Ubiquitin ligases: guardians of mammalian development

DA Cruz Walma, Z Chen, AN Bullock… - … Reviews Molecular Cell …, 2022 - nature.com
Mammalian development demands precision. Millions of molecules must be properly
located in temporal order, and their function regulated, to orchestrate important steps in cell …

Functions of SRPK, CLK and DYRK kinases in stem cells, development, and human developmental disorders

EKJ Hogg, GM Findlay - FEBS letters, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Human developmental disorders encompass a wide range of debilitating physical
conditions and intellectual disabilities. Perturbation of protein kinase signalling underlies the …

[HTML][HTML] Functional diversification of SRSF protein kinase to control ubiquitin-dependent neurodevelopmental signaling

F Bustos, A Segarra-Fas, G Nardocci, A Cassidy… - Developmental cell, 2020 - cell.com
Conserved protein kinases with core cellular functions have been frequently redeployed
during metazoan evolution to regulate specialized developmental processes. The Ser/Arg …

Roles of the Rlim–Rex1 axis during X chromosome inactivation in mice

F Wang, A Chander, Y Yoon… - Proceedings of the …, 2023 - National Acad Sciences
In female mice, the gene dosage from X chromosomes is adjusted by a process called X
chromosome inactivation (XCI) that occurs in two steps. An imprinted form of XCI (iXCI) that …

Sequential ubiquitination of p53 by TRIM28, RLIM, and MDM2 in lung tumorigenesis

JO Jin, GD Lee, SH Nam, TH Lee, DH Kang… - Cell Death & …, 2021 - nature.com
Abstract Tripartite motif-containing 28 (TRIM28) is an E3 ubiquitin ligase harboring multiple
cellular functions. We found that the TRIM28 protein is frequently overexpressed in patients …

Linkage-specific deubiquitylation by OTUD5 defines an embryonic pathway intolerant to genomic variation

DB Beck, MA Basar, AJ Asmar, JJ Thompson… - Science …, 2021 - science.org
Reversible modification of proteins with linkage-specific ubiquitin chains is critical for
intracellular signaling. Information on physiological roles and underlying mechanisms of …

Targeted protein degradation using chimeric human E2 ubiquitin-conjugating enzymes

JD Taylor, N Barrett, S Martinez Cuesta… - Communications …, 2024 - nature.com
Proteins can be targeted for degradation by engineering biomolecules that direct them to the
eukaryotic ubiquitination machinery. For instance, the fusion of an E3 ubiquitin ligase to a …

An RNF12-USP26 amplification loop drives germ cell specification and is disrupted by disease-associated mutations

A Segarra-Fas, C Espejo-Serrano, F Bustos, H Zhou… - Science …, 2022 - science.org
The E3 ubiquitin ligase RNF12 plays essential roles during development, and the gene
encoding it, RLIM, is mutated in the X-linked human developmental disorder Tonne …

REX1 is the critical target of RNF12 in imprinted X chromosome inactivation in mice

C Gontan, H Mira-Bontenbal, A Magaraki… - Nature …, 2018 - nature.com
In mice, imprinted X chromosome inactivation (iXCI) of the paternal X in the pre-implantation
embryo and extraembryonic tissues is followed by X reactivation in the inner cell mass (ICM) …

An O-GlcNAc transferase pathogenic variant linked to intellectual disability affects pluripotent stem cell self-renewal

M Omelková, CD Fenger, M Murray… - Disease Models & …, 2023 - journals.biologists.com
ABSTRACT O-linked β-N-acetylglucosamine (O-GlcNAc) transferase (OGT) is an essential
enzyme that modifies proteins with O-GlcNAc. Inborn OGT genetic variants were recently …