Targeting Ras signaling in AML: RALB is a small GTPase with big potential

EJ Pomeroy, CE Eckfeldt - Small GTPases, 2020 - Taylor & Francis
Acute myeloid leukemia (AML) is a devastating malignancy for which novel treatment
approaches are desperately needed. Ras signaling is an attractive therapeutic target for …

Site-specific chemical fatty-acylation for gain-of-function analysis of protein S-palmitoylation in live cells

Y Li, S Wang, Y Chen, M Li, X Dong… - Chemical …, 2020 - pubs.rsc.org
Protein S-palmitoylation, or S-fatty-acylation, regulates many fundamental cellular processes
in eukaryotes. Herein, we present a chemical fatty-acylation approach that involves site …

A Novel α/β Hydrolase Domain Protein Derived From Haemonchus contortus Acts at the Parasite-Host Interface

M Lu, X Tian, AL Tian, C Li, R Yan, L Xu… - Frontiers in …, 2020 - frontiersin.org
The α/β-hydrolase domain (ABHD) proteins belonging to α/β-hydrolase (ABH) superfamily
are ubiquitously distributed throughout all the organisms, and their functional roles have …

Genetic disruption of N-RasG12D palmitoylation perturbs hematopoiesis and prevents myeloid transformation in mice

NA Zambetti, AJ Firestone… - Blood, The Journal …, 2020 - ashpublications.org
Oncogenic RAS mutations pose substantial challenges for rational drug discovery.
Sequence variations within the hypervariable region of Ras isoforms underlie differential …

Inhibition of NRAS signaling in melanoma through direct depalmitoylation using amphiphilic nucleophiles

HD Vora, M Johnson, RJ Brea, AK Rudd… - ACS chemical …, 2020 - ACS Publications
Activating mutations in the small GTPase NRAS are responsible for driving tumor growth in
several cancers. Unfortunately, the development of NRAS inhibitors has proven difficult due …

ABHD17 enzymes regulate dynamic plasma membrane palmitoylation and N-Ras-dependent cancer growth

JR Remsberg, RM Suciu, NA Zambetti, TW Hanigan… - bioRxiv, 2020 - biorxiv.org
A subset of Ras proteins, including N-Ras, depend on a palmitoylation/depalmitoylation
cycle to regulate their subcellular trafficking and oncogenicity. General lipase inhibitors such …

[引用][C] NRAS palmitoylation and oncogenic fitness

LH Castilla - Blood, The Journal of the American Society of …, 2020 - ashpublications.org
In this issue of Blood, Zambetti et al validate that palmitoylation of mutant NRAS is essential
for its oncogenic function by using a genetic mouse model. Their study highlights that the …