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Lysine Acetyltransferases (KATs) in Disguise: Diseases Implications

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JOURNAL OF BIOCHEMISTRY
Volume 173, Issue 6, Pages 417-433

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OXFORD UNIV PRESS
DOI: 10.1093/jb/mvad022

Keywords

non-canonical KATs; neurological disorders; Lysine acetyltransferases; cancer; bromodomain; Acetyl-CoA

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Acetylation is a key protein modification catalyzed by lysine acetyltransferases (KATs). KATs transfer acetyl groups to lysine residues in histones and non-histone proteins. KATs regulate biological processes and their aberrant activities may underlie human diseases.
Acetylation is one of the key post-translational protein modifications catalysed by the protein lysine acetyltransferases (KATs). KATs catalyse the transfer of acetyl groups to the epsilon-amino groups of lysine residues in histones and non-histone proteins. Because of its wide range of target proteins, KATs regulate many biological processes, and their aberrant activities may underlie several human diseases, including cancer, asthma, Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD), and neurological disorders. Unlike most of the histone modifying enzymes, such as lysine methyltransferases, KATs do not possess any conserved domain like SET domain of lysine methyltransferases. However, almost all the major families of KATs are found to be transcriptional coactivators or adaptor proteins, with defined catalytic domains, called canonical KATs. Over the past two decades, a few proteins have been discovered to possess intrinsic KAT activity but are not classical coactivators. We would like to categorize them as non-canonical KATs (NC-KATs). These NC-KATs include general transcription factors TAFII250, mammalian TFIIIC complex, and mitochondrial protein GCN5L1, etc. This review focuses on our understanding, as well as controversies regarding non-canonical KATs, where we compare the structural and functional similarities and dissimilarities of non-canonical KATs with the canonical KATs. This review also highlights the potential role of NC-KATs in health and diseases.

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