Breaking the chains: deubiquitylating enzyme specificity begets function

MJ Clague, S Urbé, D Komander - Nature reviews Molecular cell …, 2019 - nature.com
The deubiquitylating enzymes (DUBs, also known as deubiquitylases or deubiquitinases)
maintain the dynamic state of the cellular ubiquitome by releasing conjugated ubiquitin from …

Advances in discovering deubiquitinating enzyme (DUB) inhibitors

NJ Schauer, RS Magin, X Liu, LM Doherty… - Journal of medicinal …, 2019 - ACS Publications
Deubiquitinating enzymes, or DUBs, comprise a family of proteases that regulate
ubiquitination dynamics. Since their discovery, genetic and functional studies have …

Targeting the ubiquitin-proteasome system for cancer therapeutics by small-molecule inhibitors

G LaPlante, W Zhang - Cancers, 2021 - mdpi.com
Simple Summary The ubiquitin-proteasome system regulates multiple facets of protein
homeostasis to modulate signal transduction in numerous biological processes. Not …

Proteasome inhibitors: harnessing proteostasis to combat disease

DJ Sherman, J Li - Molecules, 2020 - mdpi.com
The proteasome is the central component of the main cellular protein degradation pathway.
During the past four decades, the critical function of the proteasome in numerous …

[HTML][HTML] Blockade of deubiquitinating enzyme PSMD14 overcomes chemoresistance in head and neck squamous cell carcinoma by antagonizing E2F1/Akt/SOX2 …

C Jing, Y Duan, M Zhou, K Yue, S Zhuo, X Li, D Liu… - Theranostics, 2021 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Increasing evidence reveals a close relationship between deubiquitinating enzymes (DUBs)
and cancer progression. In this study, we attempted to identify the roles and mechanisms of …

Proteasome interaction with ubiquitinated substrates: from mechanisms to therapies

X Chen, ZM Htet, E López‐Alfonzo, A Martin… - The FEBS …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
The 26S proteasome is responsible for regulated proteolysis in eukaryotic cells. Its
substrates are diverse in structure, function, sequence length, and amino acid composition …

[HTML][HTML] The PSMD14 inhibitor Thiolutin as a novel therapeutic approach for esophageal squamous cell carcinoma through facilitating SNAIL degradation

C Jing, X Li, M Zhou, S Zhang, Q Lai, D Liu, B Ye… - Theranostics, 2021 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Metastasis and chemoresistance are major causes of poor prognosis in patients with
esophageal squamous cell carcinoma (ESCC), manipulated by multiple factors including …

Machine learning-enabled pipeline for large-scale virtual drug screening

A Gupta, HX Zhou - Journal of chemical information and modeling, 2021 - ACS Publications
Virtual screening is receiving renewed attention in drug discovery, but progress is hampered
by challenges on two fronts: handling the ever-increasing sizes of libraries of drug-like …

Epipolythiodioxopiperazine‐Based Natural Products: Building Blocks, Biosynthesis and Biological Activities

EM Huber - ChemBioChem, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Epipolythiodioxopiperazines (ETPs) are fungal secondary metabolites that share a 2, 5‐
diketopiperazine scaffold built from two amino acids and bridged by a sulfide moiety …

[HTML][HTML] Upregulation of deubiquitinase PSMD14 in lung adenocarcinoma (LUAD) and its prognostic significance

L Zhang, H Xu, C Ma, J Zhang, Y Zhao, X Yang… - Journal of …, 2020 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
PSMD14 is a 19S-proteasome-associated deubiquitinating enzyme that facilitates protein
degradation by the 20S proteasome core particle. Although accumulating evidence …