Nature Communications (Feb 2019)

CIC protein instability contributes to tumorigenesis in glioblastoma

  • Severa Bunda,
  • Pardeep Heir,
  • Julie Metcalf,
  • Annie Si Cong Li,
  • Sameer Agnihotri,
  • Stefan Pusch,
  • Mamatjan Yasin,
  • Mira Li,
  • Kelly Burrell,
  • Sheila Mansouri,
  • Olivia Singh,
  • Mark Wilson,
  • Amir Alamsahebpour,
  • Romina Nejad,
  • Bethany Choi,
  • David Kim,
  • Andreas von Deimling,
  • Gelareh Zadeh,
  • Kenneth Aldape

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-018-08087-9
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 10, no. 1
pp. 1 – 17

Abstract

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Capicua (CIC) is a tumour suppressor in oligodendroglioma. Here, the authors show that ERK activation mediates CIC regulation via ubiquitination and degradation by PJA1 and a degradation resistant form of CIC enhances efficacy of ERK inhibition in glioblastoma.