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ArticleJournal of the American Chemical Society2025

Ubiquitin Azapeptide Esters as Next-Generation Activity-Based Probes for Cysteine Enzymes in the Ubiquitin Signal Pathway.

Saibal Chanda, Sandeep Atla, Xinlei Sheng, Satyanarayana Nyalata, Yugendar R Alugubelli, Demonta D Coleman, Wen Jiang, Rosana Lopes, Shaodong Guo, A Joshua Wand and 2 more

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Article in Journal of the American Chemical Society, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 4 papers.

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3 · Its place in the literature

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4 citing papers in PubMed.

  1. Synthetic Strategies for Activity-Based Probes to Decode Ubiquitin-Like Modifiers.Chemistry (Weinheim an der Bergstrasse, Germany) · 2026
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5 · Who and what money

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12 authors.

Saibal ChandaDepartment of Biochemistry and Biophysics, College of Agriculture and Life Sciences, Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas 77843, United States.ORCID 0000-0001-5884-5477
Sandeep AtlaTexas A&M Drug Discovery Center and Department of Chemistry, College of Arts and Sciences, Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas 77843, United States.
Xinlei ShengBen May Department of Cancer Research, The University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois 60637, United States.
Satyanarayana NyalataTexas A&M Drug Discovery Center and Department of Chemistry, College of Arts and Sciences, Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas 77843, United States.
Yugendar R AlugubelliTexas A&M Drug Discovery Center and Department of Chemistry, College of Arts and Sciences, Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas 77843, United States.
Demonta D ColemanTexas A&M Drug Discovery Center and Department of Chemistry, College of Arts and Sciences, Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas 77843, United States.
Wen JiangDepartment of Nutrition, College of Agriculture and Life Sciences, Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas 77843, United States.
Rosana LopesDepartment of Biochemistry and Biophysics, College of Agriculture and Life Sciences, Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas 77843, United States.
Shaodong GuoDepartment of Nutrition, College of Agriculture and Life Sciences, Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas 77843, United States.
A Joshua WandDepartment of Biochemistry and Biophysics, College of Agriculture and Life Sciences, Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas 77843, United States.
Yingming ZhaoBen May Department of Cancer Research, The University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois 60637, United States.
Wenshe Ray LiuDepartment of Biochemistry and Biophysics, College of Agriculture and Life Sciences, Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas 77843, United States.ORCID 0000-0002-7078-6534

Funding

VIRAL ONCOLOGY CORE FACILITYP30CA014599 · NCI · UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO · PI CHIEN-MIN KAO · 1985 to 2026
$122.1M
Lactate production by tumor associated macrophages promotes tumorigenesisR01CA251677 · NCI · UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO · PI BECKER, LEV, ZHAO, YINGMING · 2021 to 2025
$2.8M
Use of the Noncanonical Amino Acid Mutagenesis Technique in Combination with Other Approaches to Study Functions of Posttranslational Lysine Modifications in ProteinsR35GM145351 · NIGMS · TEXAS A&M UNIVERSITY · PI Wenshe Ray Liu · 2022 to 2026
$2.6M
The role of the free energy landscape in Parkin's function and dysfunction in health and diseaseR01GM129076 · NIGMS · TEXAS A&M AGRILIFE RESEARCH · PI WAND, A. JOSHUA · 2020 to 2023
$1.6M
NCI NIH HHS P30 CA014599NCI NIH HHS R01 CA251677NIGMS NIH HHS R01 GM129076NIGMS NIH HHS R35 GM145351
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Ubiquitination is a pivotal cellular process that controls protein homeostasis and regulates numerous biological functions. Its pathway operates through a cascade of enzyme reactions involving ubiquitin-activating (E1), ubiquitin-conjugating (E2), and ubiquitin-ligating (E3) enzymes and deubiquitinases (DUBs), many of which are cysteine enzymes. Activity-based ubiquitin probes were previously developed for profiling these enzymes. However, most conventional probes do not mimic natural enzyme-substrate interactions and involve chemical mechanisms different from enzyme catalysis. Their uses potentially affect the comprehensiveness of enzyme profiling results. The current study introduces a novel class of activity-based ubiquitin probes, ubiquitin azapeptide esters, designed to overcome these limitations. These probes incorporate an azaglycine ester at the ubiquitin

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CysteineEstersMolecular ProbesPeptidesUbiquitinAnimalsDeubiquitinating EnzymesHumansMiceSignal TransductionUbiquitinationCysteineDeubiquitinating EnzymesEstersMolecular ProbesPeptidesUbiquitin

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PMID40266882
PMCPMC12119208

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