Protein neddylation is a post-translational modification which transfers the ubiquitin-like protein NEDD8 to a lysine residue of the target substrate through a three-step enzymatic cascade.The bestknown substrates of ...Protein neddylation is a post-translational modification which transfers the ubiquitin-like protein NEDD8 to a lysine residue of the target substrate through a three-step enzymatic cascade.The bestknown substrates of neddylation are cullin family proteins,which are the core component of Cullin-RING E3 ubiquitin ligases(CRLs).Given that cullin neddylation is required for CRL activity,and CRLs control the turn-over of a variety of key signal proteins and are often abnormally activated in cancers,targeting neddylation becomes a promising approach for discovery of novel anti-cancer therapeutics.In the past decade,we have witnessed significant progress in the field of protein neddylation from preclinical target validation,to drug screening,then to the clinical trials of neddylation inhibitors.In this review,we first briefly introduced the nature of protein neddylation and the regulation of neddylation cascade,followed by a summary of all reported chemical inhibitors of neddylation enzymes.We then discussed the structure-based targeting of protein-protein interaction in neddylation cascade,and finally the available approaches for the discovery of new neddylation inhibitors.This review will provide a focused,up-to-date and yet comprehensive overview on the discovery effort of neddylation inhibitors.展开更多
慢性乙型肝炎(chronic hepatitis B,CHB)患者体内存在的大量亚病毒颗粒可以诱导免疫耐受,导致乙型肝炎病毒(hepatitis B virus,HBV)的持续感染.患者要实现功能性治愈的目标,则需要获得血清乙型肝炎表面抗原(hepatitis B surface antigen...慢性乙型肝炎(chronic hepatitis B,CHB)患者体内存在的大量亚病毒颗粒可以诱导免疫耐受,导致乙型肝炎病毒(hepatitis B virus,HBV)的持续感染.患者要实现功能性治愈的目标,则需要获得血清乙型肝炎表面抗原(hepatitis B surface antigen,HBsAg)的消失,但目前临床上尚缺乏有效抑制HBV共价闭合环状DNA的有效药物,因此HBsAg很难被清除.蛋白质的泛素化修饰是HBsAg降解的一条潜在路径,这将有可能改变HBV的生存和免疫环境.本文重点对有关HBsAg的泛素化,包括类泛素化和去泛素化的研究进行综述,以期为CHB抗病毒治疗探索新的途径提供参考.展开更多
NEDDylation has been shown to participate in the DNA damage pathway, but the substrates of neural precursor cell expressed developmentally downregulated 8 （NEDD8） and the roles of NEDDylation involved in the DNA dam...NEDDylation has been shown to participate in the DNA damage pathway, but the substrates of neural precursor cell expressed developmentally downregulated 8 （NEDD8） and the roles of NEDDylation involved in the DNA damage response （DDR） are largely unknown. Translesion synthesis （TLS） is a damage-tolerance mechanism, in which RAD181RAD6-mediated monoubiq- uitinated proliferating cell nuclear antigen （PCNA） pro- motes recruitment of polymerase q （polq） to bypass lesions. Here we identify PCNA as a substrate of NEDD8, and show that E3 ligase RAD18-catalyzed PCNA NEDDylation antagonizes its ubiquitination. In addition, NEDP1 acts as the deNEDDylase of PCNA, and NEDP1 deletion enhances PCNA NEDDylation but reduces its ubiquitination. In response to H202 stimulation, NEDP1 disassociates from PCNA and RAD18-dependent PCNA NEDDylation increases markedly after its ubiquitination. impairment of NEDDylation by Ubc12 knockout enhances PCNA ubiquitination and promotes PCNA-polη interaction, while up-regulation of NEDDylation by NEDD8 overexpression or NEDP1 deletion reduces the excessive accumulation of ubiquitinated PCNA, thus inhibits PCNA-polη interaction and blocks polη foci formation. Moreover, Ubc12 knockout decreases cell sensitivity to H2O2-induced oxidative stress, but NEDP1 deletion aggravates this sensitivity. Collectively, our study elucidates the important role of NEDDylation in the DDR as a modulator of PCNA monoubiquitination and polη recruitment.展开更多
Protein neddylation is catalyzed by a three-enzyme cascade,namely an E1 NEDD8-activating enzyme(NAE),one of two E2 NEDD8 conjugation enzymes and one of several E3 NEDD8 ligases.The physiological substrates of neddylat...Protein neddylation is catalyzed by a three-enzyme cascade,namely an E1 NEDD8-activating enzyme(NAE),one of two E2 NEDD8 conjugation enzymes and one of several E3 NEDD8 ligases.The physiological substrates of neddylation are the family members of cullin,the scaffold component of cullin RING ligases(CRLs).Currently,a potent E1 inhibitor,MLN4924,also known as pevonedistat,is in several clinical trials for anti-cancer therapy.Here we report the discovery,through virtual screening and structural modifications,of a small molecule compound HA-1141 that directly binds to NAE in both in vitro and in vivo assays and effectively inhibits neddylation of cullins 1 e5.Surprisingly,unlike MLN4924,HA-1141 also triggers non-canonical endoplasmic reticulum(ER)stress and PKR-mediated terminal integrated stress response(ISR)to activate ATF4 at an early stage,and to inhibit protein synthesis and mTORC1 activity at a later stage,eventually leading to autophagy induction.Biologically,HA-1141 suppresses growth and survival of cultured lung cancer cells and tumor growth in in vivo xenograft lung cancer models at a well-tolerated dose.Taken together,our study has identified a small molecule compound with the dual activities of blocking neddylation and triggering ER stress,leading to growth suppression of cancer cells.展开更多
Clinical practice has shown that Parkin is the major causative gene found in an autosomal recessive juvenile parkin-sonism(AR-JP)via Parkin mutations and that the Parkin protein is the core expression product of the P...Clinical practice has shown that Parkin is the major causative gene found in an autosomal recessive juvenile parkin-sonism(AR-JP)via Parkin mutations and that the Parkin protein is the core expression product of the Parkin gene,which itself belongs to an E3 ubiquitin ligase.Since the discovery of the Parkin gene in the late 1990s,researchers in many countries have begun extensive research on this gene and found that in addition to AR-JP,the Parkin gene is associated with many diseases,including type 2 diabetes,leprosy,Alzheimer’s,autism,and cancer.Recent studies have found that the loss or dysfunction of Parkin has a certain relationship with tumorigenesis.In general,the Parkin gene,a well-established tumor suppressor,is deficient and mutated in a variety of malignancies.Parkin overexpres-sion inhibits tumor cell growth and promotes apoptosis.However,the functions of Parkin in tumorigenesis and its regulatory mechanisms are still not fully understood.This article describes the structure,functions,and post-transla-tional modifications of Parkin,and summarizes the recent advances in the tumor suppressive function of Parkin and its underlying mechanisms.展开更多
基金the financial support by the National Key R&D Program of China(2016YFA0501800 to YS)
文摘Protein neddylation is a post-translational modification which transfers the ubiquitin-like protein NEDD8 to a lysine residue of the target substrate through a three-step enzymatic cascade.The bestknown substrates of neddylation are cullin family proteins,which are the core component of Cullin-RING E3 ubiquitin ligases(CRLs).Given that cullin neddylation is required for CRL activity,and CRLs control the turn-over of a variety of key signal proteins and are often abnormally activated in cancers,targeting neddylation becomes a promising approach for discovery of novel anti-cancer therapeutics.In the past decade,we have witnessed significant progress in the field of protein neddylation from preclinical target validation,to drug screening,then to the clinical trials of neddylation inhibitors.In this review,we first briefly introduced the nature of protein neddylation and the regulation of neddylation cascade,followed by a summary of all reported chemical inhibitors of neddylation enzymes.We then discussed the structure-based targeting of protein-protein interaction in neddylation cascade,and finally the available approaches for the discovery of new neddylation inhibitors.This review will provide a focused,up-to-date and yet comprehensive overview on the discovery effort of neddylation inhibitors.
文摘慢性乙型肝炎(chronic hepatitis B,CHB)患者体内存在的大量亚病毒颗粒可以诱导免疫耐受,导致乙型肝炎病毒(hepatitis B virus,HBV)的持续感染.患者要实现功能性治愈的目标,则需要获得血清乙型肝炎表面抗原(hepatitis B surface antigen,HBsAg)的消失,但目前临床上尚缺乏有效抑制HBV共价闭合环状DNA的有效药物,因此HBsAg很难被清除.蛋白质的泛素化修饰是HBsAg降解的一条潜在路径,这将有可能改变HBV的生存和免疫环境.本文重点对有关HBsAg的泛素化,包括类泛素化和去泛素化的研究进行综述,以期为CHB抗病毒治疗探索新的途径提供参考.
基金We sincerely thank Profs. Jun Huang, Wensheng Wei, and Caixia Guo for providing the plasmids used in this study. We thank Millennium Pharmaceuticals for providing the MLN4924 used in this study. This work was supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China （Grant Nos. 31470754, 81730080 and 31670786）, the National Key Research and Development Program of China （2016YFC1302401）.
文摘NEDDylation has been shown to participate in the DNA damage pathway, but the substrates of neural precursor cell expressed developmentally downregulated 8 （NEDD8） and the roles of NEDDylation involved in the DNA damage response （DDR） are largely unknown. Translesion synthesis （TLS） is a damage-tolerance mechanism, in which RAD181RAD6-mediated monoubiq- uitinated proliferating cell nuclear antigen （PCNA） pro- motes recruitment of polymerase q （polq） to bypass lesions. Here we identify PCNA as a substrate of NEDD8, and show that E3 ligase RAD18-catalyzed PCNA NEDDylation antagonizes its ubiquitination. In addition, NEDP1 acts as the deNEDDylase of PCNA, and NEDP1 deletion enhances PCNA NEDDylation but reduces its ubiquitination. In response to H202 stimulation, NEDP1 disassociates from PCNA and RAD18-dependent PCNA NEDDylation increases markedly after its ubiquitination. impairment of NEDDylation by Ubc12 knockout enhances PCNA ubiquitination and promotes PCNA-polη interaction, while up-regulation of NEDDylation by NEDD8 overexpression or NEDP1 deletion reduces the excessive accumulation of ubiquitinated PCNA, thus inhibits PCNA-polη interaction and blocks polη foci formation. Moreover, Ubc12 knockout decreases cell sensitivity to H2O2-induced oxidative stress, but NEDP1 deletion aggravates this sensitivity. Collectively, our study elucidates the important role of NEDDylation in the DDR as a modulator of PCNA monoubiquitination and polη recruitment.
基金National Key R&D Program of China(2016YFA0501800 to Yi Sun)for financial support。
文摘Protein neddylation is catalyzed by a three-enzyme cascade,namely an E1 NEDD8-activating enzyme(NAE),one of two E2 NEDD8 conjugation enzymes and one of several E3 NEDD8 ligases.The physiological substrates of neddylation are the family members of cullin,the scaffold component of cullin RING ligases(CRLs).Currently,a potent E1 inhibitor,MLN4924,also known as pevonedistat,is in several clinical trials for anti-cancer therapy.Here we report the discovery,through virtual screening and structural modifications,of a small molecule compound HA-1141 that directly binds to NAE in both in vitro and in vivo assays and effectively inhibits neddylation of cullins 1 e5.Surprisingly,unlike MLN4924,HA-1141 also triggers non-canonical endoplasmic reticulum(ER)stress and PKR-mediated terminal integrated stress response(ISR)to activate ATF4 at an early stage,and to inhibit protein synthesis and mTORC1 activity at a later stage,eventually leading to autophagy induction.Biologically,HA-1141 suppresses growth and survival of cultured lung cancer cells and tumor growth in in vivo xenograft lung cancer models at a well-tolerated dose.Taken together,our study has identified a small molecule compound with the dual activities of blocking neddylation and triggering ER stress,leading to growth suppression of cancer cells.
基金This work was supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China(81622005)Beijing Natural Science Foundation(7172213).
文摘Clinical practice has shown that Parkin is the major causative gene found in an autosomal recessive juvenile parkin-sonism(AR-JP)via Parkin mutations and that the Parkin protein is the core expression product of the Parkin gene,which itself belongs to an E3 ubiquitin ligase.Since the discovery of the Parkin gene in the late 1990s,researchers in many countries have begun extensive research on this gene and found that in addition to AR-JP,the Parkin gene is associated with many diseases,including type 2 diabetes,leprosy,Alzheimer’s,autism,and cancer.Recent studies have found that the loss or dysfunction of Parkin has a certain relationship with tumorigenesis.In general,the Parkin gene,a well-established tumor suppressor,is deficient and mutated in a variety of malignancies.Parkin overexpres-sion inhibits tumor cell growth and promotes apoptosis.However,the functions of Parkin in tumorigenesis and its regulatory mechanisms are still not fully understood.This article describes the structure,functions,and post-transla-tional modifications of Parkin,and summarizes the recent advances in the tumor suppressive function of Parkin and its underlying mechanisms.
