“…The MDM2/MDMX-p53 circuitry plays a pivotal role in cancer cell proliferation, cell cycle progression, apoptosis, and senescence (Karni-Schmidt et al, 2016;Wang et al, 2019b), while USP7 is a critical regulator of this circuitry and tightly controls the stabilities of these proteins, thereby contributing to cancer initiation, progression, and metastasis (Bhattacharya et al, 2018;Rawat et al, 2019). Many MDM2/MDMX inhibitors have been developed for cancer therapy Wang et al, 2018aWang et al, ,b, 2019bde Oliveira Ribeiro et al, 2020), and some of them are in clinical trials (Liu et al, 2019b;Rafal et al, 2019). Most of the MDM2/MDMX inhibitors are designed to target the MDM2/p53 and MDMX/p53 interactions, and wildtype p53 is critical for their anticancer activity (Liu et al, 2019b;Rafal et al, 2019).…”