Cryptic Enzymes and Moonlighting

Helen Irving is a Professor in Biomedical Sciences and is a member of the La Trobe Institute for Molecular Sciences (LIMS) in Melbourne, Australia. Helen's current research centers on understanding inflammatory signals at the molecular level to develop new and improved approaches to managing inflammatory conditions. Helen obtained her PhD in Biochemistry from The University of Melbourne and conducted post-doctoral work at Vanderbilt University (USA) and The University of Kentucky (USA) before returning to Australia to take up an ARC Post-Doctoral Fellowship at La Trobe University. For most of her career, she has been a teaching and research academic based at the Faculty of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences at Monash University. Helen moved to the La Trobe Institute for Molecular Sciences (LIMS) at La Trobe University in 2017. Dr. Chris Gehring is based at the Università degli Studi di Perugia UNIPG, in the Department of Chemistry, Biology & Biotechnology. His research focuses on plant signalling peptides, with a focus on various peptide signalling molecules in development, defense, and homeostasis. He has published widely in such peer reviewed journals as Nature, Molecular Plant, Trends in Genetics, and the Journal of Biological Chemistry. Dr. Aloysius Wong earned a PhD in Bioscience from King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST), Saudi Arabia, as well as a MA in Biotechnology from the University of Cambridge, UK. In past positions, he has served as a post-doctoral researcher at the French National Centre for Scientific Research. Dr. Wong seeks to understand, from a molecular perspective, how plants, despite being sessile and immobile, can efficiently perceive environmental (biotic and abiotic) signals and launch short- and long-term biological responses that enable them to survive in environments considered hostile to plants. Dr. Wong has published widely in peer reviewed journals.

1. Introduction and overview of moonlighting enzymes in signal cascades
Constance Jeffery
2. Extracellular vesicles enabling moonlighting proteins
Pamali Fonseka, Sriram Gummadi, Akbar Lulu Marzan, Sai Vara Prasad Chitti, Suresh Mathivanan
3. Eukaryotic moonlighting proteins that assist microbial infections
Mohd Akif
4. Moonlighting proteins in neurobiology signaling mediated by G protein coupled receptors (GPCRs).
Adrián Martínez Cortés, Mariana Mirchandani-Duque, Aracelis Hernández-García, Dasiel Oscar Borroto Escuela, Adam Danielson, Esther Berrocoso, Malak Choucri, Jose Laffita, Kjell Fuxe
5. Metabolic enzymes co-opted in oncogenic signaling
Bailey Nance, Brian Keith, Marie Simon
6. Metabolic enzymes moonlighting as RNA binding and regulatory proteins
Constance Jeffery
7. Cryptic enzymes as fine tuners of signaling cascades
Aloysius Wong, Helen Irving, Christoph Gehring
8. Dual function plant cryptic nucleotide cyclases
Marcella Bracale, Maria Concetta de Pinto, Cecilia Lasorella, Eleonora David, Stefania Fortunato, Candida Vannini, Guido Domingo
9. Crypto adenylate cyclases coming of age
Adriana Szmidt-Jaworska, Brygida Swiezawska
10. Crypto adenylate cyclases moonlighting with phosphodiesterases in complex proteins
Mateusz Kwiatkowski, Krzysztof Jaworski
11. Gas sensing H-NOX hemo proteins in plants and beyond
Chuyun Bi, Christoph Gehring, Aloysius Wong
12. Modulating the immune response via cryptic enzymes
Trang Nguyen, Helen Irving, Cassandra Cianciarulo, Joseph Tucci, Ilona Turek
13. Cryptic moonlighting enzymes enable crosstalk with other signaling molecules
Julia Davies
14. Identifying hidden moonlighting proteins and protein regions
Daisuke Kihara
15. Computational approaches and bioinformatic tools for the identification of cryptic enzymes
Shiyu Jiang, Aloysius Wong, Chuyun Bi
16. Establishing cryptic enzyme interactomes
Ilona Turek, Santosh Ramabhadra Rao Tata, Helen Irving
17. Assessing contributions of moonlighting proteins to signal cascades
Jiri Friml, Linlin Qi
18. Uncovering moonlighting proteins in cell organelles
Anushka Date, Helen Irving, Santosh Ramabhadra Rao Tata