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ORGANISM(S): Mus musculus
SUBMITTER: Nicole Baldwin
PROVIDER: E-GEOD-65686 | biostudies-arrayexpress |
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-arrayexpress
Theivanthiran Balamayooran B Kathania Mahesh M Zeng Minghui M Anguiano Esperanza E Basrur Venkatesha V Vandergriff Travis T Pascual Virginia V Wei Wei-Zen WZ Massoumi Ramin R Venuprasad K K
Science signaling 20150224 365
Deficiency in the E3 ubiquitin ligase Itch causes a skin-scratching phenotype in mice. We found that there was increased phosphorylation and activation of the mitogen-activated protein kinase p38α in spontaneous and experimentally induced skin lesions of Itch-deficient (Itch-/-) mice. Itch bound directly to the TGF-β-activated kinase 1-binding protein 1 (Tab1) through a conserved PPXY motif and inhibited the activation of p38α. Knockdown of Tab1 by short hairpin RNA attenuated the prolonged p38α ...[more]