Evolution and functions of plant U-box proteins: from protein quality control to signaling

J Trenner, J Monaghan, B Saeed… - Annual Review of …, 2022 - annualreviews.org
Posttranslational modifications add complexity and diversity to cellular proteomes. One of
the most prevalent modifications across eukaryotes is ubiquitination, which is orchestrated …

The critical role of TRIB2 in cancer and therapy resistance

V Mayoral-Varo, L Jiménez, W Link - Cancers, 2021 - mdpi.com
Simple Summary The Tribbles proteins are members of CAMK Ser/Thr protein kinase family.
They are evolutionary conserved pseudokinases found in most tissues of eukaryotic …

Oncogenic TRIB2 interacts with and regulates PKM2 to promote aerobic glycolysis and lung cancer cell procession

YR Liu, DD Song, DM Liang, YJ Li, YF Yan… - Cell Death …, 2022 - nature.com
PKM2 is an important regulator of the aerobic glycolysis that plays a vital role in cancer cell
metabolic reprogramming. In general, Trib2 is considered as a “pseudokinase”, contributing …

The dead phosphatases society: a review of the emerging roles of pseudophosphatases

V Reiterer, K Pawłowski, G Desrochers… - The FEBS …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Phosphatases are a diverse family of enzymes, comprising at least 10 distinct protein folds.
Like most other enzyme families, many have sequence variations that predict an impairment …

Protein kinase C: release from quarantine by mTORC2

TR Baffi, AC Newton - Trends in biochemical sciences, 2022 - cell.com
Protein kinase C (PKC) isozymes are maintained in a'ready-to-go'but'safe'autoinhibited
conformation until second messenger binding unleashes an autoinhibitory pseudosubstrate …

Erythropoietin-producing hepatocellular receptor B6 is highly expressed in non-functioning pituitary neuroendocrine tumors and its expression correlates with tumor …

H Rubinfeld, ZR Cohen, U Bendavid… - Molecular biology …, 2024 - Springer
Background Erythropoietin-producing hepatocellular (EPH) receptors are the largest known
family of receptor tyrosine kinases characterized in humans. These proteins are involved in …

[HTML][HTML] Informatic challenges and advances in illuminating the druggable proteome

ER Taujal, N Gravel, Z Zhou, W Yeung, K Kochut… - Drug Discovery …, 2024 - Elsevier
The understudied members of the druggable proteomes offer promising prospects for drug
discovery efforts. While large-scale initiatives have generated valuable functional …

Pan-cancer analysis of human kinome gene expression and promoter DNA methylation identifies dark kinase biomarkers in multiple cancers

S Southekal, NK Mishra, C Guda - Cancers, 2021 - mdpi.com
Simple Summary Due to their central role in many biological processes, studies on protein
kinases are an area of active research. In the last few decades, several inhibitors that target …

Nucleotide binding, evolutionary insights, and interaction partners of the pseudokinase Unc-51-like kinase 4

F Preuss, D Chatterjee, S Mathea, S Shrestha… - Structure, 2020 - cell.com
Summary Unc-51-like kinase 4 (ULK4) is a pseudokinase that has been linked to the
development of several diseases. Even though sequence motifs required for ATP binding in …

The EphB6 receptor: kinase-dead but very much alive

TG Strozen, JC Sharpe, ED Harris… - International Journal of …, 2021 - mdpi.com
The Eph receptor tyrosine kinase member EphB6 is a pseudokinase, and similar to other
pseudoenzymes has not attracted an equivalent amount of interest as its enzymatically …