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. 2025 Mar 20;85(6):1048-1050.
doi: 10.1016/j.molcel.2025.02.023.

A cut above: Bacterial deubiquitinases with ubiquitin clippase activity

Mark Hochstrasser  1
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A cut above: Bacterial deubiquitinases with ubiquitin clippase activity

Mark Hochstrasser. Mol Cell. .

Abstract

Pathogenic or symbiotic bacteria residing inside eukaryotic cells often foil attempts to eliminate them by secreting deubiquitinases into the host. In this issue of Molecular Cell, Hermanns et al.1 uncover an unexpected "clippase" activity in certain bacterial deubiquitinases, which cleaves substrate-linked ubiquitin within the ubiquitin C terminus, thereby inactivating it.

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Declaration of interests The author declares no competing interests.

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