Lysine 68 acetylation directs MnSOD as a tetrameric detoxification complex versus a monomeric tumor promoter

oleh: Yueming Zhu, Xianghui Zou, Angela E. Dean, Joseph O’ Brien, Yucheng Gao, Elizabeth L. Tran, Seong-Hoon Park, Guoxiang Liu, Matthew B. Kieffer, Haiyan Jiang, Melissa E. Stauffer, Robert Hart, Songhua Quan, Karla J. F. Satchell, Nobuo Horikoshi, Marcelo Bonini, David Gius

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Diterbitkan: Nature Portfolio 2019-06-01

Deskripsi

The molecular mechanism by which acetylation regulates manganese superoxide dismutase (MnSOD) activity and its oncogenicity is unclear. Here the authors show that an acetylation mimicking MnSOD mutant is a monomer, has peroxidase function and acts as a tumor promoting factor.