Signalling mechanisms and cellular functions of SUMO

ACO Vertegaal - Nature Reviews Molecular Cell Biology, 2022 - nature.com
Sumoylation is an essential post-translational modification that is catalysed by a small
number of modifying enzymes but regulates thousands of target proteins in a dynamic …

Ubiquitin-like protein conjugation: structures, chemistry, and mechanism

L Cappadocia, CD Lima - Chemical reviews, 2018 - ACS Publications
Ubiquitin-like proteins (Ubl's) are conjugated to target proteins or lipids to regulate their
activity, stability, subcellular localization, or macromolecular interactions. Similar to ubiquitin …

Chromosome Duplication in Saccharomyces cerevisiae

SP Bell, K Labib - Genetics, 2016 - academic.oup.com
The accurate and complete replication of genomic DNA is essential for all life. In eukaryotic
cells, the assembly of the multi-enzyme replisomes that perform replication is divided into …

Forging ahead through darkness: PCNA, still the principal conductor at the replication fork

KN Choe, GL Moldovan - Molecular cell, 2017 - cell.com
Proliferating cell nuclear antigen (PCNA) lies at the center of the faithful duplication of
eukaryotic genomes. With its distinctive doughnut-shaped molecular structure, PCNA was …

Uncovering global SUMOylation signaling networks in a site-specific manner

IA Hendriks, RCJ D'souza, B Yang… - Nature structural & …, 2014 - nature.com
SUMOylation is a reversible post-translational modification essential for genome stability.
Using high-resolution MS, we have studied global SUMOylation in human cells in a site …

Regulation of DNA damage responses by ubiquitin and SUMO

SP Jackson, D Durocher - Molecular cell, 2013 - cell.com
Ubiquitylation and sumoylation, the covalent attachment of the polypeptides ubiquitin and
SUMO, respectively, to target proteins, are pervasive mechanisms for controlling cellular …

The SUMO pathway: emerging mechanisms that shape specificity, conjugation and recognition

JR Gareau, CD Lima - Nature reviews Molecular cell biology, 2010 - nature.com
Proteins of the small ubiquitin-related modifier (SUMO) family are conjugated to proteins to
regulate such cellular processes as nuclear transport, transcription, chromosome …

Regulation of homologous recombination in eukaryotes

WD Heyer, KT Ehmsen, J Liu - Annual review of genetics, 2010 - annualreviews.org
Homologous recombination (HR) is required for accurate chromosome segregation during
the first meiotic division and constitutes a key repair and tolerance pathway for complex DNA …

Sumoylation: a regulatory protein modification in health and disease

A Flotho, F Melchior - Annual review of biochemistry, 2013 - annualreviews.org
Posttranslational modification with small ubiquitin-related modifier (SUMO) proteins is now
established as one of the key regulatory protein modifications in eukaryotic cells. Hundreds …

The many roles of PCNA in eukaryotic DNA replication

EM Boehm, MS Gildenberg, MT Washington - The Enzymes, 2016 - Elsevier
Proliferating cell nuclear antigen (PCNA) plays critical roles in many aspects of DNA
replication and replication-associated processes, including translesion synthesis, error-free …