Ubiquitin-like protein conjugation: structures, chemistry, and mechanism

L Cappadocia, CD Lima - Chemical reviews, 2018 - ACS Publications
Ubiquitin-like proteins (Ubl's) are conjugated to target proteins or lipids to regulate their
activity, stability, subcellular localization, or macromolecular interactions. Similar to ubiquitin …

Chemoenzymatic semisynthesis of proteins

RE Thompson, TW Muir - Chemical reviews, 2019 - ACS Publications
Protein semisynthesis—defined herein as the assembly of a protein from a combination of
synthetic and recombinant fragments—is a burgeoning field of chemical biology that has …

Discovery of TAK-981, a first-in-class inhibitor of SUMO-activating enzyme for the treatment of cancer

SP Langston, S Grossman, D England… - Journal of medicinal …, 2021 - ACS Publications
SUMOylation is a reversible post-translational modification that regulates protein function
through covalent attachment of small ubiquitin-like modifier (SUMO) proteins. The process of …

Chemo-and regioselective lysine modification on native proteins

MJ Matos, BL Oliveira, N Martínez-Sáez… - Journal of the …, 2018 - ACS Publications
Site-selective chemical conjugation of synthetic molecules to proteins expands their
functional and therapeutic capacity. Current protein modification methods, based on …

Targeting SUMO signaling to wrestle cancer

JS Kroonen, ACO Vertegaal - Trends in cancer, 2021 - cell.com
The small ubiquitin-like modifier (SUMO) signaling cascade is critical for gene expression,
genome integrity, and cell cycle progression. In this review, we discuss the important role …

E1 enzymes as therapeutic targets in cancer

SH Barghout, AD Schimmer - Pharmacological reviews, 2021 - ASPET
Post-translational modifications of cellular substrates with ubiquitin and ubiquitin-like
proteins (UBLs), including ubiquitin, SUMOs, and neural precursor cell–expressed …

Chemical modulators of autophagy as biological probes and potential therapeutics

A Fleming, T Noda, T Yoshimori… - Nature chemical …, 2011 - nature.com
Autophagy is an evolutionarily conserved mechanism for protein degradation that is critical
for the maintenance of homeostasis in man. Autophagy has unexpected pleiotropic functions …

Therapeutic potential of targeting the SUMO pathway in cancer

A Kukkula, VK Ojala, LM Mendez, L Sistonen… - Cancers, 2021 - mdpi.com
Simple Summary The small ubiquitin-like modifier (SUMO) pathway regulates the hallmark
properties of cancer cells. Moreover, alterations in activity and in levels of SUMO machinery …

Active site remodelling accompanies thioester bond formation in the SUMO E1

SK Olsen, AD Capili, X Lu, DS Tan, CD Lima - Nature, 2010 - nature.com
E1 enzymes activate ubiquitin (Ub) and ubiquitin-like (Ubl) proteins in two steps by carboxy-
terminal adenylation and thioester bond formation to a conserved catalytic cysteine in the E1 …

Structural and functional insights to ubiquitin-like protein conjugation

FC Streich Jr, CD Lima - Annual review of biophysics, 2014 - annualreviews.org
Attachment of ubiquitin (Ub) and ubiquitin-like proteins (Ubls) to cellular proteins regulates
numerous cellular processes including transcription, the cell cycle, stress responses, DNA …