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Keratin hypersumoylation alters filament dynamics and is a marker for human liver disease and keratin mutation.
The Journal of biological chemistry - 21 Jan 2011
Snider Natasha T, Weerasinghe Sujith V W, Iñiguez-Lluhí Jorge A, Herrmann Harald, Omary M Bishr
Abstract excerpt
Keratin polypeptide 8 (K8) associates noncovalently with its partners K18 and/or K19 to form the intermediate filament cytoskeleton of hepatocytes and other simple-type epithelial cells. Human K8, K18, and K19 variants predispose to liver disease, whereas site-specific keratin phosphorylation confers hepatoprotection. Because stress-induced protein phosphorylation regulates sumoylation, we hypothesized that...
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