[HTML][HTML] Therapeutic strategies for COVID-19: progress and lessons learned

G Li, R Hilgenfeld, R Whitley, E De Clercq - Nature Reviews Drug …, 2023 - nature.com
Abstract The coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic has stimulated tremendous
efforts to develop therapeutic strategies that target severe acute respiratory syndrome …

[PDF][PDF] Deubiquitinases: From mechanisms to their inhibition by small molecules

SM Lange, LA Armstrong, Y Kulathu - Molecular cell, 2022 - cell.com
Deubiquitinases (DUBs) are specialized proteases that remove ubiquitin from substrates or
cleave within ubiquitin chains to regulate ubiquitylation and therefore play important roles in …

Construction of Fe-doped ZIF-8/DOX nanocomposites for ferroptosis strategy in the treatment of breast cancer

Y Zhong, Z Peng, Y Peng, B Li, Y Pan… - Journal of Materials …, 2023 - pubs.rsc.org
Breast cancer has become one of the top five commonest causes of cancer death. The use
of ferroptosis to induce the generation of reactive oxygen species (ROS) in cancer cells …

Near-infrared photoactivated nanomedicines for photothermal synergistic cancer therapy

H Sun, Q Zhang, J Li, S Peng, X Wang, R Cai - Nano Today, 2021 - Elsevier
Cancer nanomedicines have provided promising treatment strategies for the regression of
several types of cancer, although there still exists a need for significant advances to improve …

[HTML][HTML] The role of ubiquitination in tumorigenesis and targeted drug discovery

L Deng, T Meng, L Chen, W Wei, P Wang - Signal transduction and …, 2020 - nature.com
Ubiquitination, an important type of protein posttranslational modification (PTM), plays a
crucial role in controlling substrate degradation and subsequently mediates the “quantity” …

Breaking the chains: deubiquitylating enzyme specificity begets function

MJ Clague, S Urbé, D Komander - Nature reviews Molecular cell …, 2019 - nature.com
The deubiquitylating enzymes (DUBs, also known as deubiquitylases or deubiquitinases)
maintain the dynamic state of the cellular ubiquitome by releasing conjugated ubiquitin from …

Nuclear receptor coactivator 4-mediated ferritinophagy contributes to cerebral ischemia-induced ferroptosis in ischemic stroke

C Li, G Sun, B Chen, L Xu, Y Ye, J He, Z Bao… - Pharmacological …, 2021 - Elsevier
Ischemic stroke poses a significant health risk due to its high rate of disability and mortality.
To address this problem, several therapeutic approaches have been proposed, including …

The mitophagy activator urolithin A is safe and induces a molecular signature of improved mitochondrial and cellular health in humans

PA Andreux, W Blanco-Bose, D Ryu, F Burdet… - Nature …, 2019 - nature.com
Urolithin A (UA) is a natural dietary, microflora-derived metabolite shown to stimulate
mitophagy and improve muscle health in old animals and in preclinical models of aging …

p53 modifications: exquisite decorations of the powerful guardian

Y Liu, O Tavana, W Gu - Journal of molecular cell biology, 2019 - academic.oup.com
The last 40 years have witnessed how p53 rose from a viral binding protein to a central
factor in both stress responses and tumor suppression. The exquisite regulation of p53 …

Promoting the clearance of neurotoxic proteins in neurodegenerative disorders of ageing

B Boland, WH Yu, O Corti, B Mollereau… - Nature reviews Drug …, 2018 - nature.com
Neurodegenerative disorders of ageing (NDAs) such as Alzheimer disease, Parkinson
disease, frontotemporal dementia, Huntington disease and amyotrophic lateral sclerosis …