The role of lipids in cancer progression and metastasis

M Martin-Perez, U Urdiroz-Urricelqui, C Bigas… - Cell metabolism, 2022 - cell.com
Lipids have essential biological functions in the body (eg, providing energy storage, acting
as a signaling molecule, and being a structural component of membranes); however, an …

Protein lipidation: occurrence, mechanisms, biological functions, and enabling technologies

H Jiang, X Zhang, X Chen, P Aramsangtienchai… - Chemical …, 2018 - ACS Publications
Protein lipidation, including cysteine prenylation, N-terminal glycine myristoylation, cysteine
palmitoylation, and serine and lysine fatty acylation, occurs in many proteins in eukaryotic …

A STAT3 palmitoylation cycle promotes TH17 differentiation and colitis

M Zhang, L Zhou, Y Xu, M Yang, Y Xu, GP Komaniecki… - Nature, 2020 - nature.com
Cysteine palmitoylation (S-palmitoylation) is a reversible post-translational modification that
is installed by the DHHC family of palmitoyltransferases and is reversed by several acyl …

Scribble mis-localization induces adaptive resistance to KRAS G12C inhibitors through feedback activation of MAPK signaling mediated by YAP-induced MRAS

Y Adachi, R Kimura, K Hirade, S Yanase, Y Nishioka… - Nature Cancer, 2023 - nature.com
Tumor cells evade targeted drugs by rewiring their genetic and epigenetic networks. Here,
we identified that inhibition of MAPK signaling rapidly induces an epithelial-to-mesenchymal …

Protein palmitoylation and cancer

PJ Ko, SJ Dixon - EMBO reports, 2018 - embopress.org
Protein S‐palmitoylation is a reversible post‐translational modification that alters the
localization, stability, and function of hundreds of proteins in the cell. S‐palmitoylation is …

Post-translational modification of GPX4 is a promising target for treating ferroptosis-related diseases

C Cui, F Yang, Q Li - Frontiers in Molecular Biosciences, 2022 - frontiersin.org
Glutathione peroxidase 4 (GPX4) is one of the most important antioxidant enzymes. As the
key regulator of ferroptosis, GPX4 has attracted considerable attention in the fields of cancer …

Protein lipidation in cell signaling and diseases: function, regulation, and therapeutic opportunities

B Chen, Y Sun, J Niu, GK Jarugumilli, X Wu - Cell chemical biology, 2018 - cell.com
Protein lipidation is an important co-or posttranslational modification in which lipid moieties
are covalently attached to proteins. Lipidation markedly increases the hydrophobicity of …

Fatty acyl recognition and transfer by an integral membrane S-acyltransferase

MS Rana, P Kumar, CJ Lee, R Verardi… - Science, 2018 - science.org
INTRODUCTION Hundreds of cellular proteins are modified by posttranslational S-acylation
of cysteines, commonly known as protein palmitoylation. Unlike other lipid attachments …

A not-so-ancient grease history: click chemistry and protein lipid modifications

KF Suazo, KY Park, MD Distefano - Chemical reviews, 2021 - ACS Publications
Protein lipid modification involves the attachment of hydrophobic groups to proteins via
ester, thioester, amide, or thioether linkages. In this review, the specific click chemical …

Enzyme-responsive peptide thioesters for targeting Golgi apparatus

W Tan, Q Zhang, MC Quiñones-Frías… - Journal of the …, 2022 - ACS Publications
The Golgi apparatus (GA) is the hub of intracellular trafficking, but selectively targeting GA
remains a challenge. We show an unconventional types of peptide thioesters, consisting of …