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SUBMITTER: Guo J
PROVIDER: S-EPMC5030089 | biostudies-literature | 2016 Aug
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Guo Jingjing J Zhou Huan-Xiang HX
eLife 20160831
Small ubiquitin-related modifiers (SUMOs) are conjugated to proteins to regulate a variety of cellular processes. SENPs are cysteine proteases with a catalytic center located within a channel between two subdomains that catalyzes SUMO C-terminal cleavage for processing of SUMO precursors and de-SUMOylation of target proteins. The β-grasp domain of SUMOs binds to an exosite cleft, and allosterically activates SENPs via an unknown mechanism. Our molecular dynamics simulations showed that binding o ...[more]