An expanded lexicon for the ubiquitin code

I Dikic, BA Schulman - Nature reviews Molecular cell biology, 2023 - nature.com
Our understanding of the ubiquitin code has greatly evolved from conventional E1, E2 and
E3 enzymes that modify Lys residues on specific substrates with a single type of ubiquitin …

A new dawn beyond lysine ubiquitination

DR Squair, S Virdee - Nature Chemical Biology, 2022 - nature.com
The ubiquitin system has become synonymous with the modification of lysine residues.
However, the substrate scope and diversity of the conjugation machinery have been …

A lysosome membrane regeneration pathway depends on TBC1D15 and autophagic lysosomal reformation proteins

A Bhattacharya, R Mukherjee, SK Kuncha… - Nature Cell …, 2023 - nature.com
Acute lysosomal membrane damage reduces the cellular population of functional
lysosomes. However, these damaged lysosomes have a remarkable recovery potential …

ER remodeling via ER-phagy

A Gubas, I Dikic - Molecular Cell, 2022 - cell.com
The endoplasmic reticulum (ER) is a hotspot for many essential cellular functions. The ER
membrane is highly dynamic, which affects many cellular processes that take place within …

Regulation of host-pathogen interactions via the ubiquitin system

R Mukherjee, I Dikic - Annual Review of Microbiology, 2022 - annualreviews.org
Ubiquitination is a posttranslational modification that regulates a multitude of cellular
functions. Pathogens, such as bacteria and viruses, have evolved sophisticated …

Outer membrane vesicles containing OmpA induce mitochondrial fragmentation to promote pathogenesis of Acinetobacter baumannii

V Tiku, EM Kofoed, D Yan, J Kang, M Xu, M Reichelt… - Scientific reports, 2021 - nature.com
Acinetobacter baumannii is a highly antibiotic resistant Gram-negative bacterium that
causes life-threatening infections in humans with a very high mortality rate. A. baumannii is …

Non-lysine ubiquitylation: Doing things differently

IR Kelsall - Frontiers in Molecular Biosciences, 2022 - frontiersin.org
The post-translational modification of proteins with ubiquitin plays a central role in nearly all
aspects of eukaryotic biology. Historically, studies have focused on the conjugation of …

Ubiquitination of non-protein substrates

J Sakamaki, N Mizushima - Trends in Cell Biology, 2023 - cell.com
The covalent attachment of ubiquitin is a common regulatory mechanism in various proteins.
Although it has long been thought that the substrates of ubiquitination are limited to proteins …

Arginine ADP-ribosylation: chemical synthesis of post-translationally modified ubiquitin proteins

J Voorneveld, MS Kloet, S Wijngaarden… - Journal of the …, 2022 - ACS Publications
We describe the development and optimization of a methodology to prepare peptides and
proteins modified on the arginine residue with an adenosine-di-phosphate-ribosyl (ADPr) …

The Sde phosphoribosyl–linked ubiquitin transferases protect the Legionella pneumophila vacuole from degradation by the host

S Kim, RR Isberg - Proceedings of the National Academy of …, 2023 - National Acad Sciences
Legionella pneumophila grows intracellularly within the membrane-bound Legionella-
containing vacuole (LCV) established by proteins translocated via the bacterial type IV …