Ubiquitin-like protein conjugation: structures, chemistry, and mechanism

L Cappadocia, CD Lima - Chemical reviews, 2018 - ACS Publications
Ubiquitin-like proteins (Ubl's) are conjugated to target proteins or lipids to regulate their
activity, stability, subcellular localization, or macromolecular interactions. Similar to ubiquitin …

Structural diversity of ubiquitin E3 ligase

S Toma-Fukai, T Shimizu - Molecules, 2021 - mdpi.com
The post-translational modification of proteins regulates many biological processes. Their
dysfunction relates to diseases. Ubiquitination is one of the post-translational modifications …

[HTML][HTML] The ubiquitination machinery of the ubiquitin system

J Callis - The Arabidopsis book/American Society of Plant …, 2014 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
The protein ubiquitin is a covalent modifier of proteins, including itself. The ubiquitin system
encompasses the enzymes required for catalysing attachment of ubiquitin to substrates as …

An inhibitor of NEDD8-activating enzyme as a new approach to treat cancer

TA Soucy, PG Smith, MA Milhollen, AJ Berger… - Nature, 2009 - nature.com
The clinical development of an inhibitor of cellular proteasome function suggests that
compounds targeting other components of the ubiquitin–proteasome system might prove …

Scalable molecular dynamics with NAMD

JC Phillips, R Braun, W Wang… - Journal of …, 2005 - Wiley Online Library
NAMD is a parallel molecular dynamics code designed for high‐performance simulation of
large biomolecular systems. NAMD scales to hundreds of processors on high‐end parallel …

Mechanisms underlying ubiquitination

CM Pickart - Annual review of biochemistry, 2001 - annualreviews.org
▪ Abstract The conjugation of ubiquitin to other cellular proteins regulates a broad range of
eukaryotic cell functions. The high efficiency and exquisite selectivity of ubiquitination …

Ubiquitin-like protein activation by E1 enzymes: the apex for downstream signalling pathways

BA Schulman, J Wade Harper - Nature reviews Molecular cell biology, 2009 - nature.com
Attachment of ubiquitin or ubiquitin-like proteins (known as UBLs) to their targets through
multienzyme cascades is a central mechanism to modulate protein functions. This process is …

Protein degradation by the ubiquitin–proteasome pathway in normal and disease states

SH Lecker, AL Goldberg, WE Mitch - Journal of the American …, 2006 - journals.lww.com
All intracellular proteins and many extracellular proteins are continually “turning over;” ie,
they are being hydrolyzed to their constituent amino acids and replaced by new synthesis …

Components of ubiquitin-protein ligase system. Resolution, affinity purification, and role in protein breakdown.

A Hershko, H Heller, S Elias, A Ciechanover - Journal of Biological …, 1983 - Elsevier
By affinity chromatography of a crude reticulocyte extract on ubiquitin-Sepharose, three
enzymes required for the conjugation of ubiquitin with proteins have been isolated. One is …

ISG15 and ISGylation in human diseases

O Mirzalieva, M Juncker, J Schwartzenburg, S Desai - Cells, 2022 - mdpi.com
Type I Interferons (IFNs) induce the expression of> 500 genes, which are collectively called
ISGs (IFN-stimulated genes). One of the earliest ISGs induced by IFNs is ISG15 (Interferon …