Maintaining proteostasis under mechanical stress

J Höhfeld, T Benzing, W Bloch, DO Fürst, S Gehlert… - EMBO …, 2021 - embopress.org
Cell survival, tissue integrity and organismal health depend on the ability to maintain
functional protein networks even under conditions that threaten protein integrity. Protection …

Protein stability and degradation in health and disease

L Clausen, AB Abildgaard, SK Gersing, A Stein… - Advances in protein …, 2019 - Elsevier
The cellular proteome performs highly varied functions to sustain life. Since most of these
functions require proteins to fold properly, they can be impaired by mutations that affect …

Autophagy lipidation machinery regulates axonal microtubule dynamics but is dispensable for survival of mammalian neurons

A Negrete-Hurtado, M Overhoff, S Bera… - Nature …, 2020 - nature.com
Neurons maintain axonal homeostasis via employing a unique organization of the
microtubule (MT) cytoskeleton, which supports axonal morphology and provides tracks for …

Thermosensation in Caenorhabditis elegans is linked to ubiquitin-dependent protein turnover via insulin and calcineurin signalling

A Segref, KL Vakkayil, T Padvitski, Q Li, V Kroef… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
Organismal physiology and survival are influenced by environmental conditions and linked
to protein quality control. Proteome integrity is achieved by maintaining an intricate balance …

Combinatorial transcriptomic and genetic dissection of insulin/IGF‐1 signaling‐regulated longevity in Caenorhabditis elegans

S Ham, SS Kim, S Park, HC Kwon, SG Ha, Y Bae… - Aging …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Classical genetic analysis is invaluable for understanding the genetic interactions
underlying specific phenotypes, but requires laborious and subjective experiments to …

Identification of age-associated proteins and functional alterations in human retinal pigment epithelium

X Jin, J Liu, W Wang, J Li, G Liu, R Qiu… - Genomics …, 2022 - academic.oup.com
Retinal pigment epithelium (RPE) has essential functions, such as nourishing and
supporting the neural retina, and is of vital importance in the pathogenesis of age-related …

A Non-stop identity complex (NIC) supervises enterocyte identity and protects from premature aging

N Erez, L Israitel, E Bitman-Lotan, WH Wong, G Raz… - Elife, 2021 - elifesciences.org
A hallmark of aging is loss of differentiated cell identity. Aged Drosophila midgut
differentiated enterocytes (ECs) lose their identity, impairing tissue homeostasis. To discover …

Ubiquitylome study reveals the regulatory effect of α-lipoic acid on ubiquitination of key proteins in tryptophan metabolism pathway of pig liver

J Gao, Y Cui, W Bao, Y Hao, X Piao, X Gu - International Journal of …, 2023 - Elsevier
The decline in antioxidant defenses make it easily for human and animals to suffer from liver
damage and diseases induced by oxidative stress, causing enormous losses to human …

Rethinking IRPs/IRE system in neurodegenerative disorders: looking beyond iron metabolism

Z Yao, L Fu, F Jia, M Bi, Q Jiao, X Chen, X Du… - Ageing Research …, 2022 - Elsevier
Iron regulatory proteins (IRPs) and iron regulatory element (IRE) systems are well known in
the progression of neurodegenerative disorders by regulating iron related proteins. IRPs are …

Comprehensive analysis identifies histone 2A ubiquitination as a marker for aging and pan-cancer prognosis

F Zhang, Z Wang, J Zhang, M Zhou, Y Chen, S Zhang… - bioRxiv, 2022 - biorxiv.org
Ubiquitination is a post-translational modification (PTM) that induces protein degradation or
function alteration and plays crucial roles in aging and cancer. Previous ubiquitinomes of …