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USP1

Ubiquitin carboxyl-terminal hydrolase 1 is an enzyme that in humans is encoded by the USP1 gene.[1][2]

This gene encodes a member of the ubiquitin-specific processing (UBP) family of proteases that is a deubiquitinating enzyme (DUB) with His and Cys domains. This protein is located in the cytoplasm and cleaves the ubiquitin moiety from ubiquitin-fused precursors and ubiquitinylated proteins. The protein specifically deubiquitinates a protein in the Fanconi anemia (FA) DNA repair pathway. Alternate transcriptional splice variants have been characterized.[2]

References

References

  1. Puente XS, Sanchez LM, Overall CM, Lopez-Otin C (Jul 2003). “Human and mouse proteases: a comparative genomic approach”. Nat Rev Genet. 4 (7): 544–58. doi:10.1038/nrg1111. PMID 12838346.
  2. 2.0 2.1 “Entrez Gene: USP1 ubiquitin specific peptidase 1”.
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