Chemical synthesis of bioactive proteins

O Harel, M Jbara - Angewandte Chemie, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Nature has developed a plethora of protein machinery to operate and maintain nearly every
task of cellular life. These processes are tightly regulated via post‐expression modifications …

[HTML][HTML] Targeted protein degradation: principles and applications of the proteasome

Y Kim, EK Kim, Y Chey, MJ Song, HH Jang - Cells, 2023 - mdpi.com
The proteasome is a multi-catalytic protease complex that is involved in protein quality
control via three proteolytic activities (ie, caspase-, trypsin-, and chymotrypsin-like activities) …

Synthetic E2-Ub-nucleosome conjugates for studying nucleosome ubiquitination

H Ai, Z Tong, Z Deng, J Tian, L Zhang, M Sun, Y Du… - Chem, 2023 - cell.com
Summary E2-ubiquitin (Ub) conjugates are useful chemical biology tools for studying the E3
mechanisms, but so far, the reported systems have involved either no substrates or only …

An abundance of free regulatory (19S) proteasome particles regulates neuronal synapses

C Sun, K Desch, B Nassim-Assir, SL Giandomenico… - Science, 2023 - science.org
The proteasome, the major protein-degradation machine in cells, regulates neuronal
synapses and long-term information storage. Here, using super-resolution microscopy, we …

[HTML][HTML] Allosteric regulation of the 20S proteasome by the Catalytic Core Regulators (CCRs) family

FK Deshmukh, G Ben-Nissan, MA Olshina… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
Controlled degradation of proteins is necessary for ensuring their abundance and sustaining
a healthy and accurately functioning proteome. One of the degradation routes involves the …

Neuronal membrane proteasomes regulate neuronal circuit activity in vivo and are required for learning-induced behavioral plasticity

H He, A Ahsan, R Bera, N McLain… - Proceedings of the …, 2023 - National Acad Sciences
Protein degradation is critical for brain function through processes that remain incompletely
understood. Here, we investigated the in vivo function of the 20S neuronal membrane …

Systematic identification of 20S proteasome substrates

M Pepelnjak, R Rogawski, G Arkind… - Molecular Systems …, 2024 - embopress.org
For years, proteasomal degradation was predominantly attributed to the ubiquitin-26S
proteasome pathway. However, it is now evident that the core 20S proteasome can …

Quantitative measurement of the requirement of diverse protein degradation pathways in MHC class I peptide presentation

JL Mamrosh, DJ Sherman, JR Cohen, JA Johnston… - Science …, 2023 - science.org
Peptides from degradation of intracellular proteins are continuously displayed by major
histocompatibility complex (MHC) class I. To better understand origins of these peptides, we …

Logistics of neuronal protein turnover: Numbers and mechanisms

C Sun, EM Schuman - Molecular and Cellular Neuroscience, 2022 - Elsevier
Research in the past twenty years or so has revealed that neurons synthesize and degrade
proteins at their synapses to enable synaptic proteome remodelling on demand and in real …

[HTML][HTML] Orthogonal approaches required to measure proteasome composition and activity in mammalian brain tissue

F Türker, RA Bharadwaj, JE Kleinman… - Journal of Biological …, 2023 - ASBMB
Proteasomes are large macromolecular complexes with multiple distinct catalytic activities
that are each vital to human brain health and disease. Despite their importance …