Deubiquitinase USP9X regulates Wnt-signaling to control CNS vascular formation and barrier maintenance
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Project description:Deubiquitinating enzymes play crucial roles in various cellular activities, yet their involvement in central nervous system (CNS) vascularization and barrier function remains elusive. Canonical Wnt signaling is essential for proper CNS vascularization and barrier maintenance. Using a loss-of-function screening for Wnt signaling activity, we identified ubiquitin-specific peptidase 9 X-linked (USP9X) as a key regulator in brain endothelial cells (BECs). Endothelium-specific Usp9x knockout reduces Wnt-signaling activity, compromising CNS vascularization and barrier function during development. Activation of Wnt signaling rescues these defects. Mechanistically, we uncovered β-catenin as a direct substrate of USP9X, with USP9X catalyzing K48 polyubiquitin chains to stabilize β-catenin. In pathological models of impaired CNS vascular barrier function, including an intracerebral hemorrhage model and an oxygen-induced retinopathy model, loss of Usp9x intensifies barrier disruption, accentuating defects. This finding implicates USP9X as a critical regulator of CNS vascularization and barrier function through Wnt signaling, offering insights into CNS disease implications.
2024-12-13 | GSE281249 | GEO
Project description:Deubiquitinating enzymes play crucial roles in various cellular activities, yet their involvement in central nervous system (CNS) vascularization and barrier function remains elusive. Canonical Wnt signaling is essential for proper CNS vascularization and barrier maintenance. Using a loss-of-function screening for Wnt signaling activity, we identified ubiquitin-specific peptidase 9 X-linked (USP9X) as a key regulator in brain endothelial cells (BECs). Endothelium-specific Usp9x knockout reduces Wnt-signaling activity, compromising CNS vascularization and barrier function during development. Activation of Wnt signaling rescues these defects. Mechanistically, we uncovered β-catenin as a direct substrate of USP9X, with USP9X catalyzing K48 polyubiquitin chains to stabilize β-catenin. In pathological models of impaired CNS vascular barrier function, including an intracerebral hemorrhage model and an oxygen-induced retinopathy model, loss of Usp9x intensifies barrier disruption, accentuating defects. This finding implicates USP9X as a critical regulator of CNS vascularization and barrier function through Wnt signaling, offering insights into CNS disease implications.
2024-12-13 | GSE281250 | GEO
Project description:Deubiquitinase USP9X regulates Wnt-signaling to control CNS vascular formation and barrier maintenance [Human]
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Project description:Pluripotent cells of the mammalian embryo undergo extensive chromatin rewiring to prepare for lineage commitment after implantation. Repressive H3K27me3, deposited by Polycomb Repressive Complex 2 (PRC2), is reallocated from large blankets in pre-implantation embryos to mark promoters of developmental genes. The regulation of the global redistribution of H3K27me3 is poorly understood. Here we report a post-translational mechanism that destabilizes PRC2 to constrict H3K27me3 during lineage commitment. Using an auxin-inducible degron system, we show that the deubiquitinase Usp9x is required for mouse embryonic stem (ES) cell self-renewal. Usp9x-high ES cells have high PRC2 levels and bear a chromatin and transcriptional signature of the pre-implantation embryo, whereas Usp9x-low ES cells resemble the post-implantation, gastrulating epiblast. We show that Usp9x interacts with, deubiquitinates and stabilizes PRC2. Deletion of Usp9x in post-implantation embryos results in the derepression of genes that normally gain H3K27me3 after gastrulation, followed by the appearance of morphological abnormalities at E9.5, pointing to a recurrent link between Usp9x and PRC2 during development. Usp9x is a marker of “stemness” and is mutated in various neurological disorders and cancers. Our results unveil a Usp9x-PRC2 regulatory axis that is critical at peri-implantation and may be redeployed in other stem cell fate transitions and disease states.
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Project description:mTOR is a central regulator of mammalian metabolism and physiology. Aberrant hyperactivation of this pathway promotes tumor growth and metastasis and drives tumor resistance to chemotherapy and cancer drugs, making mTOR an attractive cancer therapeutic target. mTOR inhibitors have been approved to treat cancer, however, the basis for drug sensitivity remains poorly understood. Here, whole exome sequencing of three chromophobe renal cell carcinoma (chRCC) patients with exceptional mTOR inhibitor sensitivity, uncovered USP9X deubiquitinase as the only mutated gene shared by the tumors. The clonal characteristics of the mutations, revealed by studying multiple patients’ primary and metastatic samples along the years, together with the low USP9X mutation rate in unselected chRCC series, reinforced a causal link between USP9X and mTOR inhibitor sensitivity. Rapamycin treatment of USP9X depleted HeLa and renal cancer 786-O cells and the pharmacological inhibition of USP9X, confirmed a crucial role of this protein in the patients’ sensitivity to mTOR inhibition. As no direct effect of USP9X in mTORC1 was detected, we performed ubiquitylome analyses that identified p62 as a direct USP9X target. Increased p62 ubiquitination and an augmented rapamycin effect upon bortezomib treatment, together with p62 and LC3 immunofluorescence assays, suggested that dysregulated autophagy in USP9X depleted cells can synergize with mTOR inhibitors. In summary, here we show that USP9X constitutes a potential novel marker of sensitivity to mTOR inhibitors in chRCC patients and represents a clinically exploitable strategy that could increase sensitivity to these drugs
2023-06-14 | PXD040496 | Pride
Project description:Ewing’s sarcoma (EWS) is a cancer of the bones or soft tissues in children and adolescents. EWS-FLI1 is a transcriptional factor and the key driver of EWS. To characterize the changes of downstream transcriptional profiles of EWS-FLI1 in A673 cells upon knockdown of EWS-FLI1 and deubiquitinase USP9X, RNA-seq was performed in A673 cells transfected with EWS-FLI1 esiRNA, USP9X esiRNA or GFP esiRNA as control. The data indicates that USP9X regulates transcriptional profiles of EWS through mediating EWS-FLI1.
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Project description:Radioresistance is regarded as the main barrier to effective radiotherapy in lung cancer. However, the underlying mechanisms of radioresistance remain elusive. Here, we show that lysine-specific demethylase 4C (KDM4C) is overexpressed and correlated with poor prognosis in lung cancer patients. We provide evidence that genetical or pharmacological inhibition of KDM4C impairs tumorigenesis and radioresistance in lung cancer in vitro and in vivo. Moreover, we uncover that KDM4C upregulates TGFβ2 expression by directly reducing H3K9me3 level at the TGFβ2 promoter and then activates TGF-β/Smad/ATM signaling to confer radioresistance in lung cancer. Using tandem affinity purification technology, we further identify deubiquitinase USP9X as a critical binding partner which deubiquitinates and stabilizes KDM4C. More importantly, depletion of USP9X impairs TGF-β/Smad signaling and radioresistance by destabilizing KDM4C in lung cancer cells. Thus, our findings demonstrate that USP9X-mediated KDM4C deubiquitination activates TGF-β/Smad signaling to promote radioresistance, suggesting that targeting KDM4C may be a promising radiosensitization strategy in the treatment of lung cancer.
2021-07-14 | GSE136404 | GEO
Project description:Assay the ubiquitinated protein remmants post depletion or inhibition of the deubiquitinase Usp9x in melanoma cells.
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