On 2025-03-06 09:47:18, user Alexei Korennykh wrote:
As a corresponding author, Alexei Korennykh hereby documents the timeline of our discovery of Nocturnin NADP(H) phosphatase activity.
[2018, December 17]<br />
Our Manuscript "The Metabolites NADP+ and NADPH are the Targets of Circadian Protein Nocturnin (Curled)" was submitted to a high-quality journal (per BioRxiv policy journal name cannot be mentioned here) (under id ....2018-12-17736A)
[2018, December 19]<br />
The editor sends the work to referees.
[2018, December 21]<br />
We submit our Nocturnin-NADP co-crystal structure to the PDB database and obtain PDB ID 6NF0.
https://www.rcsb.org/structure/6NF0 has the following permanent record:
Deposited: 2018-12-18 <br />
Released: 2019-05-01 <br />
Deposition Author(s): Estrella, M.A., Du, J., Korennykh, A.
[2019, January 15]<br />
Journal rejects the manuscript, based substantially on negative remarks of Ref#3, who is “an expert on Nocturnin”:
Referee expertise:
1: crystal structure
2: NADPH/NADP metabolism
3: nocturnin biology and function
Although we responded that all concerns can be addressed directly and without experiments, the journal is not willing to re-consider our work.
[2019, January 30]<br />
We posted our manuscript here, to BioRxiv and it became available to the public.
[2019, March 28] <br />
We submitted the paper to the final publishing journal (see top of the page, "Now published in ") and the paper was received and sent for review.
[2019, April 18] <br />
The paper was accepted (see top of the page, "Now published in ").
[2019, May 30] <br />
The paper was published (see top of the page, "Now published in ").
[2019, June 5] <br />
Alexei Korennykh wrote to change Uniprot annotation of Nocturnin
Wed Jun 05 05:20:37 2019, akorenny@princeton.edu wrote:
Major changes in NOCT (CCRN4L) gene function and description. <br />
Source:<br />
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-019-10125-z <br />
Suggested revisions:
"Circadian deadenylase"<br />
changes to<br />
"Circadian NADP(H) phosphatase"
"Catalytic activity: Exonucleolytic cleavage of poly(A) to 5'-AMP. EC:3.1.13.4"<br />
changes to:<br />
"Catalytic activity: 2'-Phosphate removal from NADP+ and NADPH. EC:to be created"
[2019, June 7] <br />
UniProt Begins re-annotation<br />
Dear Alexei,
Thank you for having submitted a request for the update of a UniProtKB entry.
Your request has already been sent to an annotator and will be handled with<br />
high priority.
We will send you an e-mail when the update is completed.
Best regards
SP
[2019, July 1] <br />
UniProt changes Deadenylase to Phosphatase for Nocturnin:
Dear Alexei,
Thank you for passing on the details of your recent paper. The nocturnin <br />
entry has been updated and will be available as part of UniProt release <br />
2019_08 on 18th September. In the meantime, I have included the entry <br />
below in text format. Please feel free to get back in touch if you have <br />
any comments about the content.
Kind regards,<br />
MM
ID NOCT_HUMAN Reviewed; 431 AA.<br />
AC Q9UK39; D3DNY5; Q14D51; Q9HD93; Q9HD94; Q9HD95;<br />
DT 02-NOV-2001, integrated into UniProtKB/Swiss-Prot.<br />
DT 04-NOV-2008, sequence version 2.<br />
DT 31-JUL-2019, entry version 148.<br />
……<br />
CC NAD(+) and of NADPH to NADH (PubMed:31147539). Shows a small<br />
CC preference for NADPH over NADP(+) (PubMed:31147539). Represses<br />
CC translation and promotes degradation of target mRNA molecules<br />
CC (PubMed:29860338
…
[2019, July 1]
Up to this date (i.e. 5 months since our BioArxive paper became publically available) no work by others, which described Nocturnin as NADP(H) phosphatase was published or submitted to any journal, to the best of our knowledge.