Protein posttranslational modifications in health and diseases: Functions, regulatory mechanisms, and therapeutic implications

Q Zhong, X **ao, Y Qiu, Z Xu, C Chen, B Chong… - MedComm, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Protein posttranslational modifications (PTMs) refer to the breaking or generation of covalent
bonds on the backbones or amino acid side chains of proteins and expand the diversity of …

Histone modifications and cancer

JE Audia, RM Campbell - Cold Spring Harbor …, 2016 - cshperspectives.cshlp.org
Histone posttranslational modifications represent a versatile set of epigenetic marks
involved not only in dynamic cellular processes, such as transcription and DNA repair, but …

Fusobacterium nucleatum-triggered neutrophil extracellular traps facilitate colorectal carcinoma progression

X Kong, Y Zhang, L **ang, Y You, Y Duan… - Journal of Experimental …, 2023 - Springer
Abstract Background Fusobacterium nucleatum (Fn) acts as a procarcinogenic bacterium in
colorectal carcinoma (CRC) by regulating the inflammatory tumor microenvironment (TME) …

Histone citrullination: a new target for tumors

D Zhu, Y Zhang, S Wang - Molecular Cancer, 2021 - Springer
As the main protein components of chromatin, histones play central roles in gene regulation
as spools of winding DNA. Histones are subject to various modifications, including …

Quantitative proteomic analysis of histone modifications

H Huang, S Lin, BA Garcia, Y Zhao - Chemical reviews, 2015 - ACS Publications
Several mechanisms have been proposed for histone marks to exert their functions,
including altering the physical properties of nucleosomes by neutralization of charge via …

Citrullination regulates pluripotency and histone H1 binding to chromatin

MA Christophorou, G Castelo-Branco, RP Halley-Stott… - Nature, 2014 - nature.com
Citrullination is the post-translational conversion of an arginine residue within a protein to
the non-coded amino acid citrulline. This modification leads to the loss of a positive charge …

[HTML][HTML] Chemical biology of protein arginine modifications in epigenetic regulation

J Fuhrmann, KW Clancy, PR Thompson - Chemical reviews, 2015 - ACS Publications
Post-translational modifications (PTMs) of histone proteins are a hallmark of epigenetic
regulation. They provide a mechanism to modulate chromatin structure and constitute the …

PAD enzymes in rheumatoid arthritis: pathogenic effectors and autoimmune targets

AM Curran, P Naik, JT Giles, E Darrah - Nature Reviews Rheumatology, 2020 - nature.com
Peptidylarginine deiminases (PADs) have an important role in the pathogenesis of
rheumatoid arthritis (RA) owing to their ability to generate citrullinated proteins—the …

Protein arginine deiminases and associated citrullination: physiological functions and diseases associated with dysregulation

EE Witalison, PR Thompson… - Current drug targets, 2015 - ingentaconnect.com
Human proteins are subjected to more than 200 known post-translational modifications
(PTMs)(eg, phosphorylation, glycosylation, ubiquitination, S-nitrosylation, methylation …

Activation of PAD4 in NET formation

AS Rohrbach, DJ Slade, PR Thompson… - Frontiers in …, 2012 - frontiersin.org
Peptidylarginine deiminases, or PADs, convert arginine residues to the non-ribosomally
encoded amino acid citrulline in a variety of protein substrates. PAD4 is expressed in …