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General Comment |
Deubiquitinase YOD1 potentiates YAP/TAZ activities through enhancing ITCH stability. Kim Y et al. (2017) Hippo signaling controls the expression of genes regulating cell proliferation and survival and organ size. The regulation of core components in the Hippo pathway by phosphorylation has been extensively investigated, but the roles of ubiquitination-deubiquitination processes are largely unknown. To identify deubiquitinase(s) that regulates Hippo signaling, we performed unbiased siRNA screening and found that YOD1 controls biological responses mediated by YAP/TAZ. Mechanistically, YOD1 deubiquitinates ITCH, an E3 ligase of LATS, and enhances the stability of ITCH, which leads to reduced levels of LATS and a subsequent increase in the YAP/TAZ level. Furthermore, we show that the miR-21-mediated regulation of YOD1 is responsible for the cell-density-dependent changes in YAP/TAZ levels. Using a transgenic mouse model, we demonstrate that the inducible expression of YOD1 enhances the proliferation of hepatocytes and leads to hepatomegaly in a YAP/TAZ-activity-dependent manner. Moreover, we find a strong correlation between YOD1 and YAP expression in liver cancer patients. Overall, our data strongly suggest that YOD1 is a regulator of the Hippo pathway and would be a therapeutic target to treat liver cancer.//////////////////
NCBI Summary:
Protein ubiquitination controls many intracellular processes, including cell cycle progression, transcriptional activation, and signal transduction. This dynamic process, involving ubiquitin conjugating enzymes and deubiquitinating enzymes, adds and removes ubiquitin. Deubiquitinating enzymes are cysteine proteases that specifically cleave ubiquitin from ubiquitin-conjugated protein substrates. The protein encoded by this gene belongs to a DUB subfamily characterized by an ovarian tumor (OTU) domain. Alternative splicing results in multiple transcript variants. [provided by RefSeq, Jan 2013]
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