Ubiquitin-like protein conjugation: structures, chemistry, and mechanism

L Cappadocia, CD Lima - Chemical reviews, 2018 - ACS Publications
Ubiquitin-like proteins (Ubl's) are conjugated to target proteins or lipids to regulate their
activity, stability, subcellular localization, or macromolecular interactions. Similar to ubiquitin …

Protein neddylation: beyond cullin–RING ligases

RI Enchev, BA Schulman, M Peter - Nature reviews Molecular cell …, 2015 - nature.com
NEDD8 (neural precursor cell expressed developmentally downregulated protein 8) is a
ubiquitin-like protein that activates the largest ubiquitin E3 ligase family, the cullin–RING …

Protein posttranslational modifications in health and diseases: Functions, regulatory mechanisms, and therapeutic implications

Q Zhong, X Xiao, Y Qiu, Z Xu, C Chen, B Chong… - MedComm, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Protein posttranslational modifications (PTMs) refer to the breaking or generation of covalent
bonds on the backbones or amino acid side chains of proteins and expand the diversity of …

[HTML][HTML] RING-type E3 ligases: master manipulators of E2 ubiquitin-conjugating enzymes and ubiquitination

MB Metzger, JN Pruneda, RE Klevit… - Biochimica et Biophysica …, 2014 - Elsevier
RING finger domain and RING finger-like ubiquitin ligases (E3s), such as U-box proteins,
constitute the vast majority of known E3s. RING-type E3s function together with ubiquitin …

Mechanisms of autophagy

NN Noda, F Inagaki - Annual review of biophysics, 2015 - annualreviews.org
The formation of the autophagosome, a landmark event in autophagy, is accomplished by
the concerted actions of Atg proteins. The initial step of starvation-induced autophagy in …

Building ubiquitin chains: E2 enzymes at work

Y Ye, M Rape - Nature reviews Molecular cell biology, 2009 - nature.com
The modification of proteins with ubiquitin chains can change their localization, activity
and/or stability. Although ubiquitylation requires the concerted action of ubiquitin-activating …

Ubiquitin-like protein activation by E1 enzymes: the apex for downstream signalling pathways

BA Schulman, J Wade Harper - Nature reviews Molecular cell biology, 2009 - nature.com
Attachment of ubiquitin or ubiquitin-like proteins (known as UBLs) to their targets through
multienzyme cascades is a central mechanism to modulate protein functions. This process is …

Protein neddylation and its alterations in human cancers for targeted therapy

L Zhou, W Zhang, Y Sun, L Jia - Cellular signalling, 2018 - Elsevier
Neddylation, a post-translational modification that conjugates an ubiquitin-like protein
NEDD8 to substrate proteins, is an important biochemical process that regulates protein …

Modification of proteins by ubiquitin and ubiquitin-like proteins

O Kerscher, R Felberbaum… - Annu. Rev. Cell Dev …, 2006 - annualreviews.org
Following the discovery of protein modification by the small, highly conserved ubiquitin
polypeptide, a number of distinct ubiquitin-like proteins (Ubls) have been found to function …

[HTML][HTML] Neddylation: a novel modulator of the tumor microenvironment

L Zhou, Y Jiang, Q Luo, L Li, L Jia - Molecular cancer, 2019 - Springer
Neddylation, a post-translational modification that adds an ubiquitin-like protein NEDD8 to
substrate proteins, modulates many important biological processes, including …