Deubiquitinases: From mechanisms to their inhibition by small molecules

SM Lange, LA Armstrong, Y Kulathu - Molecular cell, 2022 - cell.com
Deubiquitinases (DUBs) are specialized proteases that remove ubiquitin from substrates or
cleave within ubiquitin chains to regulate ubiquitylation and therefore play important roles in …

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 …

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 …

Enhanced protein degradation by branched ubiquitin chains

HJ Meyer, M Rape - Cell, 2014 - cell.com
Posttranslational modification of cell-cycle regulators with ubiquitin chains is essential for
eukaryotic cell division. Such chains can be connected through seven lysine residues or the …

Dysregulation of ubiquitin-proteasome system in neurodegenerative diseases

Q Zheng, T Huang, L Zhang, Y Zhou, H Luo… - Frontiers in aging …, 2016 - frontiersin.org
The ubiquitin-proteasome system (UPS) is one of the major protein degradation pathways,
where abnormal UPS function has been observed in cancer and neurological diseases …

Breaking the chains: structure and function of the deubiquitinases

D Komander, MJ Clague, S Urbé - Nature reviews Molecular cell …, 2009 - nature.com
Ubiquitylation is a reversible protein modification that is implicated in many cellular
functions. Recently, much progress has been made in the characterization of a superfamily …

Deubiquitylases from genes to organism

MJ Clague, I Barsukov, JM Coulson… - Physiological …, 2013 - journals.physiology.org
Ubiquitylation is a major posttranslational modification that controls most complex aspects of
cell physiology. It is reversed through the action of a large family of deubiquitylating …

Regulation and cellular roles of ubiquitin-specific deubiquitinating enzymes

FE Reyes-Turcu, KH Ventii… - Annual review of …, 2009 - annualreviews.org
Deubiquitinating enzymes (DUBs) are proteases that process ubiquitin or ubiquitin-like gene
products, reverse the modification of proteins by a single ubiquitin (-like) protein, and …

Aggrephagy: selective disposal of protein aggregates by macroautophagy

T Lamark, T Johansen - International journal of cell biology, 2012 - Wiley Online Library
Protein aggregation is a continuous process in our cells. Some proteins aggregate in a
regulated manner required for different vital functional processes in the cells whereas other …

The ubiquitin-proteasome system in neurodegenerative diseases: precipitating factor, yet part of the solution

NP Dantuma, LC Bott - Frontiers in molecular neuroscience, 2014 - frontiersin.org
The ubiquitin-proteasome system (UPS) has been implicated in neurodegenerative
diseases based on the presence of deposits consisting of ubiquitylated proteins in affected …