Cofilin and actin dynamics: multiple modes of regulation and their impacts in neuronal development and degeneration

JR Bamburg, LS Minamide, ON Wiggan… - Cells, 2021 - mdpi.com
Proteins of the actin depolymerizing factor (ADF)/cofilin family are ubiquitous among
eukaryotes and are essential regulators of actin dynamics and function. Mammalian neurons …

Proteomic characterization of post-translational modifications in drug discovery

L Zhai, K Chen, B Hao, M Tan - Acta Pharmacologica Sinica, 2022 - nature.com
Protein post-translational modifications (PTMs), which are usually enzymatically catalyzed,
are major regulators of protein activity and involved in almost all celluar processes …

Neddylation of phosphoenolpyruvate carboxykinase 1 controls glucose metabolism

MJ Gonzalez-Rellan, U Fernández, T Parracho… - Cell metabolism, 2023 - cell.com
Neddylation is a post-translational mechanism that adds a ubiquitin-like protein, namely
neural precursor cell expressed developmentally downregulated protein 8 (NEDD8). Here …

Neddylation inhibition induces glutamine uptake and metabolism by targeting CRL3SPOP E3 ligase in cancer cells

Q Zhou, W Lin, C Wang, F Sun, S Ju, Q Chen… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
Abnormal neddylation activation is frequently observed in human cancers and neddylation
inhibition has been proposed as a therapy for cancer. Here, we report that MLN4924, a …

SHP2 deneddylation mediates tumor immunosuppression in colon cancer via the CD47/SIRPα axis

Y Li, H Zhou, P Liu, D Lv, Y Shi, B Tang… - The Journal of …, 2023 - Am Soc Clin Investig
SIPR α on macrophages binds with CD47 to resist proengulfment signals, but how the
downstream signal of SIPR α controls tumor-infiltrating macrophages (TIMs) is still poorly …

Protein neddylation and its role in health and diseases

S Zhang, Q Yu, Z Li, Y Zhao, Y Sun - Signal Transduction and Targeted …, 2024 - nature.com
NEDD8 (Neural precursor cell expressed developmentally downregulated protein 8) is an
ubiquitin-like protein that is covalently attached to a lysine residue of a protein substrate …

The next frontier: translational development of ubiquitination, SUMOylation, and NEDDylation in cancer

NE Pellegrino, A Guven, K Gray, P Shah… - International Journal of …, 2022 - mdpi.com
Post-translational modifications of proteins ensure optimized cellular processes, including
proteostasis, regulated signaling, cell survival, and stress adaptation to maintain a balanced …

N-terminal α-amino SUMOylation of cofilin-1 is critical for its regulation of actin depolymerization

W Weng, X Gu, Y Yang, Q Zhang, Q Deng… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
Small ubiquitin-like modifier (SUMO) typically conjugates to target proteins through
isopeptide linkage to the ε-amino group of lysine residues. This posttranslational …

Advances in cancer treatment by targeting the neddylation pathway

W Gai, Z Peng, CH Liu, L Zhang… - Frontiers in Cell and …, 2021 - frontiersin.org
Developmental down-regulation protein 8 (NEDD8), expressed by neural progenitors, is a
ubiquitin-like protein that conjugates to and regulates the biological function of its substrates …

Diverse and pivotal roles of neddylation in metabolism and immunity

T Zou, J Zhang - The FEBS Journal, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Neddylation is one type of protein post‐translational modification by conjugating a ubiquitin‐
like protein neural precursor cell‐expressed developmentally downregulated protein 8 to …