Breaking the chains: deubiquitylating enzyme specificity begets function

MJ Clague, S Urbé, D Komander - Nature reviews Molecular cell …, 2019 - nature.com
The deubiquitylating enzymes (DUBs, also known as deubiquitylases or deubiquitinases)
maintain the dynamic state of the cellular ubiquitome by releasing conjugated ubiquitin from …

The antitumorigenic roles of BRCA1–BARD1 in DNA repair and replication

M Tarsounas, P Sung - Nature Reviews Molecular Cell Biology, 2020 - nature.com
The tumour suppressor breast cancer type 1 susceptibility protein (BRCA1) promotes DNA
double-strand break (DSB) repair by homologous recombination and protects DNA …

[HTML][HTML] Histone ubiquitination: an integrative signaling platform in genome stability

F Mattiroli, L Penengo - Trends in Genetics, 2021 - cell.com
Complex mechanisms are in place to maintain genome stability. Ubiquitination of chromatin
plays a central role in these mechanisms. The ever-growing complexity of the ubiquitin (Ub) …

Principles of ubiquitin-dependent signaling

E Oh, D Akopian, M Rape - Annual review of cell and …, 2018 - annualreviews.org
Ubiquitylation is an essential posttranslational modification that controls cell division,
differentiation, and survival in all eukaryotes. By combining multiple E3 ligases (writers) …

USP48 is upregulated by Mettl14 to attenuate hepatocellular carcinoma via regulating SIRT6 stabilization

L Du, Y Li, M Kang, M Feng, Y Ren, H Dai, Y Wang… - Cancer research, 2021 - AACR
Exploiting cancer metabolism for the clinical benefit of patients with hepatocellular
carcinoma (HCC) is a topic under active investigation. Ubiquitin-specific peptidase 48 …

BRCA1/BARD1 site-specific ubiquitylation of nucleosomal H2A is directed by BARD1

SR Witus, AL Burrell, DP Farrell, J Kang… - Nature structural & …, 2021 - nature.com
Mutations in the E3 ubiquitin ligase RING domains of BRCA1/BARD1 predispose carriers to
breast and ovarian cancers. We present the structure of the BRCA1/BARD1 RING …

Mechanisms of synthetic lethality between BRCA1/2 and 53BP1 deficiencies and DNA polymerase theta targeting

GE Ronson, K Starowicz, EJ Anthony… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
A synthetic lethal relationship exists between disruption of polymerase theta (Polθ), and loss
of either 53BP1 or homologous recombination (HR) proteins, including BRCA1; however …

USP48 stabilizes gasdermin E to promote pyroptosis in cancer

Y Ren, M Feng, X Hao, X Liu, J Li, P Li, J Gao, Q Qi… - Cancer research, 2023 - AACR
Pyroptosis is a type of programmed cell death characterized by the activation of
inflammatory caspases and the cleavage of gasdermin proteins. Pyroptosis can suppress …

The chromatin response to double-strand DNA breaks and their repair

R Aleksandrov, R Hristova, S Stoynov, A Gospodinov - Cells, 2020 - mdpi.com
Cellular DNA is constantly being damaged by numerous internal and external mutagenic
factors. Probably the most severe type of insults DNA could suffer are the double-strand …

[HTML][HTML] OTUB2 stabilizes U2AF2 to promote the Warburg effect and tumorigenesis via the AKT/mTOR signaling pathway in non-small cell lung cancer

J Li, D Cheng, M Zhu, H Yu, Z Pan, L Liu, Q Geng… - Theranostics, 2019 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Increasing evidence has confirmed that deubiquitinating enzymes play an important role in
lung cancer progression. In the current study, we investigated the expression profile of …