Nature Communications (Dec 2022)

Loss of SUMO-specific protease 2 causes isolated glucocorticoid deficiency by blocking adrenal cortex zonal transdifferentiation in mice

  • Damien Dufour,
  • Typhanie Dumontet,
  • Isabelle Sahut-Barnola,
  • Aude Carusi,
  • Méline Onzon,
  • Eric Pussard,
  • James Jr Wilmouth,
  • Julie Olabe,
  • Cécily Lucas,
  • Adrien Levasseur,
  • Christelle Damon-Soubeyrand,
  • Jean-Christophe Pointud,
  • Florence Roucher-Boulez,
  • Igor Tauveron,
  • Guillaume Bossis,
  • Edward T. Yeh,
  • David T. Breault,
  • Pierre Val,
  • Anne-Marie Lefrançois-Martinez,
  • Antoine Martinez

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-022-35526-5
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 13, no. 1
pp. 1 – 18

Abstract

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SUMOylation is a mechanism of posttranslational modification involved in eukaryotic cell homeostasis. Here the authors report that mice unable to control SUMOylation in the adrenal cortex develop a selective defect in glucocorticoid production due to disrupted differentiation of cells involved in steroid hormone synthesis.