Nature Communications (Oct 2019)

Second messenger Ap4A polymerizes target protein HINT1 to transduce signals in FcεRI-activated mast cells

  • Jing Yu,
  • Zaizhou Liu,
  • Yuanyuan Liang,
  • Feng Luo,
  • Jie Zhang,
  • Cuiping Tian,
  • Alex Motzik,
  • Mengmeng Zheng,
  • Jingwu Kang,
  • Guisheng Zhong,
  • Cong Liu,
  • Pengfei Fang,
  • Min Guo,
  • Ehud Razin,
  • Jing Wang

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-019-12710-8
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 10, no. 1
pp. 1 – 12

Abstract

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The second messenger Ap4A contributes to mast cell activation by interacting with HINT1 but the molecular mechanism is not fully understood. Here, the authors show that Ap4A regulates downstream signaling by polymerizing HINT1 and provide insights into how specificity over other second messengers is achieved.