Folding and stability of ankyrin repeats control biological protein function

A Kumar, J Balbach - Biomolecules, 2021 - mdpi.com
Ankyrin repeat proteins are found in all three kingdoms of life. Fundamentally, these proteins
are involved in protein-protein interaction in order to activate or suppress biological …

Gankyrin: a new oncoprotein and regulator of pRb and p53

S Dawson, H Higashitsuji, AJ Wilkinson, J Fujita… - Trends in cell …, 2006 - cell.com
Gankyrin is a new oncoprotein with potent cell cycle and apoptotic properties that is
overexpressed early in hepatocarcinogenesis and in hepatocellular carcinomas. Gankyrin …

Withania somnifera extract reduces gastric cancerous properties through inhibition of gankyrin in cellular milieu produced by Helicobacter pylori and Epstein Barr …

D Kashyap, R Roy, N Varshney, B Baral… - Journal of …, 2024 - Taylor & Francis
Abstract Helicobacter pylori and Epstein Barr virus (EBV) are group1 carcinogens and their
role in Gastric cancer (GC) is well established. Previously we have shown that H. pylori and …

Gankyrin promotes the proliferation of human pancreatic cancer

Y Meng, L He, X Guo, S Tang, X Zhao, R Du, J Jin, Q Bi… - Cancer letters, 2010 - Elsevier
Previous studies in our laboratory have suggested that gankyrin expression is correlated
with a malignant phenotype in colorectal cancer. Here, we investigated the possible role of …

Overexpression of a novel gene gankyrin correlates with the malignant phenotype of colorectal cancer

S Tang, G Yang, Y Meng, R Du, X Li, R Fan… - Cancer biology & …, 2010 - Taylor & Francis
Gankyrin, a small and highly conserved protein which is identical to the p28 gene product,
was found to be related with the malignant phenotypes in liver and esophageal carcinoma …

Discovering a potent small molecule inhibitor for gankyrin using de novo drug design approach

PK Thakur, MI Hassan - International Journal of …, 2011 - inderscienceonline.com
Gankyrin is an oncoprotein composed of six ankyrin repeats, over-expressed in the
Hepatocellular Carcinoma (HCC), and directly involved in the cell cycle regulation …

Structure of the oncoprotein gankyrin in complex with S6 ATPase of the 26S proteasome

Y Nakamura, K Nakano, T Umehara, M Kimura… - Structure, 2007 - cell.com
Gankyrin is an oncoprotein commonly overexpressed in most hepatocellular carcinomas.
Gankyrin interacts with S6 ATPase of the 19S regulatory particle of the 26S proteasome and …

Gankyrin oncoprotein overexpression as a critical factor for tumor growth in human esophageal squamous cell carcinoma and its clinical significance

CM Ortiz, T Ito, E Tanaka, S Tsunoda… - … journal of cancer, 2008 - Wiley Online Library
To elucidate the possible involvement of gankyrin in ESCC progression and the effect of its
down‐regulation in ESCC, we investigated the expression of gankyrin in ESCC tissues …

Structural genomics of human proteins–target selection and generation of a public catalogue of expression clones

K Büssow, C Scheich, V Sievert, U Harttig… - Microbial cell …, 2005 - Springer
Background The availability of suitable recombinant protein is still a major bottleneck in
protein structure analysis. The Protein Structure Factory, part of the international structural …

Gankyrin is frequently overexpressed in breast cancer and is associated with ErbB2 expression

YH Kim, JH Kim, YW Choi, SK Lim, H Yim… - … and molecular pathology, 2013 - Elsevier
Gankyrin is a subunit of the 26S proteasome, and has been known to degrade p53 and
retinoblastoma protein and promote the tumorigenicity and metastasis in some …