Nature Communications (Sep 2018)

A bidentate Polycomb Repressive-Deubiquitinase complex is required for efficient activity on nucleosomes

  • Martina Foglizzo,
  • Adam J. Middleton,
  • Abigail E. Burgess,
  • Jennifer M. Crowther,
  • Renwick C. J. Dobson,
  • James M. Murphy,
  • Catherine L. Day,
  • Peter D. Mace

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-018-06186-1
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 9, no. 1
pp. 1 – 15

Abstract

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The Polycomb Repressive-Deubiquitinase (PR-DUB) complex is responsible for the removal of the ubiquitin epigenetic modification from Histone 2A. Here the authors describe the structure of the Drosophila PR-DUB complex, providing new insight into its regulation and how cancer-associated mutations disrupt PR-DUB activity.