bioRxiv preprint doi: https://doi.org/10.1101/2021.05.31.446389; this version posted May 31, 2021. The copyright holder for this preprint (which was not certified by peer review) is the author/funder. All rights reserved. No reuse allowed without permission. The molecular basis of ubiquitin-specific protease 8 autoinhibition by the WW-like domain Keijun Kakihara1,2, Kengo Asamizu1, Kei Moritsugu3, Masahide Kubo1, Tetsuya Kitaguchi1, Akinori Endo2, Akinori Kidera3, Mitsunori Ikeguchi3, Akira Kato1, Masayuki Komada1,2,*, Toshiaki Fukushima1,2,* 1School of Life Science and Technology, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan 2Cell Biology Center, Institute of Innovative Research, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan 3Graduate School of Medical Life Science, Yokohama City University, Japan *Co-corresponding authors: Toshiaki Fukushima, Cell Biology Center, Institute of Innovative Research, Tokyo Institute of Technology, 4259-S2-18 Nagatsuta, Midori, Yokohama 226-8501, Japan. Tel: 81-45-924-5702; E-mail:
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[email protected] 1 bioRxiv preprint doi: https://doi.org/10.1101/2021.05.31.446389; this version posted May 31, 2021. The copyright holder for this preprint (which was not certified by peer review) is the author/funder. All rights reserved. No reuse allowed without permission. Author Contributions M. Komada and T.F. conceived and supervised the study; K.K., K.A., K.M., T.K., A.E. and T.F. designed the experiments; K.K., K.A., K.M., M.