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Woelk T, Sigismund S, Penengo L, Polo S. The ubiquitination code: a signalling problem. Cell Div 2007; 2:11. [PMID: 17355622 PMCID: PMC1832185 DOI: 10.1186/1747-1028-2-11] [Citation(s) in RCA: 95] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/28/2007] [Accepted: 03/13/2007] [Indexed: 11/10/2022] Open
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Ubiquitin is a highly versatile post-translational modification that controls virtually all types of cellular events. Over the past ten years we have learned that diverse forms of ubiquitin modifications and of ubiquitin binding modules co-exist in the cell, giving rise to complex networks of protein:protein interactions. A central problem that continues to puzzle ubiquitinologists is how cells translate this myriad of stimuli into highly specific responses. This is a classical signalling problem. Here, we draw parallels with the phosphorylation signalling pathway and we discuss the expanding repertoire of ubiquitin signals, signal tranducers and signalling-regulated E3 enzymes. We examine recent advances in the field, including a new mechanism of regulation of E3 ligases that relies on ubiquitination.
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- Tanja Woelk
- IFOM, Istituto FIRC di Oncologia Molecolare, Via Adamello 16, 20139, Milan, Italy
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- IFOM, Istituto FIRC di Oncologia Molecolare, Via Adamello 16, 20139, Milan, Italy
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- IFOM, Istituto FIRC di Oncologia Molecolare, Via Adamello 16, 20139, Milan, Italy
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- IFOM, Istituto FIRC di Oncologia Molecolare, Via Adamello 16, 20139, Milan, Italy
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Bomar MG, Pai MT, Tzeng SR, Li SSC, Zhou P. Structure of the ubiquitin-binding zinc finger domain of human DNA Y-polymerase eta. EMBO Rep 2007; 8:247-51. [PMID: 17304240 PMCID: PMC1808033 DOI: 10.1038/sj.embor.7400901] [Citation(s) in RCA: 108] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/29/2006] [Revised: 12/04/2006] [Accepted: 12/07/2006] [Indexed: 11/08/2022] Open
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The ubiquitin-binding zinc finger (UBZ) domain of human DNA Y-family polymerase (pol) eta is important in the recruitment of the polymerase to the stalled replication machinery in translesion synthesis. Here, we report the solution structure of the pol eta UBZ domain and its interaction with ubiquitin. We show that the UBZ domain adopts a classical C(2)H(2) zinc-finger structure characterized by a betabetaalpha fold. Nuclear magnetic resonance titration maps the binding interfaces between UBZ and ubiquitin to the alpha-helix of the UBZ domain and the canonical hydrophobic surface of ubiquitin defined by residues L8, I44 and V70. Although the UBZ domain binds ubiquitin through a single alpha-helix, in a manner similar to the inverted ubiquitin-interacting motif, its structure is distinct from previously characterized ubiquitin-binding domains. The pol eta UBZ domain represents a novel member of the C(2)H(2) zinc finger family that interacts with ubiquitin to regulate translesion synthesis.
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- Martha G Bomar
- Department of Biochemistry, Duke University Medical Center, Research Drive, 242 Nanaline Duke Building, Durham, North Carolina 27710, USA
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- Department of Biochemistry, Duke University Medical Center, Research Drive, 242 Nanaline Duke Building, Durham, North Carolina 27710, USA
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- Department of Biochemistry and the Siebens–Drake Medical Research Institute, Schulich School of Medicine and Dentistry, University of Western Ontario, London, Ontario N6G 2V4, Canada
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- Department of Biochemistry and the Siebens–Drake Medical Research Institute, Schulich School of Medicine and Dentistry, University of Western Ontario, London, Ontario N6G 2V4, Canada
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- Department of Biochemistry, Duke University Medical Center, Research Drive, 242 Nanaline Duke Building, Durham, North Carolina 27710, USA
- Tel: +1 919 668 6409; Fax: +1 919 684 8885; E-mail:
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Amerik A, Sindhi N, Hochstrasser M. A conserved late endosome-targeting signal required for Doa4 deubiquitylating enzyme function. ACTA ACUST UNITED AC 2007; 175:825-35. [PMID: 17145966 PMCID: PMC2064681 DOI: 10.1083/jcb.200605134] [Citation(s) in RCA: 40] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/22/2022]
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Enzyme specificity in vivo is often controlled by subcellular localization. Yeast Doa4, a deubiquitylating enzyme (DUB), removes ubiquitin from membrane proteins destined for vacuolar degradation. Doa4 is recruited to the late endosome after ESCRT-III (endosomal sorting complex required for transport III) has assembled there. We show that an N-terminal segment of Doa4 is sufficient for endosome association. This domain bears four conserved elements (boxes A–D). Deletion of the most conserved of these, A or B, prevents Doa4 endosomal localization. These mutants cannot sustain ubiquitin-dependent proteolysis even though neither motif is essential for deubiquitylating activity. Ubiquitin-specific processing protease 5 (Ubp5), the closest paralogue of Doa4, has no functional overlap. Ubp5 concentrates at the bud neck; its N-terminal domain is critical for this. Importantly, substitution of the Ubp5 N-terminal domain with that of Doa4 relocalizes the Ubp5 enzyme to endosomes and provides Doa4 function. This is the first demonstration of a physiologically important DUB subcellular localization signal and provides a striking example of the functional diversification of DUB paralogues by the evolution of alternative spatial signals.
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- Alexander Amerik
- Department of Pharmacology, University of Connecticut Health Center, Farmington, CT 06030, USA.
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Lindner HA. Deubiquitination in virus infection. Virology 2007; 362:245-56. [PMID: 17291557 PMCID: PMC7103280 DOI: 10.1016/j.virol.2006.12.035] [Citation(s) in RCA: 65] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/15/2006] [Revised: 12/05/2006] [Accepted: 12/14/2006] [Indexed: 11/22/2022]
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Post-translational modification of proteins and peptides by ubiquitin, a highly evolutionarily conserved 76 residue protein, and ubiquitin-like modifiers has emerged as a major regulatory mechanism in various cellular activities. Eukaryotic viruses are known to modulate protein ubiquitination to their advantage in various ways. At the same time, the evidence for the importance of deubiquitination as a viral target also is growing. This review centers on known viral interactions with protein deubiquitination, on viral enzymes for which deubiquitinating activities were recently demonstrated, and on the roles of viral ubiquitin-like sequences.
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- Holger A Lindner
- Biotechnology Research Institute, National Research Council of Canada, 6100 Avenue Royalmount, Montreal, Quebec, Canada H4P 2R2.
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Dickinson BC, Varadan R, Fushman D. Effects of cyclization on conformational dynamics and binding properties of Lys48-linked di-ubiquitin. Protein Sci 2007; 16:369-78. [PMID: 17242378 PMCID: PMC2203315 DOI: 10.1110/ps.062508007] [Citation(s) in RCA: 14] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/23/2022]
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In solution, Lys48-linked di-ubiquitin exists in dynamic equilibrium between closed and open conformations. To understand the effect of interdomain motion in polyubiquitin chains on their ability to bind ligands, we cyclized di-ubiquitin by cross-linking the free C terminus of the proximal ubiquitin with the side chain of residue 48 in the distal ubiquitin, using a chemical cross-linker, 1,6-Hexane-bis-vinylsulfone. Our NMR studies confirm that the cyclization affects conformational dynamics in di-ubiquitin by restricting opening of the interface and shifting the conformational equilibrium toward closed conformations. The cyclization, however, did not rigidly lock di-ubiquitin in a single closed conformation: The chain undergoes slow exchange between at least two closed conformations, characterized by interdomain contacts involving the same hydrophobic patch residues (Leu8-Ile44-Val70) as in the uncyclized di-ubiquitin. Lowering the pH changes the relative populations of these conformations, but in contrast with the uncyclized di-ubiquitin, does not lead to opening of the interface. This restriction of domain motions inhibits direct access of protein molecules to the hydrophobic patch residues located at the very center of the interdomain interface in di-ubiquitin, although the residual motions are sufficient to allow access of small molecules to the interface. This renders di-ubiquitin unable to bind protein molecules (e.g., UBA2 domain) in the normal manner, and thus could interfere with Ub(2) recognition by various downstream effectors. These results emphasize the importance of the opening/closing domain motions for the recognition and function of di-ubiquitin and possibly longer polyubiquitin chains.
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- Bryan C Dickinson
- Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, Center for Biomolecular Structure and Organization, University of Maryland, College Park, Maryland 20742, USA
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The covalent modification of proteins by ubiquitination is a major regulatory mechanism of protein degradation and quality control, endocytosis, vesicular trafficking, cell-cycle control, stress response, DNA repair, growth-factor signalling, transcription, gene silencing and other areas of biology. A class of specific ubiquitin-binding domains mediates most of the effects of protein ubiquitination. The known membership of this group has expanded rapidly and now includes at least sixteen domains: UBA, UIM, MIU, DUIM, CUE, GAT, NZF, A20 ZnF, UBP ZnF, UBZ, Ubc, UEV, UBM, GLUE, Jab1/MPN and PFU. The structures of many of the complexes with mono-ubiquitin have been determined, revealing interactions with multiple surfaces on ubiquitin. Inroads into understanding polyubiquitin specificity have been made for two UBA domains, whose structures have been characterized in complex with Lys48-linked di-ubiquitin. Several ubiquitin-binding domains, including the UIM, CUE and A20 ZnF (zinc finger) domains, promote auto-ubiquitination, which regulates the activity of proteins that contain them. At least one of these domains, the A20 ZnF, acts as a ubiquitin ligase by recruiting a ubiquitin-ubiquitin-conjugating enzyme thiolester adduct in a process that depends on the ubiquitin-binding activity of the A20 ZnF. The affinities of the mono-ubiquitin-binding interactions of these domains span a wide range, but are most commonly weak, with Kd>100 microM. The weak interactions between individual domains and mono-ubiquitin are leveraged into physiologically relevant high-affinity interactions via several mechanisms: ubiquitin polymerization, modification multiplicity, oligomerization of ubiquitinated proteins and binding domain proteins, tandem-binding domains, binding domains with multiple ubiquitin-binding sites and co-operativity between ubiquitin binding and binding through other domains to phospholipids and small G-proteins.
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- James H Hurley
- Laboratory of Molecular Biology, National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases, National Institutes of Health, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Bethesda, MD 20892, USA.
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Raiborg C, Slagsvold T, Stenmark H. A new side to ubiquitin. Trends Biochem Sci 2006; 31:541-4. [PMID: 16901703 DOI: 10.1016/j.tibs.2006.07.009] [Citation(s) in RCA: 17] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/07/2006] [Revised: 07/10/2006] [Accepted: 07/31/2006] [Indexed: 11/26/2022]
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Mono-ubiquitination is a common mechanism of protein regulation, and more than ten ubiquitin-interacting domains that recognize the hydrophobic region centered on Ile44 of ubiquitin have been characterized. Two recent reports describe the crystal structure of the Rab5 guanine-nucleotide-exchange factor Rabex-5 and show that it contains two novel ubiquitin-binding domains. One of these is an A20 zinc finger that binds to a polar interaction interface of ubiquitin centered on Asp58. The discovery of an alternative interaction face of ubiquitin opens new avenues for understanding how this small protein regulates protein function.
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- Camilla Raiborg
- Department of Biochemistry, the Norwegian Radium Hospital and the University of Oslo, Montebello, N-0310 Oslo, Norway
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Boyault C, Gilquin B, Zhang Y, Rybin V, Garman E, Meyer-Klaucke W, Matthias P, Müller CW, Khochbin S. HDAC6-p97/VCP controlled polyubiquitin chain turnover. EMBO J 2006; 25:3357-66. [PMID: 16810319 PMCID: PMC1523186 DOI: 10.1038/sj.emboj.7601210] [Citation(s) in RCA: 212] [Impact Index Per Article: 11.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/08/2005] [Accepted: 05/31/2006] [Indexed: 11/08/2022] Open
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HDAC6 is a unique cytoplasmic deacetylase capable of interacting with ubiquitin. Using a combination of biophysical, biochemical and biological approaches, we have characterized the ubiquitin-binding domain of HDAC6, named ZnF-UBP, and investigated its biological functions. These studies show that the three Zn ion-containing HDAC6 ZnF-UBP domain presents the highest known affinity for ubiquitin monomers and mediates the ability of HDAC6 to negatively control the cellular polyubiquitin chain turnover. We further show that HDAC6-interacting chaperone, p97/VCP, dissociates the HDAC6-ubiquitin complexes and counteracts the ability of HDAC6 to promote the accumulation of polyubiquitinated proteins. We propose that a finely tuned balance of HDAC6 and p97/VCP concentrations determines the fate of ubiquitinated misfolded proteins: p97/VCP would promote protein degradation and ubiquitin turnover, whereas HDAC6 would favour the accumulation of ubiquitinated protein aggregates and inclusion body formation.
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- Cyril Boyault
- INSERM U309, Laboratoire de Biologie Moléculaire et Cellulaire de la Différenciation, Equipe chromatine et expression des gènes, Institut Albert Bonniot, Faculté de Médecine, Domaine de la Merci, La Tronche, France
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- INSERM U309, Laboratoire de Biologie Moléculaire et Cellulaire de la Différenciation, Equipe chromatine et expression des gènes, Institut Albert Bonniot, Faculté de Médecine, Domaine de la Merci, La Tronche, France
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- Friedrich Miescher Institute for Biomedical Research, Novartis Research Foundation, Basel, Switzerland
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- European Molecular Biology Laboratory, Heidelberg, Germany
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- Laboratory of Molecular Biophysics, Department of Biochemistry, Oxford University, Oxford, UK
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- Friedrich Miescher Institute for Biomedical Research, Novartis Research Foundation, Basel, Switzerland
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- INSERM U309, Laboratoire de Biologie Moléculaire et Cellulaire de la Différenciation, Equipe chromatine et expression des gènes, Institut Albert Bonniot, Faculté de Médecine, Domaine de la Merci, La Tronche, France
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Relatively small genomes and high replication rates allow viruses and bacteria to accumulate mutations. This continuously presents the host immune system with new challenges. On the other side of the trenches, an increasingly well-adjusted host immune response, shaped by coevolutionary history, makes a pathogen's life a rather complicated endeavor. It is, therefore, no surprise that pathogens either escape detection or modulate the host immune response, often by redirecting normal cellular pathways to their advantage. For the purpose of this chapter, we focus mainly on the manipulation of the class I and class II major histocompatibility complex (MHC) antigen presentation pathways and the ubiquitin (Ub)-proteasome system by both viral and bacterial pathogens. First, we describe the general features of antigen presentation pathways and the Ub-proteasome system and then address how they are manipulated by pathogens. We discuss the many human cytomegalovirus (HCMV)-encoded immunomodulatory genes that interfere with antigen presentation (immunoevasins) and focus on the HCMV immunoevasins US2 and US11, which induce the degradation of class I MHC heavy chains by the proteasome by catalyzing their export from the endoplasmic reticulum (ER)-membrane into the cytosol, a process termed ER dislocation. US2- and US11-mediated subversion of ER dislocation ensures proteasomal degradation of class I MHC molecules and presumably allows HCMV to avoid recognition by cytotoxic T cells, whilst providing insight into general aspects of ER-associated degradation (ERAD) which is used by eukaryotic cells to purge their ER of defective proteins. We discuss the similarities and differences between the distinct pathways co-opted by US2 and US11 for dislocation and degradation of human class I MHC molecules and also a putatively distinct pathway utilized by the murine herpes virus (MHV)-68 mK3 immunoevasin for ER dislocation of murine class I MHC. We speculate on the implications of the three pathogen-exploited dislocation pathways to cellular ER quality control. Moreover, we discuss the ubiquitin (Ub)-proteasome system and its position at the core of antigen presentation as proteolysis and intracellular trafficking rely heavily on Ub-dependent processes. We add a few examples of manipulation of the Ub-proteasome system by pathogens in the context of the immune system and such diverse aspects of the host-pathogen relationship as virus budding, bacterial chromosome integration, and programmed cell death, to name a few. Finally, we speculate on newly found pathogen-encoded deubiquitinating enzymes (DUBs) and their putative roles in modulation of host-pathogen interactions.
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- Joana Loureiro
- Whitehead Institute, 9 Cambridge Center, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA
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