Nature Communications (Mar 2019)

The deubiquitylating enzyme USP15 regulates homologous recombination repair and cancer cell response to PARP inhibitors

  • Yihan Peng,
  • Qingchao Liao,
  • Wei Tan,
  • Changmin Peng,
  • Zhaohua Hu,
  • Yali Chen,
  • Zhuqing Li,
  • Jing Li,
  • Bei Zhen,
  • Wenge Zhu,
  • Xiangpan Li,
  • Yi Yao,
  • Qibin Song,
  • Chengsheng Liu,
  • Xiangdong Qi,
  • Fuchu He,
  • Huadong Pei

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-019-09232-8
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 10, no. 1
pp. 1 – 15

Abstract

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Deubiquitinases have been shown to be involved in double strand break repair pathways. Here the authors reveal that USP15 deybiquitinase plays a role in homologues recombination repair by targeting BARD1 and affecting cells response to PARP inhibitors.