Myopia

PN Baird, SM Saw, C Lanca, JA Guggenheim… - Nature reviews Disease …, 2020 - nature.com
Myopia, also known as short-sightedness or near-sightedness, is a very common condition
that typically starts in childhood. Severe forms of myopia (pathologic myopia) are associated …

Insights into the post-translational modification and its emerging role in shaping the tumor microenvironment

W Li, F Li, X Zhang, HK Lin, C Xu - Signal transduction and targeted …, 2021 - nature.com
More and more in-depth studies have revealed that the occurrence and development of
tumors depend on gene mutation and tumor heterogeneity. The most important …

Co-translational, post-translational, and non-catalytic roles of N-terminal acetyltransferases

H Aksnes, R Ree, T Arnesen - Molecular cell, 2019 - cell.com
Recent studies of N-terminal acetylation have identified new N-terminal acetyltransferases
(NATs) and expanded the known functions of these enzymes beyond their roles as ribosome …

How the ends signal the end: regulation by E3 ubiquitin ligases recognizing protein termini

D Sherpa, J Chrustowicz, BA Schulman - Molecular cell, 2022 - cell.com
Specificity of eukaryotic protein degradation is determined by E3 ubiquitin ligases and their
selective binding to protein motifs, termed" degrons," in substrates for ubiquitin-mediated …

Protein neddylation and its alterations in human cancers for targeted therapy

L Zhou, W Zhang, Y Sun, L Jia - Cellular signalling, 2018 - Elsevier
Neddylation, a post-translational modification that conjugates an ubiquitin-like protein
NEDD8 to substrate proteins, is an important biochemical process that regulates protein …

[HTML][HTML] Targeting cullin neddylation for cancer and fibrotic diseases

ZX He, W Yang, D Zengyangzong, G Gao, Q Zhang… - Theranostics, 2023 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Protein neddylation is a post-translational modification, and its best recognized substrates
are cullin family proteins, which are the core component of Cullin-RING ligases (CRLs) …

Visualizing ubiquitination in mammalian cells

SJL van Wijk, S Fulda, I Dikic, M Heilemann - EMBO reports, 2019 - embopress.org
Covalent modification of proteins with ubiquitin is essential for the majority of biological
processes in mammalian cells. Numerous proteins are conjugated with single or multiple …

N-terminal acetylation shields proteins from degradation and promotes age-dependent motility and longevity

S Varland, RD Silva, I Kjosås, A Faustino… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
Most eukaryotic proteins are N-terminally acetylated, but the functional impact on a global
scale has remained obscure. Using genome-wide CRISPR knockout screens in human …

Control of protein degradation by N-terminal acetylation and the N-end rule pathway

KT Nguyen, SH Mun, CS Lee, CS Hwang - Experimental & molecular …, 2018 - nature.com
Nα-terminal acetylation (Nt-acetylation) occurs very frequently and is found in most proteins
in eukaryotes. Despite the pervasiveness and universality of Nt-acetylation, its general …

NAC guides a ribosomal multienzyme complex for nascent protein processing

AM Lentzsch, D Yudin, M Gamerdinger… - Nature, 2024 - nature.com
Approximately 40% of the mammalian proteome undergoes N-terminal methionine excision
and acetylation, mediated sequentially by methionine aminopeptidase (MetAP) and N …