Skeletal muscle atrophy: From mechanisms to treatments

L Yin, N Li, W Jia, N Wang, M Liang, X Yang… - Pharmacological …, 2021 - Elsevier
Skeletal muscle is a crucial tissue for movement, gestural assistance, metabolic
homeostasis, and thermogenesis. It makes up approximately 40% of the total body weight …

[HTML][HTML] MYC on the path to cancer

CV Dang - Cell, 2012 - cell.com
The MYC oncogene contributes to the genesis of many human cancers. Recent insights into
its expression and function have led to therapeutic opportunities. MYC's activation by …

[HTML][HTML] The MYC transcription factor network: balancing metabolism, proliferation and oncogenesis

PA Carroll, BW Freie, H Mathsyaraja… - Frontiers of medicine, 2018 - Springer
Transcription factor networks have evolved in order to control, coordinate, and separate, the
functions of distinct network modules spatially and temporally. In this review we focus on the …

MYC degradation

AS Farrell, RC Sears - Cold Spring …, 2014 - perspectivesinmedicine.cshlp.org
The MYC oncoprotein is an essential transcription factor that regulates the expression of
many genes involved in cell growth, proliferation, and metabolic pathways. Thus, it is …

Post-translational regulation of the microtubule cytoskeleton: mechanisms and functions

C Janke, J Chloë Bulinski - Nature reviews Molecular cell biology, 2011 - nature.com
Half a century of biochemical and biophysical experiments has provided attractive models
that may explain the diverse functions of microtubules within cells and organisms. However …

Calpain research for drug discovery: challenges and potential

Y Ono, TC Saido, H Sorimachi - Nature Reviews Drug Discovery, 2016 - nature.com
Calpains are a family of proteases that were scientifically recognized earlier than
proteasomes and caspases, but remain enigmatic. However, they are known to participate in …

An overview of MYC and its interactome

M Conacci-Sorrell, L McFerrin… - Cold Spring …, 2014 - perspectivesinmedicine.cshlp.org
This review is intended to provide a broad outline of the biological and molecular functions
of MYC as well as of the larger protein network within which MYC operates. We present a …

The N‐end rule pathway and regulation by proteolysis

A Varshavsky - Protein science, 2011 - Wiley Online Library
The N‐end rule relates the regulation of the in vivo half‐life of a protein to the identity of its N‐
terminal residue. Degradation signals (degrons) that are targeted by the N‐end rule pathway …

MYC and tumor metabolism: chicken and egg

FR Dejure, M Eilers - The EMBO journal, 2017 - embopress.org
Transcription factors of the MYC family are deregulated in the majority of all human cancers.
Oncogenic levels of MYC reprogram cellular metabolism, a hallmark of cancer development …

Tubulin acetylation: responsible enzymes, biological functions and human diseases

L Li, XJ Yang - Cellular and molecular life sciences, 2015 - Springer
Microtubules have important functions ranging from maintenance of cell morphology to
subcellular transport, cellular signaling, cell migration, and formation of cell polarity. At the …