The role of ubiquitination and deubiquitination in cancer metabolism

T Sun, Z Liu, Q Yang - Molecular cancer, 2020 - Springer
Metabolic reprogramming, including enhanced biosynthesis of macromolecules, altered
energy metabolism, and maintenance of redox homeostasis, is considered a hallmark of …

Deubiquitinating enzymes (DUBs): Regulation, homeostasis, and oxidative stress response

NA Snyder, GM Silva - Journal of Biological Chemistry, 2021 - ASBMB
Ubiquitin signaling is a conserved, widespread, and dynamic process in which protein
substrates are rapidly modified by ubiquitin to impact protein activity, localization, or stability …

Short linear motifs: ubiquitous and functionally diverse protein interaction modules directing cell regulation

K Van Roey, B Uyar, RJ Weatheritt, H Dinkel… - Chemical …, 2014 - ACS Publications
The eukaryotic cell is a bustling collection of macromolecules acting cooperatively to
mediate the functions required for cell viability. Specific, context-dependent and tightly …

Prediction of protein disorder based on IUPred

Z Dosztányi - Protein Science, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
Many proteins contain intrinsically disordered regions (IDRs), functional polypeptide
segments that in isolation adopt a highly flexible conformational ensemble instead of a …

USP7 is a master regulator of genome stability

GJ Valles, I Bezsonova, R Woodgate… - Frontiers in Cell and …, 2020 - frontiersin.org
Genetic alterations, including DNA mutations and chromosomal abnormalities, are primary
drivers of tumor formation and cancer progression. These alterations can endow cells with a …

USP7: Structure, substrate specificity, and inhibition

A Pozhidaeva, I Bezsonova - DNA repair, 2019 - Elsevier
Turnover of cellular proteins is regulated by Ubiquitin Proteasome System (UPS).
Components of this pathway, including the proteasome, ubiquitinating enzymes and …

USP7 inhibits Wnt/β-catenin signaling through promoting stabilization of Axin

L Ji, B Lu, R Zamponi, O Charlat, R Aversa… - Nature …, 2019 - nature.com
Axin is a key scaffolding protein responsible for the formation of the β-catenin destruction
complex. Stability of Axin protein is regulated by the ubiquitin-proteasome system, and …

Targeting USP7-mediated deubiquitination of MDM2/MDMX-p53 pathway for cancer therapy: are we there yet?

SM Qi, G Cheng, XD Cheng, Z Xu, B Xu… - Frontiers in cell and …, 2020 - frontiersin.org
The p53 tumor suppressor protein and its major negative regulators MDM2 and MDMX
oncoproteins form the MDM2/MDMX-p53 circuitry, which plays critical roles in regulating …

Molecular mechanisms of DUBs regulation in signaling and disease

Y Li, D Reverter - International journal of molecular sciences, 2021 - mdpi.com
The large family of deubiquitinating enzymes (DUBs) are involved in the regulation of a
plethora of processes carried out inside the cell by protein ubiquitination. Ubiquitination is a …

Deubiquitinases and the new therapeutic opportunities offered to cancer

R Pfoh, IK Lacdao, V Saridakis - Endocrine-related cancer, 2015 - erc.bioscientifica.com
Deubiquitinases (DUBs) play important roles and therefore are potential drug targets in
various diseases including cancer and neurodegeneration. In this review, we recapitulate …