Nature Communications (Sep 2018)

UBL3 modification influences protein sorting to small extracellular vesicles

  • Hiroshi Ageta,
  • Natsumi Ageta-Ishihara,
  • Keisuke Hitachi,
  • Ozge Karayel,
  • Takanori Onouchi,
  • Hisateru Yamaguchi,
  • Tomoaki Kahyo,
  • Ken Hatanaka,
  • Koji Ikegami,
  • Yusuke Yoshioka,
  • Kenji Nakamura,
  • Nobuyoshi Kosaka,
  • Masashi Nakatani,
  • Akiyoshi Uezumi,
  • Tomihiko Ide,
  • Yutaka Tsutsumi,
  • Haruhiko Sugimura,
  • Makoto Kinoshita,
  • Takahiro Ochiya,
  • Matthias Mann,
  • Mitsutoshi Setou,
  • Kunihiro Tsuchida

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-018-06197-y
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 9, no. 1
pp. 1 – 12

Abstract

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Exosomes mediate cell-to-cell communication by transporting proteins, mRNAs, and miRNAs but the mechanisms of protein sorting to exosomes are poorly understood. Here, the authors uncover that ubiquitin-like 3 (UBL3) regulates protein sorting to exosomes by acting as a posttranslational modification.