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Ilektra Kouranti Janel R. McLean Anna Feoktistova Ping Liang Alyssa E. Johnson Rachel H. Roberts-Galbraith Kathleen L. Gould 《PLoS biology》2010,8(9)
Ubiquitination and deubiquitination are reciprocal processes that tune protein stability, function, and/or localization. The removal of ubiquitin and remodeling of ubiquitin chains is catalyzed by deubiquitinating enzymes (DUBs), which are cysteine proteases or metalloproteases. Although ubiquitination has been extensively studied for decades, the complexity of cellular roles for deubiquitinating enzymes has only recently been explored, and there are still several gaps in our understanding of when, where, and how these enzymes function to modulate the fate of polypeptides. To address these questions we performed a systematic analysis of the 20 Schizosaccharomyces pombe DUBs using confocal microscopy, proteomics, and enzymatic activity assays. Our results reveal that S. pombe DUBs are present in almost all cell compartments, and the majority are part of stable protein complexes essential for their function. Interestingly, DUB partners identified by our study include the homolog of a putative tumor suppressor gene not previously linked to the ubiquitin pathway, and two conserved tryptophan-aspartate (WD) repeat proteins that regulate Ubp9, a DUB that we show participates in endocytosis, actin dynamics, and cell polarity. In order to understand how DUB activity affects these processes we constructed multiple DUB mutants and find that a quintuple deletion of ubp4 ubp5 ubp9 ubp15 sst2/amsh displays severe growth, polarity, and endocytosis defects. This mutant allowed the identification of two common substrates for five cytoplasmic DUBs. Through these studies, a common regulatory theme emerged in which DUB localization and/or activity is modulated by interacting partners. Despite apparently distinct cytoplasmic localization patterns, several DUBs cooperate in regulating endocytosis and cell polarity. These studies provide a framework for dissecting DUB signaling pathways in S. pombe and may shed light on DUB functions in metazoans. 相似文献
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Alcoholism presents widespread social and human health problems. Alcohol sensitivity, the development of tolerance to alcohol and susceptibility to addiction vary in the population. Genetic factors that predispose to alcoholism remain largely unknown due to extensive genetic and environmental variation in human populations. Drosophila, however, allows studies on genetically identical individuals in controlled environments. Although addiction to alcohol has not been demonstrated in Drosophila, flies show responses to alcohol exposure that resemble human intoxication, including hyperactivity, loss of postural control, sedation, and exposure-dependent development of tolerance. 相似文献13.
Most bacteria in the ocean can be motile. Chemotaxis allows bacteria to detect nutrient gradients, and hence motility is believed to serve as a method of approaching sources of food. This picture is well established in a stagnant environment. In the ocean a shear microenvironment is associated with turbulence. This shear flow prevents clustering of bacteria around local nutrient sources if they swim in the commonly assumed "run-and-tumble" strategy. Recent observations, however, indicate a "back-and-forth" swimming behavior for marine bacteria. In a theoretical study we compare the two bacterial swimming strategies in a realistic ocean environment. The "back-and-forth" strategy is found to enable the bacteria to stay close to a nutrient source even under high shear. Furthermore, rotational diffusion driven by thermal noise can significantly enhance the efficiency of this strategy. The superiority of the "back-and-forth" strategy suggests that bacterial motility has a control function rather than an approach function under turbulent conditions. 相似文献
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Microorganisms are associated with a variety of ancient geological materials. However, conclusive proof that these organisms
are as old as the geological material and not more recent introductions has generally been lacking. Over the years, numerous
reports of the isolation of ancient bacteria from geological materials have appeared. Most of these have suffered from the
fact that the protocol for the surface sterilization of the sample was either poorly defined, inadequate or rarely included
data to validate the overall effectiveness of the sterilization protocol. With proper sterility validation and isolation protocol,
a legitimate claim for the isolation of an ancient microbe can be made. Biochemical, physiological, or morphological data
indicate that these ancient microbes are not significantly different from modern isolates. As the role (decomposition) of
modern and ancient microbes has not changed over time, it is probably unreasonable to expect these organisms to be vastly
different. A discussion on the reasons for the homogeneity of ancient and modern microbes is presented. Journal of Industrial Microbiology & Biotechnology (2002) 28, 32–41 DOI: 10.1038/sj/jim/7000174
Received 20 May 2001/ Accepted in revised form 16 June 2001 相似文献
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Architecture of epigenetic reprogramming following Twist1-mediated epithelial-mesenchymal transition
Gabriel G Malouf Joseph H Taube Yue Lu Tapasree Roysarkar Shoghag Panjarian Marcos RH Estecio Jaroslav Jelinek Jumpei Yamazaki Noel J-M Raynal Hai Long Tomomitsu Tahara Agata Tinnirello Priyanka Ramachandran Xiu-Ying Zhang Shoudan Liang Sendurai A Mani Jean-Pierre J Issa 《Genome biology》2013,14(12):R144
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Y Deng J Zhao D Sakurai KM Kaufman JC Edberg RP Kimberly DL Kamen GS Gilkeson CO Jacob RH Scofield CD Langefeld JA Kelly ME Alarcón-Riquelme BIOLUPUS GENLES Networks JB Harley TJ Vyse BI Freedman PM Gaffney KM Sivils JA James TB Niewold RM Cantor W Chen BH Hahn EE Brown PROFILE BP Tsao 《Arthritis research & therapy》2012,14(Z3):A5
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Alcoholism is a significant public health problem. A picture of the genetic architecture underlying alcohol-related phenotypes
is emerging from genome-wide association studies and work on genetically tractable model organisms. 相似文献
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Yogendra Patel Catherine A Heyward Michael RH White Douglas B Kell 《BMC systems biology》2011,5(1):32
Background
The similarity property principle has been used extensively in drug discovery to identify small compounds that interact with specific drug targets. Here we show it can be applied to identify the interactions of small molecules within the NF-κB signalling pathway. 相似文献20.
Comparing the shapes of regression functions 总被引:1,自引:0,他引:1