USP10 strikes down β-catenin by dual-wielding deubiquitinase activity and phase separation potential

Abstract Wnt/β-catenin signaling is a conserved pathway crucially governing development, homeostasis and oncogenesis. Discovery of novel regulators holds great values in both basic and translational research. Through screening, we identified a deubiquitinase (DUB) USP10 as a novel and critical modulator of β-catenin. Mechanistically, USP10 binds to key scaffold Axin1 via conserved motifs and stabilizes Axin1 through K48-linked deubiquitination, and surprisingly, tethers Axin1 and β-catenin physically while promoting phase separation for β-catenin suppression regardless of its enzymatic activity. Functionally, USP10 prominently regulates embryonic development and intestinal homeostasis by antagonizing β-catenin via DUB activity. In colorectal cancer, USP10 substantially represses cancer growth mainly through physical binding compensation and phase separation promotion and correlates with Wnt/β-catenin magnitude clinically. Collectively, we discovered USP10 functioning in multiple biological processes against β-catenin and unearthed a novel enzyme-dependent and -independent “dual-regulating” mechanism by which USP10 utilizes parallelly and context-dependently. USP10 inhibitor was suggested in treating certain Wnt-related diseases..

Medienart:

Preprint

Erscheinungsjahr:

2024

Erschienen:

2024

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bioRxiv.org - (2024) vom: 23. Apr. Zur Gesamtaufnahme - year:2024

Sprache:

Englisch

Beteiligte Personen:

Wang, Yinuo [VerfasserIn]
Mao, Aihua [VerfasserIn]
Liu, Jingwei [VerfasserIn]
Li, Pengjie [VerfasserIn]
Zheng, Shaoqin [VerfasserIn]
Tong, Tong [VerfasserIn]
Li, Zexu [VerfasserIn]
Zhang, Haijiao [VerfasserIn]
Ma, Lanjing [VerfasserIn]
Lin, Jiahui [VerfasserIn]
Pang, Zhongqiu [VerfasserIn]
Han, Qing [VerfasserIn]
Qi, Fukang [VerfasserIn]
Zhang, Xinjun [VerfasserIn]
Chen, Maorong [VerfasserIn]
He, Xi [VerfasserIn]
Zhang, Xi [VerfasserIn]
Fei, Teng [VerfasserIn]
Liu, Bi-Feng [VerfasserIn]
Gao, Daming [VerfasserIn]
Cao, Liu [VerfasserIn]
Wang, Qiang [VerfasserIn]
Li, Yiwei [VerfasserIn]
Sheng, Ren [VerfasserIn]

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Biology

doi:

10.1101/2022.10.31.514466

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XBI037759566