Ubiquitin carboxyl-terminal hydrolase 16 is an enzyme that in humans is encoded by the USP16 gene.[5][6]

This gene encodes a deubiquitinating enzyme that is phosphorylated at the onset of mitosis and then dephosphorylated at the metaphase/anaphase transition. It can deubiquitinate H2A, one of two major ubiquitinated proteins of chromatin, in vitro and a mutant form of the protein was shown to block cell division. Alternate transcriptional splice variants, encoding different isoforms, have been characterized.[6]

References

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  4. ^ "Mouse PubMed Reference:". National Center for Biotechnology Information, U.S. National Library of Medicine.
  5. ^ Puente XS, Sanchez LM, Overall CM, Lopez-Otin C (Jul 2003). "Human and mouse proteases: a comparative genomic approach". Nat Rev Genet. 4 (7): 544–58. doi:10.1038/nrg1111. PMID 12838346. S2CID 2856065.
  6. ^ a b "Entrez Gene: USP16 ubiquitin specific peptidase 16".

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