Protein lipidation: occurrence, mechanisms, biological functions, and enabling technologies

H Jiang, X Zhang, X Chen, P Aramsangtienchai… - Chemical …, 2018 - ACS Publications
Protein lipidation, including cysteine prenylation, N-terminal glycine myristoylation, cysteine
palmitoylation, and serine and lysine fatty acylation, occurs in many proteins in eukaryotic …

The Physiology of Protein S-acylation

LH Chamberlain, MJ Shipston - Physiological reviews, 2015 - journals.physiology.org
Protein S-acylation, the only fully reversible posttranslational lipid modification of proteins, is
emerging as a ubiquitous mechanism to control the properties and function of a diverse …

Brain insulin resistance impairs hippocampal synaptic plasticity and memory by increasing GluA1 palmitoylation through FoxO3a

M Spinelli, S Fusco, M Mainardi, F Scala… - Nature …, 2017 - nature.com
High-fat diet (HFD) and metabolic diseases cause detrimental effects on hippocampal
synaptic plasticity, learning, and memory through molecular mechanisms still poorly …

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 …

Inhibitors of DHHC family proteins

T Lan, C Delalande, BC Dickinson - Current opinion in chemical biology, 2021 - Elsevier
Protein S-acylation is a prevalent post-translational protein lipidation that is dynamically
regulated by 'writer'protein S-acyltransferases and 'eraser'acylprotein thioesterases. The …

Protein lipidation by palmitoylation and myristoylation in cancer

CW Fhu, A Ali - Frontiers in Cell and Developmental Biology, 2021 - frontiersin.org
Posttranslational modification of proteins with lipid moieties is known as protein lipidation.
The attachment of a lipid molecule to proteins endows distinct properties, which affect their …

Identification of SARS-CoV-2 spike palmitoylation inhibitors that results in release of attenuated virus with reduced infectivity

AA Ramadan, K Mayilsamy, AR McGill, A Ghosh… - Viruses, 2022 - mdpi.com
The spike proteins of enveloped viruses are transmembrane glycoproteins that typically
undergo post-translational attachment of palmitate on cysteine residues on the cytoplasmic …

S-palmitoylation of synaptic proteins in neuronal plasticity in normal and pathological brains

A Buszka, A Pytyś, D Colvin, J Włodarczyk, T Wójtowicz - Cells, 2023 - mdpi.com
Protein lipidation is a common post-translational modification of proteins that plays an
important role in human physiology and pathology. One form of protein lipidation, S …

Palmitoylated acyl protein thioesterase APT2 deforms membranes to extract substrate acyl chains

L Abrami, M Audagnotto, S Ho, MJ Marcaida… - Nature chemical …, 2021 - nature.com
Many biochemical reactions require controlled recruitment of proteins to membranes. This is
largely regulated by posttranslational modifications. A frequent one is S-acylation, which …

Cardiac sodium channel palmitoylation regulates channel availability and myocyte excitability with implications for arrhythmia generation

Z Pei, Y Xiao, J Meng, A Hudmon… - Nature communications, 2016 - nature.com
Cardiac voltage-gated sodium channels (Nav1. 5) play an essential role in regulating
cardiac electric activity by initiating and propagating action potentials in the heart. Altered …