A model for RAS mutation patterns in cancers: finding the sweet spot

S Li, A Balmain, CM Counter - Nature Reviews Cancer, 2018 - nature.com
The three RAS genes—HRAS, NRAS and KRAS—are collectively mutated in one-third of
human cancers, where they act as prototypic oncogenes. Interestingly, there are rather …

Ubiquitination in disease pathogenesis and treatment

D Popovic, D Vucic, I Dikic - Nature medicine, 2014 - nature.com
Ubiquitination is crucial for a plethora of physiological processes, including cell survival and
differentiation and innate and adaptive immunity. In recent years, considerable progress has …

Interaction between Wnt/β-catenin and RAS-ERK pathways and an anti-cancer strategy via degradations of β-catenin and RAS by targeting the Wnt/β-catenin pathway

WJ Jeong, EJ Ro, KY Choi - NPJ Precision oncology, 2018 - nature.com
Aberrant activation of the Wnt/β-catenin and RAS-extracellular signal-regulated kinase
(ERK) pathways play important roles in the tumorigenesis of many different types of cancer …

Wnt5a induces and maintains prostate cancer cells dormancy in bone

D Ren, Y Dai, Q Yang, X Zhang, W Guo, L Ye… - Journal of Experimental …, 2019 - rupress.org
In a substantial fraction of prostate cancer (PCa) patients, bone metastasis appears after
years or even decades of latency. Canonical Wnt/β-catenin signaling has been proposed to …

[HTML][HTML] The functions and regulation of Smurfs in cancers

L Fu, CP Cui, X Zhang, L Zhang - Seminars in cancer biology, 2020 - Elsevier
Smad ubiquitination regulatory factor 1 (Smurf1) and Smurf2 are HECT-type E3 ubiquitin
ligases, and both Smurfs were initially identified to regulate Smad protein stability in the TGF …

Post-translational modification of RAS proteins

SL Campbell, MR Philips - Current opinion in structural biology, 2021 - Elsevier
Mutations of RAS genes drive cancer more frequently than any other oncogene. RAS
proteins integrate signals from a wide array of receptors and initiate downstream signaling …

Ras stabilization through aberrant activation of Wnt/β-catenin signaling promotes intestinal tumorigenesis

WJ Jeong, J Yoon, JC Park, SH Lee, SH Lee… - Science …, 2012 - science.org
Although the guanosine triphosphate/guanosine diphosphate loading switch is a major
regulatory mechanism that controls the activity of the guanosine triphosphatase Ras, we …

Smurfs in protein homeostasis, signaling, and cancer

P Koganti, G Levy-Cohen, M Blank - Frontiers in oncology, 2018 - frontiersin.org
Protein ubiquitination is an evolutionary conserved highly-orchestrated enzymatic cascade
essential for normal cellular functions and homeostasis maintenance. This pathway relies on …

Ubiquitination of K-Ras enhances activation and facilitates binding to select downstream effectors

AT Sasaki, A Carracedo, JW Locasale… - Science …, 2011 - science.org
The guanosine triphosphate (GTP)–loaded form of the guanosine triphosphatase (GTPase)
Ras initiates multiple signaling pathways by binding to various effectors, such as the kinase …

When ubiquitination meets phosphorylation: a systems biology perspective of EGFR/MAPK signalling

LK Nguyen, W Kolch, BN Kholodenko - Cell Communication and Signaling, 2013 - Springer
Ubiquitination, the covalent attachment of ubiquitin to target proteins, has emerged as a
ubiquitous post-translational modification (PTM) whose function extends far beyond its …