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. 2020 Jul 15;100(4):1599–1619. doi: 10.1152/physrev.00025.2019

Table 3.

SUMO proteases

Name Isoform Preference COOH-Terminal Hydrolase Iso-peptidase Chain Editing Regulation
SENP1 All SUMO Yes Yes No Hypoxia (210); androgen (8); IL-6 (31)
SENP2 All SUMO Yes Yes No Ubiquitin-mediated degradation in the cytosol (79); phosphorylation (72)
SENP3 SUMO2/3 No Yes No Ubiquitin-mediated degradation in the nucleolus (78); oxidative stress stabilizes SENP3 (78)
SENP5 SUMO2/3 Yes Yes No Mitochondrial fission (227)
SENP6 SUMO2/3 No Yes Yes Homologous recombination (40)
SENP7 SUMO2/3 No Yes Yes SENP7L, SENP7S (9)
DeSI1 All SUMO No Yes Weak Limited substrate, BZEL (167)
DeSI2 ? No ? ? ?
USPL1 SUMO2/3 Weak Yes Yes Regulation of coilin localization independent of enzyme activity (162)

IL-6, interleukin-6; SENP, Sentrin-specific protease; SUMO, small ubiquitin-like modifier.