Deubiquitinases: From mechanisms to their inhibition by small molecules

SM Lange, LA Armstrong, Y Kulathu - Molecular cell, 2022 - cell.com
Deubiquitinases (DUBs) are specialized proteases that remove ubiquitin from substrates or
cleave within ubiquitin chains to regulate ubiquitylation and therefore play important roles in …

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 …

Structure and function of the 26S proteasome

JAM Bard, EA Goodall, ER Greene… - Annual review of …, 2018 - annualreviews.org
As the endpoint for the ubiquitin-proteasome system, the 26S proteasome is the principal
proteolytic machine responsible for regulated protein degradation in eukaryotic cells. The …

Deubiquitinating enzymes (DUBs): Regulation, homeostasis, and oxidative stress response

NA Snyder, GM Silva - Journal of Biological Chemistry, 2021 - ASBMB
Ubiquitin signaling is a conserved, widespread, and dynamic process in which protein
substrates are rapidly modified by ubiquitin to impact protein activity, localization, or stability …

Mechanisms of deubiquitinase specificity and regulation

TET Mevissen, D Komander - Annual review of biochemistry, 2017 - annualreviews.org
Protein ubiquitination is one of the most powerful posttranslational modifications of proteins,
as it regulates a plethora of cellular processes in distinct manners. Simple …

Gates, channels, and switches: elements of the proteasome machine

D Finley, X Chen, KJ Walters - Trends in biochemical sciences, 2016 - cell.com
The proteasome has emerged as an intricate machine that has dynamic mechanisms to
regulate the timing of its activity, its selection of substrates, and its processivity. The 19 …

Assembly and function of branched ubiquitin chains

SDD Kolla, M Ye, KG Mark, M Rapé - Trends in biochemical sciences, 2022 - cell.com
Post-translational modification with ubiquitin is required for cell division, differentiation, and
survival in all eukaryotes. As part of an intricate signaling code, ubiquitin is attached to its …

[HTML][HTML] Histone ubiquitination in the DNA damage response

M Uckelmann, TK Sixma - DNA repair, 2017 - Elsevier
DNA double strand breaks need to be repaired in an organized fashion to preserve genomic
integrity. In the organization of faithful repair, histone ubiquitination plays a crucial role …

Molecular architecture of polycomb repressive complexes

EC Chittock, S Latwiel, TCR Miller… - Biochemical Society …, 2017 - portlandpress.com
The polycomb group (PcG) proteins are a large and diverse family that epigenetically
repress the transcription of key developmental genes. They form three broad groups of …

Ubiquitin recognition by the proteasome

Y Saeki - The journal of biochemistry, 2017 - academic.oup.com
The 26S proteasome is a 2.5-MDa complex responsible for the selective, ATP-dependent
degradation of ubiquitylated proteins in eukaryotic cells. Substrates in hundreds cellular …