Ubiquitin C‑terminal hydrolase‑L1: A new cancer marker and therapeutic target with dual effects (Review)
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Abstract
Introduction
As with phosphorylation, ubiquitination is a highly reversible post-translational modification that binds ubiquitin (Ub) proteins to target proteins, modifying their activity and stability. This is also essential for the editing and recycling of Ub (1). The critical members involved in the ubiquitination pathway are Ub-activating (E1s) and -conjugating enzymes (E2s) and Ub ligases (E3s), which use the energy supplied by ATP hydrolysis to establish a multi-step cascade, resulting in Ub binding to the substrate. By contrast, as anti-ubiquitinase enzymes, deubiquitinases (DUBs) regulate the target protein degradation and cleave its attached polyubiquitination chain, thereby regulating target protein stability (2). The ubiquitin-proteasome system consists of ubiquitinase enzymes, DUBs and the 26S proteasome complex, which has a key role in regulating protein degradation (3). To date, ~100 DUBs have been classified into five families: Ubiquitin C-terminal hydrolases (UCHs), ovarian tumor-related, ubiquitin-specific and Machado-Josephin domain proteases and Jab1/MPN domain-associated metallopeptidases. The UCH family consists of four members, UCH-L1, UCH-L3, UCH37 and BAP1 (4).
UCH-L1, a protein predominantly expressed in the brain, has been demonstrated to serve a critical role in neurodegenerative diseases, such as Parkinson's and Alzheimer's disease (5–8). There have been some reviews that discuss UCH-L1 in the brain (9–12), but to the best of our knowledge, there are few that discuss UCH-L1 in cancer (13–15). New studies suggest that UCH-L1 has a role in cancer (16–20). However, the effect of UCH-L1 on cancer is debatable. Certain research suggests that decreased UCH-L1 expression is associated with malignancies (21–28). Due to promoter methylation, UCH-L1 expression is silenced or decreased, resulting in the progression of numerous types of cancer, including esophageal (21), gastric (22), ovarian and (23), renal cancer (24), head and neck squamous cell (20) and hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) (25), breast cancer (26), pancreatic neuroendocrine tumor (PNET) (27) and nasopharyngeal carcinoma (NPC) (28). By contrast, UCH-L1 is considered to be an oncogenic factor promoting the occurrence, invasion and metastasis of breast (29) and non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) (30), lymphoma (31), parathyroid carcinoma (32,33), cutaneous squamous cell cancer (34), osteosarcoma (35), uterine serous carcinoma (36) and neuroblastoma (37). However, the specific mechanism of UCH-L1 in these types of cancer remains unclear.
The molecular structure and function of UCH-L1 are discussed and summarized in the present review, focusing on its role in carcinogenesis. Although more evidence is needed to support UCH-L1 as a marker and therapeutic target for various types of cancer, the present review details necessary future research to understand the role of UCH-L1 in cancer. UCH-L1 substrate analysis will significantly help the research and development of associated drugs (38).
Molecular structure of UCH-L1
The gene encoding UCH-L1, also known as the PARK5 gene, is located on chromosome 4P14 (39). The peptide encoded by UCH-L1 consists of 223 amino acids and has a molecular weight of ~24.8 kDa. Although UCH-L1 is widely present in neurons and neuroendocrine cells of the brain, trace expression of UCH-L1 has also been found in the placenta, kidney, retina, testis and ovaries (6,40–44). UCH-L1 structure is comparable to UCH-L3 (45). The basic structure of UCH-L1 monomers consists of two lobes: One lobe comprises five α-helices and the other comprises two α-helices and six β-sheets. These α-helices and β-sheets constitute the α-β-α structure of UCH-L1. The cleft between these two lobes is the site of the catalytic cysteine C90 and consists of three secondary structures: An α-helix (α3), a β-strand (β3) and an L9-loop (Fig. 1). However, ring L8, which is located above C90, frequently obscures the fissure at the active site location (5). Notably, the L8 ring also forms a small tunnel in the fissure. This arrangement may allow the substrate to pass through while preventing the larger Ub chains from binding to UCH-L1 (4).
Molecular function of UCH-L1
Although specific molecular functions of UCH-L1 are not well understood, a number of studies have found that UCH-L1 participates in regulating free Ub pools, lysosomal activity, signaling molecules and cytoskeletal dynamics (46,47). UCH-L1 dysregulation contributes to various diseases, including cancer (48).
As a member of the UCH family of deubiquitinating enzymes, UCH-L1 exhibits low-activity hydrolase action that primarily hydrolyzes Ub chains of small polymeric or unfolded proteins (42,49). For example, its deubiquitinating activity controls expression of β-catenin (Fig. 2), which activates the β-catenin/T cell factor (TCF) pathway and enhances expression of related genes, including c-myc and c-jun (50). The β-catenin/TCF signaling pathway promotes UCH-L1 expression (51). Furthermore, UCH-L1 maintains IκB-α in vascular cells while decreasing TNF-α-induced NF-κB activation (Fig. 2) (52,53). Thus, UCH-L1 may decrease expression of NF-κB-driven cytokines, such as inflammatory cytokines or adhesion molecules. Recently, UCH-L1 has been reported to be involved in activating the TGF-β/SMAD signaling pathway (54). UCH-L1 has Ub ligase activity in addition to deubiquitinase activity (55). A recent study suggested that UCH-L1 serves as a Ub ligase enzyme, mediating cortactin (CCTN) degradation by increasing ubiquitination of K48-linked CCTN (28). The upregulation of CCTN is associated with the progression of tumors (56). UCH-L1 can also stabilize the expression of Ub monomers in vivo (42). UCH-L1, depending on its ubiquitination enzyme activity, acts on the target protein and produces free Ub monomers, which participate in the Ub metabolism of target proteins. These Ub monomers also prevent degradation by binding to nearby UCH-L1. Furthermore, UCH-L1 stabilization of Ub monomers is unaffected by its deubiquitination activity (57).
UCH-L1 is associated with skeletal muscle cell proliferation, sperm formation, angiogenesis and numerous other biological processes (13). For example, cell mitosis is inhibited by overexpression of UCH-L1, resulting in decreased cell proliferation (58). In addition, the C-terminus of UCH-L1 promotes phosphorylation of Akt, which facilitates survival and metabolic activity of malignant B cells (59). τ protein is the most abundant microtubule-associated protein in neurons, participating in regulation of synaptic plasticity, axonal transport and neuronal survival by promoting microtubule assembly and stabilizing microtubule networks (60). However, UCH-L1 inhibition reduces the enzyme activity of histone deacetylase 6 by reducing the production of K63-linked ubiquitin chain, leading to abnormal accumulation of τ protein, and finally affecting the brain (61,62). Furthermore, UCH-L1 may strengthen the ubiquitination and degradation of tubulin, arrest proliferation of cells and further inhibit microtubule formation (63). In addition, UCH-L1 increases the ubiquitination and degradation of microphthalmia-related transcription factor (MITF) by binding to ubiquitinated MITF (64).
UCH-L1 has hydrolase and ligase activity and stabilizes the Ub monomer effect (Fig. 3). In addition, it also has an important effect on the regulation of cell metabolic kinetics and the morphological structure of cellular proteins (13,33,65). For example, by reducing polyubiquitination and degradation of functional proteins such as p27Kip1 in podocytes of membranous nephropathy, UCH-L1 increases the accumulation of p27Kip1 protein, eventually leading to podocyte hypertrophy (66). Abnormal enzymatic activity of UCH-L1 may also be associated with the development and progression of disease, particularly cancer (55). For example, UCH-L1, according to its deubiquitination activity, inhibits the progression of malignant tumors such as NPC (67), breast cancer (26) and HCC (25) by activating p53 signaling, but promotes metastasis of gastric cancer cells by upregulating Akt and Erk1/2 signaling, and metastasis of breast and lung cancer cells by upregulating HIF-1α activity (68,69). While there are few reports on the role of the ligase activity of UCH-L1 in cancer (28,64), research is necessary to explore the association between them.
UCH-L1 suppresses cancer
UCH-L1 in cancer
Studies have shown that UCH-L1, which also possesses an antitumor effect, is often deleted or silenced due to promoter methylation in various types of tumor tissue, such as esophageal (21) and gastric cancer (22,70), renal cell carcinoma (24,71), prostate cancer (72), primary head and neck squamous cell carcinoma (20) and ovarian (73) and colorectal cancer (74), resulting in adverse clinical outcomes. However, the tumor suppressor mechanism of UCH-L1 remains unclear.
UCH-L1 in HCC
The loss of UCH-L1 expression caused by promoter methylation occurs in most HCC tissue (25,75). However, adding UCH-L1 or demethylating drugs in HCC cell lines can inhibit cancer cell proliferation (25). On the one hand, restoring UCH-L1 expression in silenced cells leads to cell cycle disruption at G2/M and induces programmed cell death (25). On the other hand, UCH-L1 decreases degradation of p53 by interfering with ubiquitination of p53 and further stabilizes p53 expression, and ultimately inhibits proliferation of cancer cells (Fig. 4) (25). As a tumor inhibitor and biomarker, UCH-L1 may provide a new treatment strategy for HCC. Chemotherapy is one of the treatment measures for most patients with cancer, and chemotherapy resistance is a known side effect. In many cancers, such as breast cancer, lung cancer and esophageal squamous cell carcinoma, this chemoresistance can be reversed by verapamil (VER), a calcium channel-blocking drug (76–78). In treating HCC, the overexpression of UCH-L1 enhances the effect of VER in the reversal of adriamycin resistance and promotion of cancer cell apoptosis (79), however the underlying mechanism is unclear.
UCH-L1 in NPC
As with HCC, restoring UCH-L1's expression in NPC can significantly promote tumor cell apoptosis. UCH-L1 prolongs the half-life of p53 and p14ARF proteins through its deubiquitinase activity and shortens the half-life of MDM2 proteins through ubiquitination, resulting in the inhibition of NPC cell proliferation (67). In addition, the methylation of UCH-L1 leads to its deletion in NPC, which is conducive to the metastasis of NPC (67). By contrast, demethylated UCH-L1, which acts as a Ub ligase, prevents invasion of NPC by reducing CCTN stability (28).
UCH-L1 in breast cancer
UCH-L1 also blocks the proliferation and induces apoptosis in breast cancer cells (26,80). When the expression level of UCH-L1 increases, UCH-L1 further activates and stabilizes p53 signaling by inhibiting the degradation of p53, leading to cell cycle arrest at G0/G1 and apoptosis (Fig. 4) (26). UCH-L1 also induced apoptosis in breast cancer cells via the PI3K/Akt signaling pathway (80). As a tumor suppressor, UCH-L1 restrains the proliferation of tumor cells, but the silencing or deletion of UCH-L1 expression caused by promoter methylation reverses this tumor inhibition. A recent study proposed that for cancer caused by abnormal methylation of UCH-L1, the construction of CRISPR-Cas9-based vectors and targeted methylation of UCH-L1 may regulate expression of UCH-L1 to a basal level, but this needs to be proven in future research (81).
UCH-L1 in PNET
Low expression of UCH-L1 is an independent predictor of the invasiveness of PNET (82). UCH-L1 silencing or downregulation caused by promoter methylation participates in the metastasis of PNET (27). Pharmacological demethylation reactivates expression of UCH-L1 in the PNET, BON and QGP-1 cell lines, and UCH-L1 upregulates the expression levels of cyclins checkpoint kinase 2 and p21, leading to cell cycle arrest (27).
UCH-L1 promotes cancer
UCH-L1 promotes breast cancer
Breast cancer cell metastasis is the primary cause of mortality in most patients with breast cancer (83). The high invasiveness of breast cancer is regulated by abnormal expression of UCH-L1 (84,85). Wang et al (86) transfected MCF7 cells (a highly invasive breast cancer cell line) with a vector carrying UCH-L1; UCH-L1 enhanced the invasive ability of breast cancer by activating the MAPK/Erk signaling pathway. However, the opposite effect emerged when a vector specific for UCH-L1 small interfering RNA was transfected into MCF7/Adr cells (a multidrug resistance breast cancer cell line) (86). In addition, Luo et al (17) showed that highly expressed UCH-L1 directly binds to Akt2 to activate the Akt signaling pathway, resulting in a significant increase in MCF7 cell invasion. Epithelial-mesenchymal transition (EMT) facilitates cancer cell invasion and metastasis, which are enhanced by the cytokine TGF-β (87). In the most aggressive triple-negative breast cancer [loss of estrogen receptor (ER), progesterone receptor and HER2 expression], overexpression of UCH-L1 promotes TGF-β signaling-induced metastasis by inhibiting degradation of the TGF-β type I receptor and its downstream effector molecule SMAD2 (29). Therefore, UCH-L1 may be a therapeutic target for malignant breast cancer.
Multidrug resistance (MDR) is one of the leading causes of poor treatment outcomes for patients with breast cancer and a severe challenge to managing breast cancer (16). UCH-L1 is associated with the regulation of chemotherapy resistance in breast cancer. Immunohistochemistry by Jin et al (88) found that UCH-L1 can inhibit degradation of EGFR, resulting in high expression of P-glycoprotein (P-gp), CD147 and matrix metalloproteinase (MMP) in MDR breast cancer cells. In addition, a study demonstrated that upregulation of MDR1, CD147 and MMP can also be achieved via activation of the MAPK/Erk signaling pathway by UCH-L1 (Fig. 5) (86). Notably, high expression of P-gp, CD147 and MMP has also been proven to be the primary molecular mechanism mediating MDR (89). Activation of the UCH-L1/EGFR signaling pathway also inhibits ERα expression in breast cancer and downregulation of the deubiquitinase activity of UCH-L1 has the opposite effect, leading to Erα-breast cancer cells being more sensitive to treatment with tamoxifen and fulvestrant (90). Furthermore, ER− breast cancer has a worse prognosis than ER+ breast cancer (91,92). A new target for the treatment of EGFR-associated MDR breast cancer is expected to be identified in further studies of UCH-L1.
UCH-L1 promotes lung cancer
Poor prognosis in NSCLC is associated with high expression of UCH-L1 (93). The invasion of NSCLC cells is enhanced due to activation of the Akt signaling pathway by UCH-L1 (Fig. 6) (33). It has been reported that UCH-L1 is associated with chemoresistance in patients with NSCLC (19). Overexpression of UCH-L1 upregulates thymidylate synthase, decreasing pemetrexed-induced DNA degradation and cell cycle disturbance in NSCLC cells (Fig. 7) (19). Other findings have demonstrated that UCH-L1 overexpression is associated with high-grade neuroendocrine lung cancer (30,68), demonstrating that targeting UCH-L1 may be a novel strategy for treating drug resistance in lung cancer. As aforementioned, UCH-L1 is primarily found in the brain, reproductive organs and placenta. These normal tissues are primarily immune-privileged organs, which may imply that UCH-L1 is associated with tumor immune evasion. Programmed cell death ligand 1 (PD-L1) with antitumor effects is expressed in numerous cancer cells, including NSCLC cells, and is involved in the immune escape from cancer (94). Mao et al (95) hypothesized that inhibition of UCH-L1 may prevent immune escape development in NSCLC. Their findings suggested that UCH-L1 leads to upregulation of PD-L1 expression in NSCLC cell lines by activating the Akt/p65 signaling pathway.
UCH-L1 promotes osteosarcoma
UCH-L1 overexpression affects the prognosis of patients with osteosarcoma and UCH-L1 overexpression corresponds to high tumor metastasis rate (35). UCH-L1 may be regulated through Akt and MAPK/Erk signaling pathways, leading to proliferation, apoptosis and metastasis of osteosarcoma cells (35).
UCH-L1 promotes lymphoma
Overexpression of UCH-L1 participates in the development of lymphoma and high levels of UCH-L1 downregulate expression of PH domain and leucine-rich repeat protein phosphatase 1 (PHLPP1), which activates the Akt pathway (Fig. 6) (31). UCH-L1 may serve a key role in promoting proliferation and invasion of malignant B cells and regulating B cell adhesion by regulating the affinity of lymphocyte function-associated antigen 1 (65). Alternatively, UCH-L1 activates the PI3K/mTOR/Akt pathway by binding to eIF4F and bypassing mTORC1 expression, leading to development of B cell lymphoma (96). UCH-L1 is also an oncogenic biomarker of aggressive diffuse large B-cell lymphoma (97).
UCH-L1 promotes other tumors
UCH-L1 contributes to melanoma development by decreasing the stability of MITF as well as regulating the PI3K/Akt signaling pathway (64). A recent study suggested that UCH-L1 promotes uterine serous carcinoma by allowing cells to enter mitosis by upregulating expression of cyclin B, resulting in the proliferation of these cells (36). Therefore, UCH-L1 may be a novel prognostic marker for uterine serous carcinoma and a potential therapeutic target. UCH-L1 contributes to lymphatic metastasis by positively regulating growth arrest specific 2 protein levels, stimulating the migration ability of glioma (98). Furthermore, a study reported that UCH-L1 may support the development of distant metastasis in endometrial cancer (99). The metastasis of prostate cancer is also enhanced when EMT is promoted by UCH-L1 (100).
Metastasis is the primary cause of poor prognosis for patients with cancer. UCH-L serves a key role in promoting metastasis of some malignant tumors such as gastric cancer (69), breast cancer (86) and endometrial cancer (99). In 2009, UCH-L1 was identified as an essential factor contributing to tumor metastasis (33). Subsequently, it has been established that UCH-L1 overexpression further enhances metastasis or invasiveness of cells by altering cancer cell morphology and regulating the Akt signaling pathway (85). UCH-L1 is associated with cell proliferation, invasion and metastasis by activating the Erk1/2 and Akt pathways via deubiquitination in gastric cancer and liver metastatic tumor (69). Hypoxia-inducible factor-1 (HIF-1) supports cancer progression through a variety of mechanisms including angiogenesis, proliferation, invasion and metastasis of cells, cancer stem cell maintenance and treatment resistance (68,101). The downregulation of HIF-1 target gene expression is hypothesized to decrease with downregulation of UCH-L1 (102), demonstrating that inhibition of UCH-L1/HIF-1 pathway activity may be a method to treat distant metastasis and invasion of tumors.
UCH-L1 inhibitors
As aforementioned, UCH-L1 represents a unique therapeutic target for cancer. Research into UCH-L1 inhibitors will aid in treating malignancies that overexpress this protein. LDN-57444 has been widely used to downregulate expression of UCH-L1 in certain tumors, such as in NSCLC (19), oral squamous cell carcinoma (103) and neuroblastoma (37), therefore showing that it inhibits activity of metastatic tumor cells by reducing the deubiquitination activity of UCH-L1 (103). However, a number of investigations in recent years have indicated that this inhibitor has off-target toxicity and chemical instability, with LDN-57444 having limited binding to UCH-L1 in cells (104–107). MT16-001, a covalent inhibitor of UCH-L1 based on the thiazolyl cyanopyrrolidine backbone, binds to C90 in the active site of UCH-L1 (108). This inhibitor induces proliferation inhibition at sub-molar concentrations in B cell and lung cancer cell lines (which are known to be sensitive to UCH-L1 knockdown) and is more selective for UCH-L1 than other DUBs (108,109). However, based on the evidence reported to date (108), its selectivity profile has not been determined and further experiments are required to explore this. Fluorescent small molecule activity assay has shown that 6RK73 and 8RK59 effectively label UCH-L1 activity in vitro in cell lines and in vivo, with a higher inhibitory effect on UCH-L1 than LDN-57444 (110). However, as a UCH-L1 inhibitor, the cellular selectivity of 6RK73 and 8RK59 remains limited (110) It has also been demonstrated that 8RK59 binds only to the active site cysteine of UCH-L1 and not to catalytically inactive UCH-1 (110).
Recent studies have reported that IMP-1710, an UCH-L1 inhibitor, has higher quality and selectivity compared with LDN-57444 (111,112). IMP-1710 selectively labels C90 of UCH-L1 at nanomolar concentrations in a cell model of idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis to block the profibrotic response (112).
Discussion
In the present review, the molecular structure of UCH-L1 and its complex role in cancer were explained. UCH-L1, a multi-functional protein that is widely expressed in the brain, not only causes neurodegenerative disease but also serves a complex role in the occurrence and progression of cancer. UCH-L1 methylation is involved in development of various types of cancer, such as esophageal (21), gastric (22), ovarian (23) and renal cancer (24), head and neck squamous cell carcinoma (20), HCC (25), breast cancer (26), PNET (27) and nasopharyngeal cancer (28,67). When UCH-L1 expression is restored, UCH-L1 regulates key cyclin levels (such as p53), inhibits proliferation and promotes apoptosis of cancer cells (25,26). Notably, for cancer caused by epigenetic abnormality of UCH-L1, the CRISPR-Cas9 system, a specific genome editing technology, may effectively restore gene expression of UCH-L1 to normal levels and may be expected to be a future therapeutic option (81). However, this technology has numerous unsolved challenges, such as off-target effects and editing efficiency in clinical applications (113). Moreover, UCH-L1 functions as an oncogenic factor via PI3K/Akt, MAPK/Erk and other signaling pathways to induce tumorigeneses numerous types of cancer, including breast cancer (17,29,88), NSCLC (19), lymphoma (31), parathyroid carcinoma (32,114), melanoma (33), cutaneous squamous cell cancer (34), osteosarcoma (35), uterine serous carcinoma (36) and neuroblastoma (37) (Table I).
The role of UCH-L1 in tumorigenesis remains incompletely defined. UCH-L1 impacts cell proliferation and progression of cancer such as breast, colorectal and nasopharyngeal carcinoma, possibly due to Ub ligase enzyme or DUB activity of UCH-L1 (28,50,88). UCH-L1 relies on this DUB activity to support the survival of breast (88) and colorectal cancer (50), uterine serous carcinoma (36), NSCLC (56) and lymphoma (31). As a tumor suppressor, UCH-L1 relies on DUB activity to inhibit proliferation of cancer cells in breast cancer (26), HCC (25) and PNET (27) but inhibition of NPC depends on its ligase activity (28). Therefore, most studies have concluded that UCH-L1 relies on its DUB activity to affect cancer (36,50,56,88). This has key implications in drug development as cancer may be treated by inhibiting or activating the ligase or deubiquitinating activity of UCH-L1. In addition, wild-type TP53 typically causes cancer cell apoptosis, while mutated TP53 promotes cell carcinogenesis (115). UCH-L1 may stabilize wild-type TP53 expression in cancer cells to suppress cancer or stabilize mutated TP53 to promote cancer. Moreover, UCH-L1-activated Akt and MAPK signaling phosphorylate MDM2, a negative regulator of p53, and downregulate p53 expression (116,117). Whether UCH-L1 activates upstream signaling of Akt needs further study. Aberrant expression of UCH-L1 may indirectly alter ubiquitination of oncogenes and tumor suppressors by affecting many ubiquitination-dependent cellular activities, resulting in abnormal protein degradation or altered protein function, ultimately inhibiting or promoting cancer. For example, UCH-L1 protects phorbol-12-myristate-13-acetate-inducedprotein 1, a pro-apoptotic protein, from proteasomal degradation by hydrolyzing Lys48-linked polyubiquitin chains and enhances the sensitivity of colorectal and melanoma cells to chemotherapy (118). Therefore, exploring the specific mechanism of UCH-L1 in cancer may provide a novel diagnostic marker and drug target.
The role of UCH-L1 in breast cancer remains controversial. Certain research shows that UCH-L1 inhibits breast cancer, but most studies support the hypothesis that it is an oncogenic factor and promotes invasion and metastasis (26,29,88,90). However, the specific mechanism for the dual role of UCH-L1 in breast cancer is still not fully understood, potentially due to its different effects on different types of breast cancer via diverse cell signaling pathways. Notably, UCH-L1 mutants have been found in some cases of neurodegenerative disease (119,120). The I93M mutant of UCH-L1 shows a significant decrease in hydrolase activity compared with the wild-type UCH-L1 (121). Changes in the enzymatic activity of UCH-L1 mutants may explain the differential effect of UCH-L1 dysregulation in cancer. Further studies on the effect of UCH-L1 will be beneficial in clarifying the ability of UCH-L1 in oncogenic pathways. These differences may be attributed to stage, grade and ER status of breast cancer as most research supporting the promotion of UCH-L1 in breast cancer is based on ER− and highly invasive breast cancer (29,85,90). UCH-L1 overexpression upregulates the expression of EGFR, which in turn allows hyperactivity of the MAPK and PI3K/Akt signaling pathway to inhibit transcription of ERα, enhancing breast cancer invasion, metastasis and MDR (88). The effect of negative regulation of UCH-L1 on the proliferation of breast cancer cells may also be associated with TP53 mutation. Previous studies have found that TP53 mutations occur in ~80% of triple-negative breast cancer cases (122,123).
In addition to affecting various types of tumors and neurological disease, UCH-L1 has also been reported as a neuron-derived biomarker for traumatic brain injury and sudden cardiac arrest (124). UCH-L1 accumulates in podocytes constituting one of the glomerular filtration membranes (44) and UCH-L1 is overexpressed in human membranous and lupus nephritis and diabetic nephropathy (125–128). More notably, UCH-L1 is vital in regulating vascular remodeling (52). UCH-L1 may lead to inhibition of vascular smooth muscle cell proliferation (129,130). UCH-L1 provides positive regulation of cardiac hypertrophy and remodeling by enhancing EGFR expression (131), which means that the addition of UCH-L1 may be a treatment method for certain types of cardiovascular disease associated with atherosclerosis.
In summary, UCH-L1 is a potential target for treating cancers and diseases. Further research on efficient and selective UCH-L1 inhibitors (such as IMP-1710) will be beneficial in treating UCH-L1-related cancer. To the best of our knowledge, however, there are few reports about UCH-L1 substrates thus far. Therefore, in future research, attention should be paid to developing high quality activity-based probes to identify UCH-L1 substrates. Unbiased UCH-L1 substrate analysis is key to establish the total spectrum of expression activity and phenotype of UCH-L1 and the development of UCH-L1 inhibitors.
UCH-L1 has both Ub hydrolase and ligase activity, as well as monomeric stabilization effects. The different enzymatic activities of UCH-L1 regulate stability of different signaling pathways and cell cycle proteins in cancer cells. UCH-L1 inhibits or promotes development in different types of cancer, but there is controversy about the effect of UCH-L1 on cancer and its mechanism is still not well understood. Therefore, other substrates of UCH-L1 and specific mechanisms of deubiquitination regulation are hot spots for further research and targeting UCH-L1 may be an effective strategy for the treatment of cancer.
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The present review was supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (grant no. 13009038), Project of Science and Technology Department of Jiangxi Province (grant nos. 20192BAB215024 and 20202BABL206099).
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