Ubiquitin ligases: cell-cycle control and cancer

KI Nakayama, K Nakayama - Nature Reviews Cancer, 2006 - nature.com
A driving force of the cell cycle is the activation of cyclin-dependent kinases (CDKs), the
activities of which are controlled by the ubiquitin-mediated proteolysis of key regulators such …

The ID proteins: master regulators of cancer stem cells and tumour aggressiveness

A Lasorella, R Benezra, A Iavarone - Nature Reviews Cancer, 2014 - nature.com
Inhibitor of DNA binding (ID) proteins are transcriptional regulators that control the timing of
cell fate determination and differentiation in stem and progenitor cells during normal …

RINGs of good and evil: RING finger ubiquitin ligases at the crossroads of tumour suppression and oncogenesis

S Lipkowitz, AM Weissman - Nature Reviews Cancer, 2011 - nature.com
The ubiquitin-proteasome system has numerous crucial roles in physiology and
pathophysiology. Fundamental to the specificity of this system are ubiquitin-protein ligases …

APC/C and SCF: controlling each other and the cell cycle

HC Vodermaier - Current Biology, 2004 - cell.com
Regulated protein degradation has emerged as a key recurring theme in multiple aspects of
cell-cycle regulation. Importantly, the irreversible nature of proteolysis makes it an invaluable …

E3 ubiquitin ligases in cancer and implications for therapies

D Wang, L Ma, B Wang, J Liu, W Wei - Cancer and Metastasis Reviews, 2017 - Springer
E3 ligases are a class of enzymes that can transfer ubiquitin to substrates for their
degradation, which are of importance in cellular homeostasis. Since many oncogenic or …

APC/C ubiquitin ligase: functions and mechanisms in tumorigenesis

MS Schrock, BR Stromberg, L Scarberry… - Seminars in cancer …, 2020 - Elsevier
The anaphase promoting complex/cyclosome (APC/C), is an evolutionarily conserved
protein complex essential for cellular division due to its role in regulating the mitotic …

Cuproptosis regulator-mediated patterns associated with immune infiltration features and construction of cuproptosis-related signatures to guide immunotherapy

G Wang, R Xiao, S Zhao, L Sun, J Guo, W Li… - Frontiers in …, 2022 - frontiersin.org
Background Liver hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) is a prevalent cancer that lacks a
sufficiently efficient approach to guide immunotherapy. Additionally, cuproptosis is a recently …

Insights into APC/C: from cellular function to diseases and therapeutics

Z Zhou, M He, AA Shah, Y Wan - Cell division, 2016 - Springer
Anaphase-promoting complex/cyclosome (APC/C) is a multifunctional ubiquitin-protein
ligase that targets different substrates for ubiquitylation and therefore regulates a variety of …

Prognostic value of Dicer expression in human breast cancers and association with the mesenchymal phenotype

G Grelier, N Voirin, AS Ay, DG Cox, S Chabaud… - British journal of …, 2009 - nature.com
Background: Dicer, a ribonuclease, is the key enzyme required for the biogenesis of
microRNAs and small interfering RNAs and is essential for both mammalian development …

E3 ubiquitin ligase APC/C-Cdh1 accounts for the Warburg effect by linking glycolysis to cell proliferation

A Almeida, JP Bolaños… - Proceedings of the …, 2010 - National Acad Sciences
Cell proliferation is known to be accompanied by activation of glycolysis. We have recently
discovered that the glycolysis-promoting enzyme 6-phosphofructo-2-kinase/fructose-2, 6 …