PMID- 31652443 OWN - NLM STAT- MEDLINE DCOM- 20200915 LR - 20200915 IS - 1573-4935 (Electronic) IS - 0144-8463 (Print) IS - 0144-8463 (Linking) VI - 39 IP - 10 DP - 2019 Oct 30 TI - Wild-type menin is rapidly degraded via the ubiquitin-proteasome pathway in a rat insulinoma cell line. LID - 10.1042/BSR20190471 [doi] LID - BSR20190471 AB - Menin is encoded by multiple endocrine neoplasia type 1 (MEN1) gene, the germ line mutations of which are the main cause of pancreatic neuroendocrine tumors (PNETs). To date, a large number of frameshift, nonsense and missense mutations of MEN1 have been identified to be responsible for part of MEN1-defficient PNETs patients due to truncation or rapid degradation of menin protein. However, the stability of the wild-type (WT) menin in PNETs is totally unknown. In the present study, we observed ubiquitination of WT menin in 293T cells by transfection of ectopic WT menin and HA-ubiquitin. As expected, either endogenous or ectopic WT menin is stable in 293T cells, whereas in INS-1 cells, a rat insulinoma cell line derived from PNETs, either endogenous or ectopic WT menin is rapidly degraded through ubiquitin-proteasome pathway. Furthermore, the degradation of WT menin is more rapid in the presence of serum. Our findings suggest that in part of PNETs patients with WT MEN1, a ubiquitin-proteasome system targeting menin is untimely activated. CI - (c) 2019 The Author(s). FAU - Jiang, Zongzhe AU - Jiang Z AD - Experimental Medicine Center, The Affiliated Hospital of Southwest Medical University, Luzhou 646000, Sichuan, China. FAU - Wan, Shengrong AU - Wan S AD - Endocrinology Department, The Affiliated Hospital of Southwest Medical University, Luzhou 646000, Sichuan, China. FAU - Xing, Bowen AU - Xing B AD - Diabetes Research Center, School of Medicine, Shenzhen University, Shenzhen 518060, Guangdong, China. LA - eng PT - Journal Article PT - Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't PL - England TA - Biosci Rep JT - Bioscience reports JID - 8102797 RN - 0 (Men1 protein, rat) RN - 0 (Neoplasm Proteins) RN - 0 (Transcription Factors) RN - 0 (Ubiquitin) RN - EC 3.4.25.1 (Proteasome Endopeptidase Complex) SB - IM MH - Animals MH - Insulinoma/genetics/*metabolism/pathology MH - Neoplasm Proteins/genetics/*metabolism MH - Pancreatic Neoplasms/genetics/*metabolism/pathology MH - Proteasome Endopeptidase Complex/genetics/*metabolism MH - *Proteolysis MH - Rats MH - Transcription Factors/genetics/*metabolism MH - Ubiquitin/genetics/*metabolism PMC - PMC6822493 OTO - NOTNLM OT - INS-1 cell OT - Insulinoma OT - Menin OT - Ubiquitin-proteasome COIS- The authors declare that there are no competing interests associated with the manuscript. EDAT- 2019/10/28 06:00 MHDA- 2020/09/17 06:00 PMCR- 2019/10/18 CRDT- 2019/10/26 06:00 PHST- 2019/02/25 00:00 [received] PHST- 2019/09/18 00:00 [revised] PHST- 2019/10/02 00:00 [accepted] PHST- 2019/10/26 06:00 [entrez] PHST- 2019/10/28 06:00 [pubmed] PHST- 2020/09/17 06:00 [medline] PHST- 2019/10/18 00:00 [pmc-release] AID - 220725 [pii] AID - BSR20190471 [pii] AID - 10.1042/BSR20190471 [doi] PST - ppublish SO - Biosci Rep. 2019 Oct 30;39(10):BSR20190471. doi: 10.1042/BSR20190471.