A common ancestry for BAP1 and Uch37 regulators

Bioinformatics. 2012 Aug 1;28(15):1953-6. doi: 10.1093/bioinformatics/bts319. Epub 2012 May 29.

Abstract

Summary: To reveal how the polycomb repressive-deubiquitinase (PR-DUB) complex controls substrate selection specificity, we undertook a detailed computational sequence analysis of its components: additional sex combs like 1 (ASXL1) and BRCA1-associated protein 1 (BAP1) proteins. This led to the discovery of two previously unrecognized domains in ASXL1: a forkhead (winged-helix) DNA-binding domain and a deubiquitinase adaptor domain shared with two regulators of ubiquitin carboxyl-terminal hydrolase 37 (Uch37), namely adhesion regulating molecule 1 (ADRM1) and nuclear factor related to kappaB (NFRKB). Our analysis demonstrates a common ancestry for BAP1 and Uch37 regulators in PR-DUB, INO80 chromatin remodelling and proteosome complexes.

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Supplementary information: Supplementary data are available at Bioinformatics online.

Publication types

  • Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't

MeSH terms

  • Animals
  • Carboxypeptidases / genetics
  • Carboxypeptidases / metabolism*
  • Computational Biology / methods
  • DNA-Binding Proteins / genetics
  • DNA-Binding Proteins / metabolism
  • Humans
  • Intracellular Signaling Peptides and Proteins
  • Membrane Glycoproteins / genetics
  • Membrane Glycoproteins / metabolism
  • Repressor Proteins / genetics
  • Repressor Proteins / metabolism*
  • Sequence Analysis, Protein / methods*
  • Sequence Homology, Amino Acid
  • Tumor Suppressor Proteins / genetics
  • Tumor Suppressor Proteins / metabolism*
  • Ubiquitin Thiolesterase / genetics
  • Ubiquitin Thiolesterase / metabolism*

Substances

  • ADRM1 protein, human
  • ASXL1 protein, human
  • BAP1 protein, human
  • DNA-Binding Proteins
  • Intracellular Signaling Peptides and Proteins
  • Membrane Glycoproteins
  • NFRKB protein, human
  • Repressor Proteins
  • Tumor Suppressor Proteins
  • Carboxypeptidases
  • UCHL5 protein, human
  • Ubiquitin Thiolesterase