Nature Communications (Mar 2018)

USP52 acts as a deubiquitinase and promotes histone chaperone ASF1A stabilization

  • Shangda Yang,
  • Ling Liu,
  • Cheng Cao,
  • Nan Song,
  • Yuejiao Wang,
  • Shuai Ma,
  • Qi Zhang,
  • Na Yu,
  • Xiang Ding,
  • Fuquan Yang,
  • Shanshan Tian,
  • Kai Zhang,
  • Tao Sun,
  • Jie Yang,
  • Zhi Yao,
  • Shaoyuan Wu,
  • Lei Shi

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-018-03588-z
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 9, no. 1
pp. 1 – 17

Abstract

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Histone chaperone ASF1A is often dysregulated in cancers, however the regulation of its abundance is unclear. Here, the authors show that USP52 promotes ASF1A stability through deubiquitination while impairment of this stability reduces breast tumorigenesis and confers sensitivity to DNA damage.