Deubiquitylating enzymes and drug discovery: emerging opportunities

JA Harrigan, X Jacq, NM Martin… - Nature reviews Drug …, 2018 - nature.com
More than a decade after a Nobel Prize was awarded for the discovery of the ubiquitin–
proteasome system and clinical approval of proteasome and ubiquitin E3 ligase inhibitors …

Proteotoxic stress and the ubiquitin proteasome system

R Kandel, J Jung, S Neal - Seminars in cell & developmental biology, 2024 - Elsevier
The ubiquitin proteasome system maintains protein homeostasis by regulating the
breakdown of misfolded proteins, thereby preventing misfolded protein aggregates. The …

USP14: structure, function, and target inhibition

F Wang, S Ning, B Yu, Y Wang - Frontiers in Pharmacology, 2022 - frontiersin.org
Ubiquitin-specific protease 14 (USP14), a deubiquitinating enzyme (DUB), is associated
with proteasomes and exerts a dual function in regulating protein degradation. USP14 …

Deubiquitylases from genes to organism

MJ Clague, I Barsukov, JM Coulson… - Physiological …, 2013 - journals.physiology.org
Ubiquitylation is a major posttranslational modification that controls most complex aspects of
cell physiology. It is reversed through the action of a large family of deubiquitylating …

Enhancement of proteasome activity by a small-molecule inhibitor of USP14

BH Lee, MJ Lee, S Park, DC Oh, S Elsasser, PC Chen… - Nature, 2010 - nature.com
Proteasomes, the primary mediators of ubiquitin–protein conjugate degradation, are
regulated through complex and poorly understood mechanisms. Here we show that USP14 …

Regulation and cellular roles of ubiquitin-specific deubiquitinating enzymes

FE Reyes-Turcu, KH Ventii… - Annual review of …, 2009 - annualreviews.org
Deubiquitinating enzymes (DUBs) are proteases that process ubiquitin or ubiquitin-like gene
products, reverse the modification of proteins by a single ubiquitin (-like) protein, and …

Ubiquitylation in apoptosis: a post-translational modification at the edge of life and death

D Vucic, VM Dixit, IE Wertz - Nature reviews Molecular cell biology, 2011 - nature.com
The proper regulation of apoptosis is essential for the survival of multicellular organisms.
Furthermore, excessive apoptosis can contribute to neurodegenerative diseases, anaemia …

Exome sequencing reveals new causal mutations in children with epileptic encephalopathies

KR Veeramah, L Johnstone, TM Karafet, D Wolf… - …, 2013 - Wiley Online Library
Purpose The management of epilepsy in children is particularly challenging when seizures
are resistant to antiepileptic medications, or undergo many changes in seizure type over …

UCHL1 (PGP 9.5): neuronal biomarker and ubiquitin system protein

INM Day, RJ Thompson - Progress in neurobiology, 2010 - Elsevier
UCHL1/PGP 9.5 (also known as UCHL1 and PGP 9.5) was first detected as a “brain-specific
protein” over 28 years ago. The protein is highly conserved and localized in neurones and …

Meddling with fate: the proteasomal deubiquitinating enzymes

SAH de Poot, G Tian, D Finley - Journal of molecular biology, 2017 - Elsevier
Abstract Three deubiquitinating enzymes—Rpn11, Usp14, and Uch37—are associated with
the proteasome regulatory particle. These enzymes allow proteasomes to remove ubiquitin …