Protein acylation: mechanisms, biological functions and therapeutic targets

S Shang, J Liu, F Hua - Signal Transduction and Targeted Therapy, 2022 - nature.com
Metabolic reprogramming is involved in the pathogenesis of not only cancers but also
neurodegenerative diseases, cardiovascular diseases, and infectious diseases. With the …

Understanding the function of mammalian sirtuins and protein lysine acylation

M Wang, H Lin - Annual Review of Biochemistry, 2021 - annualreviews.org
Protein lysine acetylation is an important posttranslational modification that regulates
numerous biological processes. Targeting lysine acetylation regulatory factors, such as …

iLearnPlus: a comprehensive and automated machine-learning platform for nucleic acid and protein sequence analysis, prediction and visualization

Z Chen, P Zhao, C Li, F Li, D Xiang… - Nucleic acids …, 2021 - academic.oup.com
Sequence-based analysis and prediction are fundamental bioinformatic tasks that facilitate
understanding of the sequence (-structure)-function paradigm for DNAs, RNAs and proteins …

Deep-Kcr: accurate detection of lysine crotonylation sites using deep learning method

H Lv, FY Dao, ZX Guan, H Yang, YW Li… - Briefings in …, 2021 - academic.oup.com
As a newly discovered protein posttranslational modification, histone lysine crotonylation
(Kcr) involved in cellular regulation and human diseases. Various proteomics technologies …

Short-chain fatty acid, acylation and cardiovascular diseases

XF Chen, X Chen, X Tang - Clinical Science, 2020 - portlandpress.com
Cardiovascular diseases (CVDs) are the leading cause of morbidity and mortality worldwide.
Metabolic dysfunction is a fundamental core mechanism underlying CVDs. Previous studies …

Beyond histone acetylation—writing and erasing histone acylations

S Zhao, X Zhang, H Li - Current opinion in structural biology, 2018 - Elsevier
Highlights•Non-acetyl histone acylations are catalyzed by classical acetylation
modifiers.•Active site engagement of the acyl group determines acyl type-specific …

Protein lysine crotonylation: past, present, perspective

G Jiang, C Li, M Lu, K Lu, H Li - Cell death & disease, 2021 - nature.com
Lysine crotonylation has been discovered in histone and non-histone proteins and found to
be involved in diverse diseases and biological processes, such as neuropsychiatric disease …

Oncometabolites drive tumorigenesis by enhancing protein acylation: from chromosomal remodelling to nonhistone modification

Y Fu, J Yu, F Li, S Ge - Journal of Experimental & Clinical Cancer …, 2022 - Springer
Metabolites are intermediate products of cellular metabolism catalysed by various enzymes.
Metabolic remodelling, as a biochemical fingerprint of cancer cells, causes abnormal …

BERT-Kcr: prediction of lysine crotonylation sites by a transfer learning method with pre-trained BERT models

Y Qiao, X Zhu, H Gong - Bioinformatics, 2022 - academic.oup.com
Motivation As one of the most important post-translational modifications (PTMs), protein
lysine crotonylation (Kcr) has attracted wide attention, which involves in important …

An expanding repertoire of protein acylations

Y Xu, Z Shi, L Bao - Molecular & Cellular Proteomics, 2022 - ASBMB
Protein post-translational modifications play key roles in multiple cellular processes by
allowing rapid reprogramming of individual protein functions. Acylation, one of the most …