The role of ubiquitination in tumorigenesis and targeted drug discovery

L Deng, T Meng, L Chen, W Wei, P Wang - Signal transduction and …, 2020 - nature.com
Ubiquitination, an important type of protein posttranslational modification (PTM), plays a
crucial role in controlling substrate degradation and subsequently mediates the “quantity” …

PROTAC: an effective targeted protein degradation strategy for cancer therapy

SM Qi, J Dong, ZY Xu, XD Cheng, WD Zhang… - Frontiers in …, 2021 - frontiersin.org
Proteolysis targeting chimeric (PROTAC) technology is an effective endogenous protein
degradation tool developed in recent years that can ubiquitinate the target proteins through …

MDM2 inhibitors for cancer therapy: the past, present, and future

W Wang, N Albadari, Y Du, JF Fowler, HT Sang… - Pharmacological …, 2024 - Elsevier
Since its discovery over 35 years ago, MDM2 has emerged as an attractive target for the
development of cancer therapy. MDM2's activities extend from carcinogenesis to immunity to …

Regulating tumor suppressor genes: post-translational modifications

L Chen, S Liu, Y Tao - Signal transduction and targeted therapy, 2020 - nature.com
Tumor suppressor genes cooperate with each other in tumors. Three important tumor
suppressor proteins, retinoblastoma (Rb), p53, phosphatase, and tensin homolog deleted …

Medicinal chemistry strategies to discover P-glycoprotein inhibitors: An update

J Dong, Z Qin, WD Zhang, G Cheng, AG Yehuda… - Drug Resistance …, 2020 - Elsevier
The presence of multidrug resistance (MDR) in malignant tumors is one of the primary
causes of treatment failure in cancer chemotherapy. The overexpression of the ATP binding …

Propofol protects myocardium from ischemia/reperfusion injury by inhibiting ferroptosis through the AKT/p53 signaling pathway

S Li, Z Lei, X Yang, M Zhao, Y Hou, D Wang… - Frontiers in …, 2022 - frontiersin.org
The molecular mechanism underlying the protective role of propofol against myocardial
ischemia/reperfusion (I/R) injury remains poorly understood. Previous studies have shown …

MDM2 amplified sarcomas: a literature review

R Sciot - Diagnostics, 2021 - mdpi.com
Murine Double Minute Clone 2, located at 12q15, is an oncogene that codes for an
oncoprotein of which the association with p53 was discovered 30 years ago. The most …

Targeting USP7-mediated deubiquitination of MDM2/MDMX-p53 pathway for cancer therapy: are we there yet?

SM Qi, G Cheng, XD Cheng, Z Xu, B Xu… - Frontiers in cell and …, 2020 - frontiersin.org
The p53 tumor suppressor protein and its major negative regulators MDM2 and MDMX
oncoproteins form the MDM2/MDMX-p53 circuitry, which plays critical roles in regulating …

Emerging therapeutic approaches to target the dark side of senescent cells: new hopes to treat aging as a disease and to delay age-related pathologies

R Khalil, M Diab-Assaf, JM Lemaitre - Cells, 2023 - mdpi.com
Life expectancy has drastically increased over the last few decades worldwide, with
important social and medical burdens and costs. To stay healthy longer and to avoid chronic …

Ferroptosis—a new dawn in the treatment of organ ischemia–reperfusion injury

L Zhou, S Han, J Guo, T Qiu, J Zhou, L Shen - Cells, 2022 - mdpi.com
Ischemia–reperfusion (I/R) is a common pathological phenomenon that occurs in numerous
organs and diseases. It generally results from secondary damage caused by the recovery of …