The role of ubiquitination in tumorigenesis and targeted drug discovery

L Deng, T Meng, L Chen, W Wei, P Wang - Signal transduction and …, 2020 - nature.com
Ubiquitination, an important type of protein posttranslational modification (PTM), plays a
crucial role in controlling substrate degradation and subsequently mediates the “quantity” …

Ubiquitination and deubiquitination in cancer: from mechanisms to novel therapeutic approaches

F Liu, J Chen, K Li, H Li, Y Zhu, Y Zhai, B Lu, Y Fan… - Molecular Cancer, 2024 - Springer
Ubiquitination, a pivotal posttranslational modification of proteins, plays a fundamental role
in regulating protein stability. The dysregulation of ubiquitinating and deubiquitinating …

An overview of cancer treatment modalities

Z Abbas, S Rehman - Neoplasm, 2018 - books.google.com
Cancer is a global issue majorly affecting developing countries. According to a survey, 63%
of deaths due to cancer are reported from developing countries. There are different …

Molecular glue discovery: current and future approaches

JA Dewey, C Delalande, SA Azizi, V Lu… - Journal of medicinal …, 2023 - ACS Publications
The intracellular interactions of biomolecules can be maneuvered to redirect signaling,
reprogram the cell cycle, or decrease infectivity using only a few dozen atoms. Such …

Drugging the undruggables: exploring the ubiquitin system for drug development

X Huang, VM Dixit - Cell research, 2016 - nature.com
Dynamic modulation of protein levels is tightly controlled in response to physiological cues.
In mammalian cells, much of the protein degradation is carried out by the ubiquitin …

Small-molecule modulation of protein homeostasis

GM Burslem, CM Crews - Chemical reviews, 2017 - ACS Publications
Control of protein levels by nucleic-acid-based technologies has proven to be a useful
research tool but lacks the advantages of small molecules with respect to cell permeability …

Protein-protein interaction modulators: advances, successes and remaining challenges

L Mabonga, AP Kappo - Biophysical reviews, 2019 - Springer
Modulating disease-relevant protein-protein interactions (PPIs) using small-molecule
inhibitors is a quite indispensable diagnostic and therapeutic strategy in averting …

Ubiquitination: Friend and foe in cancer

MA Mansour - The international journal of biochemistry & cell biology, 2018 - Elsevier
Dynamic modulation and posttranslational modification of proteins are tightly controlled
biological processes that occur in response to physiological cues. One such dynamic …

Unifying principles of bifunctional, proximity-inducing small molecules

CJ Gerry, SL Schreiber - Nature chemical biology, 2020 - nature.com
Nature uses a variety of tools to mediate the flow of information in cells, many of which
control distances between key biomacromolecules. Researchers have thus generated …

SCF ubiquitin ligase-targeted therapies

JR Skaar, JK Pagan, M Pagano - Nature reviews Drug discovery, 2014 - nature.com
The clinical successes of proteasome inhibitors for the treatment of cancer have highlighted
the therapeutic potential of targeting this protein degradation system. However, proteasome …