E2 enzymes: more than just middle men

MD Stewart, T Ritterhoff, RE Klevit, PS Brzovic - Cell research, 2016 - nature.com
Ubiquitin-conjugating enzymes (E2s) are the central players in the trio of enzymes
responsible for the attachment of ubiquitin (Ub) to cellular proteins. Humans have∼ 40 E2s …

Post-translational modifications of the protein termini

L Chen, A Kashina - Frontiers in cell and developmental biology, 2021 - frontiersin.org
Post-translational modifications (PTM) involve enzyme-mediated covalent addition of
functional groups to proteins during or after synthesis. These modifications greatly increase …

Trivalent RING assembly on retroviral capsids activates TRIM5 ubiquitination and innate immune signaling

AJ Fletcher, M Vaysburd, S Maslen, J Zeng… - Cell host & …, 2018 - cell.com
TRIM5 is a RING domain E3 ubiquitin ligase with potent antiretroviral function. TRIM5
assembles into a hexagonal lattice on retroviral capsids, causing envelopment of the …

Mechanism and disease association of E2-conjugating enzymes: lessons from UBE2T and UBE2L3

AF Alpi, V Chaugule, H Walden - Biochemical Journal, 2016 - portlandpress.com
Ubiquitin signalling is a fundamental eukaryotic regulatory system, controlling diverse
cellular functions. A cascade of E1, E2, and E3 enzymes is required for assembly of distinct …

[HTML][HTML] Characterization of the whole transcriptome of spleens from Chinese indigenous breed Ningxiang pig reveals diverse coding and non-coding RNAs for …

B Li, J Yang, J He, X Peng, Q Zeng, Y Song, K Xu… - Genomics, 2021 - Elsevier
The spatio-temporal expression patterns of RNA and comparisons between different
developmental stages have been one of the useful techniques for studying animal …

An intrinsically disordered protein region encoded by the human disease gene CLEC16A regulates mitophagy

MA Gingerich, X Liu, B Chai, GL Pearson, MP Vincent… - Autophagy, 2023 - Taylor & Francis
ABSTRACT CLEC16A regulates mitochondrial health through mitophagy and is associated
with over 20 human diseases. However, the key structural and functional regions of …

Cbl interacts with multiple E2s in vitro and in cells

MS Liyasova, K Ma, D Voeller, PE Ryan, J Chen… - PLoS …, 2019 - journals.plos.org
Many receptor tyrosine kinases (RTKs, such as EGFR, MET) are negatively regulated by
ubiquitination and degradation mediated by Cbl proteins, a family of RING finger (RF) …

Dendritic peptide-conjugated polymeric nanovectors for non-toxic delivery of plasmid DNA and enhanced non-viral transfection of immune cells

S Yi, SY Kim, MP Vincent, SA Yuk, S Bobbala, F Du… - Iscience, 2022 - cell.com
Plasmid DNA (pDNA) transfection is advantageous for gene therapies requiring larger
genetic elements, including" all-in-one" CRISPR/Cas9 plasmids, but is limited by toxicity as …

The ubiquitin conjugating enzyme Ube2W regulates solubility of the Huntington's disease protein, huntingtin

B Wang, L Zeng, SA Merillat, S Fischer, J Ochaba… - Neurobiology of …, 2018 - Elsevier
Huntington's disease (HD) is caused by a CAG repeat expansion that encodes a
polyglutamine (polyQ) expansion in the HD disease protein, huntingtin (HTT). PolyQ …

The role of ubiquitin-conjugating enzyme in the process of spermatogenesis

P Lv, J Liu, X Liu - Reproductive Biology and Endocrinology, 2024 - Springer
The ubiquitination is crucial for controlling cellular homeostasis and protein modification, in
which ubiquitin-conjugating enzyme (E2) acts as the central player in the ubiquitination …