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 …

SUMO: from bench to bedside

HM Chang, ETH Yeh - Physiological Reviews, 2020 - journals.physiology.org
Sentrin/small ubiquitin-like modifier (SUMO) is protein modification pathway that regulates
multiple biological processes, including cell division, DNA replication/repair, signal …

Cytosolic DNA sensing by cGAS: regulation, function, and human diseases

L Yu, P Liu - Signal transduction and targeted therapy, 2021 - nature.com
Sensing invasive cytosolic DNA is an integral component of innate immunity. cGAS was
identified in 2013 as the major cytosolic DNA sensor that binds dsDNA to catalyze the …

A small-molecule SUMOylation inhibitor activates antitumor immune responses and potentiates immune therapies in preclinical models

ES Lightcap, P Yu, S Grossman, K Song… - Science translational …, 2021 - science.org
SUMOylation, the covalent conjugation of small ubiquitin-like modifier (SUMO) proteins to
protein substrates, has been reported to suppress type I interferon (IFN1) responses. TAK …

Antiviral strategies targeting host factors and mechanisms obliging+ ssRNA viral pathogens

S Mahajan, S Choudhary, P Kumar, S Tomar - Bioorganic & Medicinal …, 2021 - Elsevier
The ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, periodic recurrence of viral infections, and the
emergence of challenging variants has created an urgent need of alternative therapeutic …

Protein SUMOylation modification and its associations with disease

Y Yang, Y He, X Wang, Z Liang, G He… - Open …, 2017 - royalsocietypublishing.org
SUMOylation, as a post-translational modification, plays essential roles in various biological
functions including cell growth, migration, cellular responses to stress and tumorigenesis …

Targeting SUMO signaling to wrestle cancer

JS Kroonen, ACO Vertegaal - Trends in cancer, 2021 - cell.com
The small ubiquitin-like modifier (SUMO) signaling cascade is critical for gene expression,
genome integrity, and cell cycle progression. In this review, we discuss the important role …

Targeting pancreatic cancer by TAK-981: a SUMOylation inhibitor that activates the immune system and blocks cancer cell cycle progression in a preclinical model

S Kumar, MJA Schoonderwoerd, JS Kroonen… - Gut, 2022 - gut.bmj.com
Objective Pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma (PDAC) has the characteristics of high-density
desmoplastic stroma, a distinctive immunosuppressive microenvironment and is profoundly …

Therapeutic potential of targeting the SUMO pathway in cancer

A Kukkula, VK Ojala, LM Mendez, L Sistonen… - Cancers, 2021 - mdpi.com
Simple Summary The small ubiquitin-like modifier (SUMO) pathway regulates the hallmark
properties of cancer cells. Moreover, alterations in activity and in levels of SUMO machinery …

Sumoylation in physiology, pathology and therapy

U Sahin, H de Thé, V Lallemand-Breitenbach - Cells, 2022 - mdpi.com
Sumoylation is an essential post-translational modification that has evolved to regulate
intricate networks within emerging complexities of eukaryotic cells. Thousands of target …