Professor Jo Morris to Chair Medical Research Council's Molecular and Cellular Medicine Board - University of Birmingham The MRC has announced that Birmingham’s Professor Jo Morris will become the new Chair of the MRC Molecular and Cellular Medicine Board (MCMB).

Looking forward to support the UK’s fundamental biomedical research with the MRC www.birmingham.ac.uk/news/2025/pr...

Professor Jo Morris to Chair Medical Research Council's Molecular and Cellular Medicine Board - University of Birmingham The MRC has announced that Birmingham’s Professor Jo Morris will become the new Chair of the MRC Molecular and Cellular Medicine Board (MCMB).

Looking forward to support the UK’s fundamental biomedical research with the MRC www.birmingham.ac.uk/news/2025/pr...

PIN1-SUMO2/3 motif suppresses excessive RNF168 chromatin accumulation and ubiquitin signaling to promote IR resistance Nature Communications - The ubiquitin ligase, RNF168, promotes DNA break repair but must be regulated to prevent run-away ubiquitin signaling. Here, the authors identify a three-step...

Nice to see this one out in @natcomms.nature.com from @themorrislab.bsky.social, @leneyms.bsky.social, @anoopsinghchauhan.bsky.social, @profstewartlab.bsky.social. Still, plenty of surprises into how RNF168 works!
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PIN1-SUMO2/3 motif suppresses excessive RNF168 chromatin accumulation and ubiquitin signaling to promote IR resistance - Nature Communications The ubiquitin ligase, RNF168, promotes DNA break repair but must be regulated to prevent run-away ubiquitin signaling. Here, the authors identify a three-step post-translational cascade regulating RNF...

How is RNF168 cleared from sites of DNA damage? It’s complicated; www.nature.com/articles/s41...

SUMO4 promotes SUMO deconjugation required for DNA double-strand-break repair Garvin et al. find that the poorly explored SUMO isoform, SUMO4, enhances the deSUMOylation activity of the SUMO protease SENP1. Consequently, SUMO4 acts to restrain excessive cellular SUMOylation. In...

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SUMO4 promotes SUMO deconjugation required for DNA double-strand-break repair Garvin et al. find that the poorly explored SUMO isoform, SUMO4, enhances the deSUMOylation activity of the SUMO protease SENP1. Consequently, SUMO4 acts to restrain excessive cellular SUMOylation. In the DNA damage response, this activity prevents…

SUMO4 promotes SUMO deconjugation required for DNA double-strand-break repair