Protein lipidation: occurrence, mechanisms, biological functions, and enabling technologies

H Jiang, X Zhang, X Chen, P Aramsangtienchai… - Chemical …, 2018 - ACS Publications
Protein lipidation, including cysteine prenylation, N-terminal glycine myristoylation, cysteine
palmitoylation, and serine and lysine fatty acylation, occurs in many proteins in eukaryotic …

A not-so-ancient grease history: click chemistry and protein lipid modifications

KF Suazo, KY Park, MD Distefano - Chemical reviews, 2021 - ACS Publications
Protein lipid modification involves the attachment of hydrophobic groups to proteins via
ester, thioester, amide, or thioether linkages. In this review, the specific click chemical …

Myristoylation, an ancient protein modification mirroring eukaryogenesis and evolution

T Meinnel, C Dian, C Giglione - Trends in Biochemical Sciences, 2020 - cell.com
N-myristoylation (MYR) is a crucial fatty acylation catalyzed by N-myristoyltransferases
(NMTs) that is likely to have appeared over 2 billion years ago. Proteome-wide approaches …

The current drug discovery landscape for trypanosomiasis and leishmaniasis: Challenges and strategies to identify drug targets

F Altamura, R Rajesh, CMC Catta‐Preta… - Drug development …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Human trypanosomiasis and leishmaniasis are vector‐borne neglected tropical diseases
caused by infection with the protozoan parasites Trypanosoma spp. and Leishmania spp …

Dual chemical probes enable quantitative system-wide analysis of protein prenylation and prenylation dynamics

EM Storck, J Morales-Sanfrutos, RA Serwa… - Nature Chemistry, 2019 - nature.com
Post-translational farnesylation or geranylgeranylation at a C-terminal cysteine residue
regulates the localization and function of over 100 proteins, including the Ras isoforms, and …

Dynamic protein acylation: new substrates, mechanisms, and drug targets

T Lanyon-Hogg, M Faronato, RA Serwa… - Trends in biochemical …, 2017 - cell.com
Post-translational attachment of lipids to proteins is found in all organisms, and is important
for many biological processes. Acylation with myristic and palmitic acids are among the most …

Protein palmitoylation and its role in bacterial and viral infections

J Sobocińska, P Roszczenko-Jasińska… - Frontiers in …, 2018 - frontiersin.org
S-palmitoylation is a reversible, enzymatic posttranslational modification of proteins in which
palmitoyl chain is attached to a cysteine residue via a thioester linkage. S-palmitoylation …

Proteome-wide analysis of protein lipidation using chemical probes: in-gel fluorescence visualization, identification and quantification of N-myristoylation, N- and S-acylation, O …

WW Kallemeijn, T Lanyon-Hogg, N Panyain… - Nature …, 2021 - nature.com
Protein lipidation is one of the most widespread post-translational modifications (PTMs)
found in nature, regulating protein function, structure and subcellular localization. Lipid …

Pharmacological Validation of N-Myristoyltransferase as a Drug Target in Leishmania donovani

V Corpas-Lopez, S Moniz, M Thomas… - ACS infectious …, 2018 - ACS Publications
Visceral leishmaniasis (VL), caused by the protozoan parasites Leishmania donovani and L.
infantum, is responsible for∼ 30 000 deaths annually. Available treatments are inadequate …

Exploring N-myristoyltransferase as a promising drug target against parasitic neglected tropical diseases

IJ dos Santos Nascimento, MAT Cavalcanti… - European Journal of …, 2023 - Elsevier
Neglected tropical diseases (NTDs) constitute a group of approximately 20 infectious
diseases that mainly affect the impoverished population without basic sanitation in tropical …