Wyatt Yue
Wyatt Yue
PhD
Associate Professor, Principal Investigator
Structural guided drug discovery of rare diseases
Structural biology at the crossroad of genetic diseases and drug discovery
Wyatt Yue is a structural biologist with an MA (Biochemistry) from University of Oxford, and a PhD (Crystallography) from Birkbeck College, University of London. He specializes in the use of structural, biochemical and chemical biology approaches to study diverse metabolic protein families in the human genome, with the aim of deciphering the molecular mechanism of human inherited diseases at the protein level.
He leads the ‘Metabolism & Organelle Biogenesis (MOB)’ group at the Centre of Medicines Discovery, Nuffield Department of Medicine. His team has to date deposited >200 human crystals structures in the Protein Data Bank (PDB). Through collaborations with clinicians and pharma partners, his team aims to translate basic science into design of small molecule therapeutics for rare diseases with unmet need.
Current areas of focus include: multiprotein complex machines, glycogen synthesis, vitamin B12 metabolism and Leloir pathway of galactose metabolism.
Recent publications
5,10-Methylenetetrahydrofolate Reductase─the Key Allosteric Regulator in One-Carbon Metabolism.
Journal article
Blomgren LKM. et al, (2026), Biochemistry
Enantioselective protein affinity selection mass spectrometry (E-ASMS).
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Wang X. et al, (2025), Nature communications, 17
Investigating endogenous immune-mediated monocyte memory in rheumatoid arthritis.
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Marzeda AM. et al, (2025), Annals of the rheumatic diseases, 84, 1484 - 1500
Structural basis for human mitochondrial tRNA maturation.
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Meynier V. et al, (2024), Nature communications, 15
Dynamic inter-domain transformations mediate the allosteric regulation of human 5, 10-methylenetetrahydrofolate reductase.
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Blomgren LKM. et al, (2024), Nature communications, 15