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ArticleLife science alliance2020

An evolutionary approach to systematic discovery of novel deubiquitinases, applied to

Thomas Hermanns, Ilka Woiwode, Ricardo Fm Guerreiro, Robert Vogt, Michael Lammers, Kay Hofmann

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Article in Life science alliance, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 18 papers.

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18citing papers in PubMed
1.8field-weighted citation impact, top 15% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

18 citing papers in PubMed, 27 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

6 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.

Thomas HermannsInstitute for Genetics, University of Cologne, Cologne, Germany.ORCID 0000-0001-5350-7479
Ilka WoiwodeInstitute for Genetics, University of Cologne, Cologne, Germany.ORCID 0000-0002-1095-6861
Ricardo Fm GuerreiroInstitute for Genetics, University of Cologne, Cologne, Germany.
Robert VogtInstitute of Biochemistry, Synthetic and Structural Biochemistry, University of Greifswald, Greifswald, Germany.
Michael LammersInstitute of Biochemistry, Synthetic and Structural Biochemistry, University of Greifswald, Greifswald, Germany.ORCID 0000-0003-4168-4640
Kay HofmannInstitute for Genetics, University of Cologne, Cologne, Germany kay.hofmann@uni-koeln.de.ORCID 0000-0002-2289-9083
University of Cologne · DEUniversität Greifswald · DE

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Deubiquitinating enzymes (DUBs) are important regulators of the posttranslational protein ubiquitination system. Mammalian genomes encode about 100 different DUBs, which can be grouped into seven different classes. Members of other DUB classes are found in pathogenic bacteria, which use them to target the host defense. By combining bioinformatical and experimental approaches, we address the question if the known DUB families have a common evolutionary ancestry and share conserved features that set them apart from other proteases. By systematically comparing family-specific hidden Markov models, we uncovered distant relationships between established DUBs and other cysteine protease families. Most DUB families share a conserved aromatic residue linked to the active site, which restricts the cleavage of substrates with side chains at the S2 position, corresponding to Gly-75 in ubiquitin. By applying these criteria to

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AnimalsBiological EvolutionCatalytic DomainDeubiquitinating EnzymesEndopeptidasesEvolution, MolecularHumansLegionellaPhylogenySubstrate SpecificityUbiquitinUbiquitinationDeubiquitinating EnzymesEndopeptidasesUbiquitin

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PMID32719160
PMCPMC7391069
OpenAlexW3044043687

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