The emerging role of mass spectrometry-based proteomics in drug discovery

F Meissner, J Geddes-McAlister, M Mann… - Nature Reviews Drug …, 2022 - nature.com
Proteins are the main targets of most drugs; however, system-wide methods to monitor
protein activity and function are still underused in drug discovery. Novel biochemical …

Insights in post-translational modifications: ubiquitin and SUMO

D Salas-Lloret, R González-Prieto - International Journal of Molecular …, 2022 - mdpi.com
Both ubiquitination and SUMOylation are dynamic post-translational modifications that
regulate thousands of target proteins to control virtually every cellular process …

Ubiquitin ligase E3 HUWE1/MULE targets transferrin receptor for degradation and suppresses ferroptosis in acute liver injury

Y Wu, H Jiao, Y Yue, K He, Y Jin, J Zhang… - Cell Death & …, 2022 - nature.com
Hepatic ischemia followed by reperfusion (I/R), a major clinical problem during liver surgical
procedures, can induce liver injury with severe cell death including ferroptosis which is …

Ubiquitin linkage-specific affimers reveal insights into K6-linked ubiquitin signaling

MA Michel, KN Swatek, MK Hospenthal, D Komander - Molecular cell, 2017 - cell.com
Several ubiquitin chain types have remained unstudied, mainly because tools and
techniques to detect these posttranslational modifications are scarce. Linkage-specific …

A conserved quality-control pathway that mediates degradation of unassembled ribosomal proteins

MK Sung, TR Porras-Yakushi, JM Reitsma, FM Huber… - Elife, 2016 - elifesciences.org
Overproduced yeast ribosomal protein (RP) Rpl26 fails to assemble into ribosomes and is
degraded in the nucleus/nucleolus by a ubiquitin-proteasome system quality control …

Systematic approaches to identify E3 ligase substrates

M Iconomou, DN Saunders - Biochemical Journal, 2016 - portlandpress.com
Protein ubiquitylation is a widespread post-translational modification, regulating cellular
signalling with many outcomes, such as protein degradation, endocytosis, cell cycle …

Ornithine aminotransferase, an important glutamate-metabolizing enzyme at the crossroads of multiple metabolic pathways

A Ginguay, L Cynober, E Curis, I Nicolis - Biology, 2017 - mdpi.com
Ornithine δ-aminotransferase (OAT, EC 2.6. 1.13) catalyzes the transfer of the δ-amino
group from ornithine (Orn) to α-ketoglutarate (aKG), yielding glutamate-5-semialdehyde and …

Quantifying ubiquitin signaling

A Ordureau, C Münch, JW Harper - Molecular cell, 2015 - cell.com
Ubiquitin (UB)-driven signaling systems permeate biology, and are often integrated with
other types of post-translational modifications (PTMs), including phosphorylation. Flux …

mTORC1-regulated and HUWE1-mediated WIPI2 degradation controls autophagy flux

W Wan, Z You, L Zhou, Y Xu, C Peng, T Zhou, C Yi… - Molecular cell, 2018 - cell.com
Summary mTORC1, the major homeostatic sensor and responder, regulates cell catabolism
mainly by targeting autophagy. Here, we show that mTORC1 directly controls …

DDIT4 licenses only healthy cells to proliferate during injury-induced metaplasia

ZF Miao, JX Sun, M Adkins-Threats, MJ Pang, JH Zhao… - Gastroenterology, 2021 - Elsevier
Background and Aims In stomach, metaplasia can arise from differentiated chief cells that
become mitotic via paligenosis, a stepwise program. In paligenosis, mitosis initiation …