A guide to antigen processing and presentation

N Pishesha, TJ Harmand, HL Ploegh - Nature Reviews Immunology, 2022 - nature.com
Antigen processing and presentation are the cornerstones of adaptive immunity. B cells
cannot generate high-affinity antibodies without T cell help. CD4+ T cells, which provide …

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 …

Epigenetic regulation in metabolic diseases: mechanisms and advances in clinical study

YL Wu, ZJ Lin, CC Li, X Lin, SK Shan, B Guo… - … and Targeted Therapy, 2023 - nature.com
Epigenetics regulates gene expression and has been confirmed to play a critical role in a
variety of metabolic diseases, such as diabetes, obesity, non-alcoholic fatty liver disease …

Post-translational modifications in proteins: resources, tools and prediction methods

S Ramazi, J Zahiri - Database, 2021 - academic.oup.com
Posttranslational modifications (PTMs) refer to amino acid side chain modification in some
proteins after their biosynthesis. There are more than 400 different types of PTMs affecting …

SOCS2-enhanced ubiquitination of SLC7A11 promotes ferroptosis and radiosensitization in hepatocellular carcinoma

Q Chen, W Zheng, J Guan, H Liu, Y Dan… - Cell Death & …, 2023 - nature.com
Radioresistance is a principal culprit for the failure of radiotherapy in hepatocellular
carcinoma (HCC). Insights on the regulation genes of radioresistance and underlying …

Targeting NF-κB pathway for the therapy of diseases: mechanism and clinical study

H Yu, L Lin, Z Zhang, H Zhang, H Hu - Signal transduction and targeted …, 2020 - nature.com
NF-κB pathway consists of canonical and non-canonical pathways. The canonical NF-κB is
activated by various stimuli, transducing a quick but transient transcriptional activity, to …

Stress-induced reactive oxygen species compartmentalization, perception and signalling

B Castro, M Citterico, S Kimura, DM Stevens… - Nature plants, 2021 - nature.com
Reactive oxygen species (ROS) are essential for life and are involved in the regulation of
almost all biological processes. ROS production is critical for plant development, response …

Deubiquitinases: From mechanisms to their inhibition by small molecules

SM Lange, LA Armstrong, Y Kulathu - Molecular cell, 2022 - cell.com
Deubiquitinases (DUBs) are specialized proteases that remove ubiquitin from substrates or
cleave within ubiquitin chains to regulate ubiquitylation and therefore play important roles in …

Ubiquitination of G3BP1 mediates stress granule disassembly in a context-specific manner

Y Gwon, BA Maxwell, RM Kolaitis, P Zhang, HJ Kim… - Science, 2021 - science.org
INTRODUCTION Stress granules are dynamic structures composed of RNA and protein that
arise in the cytoplasm in response to a variety of stressors. These structures form via liquid …

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” …