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PDE6D Mediates Trafficking of Prenylated Proteins NIM1K and UBL3 to Primary Cilia

Cells, 2023
Mutations in PDE6D impair the function of its cognate protein, phosphodiesterase 6D (PDE6D), in prenylated protein trafficking towards the ciliary membrane, causing the human ciliopathy Joubert Syndrome (JBTS22) and retinal degeneration in mice.
Siebren Faber, Stef J. F. Letteboer, Katrin Junger, Rossano Butcher, Trinadh V. Satish Tammana, Sylvia E. C. van Beersum, Marius Ueffing, Rob W. J. Collin, Qin Liu, Karsten Boldt, Ronald Roepman   +10 more
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Prenylated flavins: structures and mechanisms [PDF]

The FEBS Journal, 2022
The UbiX/UbiD system is widespread in microbes and responsible for the reversible decarboxylation of unsaturated carboxylic acids. The UbiD enzyme catalyzes this unusual reaction using a prenylated flavin (prFMN) as cofactor, the latter formed by the flavin prenyltransferase UbiX.
Bloor, Samuel, Michurin, Iaroslav, Titchiner, Gabriel R., Leys, David   +3 more
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SmgGDS: An Emerging Master Regulator of Prenylation and Trafficking by Small GTPases in the Ras and Rho Families

Frontiers in Molecular Biosciences, 2021
Newly synthesized small GTPases in the Ras and Rho families are prenylated by cytosolic prenyltransferases and then escorted by chaperones to membranes, the nucleus, and other sites where the GTPases participate in a variety of signaling cascades ...
Anthony C. Brandt, Olivia J. Koehn, Carol L. Williams   +2 more
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Significance of KRAS/PAK1/Crk pathway in non-small cell lung cancer oncogenesis. [PDF]

, 2015
BackgroundKey effector(s) of mutated KRAS in lung cancer progression and metastasis are unknown. Here we investigated the role of PAK1/Crk axis in transduction of the oncogenic KRAS signal in non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC).MethodsWe used NSCLC ...
Aljilani, Amir, Lewis, Michael, Lu, Jie, Mortazavi, Fariborz, Pezeshkpour, Gholamhossein, Phan, Ryan, Tamanoi, Fuyuhiko, Trinidad, Kenny   +7 more
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Simvastatin-dependent apoptosis in Hodgkin’s lymphoma cells and growth impairment of human Hodgkin’s tumors in vivo

Haematologica, 2007
Statins are used to treat hypercholesterolemia and seem to have a preventive effect against cancer through pleiotropic effects including prenylation-inhibition. So far nothing is known about the activity of statins or more specific prenylation-inhibitors
Bastian von Tresckow, Elke Pogge von Strandmann, Stephanie Sasse, Samir Tawadros, Andreas Engert, Hinrich P. Hansen   +5 more
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Simvastatin inhibits TLR8 signaling in primary human monocytes and spontaneous TNF production from rheumatoid synovial membrane cultures [PDF]

, 2015
Simvastatin has been shown to have anti-inflammatory effects that are independent of its serum cholesterol lowering action, but the mechanisms by which these anti-inflammatory effects are mediated have not been elucidated.
A Gierut, A Hilgendorff, AA Ajibade, BI Gavrila, BP Leung, C Arnaud, C Guiducci, C Guijarro, E Munro, EH Choy, FL Zhang, FM Brennan, FM Brennan, FX Zhang, G Falgarone, H Kanda, H Kanda, H Lin, H Methe, H Okamoto, H Radner, H Wesche, H Xu, I Zelvyte, J Qin, Jason Ferdjani, K Chaabo, KA Fitzgerald, KA Fitzgerald, KH Costenbader, KI Paraskevas, L Liu, LA O’Neill, Lisa Mullen, LM Mullen, M Khoury, M Ortego, M Yamamoto, M Yoshida, MA Gonzalez-Gay, QQ Huang, S Alzabin, S Doornum Van, Sandra Sacre, SL Chinault, SM Sacre, T Mosmann, TT Tang, U Schonbeck   +48 more
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Statins and the vasculopathy of systemic sclerosis: potential therapeutic agents? [PDF]

, 2006
It has been postulated that endothelial cell injury is the initiating event in the pathogenesis of systemic sclerosis, causing attraction, attachment, migration and infiltration of activated T-cells and subsequent production of cytokines and growth ...
Derk, Chris T., Jimenez, Sergio A.
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Lipidation of small GTPase Cdc42 as regulator of its physiological and pathophysiological functions

Frontiers in Physiology, 2023
The protein cell division cycle 42 (Cdc42) is a small GTPase of the Rho family regulating a plethora of physiological functions in a tissue, cell and subcellular-specific manner via participating in multiple signaling pathways.
Alexander Wirth, Evgeni Ponimaskin
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Rho-A prenylation and signaling link epithelial homeostasis to intestinal inflammation [PDF]

, 2016
Although defects in intestinal barrier function are discussed as a key pathogenic factor in patients with inflammatory bowel diseases (IBD), the molecular pathways driving disease-specific alterations of intestinal epithelial cells (IECs) are largely ...
Alastair J.M. Watson, Arif B. Ekici, Becker, Christoph Becker, Claudia Günther, Cord Brakebusch, Distler, Gionata Fiorino, Heller, Hopkins, Imke Atreya, Kerstin Amann, Lin, Markus F. Neurath, Martin Bergö, Ohkusa, Pastorelli, Pechlivanis, Raja Atreya, Rocío López-Posadas, Silvio Danese, Stefan Tenzer, Stefan Wirtz, Stefania Vetrano, Turcotte, Ulrike Billmeier, Veronika Thonn, Zverina   +27 more
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Nuclear Morphological Remodeling in Human Granulocytes Is Linked to Prenylation Independently from Cytoskeleton

Cells, 2020
Nuclear shape modulates cell behavior and function, while aberrant nuclear morphologies correlate with pathological phenotype severity. Nevertheless, functions of specific nuclear morphological features and underlying molecular mechanisms remain poorly ...
Sebastian Martewicz, Camilla Luni, Xi Zhu, Meihua Cui, Manli Hu, Siqi Qu, Damiano Buratto, Guang Yang, Eleonora Grespan, Nicola Elvassore   +9 more
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