Tetramer formation of tumor suppressor protein p53: Structure, function, and applications

R Kamada, Y Toguchi, T Nomura, T Imagawa… - Peptide …, 2016 - Wiley Online Library
Tetramer formation of p53 is essential for its tumor suppressor function. p53 not only acts as
a tumor suppressor protein by inducing cell cycle arrest and apoptosis in response to …

Chemical topology and complexity of protein architectures

XW Wang, WB Zhang - Trends in biochemical sciences, 2018 - cell.com
Chemical topology has emerged as one intriguing feature in protein engineering. Nature
demonstrates the elegance and power of protein topology engineering in the unique …

The molecular mechanism of nuclear transport revealed by atomic-scale measurements

LE Hough, K Dutta, S Sparks, DB Temel, A Kamal… - Elife, 2015 - elifesciences.org
Nuclear pore complexes (NPCs) form a selective filter that allows the rapid passage of
transport factors (TFs) and their cargoes across the nuclear envelope, while blocking the …

p53 oligomerization status modulates cell fate decisions between growth, arrest and apoptosis

NW Fischer, A Prodeus, D Malkin, J Gariépy - Cell Cycle, 2016 - Taylor & Francis
Mutations in the oligomerization domain of p53 are genetically linked to cancer susceptibility
in Li-Fraumeni Syndrome. These mutations typically alter the oligomeric state of p53 and …

Lasso proteins: modular design, cellular synthesis, and topological transformation

Y Liu, WH Wu, S Hong, J Fang, F Zhang… - Angewandte …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Entangled proteins have attracted significant research interest. Herein, we report the first
rationally designed lasso proteins, or protein [1] rotaxanes, by using a p53dim‐entwined …

[HTML][HTML] Prognostic value of LAMP3 and TP53 overexpression in benign and malignant gastrointestinal tissues

R Sun, X Wang, H Zhu, H Mei, W Wang, S Zhang… - Oncotarget, 2014 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Lysosomal associated membrane protein 3 (LAMP3) is a newly identified tumor-specific
protein. It is a downstream target gene of tumor suppressor TP53 and its expression has …

Cancer-associated p53 tetramerization domain mutants: quantitative analysis reveals a low threshold for tumor suppressor inactivation

R Kamada, T Nomura, CW Anderson… - Journal of Biological …, 2011 - ASBMB
The tumor suppressor p53, a 393-amino acid transcription factor, induces cell cycle arrest
and apoptosis in response to genotoxic stress. Its inactivation via the mutation of its gene is …

p53 Oligomerization is essential for its C-terminal lysine acetylation

Y Itahana, H Ke, Y Zhang - Journal of Biological Chemistry, 2009 - ASBMB
Acetylation of multiple lysine residues in the p53 plays critical roles in the protein stability
and transcriptional activity of p53. To better understand how p53 acetylation is regulated, we …

Cellular Synthesis and X‐ray Crystal Structure of a Designed Protein Heterocatenane

Y Liu, Z Duan, J Fang, F Zhang, J Xiao… - Angewandte Chemie …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Herein, we report the biosynthesis of protein heterocatenanes using a programmed
sequence of multiple post‐translational processing events including intramolecular chain …

Structure of full‐length p53 tumor suppressor probed by chemical cross‐linking and mass spectrometry

C Arlt, CH Ihling, A Sinz - Proteomics, 2015 - Wiley Online Library
The tumor suppressor p53 presents a great challenge for 3D structural analysis due to its
inherent flexibility. In this work, we gained insight into the structure of full‐length wild‐type …