Breaking the chains: structure and function of the deubiquitinases

D Komander, MJ Clague, S Urbé - Nature reviews Molecular cell …, 2009 - nature.com
Ubiquitylation is a reversible protein modification that is implicated in many cellular
functions. Recently, much progress has been made in the characterization of a superfamily …

Breaking the chains: deubiquitylating enzyme specificity begets function

MJ Clague, S Urbé, D Komander - Nature reviews Molecular cell …, 2019 - nature.com
The deubiquitylating enzymes (DUBs, also known as deubiquitylases or deubiquitinases)
maintain the dynamic state of the cellular ubiquitome by releasing conjugated ubiquitin from …

Mechanisms of deubiquitinase specificity and regulation

TET Mevissen, D Komander - Annual review of biochemistry, 2017 - annualreviews.org
Protein ubiquitination is one of the most powerful posttranslational modifications of proteins,
as it regulates a plethora of cellular processes in distinct manners. Simple …

Mechanisms of regulation and diversification of deubiquitylating enzyme function

P Leznicki, Y Kulathu - Journal of cell science, 2017 - journals.biologists.com
Deubiquitylating (or deubiquitinating) enzymes (DUBs) are proteases that reverse protein
ubiquitylation and therefore modulate the outcome of this post-translational modification …

Reversible inactivation of deubiquitinases by reactive oxygen species in vitro and in cells

JG Lee, K Baek, N Soetandyo, Y Ye - Nature communications, 2013 - nature.com
In eukaryotes, deubiquitinases (DUBs) remove ubiquitin conjugates from diverse substrates,
altering their stabilities, localizations or activities. Here we show that many DUBs of the USP …

Active site alanine mutations convert deubiquitinases into high‐affinity ubiquitin‐binding proteins

ME Morrow, MT Morgan, M Clerici, K Growkova… - EMBO …, 2018 - embopress.org
A common strategy for exploring the biological roles of deubiquitinating enzymes (DUB s) in
different pathways is to study the effects of replacing the wild‐type DUB with a catalytically …

Mechanism, specificity and structure of the deubiquitinases

D Komander - Conjugation and Deconjugation of Ubiquitin Family …, 2010 - Springer
Removal of ubiquitin from modified proteins is an important process to regulate the ubiquitin
system. Roughly 100 dedicated enzymes for this purpose, the deubiquitinases, exist in …

Phosphorylation-dependent activity of the deubiquitinase DUBA

OW Huang, X Ma, JP Yin, J Flinders, T Maurer… - Nature structural & …, 2012 - nature.com
Addition and removal of ubiquitin or ubiquitin chains to and from proteins is a tightly
regulated process that contributes to cellular signaling and protein stability. Here we show …

Regulation of ubiquitin‐dependent processes by deubiquitinating enzymes

KD Wilkinson - The FASEB Journal, 1997 - Wiley Online Library
An astounding number of important regulatory and structural proteins are subject to
modification by the attachment of ubiquitin or ubiquitin‐like proteins. This modification acts …

Dissenting degradation: Deubiquitinases in cell cycle and cancer

T Bonacci, MJ Emanuele - Seminars in cancer biology, 2020 - Elsevier
Since its discovery forty years ago, protein ubiquitination has been an ever-expanding field.
Virtually all biological processes are controlled by the post-translational conjugation of …