Happy to share our latest work🍾 🥳
PhD student Sophie Dürauer discovered together with many wonderful collaborators that the ubiquitylation of DNA-protein crosslinks promotes their cleavage by SPRTN more than 100-fold 🧬🔧
Julian Stingele
Allosteric activation of the SPRTN protease by ubiquitin maintains genome stability https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2024.11.26.625192v1
The DNA-dependent protease SPRTN maintains genome stability by degrading toxic DNA-protein crosslink