Nature Communications (Apr 2021)

IP6-assisted CSN-COP1 competition regulates a CRL4-ETV5 proteolytic checkpoint to safeguard glucose-induced insulin secretion

  • Hong Lin,
  • Yuan Yan,
  • Yifan Luo,
  • Wing Yan So,
  • Xiayun Wei,
  • Xiaozhe Zhang,
  • Xiaoli Yang,
  • Jun Zhang,
  • Yang Su,
  • Xiuyan Yang,
  • Bobo Zhang,
  • Kangjun Zhang,
  • Nan Jiang,
  • Billy Kwok Chong Chow,
  • Weiping Han,
  • Fengchao Wang,
  • Feng Rao

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-021-22941-3
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 12, no. 1
pp. 1 – 13

Abstract

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Mediators of insulin signalling are targets of cullin-RING ubiquitin ligases (CRL) that mediate protein degradation, but the role of protein degradation in insulin signalling is incompletely understood. Here, the authors identified a glucose-responsive CRL4-COP1-ETV5 proteolytic axis that promotes insulin secretion, and is inhibited under hypoglycemia.