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 …

[HTML][HTML] NEDD8 and ubiquitin ligation by cullin-RING E3 ligases

K Baek, DC Scott, BA Schulman - Current opinion in structural biology, 2021 - Elsevier
RING E3s comprise the largest family of ubiquitin (UB) and ubiquitin-like protein (UBL)
ligases. RING E3s typically promote UB or UBL transfer from the active site of an associated …

Mechanisms underlying ubiquitination

CM Pickart - Annual review of biochemistry, 2001 - annualreviews.org
▪ Abstract The conjugation of ubiquitin to other cellular proteins regulates a broad range of
eukaryotic cell functions. The high efficiency and exquisite selectivity of ubiquitination …

Function and regulation of cullin–RING ubiquitin ligases

MD Petroski, RJ Deshaies - Nature reviews Molecular cell biology, 2005 - nature.com
Cullin–RING complexes comprise the largest known class of ubiquitin ligases. Owing to the
great diversity of their substrate-receptor subunits, it is possible that there are hundreds of …

Themes and variations on ubiquitylation

AM Weissman - Nature reviews Molecular cell biology, 2001 - nature.com
Ubiquitylation? the conjugation of proteins with a small protein called ubiquitin? touches
upon all aspects of eukaryotic biology, and its defective regulation is manifest in diseases …

[HTML][HTML] Structural insights into NEDD8 activation of cullin-RING ligases: conformational control of conjugation

DM Duda, LA Borg, DC Scott, HW Hunt, M Hammel… - Cell, 2008 - cell.com
Cullin-RING ligases (CRLs) comprise the largest ubiquitin E3 subclass, in which a central
cullin subunit links a substrate-binding adaptor with an E2-binding RING. Covalent …

Regulation of the Nrf2–Keap1 antioxidant response by the ubiquitin proteasome system: an insight into cullin-ring ubiquitin ligases

NF Villeneuve, A Lau, DD Zhang - Antioxidants & redox signaling, 2010 - liebertpub.com
Nrf2 is a transcription factor that has emerged as the cell's main defense mechanism against
many harmful environmental toxicants and carcinogens. Nrf2 is negatively regulated by …

The SCFCOI1 Ubiquitin-Ligase Complexes Are Required for Jasmonate Response in Arabidopsis

L Xu, F Liu, E Lechner, P Genschik, WL Crosby… - The Plant …, 2002 - academic.oup.com
Xie and colleagues previously isolated the Arabidopsis COI1 gene that is required for
response to jasmonates (JAs), which regulate root growth, pollen fertility, wound healing …

Interactions between auxin and strigolactone in shoot branching control

A Hayward, P Stirnberg, C Beveridge… - Plant physiology, 2009 - academic.oup.com
Abstract In Arabidopsis (Arabidopsis thaliana), the carotenoid cleavage dioxygenases
MORE AXILLARY GROWTH3 (MAX3) and MAX4 act together with MAX1 to produce a …

Promotion of NEDD8-CUL1 conjugate cleavage by COP9 signalosome

S Lyapina, G Cope, A Shevchenko, G Serino, T Tsuge… - Science, 2001 - science.org
SCF ubiquitin ligases control various processes by marking regulatory proteins for ubiquitin-
dependent proteolysis. To illuminate how SCF complexes are regulated, we sought proteins …