Protein acylation: mechanisms, biological functions and therapeutic targets

S Shang, J Liu, F Hua - Signal Transduction and Targeted Therapy, 2022 - nature.com
Metabolic reprogramming is involved in the pathogenesis of not only cancers but also
neurodegenerative diseases, cardiovascular diseases, and infectious diseases. With the …

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 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 …

Protein S‐Palmitoylation: advances and challenges in studying a therapeutically important lipid modification

A Main, W Fuller - The FEBS Journal, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
The lipid post‐translational modification S‐palmitoylation is a vast developing field, with the
modification itself and the enzymes that catalyse the reversible reaction implicated in a …

Dynamic protein acylation: new substrates, mechanisms, and drug targets

T Lanyon-Hogg, M Faronato, RA Serwa… - Trends in biochemical …, 2017 - cell.com
Post-translational attachment of lipids to proteins is found in all organisms, and is important
for many biological processes. Acylation with myristic and palmitic acids are among the most …

Identification and dynamics of the human ZDHHC16-ZDHHC6 palmitoylation cascade

L Abrami, T Dallavilla, PA Sandoz, M Demir, B Kunz… - Elife, 2017 - elifesciences.org
S-Palmitoylation is the only reversible post-translational lipid modification. Knowledge about
the DHHC palmitoyltransferase family is still limited. Here we show that human ZDHHC6 …

Protein palmitoylation-mediated palmitic acid sensing causes blood-testis barrier damage via inducing ER stress

X Ge, Z He, C Cao, T Xue, J Jing, R Ma, W Zhao, L Liu… - Redox Biology, 2022 - Elsevier
Blood-testis barrier (BTB) damage promotes spermatogenesis dysfunction, which is a critical
cause of male infertility. Dyslipidemia has been correlated with male infertility, but the major …

A decade of click chemistry in protein palmitoylation: impact on discovery and new biology

X Gao, RN Hannoush - Cell chemical biology, 2018 - cell.com
Protein palmitoylation plays diverse roles in regulating the trafficking, stability, and activity of
cellular proteins. The advent of click chemistry has propelled the field of protein …

Palmitoylation of the pore-forming subunit of Ca (v) 1.2 controls channel voltage sensitivity and calcium transients in cardiac myocytes

CWS Kuo, S Dobi, C Gök… - Proceedings of the …, 2023 - National Acad Sciences
Mammalian voltage-activated L-type Ca2+ channels, such as Ca (v) 1.2, control
transmembrane Ca2+ fluxes in numerous excitable tissues. Here, we report that the pore …

Regulation of dynamic protein S-acylation

JJ Chen, Y Fan, D Boehning - Frontiers in Molecular Biosciences, 2021 - frontiersin.org
Protein S-acylation is the reversible addition of fatty acids to the cysteine residues of target
proteins. It regulates multiple aspects of protein function, including the localization to …