Structure, biochemistry, and gene expression patterns of the proline biosynthetic enzyme pyrroline-5-carboxylate reductase (PYCR), an emerging cancer therapy …

AN Bogner, KM Stiers, JJ Tanner - Amino Acids, 2021 - Springer
Proline metabolism features prominently in the unique metabolism of cancer cells. Proline
biosynthetic genes are consistently upregulated in multiple cancers, while the proline …

[HTML][HTML] Proline metabolism in neurological and psychiatric disorders

Y Yao, W Han - Molecules and cells, 2022 - Elsevier
Proline plays a multifaceted role in protein synthesis, redox balance, cell fate regulation,
brain development, and other cellular and physiological processes. Here, we focus our …

African swine fever virus protein E199L promotes cell autophagy through the interaction of PYCR2

S Chen, X Zhang, Y Nie, H Li, W Chen, W Lin, F Chen… - Virologica Sinica, 2021 - Springer
African swine fever virus (ASFV), as a member of the large DNA viruses, may regulate
autophagy and apoptosis by inhibiting programmed cell death. However, the function of …

Impairment of the mitochondrial one-carbon metabolism enzyme SHMT2 causes a novel brain and heart developmental syndrome

À García-Cazorla, E Verdura, N Juliá-Palacios… - Acta …, 2020 - Springer
Inborn errors of metabolism cause a wide spectrum of neurodevelopmental and
neurodegenerative conditions [15]. A pivotal enzyme located at the intersection of the amino …

Genome-wide identification and expression analysis of serine hydroxymethyltransferase (SHMT) gene family in tomato (Solanum lycopersicum)

Z Liu, X Pan, C Wang, F Yun, D Huang, Y Yao, R Gao… - PeerJ, 2022 - peerj.com
Serine hydroxymethyltransferase (SHMT) is one of the most important enzyme families in
one-carbon metabolic pathway and photorespiration within plant cells. Recently studies …

Regulation of the HTRA2 protease activity by an inhibitory antibody-derived peptide ligand and the influence on HTRA2-specific protein interaction networks in retinal …

C Schmelter, KN Fomo, N Perumal, N Pfeiffer, FH Grus - Biomedicines, 2021 - mdpi.com
The mitochondrial serine protease HTRA2 has many versatile biological functions ranging
from being an important regulator of apoptosis to being an essential component for neuronal …

Molecular Pathogenic Mechanisms of Hypomyelinating Leukodystrophies (HLDs)

T Torii, J Yamauchi - Neurology International, 2023 - mdpi.com
Hypomyelinating leukodystrophies (HLDs) represent a group of congenital rare diseases for
which the responsible genes have been identified in recent studies. In this review, we briefly …

Disease variants of human Δ1-pyrroline-5-carboxylate reductase 2 (PYCR2)

SM Patel, J Seravalli, X Liang, JJ Tanner… - Archives of biochemistry …, 2021 - Elsevier
Abstract Pyrroline-5-carboxylate reductase (PYCR in humans) catalyzes the final step of l-
proline biosynthesis by catalyzing the reduction of L-Δ 1-pyrroline-5-carboxylate (L-P5C) to l …

Genetic analysis of Pycr1 and Pycr2 in mice

MG Stum, ALD Tadenev, KL Seburn, KE Miers… - Genetics, 2021 - academic.oup.com
The final step in proline biosynthesis is catalyzed by three pyrroline-5-carboxylate
reductases, PYCR1, PYCR2, and PYCR3, which convert pyrroline-5-carboxylate (P5C) to …

Hypomyelinating leukodystrophy 10 (HLD10)-associated mutations of PYCR2 form large size mitochondria, inhibiting oligodendroglial cell morphological …

T Torii, R Shirai, R Kiminami, S Nishino, T Sato… - Neurology …, 2022 - mdpi.com
Hypomyelinating leukodystrophy 10 (HLD10) is an autosomal recessive disease related to
myelin sheaths in the central nervous system (CNS). In the CNS, myelin sheaths are derived …