ZUP1

This gene encodes a protein containing zinc finger motifs and a cysteine peptidase domain. The encoded protein functions as a K63-specific de-ubiquitinating enzyme that specifically cleaves long K63-linked polyubiquitin chains in the middle of a chain (i.e. ""endo cleavage) rather than by removing the terminal ubiquitin from a chain. This enzyme is thought to be involved in the regulation of DNA repair by cleaving K63-linked ubiquitin chains at repair foci. This protein is related to proteases for the ubiquitin-like modifiers Ufm1 (ubiquitin fold modifier 1) and Atg8/Gabarapl2, but does not have any activity on these modifiers. [provided by RefSeq, Mar 2018]

Description

Zinc finger containing ubiquitin peptidase 1

Tissue specificity

Low tissue specificity

Subcell location

Nucleoplasm, Cytosol

Predicted location

Intracellular

Protein family

Enzymes
Mapped to neXtProt
Mapped to UniProt SWISS-PROT
Predicted intracellular proteins
Protein evidence (Ezkurdia et al 2014)
Protein evidence (Kim et al 2014)

Chromosome

6 (116635618 - 116668794)

Ensembl ID

ENSG00000153975  (ver. 103.38)

Orthologs

Mouse Zup1: ENSMUSG00000039531

UniProt

Q96AP4

neXtProt

NX_Q96AP4

Human splice variants
Mouse splice variants

Protein structure