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- Title
Charting the N-Terminal Acetylome: A Comprehensive Map of Human NatA Substrates.
- Authors
Van Damme, Petra
- Abstract
N-terminal acetylation (Nt-acetylation) catalyzed by conserved N-terminal acetyltransferases or NATs embodies a modification with one of the highest stoichiometries reported for eukaryotic protein modifications to date. Comprising the catalytic N-alpha acetyltransferase (NAA) subunit NAA10 plus the ribosome anchoring regulatory subunit NAA15, NatA represents the major acetyltransferase complex with up to 50% of all mammalian proteins representing potential substrates. Largely in consequence of the essential nature of NatA and its high enzymatic activity, its experimentally confirmed mammalian substrate repertoire remained poorly charted. In this study, human NatA knockdown conditions achieving near complete depletion of NAA10 and NAA15 expression resulted in lowered Nt-acetylation of over 25% out of all putative NatA targets identified, representing an up to 10-fold increase in the reported number of substrate N-termini affected upon human NatA perturbation. Besides pointing to less efficient NatA substrates being prime targets, several putative NatE substrates were shown to be affected upon human NatA knockdown. Intriguingly, next to a lowered expression of ribosomal proteins and proteins constituting the eukaryotic 48S preinitiation complex, steady-state levels of protein N-termini additionally point to NatA Nt-acetylation deficiency directly impacting protein stability of knockdown affected targets.
- Subjects
PROTEIN stability; PROTEIN expression; ACETYLTRANSFERASES; HUMAN beings; ACETYLATION
- Publication
International Journal of Molecular Sciences, 2021, Vol 22, Issue 19, p10692
- ISSN
1661-6596
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.3390/ijms221910692