Ubiquitin–proteasome system (UPS) as a target for anticancer treatment

J Park, J Cho, EJ Song - Archives of pharmacal research, 2020 - Springer
The ubiquitin–proteasome system (UPS) plays an important role in the cellular processes for
protein quality control and homeostasis. Dysregulation of the UPS has been implicated in …

Functions and mechanisms of non-histone protein acetylation

T Narita, BT Weinert, C Choudhary - Nature reviews Molecular cell …, 2019 - nature.com
N ε-lysine acetylation was discovered more than half a century ago as a post-translational
modification of histones and has been extensively studied in the context of transcription …

Molecular basis of USP7 inhibition by selective small-molecule inhibitors

AP Turnbull, S Ioannidis, WW Krajewski… - Nature, 2017 - nature.com
Ubiquitination controls the stability of most cellular proteins, and its deregulation contributes
to human diseases including cancer. Deubiquitinases remove ubiquitin from proteins, and …

DNA methylation: roles in mammalian development

ZD Smith, A Meissner - Nature Reviews Genetics, 2013 - nature.com
DNA methylation is among the best studied epigenetic modifications and is essential to
mammalian development. Although the methylation status of most CpG dinucleotides in the …

Epigenetic inheritance and the missing heritability

M Trerotola, V Relli, P Simeone, S Alberti - Human genomics, 2015 - Springer
Genome-wide association studies of complex physiological traits and diseases consistently
found that associated genetic factors, such as allelic polymorphisms or DNA mutations, only …

Oncogenic PIK3CA mutations reprogram glutamine metabolism in colorectal cancer

Y Hao, Y Samuels, Q Li, D Krokowski, BJ Guan… - Nature …, 2016 - nature.com
Cancer cells often require glutamine for growth, thereby distinguishing them from most
normal cells. Here we show that PIK3CA mutations reprogram glutamine metabolism by …

Staying true to yourself: mechanisms of DNA methylation maintenance in mammals

N Petryk, S Bultmann, T Bartke… - Nucleic acids …, 2021 - academic.oup.com
DNA methylation is essential to development and cellular physiology in mammals. Faulty
DNA methylation is frequently observed in human diseases like cancer and neurological …

Analysis of human acetylation stoichiometry defines mechanistic constraints on protein regulation

BK Hansen, R Gupta, L Baldus, D Lyon, T Narita… - Nature …, 2019 - nature.com
Lysine acetylation is a reversible posttranslational modification that occurs at thousands of
sites on human proteins. However, the stoichiometry of acetylation remains poorly …

DNA methylation requires a DNMT1 ubiquitin interacting motif (UIM) and histone ubiquitination

W Qin, P Wolf, N Liu, S Link, M Smets, FL Mastra… - Cell research, 2015 - nature.com
DNMT1 is recruited by PCNA and UHRF1 to maintain DNA methylation after replication.
UHRF1 recognizes hemimethylated DNA substrates via the SRA domain, but also …

Allosteric control of mammalian DNA methyltransferases–a new regulatory paradigm

A Jeltsch, RZ Jurkowska - Nucleic acids research, 2016 - academic.oup.com
In mammals, DNA methylation is introduced by the DNMT1, DNMT3A and DNMT3B
methyltransferases, which are all large multi-domain proteins containing a catalytic C …