How the ends signal the end: regulation by E3 ubiquitin ligases recognizing protein termini

D Sherpa, J Chrustowicz, BA Schulman - Molecular cell, 2022 - cell.com
Specificity of eukaryotic protein degradation is determined by E3 ubiquitin ligases and their
selective binding to protein motifs, termed" degrons," in substrates for ubiquitin-mediated …

The Cys/N-degron pathway in the ubiquitin–proteasome system and autophagy

AJ Heo, CH Ji, YT Kwon - Trends in Cell Biology, 2023 - cell.com
The N-degron pathway is a degradative system in which the N-terminal residues of proteins
modulate the half-lives of proteins and other cellular materials. The majority of amino acids …

Discovery and structural characterization of small molecule binders of the human CTLH E3 ligase subunit GID4

CK Chana, P Maisonneuve, G Posternak… - Journal of medicinal …, 2022 - ACS Publications
Targeted protein degradation (TPD) strategies exploit bivalent small molecules to bridge
substrate proteins to an E3 ubiquitin ligase to induce substrate degradation. Few E3s have …

GID E3 ligase supramolecular chelate assembly configures multipronged ubiquitin targeting of an oligomeric metabolic enzyme

D Sherpa, J Chrustowicz, S Qiao, CR Langlois… - Molecular Cell, 2021 - cell.com
How are E3 ubiquitin ligases configured to match substrate quaternary structures? Here, by
studying the yeast GID complex (mutation of which causes deficiency in glucose-induced …

N-terminal acetylation shields proteins from degradation and promotes age-dependent motility and longevity

S Varland, RD Silva, I Kjosås, A Faustino… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
Most eukaryotic proteins are N-terminally acetylated, but the functional impact on a global
scale has remained obscure. Using genome-wide CRISPR knockout screens in human …

Timer-based proteomic profiling of the ubiquitin-proteasome system reveals a substrate receptor of the GID ubiquitin ligase

KYE Kong, B Fischer, M Meurer, I Kats, Z Li, F Rühle… - Molecular cell, 2021 - cell.com
Selective protein degradation by the ubiquitin-proteasome system (UPS) is involved in all
cellular processes. However, the substrates and specificity of most UPS components are not …

Modular UBE2H-CTLH E2-E3 complexes regulate erythroid maturation

D Sherpa, J Mueller, Ö Karayel, P Xu, Y Yao… - Elife, 2022 - elifesciences.org
The development of haematopoietic stem cells into mature erythrocytes–erythropoiesis–is a
controlled process characterized by cellular reorganization and drastic reshaping of the …

FAM72A degrades UNG2 through the GID/CTLH complex to promote mutagenic repair during antibody maturation

P Barbulescu, CK Chana, MK Wong… - Nature …, 2024 - nature.com
A diverse antibody repertoire is essential for humoral immunity. Antibody diversification
requires the introduction of deoxyuridine (dU) mutations within immunoglobulin genes to …

Structural and functional insights into GID/CTLH E3 ligase complexes

MER Maitland, GA Lajoie, GS Shaw… - International Journal of …, 2022 - mdpi.com
Multi-subunit E3 ligases facilitate ubiquitin transfer by coordinating various substrate
receptor subunits with a single catalytic center. Small molecules inducing targeted protein …

A chemical probe to modulate human GID4 Pro/N-degron interactions

DDG Owens, MER Maitland, A Khalili Yazdi… - Nature Chemical …, 2024 - nature.com
The C-terminal to LisH (CTLH) complex is a ubiquitin ligase complex that recognizes
substrates with Pro/N-degrons via its substrate receptor Glucose-Induced Degradation 4 …