title: Metabolism, cytoskeleton and cellular signalling in the grip of protein Nepsilon - and O-acetylation.
abstract: Acetylation of the epsilon-amino group of lysine residues (N(epsilon)-acetylation) is a reversible post-translational modification with the potential to rival phosphorylation. In addition to histones and many transcription factors such as p53, regulators of DNA repair, replication and recombination are subject to N(epsilon)-acetylation. This modification is also important for governing the activities of various enzymes, including histone acetyltransferases, histone deacetylases, bacterial and mammalian acetyl-CoA synthases, kinases, phosphatases, the ubiquitin ligase murine double minute 2 and the chaperonin heat shock protein 90. Furthermore, lysine acetylation occurs in cellular structure proteins such as alpha-tubulin, actin, cortactin and p120 catenin. Strikingly, the Yersinia outer protein YopJ promotes O-acetylation of crucial serine and threonine residues that are required for activation of the MAPK/ERK kinase and IkappaB kinase families, which precludes their phosphorylation and blocks signal transduction. Thus, N(epsilon)- and O-acetylation are becoming recognized as two prominent mechanisms for regulating protein functions in diverse organisms.
authors.affiliation: Molecular Oncology Group, Department of Medicine, Royal Victoria Hospital, Room H5.41, McGill University Health Centre, 687 Pine Avenue West, Montréal, Québec H3A 1A1, Canada. xiang-jiao.yang@mcgill.ca
authors.forename: Xiang-Jiao
authors.initials: XJ
authors.lastname: Yang
authors.forename: Serge
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Grégoire
mesh_terms: D000107:Acetylation; D000595:Amino Acid Sequence; D000818:Animals; D003599:Cytoskeleton / Q000378:metabolism*; D006801:Humans; D008969:Molecular Sequence Data; D010766:Phosphorylation; D011499:Protein Processing, Post-Translational; D011506:Proteins / Q000737:chemistry / Q000378:metabolism*; D015398:Signal Transduction
chemical_list: D011506:Proteins