Susumu Tanaka, Y. Honda, Misa Sawachika, Kensuke Futani, N. Yoshida, T. Kodama
{"title":"Degradation of STK16 via KCTD17 with Ubiquitin–Proteasome System in Relation to Sleep–Wake Cycle","authors":"Susumu Tanaka, Y. Honda, Misa Sawachika, Kensuke Futani, N. Yoshida, T. Kodama","doi":"10.3390/kinasesphosphatases1010003","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3390/kinasesphosphatases1010003","url":null,"abstract":"Serine/threonine-protein kinase 16 (STK16) is a novel member of the Numb-associated family of protein kinases with an atypical kinase domain. In this study, we aimed to investigate the involvement of STK16 in sleep–wake mechanisms. We confirmed the expression of Stk16 in the murine hypothalamus, the sleep–wake center, and found considerable changes in STK16 protein levels in the anterior hypothalamus during the light–dark cycle. We found that the coexistence of the potassium channel tetramerization domain containing 17 (KCTD17), an STK16 interactor, caused STK16 degradation. In contrast, the proteasome inhibitor MG132 inhibited the degradation of STK16. In addition, polyubiquitinated STK16 was observed, suggesting that KCTD17 acts as an adapter for E3 ligase to recognize STK16 as a substrate, leading to STK16 degradation via the ubiquitin–proteasome system. The vast changes in STK16 in the anterior hypothalamus, a mammalian sleep center, as well as the reported sleep abnormalities in the ubiquitin B knockout mice and the Drosophila with the inhibition of the KCTD17 homolog or its E3 ligase cullin-3, suggest that STK16 plays a major role in sleep–wake regulation.","PeriodicalId":74042,"journal":{"name":"Kinases and phosphatases","volume":"7 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-12-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"77704274","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Hajar Yaakoub, S. Mina, A. Marot, N. Papon, A. Calenda, J. Bouchara
{"title":"A Stress Hub in Scedosporium apiospermum: The High Osmolarity Glycerol (HOG) Pathway","authors":"Hajar Yaakoub, S. Mina, A. Marot, N. Papon, A. Calenda, J. Bouchara","doi":"10.3390/kinasesphosphatases1010002","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3390/kinasesphosphatases1010002","url":null,"abstract":"Scedosporium species are opportunistic filamentous fungi found in human-impacted areas. Clinically relevant species, such as S. apiospermum, rank as the second most frequent colonizers of the airways of patients with cystic fibrosis (CF), which are characterized by persistent oxidative stress. This raises the question of how Scedosporium species abate conditions imposed in hostile environments. Since the High Osmolarity Glycerol (HOG) pathway plays a central role in fungal adaptation to stress, we aimed to pheno-profile the involvement of the pathway in response to stress in S. apiospermum using Western blot. We show for the first time that a wide range of stress distinctively activates the HOG pathway in S. apiospermum, including oxidants (H2O2, menadione, cumene hydroperoxide, diamide, paraquat, and honokiol), osmotic agents (sorbitol and KCl), cell-wall stress agents (caffeine, calcofluor white, and Congo Red), heavy metals (cadmium and arsenite), fungicides (fludioxonil and iprodione), antifungals (voriconazole and amphotericin B), and acid stress (pH 4). We suggest that the function of the HOG pathway as a general stress regulator is also conserved in S. apiospermum.","PeriodicalId":74042,"journal":{"name":"Kinases and phosphatases","volume":"99 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-11-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"90392291","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Kinases and Phosphatases: The Challenge of a New Journal Entirely Focused on Post-Translational Modifications","authors":"M. Salvi","doi":"10.3390/kinasesphosphatases1010001","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3390/kinasesphosphatases1010001","url":null,"abstract":"On behalf of all the Editorial Board members and the MDPI staff, I’m pleased to announce the publishing of the inaugural issue of the Kinases and Phosphatases journal [...]","PeriodicalId":74042,"journal":{"name":"Kinases and phosphatases","volume":"5 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-10-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"82499474","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}