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SUMO-Specific Proteases and the Cell Cycle
Alessandra Di Bacco and Grace Gill
volume 5 | issue 20
15 october 2006Pages: 2310 - 2313
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Post-translational modification by SUMO is a dynamic and reversible process and several SUMO-specific proteases that remove SUMO from substrates have been identified. We have recently described the activities of a new SUMO-specific protease, SENP5. We found that SENP5 discriminates between SUMO-1 and SUMO-2/3 and cells depleted of SENP5 by RNAi failed to proliferate. Our findings support the idea that differential substrate selection by the mammalian SUMO-specific proteases underlies their regulation of distinct biological processes. Furthermore, our finding of a non-redundant function for SENP5 in cell proliferation provides further support for the model that, analogous to phosphorylation, cycles of SUMOylation and deSUMOylation regulate orderly progression through cell division.
Authors
Alessandra Di Bacco
Harvard Medical School, Boston MA
Grace Gill
Harvard Medical School, Boston MA
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