[HTML][HTML] Applications of protein ubiquitylation and deubiquitylation in drug discovery

Y Chen, H Xue, J Jin - Journal of Biological Chemistry, 2024 - Elsevier
The ubiquitin-proteasome system (UPS) is the major machinery mediating specific protein
turnover in eukaryotic cells. By ubiquitylating unwanted, damaged, or harmful proteins and …

Toward understanding ubiquitin-modifying enzymes: from pharmacological targeting to proteomics

JR Lill, IE Wertz - Trends in pharmacological sciences, 2014 - cell.com
Ubiquitination is a highly conserved post-translational modification that regulates protein
trafficking, function, and turnover. Ubiquitin ligases (E3s) conjugate ubiquitin polypeptides …

Synthetic uncleavable ubiquitinated proteins dissect proteasome deubiquitination and degradation, and highlight distinctive fate of tetraubiquitin

SK Singh, I Sahu, SM Mali, HP Hemantha… - Journal of the …, 2016 - ACS Publications
Various hypotheses have been proposed regarding how chain length, linkage type, position
on substrate, and susceptibility to deubiquitinases (DUBs) affect processing of different …

The application of ubiquitin ligases in the PROTAC drug design

Y Chen, J Jin - Acta Biochimica et Biophysica Sinica, 2020 - academic.oup.com
Protein ubiquitylation plays important roles in many biological activities. Protein
ubiquitylation is a unique process that is mainly controlled by ubiquitin ligases. The ubiquitin …

Activity‐based probes for the ubiquitin conjugation–deconjugation machinery: new chemistries, new tools, and new insights

DS Hewings, JA Flygare, M Bogyo… - The FEBS journal, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
The reversible post‐translational modification of proteins by ubiquitin and ubiquitin‐like
proteins regulates almost all cellular processes, by affecting protein degradation …

Polyubiquitin binding and disassembly by deubiquitinating enzymes

FE Reyes-Turcu, KD Wilkinson - Chemical reviews, 2009 - ACS Publications
Ubiquitin (Ub) is a highly conserved protein of 76 amino acids that is covalently linked to
target proteins altering their localization, function, or stability. 1-3 Proteins can be modified …

[HTML][HTML] Post-translational modifications of deubiquitinating enzymes: expanding the ubiquitin code

Y Wang, F Wang - Frontiers in pharmacology, 2021 - frontiersin.org
Post-translational modifications such as ubiquitination play important regulatory roles in
several biological processes in eukaryotes. This process could be reversed by …

Chemical strategies to understand the language of ubiquitin signaling

CE Weller, ME Pilkerton, C Chatterjee - Biopolymers, 2014 - Wiley Online Library
Ubiquitin (Ub) is a small 76 amino acid long protein that is highly conserved in all
eukaryotes studied to date. In humans, more than 600 ligases are involved in the reversible …

[HTML][HTML] Development of inhibitors in the ubiquitination cascade

W Zhang, SS Sidhu - FEBS letters, 2014 - Elsevier
The ubiquitin proteasome system (UPS) is essential in regulating myriad aspects of protein
functions. It is therefore a fundamentally important regulatory mechanism that impacts most if …

[HTML][HTML] Recent advances in targeted protein degraders as potential therapeutic agents

N Yang, B Kong, Z Zhu, F Huang, L Zhang, T Lu… - Molecular …, 2024 - Springer
Targeted protein degradation (TPD) technology has gradually become widespread in the
past 20 years, which greatly boosts the development of disease treatment. Contrary to small …