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Published on: March 29, 2019
SuPr-1-mediated desumoylation regulates the repressor activity of DeltaNp63alpha
Hae-Ock Lee1, Mioh Cho, Jung-Hwa Lee
1Department of Biological Sciences and Research Center for Functional Cellulomics, Seoul National University, Gwanak-Ku, Seoul, Republic of Korea.
Abstract:
DeltaNp63alpha is exclusively expressed in stem cells and progenitor cells of the stratified epithelia. It promotes cell proliferation by antagonizing p53 and related TAp63/TAp73. Here, we report that specific desumoylation by SUMO protease SuPr-1 provides a fine-tuning mechanism for DeltaNp63alpha repressor activity. We found that disrupting the sumoylation site compromised DeltaNp63alpha repressor activity profoundly against TAp63gamma and TAp73beta-mediated transcription activation, but not to p53-mediated transcription. We further found that SuPr-1 specifically bound to sumoylated DeltaNp63alpha and hydrolyzed SUMO. Consequently, SuPr-1 expression reduced DeltaNp63alpha repressor activity to TAp63gamma and TAp73beta, whereas p53-mediated transactivation was unaffected. Collectively, these data suggest that SuPr-1-mediated DeltaNp63alpha desumoylation elaborately regulates epithelial growth.
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