Recent advances of lysine lactylation in prokaryotes and eukaryotes

Lysine lactylation is a newly discovered protein post-translational modification that plays regulatory roles in cell metabolism, growth, reprogramming, and tumor progression. It utilizes lactate as the modification precursor, which is an end product of glycolysis while functioning as a signaling mol...

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Main Authors: Wenjuan Zhao, Jiayi Xin, Xin Yu, Zhifang Li, Nan Li
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Published: Frontiers Media S.A. 2025-01-01
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Online Access:https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fmolb.2024.1510975/full
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description Lysine lactylation is a newly discovered protein post-translational modification that plays regulatory roles in cell metabolism, growth, reprogramming, and tumor progression. It utilizes lactate as the modification precursor, which is an end product of glycolysis while functioning as a signaling molecule in cells. Unlike previous reviews focused primarily on eukaryotes, this review aims to provide a comprehensive summary of recent knowledge about lysine lactylation in prokaryotes and eukaryotes. The current identification and enrichment strategies for lysine lactylation are introduced, and the known readers, writers, and erasers of this modification are summarized. In addition, the physiological and pathological implications of lysine lactylation are reviewed for different organisms, especially in prokaryotic cells. Finally, we end with a discussion of the limitations of the studies so far and propose future directions for lysine lactylation investigations.
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spelling doaj-art-8fa8bf1d236c477896300f955fc687412025-01-09T05:10:16ZengFrontiers Media S.A.Frontiers in Molecular Biosciences2296-889X2025-01-011110.3389/fmolb.2024.15109751510975Recent advances of lysine lactylation in prokaryotes and eukaryotesWenjuan Zhao0Wenjuan Zhao1Jiayi Xin2Jiayi Xin3Xin Yu4Zhifang Li5Nan Li6School of Pharmacy, Faculty of Medicine, Macau University of Science and Technology, Macau, ChinaShenzhen Key Laboratory of Genome Manipulation and Biosynthesis, Key Laboratory of Quantitative Synthetic Biology, Shenzhen Institute of Synthetic Biology, Shenzhen Institutes of Advanced Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shenzhen, ChinaShenzhen Key Laboratory of Genome Manipulation and Biosynthesis, Key Laboratory of Quantitative Synthetic Biology, Shenzhen Institute of Synthetic Biology, Shenzhen Institutes of Advanced Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shenzhen, ChinaSchool of life sciences, Henan University, Kaifeng, ChinaShenzhen Key Laboratory of Genome Manipulation and Biosynthesis, Key Laboratory of Quantitative Synthetic Biology, Shenzhen Institute of Synthetic Biology, Shenzhen Institutes of Advanced Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shenzhen, ChinaSchool of life sciences, Henan University, Kaifeng, ChinaShenzhen Key Laboratory of Genome Manipulation and Biosynthesis, Key Laboratory of Quantitative Synthetic Biology, Shenzhen Institute of Synthetic Biology, Shenzhen Institutes of Advanced Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shenzhen, ChinaLysine lactylation is a newly discovered protein post-translational modification that plays regulatory roles in cell metabolism, growth, reprogramming, and tumor progression. It utilizes lactate as the modification precursor, which is an end product of glycolysis while functioning as a signaling molecule in cells. Unlike previous reviews focused primarily on eukaryotes, this review aims to provide a comprehensive summary of recent knowledge about lysine lactylation in prokaryotes and eukaryotes. The current identification and enrichment strategies for lysine lactylation are introduced, and the known readers, writers, and erasers of this modification are summarized. In addition, the physiological and pathological implications of lysine lactylation are reviewed for different organisms, especially in prokaryotic cells. Finally, we end with a discussion of the limitations of the studies so far and propose future directions for lysine lactylation investigations.https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fmolb.2024.1510975/fulllysine lactylationpost-translational modificationlactatecell metabolismtumorigenesis
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Nan Li
Recent advances of lysine lactylation in prokaryotes and eukaryotes
Frontiers in Molecular Biosciences
lysine lactylation
post-translational modification
lactate
cell metabolism
tumorigenesis
title Recent advances of lysine lactylation in prokaryotes and eukaryotes
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title_short Recent advances of lysine lactylation in prokaryotes and eukaryotes
title_sort recent advances of lysine lactylation in prokaryotes and eukaryotes
topic lysine lactylation
post-translational modification
lactate
cell metabolism
tumorigenesis
url https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fmolb.2024.1510975/full
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