Protein prenylation: unique fats make their mark on biology

M Wang, PJ Casey - Nature reviews Molecular cell biology, 2016 - nature.com
The modification of eukaryotic proteins by isoprenoid lipids, which is known as prenylation,
controls the localization and activity of a range of proteins that have crucial functions in …

Cholesterol metabolism: a new molecular switch to control inflammation

D Cardoso, E Perucha - Clinical Science, 2021 - portlandpress.com
The immune system protects the body against harm by inducing inflammation. During the
immune response, cells of the immune system get activated, divided and differentiated in …

Lipid signalling enforces functional specialization of Treg cells in tumours

SA Lim, J Wei, TLM Nguyen, H Shi, W Su, G Palacios… - Nature, 2021 - nature.com
Regulatory T cells (Treg cells) are essential for immune tolerance, but also drive
immunosuppression in the tumour microenvironment. Therapeutic targeting of Treg cells in …

Targeting the mevalonate pathway in cancer

D Juarez, DA Fruman - Trends in cancer, 2021 - cell.com
The mevalonate synthesis inhibitors, statins, are mainstay therapeutics for cholesterol
management and cardiovascular health. Thirty years of research have uncovered supportive …

Control of the innate immune response by the mevalonate pathway

MK Akula, M Shi, Z Jiang, CE Foster, D Miao, AS Li… - Nature …, 2016 - nature.com
Deficiency in mevalonate kinase (MVK) causes systemic inflammation. However, the
molecular mechanisms linking the mevalonate pathway to inflammation remain obscure …

Rho-kinase: regulation,(dys) function, and inhibition

E Amin, BN Dubey, SC Zhang, L Gremer… - Biological …, 2013 - degruyter.com
In a variety of normal and pathological cell types, Rho-kinases I and II (ROCKI/II) play a
pivotal role in the organization of the nonmuscle and smooth muscle cytoskeleton and …

[HTML][HTML] Regulation of protein prenylation

D Jung, HS Bachmann - Biomedicine & Pharmacotherapy, 2023 - Elsevier
Prenyltransferases (PTases) are known to play a role in embryonic development, normal
tissue homeostasis and cancer by posttranslationally modifying proteins involved in these …

Rac2 modulates atherosclerotic calcification by regulating macrophage interleukin-1β production

N Ceneri, L Zhao, BD Young, A Healy… - … , and vascular biology, 2017 - ahajournals.org
Objective—The calcium composition of atherosclerotic plaque is thought to be associated
with increased risk for cardiovascular events, but whether plaque calcium itself is predictive …

Glucose-oxygen deprivation constrains HMGCR function and Rac1 prenylation and activates the NLRP3 inflammasome in human monocytes

N Raulien, K Friedrich, S Strobel, S Raps, F Hecker… - Science …, 2024 - science.org
Hypoxia and low glucose abundance often occur simultaneously at sites of inflammation. In
monocytes and macrophages, glucose-oxygen deprivation stimulates the assembly of the …

Cholesterol metabolism drives regulatory B cell IL-10 through provision of geranylgeranyl pyrophosphate

JA Bibby, HA Purvis, T Hayday, A Chandra… - Nature …, 2020 - nature.com
Regulatory B cells restrict immune and inflammatory responses across a number of contexts.
This capacity is mediated primarily through the production of IL-10. Here we demonstrate …