Nature Communications (Jun 2019)

Lysine 68 acetylation directs MnSOD as a tetrameric detoxification complex versus a monomeric tumor promoter

  • Yueming Zhu,
  • Xianghui Zou,
  • Angela E. Dean,
  • Joseph O’ Brien,
  • Yucheng Gao,
  • Elizabeth L. Tran,
  • Seong-Hoon Park,
  • Guoxiang Liu,
  • Matthew B. Kieffer,
  • Haiyan Jiang,
  • Melissa E. Stauffer,
  • Robert Hart,
  • Songhua Quan,
  • Karla J. F. Satchell,
  • Nobuo Horikoshi,
  • Marcelo Bonini,
  • David Gius

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-019-10352-4
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 10, no. 1
pp. 1 – 15

Abstract

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The molecular mechanism by which acetylation regulates manganese superoxide dismutase (MnSOD) activity and its oncogenicity is unclear. Here the authors show that an acetylation mimicking MnSOD mutant is a monomer, has peroxidase function and acts as a tumor promoting factor.