The AAA+ Proteins Pontin and Reptin Enter Adult Age: from Understanding Their Basic Biology to the Identification of Selective Inhibitors
PERSPECTIVE published: 05 May 2015 doi: 10.3389/fmolb.2015.00017 The AAA+ proteins Pontin and Reptin enter adult age: from understanding their basic biology to the identification of selective inhibitors Pedro M. Matias 1, 2*, Sung Hee Baek 3, Tiago M. Bandeiras 2, Anindya Dutta 4, Walid A. Houry 5, Oscar Llorca 6 and Jean Rosenbaum 7, 8* 1 Instituto de Tecnologia Química e Biológica António Xavier, Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Oeiras, Portugal, 2 Instituto de 3 Edited by: Biologia Experimental e Tecnológica, Oeiras, Portugal, Creative Research Initiative Center for Chromatin Dynamics, School 4 Rui Joaquim Sousa, of Biological Sciences, Seoul National University, Seoul, South Korea, Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Genetics, 5 The University of Texas Health University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA, USA, Department of Biochemistry, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada, 6 Science Center, USA Centro de Investigaciones Biológicas, Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas (Spanish National Research Council, CSIC), Madrid, Spain, 7 INSERM, U1053, Bordeaux, France, 8 Groupe de Recherches pour l’Etude du Foie, Université de Reviewed by: Bordeaux, Bordeaux, France Eileen M. Lafer, University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio, USA Pontin and Reptin are related partner proteins belonging to the AAA+ (ATPases Pierre Goloubinoff, Associated with various cellular Activities) family. They are implicated in multiple and University of Lausanne, Switzerland seemingly unrelated processes encompassing the regulation of gene transcription, the *Correspondence: Pedro M. Matias, remodeling of chromatin, DNA damage sensing and repair, and the assembly of protein Instituto de Tecnologia Química e and ribonucleoprotein complexes, among others. The 2nd International Workshop Biológica António Xavier, Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Av.
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