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 …

Vitamin B6 in health and disease

K Stach, W Stach, K Augoff - Nutrients, 2021 - mdpi.com
Vitamin B6 is a fascinating molecule involved in the vast majority of changes in the human
body because it is a coenzyme involved in over 150 biochemical reactions. It is active in the …

The ins and outs of serine and glycine metabolism in cancer

SL Geeraerts, E Heylen, K De Keersmaecker… - Nature …, 2021 - nature.com
Cancer cells reprogramme their metabolism to support unrestrained proliferation and
survival in nutrient-poor conditions. Whereas non-transformed cells often have lower …

New Insights into the Cooperativity and Dynamics of Dimeric Enzymes

KW Chen, TY Sun, YD Wu - Chemical Reviews, 2023 - ACS Publications
A survey of protein databases indicates that the majority of enzymes exist in oligomeric
forms, with about half of those found in the UniProt database being homodimeric …

Amino acid metabolism and signalling pathways: potential targets in the control of infection and immunity

D Tomé - Nutrition & Diabetes, 2021 - nature.com
Defences to pathogens such as SarCoV2 in mammals involves interactions between
immune functions and metabolic pathways to eradicate infection while preventing …

[HTML][HTML] Methylation pathways and SARS-CoV-2 lung infiltration and cell membrane-virus fusion are both subject to epigenetics

L Pruimboom - Frontiers in cellular and infection microbiology, 2020 - frontiersin.org
The recent pandemic SARS-CoV-2 outbreak affects all kind of individuals worldwide. The
health, social and economic impact of the pandemic is dramatic and vaccines or specific …

Metabolic regulation of cell fate and function

S Ghosh-Choudhary, J Liu, T Finkel - Trends in cell biology, 2020 - cell.com
Increasing evidence implicates metabolic pathways as key regulators of cell fate and
function. Although the metabolism of glucose, amino acids, and fatty acids is essential to …

Emerging concepts in pseudoenzyme classification, evolution, and signaling

AJM Ribeiro, S Das, N Dawson, R Zaru, S Orchard… - Science …, 2019 - science.org
The 21st century is witnessing an explosive surge in our understanding of pseudoenzyme-
driven regulatory mechanisms in biology. Pseudoenzymes are proteins that have sequence …

Therapeutic targeting of mitochondrial one-carbon metabolism in cancer

AS Dekhne, Z Hou, A Gangjee, LH Matherly - Molecular cancer therapeutics, 2020 - AACR
Abstract One-carbon (1C) metabolism encompasses folate-mediated 1C transfer reactions
and related processes, including nucleotide and amino acid biosynthesis, antioxidant …

[HTML][HTML] Cytoplasmic SHMT2 drives the progression and metastasis of colorectal cancer by inhibiting β-catenin degradation

C Liu, L Wang, X Liu, Y Tan, L Tao, Y Xiao, P Deng… - Theranostics, 2021 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Abstract Introduction: Serine hydroxymethyltransferase 2 (SHMT2) plays a critical role in
serine-glycine metabolism to drive cancer cell proliferation. However, the nonmetabolic …