Hanqing Li, Qiuxiang Yuan, Shuangshuang Wang, Tao Yu, Xingsi Qi
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Abstract
Digestive system diseases, including liver diseases, gastrointestinal cancers, and inflammatory bowel diseases, pose major health challenges worldwide. These conditions are influenced by a range of key metabolic signaling pathways, many of which are regulated by palmitoylation. Palmitoylation is a type of lipid modification catalyzed by DHHC palmitoyl S-acyltransferases (DHHC-PTAs) and depalmitoylases, which play critical roles in modulating protein localization, stability, and signal transduction. Dysregulation of S-palmitoylation is closely associated with numerous diseases, including these of the digestive system, through multiple key processes such as immune responses, lipid metabolism, and cellular signaling. Decades of investigations have driven the development of a large body of inhibitors targeting zDHHCs and depalmitoylases, such as S-(2-acetamidoethyl) 2-bromohexadecanethioate (MY-D-4), Artemisinin and Lomitapide. This review provides a comprehensive summary of the role of palmitoylation in digestive system diseases, discusses its effect on disease mechanisms. By elucidating the regulatory functions of palmitoylation under these conditions, this review aimed to identify new strategies for the diagnosis and treatment of digestive system disorders.
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Cell Death Discovery is a multidisciplinary, international, online-only, open access journal, dedicated to publishing research at the intersection of medicine with biochemistry, pharmacology, immunology, cell biology and cell death, provided it is scientifically sound. The unrestricted access to research findings in Cell Death Discovery will foster a dynamic and highly productive dialogue between basic scientists and clinicians, as well as researchers in industry with a focus on cancer, neurobiology and inflammation research. As an official journal of the Cell Death Differentiation Association (ADMC), Cell Death Discovery will build upon the success of Cell Death & Differentiation and Cell Death & Disease in publishing important peer-reviewed original research, timely reviews and editorial commentary.
Cell Death Discovery is committed to increasing the reproducibility of research. To this end, in conjunction with its sister journals Cell Death & Differentiation and Cell Death & Disease, Cell Death Discovery provides a unique forum for scientists as well as clinicians and members of the pharmaceutical and biotechnical industry. It is committed to the rapid publication of high quality original papers that relate to these subjects, together with topical, usually solicited, reviews, editorial correspondence and occasional commentaries on controversial and scientifically informative issues.