New Insights into Ubiquitination and Deubiquitination in Plants
A special issue of International Journal of Molecular Sciences (ISSN 1422-0067). This special issue belongs to the section "Biochemistry".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 20 September 2025 | Viewed by 173
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Interests: ubiquitination; deubiquitination; mediated cellular processes in Arabidopsis
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Dear Colleagues,
Numerous important protein components of various cellular processes are post-translationally modified by ubiquitin monomers or polymers of different lengths and linkages. In consequence, ubiquitination regulates these cellular processes by targeting their ubiquitinated components for processes such as proteasome-mediated turnover, endocytosis, autophagy, signal transduction, the recruitment of interacting protein or protein complex, transcriptional activation/suppression, mRNA splicing/export, and chromatin activation/silencing. The assembly of various ubiquitin codes on proteins in all eukaryotic species is performed by a large set of diverged conjugation enzymes including ubiquitin activation (E1), conjugation (E2), and ligation (E3) families; intriguingly, this is delicately modulated by deubiquitinating enzymes that belong to at least seven distinct classes. Due to recent advances in the field of ubiquitination and deubiquitination, this Special Issue welcomes the submission of original research, reviews, and mini-reviews that provide insights into the functional and mechanistic roles of conjugation and deconjugation enzymes, ubiquitin code-binding proteins, and the target substrates of critical components involved in various cellular processes at the cellular and organismic level in plants.
Dr. Hongyong Fu
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- ubiquitin
- E1
- E2
- E3
- deubiquitination
- proteolysis
- plants
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