Alternative titles; symbols
HGNC Approved Gene Symbol: DET1
Cytogenetic location: 15q26.1 Genomic coordinates (GRCh38) : 15:88,501,919-88,546,703 (from NCBI)
Wertz et al. (2004) reported that the human DET1 gene encodes a 550-amino acid protein (GenBank AK054603). Human DET expression was highest in ovary, some lymphoid organs, resting leukocytes, and certain cell lines.
Wertz et al. (2004) reported that human DET1 promotes ubiquitination and degradation of the protooncogenic transcription factor c-Jun (165160) by assembling a multisubunit ubiquitin ligase containing DNA damage-binding protein-1 (DDB1; 600045), cullin 4A (CUL4A; 603137), regulator of cullins-1 (ROC1; 603814), and constitutively photomorphogenic-1 (COP1; 608067). Ablation of any subunit by RNA interference stabilized c-Jun and increased c-Jun-activated transcription. Wertz et al. (2004) concluded that their findings characterized a c-Jun ubiquitin ligase and define a specific function for DET1 in mammalian cells.
Wertz, I. E., O'Rourke, K. M., Zhang, Z., Dornan, D., Arnott, D., Deshaies, R. J., Dixit, V. M. Human de-etiolated-1 regulates c-Jun by assembling a CUL4A ubiquitin ligase. Science 303: 1371-1374, 2004. [PubMed: 14739464] [Full Text: https://doi.org/10.1126/science.1093549]