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ArticleThe Journal of biological chemistry2012

Neutral sphingomyelinase 2 activity and protein stability are modulated by phosphorylation of five conserved serines.

Simone Filosto, Majid Ashfaq, Samuel Chung, William Fry, Tzipora Goldkorn

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Article in The Journal of biological chemistry, 2012. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 26 papers.

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26 citing papers in PubMed.

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  3. Neutral sphingomyelinase 2: A promising drug target for CNS disease.Advances in pharmacology (San Diego, Calif.) · 2025
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  7. Neutral sphingomyelinase-2 and cardiometabolic diseases.Obesity reviews : an official journal of the International Association for the Study of Obesity · 2021
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  14. Sphingolipids and their metabolism in physiology and disease.Nature reviews. Molecular cell biology · 2018
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  15. Structure of human nSMase2 reveals an interdomain allosteric activation mechanism for ceramide generation.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2017
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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

5 authors.

Simone FilostoDepartment of Internal Medicine, Genome and Biomedical Sciences Facility, University of California School of Medicine, Davis, California 95616.
Majid AshfaqDepartment of Internal Medicine, Genome and Biomedical Sciences Facility, University of California School of Medicine, Davis, California 95616.
Samuel ChungDepartment of Internal Medicine, Genome and Biomedical Sciences Facility, University of California School of Medicine, Davis, California 95616.
William FryDepartment of Internal Medicine, Genome and Biomedical Sciences Facility, University of California School of Medicine, Davis, California 95616.
Tzipora GoldkornDepartment of Internal Medicine, Genome and Biomedical Sciences Facility, University of California School of Medicine, Davis, California 95616. Electronic address: ttgoldkorn@ucdavis.edu.

Funding

MOLECULAR CHARACTERIZATION OF A LUNG SPHINGOMYELINASER01HL066189 · NHLBI · UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA DAVIS · PI GOLDKORN, TZIPORA · 2001 to 2013
$2.7M
Proteasome-ErB1 Impaired Interaction in Lung HyperplasiaR01HL071871 · NHLBI · UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA DAVIS · PI GOLDKORN, TZIPORA · 2003 to 2006
$1.2M
NHLBI NIH HHS HL-66189NHLBI NIH HHS HL-71871NHLBI NIH HHS R01 HL066189NHLBI NIH HHS R01 HL071871
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

We previously presented that the neutral sphingomyelinase 2 (nSMase2) is the only SMase activated in human airway epithelial (HAE) cells following exposure to oxidative stress (ox-stress), yielding ceramide accumulation and thereby inducing apoptosis. Furthermore, we reported that nSMase2 is a phospho-protein in which the level of phosphorylation controls nSMase2 activation induced by ox-stress. Here we identify five specific serines that are phosphorylated in nSMase2 and demonstrate that their phosphorylation controls the nSMase2 activity upon ox-stress exposure in an interdependent manner. Furthermore, we show that the nSMase2 protein stability and thus its level of expression is also post-translationally regulated by these five serine phosphorylation sites. This study provides initial structure/function insights regarding nSMase2 phosphorylation sites and offers some new links for future studies aiming to fully elucidate nSMase2 regulatory machinery.

Indexed as

Conserved SequenceAmino Acid SequenceAnimalsBinding SitesCell Line, TumorEnzyme StabilityEpithelial CellsHumansMiceMolecular Sequence DataOxidative StressPhosphorylationPhosphoserineSphingomyelin PhosphodiesteraseSubstrate SpecificityPhosphoserineSmpd3 protein, mouseSphingomyelin Phosphodiesterase

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PMID22074919
PMCPMC3249105

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