An expanded lexicon for the ubiquitin code

I Dikic, BA Schulman - Nature reviews Molecular cell biology, 2023 - nature.com
Our understanding of the ubiquitin code has greatly evolved from conventional E1, E2 and
E3 enzymes that modify Lys residues on specific substrates with a single type of ubiquitin …

PROTAC targeted protein degraders: the past is prologue

M Békés, DR Langley, CM Crews - Nature Reviews Drug Discovery, 2022 - nature.com
Targeted protein degradation (TPD) is an emerging therapeutic modality with the potential to
tackle disease-causing proteins that have historically been highly challenging to target with …

Ubiquitin ligases: guardians of mammalian development

DA Cruz Walma, Z Chen, AN Bullock… - … Reviews Molecular Cell …, 2022 - nature.com
Mammalian development demands precision. Millions of molecules must be properly
located in temporal order, and their function regulated, to orchestrate important steps in cell …

Cullin-RING ubiquitin ligase regulatory circuits: a quarter century beyond the F-box hypothesis

JW Harper, BA Schulman - Annual review of biochemistry, 2021 - annualreviews.org
Cullin-RING ubiquitin ligases (CRLs) are dynamic modular platforms that regulate myriad
biological processes through target-specific ubiquitylation. Our knowledge of this system …

A new dawn beyond lysine ubiquitination

DR Squair, S Virdee - Nature Chemical Biology, 2022 - nature.com
The ubiquitin system has become synonymous with the modification of lysine residues.
However, the substrate scope and diversity of the conjugation machinery have been …

Mechanism of degrader-targeted protein ubiquitinability

C Crowe, MA Nakasone, S Chandler, C Craigon… - Science …, 2024 - science.org
Small-molecule degraders of disease-driving proteins offer a clinically proven modality with
enhanced therapeutic efficacy and potential to tackle previously undrugged targets. Stable …

Structural insights into Ubr1-mediated N-degron polyubiquitination

M Pan, Q Zheng, T Wang, L Liang, J Mao, C Zuo… - Nature, 2021 - nature.com
The N-degron pathway targets proteins that bear a destabilizing residue at the N terminus
for proteasome-dependent degradation. In yeast, Ubr1—a single-subunit E3 ligase—is …

Structural snapshots along K48-linked ubiquitin chain formation by the HECT E3 UBR5

LA Hehl, D Horn-Ghetko, JR Prabu, R Vollrath… - Nature Chemical …, 2024 - nature.com
Ubiquitin (Ub) chain formation by homologous to E6AP C-terminus (HECT)-family E3 ligases
regulates vast biology, yet the structural mechanisms remain unknown. We used chemistry …

[HTML][HTML] The structural basis for HIV-1 Vif antagonism of human APOBEC3G

YL Li, CA Langley, CM Azumaya, I Echeverria… - Nature, 2023 - nature.com
Abstract The APOBEC3 (A3) proteins are host antiviral cellular proteins that hypermutate the
viral genome of diverse viral families. In retroviruses, this process requires A3 packaging …

Recruitment of FBXO22 for targeted degradation of NSD2

DY Nie, JR Tabor, J Li, M Kutera, J St-Germain… - Nature Chemical …, 2024 - nature.com
Targeted protein degradation (TPD) is an emerging therapeutic strategy that would benefit
from new chemical entities with which to recruit a wider variety of ubiquitin E3 ligases to …