The emerging nature of Ubiquitin-specific protease 7 (USP7): a new target in cancer therapy

L Nininahazwe, B Liu, C He, H Zhang, ZS Chen - Drug discovery today, 2021 - Elsevier
Highlights•USP7, a widely studied deubiquitinating enzyme, spares substrates from
proteasome degradation.•USP7 interacts with many proteins whose alterations promote …

[HTML][HTML] Phosphoribosyl-linked serine ubiquitination of USP14 by the SidE family effectors of Legionella excludes p62 from the bacterial phagosome

J Ge, Y Wang, X Chen, K Yu, ZQ Luo, X Liu, J Qiu - Cell Reports, 2023 - cell.com
Xenophagy is an evolutionarily conserved host defensive mechanism to eliminate invading
microorganisms through autophagic machinery. The intracellular bacterial pathogen …

Accelerating multiplexed profiling of protein-ligand interactions: high-throughput plate-based reactive cysteine profiling with minimal input

K Yang, RL Whitehouse, SL Dawson, L Zhang… - Cell Chemical …, 2024 - cell.com
Chemoproteomics has made significant progress in investigating small-molecule-protein
interactions. However, the proteome-wide profiling of cysteine ligandability remains …

Deubiquitinating enzymes: Promising targets for drug resistance

F Ge, Y Li, T Yuan, Y Wu, Q He, B Yang, H Zhu - Drug Discovery Today, 2022 - Elsevier
Highlights•Drug resistance towards chemotherapy and molecularly targeted therapies
remains a great challenge in cancer treatments.•Deubiquitinating enzymes (DUBs) regulate …

USP1 inhibition destabilizes KPNA2 and suppresses breast cancer metastasis

A Ma, M Tang, L Zhang, B Wang, Z Yang, Y Liu, G Xu… - Oncogene, 2019 - nature.com
Metastatic progression is the main cause of mortality in breast cancer, necessitating the
determination of the molecular events driving this process for the development of new …

USP10 deubiquitinates RUNX1 and promotes proneural-to-mesenchymal transition in glioblastoma

W Qiu, Z Xiao, Y Yang, L Jiang, S Song, X Qi… - Cell Death & …, 2023 - nature.com
The mesenchymal (MES) subtype of glioblastoma (GBM) is a highly aggressive, malignant
and proliferative cancer that is resistant to chemotherapy. Runt-related transcription factor 1 …

OTUD1 activates caspase‐independent and caspase‐dependent apoptosis by promoting AIF nuclear translocation and MCL1 degradation

Q Luo, X Wu, P Zhao, Y Nan, W Chang… - Advanced …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Apoptosis‐inducing factor (AIF) plays a dual role in regulating cell survival and apoptosis,
acting as a prosurvival factor in mitochondria via its NADH oxidoreductase activity and …

Small molecule inhibitors reveal allosteric regulation of USP14 via steric blockade

Y Wang, Y Jiang, S Ding, J Li, N Song, Y Ren, D Hong… - Cell research, 2018 - nature.com
The ubiquitin system is important for drug discovery, and the discovery of selective small-
molecule inhibitors of deubiquitinating enzymes (DUBs) remains an active yet extremely …

Ubiquitination and deubiquitination of MCL1 in cancer: deciphering chemoresistance mechanisms and providing potential therapeutic options

X Wu, Q Luo, Z Liu - Cell death & disease, 2020 - nature.com
MCL1 is an important antiapoptotic member of the BCL-2 family that is distinguishable from
other family members based on its relatively short half-life. Emerging studies have revealed …

Deubiquitylating enzymes in cancer and immunity

J Ren, P Yu, S Liu, R Li, X Niu, Y Chen… - Advanced …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Deubiquitylating enzymes (DUBs) maintain relative homeostasis of the cellular ubiquitome
by removing the post‐translational modification ubiquitin moiety from substrates. Numerous …