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SCIENTIFIC REPORTS
Volume 5, Issue -, Pages -Publisher
NATURE PUBLISHING GROUP
DOI: 10.1038/srep12836
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- FCT - Fundacao para a Ciencia e a Tecnologia/MEC - Ministerio da Educacao e Ciencia - Fundo de Desenvolvimento Regional (FEDER) [PT2020]
- Programa Operacional Regional do Norte (ON.2-O Novo Norte), under the Quadro de Referencia Estrategico Nacional (QREN), through FEDER [NORTE-07-0124-FEDER-000003]
- FCT
- Portuguese National Mass Spectrometry Network (RNEM) [REDE/1504/REM/2005]
- Quimica Organica, Produtos Naturais e Agroalimentares (QOPNA) research unit funds by FCT
- European Union
- QREN
- Operational Competitiveness Programme (COMPETE) [PEst-C/QUI/UI0062/2013, FCOMP-01-0124-FEDER-037296]
- COMPETE
- Fundo Social Europeu
- FCT/Ministerio da Educacao e Ciencia (PIDDAC) [FCOMP-01-0124-FEDER-027627-EXPL/BEX-BCM/0320/2012]
- FEDER
- FEDER through COMPETE-Programa Operacional Factores de Competitividade (POFC)
- Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia [PEst-C/QUI/UI0062/2013] Funding Source: FCT
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Protein ubiquitination, a major post-translational modification in eukaryotes, requires an adequate pool of free ubiquitin. Cells maintain this pool by two pathways, both involving deubiquitinases (DUBs): recycling of ubiquitin from ubiquitin conjugates and processing of ubiquitin precursors synthesized de novo. Although many advances have been made in recent years regarding ubiquitin recycling, our knowledge on ubiquitin precursor processing is still limited, and questions such as when are these precursors processed and which DUBs are involved remain largely unanswered. Here we provide data suggesting that two of the four mammalian ubiquitin precursors, UBA52 and UBA80, are processed mostly post-translationally whereas the other two, UBB and UBC, probably undergo a combination of co- and post-translational processing. Using an unbiased biochemical approach we found that UCHL3, USP9X, USP7, USP5 and Otulin/Gumby/FAM105b are by far the most active DUBs acting on these precursors. The identification of these DUBs together with their properties suggests that each ubiquitin precursor can be processed in at least two different manners, explaining the robustness of the ubiquitin de novo synthesis pathway.
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