Yu-Shan Lin
Taiwanese chemist
This article is about the chemist. For the visual artist, see
Lin Yushan .
Yu-Shan Lin is a computational chemist. She is a professor and chair of the Department of Chemistry at Tufts University in the United States.[ 1] Her research lab uses computational chemistry to understand and design biomolecules , with topics focusing on cyclic peptides ,[ 2] [ 3] protein folding ,[ 4] [ 5] and collagen .[ 6] [ 7]
Education
Lin received her BS in chemistry from National Taiwan University in 2004.[ 8] Lin received her PhD in chemistry in 2009 from University of Wisconsin, Madison , under the guidance of James L. Skinner .[ 9] She then moved to Stanford , where she was a Bio-X postdoctoral fellow in the lab of Vijay S. Pande .[ 10] In 2012, Lin joined the Department of Chemistry at Tufts University and received tenure in 2018.[ 8] In 2024, Lin was appointed to a full professorship and became chair of the department.[ 11]
Research
Cyclic peptides
Lin and her lab use computational chemistry to provide information on the solution structures of cyclic peptides .[ 2] They recently successfully used molecular dynamics simulation with enhanced sampling methods to design well-structured cyclic peptides.[ 12] [ 13]
Protein folding
Lin and her lab are interested in understanding how co- and post-translational modifications and non-natural amino acids impact protein folding.[ 14] [ 15] They also work on understanding the effects of amino acid substitutions during evolution on protein stability, folding , and interaction.[ 16] [ 17]
Collagen
Lin and her lab use molecular dynamics simulations to understand how the structure, stability, and interactions of collagen are perturbed by Gly to Ser substitutions, a very common type of Gly missense mutations in patients with Osteogenesis Imperfecta (OI),[ 18] [ 19] [ 20] and Ser phosphorylation.[ 21] Their results suggest a new possible mechanism underlying OI pathology, specifically that mutations may significantly disrupt the triple-helical structure of collagen and render it susceptible to non-collagenase proteolytic enzymes.[ 19]
Awards and honors
Machine Learning in the Chemical Sciences & Engineering Award, Camille and Henry Dreyfus Foundation, 2020[ 22]
2015: OpenEye Outstanding Junior Faculty Award in Computational Chemistry,[ 23] American Chemical Society
References
^ "Faculty | Department of Chemistry" . chem.tufts.edu . Retrieved July 13, 2021 .
^ a b Damjanovic, Jovan; Miao, Jiayuan; Huang, He; Lin, Yu-Shan (February 24, 2021). "Elucidating Solution Structures of Cyclic Peptides Using Molecular Dynamics Simulations" . Chemical Reviews . 121 (4): 2292–2324. doi :10.1021/acs.chemrev.0c01087 . ISSN 0009-2665 . PMC 8340081 . PMID 33426882 .
^ "c&en: Cross-Linking Technique Could Complement Peptide Stapling, April 29, 2013" .
^ Mong, Surin K.; Cochran, Frank V.; Yu, Hongtao; Graziano, Zachary; Lin, Yu-Shan; Cochran, Jennifer R. ; Pentelute, Bradley L. (October 31, 2017). "Heterochiral Knottin Protein: Folding and Solution Structure" . Biochemistry . 56 (43): 5720–5725. doi :10.1021/acs.biochem.7b00722 . ISSN 0006-2960 . PMC 5818992 . PMID 28952732 .
^ "Biochemists discover mechanism that helps flu viruses evolve" . MIT News | Massachusetts Institute of Technology . September 26, 2017. Retrieved July 13, 2021 .
^ An, Bo; Lin, Yu-Shan; Brodsky, Barbara (February 1, 2016). "Collagen interactions: Drug design and delivery" . Advanced Drug Delivery Reviews . 97 : 69–84. doi :10.1016/j.addr.2015.11.013 . ISSN 0169-409X . PMID 26631222 .
^ Chen, Eric A.; Lin, Yu-Shan (November 1, 2019). "Using synthetic peptides and recombinant collagen to understand DDR–collagen interactions" . Biochimica et Biophysica Acta (BBA) - Molecular Cell Research . 1866 (11): 118458. doi :10.1016/j.bbamcr.2019.03.005 . ISSN 0167-4889 . PMID 30880148 .
^ a b "Yu-Shan Lin | YSL at Tufts" . ase.tufts.edu . Retrieved July 13, 2021 .
^ "Chemistry Tree - James L. Skinner Family Tree" . academictree.org . Retrieved July 13, 2021 .
^ University, © Stanford; Stanford; California 94305 (March 7, 2014). "Yu-Shan Lin - Bio-X Postdoctoral Fellow" . Welcome to Bio-X . Retrieved July 11, 2021 . {{cite web }}
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^ "Yu-Shan Lin | Faculty Profile" . facultyprofiles.tufts.edu . Retrieved August 2, 2024 .
^ Slough, Diana P.; McHugh, Sean M.; Cummings, Ashleigh E.; Dai, Peng; Pentelute, Bradley L.; Kritzer, Joshua A.; Lin, Yu-Shan (March 28, 2018). "Designing Well-Structured Cyclic Pentapeptides Based on Sequence–Structure Relationships" . The Journal of Physical Chemistry B . 122 (14): 3908–3919. doi :10.1021/acs.jpcb.8b01747 . ISSN 1520-6106 . PMC 6071411 . PMID 29589926 .
^ Cummings, Ashleigh E.; Miao, Jiayuan; Slough, Diana P.; McHugh, Sean M.; Kritzer, Joshua A.; Lin, Yu-Shan (February 5, 2019). "β-Branched Amino Acids Stabilize Specific Conformations of Cyclic Hexapeptides" . Biophysical Journal . 116 (3): 433–444. Bibcode :2019BpJ...116..433C . doi :10.1016/j.bpj.2018.12.015 . ISSN 0006-3495 . PMC 6369414 . PMID 30661666 .
^ Rogers, Julia R.; McHugh, Sean M.; Lin, Yu-Shan (September 27, 2017). "Predictions for α-Helical Glycopeptide Design from Structural Bioinformatics Analysis" . Journal of Chemical Information and Modeling . 57 (10): 2598–2611. doi :10.1021/acs.jcim.7b00123 . ISSN 1549-9596 . PMID 28953376 .
^ Simon, Mark D.; Maki, Yuta; Vinogradov, Alexander A.; Zhang, Chi; Yu, Hongtao; Lin, Yu-Shan; Kajihara, Yasuhiro; Pentelute, Bradley L. (September 21, 2016). "d-Amino Acid Scan of Two Small Proteins" . Journal of the American Chemical Society . 138 (37): 12099–12111. doi :10.1021/jacs.6b03765 . ISSN 0002-7863 . PMID 27494078 .
^ Phillips, Angela M; Gonzalez, Luna O; Nekongo, Emmanuel E; Ponomarenko, Anna I; McHugh, Sean M; Butty, Vincent L; Levine, Stuart S; Lin, Yu-Shan; Mirny, Leonid A; Shoulders, Matthew D (September 26, 2017). Palese, Peter (ed.). "Host proteostasis modulates influenza evolution" . eLife . 6 : e28652. doi :10.7554/eLife.28652 . ISSN 2050-084X . PMC 5614556 . PMID 28949290 .
^ Phillips, Angela M.; Ponomarenko, Anna I.; Chen, Kenny; Ashenberg, Orr; Miao, Jiayuan; McHugh, Sean M.; Butty, Vincent L.; Whittaker, Charles A.; Moore, Christopher L.; Bloom, Jesse D.; Lin, Yu-Shan (September 17, 2018). "Destabilized adaptive influenza variants critical for innate immune system escape are potentiated by host chaperones" . PLOS Biology . 16 (9): e3000008. doi :10.1371/journal.pbio.3000008 . ISSN 1545-7885 . PMC 6160216 . PMID 30222731 .
^ Yigit, Sezin; Yu, Hongtao; An, Bo; Hamaia, Samir; Farndale, Richard W.; Kaplan, David L.; Lin, Yu-Shan; Brodsky, Barbara (September 2, 2016). "Mapping the Effect of Gly Mutations in Collagen on α2β1 Integrin Binding *" . Journal of Biological Chemistry . 291 (36): 19196–19207. doi :10.1074/jbc.M116.726182 . ISSN 0021-9258 . PMC 5009287 . PMID 27432884 .
^ a b Chhum, Panharith; Yu, Hongtao; An, Bo; Doyon, Brian R.; Lin, Yu-Shan; Brodsky, Barbara (December 1, 2016). "Consequences of Glycine Mutations in the Fibronectin-binding Sequence of Collagen *" . Journal of Biological Chemistry . 291 (53): 27073–27086. doi :10.1074/jbc.M116.753566 . ISSN 0021-9258 . PMC 5207138 . PMID 27799304 .
^ Qiu, Yimin; Mekkat, Arya; Yu, Hongtao; Yigit, Sezin; Hamaia, Samir; Farndale, Richard W.; Kaplan, David L. ; Lin, Yu-Shan; Brodsky, Barbara (September 1, 2018). "Collagen Gly missense mutations: Effect of residue identity on collagen structure and integrin binding" . Journal of Structural Biology . 203 (3): 255–262. doi :10.1016/j.jsb.2018.05.003 . ISSN 1047-8477 . PMC 6089640 . PMID 29758270 .
^ Qiu, Yimin; Poppleton, Erik; Mekkat, Arya; Yu, Hongtao; Banerjee, Sourav; Wiley, Sandra E.; Dixon, Jack E.; Kaplan, David L.; Lin, Yu-Shan; Brodsky, Barbara (December 18, 2018). "Enzymatic Phosphorylation of Ser in a Type I Collagen Peptide" . Biophysical Journal . 115 (12): 2327–2335. Bibcode :2018BpJ...115.2327Q . doi :10.1016/j.bpj.2018.11.012 . ISSN 0006-3495 . PMC 6302033 . PMID 30527445 .
^ Moderator (July 27, 2020). "Dreyfus Program for Machine Learning in the Chemical Sciences & Engineering Awards" . Dreyfus Foundation . Retrieved August 15, 2023 .
^ "OpenEye Outstanding Junior Faculty Award in Computational Chemistry" . www.acscomp.org . Retrieved July 11, 2021 .
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