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 …

Structure and function of the 26S proteasome

JAM Bard, EA Goodall, ER Greene… - Annual review of …, 2018 - annualreviews.org
As the endpoint for the ubiquitin-proteasome system, the 26S proteasome is the principal
proteolytic machine responsible for regulated protein degradation in eukaryotic cells. The …

The logic of the 26S proteasome

GA Collins, AL Goldberg - Cell, 2017 - cell.com
The ubiquitin proteasome pathway is responsible for most of the protein degradation in
mammalian cells. Rates of degradation by this pathway have generally been assumed to be …

Regulation of proteasome assembly and activity in health and disease

A Rousseau, A Bertolotti - Nature reviews Molecular cell biology, 2018 - nature.com
The proteasome degrades most cellular proteins in a controlled and tightly regulated
manner and thereby controls many processes, including cell cycle, transcription, signalling …

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 …

Cryo-EM in drug discovery: achievements, limitations and prospects

JP Renaud, A Chari, C Ciferri, W Liu… - Nature reviews Drug …, 2018 - nature.com
Cryo-electron microscopy (cryo-EM) of non-crystalline single particles is a biophysical
technique that can be used to determine the structure of biological macromolecules and …

Cryo-EM structures and dynamics of substrate-engaged human 26S proteasome

Y Dong, S Zhang, Z Wu, X Li, WL Wang, Y Zhu… - Nature, 2019 - nature.com
The proteasome is an ATP-dependent, 2.5-megadalton molecular machine that is
responsible for selective protein degradation in eukaryotic cells. Here we present cryo …

Unravelling biological macromolecules with cryo-electron microscopy

R Fernandez-Leiro, SHW Scheres - Nature, 2016 - nature.com
Abstract Knowledge of the three-dimensional structures of proteins and other biological
macromolecules often aids understanding of how they perform complicated tasks in the cell …

Proteasome structure and assembly

L Budenholzer, CL Cheng, Y Li… - Journal of molecular …, 2017 - Elsevier
The eukaryotic 26S proteasome is a large multisubunit complex that degrades the majority
of proteins in the cell under normal conditions. The 26S proteasome can be divided into two …

Dynamic regulation of the 26S proteasome: from synthesis to degradation

RS Marshall, RD Vierstra - Frontiers in Molecular Biosciences, 2019 - frontiersin.org
All eukaryotes rely on selective proteolysis to control the abundance of key regulatory
proteins and maintain a healthy and properly functioning proteome. Most of this turnover is …