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A Ubiquitin network safeguards cell identity by continuously degrading stem-cell related translational machinery

Daniel, S.; Ghanem, R.; Makhzumy, M.; Bitman-Lotan, E.; Soffers, J.; Henriksen, J. c.; Sarusi-Portuguez, A.; Rissland, O. S.; Mohan, R. D.; Shiber, A.; Orian, A. M.

2026-03-08 cell biology
10.64898/2026.03.06.709266 bioRxiv
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How cell identity is maintained is a fundamental question, and loss of cell identity is a hallmark of aging that is associated with multiple age-related diseases. In the adult Drosophila midgut, we identified a post-transcriptional regulatory layer that supervises enterocyte (EC) identity and fails upon aging. Combining single-cell RNA-seq with lineage tracing in aging ECs and classical genetics we found that aging ECs express genes that unlock the differentiated state. Upon aging, the protein Rogue (CG13928), a translational repressor, orchestrates reactivation of a stem-cell-related translational repression machinery involving p-body-associated RNA-binding proteins that cancels the differentiated state. In young ECs, this machinery is continuously suppressed by the deubiquitinase Non-stop (dUSP22) and the ubiquitin E2 dUbcH8/Kdo and the E3 enzyme CTLH, together suppress the stem-cell related RNA binding proteins safeguarding EC identity. Upon aging, the levels of dUSP22 decline, dUbcH8/Kdo and the E3 CTLH complex are cleared via Rogue, and the stem cell-related p-bodies are reactivated, self-destroying EC identity.

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