Nature Communications (Oct 2020)

CHIP phosphorylation by protein kinase G enhances protein quality control and attenuates cardiac ischemic injury

  • Mark J. Ranek,
  • Christian Oeing,
  • Rebekah Sanchez-Hodge,
  • Kristen M. Kokkonen-Simon,
  • Danielle Dillard,
  • M. Imran Aslam,
  • Peter P. Rainer,
  • Sumita Mishra,
  • Brittany Dunkerly-Eyring,
  • Ronald J. Holewinski,
  • Cornelia Virus,
  • Huaqun Zhang,
  • Matthew M. Mannion,
  • Vineet Agrawal,
  • Virginia Hahn,
  • Dong I. Lee,
  • Masayuki Sasaki,
  • Jennifer E. Van Eyk,
  • Monte S. Willis,
  • Richard C. Page,
  • Jonathan C. Schisler,
  • David A. Kass

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-020-18980-x
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 11, no. 1
pp. 1 – 12

Abstract

Read online

Carboxyl terminus of Hsc70-interacting protein (CHIP) is proteostasis regulator. Here the authors show that CHIP-mediated protein turnover is enhanced by PKG-mediated phosphorylation, which results in attenuated cardiac ischemic proteotoxicity.