Protein lipidation: occurrence, mechanisms, biological functions, and enabling technologies

H Jiang, X Zhang, X Chen, P Aramsangtienchai… - Chemical …, 2018 - ACS Publications
Protein lipidation, including cysteine prenylation, N-terminal glycine myristoylation, cysteine
palmitoylation, and serine and lysine fatty acylation, occurs in many proteins in eukaryotic …

Targeting protein prenylation for cancer therapy

N Berndt, AD Hamilton, SM Sebti - Nature Reviews Cancer, 2011 - nature.com
Protein farnesylation and geranylgeranylation, together referred to as prenylation, are lipid
post-translational modifications that are required for the transforming activity of many …

A not-so-ancient grease history: click chemistry and protein lipid modifications

KF Suazo, KY Park, MD Distefano - Chemical reviews, 2021 - ACS Publications
Protein lipid modification involves the attachment of hydrophobic groups to proteins via
ester, thioester, amide, or thioether linkages. In this review, the specific click chemical …

Alkaloids and isoprenoids modification by copper (I)-catalyzed Huisgen 1, 3-dipolar cycloaddition (click chemistry): toward new functions and molecular architectures

K Kacprzak, I Skiera, M Piasecka, Z Paryzek - Chemical reviews, 2016 - ACS Publications
Despite enormous progress in the field of the synthetic chemistry involving, for example,
catalytic and combinatorial synthesis of a large libraries of compounds, multicomponent …

Protein prenylation: enzymes, therapeutics, and biotechnology applications

CC Palsuledesai, MD Distefano - ACS chemical biology, 2015 - ACS Publications
Protein prenylation is a ubiquitous covalent post-translational modification found in all
eukaryotic cells, comprising attachment of either a farnesyl or a geranylgeranyl isoprenoid. It …

Isoprenoids and protein prenylation: implications in the pathogenesis and therapeutic intervention of Alzheimer's disease

A Jeong, KF Suazo, WG Wood… - Critical reviews in …, 2018 - Taylor & Francis
The mevalonate–isoprenoid–cholesterol biosynthesis pathway plays a key role in human
health and disease. The importance of this pathway is underscored by the discovery that two …

Dual chemical probes enable quantitative system-wide analysis of protein prenylation and prenylation dynamics

EM Storck, J Morales-Sanfrutos, RA Serwa… - Nature Chemistry, 2019 - nature.com
Post-translational farnesylation or geranylgeranylation at a C-terminal cysteine residue
regulates the localization and function of over 100 proteins, including the Ras isoforms, and …

The chemical toolbox for monitoring protein fatty acylation and prenylation

RN Hannoush, JL Sun - Nature chemical biology, 2010 - nature.com
Lipid modification of cellular proteins plays diverse roles in the regulation of such proteins'
trafficking, signaling and behavior. Owing to a lack of robust detection technologies, the …

Bioorthogonal chemical reporters for analyzing protein lipidation and lipid trafficking

HC Hang, JP Wilson, G Charron - Accounts of chemical research, 2011 - ACS Publications
Protein lipidation and lipid trafficking control many key biological functions in all kingdoms of
life. The discovery of diverse lipid species and their covalent attachment to many proteins …

Effect of posttranslational modifications on enzyme function and assembly

H Ryšlavá, V Doubnerová, D Kavan, O Vaněk - Journal of proteomics, 2013 - Elsevier
The detailed examination of enzyme molecules by mass spectrometry and other techniques
continues to identify hundreds of distinct PTMs. Recently, global analyses of enzymes using …