期刊
ONCOGENE
卷 40, 期 9, 页码 1706-1720出版社
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DOI: 10.1038/s41388-021-01660-5
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- National Natural Science Foundation of China [81874147, 81671389, 81621063, 81773199]
USP11 plays a critical role in stabilizing NRF2 through deubiquitination, thereby promoting cell proliferation and resistance to stress-induced cell death. Experimental evidence supports the high expression of USP11 in non-small cell lung cancer and its positive correlation with NRF2 expression.
The transcription factor nuclear factor (erythroid-derived 2)-like 2 (NRF2) plays a key role in cancer progression and is tightly regulated by the proteasome pathway. E3 ligases that mediate NRF2 ubiquitination have been widely reported, but the mechanism of NRF2 deubiquitination remains largely unclear. Here, we identified ubiquitin-specific-processing protease 11 (USP11) in NRF2 complexes and confirmed an interaction between these two proteins. We further found that USP11 deubiquitinates NRF2; this modification stabilizes NRF2. Functionally, USP11 depletion contributes to the suppression of cell proliferation and induction of ferroptotic cell death due to ROS-mediated stress, which can be largely abrogated by overexpression of NRF2. Finally, immunohistochemical staining of USP11 and NRF2 was performed using a lung tissue microarray, which revealed that USP11 is highly expressed in patients with NSCLC and positively correlated with NRF2 expression. Together, USP11 stabilizes NRF2 and is thus an important player in cell proliferation and ferroptosis.
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