USP11

Protein ubiquitination controls many intracellular processes, including cell cycle progression, transcriptional activation, and signal transduction. This dynamic process, involving ubiquitin conjugating enzymes and deubiquitinating enzymes, adds and removes ubiquitin. Deubiquitinating enzymes are cysteine proteases that specifically cleave ubiquitin from ubiquitin-conjugated protein substrates. This gene encodes a deubiquitinating enzyme which lies in a gene cluster on chromosome Xp11.23 [provided by RefSeq]

Full Name

ubiquitin specific peptidase 11

Function

Protease that can remove conjugated ubiquitin from target proteins and polyubiquitin chains (PubMed:12084015, PubMed:15314155, PubMed:17897950, PubMed:19874889, PubMed:20233726, PubMed:28992046, PubMed:24724799).
Inhibits the degradation of target proteins by the proteasome (PubMed:12084015).
Cleaves preferentially 'Lys-6' and 'Lys-63'-linked ubiquitin chains. Has lower activity with 'Lys-11' and 'Lys-33'-linked ubiquitin chains, and extremely low activity with 'Lys-27', 'Lys-29' and 'Lys-48'-linked ubiquitin chains (in vitro) (PubMed:24724799).
Plays a role in the regulation of pathways leading to NF-kappa-B activation (PubMed:17897950, PubMed:19874889).
Plays a role in the regulation of DNA repair after double-stranded DNA breaks (PubMed:15314155, PubMed:20233726).
Acts as a chromatin regulator via its association with the Polycomb group (PcG) multiprotein PRC1-like complex; may act by deubiquitinating components of the PRC1-like complex (PubMed:20601937).
Promotes cell proliferation by deubiquitinating phosphorylated E2F1 (PubMed:28992046).

Biological Process

Biological Process protein deubiquitination Source:UniProtKB1 Publication
Biological Process ubiquitin-dependent protein catabolic process Source:InterPro

Cellular Location

Nucleus
Cytoplasm
Chromosome
Predominantly nuclear (PubMed:12084015, PubMed:15314155).
Associates with chromatin (PubMed:20601937, PubMed:20233726).