Pathways of cellular proteostasis in aging and disease

CL Klaips, GG Jayaraj, FU Hartl - Journal of Cell Biology, 2018 - rupress.org
Ensuring cellular protein homeostasis, or proteostasis, requires precise control of protein
synthesis, folding, conformational maintenance, and degradation. A complex and adaptive …

Antinuclear antibodies in systemic sclerosis: an update

A Stochmal, J Czuwara, M Trojanowska… - Clinical reviews in allergy …, 2020 - Springer
Systemic sclerosis is an autoimmune disease characterized by fibrosis of skin and internal
organs, vasculopathy, and dysregulation of immune system. A diagnostically important …

Protein disaggregation in multicellular organisms

NB Nillegoda, AS Wentink, B Bukau - Trends in biochemical sciences, 2018 - cell.com
Protein aggregates are formed in cells with profoundly perturbed proteostasis, where the
generation of misfolded proteins exceeds the cellular refolding and degradative capacity …

The transcriptional coactivator RUVBL2 regulates Pol II clustering with diverse transcription factors

H Wang, B Li, L Zuo, B Wang, Y Yan, K Tian… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
Abstract RNA polymerase II (Pol II) apparatuses are compartmentalized into transcriptional
clusters. Whether protein factors control these clusters remains unknown. In this study, we …

The role of pontin and reptin in cellular physiology and cancer etiology

YQ Mao, WA Houry - Frontiers in molecular biosciences, 2017 - frontiersin.org
Pontin (RUVBL1, TIP49, TIP49a, Rvb1) and Reptin (RUVBL2, TIP48, TIP49b, Rvb2) are
highly conserved ATPases of the AAA+ (ATPases Associated with various cellular Activities) …

A first order phase transition mechanism underlies protein aggregation in mammalian cells

A Narayanan, A Meriin, JO Andrews, JH Spille… - Elife, 2019 - elifesciences.org
The formation of misfolded protein aggregates is a hallmark of neurodegenerative diseases.
The aggregate formation process exhibits an initial lag phase when precursor clusters …

Protein aggregation and disaggregation in cells and development

JS Fassler, S Skuodas, DL Weeks… - Journal of molecular …, 2021 - Elsevier
Protein aggregation is a feature of numerous neurodegenerative diseases. However,
regulated, often reversible, formation of protein aggregates, also known as condensates …

Biomolecular assemblies: moving from observation to predictive design

CJ Wilson, AS Bommarius, JA Champion… - Chemical …, 2018 - ACS Publications
Biomolecular assembly is a key driving force in nearly all life processes, providing structure,
information storage, and communication within cells and at the whole organism level. These …

RUVBL1/RUVBL2 ATPase activity drives PAQosome maturation, DNA replication and radioresistance in lung cancer

P Yenerall, AK Das, S Wang, RK Kollipara, LS Li… - Cell chemical …, 2020 - cell.com
Summary RUVBL1 and RUVBL2 (collectively RUVBL1/2) are essential AAA+ ATPases that
function as co-chaperones and have been implicated in cancer. Here we investigated the …

Prions, chaperones, and proteostasis in yeast

TA Chernova, KD Wilkinson… - Cold Spring Harbor …, 2017 - cshperspectives.cshlp.org
Prions are alternatively folded, self-perpetuating protein isoforms involved in a variety of
biological and pathological processes. Yeast prions are protein-based heritable elements …