Protein posttranslational modifications in health and diseases: Functions, regulatory mechanisms, and therapeutic implications

Q Zhong, X Xiao, Y Qiu, Z Xu, C Chen, B Chong… - MedComm, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Protein posttranslational modifications (PTMs) refer to the breaking or generation of covalent
bonds on the backbones or amino acid side chains of proteins and expand the diversity of …

Protein lipidation in cell signaling and diseases: function, regulation, and therapeutic opportunities

B Chen, Y Sun, J Niu, GK Jarugumilli, X Wu - Cell chemical biology, 2018 - cell.com
Protein lipidation is an important co-or posttranslational modification in which lipid moieties
are covalently attached to proteins. Lipidation markedly increases the hydrophobicity of …

Gestational hypoxia and developmental plasticity

CA Ducsay, R Goyal, WJ Pearce… - Physiological …, 2018 - journals.physiology.org
Hypoxia is one of the most common and severe challenges to the maintenance of
homeostasis. Oxygen sensing is a property of all tissues, and the response to hypoxia is …

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 …

Protein palmitoylation and its pathophysiological relevance

J Jin, X Zhi, X Wang, D Meng - Journal of cellular physiology, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Protein palmitoylation, in which C16 fatty acid chains are attached to cysteine residues via a
reversible thioester linkage, is one of the most common lipid modifications and plays …

Role of neutrophil extracellular traps and vesicles in regulating vascular endothelial permeability

Y Ma, X Yang, V Chatterjee, JE Meegan… - Frontiers in …, 2019 - frontiersin.org
The microvascular endothelium serves as the major barrier that controls the transport of
blood constituents across the vessel wall. Barrier leakage occurs during infection or sterile …

Extracellular vesicles: new players in regulating vascular barrier function

V Chatterjee, X Yang, Y Ma, MH Wu… - American Journal of …, 2020 - journals.physiology.org
Extracellular vesicles (EVs) have attracted rising interests in the cardiovascular field not only
because they serve as serological markers for circulatory disorders but also because they …

Biomimetic macrophage membrane and lipidated peptide hybrid nanovesicles for atherosclerosis therapy

L Guo, Y Miao, Y Wang, Y Zhang… - Advanced Functional …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Atherosclerosis is the underlying cause for cardiovascular disease. Current
pharmacotherapies are limited by the inadequate targeting and insufficient treatment …

S-acylation of P2K1 mediates extracellular ATP-induced immune signaling in Arabidopsis

D Chen, F Hao, H Mu, N Ahsan, JJ Thelen… - Nature …, 2021 - nature.com
S-acylation is a reversible protein post-translational modification mediated by protein S-
acyltransferases (PATs). How S-acylation regulates plant innate immunity is our main …

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 …