{"title":"模糊的酰化修饰在心血管疾病中的新作用:还有什么?","authors":"Zhongyi Zhang , Wei Hu , Qian Ding , Yi Zhun Zhu","doi":"10.1016/j.lfs.2025.123944","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Cardiovascular diseases remain the leading cause of global mortality, yet their molecular mechanisms are incompletely understood. Recent advances highlight the critical role of obscure acylation modifications in regulating cardiac homeostasis and disease pathogenesis, such as succinylation, crotonylation, malonylation, β-hydroxybutyrylation, and lactylation. These post-translational modifications serve as metabolic sensors, dynamically linking cellular metabolism to epigenetic and functional changes in proteins. This mini-review synthesizes emerging evidence on how dysregulated obscure acylations contribute to cardiovascular diseases, including heart failure, ischemic injury, and atherosclerosis, by altering mitochondrial function, gene expression, or cellular signaling. We further discuss the therapeutic potential of targeting acyl-modifying enzymes and innovative strategies like machine learning for modification prediction. Despite technological challenges in profiling rare modifications, this field offers promising avenues for novel biomarkers and precision therapies. By elucidating the relationship between cardiovascular pathologies and obscure acylation modifications, this mini-review aims to inspire future research for clinical intervention of cardiovascular diseases.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":18122,"journal":{"name":"Life sciences","volume":"380 ","pages":"Article 123944"},"PeriodicalIF":5.1000,"publicationDate":"2025-08-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":"{\"title\":\"New role of obscure acylation modifications in cardiovascular diseases: what's beyond?\",\"authors\":\"Zhongyi Zhang , Wei Hu , Qian Ding , Yi Zhun Zhu\",\"doi\":\"10.1016/j.lfs.2025.123944\",\"DOIUrl\":null,\"url\":null,\"abstract\":\"<div><div>Cardiovascular diseases remain the leading cause of global mortality, yet their molecular mechanisms are incompletely understood. Recent advances highlight the critical role of obscure acylation modifications in regulating cardiac homeostasis and disease pathogenesis, such as succinylation, crotonylation, malonylation, β-hydroxybutyrylation, and lactylation. These post-translational modifications serve as metabolic sensors, dynamically linking cellular metabolism to epigenetic and functional changes in proteins. This mini-review synthesizes emerging evidence on how dysregulated obscure acylations contribute to cardiovascular diseases, including heart failure, ischemic injury, and atherosclerosis, by altering mitochondrial function, gene expression, or cellular signaling. We further discuss the therapeutic potential of targeting acyl-modifying enzymes and innovative strategies like machine learning for modification prediction. Despite technological challenges in profiling rare modifications, this field offers promising avenues for novel biomarkers and precision therapies. By elucidating the relationship between cardiovascular pathologies and obscure acylation modifications, this mini-review aims to inspire future research for clinical intervention of cardiovascular diseases.</div></div>\",\"PeriodicalId\":18122,\"journal\":{\"name\":\"Life sciences\",\"volume\":\"380 \",\"pages\":\"Article 123944\"},\"PeriodicalIF\":5.1000,\"publicationDate\":\"2025-08-29\",\"publicationTypes\":\"Journal Article\",\"fieldsOfStudy\":null,\"isOpenAccess\":false,\"openAccessPdf\":\"\",\"citationCount\":\"0\",\"resultStr\":null,\"platform\":\"Semanticscholar\",\"paperid\":null,\"PeriodicalName\":\"Life sciences\",\"FirstCategoryId\":\"3\",\"ListUrlMain\":\"https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S002432052500579X\",\"RegionNum\":2,\"RegionCategory\":\"医学\",\"ArticlePicture\":[],\"TitleCN\":null,\"AbstractTextCN\":null,\"PMCID\":null,\"EPubDate\":\"\",\"PubModel\":\"\",\"JCR\":\"Q1\",\"JCRName\":\"MEDICINE, RESEARCH & EXPERIMENTAL\",\"Score\":null,\"Total\":0}","platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Life sciences","FirstCategoryId":"3","ListUrlMain":"https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S002432052500579X","RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"Q1","JCRName":"MEDICINE, RESEARCH & EXPERIMENTAL","Score":null,"Total":0}
New role of obscure acylation modifications in cardiovascular diseases: what's beyond?
Cardiovascular diseases remain the leading cause of global mortality, yet their molecular mechanisms are incompletely understood. Recent advances highlight the critical role of obscure acylation modifications in regulating cardiac homeostasis and disease pathogenesis, such as succinylation, crotonylation, malonylation, β-hydroxybutyrylation, and lactylation. These post-translational modifications serve as metabolic sensors, dynamically linking cellular metabolism to epigenetic and functional changes in proteins. This mini-review synthesizes emerging evidence on how dysregulated obscure acylations contribute to cardiovascular diseases, including heart failure, ischemic injury, and atherosclerosis, by altering mitochondrial function, gene expression, or cellular signaling. We further discuss the therapeutic potential of targeting acyl-modifying enzymes and innovative strategies like machine learning for modification prediction. Despite technological challenges in profiling rare modifications, this field offers promising avenues for novel biomarkers and precision therapies. By elucidating the relationship between cardiovascular pathologies and obscure acylation modifications, this mini-review aims to inspire future research for clinical intervention of cardiovascular diseases.
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Life Sciences is an international journal publishing articles that emphasize the molecular, cellular, and functional basis of therapy. The journal emphasizes the understanding of mechanism that is relevant to all aspects of human disease and translation to patients. All articles are rigorously reviewed.
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