[HTML][HTML] The role of ubiquitination in tumorigenesis and targeted drug discovery

L Deng, T Meng, L Chen, W Wei, P Wang - Signal transduction and …, 2020 - nature.com
Ubiquitination, an important type of protein posttranslational modification (PTM), plays a
crucial role in controlling substrate degradation and subsequently mediates the “quantity” …

Targeting the ubiquitin-proteasome pathway to overcome anti-cancer drug resistance

S Narayanan, CY Cai, YG Assaraf, HQ Guo… - Drug Resistance …, 2020 - Elsevier
Drug resistance is a major obstacle in the field of pre-clinical and clinical therapeutics. The
development of novel technologies and targeted therapies have yielded new modalities to …

Small‐molecule PROTACS: new approaches to protein degradation

M Toure, CM Crews - Angewandte Chemie International …, 2016 - Wiley Online Library
The current inhibitor‐based approach to therapeutics has inherent limitations owing to its
occupancy‐based model: 1) there is a need to maintain high systemic exposure to ensure …

Protease inhibition as new therapeutic strategy for GI diseases

N Vergnolle - Gut, 2016 - gut.bmj.com
The GI tract is the most exposed organ to proteases, both in physiological and
pathophysiological conditions. For digestive purposes, the lumen of the upper GI tract …

[HTML][HTML] Fungal proteases as emerging biocatalysts to meet the current challenges and recent developments in biomedical therapies: an updated review

M Naeem, S Manzoor, MUH Abid, MBK Tareen… - Journal of Fungi, 2022 - mdpi.com
With the increasing world population, demand for industrialization has also increased to
fulfill humans' living standards. Fungi are considered a source of essential constituents to …

Targeting CSC-related transcription factors by E3 ubiquitin ligases for cancer therapy

W Wang, W Liu, Q Chen, Y Yuan, P Wang - Seminars in Cancer Biology, 2022 - Elsevier
Evidence has revealed that transcription factors play essential roles in regulation of multiple
cellular processes, including cell proliferation, metastasis, EMT, cancer stem cells and …

E3 ubiquitin ligases in cancer and implications for therapies

D Wang, L Ma, B Wang, J Liu, W Wei - Cancer and Metastasis Reviews, 2017 - Springer
E3 ligases are a class of enzymes that can transfer ubiquitin to substrates for their
degradation, which are of importance in cellular homeostasis. Since many oncogenic or …

[HTML][HTML] Genetic interactions of G-quadruplexes in humans

KG Zyner, DS Mulhearn, S Adhikari, S Martínez Cuesta… - Elife, 2019 - elifesciences.org
G-quadruplexes (G4) are alternative nucleic acid structures involved in transcription,
translation and replication. Aberrant G4 formation and stabilisation is linked to genome …

The diverse roles of SPOP in prostate cancer and kidney cancer

Z Wang, Y Song, M Ye, X Dai, X Zhu, W Wei - Nature Reviews Urology, 2020 - nature.com
Multiple studies have confirmed that speckle-type pox virus and zinc finger (POZ) protein
(SPOP) functions as a substrate adaptor of cullin 3-based E3 ligase and has a crucial role in …

PROTACs: Novel tools for improving immunotherapy in cancer

S Li, T Chen, J Liu, H Zhang, J Li, Z Wang, G Shang - Cancer Letters, 2023 - Elsevier
Posttranslational modifications (PTMs), such as phosphorylation, methylation, ubiquitination,
and acetylation, are important in governing protein expression levels. Proteolysis targeting …