Driving E3 ligase substrate specificity for targeted protein degradation: lessons from nature and the laboratory

AD Cowan, A Ciulli - Annual review of biochemistry, 2022 - annualreviews.org
Methods to direct the degradation of protein targets with proximity-inducing molecules that
coopt the cellular degradation machinery are advancing in leaps and bounds, and diverse …

How the ends signal the end: regulation by E3 ubiquitin ligases recognizing protein termini

D Sherpa, J Chrustowicz, BA Schulman - Molecular cell, 2022 - cell.com
Specificity of eukaryotic protein degradation is determined by E3 ubiquitin ligases and their
selective binding to protein motifs, termed" degrons," in substrates for ubiquitin-mediated …

Guidelines for the use and interpretation of assays for monitoring autophagy (4th edition)1

DJ Klionsky, AK Abdel-Aziz, S Abdelfatah, M Abdellatif… - autophagy, 2021 - Taylor & Francis
In 2008, we published the first set of guidelines for standardizing research in autophagy.
Since then, this topic has received increasing attention, and many scientists have entered …

The Ubiquitin–Proteasome System of Saccharomyces cerevisiae

D Finley, HD Ulrich, T Sommer, P Kaiser - Genetics, 2012 - academic.oup.com
Protein modifications provide cells with exquisite temporal and spatial control of protein
function. Ubiquitin is among the most important modifiers, serving both to target hundreds of …

An N-end rule pathway that recognizes proline and destroys gluconeogenic enzymes

SJ Chen, X Wu, B Wadas, JH Oh, A Varshavsky - Science, 2017 - science.org
INTRODUCTION Cells synthesize glucose if deprived of it, and destroy gluconeogenic
enzymes upon return to glucose-replete conditions. Gluconeogenesis (de novo synthesis of …

Transcriptional regulation of nonfermentable carbon utilization in budding yeast

B Turcotte, XB Liang, F Robert… - FEMS yeast …, 2009 - academic.oup.com
Saccharomyces cerevisiae preferentially uses glucose as a carbon source, but following its
depletion, it can utilize a wide variety of other carbons including nonfermentable compounds …

Discovery and structural characterization of small molecule binders of the human CTLH E3 ligase subunit GID4

CK Chana, P Maisonneuve, G Posternak… - Journal of medicinal …, 2022 - ACS Publications
Targeted protein degradation (TPD) strategies exploit bivalent small molecules to bridge
substrate proteins to an E3 ubiquitin ligase to induce substrate degradation. Few E3s have …

Multisite phosphorylation dictates selective E2-E3 pairing as revealed by Ubc8/UBE2H-GID/CTLH assemblies

J Chrustowicz, D Sherpa, J Li, CR Langlois… - Molecular Cell, 2024 - cell.com
Ubiquitylation is catalyzed by coordinated actions of E3 and E2 enzymes. Molecular
principles governing many important E3-E2 partnerships remain unknown, including those …

GID E3 ligase supramolecular chelate assembly configures multipronged ubiquitin targeting of an oligomeric metabolic enzyme

D Sherpa, J Chrustowicz, S Qiao, CR Langlois… - Molecular Cell, 2021 - cell.com
How are E3 ubiquitin ligases configured to match substrate quaternary structures? Here, by
studying the yeast GID complex (mutation of which causes deficiency in glucose-induced …

FAM72A degrades UNG2 through the GID/CTLH complex to promote mutagenic repair during antibody maturation

P Barbulescu, CK Chana, MK Wong… - Nature …, 2024 - nature.com
A diverse antibody repertoire is essential for humoral immunity. Antibody diversification
requires the introduction of deoxyuridine (dU) mutations within immunoglobulin genes to …