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” …

Toll-like receptors in sepsis-associated cytokine storm and their endogenous negative regulators as future immunomodulatory targets

V Kumar - International immunopharmacology, 2020 - Elsevier
Cytokine storm generates during various systemic acute infections, including sepsis and
current pandemic called COVID-19 (severe) causing devastating inflammatory conditions …

[HTML][HTML] Toll-like receptor 3 (TLR3) regulation mechanisms and roles in antiviral innate immune responses

C Yujuan, LIN Junhong, Z Yao… - Journal of Zhejiang …, 2021 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Abstract Toll-like receptor 3 (TLR3) is a member of the TLR family, mediating the
transcriptional induction of type I interferons (IFNs), proinflammatory cytokines, and …

TRIM proteins and their roles in antiviral host defenses

M van Gent, KMJ Sparrer, MU Gack - Annual review of virology, 2018 - annualreviews.org
Tripartite motif (TRIM) proteins are a versatile family of ubiquitin E3 ligases involved in a
multitude of cellular processes. Studies in recent years have demonstrated that many TRIM …

TRIM8 modulates the EWS/FLI oncoprotein to promote survival in Ewing sarcoma

BKA Seong, NV Dharia, S Lin, KA Donovan, S Chong… - Cancer cell, 2021 - cell.com
Fusion-transcription factors (fusion-TFs) represent a class of driver oncoproteins that are
difficult to therapeutically target. Recently, protein degradation has emerged as a strategy to …

TRIM21 promotes innate immune response to RNA viral infection through Lys27-linked polyubiquitination of MAVS

B Xue, H Li, M Guo, J Wang, Y Xu, X Zou… - Journal of …, 2018 - Am Soc Microbiol
Human innate immunity responds to viral infection by activating the production of interferons
(IFNs) and proinflammatory cytokines. The mitochondrial adaptor molecule MAVS plays a …

To TRIM the immunity: from innate to adaptive immunity

W Yang, Z Gu, H Zhang, H Hu - Frontiers in immunology, 2020 - frontiersin.org
The tripartite motif (TRIM) proteins have been intensively studied as essential modulators in
various biological processes, especially in regulating a wide range of signaling pathways …

Self-assembling myristoylated human α-defensin 5 as a next-generation nanobiotics potentiates therapeutic efficacy in bacterial infection

R Lei, J Hou, Q Chen, W Yuan, B Cheng, Y Sun, Y Jin… - Acs Nano, 2018 - ACS Publications
The increasing prevalence of antibacterial resistance globally underscores the urgent need
to the update of antibiotics. Here, we describe a strategy for inducing the self-assembly of a …

Regulation of TRIF-mediated innate immune response by K27-linked polyubiquitination and deubiquitination

X Wu, C Lei, T Xia, X Zhong, Q Yang, HB Shu - Nature communications, 2019 - nature.com
TIR domain-containing adaptor inducing interferon-β (TRIF) is an essential adaptor protein
required for innate immune responses mediated by Toll-like receptor (TLR) 3-and TLR4 …

Knockdown of TRIM8 protects HK-2 cells against hypoxia/reoxygenation-induced injury by inhibiting oxidative stress-mediated apoptosis and pyroptosis via PI3K/Akt …

BH Zhang, H Liu, Y Yuan, XD Weng, Y Du… - Drug Design …, 2021 - Taylor & Francis
Background Acute kidney injury (AKI) emerges as an acute and critical disease. Tripartite
motif 8 (TRIM8), one number of the TRIM protein family, is proved to participate in …