The UFMylation system in proteostasis and beyond

Y Gerakis, M Quintero, H Li, C Hetz - Trends in cell biology, 2019 - cell.com
Post-translational modifications are at the apex of cellular communication and eventually
regulate every aspect of life. The identification of new post-translational modifiers is opening …

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 …

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 …

A genome-wide ER-phagy screen highlights key roles of mitochondrial metabolism and ER-resident UFMylation

JR Liang, E Lingeman, T Luong, S Ahmed, M Muhar… - Cell, 2020 - cell.com
Selective autophagy of organelles is critical for cellular differentiation, homeostasis, and
organismal health. Autophagy of the ER (ER-phagy) is implicated in human neuropathy but …

UFMylation maintains tumour suppressor p53 stability by antagonizing its ubiquitination

J Liu, D Guan, M Dong, J Yang, H Wei, Q Liang… - Nature cell …, 2020 - nature.com
Abstract p53 is the most intensively studied tumour suppressor. The regulation of p53
homeostasis is essential for its tumour-suppressive function,. Although p53 is regulated by …

UFMylation of RPL26 links translocation-associated quality control to endoplasmic reticulum protein homeostasis

L Wang, Y Xu, H Rogers, L Saidi, CT Noguchi, H Li… - Cell research, 2020 - nature.com
Protein biogenesis at the endoplasmic reticulum (ER) in eukaryotic cells is monitored by a
protein quality control system named ER-associated protein degradation (ERAD). While …

Ribosomal protein RPL26 is the principal target of UFMylation

CP Walczak, DE Leto, L Zhang… - Proceedings of the …, 2019 - National Acad Sciences
Ubiquitin fold modifier 1 (UFM1) is a small, metazoan-specific, ubiquitin-like protein modifier
that is essential for embryonic development. Although loss-of-function mutations in UFM1 …

Data mining of human plasma proteins generates a multitude of highly predictive aging clocks that reflect different aspects of aging

B Lehallier, MN Shokhirev, T Wyss‐Coray… - Aging cell, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
We previously identified 529 proteins that had been reported by multiple different studies to
change their expression level with age in human plasma. In the present study, we measured …

Ufmylation reconciles salt stress-induced unfolded protein responses via ER-phagy in Arabidopsis

B Li, F Niu, Y Zeng, MK Tse, C Deng… - Proceedings of the …, 2023 - National Acad Sciences
In plants, the endomembrane system is tightly regulated in response to environmental
stresses for maintaining cellular homeostasis. Autophagosomes, the double membrane …

MRE11 UFMylation promotes ATM activation

Z Wang, Y Gong, B Peng, R Shi, D Fan… - Nucleic acids …, 2019 - academic.oup.com
A proper DNA damage response (DDR) is essential to maintain genome integrity and
prevent tumorigenesis. DNA double-strand breaks (DSBs) are the most toxic DNA lesion …