The role of ubiquitination in tumorigenesis and targeted drug discovery

L Deng, T Meng, L Chen, W Wei, P Wang - Signal transduction and …, 2020 - nature.com
Ubiquitination, an important type of protein posttranslational modification (PTM), plays a
crucial role in controlling substrate degradation and subsequently mediates the “quantity” …

Non-lysine ubiquitylation: Doing things differently

IR Kelsall - Frontiers in Molecular Biosciences, 2022 - frontiersin.org
The post-translational modification of proteins with ubiquitin plays a central role in nearly all
aspects of eukaryotic biology. Historically, studies have focused on the conjugation of …

The protein complex crystallography beamline (BL19U1) at the Shanghai Synchrotron Radiation Facility

WZ Zhang, JC Tang, SS Wang, ZJ Wang… - Nuclear Science and …, 2019 - Springer
The protein complex crystallographic beamline BL19U1 at the Shanghai Synchrotron
Radiation Facility is one of the five beamlines dedicated to protein sciences operated by …

Bacterial pseudokinase catalyzes protein polyglutamylation to inhibit the SidE-family ubiquitin ligases

MH Black, A Osinski, M Gradowski, KA Servage… - Science, 2019 - science.org
Enzymes with a protein kinase fold transfer phosphate from adenosine 5′-triphosphate
(ATP) to substrates in a process known as phosphorylation. Here, we show that the …

Amoebae as training grounds for microbial pathogens

CTD Price, HE Hanford, T Al-Quadan, M Santic… - MBio, 2024 - journals.asm.org
Grazing of amoebae on microorganisms represents one of the oldest predator-prey dynamic
relationships in nature. It represents a genetic “melting pot” for an ancient and continuous …

The Sde phosphoribosyl–linked ubiquitin transferases protect the Legionella pneumophila vacuole from degradation by the host

S Kim, RR Isberg - Proceedings of the National Academy of …, 2023 - National Acad Sciences
Legionella pneumophila grows intracellularly within the membrane-bound Legionella-
containing vacuole (LCV) established by proteins translocated via the bacterial type IV …

Regulation of phosphoribosyl-linked serine ubiquitination by deubiquitinases DupA and DupB

D Shin, R Mukherjee, Y Liu, A Gonzalez, F Bonn, Y Liu… - Molecular cell, 2020 - cell.com
The family of bacterial SidE enzymes catalyzes non-canonical phosphoribosyl-linked (PR)
serine ubiquitination and promotes infectivity of Legionella pneumophila. Here, we describe …

Ubiquitin‐targeted bacterial effectors: rule breakers of the ubiquitin system

CG Roberts, TG Franklin, JN Pruneda - The EMBO Journal, 2023 - embopress.org
Regulation through post‐translational ubiquitin signaling underlies a large portion of
eukaryotic biology. This has not gone unnoticed by invading pathogens, many of which have …

Protein polyglutamylation catalyzed by the bacterial calmodulin-dependent pseudokinase SidJ

A Sulpizio, ME Minelli, M Wan, PD Burrowes, X Wu… - Elife, 2019 - elifesciences.org
Pseudokinases are considered to be the inactive counterparts of conventional protein
kinases and comprise approximately 10% of the human and mouse kinomes. Here, we …

Deubiquitination of phosphoribosyl-ubiquitin conjugates by phosphodiesterase-domain–containing Legionella effectors

M Wan, AG Sulpizio, A Akturk… - Proceedings of the …, 2019 - National Acad Sciences
Posttranslational protein modification by ubiquitin (Ub) is a central eukaryotic mechanism
that regulates a plethora of physiological processes. Recent studies unveiled an …