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” …

The role of ubiquitination and deubiquitination in cancer metabolism

T Sun, Z Liu, Q Yang - Molecular cancer, 2020 - Springer
Metabolic reprogramming, including enhanced biosynthesis of macromolecules, altered
energy metabolism, and maintenance of redox homeostasis, is considered a hallmark of …

Regulating tumor suppressor genes: post-translational modifications

L Chen, S Liu, Y Tao - Signal transduction and targeted therapy, 2020 - nature.com
Tumor suppressor genes cooperate with each other in tumors. Three important tumor
suppressor proteins, retinoblastoma (Rb), p53, phosphatase, and tensin homolog deleted …

The functions and regulation of the PTEN tumour suppressor: new modes and prospects

YR Lee, M Chen, PP Pandolfi - Nature reviews Molecular cell biology, 2018 - nature.com
PTEN is a potent tumour suppressor, and its loss of function is frequently observed in both
heritable and sporadic cancers. PTEN has phosphatase-dependent and phosphatase …

Mechanisms of PTEN loss in cancer: It's all about diversity

V Álvarez-Garcia, Y Tawil, HM Wise… - Seminars in cancer biology, 2019 - Elsevier
PTEN is a phosphatase which metabolises PIP 3, the lipid product of PI 3-Kinase, directly
opposing the activation of the oncogenic PI3K/AKT/mTOR signalling network. Accordingly …

Protein post-translational modifications in the regulation of cancer hallmarks

H Wang, L Yang, M Liu, J Luo - Cancer gene therapy, 2023 - nature.com
Posttranslational modifications (PTMs) of proteins, the major mechanism of protein function
regulation, play important roles in regulating a variety of cellular physiological and …

Microenvironment-induced PTEN loss by exosomal microRNA primes brain metastasis outgrowth

L Zhang, S Zhang, J Yao, FJ Lowery, Q Zhang… - Nature, 2015 - nature.com
The development of life-threatening cancer metastases at distant organs requires
disseminated tumour cells' adaptation to, and co-evolution with, the drastically different …

lncRNA BREA2 promotes metastasis by disrupting the WWP2-mediated ubiquitination of Notch1

Z Zhang, Y Lu, F Liu, L Sang, C Shi, S **e… - Proceedings of the …, 2023 - pnas.org
Notch has been implicated in human cancers and is a putative therapeutic target. However,
the regulation of Notch activation in the nucleus remains largely uncharacterized. Therefore …

Specific regulation of BACH1 by the hotspot mutant p53R175H reveals a distinct gain-of-function mechanism

Z Su, N Kon, J Yi, H Zhao, W Zhang, Q Tang, H Li… - Nature cancer, 2023 - nature.com
Although the gain of function (GOF) of p53 mutants is well recognized, it remains unclear
whether different p53 mutants share the same cofactors to induce GOFs. In a proteomic …

Reactivation of PTEN tumor suppressor for cancer treatment through inhibition of a MYC-WWP1 inhibitory pathway

YR Lee, M Chen, JD Lee, J Zhang, SY Lin, TM Fu… - Science, 2019 - science.org
INTRODUCTION Inhibition of oncogenic proteins represents a mainstay approach for cancer
therapeutic development. By contrast, pharmacological modulation of tumor suppressor …