Ubiquitylation in apoptosis: a post-translational modification at the edge of life and death

D Vucic, VM Dixit, IE Wertz - Nature reviews Molecular cell biology, 2011 - nature.com
The proper regulation of apoptosis is essential for the survival of multicellular organisms.
Furthermore, excessive apoptosis can contribute to neurodegenerative diseases, anaemia …

La FAM fatale: USP9X in development and disease

M Murtaza, LA Jolly, J Gecz, SA Wood - Cellular and molecular life …, 2015 - Springer
Deubiquitylating enzymes (DUBs), act downstream of ubiquitylation. As such, these post-
post-translational modifiers function as the final arbitrators of a protein substrate's …

[HTML][HTML] X-linked ubiquitin-specific peptidase 11 increases tauopathy vulnerability in women

Y Yan, X Wang, D Chaput, MK Shin, Y Koh, L Gan… - Cell, 2022 - cell.com
Although women experience significantly higher tau burden and increased risk for
Alzheimer's disease (AD) than men, the underlying mechanism for this vulnerability has not …

Mutations in USP9X are associated with X-linked intellectual disability and disrupt neuronal cell migration and growth

CC Homan, R Kumar, LS Nguyen, E Haan… - The American Journal of …, 2014 - cell.com
With a wealth of disease-associated DNA variants being recently reported, the challenges of
providing their functional characterization are mounting. Previously, as part of a large …

The UPF3B gene, implicated in intellectual disability, autism, ADHD and childhood onset schizophrenia regulates neural progenitor cell behaviour and neuronal …

LA Jolly, CC Homan, R Jacob, S Barry… - Human molecular …, 2013 - academic.oup.com
Loss-of-function mutations in UPF3B result in variable clinical presentations including
intellectual disability (ID, syndromic and non-syndromic), autism, childhood onset …

Deubiquitinating enzymes in cellular signaling and disease regulation

P Hanpude, S Bhattacharya, AK Dey, TK Maiti - IUBMB life, 2015 - Wiley Online Library
Protein post‐translational modification by ubiquitin represents a complex signaling system
that regulates many cellular events including proteostasis to intercellular communications …

The transcriptionally permissive chromatin state of embryonic stem cells is acutely tuned to translational output

A Bulut-Karslioglu, TA Macrae, JA Oses-Prieto… - Cell stem cell, 2018 - cell.com
A permissive chromatin environment coupled to hypertranscription drives the rapid
proliferation of embryonic stem cells (ESCs) and peri-implantation embryos. We carried out …

De novo loss-of-function mutations in USP9X cause a female-specific recognizable syndrome with developmental delay and congenital malformations

MRF Reijnders, V Zachariadis, B Latour, L Jolly… - The American Journal of …, 2016 - cell.com
Mutations in more than a hundred genes have been reported to cause X-linked recessive
intellectual disability (ID) mainly in males. In contrast, the number of identified X-linked …

USP9X deubiquitinates ALDH1A3 and maintains mesenchymal identity in glioblastoma stem cells

Z Chen, HW Wang, S Wang, L Fan… - The Journal of …, 2019 - Am Soc Clin Investig
The mesenchymal (MES) subtype of glioblastoma (GBM) stem cells (GSCs) represents a
subpopulation of cancer cells that are notorious for their highly aggressive nature and …

A noncoding, regulatory mutation implicates HCFC1 in nonsyndromic intellectual disability

L Huang, LA Jolly, S Willis-Owen, A Gardner… - The American Journal of …, 2012 - cell.com
The discovery of mutations causing human disease has so far been biased toward protein-
coding regions. Having excluded all annotated coding regions, we performed targeted …