PAKs in human cancer progression: from inception to cancer therapeutic to future oncobiology

R Kumar, DQ Li - Advances in cancer research, 2016 - Elsevier
Since the initial recognition of a mechanistic role of p21-activated kinase 1 (PAK1) in breast
cancer invasion, PAK1 has emerged as one of the widely overexpressed or hyperactivated …

Microtubule‐associated proteins and enzymes modifying tubulin

N Peng, F Nakamura - Cytoskeleton, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Microtubules (MTs) are essential for many cellular processes including establishment of cell
shape and polarity, chromosome segregation, vesicle transport, and nuclear positioning …

Inhibition of HDAC6 deacetylase activity increases its binding with microtubules and suppresses microtubule dynamic instability in MCF-7 cells

J Asthana, S Kapoor, R Mohan, D Panda - Journal of Biological Chemistry, 2013 - ASBMB
The post-translational modification of tubulin appears to be a highly controlled mechanism
that regulates microtubule functioning. Acetylation of the ϵ-amino group of Lys-40 of α …

Dysregulated dynein-mediated trafficking of nephrin causes INF2-related podocytopathy

H Sun, C Perez-Gill, JS Schlöndorff… - Journal of the …, 2021 - journals.lww.com
Background FSGS caused by mutations in INF2 is characterized by a podocytopathy with
mistrafficked nephrin, an essential component of the slit diaphragm. Because INF2 is a …

Development of QTMP: A promising anticancer agent through NP-Privileged Motif-Driven structural modulation

P Giri, PJ Batra, A Kumari, N Hura, R Adhikary… - Bioorganic & Medicinal …, 2023 - Elsevier
In this study of creating new molecules from clinical trial agents, an approach of
Combretastatin structural modulation with the installation of NP-privileged motifs was …

[HTML][HTML] Rabies infection: an overview of lyssavirus-host protein interactions

F Zandi, F Goshadrou, A Meyfour… - Iranian biomedical …, 2021 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Viruses are obligatory intracellular parasites that use cell proteins to take the control of the
cell functions in order to accomplish their life cycle. Studying the viral-host interactions would …

[HTML][HTML] Multivalent IDP assemblies: Unique properties of LC8-associated, IDP duplex scaffolds

SA Clark, N Jespersen, C Woodward, E Barbar - FEBS letters, 2015 - Elsevier
A wide variety of subcellular complexes are composed of one or more intrinsically
disordered proteins (IDPs) that are multivalent, flexible, and characterized by dynamic …

A dynein light chain 1 binding motif in rabies virus polymerase L protein plays a role in microtubule reorganization and viral primary transcription

A Bauer, T Nolden, S Nemitz, E Perlson… - Journal of virology, 2015 - Am Soc Microbiol
Rabies virus (RABV) polymerase L together with phosphoprotein P forms the PL polymerase
complex that is essential for replication and transcription. However, its exact mechanism of …

C-terminal region of MAP7 domain containing protein 3 (MAP7D3) promotes microtubule polymerization by binding at the C-terminal tail of tubulin

S Yadav, PJ Verma, D Panda - PloS one, 2014 - journals.plos.org
MAP7 domain containing protein 3 (MAP7D3), a newly identified microtubule associated
protein, has been shown to promote microtubule assembly and stability. Its microtubule …

A tomato dynein light chain gene SlLC6D is a negative regulator of chilling stress

T Hu, S Wang, Q Wang, X Xu, Q Wang, X Zhan - Plant Science, 2021 - Elsevier
Dynein light chain (DLC) proteins are an important component of dynein complexes, which
are widely distributed in plants and animals and involved in a variety of cellular processes …