Alternative titles; symbols
HGNC Approved Gene Symbol: OTUD6A
Cytogenetic location: Xq13.1 Genomic coordinates (GRCh38): X:70,062,457-70,064,179 (from NCBI)
Deubiquitinating enzymes (DUBs; see 603478) are proteases that specifically cleave ubiquitin (191339) linkages, negating the action of ubiquitin ligases. DUBA2 belongs to a DUB subfamily characterized by an ovarian tumor (OTU) domain.
Kayagaki et al. (2007) identified ovarian tumor domain (OTU)-containing protein 6A (OTUD6A) in a small interfering RNA (siRNA)-based screen for OTU deubiquitinating enzyme (DUB) family members. The 1,689-basepair mRNA contains an open reading frame (ORF) predicting a 288-amino acid protein.
The OTUD6A gene maps to chromosome Xq13.1 (Kayagaki et al., 2007).
Kayagaki, N., Phung, Q., Chan, S., Chaudhari, R., Quan, C., O'Rourke, K. M., Eby, M., Pietras, E., Cheng, G., Bazan, J. F., Zhang, Z., Arnott, D., Dixit, V. M. DUBA: a deubiquitinase that regulates type I interferon production. Science 318: 1628-1632, 2007. [PubMed: 17991829] [Full Text: https://doi.org/10.1126/science.1145918]