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1: UCHL1 ubiquitin carboxyl-terminal esterase L1 (ubiquitin thiolesterase) [ Homo sapiens ]

GeneID: 7345 updated 05-Jul-2009

[Top][Help]Summary

Official Symbol
UCHL1provided by HGNC
Official Full Name
ubiquitin carboxyl-terminal esterase L1 (ubiquitin thiolesterase)provided by HGNC
Primary source
HGNC:12513
See related
Ensembl:ENSG00000154277; HPRD:01877; MIM:191342
Gene type
protein coding
RefSeq status
VALIDATED
Organism
Homo sapiens
Lineage
Eukaryota; Metazoa; Chordata; Craniata; Vertebrata; Euteleostomi; Mammalia; Eutheria; Euarchontoglires; Primates; Haplorrhini; Catarrhini; Hominidae; Homo
Also known as
PARK5; PGP95; PGP9.5; Uch-L1; UCHL1
Summary
UCHL1 is a member of a gene family whose products hydrolyze small C-terminal adducts of ubiquitin to generate the ubiquitin monomer. Expression of UCHL1 is highly specific to neurons and to cells of the diffuse neuroendocrine system and their tumors. It is present in all neurons (Doran et al., 1983 [PubMed 6343558]).[supplied by OMIM]

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Genomic context[Top][Help]

chromosome: 4; Location: 4p14See UCHL1 in MapViewer

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GeneRIFs: Gene References Into FunctionWhat's a GeneRIF?

PubMed 1. Our results support the hypothesis that PARK5 is caused by a gain-of-toxic-function of UCH-L1(Ile93Met) mutant, and suggest that regulation of UCH-L1 in nigral DA cells could be a future target for treatment of PD.
PubMed 2. Proteasome function is not affected by UCH-L1(membrane associated form), suggesting that it may negatively regulate the lysosomal degradation of alpha-synuclein.
PubMed 3. Positive staining for PGP9.5 has utility as a marker for parathyroid malignancy, with a slightly superior sensitivity and similar high specificity to that of parafibromin.
PubMed 4. the association of two polymorphisms of ubiquitin carboxy-terminal hydrolase-L1 gene(UCH-L1), the 54C/A in exon 3 and the 277C/G in exon 4, with sporadic Parkinson's disease(PD) in Hans from North China
PubMed 5. The C allele in exon 3 of UCH-L1 gene might be one of the risk factors for Parkinson's disease in Shanghai Han Nationality, but the polymorphisms of C/T in exon 4 showed no association with the onset of PD.
PubMed 6. This study shows for the first time that UCH-L1 plays a key role in the regulation of cell invasion in lung cancer, melanoma and in cancer metastasis, and that UCH-L1 modulates cell morphology by regulating the upstream Akt and influencing cell migration.
PubMed 7. activity was intense at the top of and labially to the [fetal] alveolar bone
PubMed 8. Over-expression of ubiquitin carboxy terminal hydrolase-L1 induces apoptosis in breast cancer cells.
PubMed 9. Findings indicated that PGP9.5 was less frequently methylated in metastatic colorectal cancer, suggesting that PGP9.5 hypomethylation might play an important role in re-expression of the PGP9.5 gene in colorectal cancer.
PubMed 10. do not support a role for mutation in UCH-L1 in sporadic Parkinson disease
PubMed 11. UCH-L1 directly interacted with the cytosolic region of LAMP-2A.
PubMed 12. UCH-L1 expression seems to be associated with the metastatic potential of HRCC SN12C cell clones.
PubMed 13. Epigenetic inactivation of UCHL1 is common in primary hepatocellular carcinomas(HCCs) and other digestive tumors and appears to be functional tumor suppressor involved in tumorigenesis of HCCs and other digestive cancers.
PubMed 14. methylation of the UCHL1 gene is associated with a poor prognosis in patients with renal cell carcinoma
PubMed 15. Mice that lack of UCH-L1 in neurons decrease in their ubiquitin-proteasome system function and enhanced sensitivity to oxidative stress.
PubMed 16. PGP9.5 is a tumor suppressor gene that is inactivated by promoter methylation or gene deletion in several types of human cancers.
PubMed 17. The carbonyl modification of UCH-L1 and subsequent abnormal interactions of carbonyl-modified UCH-L1 with multiple proteins, including tubulin, constitute one of the causes of sporadic Parkinson's disease.
PubMed 18. Abberant promoter methylation is the primary mechanism of transcriptional silencing of the UCHL1 gene and methylation of UCHL1 gene promoter increases in the progression of colorectal neoplasms.
PubMed 19. 2D fingerprinting & mass spectrometry reveal specific targets of protein oxidation in Alzheimer's disease brain, including ubiquitin carboxy-terminal hydrolase L-1, suggesting involvement of oxidatively modified proteins in neurodegeneration.
PubMed 20. Observational study and meta-analysis of gene-disease association. (HuGE Navigator)
PubMed 21. Observational study of gene-disease association and gene-gene interaction. (HuGE Navigator)
PubMed 22. Observational study of gene-disease association and gene-environment interaction. (HuGE Navigator)
PubMed 23. Observational study of gene-disease association. (HuGE Navigator)
PubMed 24. UCHL1 S18Y is not a major susceptibility factor for PD in white populations although we cannot exclude the possibility that the S18Y variant exerts weak effects on risk, particularly in early-onset disease.
PubMed 25. The finding that PGP 9.5 and ChA are expressed by PC-3 and DU145 cells suggests that these cells may have been derived from metastatic adenocarcinomas which had undergone neuroendocrine differentiation or expression occurred as a result of cell culture.
PubMed 26. Mutations of the UCH-L1 gene and alterations of its proteins' activity have been found to associate with several neurodegenerative disorders: Parkinson's, Huntington's and Alzheimer's diseases [review]
PubMed 27. UCH-L1 is not expressed specifically in dopamine neurons. The abundant expression of UCH-L1 in peripheral neurons may be of relevance for the spectrum of symptoms in different forms of Parkinson's.
PubMed 28. The tyrosine variant was significantly inversely associated with PD (P=0.049) and with a low age of onset (50 years) (P=0.017) in the case-control material, supporting the hypothesis of a protective function.
PubMed 29. UCHL1 may partially attenuate vascular remodeling through inhibition of NF-kappaB activity.
PubMed 30. Alterations in alpha-helical content and hydrolase activity of parkinsonism-associated ubiquitin carboxyl-terminal hydrolase L1 variants.
PubMed 31. Analyses confirmed a significant inverse association of the UCHL1 S18Y polymorphism with PD overall (OR=0.18, 95% CI=0.05-0.64, p=0.002, recessive model) and in several strata.
PubMed 32. UCHL1 expression seems to be associated with the metastatic phenotype of renal cell carcinoma
PubMed 33. Down-regulation of UCH-L1 is associated with Uterine Cervical Neoplasms
PubMed 34. Silencing of the UCHL1 gene is associated with colorectal and ovarian cancers
PubMed 35. ubiquitin carboxyl-terminal hydrolase L1 is oxidatively modified and downregulated in idiopathic Parkinson's and Alzheimer's diseases
PubMed 36. PGP9.5 colocalizes with JAB1 and p27(Kip1)in the nucleus
PubMed 37. The relative amount of nerve fibers in rat prostate, detected by PGP 9.5, does not change during postnatal development
PubMed 38. Excess UCH-L1 influenced the distribution of proliferating cell nuclear antigen and suggests a specific role for UCH-L1 in the processes of mitotic proliferation and differentiation of spermatogonial stem cells during spermatogenesis.
PubMed 39. A statistically significant inverse genetic association of the UCHL1 S18Y variant has been found confirming UCHL1 as a susceptibility gene for Parkinson's disease.
PubMed 40. multiple functional balance is closely linked to the intermolecular interactions between the UCH-L1 monomer and the final dimeric configuration
PubMed 41. UCHL1 is involved in the degradation of unwanted, misfolded, or damaged proteins and is overexpressed in >50% of lung cancers, its overexpression in chronic smokers may represent an early event in the transformation from normal epithelium to malignancy.
PubMed 42. Important issues regarding UCHL-1 and its role in Parkinson disease remain inconclusive, especially regarding the pathogenicity of the mendelian I93M mutation
PubMed 43. These results suggest that UCH-L1 spatially mediates and enhances neurogenesis in the embryonic brain by regulating progenitor cell morphology.
PubMed 44. The identification of pathogenic mutations in the ubiquitin carboxy-terminal hydrolase L1 (UCHL1) has elucidated the ubiquitin proteasome system (UPS) and its potential role as a causal pathway in Parkinson's disease (PD).
PubMed 45. UCH-L1 accumulation is likely to play a pathological role in inclusion formation in Parkinson's disease
PubMed 46. exhibits a second, dimerization-dependent, ubiquityl ligase activity; a polymorphic variant of UCH-L1 that is associated with decreased Parkinson's disease risk has reduced ligase activity but comparable hydrolase activity as the wild-type enzyme
PubMed 47. the three-dimensional structure of human UCH-L1 at 2.4-A resolution by x-ray crystallography was determined.
PubMed 48. Ubiquitin side chains critical for establishing the Michaelis complex and enabling catalysis were identified, and features of this complex that differ between UCH-L1 and a homologue, UCH-L3 are revealed.
PubMed 49. Data show that impairment of UCH-L1 ubiquitin hydrolase activity may be an important contributor to neurodegeneration associated with accumulation of ubiquitinated proteins and inflammation.
PubMed 50. study expands the immunophenotype of granular cell tumor (S100, CD68, protein gene product 9.5, and inhibin-alpha) regardless of location and supports a neural origin
PubMed 51. Together, these observations show reduced UCHL-1 expression as a contributory factor in the abnormal protein aggregation in DLB, and points UCHL-1 as a putative therapeutic target in the treatment of DLB.
PubMed 52. functional relevance of S18Y polymorphism of UCHL1 in 946 Caucasian Huntington's disease patients; allelic variation on locus S18Y is responsible for 1.1% of the variance in the HD age-at-onset, & the rare Y allele is associated with younger-aged cases
PubMed 53. allele and YY genotype of S18Y in the UCH-L1 gene may have a protective effect against sporadic AD in female subjects, probably due to altering the function of UCH-L1 and the interactions among different risk factors.
PubMed 54. UCH-L1 deficiency and impairment of the ubiquitin-dependent protein degradation pathway can contribute to the increased cell death observed in many lysosomal storage disorders.
PubMed 55. Exposure to chronic hyperglycemia following 90% partial pancreatectomy leads to reduced Uch-L1 expression

[Top][Help]Interactions

Description ..........
  Product Interactant Other Gene Complex Source Pubs          
 
  NP_004172.2   Cyclin dependent kinase inhibitor 1B   CDKN1B     HPRD   PubMed
 
  NP_004172.2   COP9, subunit 5   COPS5     HPRD   PubMed
 
  NP_004172.2   RAN binding protein 9   RANBP9     HPRD   PubMed
 
  NP_004172.2   Synuclein alpha   SNCA     HPRD   PubMed
 
  NP_004172.2   UBC9       HPRD   PubMed
Two-hybrid
  BioGRID:113192   BioGRID:116151   CBX1     BioGRID   PubMed
Affinity Capture-Western
  BioGRID:113192   BioGRID:107461   CDKN1B     BioGRID   PubMed
Affinity Capture-Western; Two-hybrid
  BioGRID:113192   BioGRID:116183   COPS5     BioGRID   PubMed
Two-hybrid
  BioGRID:113192   BioGRID:110815   NEDD8     BioGRID   PubMed
Two-hybrid
  BioGRID:113192   BioGRID:115359   RANBP9     BioGRID   PubMed
Affinity Capture-Western
  BioGRID:113192   BioGRID:113010   TP53     BioGRID   PubMed
Two-hybrid
  BioGRID:113192   BioGRID:113164   UBC     BioGRID   PubMed
Two-hybrid
  BioGRID:113192   BioGRID:113177   UBE2I     BioGRID   PubMed

[Top][Help]General gene information

Markers

SHGC-67809(e-PCR)
Links: UniSTS:53769
Alternate names: RH65812; RH95089; stSG31786
SHGC-59749(e-PCR)
Links: UniSTS:35595
Alternate names: RH18077; RH77025; X04741
Uchl1(e-PCR), detects polymorphism
Links: UniSTS:516647
Alternate name: MGI:3804413

Phenotypes

Parkinson disease, familial
MIM: 168600

Pathways

KEGG pathway: Neurodegenerative Disorders
01510
KEGG pathway: Parkinson's disease
05020

Homology

Mouse, Rat
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GeneOntology Provided by GOA

Function Evidence
cysteine-type endopeptidase activity
PubMed 8639624
IDA PubMed
ligase activity IEA
omega peptidase activity
PubMed 9521656
IDA PubMed
peptidase activity IEA
protein binding
PubMed 12082530
IPI PubMed
ubiquitin binding
PubMed 9521656
IDA PubMed
ubiquitin thiolesterase activity
PubMed 9521656
TAS PubMed
Component Evidence
axon IEA
cell soma IEA
cytoplasm ISS
cytoplasm
PubMed 16130169
TAS PubMed
cytosol IEA
intracellular IEA
NOT nucleolus
PubMed 18029348
IDA PubMed
nucleus
PubMed 18029348
IDA PubMed

[Top][Help]General protein information

Preferred Names
ubiquitin carboxyl-terminal esterase L1
Names
ubiquitin carboxyl-terminal esterase L1
ubiquitin thiolesterase L1
neuron cytoplasmic protein 9.5
ubiquitin C-terminal esterase L1
NP_004172.2
EC 3.4.19.12

[Top][Help]NCBI Reference Sequences (RefSeq)

RefSeqs maintained independently of Annotated Genomes

These reference sequences exist independently of genome builds. Explain

mRNA and Protein(s)

  1. NM_004181.4NP_004172.2 ubiquitin carboxyl-terminal esterase L1

    Source sequence(s)
    BC000332,BP202166
    Consensus CDS
    CCDS3462.1
    UniProtKB/Swiss-Prot
    P09936
    UniProtKB/TrEMBL
    Q4W5K6
    Conserved Domains (1) summary
    pfam01088
    Location:5208
    Blast Score:591
    Peptidase_C12; Ubiquitin carboxyl-terminal hydrolase, family 1

RefSeqs of Annotated Genomes: Build 37.1

The following sections contain reference sequences that belong to a specific genome build. Explain

Genome Reference Consortium Human Build 37 (GRCh37), Primary_Assembly

Genomic

  1. NC_000004.11 Genome Reference Consortium Human Build 37 (GRCh37), Primary_Assembly

    Range
    41258929..41270446
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  2. NT_006238.11

    Range
    961833..973350
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Alternate assembly (Celera)

Genomic

  1. AC_000047.1 Alternate assembly (Celera)

    Range
    41702230..41713746
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    GenBank  FASTA Sequence Viewer (Graphics)
  2. NW_922073.1

    Range
    31828972..31840488
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Alternate assembly (HuRef)

Genomic

  1. AC_000136.1 Alternate assembly (HuRef)

    Range
    40580875..40592391
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  2. NW_001838903.1

    Range
    959310..970826
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[Top][Help]Related Sequences

Nucleotide   Protein
Genomic   AC095043.3   AAY40923.1
Genomic   AF076273.1   AAD09172.1
Genomic   CH471069.1   EAW92978.1
    EAW92979.1
    EAW92980.1
    EAW92981.1
    EAW92982.1
    EAW92983.1
Genomic   X17377.1   CAA35249.1
mRNA   AB209038.1   BAD92275.1
mRNA   AK054579.1   BAG51393.1
mRNA   AK315368.1   BAG37761.1
mRNA   BC000332.2   AAH00332.1
mRNA   BC005117.1   AAH05117.1
mRNA   BC006305.2   AAH06305.1
mRNA   BC018838.2    None
mRNA   BP202166.1    None
mRNA   CR591761.1    None
mRNA   CR595667.1    None
mRNA   CR596405.1    None
mRNA   CR598599.1    None
mRNA   CR598723.1    None
mRNA   CR600224.1    None
mRNA   CR601816.1    None
mRNA   CR605906.1    None
mRNA   CR609313.1    None
mRNA   CR609753.1    None
mRNA   CR610215.1    None
mRNA   CR610620.1    None
mRNA   CR610993.1    None
mRNA   CR613951.1    None
mRNA   CR614115.1    None
mRNA   CR614674.1    None
mRNA   CR614782.1    None
mRNA   CR616949.1    None
mRNA   CR619178.1    None
mRNA   CR623179.1    None
mRNA   CR623929.1    None
mRNA   CR624065.1    None
mRNA   CR626014.1    None
mRNA   X04741.1   CAA28443.1
Synthetic   DQ891998.2   ABM82924.1
Synthetic   DQ895188.2   ABM86114.1
Protein Accession   Links
P09936.2   GenPept   UniProtKB/Swiss-Prot
Q59GS1   GenPept   UniProtKB/TrEMBL