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SUBMITTER: Lee JG
PROVIDER: S-EPMC3615374 | biostudies-literature | 2013
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Lee Jin-Gu JG Baek Kheewoong K Soetandyo Nia N Ye Yihong Y
Nature communications 20130101
In eukaryotes, deubiquitinases (DUBs) remove ubiquitin conjugates from diverse substrates, altering their stabilities, localizations or activities. Here we show that many DUBs of the USP and UCH subfamilies can be reversibly inactivated upon oxidation by reactive oxygen species in vitro and in cells. Oxidation occurs preferentially on the catalytic cysteine, abrogating the isopeptide-cleaving activity without affecting these enzymes' affinity to ubiquitin. Sensitivity to oxidative inhibition is ...[more]