Alternative systems for misfolded protein clearance: life beyond the proteasome

HE Johnston, RS Samant - The FEBS journal, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Protein misfolding is a major driver of ageing‐associated frailty and disease pathology.
Although all cells possess multiple, well‐characterised protein quality control systems to …

Fungal proteases as emerging biocatalysts to meet the current challenges and recent developments in biomedical therapies: an updated review

M Naeem, S Manzoor, MUH Abid, MBK Tareen… - Journal of Fungi, 2022 - mdpi.com
With the increasing world population, demand for industrialization has also increased to
fulfill humans' living standards. Fungi are considered a source of essential constituents to …

[HTML][HTML] Mitochondrial protein import stress regulates the LC3 lipidation step of mitophagy through NLRX1 and RRBP1

SA Killackey, Y Bi, F Soares, I Hammi, NJ Winsor… - Molecular Cell, 2022 - cell.com
Protein import into mitochondria is a highly regulated process, yet how cells clear
mitochondria undergoing dysfunctional protein import remains poorly characterized. Here …

Multiple UBX proteins reduce the ubiquitin threshold of the mammalian p97-UFD1-NPL4 unfoldase

R Fujisawa, CP Rivera, KPM Labib - Elife, 2022 - elifesciences.org
Abstract The p97/Cdc48 ATPase and its ubiquitin receptors Ufd1-Npl4 are essential to
unfold ubiquitylated proteins in many areas of eukaryotic cell biology. In yeast, Cdc48-Ufd1 …

Highly conserved shifts in ubiquitin-proteasome system (UPS) activity drive mitochondrial remodeling during quiescence

S Yue, L Wang, GN DeMartino, FZ Zhao, Y Liu… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
Defects in cellular proteostasis and mitochondrial function drive many aspects of infertility,
cancer, and other age-related diseases. All of these conditions rely on quiescent cells, such …

Regulation of ferroptosis pathway by ubiquitination

X Wang, Y Wang, Z Li, J Qin, P Wang - Frontiers in Cell and …, 2021 - frontiersin.org
Ferroptosis is an iron-dependent form of programmed cell death, which plays crucial roles in
tumorigenesis, ischemia–reperfusion injury and various human degenerative diseases …

Selective autophagy as the basis of autophagy-based degraders

D Takahashi, H Arimoto - Cell chemical biology, 2021 - cell.com
Degrader technologies, which enable the chemical knockdown of disease-causing proteins,
are promising for drug discovery. After two decades of research, degraders using the …

UPS-dependent strategies of protein quality control degradation

L Müller, T Hoppe - Trends in Biochemical Sciences, 2024 - cell.com
The degradation of damaged proteins is critical for tissue integrity and organismal health
because damaged proteins have a high propensity to form aggregates. E3 ubiquitin ligases …

[HTML][HTML] E4 ubiquitin ligase promotes mitofusin turnover and mitochondrial stress response

V Anton, I Buntenbroich, T Simões, M Joaquim… - Molecular Cell, 2023 - cell.com
Ubiquitin-dependent control of mitochondrial dynamics is important for protein quality and
neuronal integrity. Mitofusins, mitochondrial fusion factors, can integrate cellular stress …

Role of the mtDNA mutations and mitophagy in inflammaging

SA Dabravolski, NG Nikiforov, AD Zhuravlev… - International Journal of …, 2022 - mdpi.com
Ageing is an unavoidable multi-factorial process, characterised by a gradual decrease in
physiological functionality and increasing vulnerability of the organism to environmental …