ID UBP44_MOUSE Reviewed; 711 AA. AC Q8C2S0; DT 13-JUL-2010, integrated into UniProtKB/Swiss-Prot. DT 28-NOV-2012, sequence version 3. DT 27-MAR-2024, entry version 150. DE RecName: Full=Ubiquitin carboxyl-terminal hydrolase 44; DE EC=3.4.19.12 {ECO:0000269|PubMed:23187126, ECO:0000269|PubMed:33937266}; DE AltName: Full=Deubiquitinating enzyme 44; DE AltName: Full=Ubiquitin thioesterase 44; DE AltName: Full=Ubiquitin-specific-processing protease 44; GN Name=Usp44; OS Mus musculus (Mouse). OC Eukaryota; Metazoa; Chordata; Craniata; Vertebrata; Euteleostomi; Mammalia; OC Eutheria; Euarchontoglires; Glires; Rodentia; Myomorpha; Muroidea; Muridae; OC Murinae; Mus; Mus. OX NCBI_TaxID=10090; RN [1] RP NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE [MRNA], FUNCTION, SUBCELLULAR LOCATION, AND PROTEASOMAL RP DEGRADATION. RC TISSUE=Kidney; RX PubMed=21853124; DOI=10.1371/journal.pone.0023389; RA Zhang Y., van Deursen J., Galardy P.J.; RT "Overexpression of ubiquitin specific protease 44 (USP44) induces RT chromosomal instability and is frequently observed in human T-cell RT leukemia."; RL PLoS ONE 6:E23389-E23389(2011). RN [2] RP NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE [LARGE SCALE MRNA]. RC STRAIN=NOD; TISSUE=Thymus; RX PubMed=16141072; DOI=10.1126/science.1112014; RA Carninci P., Kasukawa T., Katayama S., Gough J., Frith M.C., Maeda N., RA Oyama R., Ravasi T., Lenhard B., Wells C., Kodzius R., Shimokawa K., RA Bajic V.B., Brenner S.E., Batalov S., Forrest A.R., Zavolan M., Davis M.J., RA Wilming L.G., Aidinis V., Allen J.E., Ambesi-Impiombato A., Apweiler R., RA Aturaliya R.N., Bailey T.L., Bansal M., Baxter L., Beisel K.W., Bersano T., RA Bono H., Chalk A.M., Chiu K.P., Choudhary V., Christoffels A., RA Clutterbuck D.R., Crowe M.L., Dalla E., Dalrymple B.P., de Bono B., RA Della Gatta G., di Bernardo D., Down T., Engstrom P., Fagiolini M., RA Faulkner G., Fletcher C.F., Fukushima T., Furuno M., Futaki S., RA Gariboldi M., Georgii-Hemming P., Gingeras T.R., Gojobori T., Green R.E., RA Gustincich S., Harbers M., Hayashi Y., Hensch T.K., Hirokawa N., Hill D., RA Huminiecki L., Iacono M., Ikeo K., Iwama A., Ishikawa T., Jakt M., RA Kanapin A., Katoh M., Kawasawa Y., Kelso J., Kitamura H., Kitano H., RA Kollias G., Krishnan S.P., Kruger A., Kummerfeld S.K., Kurochkin I.V., RA Lareau L.F., Lazarevic D., Lipovich L., Liu J., Liuni S., McWilliam S., RA Madan Babu M., Madera M., Marchionni L., Matsuda H., Matsuzawa S., Miki H., RA Mignone F., Miyake S., Morris K., Mottagui-Tabar S., Mulder N., Nakano N., RA Nakauchi H., Ng P., Nilsson R., Nishiguchi S., Nishikawa S., Nori F., RA Ohara O., Okazaki Y., Orlando V., Pang K.C., Pavan W.J., Pavesi G., RA Pesole G., Petrovsky N., Piazza S., Reed J., Reid J.F., Ring B.Z., RA Ringwald M., Rost B., Ruan Y., Salzberg S.L., Sandelin A., Schneider C., RA Schoenbach C., Sekiguchi K., Semple C.A., Seno S., Sessa L., Sheng Y., RA Shibata Y., Shimada H., Shimada K., Silva D., Sinclair B., Sperling S., RA Stupka E., Sugiura K., Sultana R., Takenaka Y., Taki K., Tammoja K., RA Tan S.L., Tang S., Taylor M.S., Tegner J., Teichmann S.A., Ueda H.R., RA van Nimwegen E., Verardo R., Wei C.L., Yagi K., Yamanishi H., RA Zabarovsky E., Zhu S., Zimmer A., Hide W., Bult C., Grimmond S.M., RA Teasdale R.D., Liu E.T., Brusic V., Quackenbush J., Wahlestedt C., RA Mattick J.S., Hume D.A., Kai C., Sasaki D., Tomaru Y., Fukuda S., RA Kanamori-Katayama M., Suzuki M., Aoki J., Arakawa T., Iida J., Imamura K., RA Itoh M., Kato T., Kawaji H., Kawagashira N., Kawashima T., Kojima M., RA Kondo S., Konno H., Nakano K., Ninomiya N., Nishio T., Okada M., Plessy C., RA Shibata K., Shiraki T., Suzuki S., Tagami M., Waki K., Watahiki A., RA Okamura-Oho Y., Suzuki H., Kawai J., Hayashizaki Y.; RT "The transcriptional landscape of the mammalian genome."; RL Science 309:1559-1563(2005). RN [3] RP NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE [LARGE SCALE GENOMIC DNA]. RC STRAIN=C57BL/6J; RX PubMed=19468303; DOI=10.1371/journal.pbio.1000112; RA Church D.M., Goodstadt L., Hillier L.W., Zody M.C., Goldstein S., She X., RA Bult C.J., Agarwala R., Cherry J.L., DiCuccio M., Hlavina W., Kapustin Y., RA Meric P., Maglott D., Birtle Z., Marques A.C., Graves T., Zhou S., RA Teague B., Potamousis K., Churas C., Place M., Herschleb J., Runnheim R., RA Forrest D., Amos-Landgraf J., Schwartz D.C., Cheng Z., Lindblad-Toh K., RA Eichler E.E., Ponting C.P.; RT "Lineage-specific biology revealed by a finished genome assembly of the RT mouse."; RL PLoS Biol. 7:E1000112-E1000112(2009). RN [4] RP NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE [LARGE SCALE MRNA]. RX PubMed=15489334; DOI=10.1101/gr.2596504; RG The MGC Project Team; RT "The status, quality, and expansion of the NIH full-length cDNA project: RT the Mammalian Gene Collection (MGC)."; RL Genome Res. 14:2121-2127(2004). RN [5] RP TISSUE SPECIFICITY. RX PubMed=20402667; DOI=10.1042/cbi20090144; RA Suresh B., Ramakrishna S., Lee H.J., Choi J.H., Kim J.Y., Ahn W.S., RA Baek K.H.; RT "K48- and K63-linked polyubiquitination of deubiquitinating enzyme USP44."; RL Cell Biol. Int. 34:799-808(2010). RN [6] RP FUNCTION, CATALYTIC ACTIVITY, MUTAGENESIS OF CYS-281, AND DISRUPTION RP PHENOTYPE. RX PubMed=23187126; DOI=10.1172/jci63084; RA Zhang Y., Foreman O., Wigle D.A., Kosari F., Vasmatzis G., Salisbury J.L., RA van Deursen J., Galardy P.J.; RT "USP44 regulates centrosome positioning to prevent aneuploidy and suppress RT tumorigenesis."; RL J. Clin. Invest. 122:4362-4374(2012). RN [7] RP FUNCTION, MUTAGENESIS OF CYS-281, DISRUPTION PHENOTYPE, AND CATALYTIC RP ACTIVITY. RX PubMed=33937266; DOI=10.3389/fcell.2021.663411; RA Zhang Y., Mandemaker I.K., Matsumoto S., Foreman O., Holland C.P., RA Lloyd W.R., Sugasawa K., Vermeulen W., Marteijn J.A., Galardy P.J.; RT "USP44 Stabilizes DDB2 to Facilitate Nucleotide Excision Repair and Prevent RT Tumors."; RL Front. Cell Dev. Biol. 9:663411-663411(2021). CC -!- FUNCTION: Deubiquitinase that plays a key regulatory role in the CC spindle assembly checkpoint or mitotic checkpoint by preventing CC premature anaphase onset (PubMed:23187126). Acts by specifically CC mediating deubiquitination of CDC20, a negative regulator of the CC anaphase promoting complex/cyclosome (APC/C). Deubiquitination of CDC20 CC leads to stabilize the MAD2L1-CDC20-APC/C ternary complex (also named CC mitotic checkpoint complex), thereby preventing premature activation of CC the APC/C. Promotes association of MAD2L1 with CDC20 and reinforces the CC spindle assembly checkpoint. Promotes also the deubiquitination of CC histone H2A and H2B. Recruited to RNF8/RNF168-ubiquitinated chromatin CC surrounding double stranded breaks (DSBs), promotes hydrolysis of such CC ubiquitin conjugates, thus negatively regulating protein recruitment to CC damaged chromatin (By similarity). Participates in nucleotide excision CC repair (NER) pathway by deubiquitinating DDB2 to prevent its premature CC degradation so it can remain on damaged chromatin (PubMed:23187126). CC Promotes FOXP3 stabilization through 'Lys-48'-linked deubiquitination CC leading to increased stability and increased regulatory T-cell lineage CC stability. Plays also a positive role in innate immune response to DNA CC viruses by deubiquitinating STING1, selectively removing its 'Lys-48'- CC linked polyubiquitin chains and stabilizing it (By similarity). CC {ECO:0000250|UniProtKB:Q9H0E7, ECO:0000269|PubMed:21853124, CC ECO:0000269|PubMed:23187126}. CC -!- CATALYTIC ACTIVITY: CC Reaction=Thiol-dependent hydrolysis of ester, thioester, amide, peptide CC and isopeptide bonds formed by the C-terminal Gly of ubiquitin (a 76- CC residue protein attached to proteins as an intracellular targeting CC signal).; EC=3.4.19.12; Evidence={ECO:0000269|PubMed:23187126, CC ECO:0000269|PubMed:33937266}; CC -!- SUBUNIT: Interacts with the N-CoR components TBL1X and TBL1XR1. CC {ECO:0000250|UniProtKB:Q9H0E7}. CC -!- INTERACTION: CC Q8C2S0; Q99JB6: Foxp3; NbExp=3; IntAct=EBI-26303241, EBI-10956246; CC -!- SUBCELLULAR LOCATION: Nucleus {ECO:0000250|UniProtKB:Q9H0E7}. Cytoplasm CC {ECO:0000250|UniProtKB:Q9H0E7}. Note=Peaks in interphase, with CC relatively low levels maintained throughout mitosis. {ECO:0000250}. CC -!- TISSUE SPECIFICITY: Widely expressed. Highly expressed in lung, CC pancreas, skin, liver, stomach and intestine. CC {ECO:0000269|PubMed:20402667}. CC -!- PTM: Dephosphorylated by CTDP1. {ECO:0000250}. CC -!- PTM: Ubiquitinated; undergoes both 'Lys-48'- and 'Lys-63'-linked CC polyubiquitination and is degraded by the proteasome. CC -!- DISRUPTION PHENOTYPE: USP44-deficient mice show a significant increase CC in skin tumors when compared to wild-type mice (PubMed:33937266). In CC addition, they are prone to development of spontaneous tumors, CC particularly in the lungs (PubMed:23187126). USP44 loss causes also CC chromosome mis-segregation and aneuploidy (PubMed:23187126). CC {ECO:0000269|PubMed:23187126, ECO:0000269|PubMed:33937266}. CC -!- SIMILARITY: Belongs to the peptidase C19 family. USP44 subfamily. CC {ECO:0000305}. CC -!- SEQUENCE CAUTION: CC Sequence=AAI11887.1; Type=Miscellaneous discrepancy; Note=Intron retention.; Evidence={ECO:0000305}; CC Sequence=BAC40148.1; Type=Miscellaneous discrepancy; Note=Intron retention.; Evidence={ECO:0000305}; CC --------------------------------------------------------------------------- CC Copyrighted by the UniProt Consortium, see https://www.uniprot.org/terms CC Distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY 4.0) License CC --------------------------------------------------------------------------- DR EMBL; AK088109; BAC40148.1; ALT_SEQ; mRNA. DR EMBL; CJ236846; -; NOT_ANNOTATED_CDS; mRNA. DR EMBL; AC124686; -; NOT_ANNOTATED_CDS; Genomic_DNA. DR EMBL; BC111886; AAI11887.1; ALT_SEQ; mRNA. DR CCDS; CCDS88075.1; -. DR RefSeq; NP_001193780.1; NM_001206851.1. DR RefSeq; XP_011241781.1; XM_011243479.2. DR RefSeq; XP_011241782.1; XM_011243480.2. DR RefSeq; XP_011241783.1; XM_011243481.2. DR RefSeq; XP_011241784.1; XM_011243482.2. DR RefSeq; XP_011241785.1; XM_011243483.2. DR RefSeq; XP_011241786.1; XM_011243484.2. DR RefSeq; XP_011241787.1; XM_011243485.2. DR RefSeq; XP_011241788.1; XM_011243486.2. DR RefSeq; XP_011241789.1; XM_011243487.2. DR RefSeq; XP_011241790.1; XM_011243488.2. DR RefSeq; XP_011241791.1; XM_011243489.2. DR RefSeq; XP_011241792.1; XM_011243490.2. DR AlphaFoldDB; Q8C2S0; -. DR BioGRID; 236490; 3. DR IntAct; Q8C2S0; 1. DR MINT; Q8C2S0; -. DR STRING; 10090.ENSMUSP00000149020; -. DR MEROPS; C19.057; -. DR iPTMnet; Q8C2S0; -. DR PhosphoSitePlus; Q8C2S0; -. DR PaxDb; 10090-ENSMUSP00000092975; -. DR ProteomicsDB; 298363; -. DR Antibodypedia; 17590; 341 antibodies from 24 providers. DR DNASU; 327799; -. DR Ensembl; ENSMUST00000216224.2; ENSMUSP00000149020.2; ENSMUSG00000020020.9. DR GeneID; 327799; -. DR KEGG; mmu:327799; -. DR UCSC; uc029rep.1; mouse. DR AGR; MGI:3045318; -. DR CTD; 84101; -. DR MGI; MGI:3045318; Usp44. DR VEuPathDB; HostDB:ENSMUSG00000020020; -. DR eggNOG; KOG1867; Eukaryota. DR GeneTree; ENSGT00940000160526; -. DR InParanoid; Q8C2S0; -. DR OMA; RYQCNGK; -. DR OrthoDB; 227085at2759; -. DR Reactome; R-MMU-5689880; Ub-specific processing proteases. DR BioGRID-ORCS; 327799; 2 hits in 78 CRISPR screens. DR ChiTaRS; Usp44; mouse. DR PRO; PR:Q8C2S0; -. DR Proteomes; UP000000589; Chromosome 10. DR RNAct; Q8C2S0; Protein. DR Bgee; ENSMUSG00000020020; Expressed in spermatid and 27 other cell types or tissues. DR GO; GO:0005737; C:cytoplasm; IBA:GO_Central. DR GO; GO:0005634; C:nucleus; IDA:UniProtKB. DR GO; GO:0004843; F:cysteine-type deubiquitinase activity; ISO:MGI. DR GO; GO:0101005; F:deubiquitinase activity; ISO:MGI. DR GO; GO:0008270; F:zinc ion binding; IEA:InterPro. DR GO; GO:0140374; P:antiviral innate immune response; ISO:MGI. DR GO; GO:0051301; P:cell division; IEA:UniProtKB-KW. DR GO; GO:0007059; P:chromosome segregation; IMP:CACAO. DR GO; GO:0045841; P:negative regulation of mitotic metaphase/anaphase transition; ISO:MGI. DR GO; GO:0043161; P:proteasome-mediated ubiquitin-dependent protein catabolic process; IDA:UniProtKB. DR GO; GO:0090266; P:regulation of mitotic cell cycle spindle assembly checkpoint; IDA:UniProtKB. DR GO; GO:0045066; P:regulatory T cell differentiation; ISO:MGI. DR Gene3D; 3.90.70.10; Cysteine proteinases; 1. DR Gene3D; 3.30.40.10; Zinc/RING finger domain, C3HC4 (zinc finger); 1. DR InterPro; IPR038765; Papain-like_cys_pep_sf. DR InterPro; IPR001394; Peptidase_C19_UCH. DR InterPro; IPR018200; USP_CS. DR InterPro; IPR028889; USP_dom. DR InterPro; IPR013083; Znf_RING/FYVE/PHD. DR InterPro; IPR001607; Znf_UBP. DR PANTHER; PTHR21646; UBIQUITIN CARBOXYL-TERMINAL HYDROLASE; 1. DR PANTHER; PTHR21646:SF15; UBIQUITIN CARBOXYL-TERMINAL HYDROLASE 44; 1. DR Pfam; PF00443; UCH; 1. DR Pfam; PF02148; zf-UBP; 1. DR SMART; SM00290; ZnF_UBP; 1. DR SUPFAM; SSF54001; Cysteine proteinases; 1. DR SUPFAM; SSF57850; RING/U-box; 1. DR PROSITE; PS00972; USP_1; 1. DR PROSITE; PS00973; USP_2; 1. DR PROSITE; PS50235; USP_3; 1. DR PROSITE; PS50271; ZF_UBP; 1. PE 1: Evidence at protein level; KW Cell cycle; Cell division; Cytoplasm; Hydrolase; Immunity; Innate immunity; KW Metal-binding; Mitosis; Nucleus; Protease; Reference proteome; KW Thiol protease; Ubl conjugation; Ubl conjugation pathway; Zinc; KW Zinc-finger. FT CHAIN 1..711 FT /note="Ubiquitin carboxyl-terminal hydrolase 44" FT /id="PRO_0000395811" FT DOMAIN 272..677 FT /note="USP" FT ZN_FING 2..99 FT /note="UBP-type" FT /evidence="ECO:0000255|PROSITE-ProRule:PRU00502" FT REGION 170..251 FT /note="Disordered" FT /evidence="ECO:0000256|SAM:MobiDB-lite" FT REGION 685..711 FT /note="Disordered" FT /evidence="ECO:0000256|SAM:MobiDB-lite" FT COMPBIAS 176..196 FT /note="Basic and acidic residues" FT /evidence="ECO:0000256|SAM:MobiDB-lite" FT ACT_SITE 281 FT /note="Nucleophile" FT /evidence="ECO:0000255|PROSITE-ProRule:PRU10092, FT ECO:0000255|PROSITE-ProRule:PRU10093" FT ACT_SITE 635 FT /note="Proton acceptor" FT /evidence="ECO:0000255|PROSITE-ProRule:PRU10092, FT ECO:0000255|PROSITE-ProRule:PRU10093" FT BINDING 4 FT /ligand="Zn(2+)" FT /ligand_id="ChEBI:CHEBI:29105" FT /ligand_label="1" FT /evidence="ECO:0000255|PROSITE-ProRule:PRU00502" FT BINDING 6 FT /ligand="Zn(2+)" FT /ligand_id="ChEBI:CHEBI:29105" FT /ligand_label="1" FT /evidence="ECO:0000255|PROSITE-ProRule:PRU00502" FT BINDING 26 FT /ligand="Zn(2+)" FT /ligand_id="ChEBI:CHEBI:29105" FT /ligand_label="2" FT /evidence="ECO:0000255|PROSITE-ProRule:PRU00502" FT BINDING 29 FT /ligand="Zn(2+)" FT /ligand_id="ChEBI:CHEBI:29105" FT /ligand_label="2" FT /evidence="ECO:0000255|PROSITE-ProRule:PRU00502" FT BINDING 38 FT /ligand="Zn(2+)" FT /ligand_id="ChEBI:CHEBI:29105" FT /ligand_label="3" FT /evidence="ECO:0000255|PROSITE-ProRule:PRU00502" FT BINDING 41 FT /ligand="Zn(2+)" FT /ligand_id="ChEBI:CHEBI:29105" FT /ligand_label="3" FT /evidence="ECO:0000255|PROSITE-ProRule:PRU00502" FT BINDING 46 FT /ligand="Zn(2+)" FT /ligand_id="ChEBI:CHEBI:29105" FT /ligand_label="2" FT /evidence="ECO:0000255|PROSITE-ProRule:PRU00502" FT BINDING 53 FT /ligand="Zn(2+)" FT /ligand_id="ChEBI:CHEBI:29105" FT /ligand_label="2" FT /evidence="ECO:0000255|PROSITE-ProRule:PRU00502" FT BINDING 57 FT /ligand="Zn(2+)" FT /ligand_id="ChEBI:CHEBI:29105" FT /ligand_label="3" FT /evidence="ECO:0000255|PROSITE-ProRule:PRU00502" FT BINDING 63 FT /ligand="Zn(2+)" FT /ligand_id="ChEBI:CHEBI:29105" FT /ligand_label="3" FT /evidence="ECO:0000255|PROSITE-ProRule:PRU00502" FT BINDING 76 FT /ligand="Zn(2+)" FT /ligand_id="ChEBI:CHEBI:29105" FT /ligand_label="1" FT /evidence="ECO:0000255|PROSITE-ProRule:PRU00502" FT BINDING 79 FT /ligand="Zn(2+)" FT /ligand_id="ChEBI:CHEBI:29105" FT /ligand_label="1" FT /evidence="ECO:0000255|PROSITE-ProRule:PRU00502" FT MUTAGEN 281 FT /note="C->S: Abolishes deubiquitinase activity." FT /evidence="ECO:0000269|PubMed:23187126, FT ECO:0000269|PubMed:33937266" SQ SEQUENCE 711 AA; 80479 MW; F176DB2BA3C658BE CRC64; MDRCKHVEQL QLAQGHSILD PQKWYCMVCN TTESIWACLS CSHVACGKYI QEHALKHFQE SSHPVAFEVN DMYAFCYLCN DYVLNDNAAG DLKSLRSTLS TIKSKKYPCV VPSDSVLHPV DAQDRVYSLL DGTQSLPGNE DPTCAALWHR RRVLMGKAFR TWFEQSAIGR KGQEPTQERM VAKREAKRRQ QQELEQQMKA ELESTPPRKS LRLQGSSEEA ATIEIVPVRA PPPPPASPAK DKAALPTSED RTFKKVSDSL IKRRPMVTPG VTGLRNLGNT CYMNSVLQVL SHLLIFRQCF LKLDLNQWLA VAASDKARSY KHSAVTEAAA QQMNEGQEKE KGFVCSRHSG LSSGLSGGAS KGRNMELIQP REPSSPYSSL CHELHILFQV MWSGEWALVS PFAMLHSVWR LIPAFRGYAQ QDAQEFLCEL LDKIQRELET TGTKLPALIP TSQRRLIEQV LNVVNNIFHG QFLSQVTCLA CDNKSDTIES FWDLSLEFPE RYQCSGKDAA SQPCLVTDML DKFTETEALE GKIYMCDHCN SKRRKFSSKS VVFTEAQKQL MICHLPQVLR LHLKRFRWSG RNNREKIGVH VVFEETLNME PYCCRETLNA LRPECFLYNL SAVVIHHGKG FGSGHYTAYC YNSEGGFWVH CNDSKLSMCT MEEVRKAQAY ILFYTQRVTE NGHSKLLPPE LLSNSQHPSK ETDASSNEVL S //