Nature Communications (Apr 2020)

FBXO22 degrades nuclear PTEN to promote tumorigenesis

  • Meng-Kai Ge,
  • Na Zhang,
  • Li Xia,
  • Cheng Zhang,
  • Shuang-Shu Dong,
  • Zhan-Ming Li,
  • Yan Ji,
  • Min-Hua Zheng,
  • Jing Sun,
  • Guo-Qiang Chen,
  • Shao-Ming Shen

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-020-15578-1
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 11, no. 1
pp. 1 – 14

Abstract

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Loss of nuclear PTEN is associated with aggressive cancers. Here the authors show that nuclear PTEN is more susceptible to ubiquitin-mediated proteasomal degradation than cytoplasmic PTEN, and identify FBXO22 ubiquitinates and degrades nuclear PTEN to promote tumorigenesis.