Transglutaminase regulation of cell function

RL Eckert, MT Kaartinen, M Nurminskaya… - Physiological …, 2014 - journals.physiology.org
Transglutaminases (TGs) are multifunctional proteins having enzymatic and scaffolding
functions that participate in regulation of cell fate in a wide range of cellular systems and are …

Metabolic adaptations in cancer stem cells

UP Yadav, T Singh, P Kumar, P Sharma, H Kaur… - Frontiers in …, 2020 - frontiersin.org
Cancer stem cells (CSCs) are a small and elusive subpopulation of self-renewing cancer
cells with remarkable ability to initiate, propagate, and spread the malignant disease. In …

Tissue transglutaminase: A multifunctional and multisite regulator in health and disease

Z Yao, Y Fan, L Lin, RE Kellems… - Physiological …, 2024 - journals.physiology.org
Tissue transglutaminase (TG2) is a widely distributed multifunctional protein involved in a
broad range of cellular and metabolic functions carried out in a variety of cellular …

[HTML][HTML] Transglutaminase 2 in human diseases

Z Szondy, I Korponay-Szabó, R Király, Z Sarang… - BioMedicine, 2017 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Abstract Transglutaminase 2 (TG2) is an inducible transamidating acyltransferase that
catalyzes Ca (2+)-dependent protein modifications. In addition to being an enzyme, TG2 …

Roles of epithelial-mesenchymal transition in cancer drug resistance

Y Shang, X Cai, D Fan - Current cancer drug targets, 2013 - ingentaconnect.com
Overcoming intrinsic and acquired drug resistance is a major challenge in treating cancer.
Poor responses to drug treatment can result in metastasis, cancer dissemination and death …

Transglutaminase is a tumor cell and cancer stem cell survival factor

RL Eckert, ML Fisher, D Grun, G Adhikary… - Molecular …, 2015 - Wiley Online Library
Recent studies indicate that cancer cells express elevated levels of type II transglutaminase
(TG2), and that expression is further highly enriched in cancer stem cells derived from these …

Discovery and characterization of PROTACs targeting tissue transglutaminase (TG2)

A Valdivia, PP Vagadia, G Guo, E O'Brien… - Journal of Medicinal …, 2023 - ACS Publications
Tissue transglutaminase (TG2) is a multifunctional enzyme involved in the cross-linking of
extracellular matrix proteins, formation of complexes with fibronectin (FN) and integrins, and …

Tissue transglutaminase constitutively activates HIF-1α promoter and nuclear factor-κB via a non-canonical pathway

S Kumar, K Mehta - PloS one, 2012 - journals.plos.org
Constitutive activation of nuclear factor kappa B (NF-κB) has been linked with
carcinogenesis and cancer progression, including metastasis, chemoresistance, and …

Tissue transglutaminase as a central mediator in inflammation-induced progression of breast cancer

N Agnihotri, S Kumar, K Mehta - Breast Cancer Research, 2013 - Springer
TGM2 is a stress-responsive gene that encodes a multifunctional and structurally complex
protein called tissue transglutaminase (abbreviated as TG2 or tTG). TGM2 expression is …

[HTML][HTML] PARP3 controls TGFβ and ROS driven epithelial-to-mesenchymal transition and stemness by stimulating a TG2-Snail-E-cadherin axis

O Karicheva, JM Rodriguez-Vargas, N Wadier… - Oncotarget, 2016 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Several members of the Poly (ADP-ribose) polymerase (PARP) family are essential
regulators of genome integrity, actively prospected as drug targets for cancer therapy …