Regulation of biological processes by ubiquitin ligases: a focus on the Pagano Lab's contribution
(2024) In Frontiers in Cell and Developmental Biology 12.- Abstract
Protein homeostasis depends on many fundamental processes including mRNA synthesis, translation, post-translational modifications, and proteolysis. In the late 70s and early 80s the discovery that the small 76 amino acid protein ubiquitin could be attached to target proteins via a multi-stage process involving ubiquitin-activating enzymes, ubiquitin conjugating enzymes, and ubiquitin ligases, revealed an exciting new post-translational mechanism to regulate protein degradation. This cellular system was uncovered using biochemical methods by Avram Hershko, who would later won the Nobel prize for this discovery; however, the biological functions of ubiquitin ligases remained unknown for many years. It was initially described that... (More)
Protein homeostasis depends on many fundamental processes including mRNA synthesis, translation, post-translational modifications, and proteolysis. In the late 70s and early 80s the discovery that the small 76 amino acid protein ubiquitin could be attached to target proteins via a multi-stage process involving ubiquitin-activating enzymes, ubiquitin conjugating enzymes, and ubiquitin ligases, revealed an exciting new post-translational mechanism to regulate protein degradation. This cellular system was uncovered using biochemical methods by Avram Hershko, who would later won the Nobel prize for this discovery; however, the biological functions of ubiquitin ligases remained unknown for many years. It was initially described that ubiquitin modifies proteins at one or more lysine residues and once a long ubiquitin chain was assembled, proteins were degraded by the proteasome. Now we know that proteins can be mono-, multimono-, homotypic poly-, or heterotypic poly-ubiquitylated, each of which confers a specific signal that goes beyond protein degradation regulating additional key cellular functions such as signal transduction, protein localization, recognition of damaged proteins, etc.
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- Kaldis, Philipp LU and Porter, Lisa A
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- 2024
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- Frontiers in Cell and Developmental Biology
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- 12
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- 1458895
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- Frontiers Media S. A.
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- scopus:85202897433
- pmid:39211389
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- 2296-634X
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- 10.3389/fcell.2024.1458895
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- English
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- Copyright © 2024 Kaldis and Porter.
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