“…In our previous studies on SENP3, we discovered a number of SUMOylation-regulated proteins that function in interphase cells (Han et al, 2010;Huang et al, 2009;Lao et al, 2018;Liu et al, 2020;Ren et al, 2014;Wang et al, 2016;Zhou et al, 2016). More recently, we also found that the SUMOylation-deSUMOylation cycle regulates the functions of barrier-to-autointegration factor (BAF) in nuclear integrity maintenance and DNA replication in mammalian cells (Lin et al, 2020). Here, as an extension of our previous work, we found that SENP3 and SENP5 impact mitotic progression via deSUMOylating AurA and spatiotemporally controlling its kinase activity for precise spindle assembly and maintenance of genomic stability.…”