Deubiquitinating enzymes in cellular signaling and disease regulation

P Hanpude, S Bhattacharya, AK Dey, TK Maiti - IUBMB life, 2015 - Wiley Online Library
Protein post‐translational modification by ubiquitin represents a complex signaling system
that regulates many cellular events including proteostasis to intercellular communications …

The function and regulation of OTU deubiquitinases

J Du, L Fu, Y Sui, L Zhang - Frontiers of Medicine, 2020 - Springer
Post-translational modification of cellular proteins by ubiquitin regulates numerous cellular
processes, including cell division, immune responses, and apoptosis. Ubiquitin-mediated …

Application of next generation sequencing (NGS) in phage displayed peptide selection to support the identification of arsenic-binding motifs

R Braun, N Schönberger, S Vinke, F Lederer… - Viruses, 2020 - mdpi.com
Next generation sequencing (NGS) in combination with phage surface display (PSD) are
powerful tools in the newly equipped molecular biology toolbox for the identification of …

The unity of opposites: Strategic interplay between bacterial effectors to regulate cellular homeostasis

S Iyer, C Das - Journal of Biological Chemistry, 2021 - ASBMB
Legionella pneumophila is a facultative intracellular pathogen that uses the Dot/Icm Type IV
secretion system (T4SS) to translocate many effectors into its host and establish a safe …

Familial mutations and post-translational modifications of UCH-L1 in Parkinson's disease and neurodegenerative disorders

YT C. Lee, ST D. Hsu - Current Protein and Peptide Science, 2017 - benthamdirect.com
Parkinson's disease (PD) is one of the most common progressive neurodegenerative
disorders in modern society. The disease involves many genetic risk factors as well as a …

K27-linked diubiquitin inhibits UCHL3 via an unusual kinetic trap

GBA van Tilburg, AG Murachelli, A Fish, H Ovaa… - Cell Chemical …, 2021 - cell.com
Functional analysis of lysine 27-linked ubiquitin chains (K27 Ub) is difficult due to the
inability to make them through enzymatic methods and due to a lack of model tools and …

The Two Deubiquitinating Enzymes from Chlamydia trachomatis Have Distinct Ubiquitin Recognition Properties

JM Hausman, S Kenny, S Iyer, A Babar, J Qiu, J Fu… - Biochemistry, 2020 - ACS Publications
Chlamydia trachomatis is the cause of several diseases such as sexually transmitted
urogenital disease and ocular trachoma. The pathogen contains a small genome yet, upon …

Altered Protein Dynamics and a More Reactive Catalytic Cysteine in a Neurodegeneration-associated UCHL1 Mutant

S Kenny, CH Lai, TS Chiang, K Brown… - Journal of Molecular …, 2024 - Elsevier
A mutant of ubiquitin C-terminal hydrolase L1 (UCHL1) detected in early-onset
neurodegenerative patients, UCHL1 R178Q, showed higher catalytic activity than wild-type …

Entropic stabilization of a deubiquitinase provides conformational plasticity and slow unfolding kinetics beneficial for functioning on the proteasome

YTC Lee, CY Chang, SY Chen, YR Pan, MR Ho… - Scientific reports, 2017 - nature.com
Human ubiquitin C-terminal hydrolyase UCH-L5 is a topologically knotted deubiquitinase
that is activated upon binding to the proteasome subunit Rpn13. The length of its intrinsically …

ADAR promotes USP38 auto-deubiquitylation and stabilization in an RNA editing–independent manner in esophageal squamous cell carcinoma

Q Hu, Y Chen, Q Zhou, S Deng, W Hou, Y Yi, C Li… - Journal of Biological …, 2024 - jbc.org
Esophageal cancer is mainly divided into esophageal adenocarcinoma and esophageal
squamous cell carcinoma (ESCC). China is one of the high-incidence areas of esophageal …