The UFMylation system in proteostasis and beyond

Y Gerakis, M Quintero, H Li, C Hetz - Trends in cell biology, 2019 - cell.com
Post-translational modifications are at the apex of cellular communication and eventually
regulate every aspect of life. The identification of new post-translational modifiers is opening …

E1 enzymes as therapeutic targets in cancer

SH Barghout, AD Schimmer - Pharmacological reviews, 2021 - ASPET
Post-translational modifications of cellular substrates with ubiquitin and ubiquitin-like
proteins (UBLs), including ubiquitin, SUMOs, and neural precursor cell–expressed …

Mechanistic insights into the roles of the UFM1 E3 ligase complex in ufmylation and ribosome-associated protein quality control

R Ishimura, S Ito, G Mao, S Komatsu-Hirota, T Inada… - Science …, 2023 - science.org
Ubiquitin-fold modifier 1 (UFM1) is a ubiquitin-like protein covalently conjugated with
intracellular proteins through ufmylation, similar to ubiquitylation. Ufmylation is involved in …

Shuffled ATG8 interacting motifs form an ancestral bridge between UFMylation and autophagy

L Picchianti, V Sánchez de Medina Hernández… - The EMBO …, 2023 - embopress.org
UFMylation involves the covalent modification of substrate proteins with UFM1 (Ubiquitin‐
fold modifier 1) and is important for maintaining ER homeostasis. Stalled translation triggers …

UFMylation: a ubiquitin-like modification

X Zhou, SJ Mahdizadeh, M Le Gallo… - Trends in Biochemical …, 2024 - cell.com
Post-translational modifications (PTMs) add a major degree of complexity to the proteome
and are essential controllers of protein homeostasis. Amongst the hundreds of PTMs …

A non‐canonical scaffold‐type E3 ligase complex mediates protein UFMylation

JJ Peter, HM Magnussen, PA DaRosa, D Millrine… - The EMBO …, 2022 - embopress.org
Protein UFMylation, ie, post‐translational modification with ubiquitin‐fold modifier 1 (UFM1),
is essential for cellular and endoplasmic reticulum homeostasis. Despite its biological …

Decrypting UFMylation: how proteins are modified with UFM1

S Banerjee, M Kumar, R Wiener - Biomolecules, 2020 - mdpi.com
Besides ubiquitin (Ub), humans have a set of ubiquitin-like proteins (UBLs) that can also
covalently modify target proteins. To date, less is known about UBLs than Ub and even less …

Human UFSP1 is an active protease that regulates UFM1 maturation and UFMylation

D Millrine, T Cummings, SP Matthews, JJ Peter… - Cell Reports, 2022 - cell.com
An essential first step in the post-translational modification of proteins with UFM1,
UFMylation, is the proteolytic cleavage of pro-UFM1 to expose a C-terminal glycine. Of the …

The UFM1 E3 ligase recognizes and releases 60S ribosomes from ER translocons

L Makhlouf, JJ Peter, HM Magnussen, R Thakur… - Nature, 2024 - nature.com
Stalled ribosomes at the endoplasmic reticulum (ER) are covalently modified with the
ubiquitin-like protein UFM1 on the 60S ribosomal subunit protein RPL26 (also known as …

UFM1 E3 ligase promotes recycling of 60S ribosomal subunits from the ER

PA DaRosa, I Penchev, SC Gumbin, F Scavone… - Nature, 2024 - nature.com
Reversible modification of target proteins by ubiquitin and ubiquitin-like proteins (UBLs) is
widely used by eukaryotic cells to control protein fate and cell behaviour. UFM1 is a UBL that …