[HTML][HTML] Liquid–liquid phase separation in human health and diseases

B Wang, L Zhang, T Dai, Z Qin, H Lu, L Zhang… - … and Targeted Therapy, 2021 - nature.com
Emerging evidence suggests that liquid–liquid phase separation (LLPS) represents a vital
and ubiquitous phenomenon underlying the formation of membraneless organelles in …

[HTML][HTML] Liquid–liquid phase separation in tumor biology

X Tong, R Tang, J Xu, W Wang, Y Zhao, X Yu… - Signal Transduction and …, 2022 - nature.com
Liquid–liquid phase separation (LLPS) is a novel principle for explaining the precise spatial
and temporal regulation in living cells. LLPS compartmentalizes proteins and nucleic acids …

[HTML][HTML] The role of ubiquitination in tumorigenesis and targeted drug discovery

L Deng, T Meng, L Chen, W Wei, P Wang - Signal transduction and …, 2020 - nature.com
Ubiquitination, an important type of protein posttranslational modification (PTM), plays a
crucial role in controlling substrate degradation and subsequently mediates the “quantity” …

[HTML][HTML] Cancer mutations of the tumor suppressor SPOP disrupt the formation of active, phase-separated compartments

JJ Bouchard, JH Otero, DC Scott, E Szulc, EW Martin… - Molecular cell, 2018 - cell.com
Mutations in the tumor suppressor SPOP (speckle-type POZ protein) cause prostate, breast,
and other solid tumors. SPOP is a substrate adaptor of the cullin3-RING ubiquitin ligase and …

[HTML][HTML] The genomic complexity of primary human prostate cancer

MF Berger, MS Lawrence, F Demichelis, Y Drier… - Nature, 2011 - nature.com
Prostate cancer is the second most common cause of male cancer deaths in the United
States. However, the full range of prostate cancer genomic alterations is incompletely …

[HTML][HTML] Protein phase separation and its role in tumorigenesis

S Jiang, JB Fagman, C Chen, S Alberti, B Liu - Elife, 2020 - elifesciences.org
Cancer is a disease characterized by uncontrolled cell proliferation, but the precise
pathological mechanisms underlying tumorigenesis often remain to be elucidated. In recent …

[HTML][HTML] The genomic basis of parasitism in the Strongyloides clade of nematodes

VL Hunt, IJ Tsai, A Coghlan, AJ Reid, N Holroyd… - Nature …, 2016 - nature.com
Soil-transmitted nematodes, including the Strongyloides genus, cause one of the most
prevalent neglected tropical diseases. Here we compare the genomes of four Strongyloides …

[HTML][HTML] Structures of SPOP-substrate complexes: insights into molecular architectures of BTB-Cul3 ubiquitin ligases

M Zhuang, MF Calabrese, J Liu, MB Waddell, A Nourse… - Molecular cell, 2009 - cell.com
In the largest E3 ligase subfamily, Cul3 binds a BTB domain, and an associated protein-
interaction domain such as MATH recruits substrates for ubiquitination. Here, we present …

Prostate Cancer Biomarkers: From diagnosis to prognosis and precision-guided therapeutics

M Adamaki, V Zoumpourlis - Pharmacology & therapeutics, 2021 - Elsevier
Prostate cancer (PCa) is one of the most commonly diagnosed malignancies and among the
leading causes of cancer-related death worldwide. It is a highly heterogeneous disease …

Cullin-RING Ligases as attractive anti-cancer targets

Y Zhao, Y Sun - Current pharmaceutical design, 2013 - ingentaconnect.com
The ubiquitin-proteasome system (UPS) promotes the timely degradation of short-lived
proteins with key regulatory roles in a vast array of biological processes, such as cell cycle …