UFMylation: a ubiquitin-like modification

X Zhou, SJ Mahdizadeh, M Le Gallo… - Trends in Biochemical …, 2024 - cell.com
Post-translational modifications (PTMs) add a major degree of complexity to the proteome
and are essential controllers of protein homeostasis. Amongst the hundreds of PTMs …

The UFM1 system: Working principles, cellular functions, and pathophysiology

M Komatsu, T Inada, NN Noda - Molecular Cell, 2024 - cell.com
Summary Ubiquitin-fold modifier 1 (UFM1) is a ubiquitin-like protein covalently conjugated
with intracellular proteins through UFMylation, a process similar to ubiquitylation. Growing …

Mechanistic insights into the roles of the UFM1 E3 ligase complex in ufmylation and ribosome-associated protein quality control

R Ishimura, S Ito, G Mao, S Komatsu-Hirota, T Inada… - Science …, 2023 - science.org
Ubiquitin-fold modifier 1 (UFM1) is a ubiquitin-like protein covalently conjugated with
intracellular proteins through ufmylation, similar to ubiquitylation. Ufmylation is involved in …

Shuffled ATG8 interacting motifs form an ancestral bridge between UFMylation and autophagy

L Picchianti, V Sánchez de Medina Hernández… - The EMBO …, 2023 - embopress.org
UFMylation involves the covalent modification of substrate proteins with UFM1 (Ubiquitin‐
fold modifier 1) and is important for maintaining ER homeostasis. Stalled translation triggers …

A non‐canonical scaffold‐type E3 ligase complex mediates protein UFMylation

JJ Peter, HM Magnussen, PA DaRosa, D Millrine… - The EMBO …, 2022 - embopress.org
Protein UFMylation, ie, post‐translational modification with ubiquitin‐fold modifier 1 (UFM1),
is essential for cellular and endoplasmic reticulum homeostasis. Despite its biological …

Human UFSP1 is an active protease that regulates UFM1 maturation and UFMylation

D Millrine, T Cummings, SP Matthews, JJ Peter… - Cell Reports, 2022 - cell.com
An essential first step in the post-translational modification of proteins with UFM1,
UFMylation, is the proteolytic cleavage of pro-UFM1 to expose a C-terminal glycine. Of the …

A guide to UFMylation, an emerging posttranslational modification

D Millrine, JJ Peter, Y Kulathu - The FEBS Journal, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Ubiquitin Fold Modifier‐1 (UFM1) is a ubiquitin‐like modifier (UBL) that is posttranslationally
attached to lysine residues on substrates via a dedicated system of enzymes conserved in …

Allelic strengths of encephalopathy-associated UBA5 variants correlate between in vivo and in vitro assays

X Pan, AN Alvarez, M Ma, S Lu, MW Crawford… - Elife, 2023 - elifesciences.org
Protein UFMylation downstream of the E1 enzyme UBA5 plays essential roles in
development and endoplasmic reticulum stress. Variants in the UBA5 gene are associated …

Matching protein surface structural patches for high-resolution blind peptide docking

A Khramushin, Z Ben-Aharon… - Proceedings of the …, 2022 - National Acad Sciences
Peptide docking can be perceived as a subproblem of protein–protein docking. However,
due to the short length and flexible nature of peptides, many do not adopt one defined …

Structural study of UFL1‐UFC1 interaction uncovers the role of UFL1 N‐terminal helix in ufmylation

S Banerjee, JK Varga, M Kumar, G Zoltsman… - EMBO …, 2023 - embopress.org
Ufmylation plays a crucial role in various cellular processes including DNA damage
response, protein translation, and ER homeostasis. To date, little is known about how the …