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Ubiquitin thioesterase OTUB1 also known as otubain-1 is an enzyme that in humans is encoded by the OTUB1gene. Alternative splicing results in multiple transcript variants.
Function
Otubain-1 is a member of the OTU (ovarian tumor) superfamily of predicted cysteine proteases. The encoded protein is a highly specific ubiquitin iso-peptidase, and cleaves ubiquitin from branched poly-ubiquitin chains, being specific for lysine -linked polyubiquitin but not lysine -linked polyubiquitin. It interacts with another ubiquitin protease and an E3 ubiquitin ligase that inhibits cytokine gene transcription in the immune system. It is proposed to function in specific ubiquitin-dependent pathways, possibly by providing an editing function for polyubiquitin chain growth.
Soares L, Seroogy C, Skrenta H, Anandasabapathy N, Lovelace P, Chung CD, Engleman E, Fathman CG (January 2004). "Two isoforms of otubain 1 regulate T cell anergy via GRAIL". Nat. Immunol. 5 (1): 45–54. doi:10.1038/ni1017. PMID14661020. S2CID27005972.
Further reading
Maruyama K, Sugano S (1994). "Oligo-capping: a simple method to replace the cap structure of eukaryotic mRNAs with oligoribonucleotides". Gene. 138 (1–2): 171–4. doi:10.1016/0378-1119(94)90802-8. PMID8125298.
Suzuki Y, Yoshitomo-Nakagawa K, Maruyama K, et al. (1997). "Construction and characterization of a full length-enriched and a 5'-end-enriched cDNA library". Gene. 200 (1–2): 149–56. doi:10.1016/S0378-1119(97)00411-3. PMID9373149.
Makarova KS, Aravind L, Koonin EV (2000). "A novel superfamily of predicted cysteine proteases from eukaryotes, viruses and Chlamydia pneumoniae". Trends Biochem. Sci. 25 (2): 50–2. doi:10.1016/S0968-0004(99)01530-3. PMID10664582.