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” …

Deubiquitinases in cancer

G Dewson, PJA Eichhorn, D Komander - Nature Reviews Cancer, 2023 - nature.com
Ubiquitination is an essential regulator of most, if not all, signalling pathways, and defects in
cellular signalling are central to cancer initiation, progression and, eventually, metastasis …

Deubiquitinase-targeting chimeras for targeted protein stabilization

NJ Henning, L Boike, JN Spradlin, CC Ward… - Nature chemical …, 2022 - nature.com
Many diseases are driven by proteins that are aberrantly ubiquitinated and degraded. These
diseases would be therapeutically benefited by targeted protein stabilization (TPS). Here we …

Breaking the chains: deubiquitylating enzyme specificity begets function

MJ Clague, S Urbé, D Komander - Nature reviews Molecular cell …, 2019 - nature.com
The deubiquitylating enzymes (DUBs, also known as deubiquitylases or deubiquitinases)
maintain the dynamic state of the cellular ubiquitome by releasing conjugated ubiquitin from …

Regulating tumor suppressor genes: post-translational modifications

L Chen, S Liu, Y Tao - Signal transduction and targeted therapy, 2020 - nature.com
Tumor suppressor genes cooperate with each other in tumors. Three important tumor
suppressor proteins, retinoblastoma (Rb), p53, phosphatase, and tensin homolog deleted …

Mechanisms of deubiquitinase specificity and regulation

TET Mevissen, D Komander - Annual review of biochemistry, 2017 - annualreviews.org
Protein ubiquitination is one of the most powerful posttranslational modifications of proteins,
as it regulates a plethora of cellular processes in distinct manners. Simple …

The deubiquitylase OTUB1 mediates ferroptosis via stabilization of SLC7A11

T Liu, L Jiang, O Tavana, W Gu - Cancer research, 2019 - AACR
Although cell-cycle arrest, senescence, and apoptosis are established mechanisms of tumor
suppression, accumulating evidence reveals that ferroptosis, an iron-dependent …

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 …

p62 filaments capture and present ubiquitinated cargos for autophagy

G Zaffagnini, A Savova, A Danieli, J Romanov… - The EMBO …, 2018 - embopress.org
The removal of misfolded, ubiquitinated proteins is an essential part of the protein quality
control. The ubiquitin‐proteasome system (UPS) and autophagy are two interconnected …

Deubiquitinating enzyme OTUB1 promotes cancer cell immunosuppression via preventing ER-associated degradation of immune checkpoint protein PD-L1

D Zhu, R Xu, X Huang, Z Tang, Y Tian… - Cell Death & …, 2021 - nature.com
Upregulation of programmed death ligand 1 (PD-L1) helps tumor cells escape from immune
surveillance, and therapeutic antibodies targeting PD-1/PD-L1 have shown better patient …