A not-so-ancient grease history: click chemistry and protein lipid modifications

KF Suazo, KY Park, MD Distefano - Chemical reviews, 2021 - ACS Publications
Protein lipid modification involves the attachment of hydrophobic groups to proteins via
ester, thioester, amide, or thioether linkages. In this review, the specific click chemical …

Protein S‐Palmitoylation: advances and challenges in studying a therapeutically important lipid modification

A Main, W Fuller - The FEBS Journal, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
The lipid post‐translational modification S‐palmitoylation is a vast developing field, with the
modification itself and the enzymes that catalyse the reversible reaction implicated in a …

S-acylation of SARS-CoV-2 spike protein: Mechanistic dissection, in vitro reconstitution and role in viral infectivity

R Puthenveetil, CM Lun, RE Murphy, LB Healy… - Journal of Biological …, 2021 - ASBMB
S-acylation, also known as palmitoylation, is the most widely prevalent form of protein
lipidation, whereby long-chain fatty acids get attached to cysteine residues facing the …

Function of protein S-palmitoylation in immunity and immune-related diseases

Y Zhang, Z Qin, W Sun, F Chu, F Zhou - Frontiers in Immunology, 2021 - frontiersin.org
Protein S-palmitoylation is a covalent and reversible lipid modification that specifically
targets cysteine residues within many eukaryotic proteins. In mammalian cells, the …

Control of protein palmitoylation by regulating substrate recruitment to a zDHHC-protein acyltransferase

F Plain, J Howie, J Kennedy, E Brown… - Communications …, 2020 - nature.com
Although palmitoylation regulates numerous cellular processes, as yet efforts to manipulate
this post-translational modification for therapeutic gain have proved unsuccessful. The Na …

Structure and mechanism of DHHC protein acyltransferases

R Stix, CJ Lee, JD Faraldo-Gómez… - Journal of molecular …, 2020 - Elsevier
S-acylation, whereby a fatty acid chain is covalently linked to a cysteine residue by a
thioester linkage, is the most prevalent kind of lipid modification of proteins. Thousands of …

CellPalmSeq: A curated RNAseq database of palmitoylating and de-palmitoylating enzyme expression in human cell types and laboratory cell lines

AR Wild, PW Hogg, S Flibotte, S Kochhar… - Frontiers in …, 2023 - frontiersin.org
The reversible lipid modification protein S-palmitoylation can dynamically modify the
localization, diffusion, function, conformation and physical interactions of substrate proteins …

Protein acylation by saturated very long chain fatty acids and endocytosis are involved in necroptosis

AJ Pradhan, D Lu, LR Parisi, S Shen, IA Berhane… - Cell chemical …, 2021 - cell.com
Necroptosis is a form of cell death characterized by receptor-interacting protein kinase
activity and plasma membrane permeabilization via mixed-lineage kinase-like protein …

Cancer cells escape p53's tumor suppression through ablation of ZDHHC1-mediated p53 palmitoylation

J Tang, W Peng, Y Feng, X Le, K Wang, Q Xiang, L Li… - Oncogene, 2021 - nature.com
The inactivation of tumor-suppressor genes contributes heavily to oncogenesis. The
mutation of TP53 has been well-studied and recognized as a major factor in the …

Regulation of T cell function by protein S-acylation

SJ West, D Boehning, AM Akimzhanov - Frontiers in Physiology, 2022 - frontiersin.org
S-acylation, the reversible lipidation of free cysteine residues with long-chain fatty acids, is a
highly dynamic post-translational protein modification that has recently emerged as an …