• Purity

  >95%, by SDS-PAGE under reducing conditions and visualized by Colloidal Coomassie® Blue stain.

• Activity

  Recombinant human USP22 is a Ubiquitin-specific deconjugating enzyme.  Reaction conditions will need to be optimized for each specific application.  We recommend an initial USP22 concentration of 20-100 nM when using Ubiquitin-AMC or Ubiquitin-Rhodamine (     U-550,      U-555) substrates.       Note: Recombinant USP22 is not active toward poly-Ubiquitin chains, Ubiquitinated histones and other Ubiquitinated protein substrates in the absence of adapter proteins such as ATXN7L or ENY2.

• Source

  Spodoptera frugiperda,     Sf 21 (baculovirus)-derived Contains an N-terminal 6-His tag

• Accession #

• Predicted Molecular Mass

  59 kDa

Background: USP22

Ubiquitin carboxyl-terminal hydrolase 22 (USP22) is a specialized cysteine protease with a predicted molecular weight of 60 kDa. USP22 is a member of the peptidase C19 family (UBP8 subfamily) and the human protein shares 98% amino acid sequence identity with its mouse ortholog. USP22 is a member of the SAGA (Spt-Ada-Gcn5 acetyltransferase) complex, a 2 MDa protein machine that mediates the acetylation and deubiquitination of histones as well as non-histone substrates. Within SAGA, USP22 binds directly with ATXN7L3 and provides the activity required to deubiquitinate mono-Ubiquitinated histone H2B. Recent findings suggest USP27X and USP51, which function independently of SAGA, may compete with USP22 for ATXN7L3 and ENY2 binding, and that imbalances in these activities may contribute to human diseases including cancer.

• References:

1. Atanassov B.S. et al. (2016) Mol. Cell 62:558.

2.  Atanassov B.S. et al. (2011) FEBS Lett. 585:2016.

3. Atanassov B.S. & Dent S.R. (2016) personal communication.

4. Koutelou E. et al. (2010) Curr Opin Cell Biol. 22:374.

5. Lang G. et al. (2011) Mol Cell Biol. 31:3734.

6.  Zhang X.Y. et al. (2008) Mol. Cell 29:102.

7. Zhao Y. et al. (2008) Mol. Cell 29:92.

• Long Name:

  Ubiquitin Specific Protease 22

• Entrez Gene IDs:

  23326 (Human); 216825 (Mouse); 303201 (Rat)

• Alternate Names:

  Deubiquitinating enzyme 22; EC 3.1.2.15; EC 3.4.19.12; KIAA1063ubiquitin carboxyl-terminal hydrolase 22; KIAA1064; ubiquitin specific peptidase 22; ubiquitin specific peptidase 3-like; ubiquitin specific protease 22; Ubiquitin Thioesterase 22; Ubiquitin thiolesterase 22; ubiquitin-specific processing protease 22; Ubiquitin-specific-processing protease 22; USP22; USP3L