Balyn Zaro
balynzaro.bsky.social
Balyn Zaro
@balynzaro.bsky.social
Assistant Professor @UCSF
Chemical Biology, Mass Spec, and Innate Immunity
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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...
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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June 9, 2025 at 1:33 PM
Excited to see this story finally out! What a fun and collaborative group to work with!
Excited to share Benson’s and Maria’s work in collab w/Kostas Tzelepis: we found the nucleolar protein NPM1 is a marker of AML and can be targeted therapeutically

connecting ‘cell surface RNA biology’ to cancer biology

@natbiotech.nature.com
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
April 23, 2025 at 7:02 PM
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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...
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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January 24, 2025 at 1:04 AM
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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...
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.
www.cell.com
January 2, 2025 at 5:31 PM