carl Storm Fellowship for sponsoring this trip!
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Lupoli Lab@LupoliLab28 Jul 2023
Check out Aweon's short review on how different peptide scaffolds have been used to modulate chaperone function. Congrats Aweon! Peptide-based molecules for the disruption of bacterial Hsp70 chaperon... sciencedirect.com/science/ar…
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μMap Photoproximity Labeling Enables Small Molecule Binding Site Mapping | Journal of the American Chemical Society @Princeton @PrincetonChem #Photoproximity #Labeling #SmallMolecule #BindingSite #Mapping pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/jac…
μMap Photoproximity Labeling Enables Small Molecule Binding Site Mapping

μMap Photoproximity Labeling Enables Small Molecule Binding Site Mapping

Abstract. The characterization of ligand binding modes is a crucial step in the drug discovery process and is especially important in campaigns arising fro

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Lupoli Lab@LupoliLab12 Jul 2023
CONGRATS to Alexa, Mia, Meng and Maggie, along with our collaborators, on this rare sugar story (that highlights Alexa's Ph.D. thesis)! Preference of Bacterial Rhamnosyltransferases for 6-Deoxysugars Reveals a Strategy To Deplete O-Antigens | JACS pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/jac…
Preference of Bacterial Rhamnosyltransferases for 6‑Deoxysugars Reveals a Strategy To Deplete...

Preference of Bacterial Rhamnosyltransferases for 6‑Deoxysugars Reveals a Strategy To Deplete...

abstract. Bacteria synthesize hundreds of bacteria-specific or “rare” sugars that are absent in mammalian cells and enriched in 6-deoxy monosaccharides suc

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