Speckle-type POZ protein is a protein that in humans is encoded by the SPOPgene.[5][6][7]
This gene encodes a protein that may modulate the transcriptional repression activities of death-associated protein 6 (DAXX), which interacts with histone deacetylase, core histones, and other histone-associated proteins. In mouse, the encoded protein binds to the putative leucine zipperdomain of macroH2A1.2, a variant H2A histone that is enriched on inactivated X chromosomes. The BTB/POZ domain of this protein has been shown in other proteins to mediate transcriptional repression and to interact with components of histone deacetylase co-repressor complexes. Alternative splicing of this gene results in multiple transcript variants encoding the same protein.[7]
DNA repair
The spop gene is the gene most commonly point mutated in human primary prostate cancers.[8] SPOP protein is essential for the repair of DNA-protein crosslinks by removing topoisomerase 2A from the topoisomerase2A-DNA cleavage complex formed during repair.[8]
Clinical relevance
Mutations in SPOP lead to a type of prostate tumor thought to be involved in about 15% of all prostate cancers.[9][10]
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Billadeau DD, Upshaw JL, Schoon RA, Dick CJ, Leibson PJ (Jun 2003). "NKG2D-DAP10 triggers human NK cell-mediated killing via a Syk-independent regulatory pathway". Nature Immunology. 4 (6): 557–64. doi:10.1038/ni929. PMID12740575. S2CID7699074.
La M, Kim K, Park J, Won J, Lee JH, Fu YM, Meadows GG, Joe CO (Jul 2004). "Daxx-mediated transcriptional repression of MMP1 gene is reversed by SPOP". Biochemical and Biophysical Research Communications. 320 (3): 760–5. doi:10.1016/j.bbrc.2004.06.022. hdl:10203/14362. PMID15240113.
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