OTU (ovarian tumor) domain of Caenorhabditis elegans deubiquitylating enzyme with USP/UBP and OTU domains, and similar proteins
This subfamily is composed of mostly uncharacterized proteins containing an OTU domain, similar to Caenorhabditis elegans deubiquitylating enzyme with USP/UBP and OTU domains. OTU domain-containing proteins function as deubiquitinases (DUBs)/ubiquitin thiolesterases (EC 3.4.19.12) that catalyze the thiol-dependent hydrolysis of ester, thioester, amide, peptide and isopeptide bonds formed by the C-terminal Gly of ubiquitin, a small regulatory protein that can be conjugated to a large range of target proteins. Protein ubiquitination is a post-translational modification of mostly Lys residues that regulates many cellular processes, including protein degradation, intracellular trafficking, cell signaling, autophagy, transcription, translation, and the DNA damage response. These DUBs may play important regulatory roles at the level of protein turnover by preventing degradation. They belong to the OTU family of cysteine proteases that use a conserved cysteine, histidine, and an aspartate, as the catalytic triad.
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