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Balyn Zaro

@balynzaro.bsky.social
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Associate Professor @UCSF Chemical Biology, Mass Spec, and Innate Immunity

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Balyn Zaro @balynzaro.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Proud to see this paper lead by my amazing student Regan finally out in the world! Using chemical biology approaches, we reveal a transcriptionally silent process by which macrophages acquire new functional proteins from the surface of interacting cells.
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Balyn Zaro @balynzaro.bsky.social · 06/01/2026
Is arginine the new cysteine?! Check out our lab's latest in collaboration with @ianseiple.bsky.social's team where we introduce ninhydrin as a selective covalent warhead and probe targeting reactive arginines. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
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Ninhydrin as a covalent warhead for chemical proteomic-enabled discovery and selective engagement of reactive arginines
Covalent molecules have emerged as next-generation therapeutics and as powerful tools for perturbing fundamental biological processes. Chemical proteomic methods to screen for reactive proteinaceous a...
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Hani Goodarzi @genophoria.bsky.social · 09/06/2025
Been going back and forth on whether it makes sense to post science in the midst of all that is happening. But here it goes with a couple of days of delay: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
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Integrative analysis of mRNA stability regulation uncovers a metastasis-suppressive program in breast cancer
Heterogeneity in cancer gene expression is typically linked to genetic and epigenetic alterations, yet post-transcriptional regulation likely influences these patterns as well. However, the quantitati...
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Balyn Zaro @balynzaro.bsky.social · 23/04/2025
Excited to see this story finally out! What a fun and collaborative group to work with!
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Vijay Ramani @vram142.bsky.social · 24/01/2025
Amid concerning times, sharing a bit of positivity: our 1st preprint of 2025 (funded VIA NIH COMMON FUND), heroically led by Marty Yang (@martyyang.bsky.social) w/ huge assist from @genophoria.bsky.social lab. Lots to cover so let’s get this tweetorial started (1/n)! www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
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Pervasive and programmed nucleosome distortion patterns on single mammalian chromatin fibers
We present a genome-scale method to map the single-molecule co-occupancy of structurally distinct nucleosomes, subnucleosomes, and other protein-DNA interactions via long-read high-resolution adenine ...
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Vijay Ramani @vram142.bsky.social · 02/01/2025
Congrats @willowcoyote.bsky.social @amanglik.bsky.social and all authors on a tour de force dissection of proton-sensing by GPCRs! DMS, cryo-EM, MD -- it has it all! www.cell.com/cell/fulltex...
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Molecular basis of proton sensing by G protein-coupled receptors
Howard et al. combine mechanistic deep mutational scanning, cryo-EM, and constant-pH molecular dynamics simulations to provide a holistic view of proton activation in human pH-sensitive GPCRs.
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